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

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EDITORIALS In no other school in Los Angeles can one find a truer spirit of democracy than at the Los Angeles State Normal School. Wealth, family or position, which play a large part in many schools in obtaining special honors, are here ignored. Our offices are filled by young men and young women who have proved their worth. A rumor has been circulated that many students have ob- tained an office because they are members of a certain clique. This is not true. In every school, one will find a few live, thinking members, whose interest is shown, not by criticising, but doing. As the old saying goes, Birds of a feather flock together, but in this case, they flock together because the welfare of our school is of vital importance to them. Naturally, when it is necessary for some one to be selected to fill a responsible position, that some one will be a person who has toiled while others slept or criti- cised. The possibilities and hopes for the growth of the Los An- geles State Normal School into a Western Teachers ' College, may fitly be described as the great beacon light of our genera- tion. The President and his assistants are working as they have never worked before, publishing bulletins on the Teachers ' College bill presented recently before the State legislature, and consulting with legislators and educational authorities through- out California. The faculty is none the less active. Each member is doing his best to make the classes under his instruc- tion so thorough and scientific, that little enlargement would be necessary should college courses be defined. The officers of the Alumni Association are organizing movements among the grad- uates of the school for the furthering of the progress already made. And, most of all, each student is doing his part by prov- ing, through conscientious work and earnest endeavor, that the school merits this honor. At the presenting of the Teachers ' College bill before the last State Legislature, an excellent bulletin written by President Mills- 11

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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

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paugh was issued from this school. Extracts from the pamphlet are printed in the present issue of the Exponent. The President deals with the question as no one else can, deploring the fact that so many ambitious Normal School grad- uates are compelled to go to the State universities for the com- pletion of their pedagogical training. There, where the subjects are scarcely ever taught from the educational standpoint, the student often loses his desire for the teaching profession and di- rects his study and energy along different lines. The lack of high school training schools is one of the greatest drawbacks to the university training, for theory, without practice, fails to meet the requirements of any successful profession. Underneath all the logic and scholarliness of the president ' s discussion, runs an undercurrent of consuming desire for the progress and advance of Normal School students — of us. Many years may roll by before the attainment of this great desire, but those years of waiting will be active ones filled with the service of a devoted student body, which is resolved to make each under- taking play its part in the great progress of the school. 12