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

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LIST OF CONTENTS i. University Administration ii. The Classes ui.PicJureYear f f l I nfft - v3 I t -f- IV. ' . Student Contributions .. Women ' s Activities . Intercollegiate Athletics ii. Campus Organizations x. What the Bear Remembers VII VI

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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.

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A PREFATORY NOTE ULL of strange photographs of young women in trailing skirts and youths with rigid derbies, the BLUE O GOLDS of many years past have yet sincerely tried to serve not only as mirrors, but also as varied interpretations of life at the University of California. Thus the solemn declaration of a purpose appears throughout the opening pages of the BLUE C GOLD since the days of beavers and meerschaums. A tangible expres- sion, it has tried to compress within itself the gusty breeziness of college days, like so much air pumped into a pneumatic tire. A sort of Jack-in-the-box policy has been in use by previous BLUE C5 GOLDS. Each has tried to outdo its predecessors in startling uniqueness of theme, or in some innovation such as the addition of a new section. The 1927 book claims the greatest originality of all by adroitly stayingout of the competition! Hike college life all right, says John Held Junior, but the University bores me. Volume Fifty -Four likes college life as well as the debonair Mr. Held, but it is not bored with its University. It seeks to be a colored moving-picture of the gay bustle of campus life. It is a kaleidoscope of slickers and football games, gossip- trysts under the Oak, the pungency of eucalyptus leaves in the rain, and rally fires that burn high with California spirit.