University of San Francisco - USF Don Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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 EDI CAT ION To Henry J. Strickroth NOT MERELY IN RECOGNITION OF, BUT WITH A TRUE APPRECIATION FOR HIS LONG YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY, THE STUDENT BODY SEEKS TO EXPRESS ITS GRATITUDE AND ITS RESPECT FOR HIS DEVOTION BY DEDICATING THIS VOLUME OF THE ANNUAL TO HIM : : : HIS STRONG CHARACTER AND HIGH IDEALS MAKE HIM THE EPITOME OF ALL THAT IS PRAISEWORTHY IN A LAY PROFESSOR OF A JESUIT UNIVERSITY : : : : : :

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FOREWORD TWO YEARS AGO, AT THE GREAT DIAMOND JUBILEE CELEBRATION OF ST. IGNATIUS COLLEGE, THE STATE BESTOWED UPON THE UNIVERSITY THE TITLE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO. WHILE NONE DENIED THE NAME TO BE FITTING TO OUR SITUATION AND TO OUR HISTORY, FEW REALIZED HOW GREATLY THAT HONOR WAS DESERVED; FEW REALIZED HOW INTIMATELY THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO WAS JOINED WITH THE HISTORY OF THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO. FROM ITS FOUNDING IN 1855, WHEN IT BECAME THE ARBITER OF COUNTLESS MINING DISPUTES AS POSSESSING THE ONE LABORATORY WHERE A JUST ASSAY WAS ASSURED, THROUGH THE DAYS WHEN IT WAS THE WESTERN TERMINUS OF THE NEWLY OPENED TRANSCONTINENTAL TELEGRAPH, THROUGH THE TIME WHEN IT OPERATED THE ONLY COMMERCIAL ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT IN THE WORLD AND ILLUMINATED MARKET STREET WITH ARC LIGHTS AS EARLY AS 1879, INTO THE YEAR 1880 WHEN IT ESTABLISHED SAN FRANCISCO AS A CENTER OF SCIENTIFIC LEARNING BY BEING DECLARED ONE OF THE FIVE MOST COMPLETELY EQUIPPED RESEARCH LABORATORIES IN THE NATION, UP TO THE GREAT FIRE AND EARTHQUAKE OF 1906 WHEN THE UNIVERSITY, ITS BUILDINGS AND ALL ITS POSSESSIONS WERE COMPLETELY DESTROYED, AND THROUGH THE LONG, SLOW DAYS OF RECONSTRUCTION UP TO THE PRESENT OPENING ERA OF PROSPERITY, WHEN IT REMAINS THE ONLY UNIVERSITY WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CITY, THE UNIVERSITY HAS NOT ONLY BEEN AN INTIMATE BUT EVEN AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE LIFE OF OUR CITY. THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK, WHILE PRIMARILY TO RECORD THE HAPPENINGS OF OUR UNIVERSITY AT THE PRESENT TIME, IS ALSO TO REVIVIFY AND MORE CLOSELY JOIN THE PRESENT UNIVERSITY WITH THE TRADI TIONS OF ITS PAST.