Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda city directory, 1924, Part 5

Author: Polk-Husted Directory Co
Publication date: 1924
Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : Polk-Husted Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 2232


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TANK DEPARTMENT


MANUFACTURERS


TANKS-SILOS WOOD PIPE PACIFIC FIVE PLY


FACTORY CUT HOUSES MILL WORK DOORS-SASH-FRAMES


Write for Catalogues and Prices


PACIFIC TANK & PIPE CO. NATIONAL MILL & LUMBER CO.


High St. and Tidewater Ave., Oakland 320 Market Street, San Francisco


TAXI DEPARTMENT


"The Thinking Fellow Calls a Yellow"


Yellow Cab


Oakland 100


TILE DEPARTMENT


Telephones : S. F. Kearny 2830. Factory Alameda 509. Works: West Alameda


N. CLARK & SONS


Incorporated January 11, 1889


MANUFACTURERS OF ARCHITECTURAL TERRA COTTA-PRESSED BRICK-VITRIFIED AND TERRA COTTA PIPE-HOLLOW TILE FIRE PROOFING-FIRE BRICK TILE AND KINDRED CLAY PRODUCTS


Office : 112-116 Natoma Street San Francisco


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TOOL DEPARTMENT


TRADE MARK


C. W. MARWEDEL


ESTABLISHED 1872


TOOLS-SHOP SUPPLIES BRASS-COPPER-STEEL ALUMINUM-BRONZE


IN SHEETS, RODS, TUBES and WIRE


Telephone Douglas 4180


76 FIRST STREET SAN FRANCISCO


TOWEL SUPPLY DEPARTMENT


Rent! Why Buy?


Clean towel service, napkins, table-cloths, table tops, white coats, white pants, profes- sional gowns, dental smocks, nurses' gowns.


Keep Clean and SERVE IT IN WHITE Rented from


THE OAKLAND-CALIFORNIA TOWEL COMPANY


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TRANSFER DEPARTMENT


ESTABLISHED 1895


Merchants Express & Draying Co. H. L. HINMAN, Manager


General Draying CARLOAD DISTRIBUTION A SPECIALTY Reliable Express Service Between San Francisco, Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley 400-406 ALICE STREET PHONE LAKESIDE 6200


E. B. HAUNSCHILD, President C. H. SAMUELS, Secretary


U. C. EXPRESS & STORAGE CO. FIREPROOF STORAGE Moving, Packing and Shipping of Household Goods PHONE THORNWALL 640 2120 BERKELEY WAY BERKELEY


PHONE OAKLAND 248 PHONE BERKELEY 8400 UNITED TRANSFER CO.


BAGGAGE CHECKED AT HOME TO DESTINATION


Only Company Authorized by Southern Pacific-Western Pacific-All Steamship Lines TWO TRIPS TO SAN FRANCISCO DAILY MAIN OFFICE: 2101 Brush Cor. 21st St., Oakland, California ALAMEDA SAN FRANCISCO Phone Douglas 83


Phone Alameda 1300 PACKING MOVING STORING-FREIGHTING


Office Phone: Lakeside 10458; Res. Phone: Oakland 7192


VASSEL'S EXPRESS


D. E. VASSEL


Furniture Moving-Packing and Storage


Piano Moving-Long Distance Hauling-General Hauling Picnic Parties


619 Market Street Oakland, California


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TYPEWRITERS DEPARTMENT


TYPEWRITERS


You should personally test the


SILENT SMITH


In your own office. Free trial will be furnished with pleasure. The ideal typewriter for stencils.


Interchangeable platen. Right or left carriage return.


Typewriters Rented L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Co.


Phone Lakeside 752 456 Nineteenth St., Oakland


UNDERTAKERS DEPARTMENT


Berg's Funeral Parlors FRANK A. BERG, Prop.


Phone Berkeley 138


1936 University Avenue Berkeley, Cal.


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UNDERTAKERS DEPARTMENT


ESTABLISHED 1905


ANDKER & CO.


