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

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PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY ROBERT GORDON SPROUL PRESIDENT ' S MESSAGE HE University of 1933 is worthy of the faith of its children. It encourages me to compare it with the University of 1909 ' 191 3 in which I was a student. The physical plant has grown and improved almost beyond recognition. Today ' s faculty boasts many more great scholars and teachers than the faculty I knew. I am even forced to admit that the student body is probably brighter than we were, because the require ' ments both for admission and for graduation have been stiffened since my day. Even the spirit of the student body is quite as genuine and fine, though less exuberant than it was in the pre-war era. The men and women on the campus today are still not day scholars at Alma Mater ' s Select Seminary but sharers in what President Benjamin Ide Wheeler used to describe as the fire that burns eternal on the altar of the genus Californian. I know of no better place for any normal American boy or girl than the University ' of California today.

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UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATON

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VICE-PRESIDENTS AND PROVOSTS CAN NOT escape the conviction that this is perhaps one of the best times in which young people ever have gone to college or struggled for a foothold in a troubled world. I say it is one of the best times because it is a time of many changes. Great new undertakings are being started. They will make opportunities for all who can put themselves into them. One has to be pretty wide-awake not to miss what is going on, but it is certain that the earth is shaping itself for great new projects and partnerships. I do not mind telling you that I like this partnership of the University of California at Los Angeles with the University of California. I set great value upon it. It is a new kind of university organization to meet the demands of a new day. If it survives, the University of California will be one of the most useful teaching ventures on the planet. If it fails, both parts of the University will become very much weaker than they now are. It is distinctly a case of a bundle of sticks being stronger and harder to break than separate sticks. Let us keep the University of California one for all time and take joy in its genuine strength and greatness. EDWIN C. MOORE Vice-President and Provost at Los Angeles EDWIN C. MOORE HE University of California has been well named. It is supported by the state as a whole. Its students come from all sections of the state, and its activities not only are, as has so often been said, upon seven campi, but reach in effect every nook and corner of the state, particularly through the work of the College of Agriculture and the Extension Division. The radio too is an important factor in linking the state as a whole to the University. Those of us who have seen the University of California at Los Angeles come into existence, and have watched it through its history, have been amazed and gratified at its rapid development. We feel that a most important experiment in university adminis ' tration and organization has been established here in California. We believe that the Golden Bear is indeed made up of its seven units, the seven stars of the constellation that are dancing in the heavens. MONROE E. DZUTSCH MONROE E. DEUTSCH Vice-president and Provost at Berkeley