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

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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

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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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THE ADMINISTRATIVE YEAR AMMEDIATE and strenuous drive by the alumni, faculty, and students opposing the University budget reduction suddenly evaluated University importance to those forces and created a unity of spirit which served as a bulwark against any attempt at the deprivation of scholastic stability here. The total biennial reduc ' tion for the period 1933-35 was $4,273,818.16, a cut of 25 per cent below the sum appro- priated for the i93i ' 33 period. This was effected by reducing salaries of all University em- ployees; by not filling vacancies which might occur but, instead, redistributing the work; by curtailing expenditures for unnecessary equipment; and by not improving non-essential landscape on various c ampuses. Educational advantages offered the citizens of California were not affected nor was important research forsaken. Enrollment figures for 1933-34 were several hundred below those of the previous academic year, and those of the spring semester, 10,799 at Berkeley, below those of the fall semester. The Regents permitted the University to borrow money from the CWS federal emergency relief fund to aid 1581 needy students with fifteen dollars a month. DR. FRANK H. SPEDDING, University chemistry instructor, was awarded the annual $1000 Langmuir prize for research in pure chemistry. Professor E. O. Lawrence, of the physics department, was chosen American representative to the Solvay Congress, an international scientific gathering in Brussels, where he reported his research on the mass of the neutron. Dean Gilbert N. Lewis, of the College of Chemistry, represented the University at the Ninth International Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry at Madrid, Spain. Dean Lewis read a paper concerning the University ' s present experiments with isotopic hydrogen and heavy water, a field pioneered here for the past two years and bearing possibility of revolutionizing all sciences. One of the world ' s outstanding mathematicians, Dr. Griffith C. Evans, of Rice Insti- tute, at Houston, Texas, was appointed chairman of the University mathematics depart- ment. Dr. Karl Landauer, expert in the field of planned economy, was the first German scholar exiled by Nazi persecutions to come to this University. Dr. W. Jaeger, of the University of Berlin, was appointed Sather professor of classical literature for the first half of the academic year 1934-35. A lecture series on World Powers Since 1800 and Their Relations Today was given by Dr. Richard von Kuhlman, former German Minister of Foreign Affairs and Hitchcock professor. THE plan of having eminent men in various fields as monthly guest speakers for Uni- versity meetings has had important results. Attendance at the meetings has increased and the students have learned of contemporary advances and ideas from Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford University; Richard M. Tobin, California Chairman for Navy Day; and Charles H. Davila, Roumanian Minister to the United States. Probably the most significant innovation of the year was the approval by the Aca- demic Senate, and the subsequent adoption, of the Credit by Examination plan without enrollment in courses, resembling the European scheme for student initiative. This experi- ment has been followed by the demand for more elastic majors for fields that are not sharply defined. Such a plan now places the University among the foremost modern experimental educational institutions of the world. 22