(MRS. DAN ANDKER)


UNDERTAKERS


"House of Personal Service"


1445 5th Av. cor. E. 15th St. Phone Merritt 1777 OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA


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UNDERTAKERS DEPARTMENT


Established November 10, 1873


Albert Brown Company Undertakers


OAKLAND 582-584 THIRTEENTH STREET


I BERKELEY 2001 BANCROFT WAY


ALAMEDA 2110 SANTA CLARA AVENUE


I


THE HOUSE OF CONSIDERATE SERVICE


CONSIDERATE: "Characterized by consideration or regard for another's circumstances or feelings; not heedless or unfeeling; not rigorous or exacting; kind."-Century Dictionary.


Telephones:


OAKLAND 18 and 19


ALAMEDA 157


BERKELEY 981


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UNDERTAKERS DEPARTMENT


Freeman & Cox- Roach & Kenney Undertaking Co. FUNERAL DIRECTORS


OAKLAND PARLORS-


2630 Telegraph Ave., Phone Lakeside 1181


FRUITVALE PARLORS- 2945 East 14th St., Phone Fruitvale 210


BERKELEY PARLORS- 2414 Grove St., Phone Berkeley 2538


Hanrahan & Wadsworth UNDERTAKERS


Phone Merritt 3534


510 East Fourteenth Street at Fifth Avenue OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA


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UNDERTAKERS DEPARTMENT


Truman Service Is Praised Most by Those Who Know Us Best


TRUMAN UNDERTAKING COMPANY


OAKLAND Telegraph and Thirtieth Day and Night Lakeside 7400


SAN FRANCISCO Mission and Fifteenth Day and Night Market 109


N. J. MEINERT & CO. FUNERAL DIRECTORS N. J. MEINERT, Manager


734 Twenty-fifth Street bet. San Pablo Ave. and Grove St.


Phone Lakeside 6426


Oakland, California


Edward E. Niehaus Co. Funeral Directors 2434 Telegraph Ave. Telephone Berkeley 850 BERKELEY


Phone Oakland 284


Ernest A. Wollitz FUNERAL DIRECTOR and EMBALMER


1935 Webster Street


OAKLAND, CAL.


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UNDERTAKERS DEPARTMENT


ARTHUR E. GUSTASON BESSIE WOOD GUSTASON


Bessie J. Wood Co. UNDERTAKERS


TELEPHONE LAKESIDE 49


2850 TELEGRAPH AVE. OAKLAND, CALIF.


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UPHOLSTERERS DEPARTMENT


M. GRAHAM, Mgr.


Tel. ELMHURST 1834


The Acme Bedding & Upholstering Co. THE "MADE TO ORDER" HOUSE Curled Hair and Silk Floss Mattresses-Upholstered Box Springs and Couches RENOVATING A SPECIALTY Factory 1901 62nd Avenue Oakland, Calif.


WALL PAPER DEPARTMENT


JAMES CAHILL & CO.


WALL PAPER, PAINTS, WINDOW SHADES A Record of Courtesy and Quality for Forty-eight Years 372-74 Twelfth Street Oakland, Calif.


Phone Oakland 1113


H. C. Swanson Company Wall Paper and Paints Painters' Supplies DISTRIBUTORS OF BRADLEY'S 100% PURE PAINTS AND GOODBAR-GOODWIN EXCLUSIVE WALL PAPER 361 Twelfth Street OAKLAND Tel. Oakland 3481


WAREHOUSE DEPARTMENT


Lawrence Warehouse Co.


AL T. GIBSON, President


MERCHANDISE WAREHOUSING Loaders and Distributors of Pool Cars


Fifth and Kirkham Sts. Telephone Lakeside 456


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WATER DEPARTMENT


How to Make Application For Water Service


When you move into a new house-whether owned by you or rented-the first requirement necessary is Water Service.


It is no trouble to get this service. You may come to the office and personally sign for meter connection-you may write your request for water-or if in the confusion of moving, it is not convenient to write or call, a telephone message will bring one of our service men to you at any time and place desired.


It is our desire to make it easy and convenient for you to get water service. Our Order Department is instructed to comply promptly with every reasonable request.


