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According to the Centennial Record of the University of California, " In 1866 … at Founders ' Rock, a group of College of California men watched two ships standing out to sea through the Golden Gate.

One of them, Frederick Billings, thought of the lines of the Anglo-Irish Anglican Bishop George Berkeley, ' westward the course of empire takes its way ,' and suggested that the town and college site be named for the eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish philosopher.