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

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L A E N C I N A FLORENCE N. BRADY, Registrar: Emphasis in the Registrar ' s office during the past year has been placed upon careful selection of candidates for admission to Occidental and upon general strengthening of procedure in handling academic records of students. The year ' s enrollment is the highest in the history of the college, and new students entering during the year have been chosen on the basis of scholastic excellence and of desirable personal qualifications. FRED F. McLAIN, Comptroller: The Comptroller, who is the chief business officer, works unobtrusively for the benefit of the students and is accountable to the board of trus- tees for the receipts, disburse- ments, and accounts of the fin- ances of the college. Constant care in the beautification of the physical plant and grounds has been augmented this year by the development of the new music building on Chapel Hill, which is a part of a potential larger unit, by the leveling and turfing of a playfield and parking area, and by other means. Twenty-four

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LA ENCINA THE FACULTY BODY of persons to whom are entrusted the gov- ernment and instruction of the college comprises the faculty, and Occidental possesses one of the strongest groups of academic minds in the field of higher education. The administration chooses teachers pri- marily to comprise the faculty of Occidental, not research men who are interested in teaching only as a side-line. A review of the current roster shows the high degree of excel- lency of the body. Of the fifty-seven members who are full- time instructors, the thirteen part-time professors, and the five graduate fellows, there are nineteen members of Phi Beta Kappa and six members of Sigma Xi, scientific honorary fra- ternity. Besides this thirty-three per cent eminence there are seven who are listed in Who ' s Who in America, and six in Who ' s Who in Science. Of the sixty actually engaged in teaching one class or more this year, there are eighteen Doctors of Philosophy, twenty- five Masters of Arts, and seventeen Bachelors of Arts. In- spiration for accomplishment in the student is the natural sequel to the activity of such instructors, and along with the stimulation from their accomplishments goes the intimate, personal relationship that a limited student body makes pos- sible. Faculty members are active in campus adjustment prob- lems as well as phases of teaching, and are organized in com- mittees treating problems of student conduct, student health, and inter-collegiate athletics. Twenty six