If you are a new comer to this community and have not previously paid water bills for a year and do not own your own home, you will be asked to make a deposit of $2.50, which will be returned to you after one year with interest at 6%. If, however, you are a property owner, or have previously been prompt in paying water bills for a period of one year, no deposit will be asked.


The Water Company is anxious to serve you in every possible way, and the development of this broad policy of handling orders is part of the service to you.


East Bay Water Co.


DOMESTIC


INDUSTRIAL


OAKLAND 512 16th St. Tel. Lakeside 585


BERKELEY 2106 Bancroft Way Tel. Berk. 362


ALAMEDA 1412 Park St. Tel. Ala. 41


RICHMOND


717 Macdonald Ave. Tel. Richmond 95


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WATCHMAKERS DEPARTMENT


W. A. HURST


WATCH AND CHRONOMETER MAKER Repairing and Rating of CHRONOMETER, HIGH GRADE SWISS, AMERICAN AND COMPLICATED WATCHES PHONE OAKLAND 1021 Entrance 428 13th St., 214 Easton Bldg.


OAKLAND, CALIF.


Cos Williams Home Builder


Montclair District Exclusively


Specializing in the Sale of


HOMES and HOMESITES DESIGNING and FINANCING


OFFICE Moraga Road and Hampton Road Montclair


Address R. F. D. No. 1, Box 1770, Oakland, California


Phone Humboldt 3276


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Main Building, Polytechnic College of Engineering Thirteenth and Madison Streets, Oakland, Calif.


Practical Engineering


Electrical, Mechanical, Mining, Civil and Architectural Engineering Courses Complete Auto Mechanics and Special Machine Shop Courses. Mechanical, Electrical and Architectural Drawing.


SPECIAL SURVEYING AND BUILDING ESTIMATING COURSES


This college concentrates upon the subjects required in engineering practice and omits the non-essential subjects, thus saving the student about one-half the time required in a four-year college course.


Small classes, individual instruction, close personal contact with instructors and intensive training give students of this college special advantages in their engineering courses.


Degrees Granted to all who complete full courses.


NEW ELECTRICAL, HYDRAULIC 'AND STEAM LABORATORIES EXTENSIVE SHOPS-FIELD INSTRUMENTS-MODERN EQUIPMENT


No formal examinations as entrance requirements-an opportunity for those who must rise by their own industry. Faculty of experienced men of sound training, character and experience.


This college offers a chance to the young man who cannot spend four years in university before "getting on the pay roll." It means a saving of time and money and many are taking advantage of the splendid facilities offered here.


W. E. GIBSON, Fresident H. C. INGRAM, Vice-President


College in session the entire year and students admitted at any time. Free Catalogue.


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POLYTECHNIC BUSINESS COLLEGE Thirteenth and Madison Sts., Oakland


A Private School for Private Secretaries


Offers the most complete and practical training in all secretarial, business and efficiency courses ever given in the west. The Polytechnic Business College appeals especially to those who want the best and who appreciate superior facilities, including expert teaching power, pleasant surroundings, a spirit of work and enthusiasm, courteous treatment, dignified discipline and results which make for success.


GIRLS, YOUNG LADIES, WOMEN


Your opportunity is here now as never before. No argument is necessary to convince you. It only remains for you to qualify-Salaries for Beginners $50.00 to $100 per month. Get started now. This college is in session the year round.


THE BUSINESS WORLD WANTS YOU


Thousands of Stenographers, Private Secretaries, Clerks-Bookkeepers-and Office Assistants are needed in every department of Business and Government service.


NOTE :- Business men who are in need of stenographers and private secretaries are requested to inform us a few days in advance in order that we may make recommendations adapted to the requirements.


Address Polytechnic Business College 13th and Madison Sts., Oakland, Cal.


The only Business College in California that owns and occupies its own buildings, representing an investment of $150,000.


Maintains a College Faculty whose standing and teaching experience are a guarantee to genuine service.


