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

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FOREWORD This year our college has seen the fulfillment of significant events, and the beginning of others. Extension and growth have been the characteristics of our past year. In strange and happy contrast to the outside world, our little cosmos is vibrant with optimism. We have good cause to be optimistic. Next year, new dormitories will further beautify an extending plant. But, also, we have good cause to be wary. We must be certain to what impetus we are trusting our growing college. We must be sure that our choice is a vital one, closely aligned to a new world, strong in a new renaissance, and not to a world dying horribly all around us. This book bears the impress of the year rg p. And the year rg |.o bears the impress that will mold our further years, and our further college. CONTENTS BOOK ONE THE COLLEGE BOOK TWO ORGANIZATIONS BOOK THREE ATHLETICS BOOK FOUR THE STUDENTS

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DEDICATION It was m our freshman year, as students in the last class in logic that he taught in Occidental, that we became acquainted with Dr. Thomas G. Burt, Dean Emeritus, and Professor Emeritus of Philo- sophy. Since then, we have come to realize that he is one of the few personalities we were to meet who is keenly and sincerely interested in genuine scholarship and intellectual seeking. This grand old scholar remains to us an inspiration toward intellectual integrity and the free- dom of intellectual curiosity. Because we believe such freedom as was his must be insistently demanded by our college or it shall die stul- tified by forces to which it might become obsequious, we dedicate the 1940 La Encina to Dr. Burt. Dr. Thomas G. Burt