Their fealty but not their faith who once called England home: The faith is consecrate; The victory, theirs and ours-eternal planned. Lo, yet the day when Hell's afoam That day at Heaven's gate We twain shall kneel, sons of a larger home, To conquer Fate!" II The day has come your fathers prophesied, Had you delayed The sacrifice austere. The price our fathers paid! What was that price, that glory, of the former day? But for themselves and of a breath, A light that flickered and then died away?— For times and half a time The nether powers prevail: The woman clothed with the sun has sought the wilderness. For times and yet a time The stars in heaven pale But the mother of immortal hope is no more comfortless: God has found a place for her in one young western clime, A remnant of her children for the night of her duressShe has sworn them of the morning of martyrdom sublime. Lo, now they spread the sail, They ride upon the gale, They battle in the trenches where the slaves of evil press; For the fullness of the measure Of the Light that shall endure, of the law that shall be sure, SHAKESPEARE-HEART OF THE RACE CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY Not in marble or bronze, the sum of thy lineaments; Not in colour or line that painter or graver may trace. Out of the kingdom of vision, gleaming, transcendent, immortal, Issue thy creatures and step into vesture of time and placeEach with passion and pulse of thy heart; but, passing the portal, Each in likeness of us. And listening, wondering, Lo, from the lips of each we gather a thought of thy Face! Nature walleth her womb with wreckage of history: Touch, O Poet, thy lyre, and heart-beats frozen in stone Tremble to life once more to the towers of pain and of pity— Build themselves into thee, thy ramparts of rapture and moan, Cry with a human voice from the passioning walls of thy cityHamlets, Richards, Cordelias, prisoned, oblivious, Dateless minions of death, till summoned by thee alone. Fortune maketh of men pipes for her fingering; Thou hast made of thine England music of nobler employ: Men whose souls are their own; whose breastplate, honour untainted; Of promise precise, God-fearing, abhorring the dreams that destroy— The Moloch of Force ensky'd, the ape of Necessity sainted;To country and freedom true; merciful, generous, Valiant to merit in Fate the heart's-ease mortals enjoy. Shaper, thou, of the tongue! Under the Pleiades, Under the Southern Cross, under the Boreal Crown, Where there's a mother's lap and a little one seeking a story, Where there's a teacher or preacher, or player come to the townMage of the opaline phrase, meteoric, dissolving in glory, Splendid lord of the word predestined, immutable— Children are learning thy English and handing the heritage down. Who but opens thy book: odorous memories Breathe of the dear, dear land, sceptred and set in the sea. Her primrose pale, her sweet o' the year, have savour and semblance For Perditas woo'd in the tropics by Florizels tutored of thee. The rue of her sea-walled garden, the rosemary, wake to remembrance Where furrowed exiles from home, wintered with pilgriming, Yearn for the white-faced shores, and turn thy page on the knee. No philosopher, thou: best of philosophers! Blood and judgement commingled are masters of self-control. Poet of common sense, reality, weeping, and laughter: Not in the caverns of Time, not in the tides that roll On the high shore of this world, not in the dim hereafter In reason and sorrow, the hope; in mercy, the mystery: Selling the hours of dross we purchase the moment of soul. Poet, thou, of the Blood: of states and of nations Passing thy utmost dream, in the uttermost corners of space! Poet, thou, of my countrymen-born to the speech, O Brother, Born to the law and freedom, proud of the old embrace, Born of the Mayflower, born of Virginia-born of the Mother! Poet, thou of the Mother! the blood of America, Turning in tribute to thee, revisits the Heart of the Race. THE DEDICATION OF HILGARD HALL HILGARD HALL* A GIFT OF THE CITIZENS OF CALIFORNIA DEDICATED NINETEEN On a slight eminence facing the Golden Gate stands Hilgard Hall, a fitting monument to the memory of the man whose name it bears and whose indefatigable energy and wise forethought made its realization possible, Eugene Woldemar Hilgard. Called to California early in 1875, Professor Hilgard established the first agricultural experiment station in the United States at the University of California. Serving for thirty years as director and for more than forty years as professor in the University, his contributions to agricultural science and his influence on the development of agricultural pedagogy can hardly be overestimated. The firm stand taken by him with reference