W. E. GIBSON, President


H. C. INGRAM, Vice-President


R. W. LITTLEFIELD


GENERAL CONTRACTOR Architectural and Engineering Construction OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA


REINFORCED CONCRETE, STEEL FRAME CONSTRUCTION, FIREPROOFING, HEAVY MILL BUILDING, MASONRY


Member General Contractors Association Warehouses, Office Buildings, Apartment Houses Garages, Hotels


357 TWELFTH STREET Telephones Oakland 994 and 995


626 THIRTY-THIRD STREET Telephone Piedmont 612


OAKLAND BERKELEY : : ALAMEDA


CITY DIRECTORY 1924


Containing an Alphabetical List of Business Firms and Pri- vate Citizens of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Piedmont and Emeryville, a Directory of the City and County Officers, Churches, Public and Private Schools, Benevolent, Literary and other Associa- tions, Incorporated Institutions, Etc.


AND A COMPLETE


CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY


Compiled and Published by Polk-Husted Directory Co.


(Member Association of North American Directory Publishers) 470 13th St., Oakland, Cal.


The


PRICE


DIRECTORY IS THE COMMON INTERMEDIARY BETWEEN BUYER AND SELLER


$15.00


Copyright, 1924, by Polk-Husted Directory Co., of Oakland, Cal.


INTRODUCTION


The publishers present the 1924 edition of the Oakland, Berke- ley and Alameda Directory to its patrons and users with confidence as to the complete and correct information contained therein.


The general arrangement is the same as in the past ; the letter "A" following a name signifies Alameda ; "B," Berkeley, and "Pied," Piedmont. The Classified Section is arranged in the same manner.


The "BUYERS GUIDE" occupies pages 7 to 150. This sec- tion includes advertisements of leading manufacturers, business and professional men of the East Bay District, arranged by de- partments and indexed under classified headings. A careful perusal of this section of the directory will be found interesting.


The Miscellaneous Section, giving information as to Churches, Fraternal and Secret Societies, Lodges, Civic and Miscellaneous Organizations, Parks, Etc., will be found on pages 187 to 201.


The Street and Avenue Guide commences at page 202. The Classified Section in the back of the book is complete and lists every business and profession under correct headings.


Names coming in too late to appear in the regular Alphabetical Section will be found on pages 183 to 186.


From information gathered in our canvass we estimate the POPULATION of the East Bay community to be 430,000.


Directory Library


A library of City and County Directories is maintained by the publishers at 470 13th Street for the free use of their patrons. As the latest Directories are issued they will be added to the Library, thereby keeping it up to date from year to year. We extend a cor- dial invitation to each and everyone of our subscribers to make fre- quent use of this Library and to consult the directories on file here as often as wished.


Advertising Oakland


The Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda Directory is placed in the Directory Libraries throughout the United States and in many of the larger hotels in New York, Chicago and other large cities, where it serves the public as a valuable book of reference and the city it represents as a splendid standing advertisement, for no other publication can convey such an idea of the city, its business inter- ests and all the various institutions and organizations.


We are indebted to the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce, and the Alameda Chamber of Commerce for the following interesting data :


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OAKLAND


Oakland, situated on the continental side of San Francisco Bay, is the third largest city in California, the fifth largest on the Pacific Coast, and the fastest growing industrial city in the West.


Though it has grown with tremendous rapidity, both from the stand- point of population and the standpoint of industry, Oakland is a city of homes. Stretching away from the bay there is ample room for a city of several million population before reaching the sloping hills which have become the exclusive residential section of each of the several cities along the eastern shore of the bay.


It is only in comparatively recent years that industries, recognizing the advantages offered by Oakland, began to claim the excellent factory sites along the bay shore. Today there are more than 500 plants, making a total of more than 2,000 different products in this great east bay city.


THE HARBOR


Oakland has 27 miles of deep water frontage on the greatest land-locked harbor in the world. Improved freight docking facilities have been installed by municipal and private interests, and repair facilities, superior to any on the Pacific Coast, are available here for the fleets of the world. Oakland lays claim to the largest floating dry docks in the world and the largest marine railroad. It has numerous other dry docks and marine railroads of lesser size.


