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

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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]

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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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! r CCEPTABLE engineering structures must tt have strength and stiffness, be simple, j JX.durable, useful, reliable, economic, and graceful in proportion. Therefore the engineer should train himself broadly to appreciate fully these qualities of design and construction; otherwise he cannot achieve success. Consequently he must master the fundamentals of pure science and become expert in their mani- fold technical applications. He must acquire good taste in his art, a sound and quick sense for costs and values, and an instinct for invention. He must be an alert business man with the vision and courage of a sane promoter; and above all he must understand and direct men. The engineer cannot truly succeed until he is first and last a student of Nature and Mankind. He is only incidentally a practitioner. CHARLES DEKLETH, Jr. Dean of the College of Engineering and Professor of Civil Engineering B. S. College of the City of New York, 1894 C. E. Columbia University, 1896 LL. D. University of California, 19 0 ' HE College of Chemistry combines the functions of a teaching department and a ' great research institution. In the former capacity it trains a considerable body of highly selected men to enter the chemical industries, where they play an important part in the de- velopment and utilization of the resources of the nation. As a research institution it is engaged in a large number of fundamental problems in pure science. These researches are carried on not only by members of research, but by a considerable number of guests from many nations of the world who come to contribute to, and learn from, the investigations of the College of Chemistry. GILBERT X. LEWIS Dean of the College of Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry A. B. Harvard University, 1896 A. M. Harvard University, 1898 Ph. D. Harvard University, 1 899 Sc. D. Liverpool, 192 Sc-D. University of Wisconsin, 1918 Sc. D. University of Chicago, 1919 [21]