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

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In a great .school like the Normal, we find many interest- ing parts. We are well acquainted with the phases of life met in our own daily intercourse, such as the Student Body and its many i)roblenis, the different classes and their interests, as well as the various school organizations. But in our school life we have one division practically unrecognized in our daily life, that division without which no school exists. And this is not a riddle, it is merely the affirmation that we are not in touch with our alumni. The alumni of any school is, we may say, its advertisement, for through the alumni we prove our vitality and worth. Then, since we recognize the important part in a school ' s existence that the almuni holds, let us seek to be more in touch with it. We are preparing ourselves to teach and in our preparation are developing into the best media for the school ' s growtli and development. Then, if we are to be a part of this great body of advertisers, to carry the figure farther, let us get in touch with the present agents so that we may profit by their examples. And our Alumni is a noteworthy institution. It was or- ganized by the first class graduating from the Normal, that of 1884. In the thirty years of its life, the organization has grown from a handful of twenty-two earnest members to a gigantic, pulsing body of over three thousand five hundred members. Can we grasp the tale lying in the contrast ex- pressed between these numbers ? Do we not too passively accept our school as it is, a representation of the highest ainis and standards, without understanding the magnificent climb it has made and will make as long as it may exist? With the