A majority of the leading steamship lines, carrying either coastwise or trans-Pacific freight, have made Oakland a regular port of call, and the volume handled on Oakland docks is growing with great rapidity.


United States Government engineers recently recommended the expen- diture of more than a million and one-half dollars on the Oakland harbor.


INDUSTRIES


The recently issued government census shows that Oakland gained 175.3 per cent in the number of persons engaged in manufacturing in the five years immediately preceding the compilation of these figures. In the same period of time, Los Angeles gained 87.9 per cent and San Francisco 45.7 per cent.


In the matter of capital invested, Oakland gained 226.9 per cent, San Francisco gained 124.1 per cent, and Los Angeles 56.5 per cent.


Salaries and wages increased 378.6 per cent in Oakland, against 176.5 per cent in Los Angeles and 122.2 per cent in San Francisco; and the value of products manufactured gained 326.5 per cent in Oakland, 170 per cent in Los Angeles, and 157.1 per cent in San Francisco in this five-year period.


W. C. Durant, when head of the General Motors, said that the efficiency of labor in his Oakland plant was greater than in any other plant of the extensive General Motors chain of factories throughout the United States. The fact that the new Durant factory was located in Oakland in the face of the greatest kind of competition from Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles, confirms the impression that the Durants were eminently well satisfied that Oakland offers the best manufacturing conditions on the Pacific Coast. The manager of one of the largest fruit packing plants in the United States recently said that, in his judgment, an Oakland fruit packing plant's advan- tages in efficiency of labor over a similar plant in the Sacramento or San Joaquin valleys amounted to 20 per cent.


CLIMATE


Oakland's climate is extremely equable. The average temperature for the twelve months is 56 degrees. The days are never too hot for com- fort and the nights are always cool. Seldom, even in the so-called winter months, does the mercury drop to 32 degrees F. It is due to this ideal work- ing climate that Oakland shipyards-and incidently Oakland is one of the largest shipbuilding centers in the world-were the ones to set one build- ing record after another during the World War.


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HEALTH CONDITIONS


In point of health Oakland has consistently ranked among the first cities of the nation for a long period of years, and statistics show that it has become an increasingly more healthful place for residents during the last fifteen years.


In 1920 Oakland ranked second in smallness of death rate out of a list of forty-three larger cities compiled by the United States Government. The rate which was then 11.6 per thousand was exceeded only by Seattle, where the death rate was 10.5.


It is noteworthy that Oakland, as indicated by the death rate, exceeds in health conditions both Los Angeles and San Francisco; in one case 3.4 per thousand and in the other by 3 per thousand.


POPULATION


The population of Oakland, January 1st, 1924, was estimated at 285,000, a gain of approximately 70,000 in four years' time. On the same date the population of the seven cities that form the Eastbay community was esti- mated at 440,000.


The population of Oakland in 1910 was 150,174, in 1920, 216,261, a gain of approximately 44 per cent in a ten-year period. At the present rate of growth it will register a materially larger percentage of increase during the ten years between 1920 and 1930.


The cities of Berkeley and Alameda and the municipalities of Emery- ville, Piedmont, San Leandro and Albany have now grown together into one compact whole. It is these seven cities which are referred to as East- bay community.


SCHOOLS


Few cities in the United States can boast of a more perfect school sys- tem than Oakland, or more attractive school buildings. Noted educators from every section of the world have praised Oakland's educational facilities. The present school enrollment is in excess of 45,000. In Berkeley, which adjoins Oakland on the north, is the great University of California, the largest in the United States in point of enrollment and incidently one of the richest in the matter of endowment.


Oakland has 44 primary and grammar schools, 13 junior high schools, and six high schools.


PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS


Oakland's new park and playground development-a noteworthy feature of which was the acquisition this year of extensive municipal golf links- undoubtedly will be conducive to a still higher level of health and well- being among residents of this favored city. Among the Oakland parks which have attracted the attention of tourists from all parts of the world is beautiful Lake Merritt and Lakeside Park. Lake Merritt, situated in the center of the city, comprises 160 cares, and is surrounded by wonderful lawns and beyond these by beautiful modern homes and apartments. On one side of the lake is situated Oakland's new million-dollar auditorium.


