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

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JAMES ROI.PH, JR., GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, GREETINGS: To those of you about to conclude your University education, I offer congratula- tions and urge that the learning gained at Berkeley be put to uses that will reflect credit upon yourselves and aid in the advance of California. To those of you about to begin your higher education, I plead that you make the most of the golden opportunities afforded you by the great University of California, to the end that you may better fit yourselves for the business or professional life to come. To all of you, 1 extend the felicitations of the people of the State of California through whose great generosity the University has grown and expanded to the enviable position it now holds as a seat of learning. All hail, Blue and Gold! [14]

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I 3 1 1 c 51 FACULTY ADMINISTRATION

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ROBERT GOUDOX SPHOCL, PRESIDENT or THE UXIVEHSITY B. S. University of California, 1913 LL. D. University of Southern California, 1 930 LL. D. Occidental College, 1916 LL. D. University of San Francisco, 1930 LL. D. Pomona College, 1931 h HE University of California had its roots in the first constitution of our state, adopted II ,- in 1849, and found its earliest flowering on the campus on Charter Day, March 23, V - I 868. It was founded to provide instruction and complete education in all depart- ments of science, literature, art, industrial and professional pursuits, and general educa- tion. Rising gradually from that foundation the University of California has had a history of which any university might be proud. Its genius and spirit have been co-extensive with the broad acres of the state; its campus has been the whole territory of the commonwealth, and in her fifty-eight counties its representatives find today a field of useful service. In shops and factories and on the farm; in mines, in government, and in the pulpit; at the bar and upon the bench; in medicine, in commerce, and in education, its alumni have played and are playing a conspicuous part. In the world of letters and science the men of its faculty have established a reputation throughout the nation and the world as they have blazed their way along rough trails, illumined here and there by the bright light of genius, to the heights of scholarship. Few universities have drawn their disciples from more varied or more distant corners of the earth, or sent them out imbued with a finer spirit of devotion. As the univer- sity of a whole state, the University of California has lived up to its responsibility and made much of its tremendous opportunities. It is a university on which each one of you, as he cons this book in later years, may look back not only with affection but with pride.