University of Southern California - El Rodeo Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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QJ J i3 ' ' .- ..cD)rc ® . : ' The University of Southern California has had a notable career. It was founded by Methodist preachers who believed in modern Christian education to such an extent that they were willing to make great sacrifices in order that a Christian University might have a permanent place in Southern California. For many years, its resources were so inadequate that it was impossible to pro- vide the physical equipment that was essential to meet the growing and exanding needs of the student body. As recently as eight years ago the finances of the Univer- sity were in such condition that it became necessary to adopt heroic measures for the increasing of the endowment and building fund. A very successful campaign for funds was conducted with the result that the institution was saved financially and started on a career of such remarkable expansion as to attract the attention of the leading educators of the country. More recent efforts have increased the funds, new buildings have been erected, and the student body has grown to such an extent that the enrollment for 1924 is in excess of nine thousand registered students. I doubt very much if any institution of learning has accomplished so much on so little capital. Prominent educators have visited the University of Southern California during the past two and one-half years and have predicted that U.S.C. is destined to become one of the greatest Christian Universities in the United States. It is on the approved list of the Association of American Univerejities, which recognition speaks volumes for its scholastic standing. The University is owned, controlled and directed by the Southern California Con- ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the authorities of that church are held responsible for the policies and plans that are worked out by the Board of Trustees and the faculties of her various schools and departments. As the president of the board of trustees for the past eight years, I take great pleasure in extending to President R. B. von KleinSmid, the trustees, and the faculties of the institution, my heartiest congratulations upon the success and achievements of the present year and sincerely wish for the University ' s continued prosperity. A. W. LEONARD, President Board of Trustees. EL RODEO Paffe Twelve

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Annually through the course of years El Rodeo gives us an opportunity to pass in swift review the events of the current year which have held us for a time and then have become a part of all that makes for college tradition. It is a source of gratification that this year El Rodeo is in fact as well as in spirit a Student Body publication, representing through its officials, the entire Student Body and claimed by us all. This has been a year of outstanding achievement; the opening of the Coliseum with our Big Game championship in Debate; laying the foundation for the New Science Unit; and the development of plans for a Residence Hall for Women. Through all of these activities, we have tried to maintain a commendable balance as to the real purpose of University life. The spirit of scholarship is not dead in American institu- tions of higher learning. With the din of activities in our ears, we sometimes feel discouraged, dismayed and suspicious that the modern university is not fulfilling its highest possibilities. However, we have faith that the challenge of the intellectual and spiritual still hold the American youth to the higher ideals. As we peruse the activities of the past year, let us rededicate our efforts to the spirit of achievement through discipline and integrity to which American universities RUFUS B. von KLENSMID, President. ELBODEO Pai e Fourteen