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

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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]

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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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:HE Summer Sessions of the University do in a small way what the Olympic Games do. Like the Olympic Games, they draw men and women from many states and from many nations to a competition. During most summers every state in the Union is represented in the stu- dent enrollment, and from fifteen to twenty for- eign nations are likewise represented. The faculty also come from either an English or a Continental University. The competit ion which these repre- sentatives of many regions enter is not of the body, but of the mind. In the competition of classroom and laboratory, as in that of track and field, a cosmopolitan and international make-up of the body of contestants gives color, breadth, and interest to the competition, and very often the outcome is not so much a victory over the other contestants as it is a victory over ignorance, intolerance, and misunderstanding. HAROLD L. BRUCE Dean of the Summer Sessions and Professor of English B. L. University of California, 1908 M. L. University of California, 191 1 Ph. D. Yale University, 191 5 ;HE holding of the Olympic Games in Cali- fornia this year serves to remind us of the Hellenic influence in the stimulation of western thought and learning. The College of Letters of the L T niversity of California, from which our present College of Letters and Science developed, maintained the tradition of best European culture by prescribing Greek language and literature for the A.B. degree. The newer, more widely elective program of the College of Letters and Science makes available, though not mandatory, a combination of the best of the older culture with the newly developed and still actively developing subjects, suggesting to the student not to neglect, in providing for his own education, the humanizing influence of ancient and modern letters, or the practical and stimulating aspects of modern science. GEORGE D. LOTDERBACK Dean of the College of Letters and Science and Professor of Geology A. B. University of California, 1896 Ph. D. University of California, 1899 [19]