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

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HENRY F. GRADY Dean of the College of Commerce and Professor of International Trade B. A. St. Mary ' s University, Baltimore, 1907 Ph. D. Columbia University, 1927 JHE present depression makes clear, as noth- ing else in recent years, the necessity for education in business. The extent to which business will be successfully conducted with re- sulting prosperity depends upon the competency of our business leaders. Economic ill health is a result of mistakes in policy both in the conducting of private business concerns and in governmental attitude. Mistakes of government may be errors of legislation, or lack of legislation, along the lines dictated by enlightened economic thought. Colleges of commerce have the responsibility of developing in their students an understanding of the function of business, the knowledge of sound business practice, and a proper appreciation of business ethics. In so far as they perform their function in this regard we will have eliminated the causes of business distress with its far-reaching effect on all phases of life. Business is a profession and will be more definitely regarded as such as its leaders live up to the full measure of their great responsibility. WILLIAM W. KEMP Dean of the School of Education and Professor of Education A. B. Stanford University, 1898 Ph. D. Columbia University, 1912 E ARE indebted to the Athenians for counterparts of our modern systems of education. With the mastery of reading, writing, and counting, the boy was introduced to Homer and the long line of Greek poets. Poetry with its heroic tales and characters, its manliness and pathos, its respect for law and order combined with its admiration for personal initiative and worth, furnished glorious subject-matter. The Citharist gave training in music. Much time was also given to physical exercise at the palaestra. At sixteen the youth entered the gymnasium, where he added more vigorous forms of athletics, learning to participate in the singing and dancing of public choruses and in the state and religious processions. He could now mingle in the market- place and the theatre, receiving thus his civic education through contact with public affairs. In his eighteenth year he took the Ephebic oath, and after two years of military training, was honored with full citizenship. [22]

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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]

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IF, FOR us, this is to be an Hellenic year the first far western Olympiad bringing with it some memory however indistinct of the glory that was Greece, surely we architects should thrill to the thought as much as any. Greek architecture is very real indeed to us; its strength and subtlety is bred into the marrow of our bones. Through that deep understanding comes the understanding of other arts and, if we have it in us, the creation of strong and subtle buildings of our own. Be we classicist or be we ' moderne, each, first or last, must acknowledge his debt to that remark- able race, so much like our own, whose energy, however, seems to have been directed toward per- fection rather than mass production. It is perhaps, then, not altogether absurd to say that, in its freedom, its respect for the past, and its fervid search for beautiful expressions of living truths, the little Ark may claim a distant kinship to Hellas of old at least we feel it may! V. C. PEMUT Professor of Architecture and Director of the School of Architecture B. S. University of California, 190 ' HE Greeks of old had scribes who kept and transmitted to posterity the lists of victors ' in the national games. In like manner the Recorder of the Faculties keeps the list of con- testants in the race for the educational rewards offered by the University of California. Each member of the class of 1932 is recorded as a victor in the race. Each member, by virtue of the vic- tory, is now eligible to compete in the more im- portant contests of life. And just as the cities of ancient Greece gloried in the success of their representatives at the Olympic Games, so will the University take pride in the life achievements of its sons and daughters of the class of 193-. May the record of these achievements fill many pages in the annals of state and nation! .. 4. THOMAS B. STEEL Recorder of the Faculties