Occidental College - La Encina Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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P RT I 1 coLLEoE g T would-seem that Occidental is becoming slyly self- conscious of her waxing beauty and prestige, and it is a chapel-talk commonplace that actually contains some degree of truth. The student recognizes this when he gazes complacently at the well-groomed campus, because in the four or even two years of his college career he has reverently witnessed many developments and changes. To the average student, the history of his college usually begins in 191 4 when the institution moved, after a perhaps merciful Ere, from Highland Park closer to the hills now definitely a part of its personality. The catalogue, by way of a paragraph annually reprinted, points out to the occasional reader additional historical facts. It was in the year 1888, in the now sniffed-at Boyle Heights dis- trict that the college first Hung open its doors. Handicapped from the start by its name, Occidental University of Los Angeles, the baby institution was nearly ex- terminated by a local depression in 1907. Despite odds, however, the school in- creased in size and importance until it was ready, after hopping from one Part of 3