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

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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

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