University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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in a small college is either sacrificed by the requirements of a rigid cur- riculum or takes upon itself the form of eccentricity in those who cannot or will not conform to the prevailing type. Closer relations between Faculty and students, closer relations among the students themselves, are the distinguishing marks of the small college. Small communities, whether of students or citizens, present the advantage of neighborliness for those who wish to be neighborly. The small village and the small institution try out the qualities that make good neighbors. The members of small communities live under the rigid inspection of each other ; every one knows his neighbor ' s business as well as his own ;. every one rejoices or mourns in sympathy with his neighbor ' s happiness or his neighbor ' s sorrow : and the small community resembles a large family. But with this goes the inevitable disadvantage of a large family, a certain narrowness in the outlook toward the larger world outside, a certain interference with the privacy of the individual, and a certain stunting of the possibility of larger BQtDSEYE VIEW OF CAMPUS 13

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APPERSON HEARST PLAN UNIVERSITY I CAMFORM REVISED PLAN 1. Greek Theatre Annex. 2. Greek Theatre. 3. Auditorium. 4. Chemistry. 5. Mining 6. Physics. 7. Senior Hall. 8. Faculty Club. 9. Training Quarters. 10. Tennis Courts. 11. Women ' s Gym. 12. Basketball Courts. 13. California Field. 14 Electrical 15. Mathematics. 16. Mechanical. 17. Campanile. 18. Civil. 19. Languages. 20. History and

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understanding and wider sympathies. On the other hand, in a larger community or a larger institution the mere facts of size and numbers produce the opposite advantages and disadvantages. Neighborliness is not a characteristic virtue of a large city; a smaller knowledge of your next-door neighbor means decreased interest in him and a lesser sense of responsibility for his well-being; and absence of enforced intimacy of interest and pleasures means greater inde- pendence of individual life and thought. A larger possibility for the choice of friends, a wider outlook upon the affairs of men, and a broader sympathy with VIEW EAST FROM CAMPANILE mankind in general based upon a larger knowledge are the characteristic advantages of a large community over a small one. Let us apply these considerations to the advantages and disadvantages of a great university over a small college. Let us acknowledge at once that the small college has vanished from the Campus at Berkeley. The days are gone forever when every student in the University knew by name and sight every other student in the University and when the members of each class knew each other intimately alike in work and sport. The older Alumni of the University mourn the disappearance of the old college and class spirit. They cannot understand how it can be that their children have not the intimate knowledge 14