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

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The memories of men are a multitude of greenhouses in which civiliza- tion grows and all the human institutions which are its fruit take sustenance, and find the means to flourish. Events and experiences drop out of the memories of men, unless someone has the foresight to preserve viable seeds of the basic idea in pictures or words on the face of a stone or the leaf of a book. The yearbook of the Berkeley Campus is such a resource for memory, certain to yield pleasure in the years ahead to more than a few. This particular book has a personal significance for me, for it represents the record of the last class to grad- uate in my twenty-eight years of service as President. I too am grad uating this June, and at an age when I realize clearly the significance of memories and the satisfaction that comes from friends associated with them. I recommend that you treasure both.