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

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GUEST SPEAKERS AND Hitler is what you might call screwy, but he ' s not nuts. Who should know better than GER- HART H. SEGAR, editor of the Neu Volkszei- tung and ex-prisoner of a German concentration camp. The Reverend MARTIN CYRIL D ' ARCY holds his own on the aims of education. At Oxford University he also holds the titles of Catholic priest and a Jesuit lecturer in Thomistic phi- losophy. America ' s answer to Mein Kampf is another best seller, Union Now . After covering Europe as a foreign correspondent, CLARENCE K. STREIT urged the Wheeler audience to follow his advice. Regent JOHN FRANCIS NEYLAN listens to his Sproul introduction and deliberates a moment before presenting his pre-war non-intervention- ist views. Avoid conflict to lead in post-war re- construction. Wheeler Hall, but not an American Civ class NORMAN THOMAS, explorer of the realms o socialist thought, terms Hitler ' s chances of sui prising America as less than those of Columbus WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING came all tb way from Harvard to tell the University audience that America will not be pushe around the Pacific . Then, as the Foerster le turer, that night he spoke on Immortality: Relativity of Death . e g d

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PROFESSORS Two faculty members known for their interest in student affairs are Professors ALEXANDER KIDD of Jurisprudence and NOEL KEYS of Education. Penny-pitching proteges of the former know that although he doesn ' t keep office hours, he is usually willing to drop his criminal law research to chat with students. Mr. Keys has won campus acclaim for his Family Relations Course and his work with the Student Health Committee and Welfare Council. Co-workers in the general field of social science are FREDERIC PAXSON and ROBERT LOWIE, chairmen of their respective departments of history and anthropology. A specialist in U. S. history, Dr. Paxson has sent forth several worthy treatises from his smoke-filled library den, and Dr. Lowie ' s office in the green tin building has been the site of much literary work in pology. The advent of war brought to the campus not only blackouts and a jumbled calendar, but also DR. SAXTON POPE, imported from the Med Center and Cowell by the Red Cross. There was nothing dull about his First Aid classes, for they were well sprinkled with experiences from a colorful life. Amateur cravat bandagers learned of his hobbies of weaving and orchid growing, and of the series of monkeys he has owned, all named Peter . Uncle Sam and BERNARD ETCHEVERRY are old friends, for the latter gives the government professional advice in irrigation and drainage. The class medalist in 1902 now helps place his graduating engineers via his textbooks and personal advice. Professor Etcheverry digs ditches with modern design. One of the probes of the Zoology Department, RICHARD B. GOLDSCHMIDT is an authority in genetics and theories of evolution. Among his books is found Material Basis of Evolution which contradicts Darwin by stressing sudden differentiation of species. Magellan was a piker next to this professor who has made four jaunts around the world. Exploring out-of-the-way places has made him a connoisseur of languages and oriental art.

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UNIVERSITY MEETINGS ie tg ie After wishing Lincoln a happy WALTER WHITE, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, criticized racial discrimination in the armed forces and warned of a dangerously low morale among Negro citizens. Hitchcock lecturer for 1942, A. H. REGINALD BULLER courageously faced a campus audience to divulge the private life of the higher fungi on which he is an authority, having written six vol- umes on the subject. Comparing the daze of the United States in Aug- ust, 1941, to that of France before its collapse, ANDRE MAUROIS stressed the necessity of unity in a time of emergency. He is a commander of the Legion of Honor and of the royalties of two best sellers. CARL WILLIAM BLEGEN dug up some data on his Excavations at Troy I for the annual series of Sather lectures. He lives in the past as an archaeologist and in the present as professor of classics at the University of Cincinnati. Forgetting for a moment that he was the individ- ualist who had a 33-unit semester course with an almost perfect A average, LEONARD WILSON joined two other students in pointing out that the future of democracy depends on students assum- ing their responsibilities as citizens. Trust-buster THURMAN ARNOLD took leave of his office of assistant Attorney-General to tip his hat to Cal students, ask for a long-range eco- nomic vision, and to hint at the dawn of the light metals and plastic age.