University of California Davis - El Rodeo Yearbook (Davis, CA)

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iwif'xk ,, ROBERT GORDON SPROUL, 85., LL. D., Litt. D. President of the University President's Message During your years of study at the University of California, you have become a member of a great family of distinguished scholars and promising students resident on eight canipuses and at numerous research stations. As a student at Davis, you are sure that there is the best part of the University, and this is as it should be. Already the shaded walks, sleek herds, green fields and friendly students of the Aggie campus deserve your loyalty. And you may rightly take pride in the richer role that Davis will play in the University life, when additional work has been added in Letters and Science, as it will be in the near future. But your greatest pride should lie in the knowledge that you are a part of the Statewide University of California, an institution the excellence of which is attested both by its research achievements and by the quality of its graduates. Soon you will come to the close of a period of formal education, and the commencement of the life for which the University has attempted to prepare you. Whether or not you are well prepared will depend not so much on the facts you may have at your finger tips, as upon what you acquired here of the capacity to think and thus to approach intelligently solutions of the problems of the world in which you are to live. As these problems arise, I hope you will always live up to the traditions of the host of trained men and women who constitute the far-flung University of California family; that you will consider this book not merely a souvenir of happy years in your life, but rather as a symbol of the spirit of an institution which exists to serve mankind. ROBERT G. SPROUL

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Vice President of the University of California Dean of the College of Agriculture Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station Once again it is my pleasure to extend greetings and congratulations to the staff of El Rodeo and the student body of the Davis Campus of the University of California, for another year of fine and constructive work. The history now being written on the Davis Campus and reflected in the current year book is epoch making. It was in 1921-22 that the decision was made by the University to develop four years of degree work on the Davis Campus. Previous to that time students of the College of Agriculture whose maiors were in the production fields, spent most of their time at Berkeley, transferring to Davis for one or more semesters in their junior or senior years. Five major divisions of the College had their headquarters at Davis at that time and the first of the modern buildings, Horticulture and Dairy Industry, were being built. This was a significant turning point in the development of the College of Agriculture as all can see today. The great maiority of the students in the entire College of Agriculture are now in residence at Davis and have their entire University experience on this campus. Ten divisions offering maiors have their headquarters'here. With the new Soils and Irrigation Building, Hunt Hall, the School of Veterinary Medicine and now the new student dormitories, this campus is turning a new corner that promises to open even wider horizons than the events of 1921-22. Campuses are not made, however, by buildings, important as they may be. President Eliot once remarked when asked how much the physical plant of Harvard University was worth, that the figure he quoted did not include the ivy . The ivy of the Davis campus does not consist of hoary traditions or semi-mythical figures of the past. It consists of a dedication to service to the rural people of California and the nation, through research and education, in an atmosphere of friendliness and cooperation. That is the Davis tradition. Long may it flourish! C. B. HUTCHISON Vice-President of the University, and Dean of the College of Agriculture DEAN CLAUDE B. HUTCHISON, M. 3., LL. 0., D.AGR.