The waters of Lake Merritt are dotted the year round with canoes and launches and during the so-called winter months many thousand of wild ducks make Lake Merritt their home. Spring finds these traditionally wild birds almost as tame as barnyard fowls. They walk on the lawns and among the sightseers, apparently recognizing that their safety is assured.


The annual visit of these ducks which have adopted this spot in sunny California as their home has been made the occasion for pageants on the part of the people, and each January the now nationally known Wild Duck Pageant is held on the lake shore.


Possessed as it is of all those things considered essential for a great metropolis, with three transcontinental railways, its position on one of the world's greatest land-locked harbors and with ample room in which to make a tremendous expansion, Oakland's future is assured.


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BERKELEY


Reaching along the base of the gracefully rolling Berkeley hills, the city looks westward over the glorious pageant of San Francisco Bay to the Golden Gate, the mystic portal through which the commerce of America and all the lands of the Pacific Ocean are interchanged. To the south of the Golden Gate it looks upon San Francisco built on its many hills. To the north it faces the Marin County hills rising into the gracefully chiseled profile of Mount Tamalpais. Close at hand lies a long stretch of plain sweeping from the bay shore and crowded with dwellings and the build- ings of trade and industry. The whole panorama as revealed from the heights of Berkeley is one of beauty and splendor.


Southward extends the fair city of Oakland, its ships lying beside the docks, it factories crowding the waterfront and the fraceful towers of its tall office buildings marking the business center, with Lake Merritt glisten- ing like a jewel in its setting of park.


During the past thirty years Berkeley has emerged out of the obscurity of a little college town of four or five thousand people to the present city of some 74,872 inhabitants. In those pastoral days the country roads were dusty in summer and deep pools of mud made walking difficult in winter. Two board planks served as sidewalks and broad fields of grain and or- chards of cherries and other fruit invited the wayfarer to loiter. The towns- folk carried their lantern when they walked abroad at night. A few of the wealthy residents had horses and buggies, and a horse car went out from Oakland to Temescal, where a wheezy little steam dummy connected with the University grounds.


Today the metropolitan area of San Francisco and the Eastbay cities includes in a compact district on the shores of the bay a population of over a million and fifty thousand inhabitants, distributed between the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Richmond and the smaller towns.


From the standpoint of climate, site, living conditions and educational opportunities, Berkeley is today a magnet attracting those who appreciate the better things of life. It is estimated that the city is growing at the rate of about 6,000 new inhabitants per year, which means that if the present rate continues, the city will double its population in the next twelve years.


The University of California is located in the very heart of Berkeley on six hundred acres of hill slope and plain, where over 10,000 students study under the guidance of a faculty of over 1,200 professors and in- structors. To say it is the largest university in America gives little im- pression of the breadth and scope of its activities. It includes one of the foremost colleges of mines in the country and a college of agriculture that is reaching out over the entire state in creating untold values to the land by its investigations of means for destroying pests of fruit and farm prod- ucts, by teaching how to irrigate and to prune, by soil analysis and by removing the element of chance from the husbandry and developing it into a science. Its college of architecture is training young men and women how to become creators of buildings nobly conceived in the light of the artistic traditions of the past and the engineering skill of the present. Its college of medicine is endowing the men and women who are to be the guardians of life and health of the people of tomorrow with new stand- ards of proficiency. So in law, economics, commerce, the natural sciences, pedagogy, the classics, history, art and letters, the University of California is training the leaders of thought and action to take their places in the great democracy which is destined to shape the course of world history.


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In addition to the thousands of native sons and daughters of the Golden West, the University of California is educating students from many states and from many other nations. The Cosmopolitan club of the University Y. M. C. A. has in its membership several hundred students from other lands, chiefly of countries bordering the Pacific, and including representa- tive leaders from China, Japan, the Philippines, Siam, India, Siberia, Mexico, Central and South America. These young men and women are absorbing the training, customs and standards of American life and carrying them home to help in the great task of creating an interpenetrating world brother- hood in the nations of the earth.




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