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

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a ' E LEARN from Greek civilization that the educational and cultural heritage that nation has passed down to us was closely linked with the athletic and physical de- velopment of the young men and women of those glorious days. The Olympic Games had their inception in this cultural background, and it is fitting that they should be held this year in California, where edu- cational, cultural, and physical development have enjoyed amazing growth in the past fifty years. You who graduate this year have a rare oppor- tunity to enjoy the fruits of the harvest: the I. C. A. A. A. A. track meet which is to be held in Cali- fornia ' s beautiful track stadium, the start of the new gymnasium after years of waiting, the de- velopment of a new baseball field, and finally, the great Olympic Games at Los Angeles. Such a background of athletic development, to- gether with four years of educational training here, should enable you to face the task ahead with confidence in your fitness and ability to meet the complex problems of these trying times. LlTHE A. N]CHOLS, CoUPTKOLLEK A. B. University ol California, 1917 n EVER in the history of mankind has there been so extended a frontier of explora- tion into the realms of the unknown as now. On this far-flung line the University of Cali- fornia occupies a large sector. A considerable por- tion of its graduate student body and of its faculty is devoting itself sincerely, industriously, and un- selfishly to the pursuit of that truth which sets men free. From their encampment on the borders of the unknown these men and women send their fraternal greetings to the undergraduate student body of the University of California. They bid them be of good cheer, for there is always hope for humanity in the search for truth. They bid them see the vision of the possibilities for their own future in discovery and erudition, and in the higher professional training open to men. The fearless, the imaginative, the industrious, those endowed with powers of leadership are all needed on the firing line of discovery. We invite them to assist us in enlarging the scope of human knowl- edge and human happiness. ' y t -fa - . CHARLES B. LIPMAX Dean of the Graduate Division and Professor of Plant Physiology B. Sc. Rutgers, 1904 M. Sc. Rutgers, 1909 M- S. University of Wisconsin, 1909 Ph. D. University of California, 1910

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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]

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THOMAS M. PUTNAM Dean of Undergraduates and Professor of Mathematics B. S. University of California, 1897 M. S. University of California, 1899 Ph. D. University of Chicago, 1901 CONCERNED primarily with those undergrad- uate problems not delegated specifically to deans of colleges, the office of the Dean of Undergraduates comes closely in touch with various student activities, amongst which not the least is athletics. In this year of the Olympic Games we may well note a statement of Plato that the value of games in education lies in the culti- vation of the same qualities in which we desire men to excel in later life. Anyone who would be good at anything must practice it in its various details from youth on, both in sport and in earnest. It is as true today as in the times of Plato, perhaps more so, that with him we recog- nize that sports and athletics in general have a place in university life and in general education should include the guidance of the feelings and impulses of youth by means of sports toward their final aim in life. LUCY W. STEBBINS Dean of Women and Professor of Social Economics A. B. Radcliff College, 1902 FROM year to year THE BLUE AND GOLD offers to the Dean of Women and her asso- ciates, among others, an opportunity to greet the Senior Class and reluctantly to bid it farewell. Part of the duty and pleasure of this office is to share in making each class welcome when it enters the University, and to help each class to give and to receive benefits in generous measure throughout its four years of life at col- lege. From Orientation to the Senior Ball, the office, whenever it can be of assistance, is a willing participant in activities, and from matriculation to commencement the office follows with interest scholastic achievement. Just as it welcomes hope- fully the coming of the Freshmen, it watches re- gretfully the going of the Seniors, and it is grate- ful for a place in THE BLUE AND GOLD where it may express to the latter its appreciation and good wishes. [18]