The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-06
The Editors of the Blue and
Gold Had Some Pre-
deceSSorS.
PROF. EDWARDS ONE OF THEM
Regent AinsWorth and Governor
Budd Awoke the Faculty's
Wrath in 1872.


Blue and Gold annual, has brought back
to the mind of a competent scrap-book
fend the good old days gone by, when the
inquisitorial committee now occupied IN
holding an inquest over the remains of the
publication were boys and "sinned to-
gether."
Along in the seventies, when the book
method of making light of serious things
was unknown, the students prepared their
assaults or the outgoing class in the form
of small printed sheet containing what
was alleged to be a resume OF what the
graduates were supposed to say on the
various themes they were wont to review.
Even the staid and 'demure faculty of the
university to-day were not averse to max
ing light of the dignified and conservative
professors who wereengaged in pumping
lasting and valuable thoughts into their
heads. They even went so far as to speak
lightly of the president, Mr.. TAFT, whose
whole life was wrapped up in an attempt,
and it may be said with success, to wis
domize them. There was no gauntlet they
would not throw down to the faculty and
none they would not as readily take up.
When the graduating class of 1872 held
a programme anticipating the theses to be
delivered. 1t opened as follows:
Devil of a Rumpus.
BY the Foundlings Of the College of California
Under the auspices of the University
In FIG. Tait's Hall
(KindIy rendered for the occason),
July, 7teenth of Wednesday, 1872
Music by the organs Of the Board Of Regents
Here we stand the dauntless three
A finer crowd you meier will see.
And il our pieces do seem silly,
They were rehashed by Uncle Billy.
Professor Kellogg is spoken of as Profess
sor Killhog, and blamed for all the bad
Latin on the programme.
One of the faculty, whose name was e. G.
TAFT, was styled Effigy TAFT, yet he made
no protest The Uncle Billy was the
worthy William Swinton, the author of
sRambles Among Words" and further
down the programme he is thus handled
without gloves:
81 must apologize for the poorness of this
Grafton on account of the newness of the
subject. This, however, is not my fault,
although l am well read. The semi-peren-
Mai absence of Bell Lettres Swinton ten
thousand miles away, while enjoying his
rambles among words in the classic pre-
cincts of the Five Points, all this I say,
coupled with a finger / received in the
National game of baseball, compelled me
to be brief"
The Five Points episode mentioned
means that Mr.. Swinton fell among thieves
in New York and was robbed. This same
point was touchy one to the professor of
words but he saw the wisdom of silence
and made no cry.
Further down the programme it reads:
Grafton and valedictory, Demijohn ST. Mathew
Whitworth THE Impossibility of the Pos
sible."
believe that open meetings are possible, but
the Board of Regents have proved them i'm
possible, which recalls to my mind an original
conundrum: What is the difference between
snail and the board? One makes the shell
out and the other the State shell out. (Too
thin.l OF course this was not suggested by the
grand donation of $500 Ito hire the Oakland
band). would respectfully recommend to
the honorable gentlemen the propriety of APP
plying the balance of this fund for another
trip to Sacramento. l care not now for your
displeasure but for me give my sheepskin,
for Pve been LANDED long enough.
So much for the board regents. The pro-
gramme goes on to state that various
other members of the faculty are ''bald-
headed skating-rink advertisements, and
few ''side slaps" are given to the Board
of Education.
All this was borne by the professors, and
the young men who put up the jobs
from year to year have since grown up,
and behold they are great and good men.
Mark the list of gentlemen who now
style the editors of Blue and Gold cred
handed rascals and maligners of good
names and worthy men," They are:
Messrs. Otis, Reinstein, Newmark, Ed
wards, Budd, Woodward, Rhoda, Scott,
Ainsworth, Hawkins, Wetmore and Boil
ton. Mr.. Edwards is one of the faculty of
the university, Mr.. Ainsworth is one of
the regents and Mr.. Budd is Governor of
the State. The rest of the class of 1873
who wrote the programme for the delecta-
ton of the class of 1872 are prominent
lawyers all over California. In truth,
they were sinners themselves, and now Mr..
Edwards is on the inquisitorial board.