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

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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]

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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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CLAUDE B. HUTCHINSON Dean of the College of Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station and Professor of Agri- culture B. S. University of Missouri, 1908 M. S. Cornell University, 1913 M. S. Harvard University, 1917 vr GRICULTURAL activities, like other human L activities, evolve; and agricultural his- JL Jxtory, like other history, repeats itself. The Greeks had wine in brick cellars, we have sellers of wine bricks; they fallowed land to maintain fertility, we fallow it to maintain prices; they had a surplus of philosophical theories, we have sur- pluses of many things and are unhappy because we have so much. Superstition has been elevated from the plane of belief that gods and goddesses created all agri- cultural problems and controlled the destiny of all things agricultural, to a rather unanimous be- lief that the Federal Government is responsible in toto for all things both good and bad, and of course should do something about them. The Greeks put their problems to the wise men, we leave them to Congress, which in turn builds a Federal Barn Ford and places upon its chassis the burdens of the agricultural universe. FRANK H. PROBERT Dean of the College of Mining B. S. College of the City of New York, 1 894 C. E. Columbia University, 1896 Associate of the Royal School of Mines, London, 1 897 :HE exploitation of minerals has conditioned the progress of changing civilizations and the rise and fall of empires since the begin- ning of human activity in the remote past to the present time. Throughout the kaleidoscopic picture of his- tory we realize the true import of the basic need of natural resources for the maintenance of national strength. Themistocles established the hegemony of Athens by his strategy following the battle of Thermopylae, in forcing the great naval battle of Salamis, which was financed by federal taxes im- posed upon the silver mines of Laurium. Thus was initiated the rise of Hellenic power. In more modern times this little intellectual empire, the University of California, was con- ceived by Thomas H. Green, who in December, 1849, at the first informal session of the State Legislature gave notice of intention to introduce a bill to establish and endow a state university to be known as Collegio de Minera. [20]