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

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OFFICERS Rev. Hugh K. Walker, D. D., . . . . . lJlCSlllL1ll Rev. E. S. McKitrick, D. D., . . . VlCC-IlCSlilLllt Rev. Wm. Stewart Young, D. D., . . . . Secretary Mr. W. C. Patterson, ...... . Tlcwsuru I MEMBERS Mr. james lVlCl?3.flflCll ' S. S. Salisbury, M. D. Mr. David ll. Gamble Mr. VV. E. McVay Mr. lN'm. H. Kelso M 1'. 1-lon. l'l1'E1lllC P. Flint Rev. Malcolm J. McLeod Mr. NV. L. Green E. P. Clapp, M. D. Mr. Aflllllll' ll. Fleming T. H. Oxnam 19

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Letters, was built in 1904. Compared with their old quarters the new building seemed luxurious. lt seemed fairly too good to be true that the same year, in addition to the fl.-lall of Letters, the Library was built, a gift of Charles M. Stimson. The square in which those buildings stand was improved, and the grounds made attractive by the planting of lawns and ornamental trees and shrubs. Large-hearted men have helped Occidental by their interest and more substantially by money gifts. New buildings are planned for in the near future and after that the imagination carries one far. lb Large realization IS born of large ideahzation. ,Plans for the Greater Occidental, while on paper and perhaps writ in air, are the foundations through which the real one will be made possible. A new Science I-lall is no longer a possibility, it is a probabilityg it is a neces- sity, and necessity finds a way. VVith increasing size of departments and rapid growth of the student body, the matter cannot meet much delay. The Observatory on College Hill is another plan for Occidental, and one which, in the days of the Greater Occidental, will be founded on hard, substantial fact. A new gymnasium is also one of the soou-to-be- realized factors in Occidental's life. The tools which lie at hand are not idle. The increasing number of students who come to Occidental give ample exercise to all the advantages with which Occidental is blessed. Each year the standard of scholarship is raised. Her students go out with the baehelor's de- gree, men and women who in the smaller school have mounted to the height where they are ready to climb higher. They are trained to appreciate and prize intellectual attainment, to have keener sympathy for the world, and a higher regard for the moral and spiritual. Occidental cannot be justly accused of having as an aim a desire to become a university or in any degree to simulate the work of a university, bearing that name. Occidental would be distinctly a small college. There is a decided field for such an institution, for many of them, in our country, and Occidental endeavors to refieet her interpre- tation of this idea. She should be the place where boys and girls become men and women, rich in intellectual attainment and richer still in having seen the visions of great things which the future may hold in store for them. Occidental is original in lacking the atmosphere of profound ancient learning. She is original in having memories of other sorts. Are the old Spanish fathers forgotten? California's atmosphere is distinctive. She has the story of the heroic lives of humble fathers sacrificed on the altar of their devotion. Southern California's atmosphere breathes of the days of padres, of senor and senorita-days not so long past. It breathes through gentle breezes, among oaks and sycamoresg among olives and old orange groves. Occidental has a wealth of strenuous, exhilirating ambition to in- spire for untiring efforts. ,Youth is hers, she rejoicesiin her youth. Life is before her. History is in the making. The blood tingles at the thought of the world's opportunities. The race has just begun. Occi- dental lb bound to win. V. M.gl1., .10 18

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01111 Wfillis Rucr, LL. D., President of the College