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The Semicentenary Celebration of the Founding of the University of California
The Semicentenary Celebration of the Founding of the University of California Author:University of California Subtitle: With an Account of the Conference on International Relations. 1868-1918 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1919 Original Publisher: University of California press Subjects: Education / Higher Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or... more » missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS Charles Henry Rieber, Ph. d. Professor of Logic, University of California, Chairman of the Semicentenary Celebration MB. PRESIDENT, MEMBERS OP THE FACULTY, AND GUESTS: Many of us have waited long for this hour with varying degrees of anxiety and pride. Eight years ago the committee on Semicentennial Publications began its work. Looking forward from those distant years this day seemed to all of us one that held forth the promise of sheer gladness and unalloyed pleasure in a high academic festival. But today no one may conceal from himself that it is an hour in which all must recognize the very serious responsibilities of these times. In fact, during the past two or three months many of the members of our committee wondered if it might not be unwise, perhaps improper for the University to celebrate even such an important anniversary as the fiftieth anniversary. I may say, therefore, for our committee, that while some of our plans were begun several years ago, the programme for the week was prepared on very short notice, and under most trying conditions. No one seemed able to say in advance where he or anyone else would be in a week's time. But let us hope that we who are here, although we are all in a state of serious and even solemn thought, may, nevertheless, find it not unfitting to rejoice over the significant happenings during the first fifty years of the life of this University. A brief tale of those years i...« less