University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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J carving, and the ceramics. He will make note of the lay of the land, the land- scaping, and the art so essential to the scheme of the plan. Admiration is all that can be felt. When that same astute bypasser takes another step back and views from a distance the entire panorama unfolding before him, and in his mind juxtaposes the people, their purposes for being here, and their individual and collective spirit next to the structures, the planning and all the detail, he will have reason to smile and feel at ease. For the scene that is here described is, to this astute bypasser, the essence of UCLA. To some, it is the prestige 8 fort-word

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of being one of the most highly respected institutions in the country and the calibre of education that reputation affords that makes this campus special. To others, it is the myriad of events and opportunities available to the ordinary student that gives these grounds that special something. To still others, the degree of interaction with persons of both similar and differing interests, in situations both formal and social, is the most attractive lure that draws so many here. While the validity of these arguments is unques- tionable, their foundation is built upon the two basic elements that comprise our university, its people and its foreword 9