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

 - Class of 1915

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in the University of California. He can find among his classmates men from many countries and many races : he can join societies that represent even- group of religious or medical or social beliefs: he can find an opportunity to put forth his views in all kinds of debating clubs and all sorts of journals. Over against the single publication of the Bu E AXD GOLD and the single representation of Skull and Keys plays, he can now read and contribute to all sorts of student publications and can go to student plays almost every month of the college vear. In the place of the two or three social entertainments of the old college. ENTRANCE TO PKESIDENT 5 GARDENS which could only be successful when every one attended, no week now passes without a sufficient number of social entertainments of every sort and kind and at every variety or degree of pretentiousness, from the simple basket picnic to the elaborate dancing functions. Those who knew and loved the simplicity of the old days are horrified with the complexity of interests of the new generation and fail to see that this complexity is the inevitable outcome of the growth of the University. Nowhere is this more striking than in the domain of athletics. The Regents of the University have not only to provide for more lecture rooms and laboratories to meet the increased number of students, but they must sooner 17

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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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or later provide opportunities for larger athletic occupation. The Campus seemed lar ge enough only ten years ago for any number of student activities, but it is now all too small. Only about the same number of men can make University teams as made them ten years ago ; yet the number of students who need organized exercise has increased manyfold ; and the need for larger playing fields becomes more obvious day by day. The cry arises all the time of the decrease of college spirit ; the Alumni come back and deplore what seems to them the decreasing interest in college life of the college students ; they do not recognize that there is just as much honest love of the University and just as much loyalty as ever existed before, but that the mere pressure of numbers prevents its being expressed in the old way and with the old united enthusiasm. The problem that faces the University of California, its regents, its faculty, its alumni, and its students, is how to make the best of the new situation presented by The Greater University. It is idle to talk about trying to bring back the old unity. It is not possible to have the intimacy of the small village in the great city. It is not possible for a mass of many thousands of students to possess the homogenity of a small college. Let us not keep our eyes so fixed upon the advantages of the past that we cannot make use of the advantages of the present. The University of California is not going backward : there is no chance of its ever again being a small college; it is rather going to become larger and larger. It is our duty to look forward rather than backward, and every member of the community has to play his part in the transformation of the University. It is just as impossible for every member of the Faculty to know every other member of the Faculty as it is impossible for every student to know every other student ; it is just as impossible for each department in the University to know what is being taught in every other department as it is impossible for 18 NORTHWEST ENTRANCE TO CAMPUS

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