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

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Copyright, 1927, by THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA WILBURN R. SMITH, Editor HELEN C. FORTMANN, Women ' s Editor DONALD F. POND, Manager ANITA M. CONNEAU, Women ' s Manager

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THE BLUEOGOLD A Record of the CollegeYearm Copy and PiEtum 0 1926-1927 Berkeley: Published by the Associated Students of the University of California Designed by John Henry Nash for the Joy of the Doing and Printed by the Schwabacher-Frey Company of San Francisco 1927 frj

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DEDICATION ' All hail, Blue Gold, thy strength ne ' er shall fail; Forthee we ' II die, all hail, all hail. AT THE CLOSE OF A GREAT FOOTBALL GAME, WHEN THE CAMPA- NILE SOFTENS TO A BLUE SPIRE AGAINST A GOLDEN SKY,THOUSANDS OF SINCERE YOUNG VOICES SWELL IN THE ALL HAIL, REVERBERANT WITH THE TRIUMPH OF A VICTORY OR THE GLORY OF A FINE DEFEAT. f%? THROUGHOUT THE SINGING OF THE HYMN, CALIFORNIA SPIRIT HOVERS LIKE A CARESSING HAND OVERTHE EARNEST THRONG; THE ALOOFNESS OF THE INDIVIDUAL,THE AFFECTATIONS OF THE SOCIAL GROUP, ARE MERGED IN AN ALL-PERVADING UNITY. FOR ONE GLOW- ING MOMENT, CALIFORNIANS LAY ASIDE THE COLLEGIATE FOR THE RELIGIOUS: AND CALIFORNIA SPIRIT IS TRULYA RELIGION, BEAUTIFUL IN ITS IDEALS, RICH IN ITS TRADITIONAL LORE. f%? EVERY RELIGION MUST HAVE ITS IDOLS -ITS SYMBOLS OF THE IDEALS ON WHICH IT RESTS.THUS THE SPIRIT OF BLUE AND GOLD BOWS DOWN BEFORE ITS ATHLETIC PROWESS. ZEALOUS IN THE POSSESSION OF A CHAMPION BASKETBALL QUINTETAND IN THE BRIGHT PREMONITION OFA FOOT- BALL TEAM ONCE MORE INVINCIBLE, CALIFORNIANS TURN TO THE MAN TO WHOM THESE ARE TO BE ATTRIBUTED, FORTHE COACH,TOO, IS A SYMBOL -HE STANDS FORTHE CLEANEST IN MANHOOD, THE FINEST IN SPORTSMANSHIP, THE MOST LOYAL IN SERVICE TO THE ALMA MATER. f%? OUR COACH IS ENTERELYA CALIFORNIAN. A GRADU- ATE OF THIS UNIVERSITY, HE IN TURN BECAME THE COACH OF UNDE- FEATED FRESHMAN TEAMS.THEN ASSISTANT VARSITY GRID MENTOR, AND FINALLY HE AD FOOTBALL COACH. f%? THEREFORE THE STAFF OF THE NINETEEN HUNDRED d TWENTY- SEVEN BLUE O GOLD DEDICATES THIS VOLUME LTV TO CLARENCE M. NIBS PRICE All hail, Coach Price.