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

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Lack of space also forbids me to explain the part which a teachers ' college would have in the development of a true concep- tion of the social and educational value of play and in the training of efficient playground workers. For well trained leaders in this movement there is an increasingly large demand. I may take time only to mention the work which such an in- stitution should perform in extending to teachers in actual service throughout the state the benefits of graduate instruction. The ex- tension work of the university represents some of its most im- portant effort. For such extension work, to be given by the teachers ' college and aiming especially to serve the needs of those who are engaged during the academic year, there is at the present time a very strong appeal.

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than is commonly supposed — must enter the university in order that they may be prepared to teach where salaries and conditions of service are attractive. But from the moment of entrance to the university, the influences surrounding him all tend to run in other directions than teaching. A score of avenues open up before him, each one of which leads to goals more attractive, socially and finan- cially, than the profession of teaching. So when next we hear from the young man whose original purpose was to become a teacher, we find him preparing to engage in the practice of law or medicine or journalism or pharmacy or politics or engineering or commerce. But now, make it possible for the youth whose high school course has given him a taste for teaching, to enter an insti- tution all of whose influences and occupations tend to foster and strengthen his original purpose instead of quenching it; then ac- cord to that institution support and dignity comparable to that which is granted the university, and not only will the youth stick to his choice of profession, but he will be proud of it and loyal to it. The report of the Bureau of Education for 1911 shows that at the Teachers ' College at Cedar Falls, Iowa, there was one male student for every five female; at Terre Haute, Indiana, one for every five; at Emporia, Kansas, one for every three; at Kirksville, Missouri, one for every two — these are all colleges for teachers. In Cali- fornia, whose normal schools prepare teachers for graded work only, the proportion of male to female students is one to thirty- four. I cannot take time to explain in detail many other valuable functions which it is the business of a teachers ' college to perform; but may I add a single word? We are just beginning to under- stand something of the relation of the physical to the intellectual and the moral, to know that the discovery and correction of bodily defects and abnormalities in the pupil are often prerequisite to the effective application of any of the principles or methods of teach- ing whatever. Like the sanitary prevention of disease, this cor- rective work, when tactfully and intelligently performed promises to become one of the most important and interesting applications of modem science to human welfare. The model school and the de- partment of practice of the teachers ' college would form an ideal laboratory for observation and study in this field, and the results obtained would give new meaning and vitality to educational ad- ministration.

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STAFF Editor-in-Chief Blanche Sternberg Business Manager Ruth Olive Boyer Assistant Business Manager Harold F. Desmond Art Editor Rowena Wescott Photographic Editor Hilda Mutton Advertising Manager Annette Glick ASSOCIATE EDITORS Senior A Editor Gertrude Maloney Alumni Milton Driscoe Departmental Gladys Coates Assistant Departmental Theona Lovelady Organizations Edith Smead Athletics Norman Whytok Society Mary Patterson Assistant Advertising Francis Fisher JUNIOR ASSOCIATES Editor Muriel Tottenham Manager Paul Schmitt Art Editor Muriel Halsted FACULTY ADVISOR Mrs. Kathleen S. Beck Cover design — Helen Millspaugh. Wood-block end pages — Anita Delano. Landscape in color — Rowena Wescott. 10