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

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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.

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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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WILLIAM WALLACE CAMPBELL President Emeritus, Director Emeritus and Astronomer Emeritus at Lick Observatory, and President of the Na- tional Academy of Sciences B. S. University of Michigan, 1886 M. S. University of Michigan, 1899 Sc. D. Western University of Pennsylvania, 1900 LL. D. University of Wisconsin, 1902 Sc. D. University of Michigan, 190 ; Sc. D. University of Western Australia, 1912 Sc. D. Cambridge University, 1925 Sc. D. Columbia University, 1928 Sc. D. University of Chicago, 1931 IN GENERAL, we can judge a person ' s character and ambition better from his voluntary acts in leisure time than from the manner in which he does the work specifically required of him. Stu- dents registered in any and all American colleges, if they were well prepared in high school and are well endowed mentally, should meet their mini- mum requirements with ease, and have much time left. If they are ambitious to be real students, or have set out to prepare themselves for intel- lectual work in the world, they will find time to make themselves masters of one or more of their academic subjects, and even to go beyond the domain covered by the professors ' lectures. It should be said that all real education is self- education. Aside from liberal periods of rest and relaxation and the reasonable demands of family and society, a strong, intelligent, ambitious stu- dent can and should accomplish surprisingly much for himself in his hours of leisure. The pleasures and satisfactions accruing from leisure time well spent completely outclass the products of leisure time squandered. MONROE E. DEUTSCH Vice-President and Provost of the University and Professor of Latin A. B. University of California, 1902 M. A. University of California, 1903 Ph. D. University of California, 1911 S vr NOTHER year has gone its way to live only U in the records of the past. For Seniors it j[ J will be the end of their undergraduate careers. But we do hope that the tie formed during their years here, invisible though it is, may be so stout a cable that it will ever bind them to the University, however far the tides may have swept them, however long since their feet have trodden this campus. It is a great thing to be attached to great institutions, for in their abiding life lies one of the noblest forms of immortality. And so as you run your race in life, think of this University not merely as your teacher for a few of your early years, but as the greatest civilizing force in the State of California, and one of the great civilizing forces in the nation. If you are true to it, love it, and support it, you will be leaving more of a heri- tage than anything you personally are likely to do. [16]