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of each other which they themselves possessed. Gone is the old family spirit, and gone forever the old close association which formed the sacred bond among the graduates of former years. Students who graduate from the present University will never be able to get together as the Alumni of the older classes do to celebrate the recollection of old studies and old pranks with the perfect certainty that their classmates cherish the same recollections as themselves. Every student of those former days knew every professor, and classroom peculiarities of professor and student alike form part of the common recollection of all. North Hall steps was a meeting-place for all the students, and all were able to have their voice on social and athletic questions. Athletic contests absorbed the interest of all the students, for the teams were chosen from a smaller number, and the athletic hero was known to all his classmates. It was not so very long ago that an Alumnus of ' the University of California was heard to assert in an Alumni banquet at Los Angeles his horror that his son at the University of California was not personally acquainted with all his classmates. It sounded like irony that such a protest should be made in the city of Los Angeles, where the transformation from the small, sleepy. half-Spanish town of thirty years ago. where every one knew each other, into the great bust- ling metropolis of Southern Cali- fornia, too large for village intimacy, is one of the marvels of modern American life and a just source of pride to the intelligent citizen of that great modern community. But the greater university with its larger number of students has something to offer in compensation for the loss of the old intimacy of small college life. From the strictly educational side, it offers far wider opportunities. It is not only that more courses are offered and that more professors are employed ; it is not only that more subjects are taught and that wider differences in methods of teaching are used : it is not only that the Library has grown and that NEAR PRESIDENT ' S MANSION 15
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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
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laboratories have been multiplied. The essence of the change from an educa- tional standpoint is the offering of large opportunities to each individual student. In the old days, whether he liked it or not, the student had to march along narrow ways ; now so multifarious are the opportunities offered that any student can make up pretty nearly any kind of course and can find all sorts of specialties unknown in earlier days to suit his particular needs and his particular point of view. And what is true from the strictly educational standpoint is even more true from the social standpoint. In former days the student had to make his friendships in the limited circle available to him ; now he can pick and choose his circle of friends from thousands instead of being restricted to a few hundred. The opportunities of a great community are open to him. In whatever line of activity he may be interested he can find others like-minded, and whatever sort of society he demands he can obtain it. If his interests be in athletics or journalism or dramatics, if he care about public life or social service or religious endeavor, he can find groups with whom to study or to play. There is no phase of modern activity in the whole United States which is not represented WOMEN S SENIOR HALL 16
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