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

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BLUE AND GOLD is primarily a record of the Class of 1941, a memorandum in print of young men and young women with whom friendships have been estab- lished that you would be loath to lose. It will help to keep fresh and vivid common memories of place and cir cumstance, of youth ' s dreams and youth ' s hopes. Given reasonable nurture, these friendships will flourish for a lifetime and, like trees along the road, enrich the most prosaic journey with unfailing joy. The sort of friends that you have made, and the number of them as well, have been influenced inevitably by the fact that your University is not the college of a region, nor of a denomination, nor of a philanthropist; it is the university of a state. To its seven campuses, at Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Davis, Mount Hamilton, La Jolla, and Riverside, in 1940-41, there came 28,851 students from 56 counties of California, from 54 other states and territories of the United States, and from 54 other countries of the world. These thousands came to the University of California because, in the seventy-three years of its existence, it has successfully held to ideals of scholarship that are respected in the farthest corners of the earth. They came because the University of California raises no barriers of race, religion, or economic status, but offers its privileges and grants its honors solely on the basis of individual worth. The quality of your membership in this group and the future contribution that you may make toward it and toward the reputation of the University will be appraised always by this criterion of individual worth and by no other. It is for us and those who come after us to press forward in the spirit of the great ' tradition we inherit: the tradition of loyalty to country expressed by service in the common weal; the tradition of translating obstacle and opportunity alike into achievement. There is menace and threat abroad in the world today, and the American nation confronts the stern and peremptory task of defending and preserving these traditions and the kind of national life for which they stand. What we do now, and the results flowing from it, will be of profound significance in the future. I hope that this challenge will be met, and that the way of life of which this Blue and Gold is an expression, will survive and grow stronger with each passing year. 20