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

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EDITORIAL STAFF Irene Clark, Athletics. Lena Evans, Organization. Elizabeth Smith, Society Editor. Jean Gillespie, Historian. illiam R. Tanner, Editor. . deline Coombs, Art Editor. 16 Gladys Andrews, Assistant Editor. Hilda Jellison, Alumni. Eva Hamilton, Literarv Editor.

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tliat excites its consciousness of its own beauty, digiiity ami jjower. Hence it delig ' hts to sit, either wliolly or in i)art. on an elevated scaffold, and either gaze superciliously above the heads of the insignificant students, or look in- tently into the distance or at the floor or ceiling as if absorbed in profound meditation. As individuals the faculty love to see the students jump in alarm when the desk is rapped for order. For this reason they encourage the unsuspect- ing students to grow careless about the bell signals, tliat this form of pleasure ma - be more frequently enjoyed. The principle of selfish pleasure also explains why the faculty require so many students, particularly the more handsome and timid among them, to take the amusement courses several times over. They particularly enjo} ' witnessing the tears of those who, because of nostalgia, or love of mere money, would prefer to relinquish the leisurely life of pleasure in the school; these they delight in tormenting and tyrannizing over. Strangely enough certain verbal formulae are especially pleasing to the facultv, though regarded by common persons as unpleasant. Among these forms the most pleasing are. Ain ' t the faculty just too mean! The horrid things ! and the like. An observer may often see members of the faculty tip-toeing about trying to overhear such expressions on the part of the stu- dents, and smiling in great glee if successful. On the other hand, what usually pleases merely common humanity simply bores the faculty. Any sort of commendation or praise is deeply offensive to it. It is generally believed by most careful investigators that this is in some way connected with the fact that the public generally refrain from expressing such sentiments. Being a super-rational organism the faculty is not governed by the rules that commonly obtain among mankind, and one should not depend upon any regular course in attempting to placate or conciliate it. Nlau}- careful in- vestigators have been puzzled in the attempt to apply psychological tests to the hvper-mental processes of the faculty. For example, a large number have tried to show that personal vanity is a leading characteristic, by the use of skillful flatterv just before the recording of the hieroglyphic symbols at the completion of the courses of entertainment, with a view to determine any eff ' ect that might be produced on the nature of the symbolic characters. But the results have been very discouraging for the most part. In fact, such evidence as there is tends to show that in this respect as in most others the faculty is quite unlike ordinary people. The clearest conclusion yet reached is that complete mental and moral perversity is the most constant faculty characteristic. 15

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BUSINESS MANAGER ' S STAFF J. R. Cookman Benl French. Business Manager. Asst. llusi. Mar. George McDonald. Asst. Busi. Mgr. 17