to the dignity and pedagogical value of agricultural science at this early period, when so many institutions, now great, were in their formative periods, has exerted a profound influence upon the development of agricultural education. Indeed, the high place modern scientific agriculture holds is in no small way due to the efforts of Professor Hilgard, and it is not too much to say that the splendid facilities possessed by the College of Agriculture of the University of California, represented in our two new buildings, are the direct result of his foundation work done under most trying conditions in the early years of the life of the institution. Hilgard Hall is a gift of the people of California, the funds for its erection being appropriated by the Regents from the $1,800,000 bond issue provided by the initiative vote of the people in 1914. It cost $350,000 and contains equipment to the value of $25,000 additional. It was erected according to schedule, being commenced August 1, 1916, and occupied early in August, 1917. Hilgard Hall comprises the second of the three buildings which will complete the agricultural quadrangle according to the Phoebe Hearst architectural plan for the development of the University. The idea underlying the quadrangle composed of the agricultural buildings, as developed by the architect, Professor John Galen * Prepared by ROBERT W. HODGSON. Howard, was taken from the old Tuscan farm with its inner court of activity. The two present buildings complete half of the court. The desire for a court, coupled with the existing contours have given to Hilgard Hall a special form, the building having four distinct turnings. The principal façade, about one hundred eighty feet in length, faces the west and is treated with a colonnade of ten massive pillars, surmounted by an attic wall on which occurs the following inscription: "To Rescue for Human Society the Native Values of Rural Life," typifying the aim of the institution. The building is constructed of reinforced concrete with a light gray plaster finish, and is approximately sixty feet in width by three hundred feet in length. It is roofed in tile and in arrangement and appearance is of the same general type as all the newer buildings on the campus, having three main floors and a basement floor. It contains one hundred and eleven rooms, of which ninety-five are devoted to offices, classrooms, and laboratories, the remainder being given over to machinery, lavoratories, and janitors' quarters. The main entrance is by the west through a door decorated by a conventionalized California poppy and carrying the agricultural symbols of plenty, the basket of fruit and the overflowing cornucopia. A unique feature of the building is the exterior decoration in colors obtained by the use of sgraffito work. The pilasters terminating the colonnade and at all the corners of the buildings, the main frieze, as well as certain panels and wall surfaces are decorated with this work. Sgraffito is an Italian method of decoration, giving a cameo effect by means of sculptured colored layers of plaster one over the other. The ornamental design in general is taken from symbolic forms of agricultural life, such as the sheaf of wheat, the flail and basket, the bull's head, and fruit and flowers. The building contains four unassigned general lecture rooms, two on each of the first and second floors, with seating accommodations for four hundred and twenty-eight students at one time. In addition it contains a conversation room and two rooms for the use of student organizations. A unique feature of the building is the two garden courts situated on the top floor immediately behind the attic wall. These are provided with window seats and when decorated with hanging vines and potted plants will be both useful and ornamental additions to the top floor. From these courts access can be had to the roof, from which there is a very fine view. The rest of the building is divided among the seven following divisions: Agronomy (dealing with field and forage crops, crop production, and farm management), Citriculture (covering all phases of citrus, semitropical, and tropical fruit production), Forestry (offering complete courses in general forestry, forest utilization, silviculture, mensuration, technology, and forest management), Genetics (dealing with the application of the principles of breeding to plants and animals), Pomology (offering courses covering all phases of the production of deciduous fruits, small fruits, and nuts), Soil Technology (dealing with methods of soil management, soil mapping, physical analysis, and soil physics), and Viticulture (covering the subjects of grape growing, olive growing, wine making, food preservation, and fermentation). |