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

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ALMA MATER m E SAY, ' ' Good-bye, to thee, Alma Mater, not only with a feeling of regret, but with a joy- ful determination to serve youth as Thou hast Served us. May we ever be Thy servants in circulating the high ideals and true spirit of democracy that exists within Thy walls.

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HILDHOOD, innocent, )%fYT k beautiful Childhood! X X wi Childhood, for whose » interests our institution was founded, to whose training many dedicate their lives; Childhood, whose innocence and helplessness inspire men and women to noble deeds, to Thee, to Thy in- terests, to Thy rights, we lovingly dedicate this volume. 172167

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STATE NORMAL SCHOOL T the session of the state legislature held two years ago, President Millspaugh and many others made earnest efforts to have established here a teachers ' college in connection with the Normal school. These efforts failed. They may yet result in success; for there is wide agreement that the coast should have an institution for the special training of teachers comparable with those connected with Colimibia University and Chicago University. A part of President Millspaugh ' s argument, his statement of some of the functions of such an institution, has permanent validity and we reproduce it here. 1st. The teachers college is needed to furnish the elementary teacher an opportunity for study and instruction in every branch of knowledge that has educational worth, more thorough-going and advanced than that which the normal schools can furnish. The normal school may succeed in providing the grade teacher with equipment sufficient for the usual demands; it does not go far enough to meet the needs of the teacher who is assigned to de- partmental work; of the special supervisor of elementary instruc- tion; of the school principal; of the school superintendent; of the teacher of commercial branches; of those who are to direct the instruction of students in the practice departments of normal schools; of the specialist in industrial education; of the director of physical education; or even of the scholarly teacher who desires merely to increase his own knowledge and culture that he may have a richer life to share with his students. 2nd. The teachers ' college is needed also to furnish that higher knowledge which has special interest for the teacher only, as a member of a distinct profession. If teaching is ever accorded high rank as a profession, it will be when it rests upon foundations established by science. Educational measures, if successful, must be in harmony with nature, as it is manifested through the human organism, physical, intellectual, and spiritual. Acquaintance with that organism, acquired partly by experience and observation and partly by the aid of such sciences as physiology, embryology, psy- chology, and history, is absolutely essential to any intelligent and far-sighted direction of educational movements. Comprehension of public education, as an agency developed by society for the at-