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

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Spgpttta Ex-CiflTtrin His Excellency William D. Stephens George C. Roeding Governor of California and President President of the Slate Agricultural of the Regents Society Clement Calhoun Yolnc, B.L. Bvrox Mauzy Lieutenant-Governor of California President of the Mechanics ' Institute Henry V. Wright Wiggington Ellis Creed, A.B. Speaker of the Assembly President of the Alumni Association Will C. Wood State Superintendent of Public Instruction The term of the appointed Regents is sixteen jears. The names are arranged in the order of original accession to the board. Arthur William Foster, Esq. Garrett William McEnerney, Esq. Rudolph Julius Taussig, Esq. Guy Chaffee Earl, A.B. JoHM Alexander Britton, Esq. Charles Stetson Wheeler, B.L. William Henry Crocker, Ph.B. Philip Ernest Bovvi.es, Ph.B. Tames Kennedy Moffitt, B.S. Charles Adolph Ramm, B.S., M.A., S.T.B. Edward . ' Augustus Dickson, B.L. Ja.mes Mills, Esq. Chester Harvey Rowell, Ph.B. Mortimer Fleishhacker, Esq. George I. Cochran, Esq. Mrs. Margaret Sartori Aiimittistraltup QPfitrpra in Berkeley Administration Board: Comptroller, Secretary of the Board of Wm. Carey Jones, Chairman ' ' S ' ' ' ■ 9 !: Charles M. G.ayley Ralph P. Merritt Comptroller of the I ' niversitv Assistant to the President and Executi-ve ■■ ' f ' f ' ' Comptroller, Assistant Seeretary Secretary of the Administrative Board: »f ' « ' ' 9 ' ' ' --l sistant Land Agent. Morse A. Cartwright Robert G. Sproul 217 California Hall —0 California Hall Recorder of the Faculties: James Sutton 204 California Hall

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This volume is the first of what we hope will be a long series of Annuals. It is intended to be a record of the students and the student activities in the Southern Branch of the University of California during the first year of its existence. Our school is not really so new as that statement implies. It is really an old school, which had a large student body and a distinctive life and performed great services, transformed into a larger school with altogether unique oppor- tunities ahead of it. It is an integral part of the great University of California. The Regents of the University administer it. The law which transferred the Los Angeles State Normal School to them, directed them to continue to offer courses for teachers. They determined also to provide instruction in all the subjects of the freshman and sophomore years of the college. The law also directed them to limit the enrollment of students to such numbers as could be cared for by the somewhat limited appropriations which the Legislature was able to make. They accordingly limited the number of students to be admitted to the teachers ' courses during our first year to one thousand, and the number in the entering freshman college class to two hundred and fifty. In addition to these numbers we have had during the year, some one hundred seventy-five Ex- Service men sent us for re-education by the Federal Board for Vocational Educa- tion ; about one hundred teachers in training under the provisions of the Smith- Hughes law, and some five hundred small people in the Training School. We have, therefore, numbered more than two thousand students throughout the year. In this, our first year as a part of the University of California, we have all felt a heavy responsibility for the customs and traditions which our life together during these first months should fasten upon the institution for the days to come. We have been particularly concerned about standards of work and standards of student self-government. We have, we think, done something notable in both these particulars. We have developed a feeling of unity and of cordial co-opera- tion, which have made our life together a very real community of endeavor. The school has drive and energy. It also has good will, kindliness and joy in plentiful measure. Thus far I have been speaking for us all. I should like in addition to say something more personal. The students who have prepared this record and the students of whose year together it is a record, are very dear to me and to us all who have been privileged to meet them in the teacher-student relation. They have abundantly proven themselves to be high-minded, aspiring young people in whose future usefulness we have confidence because they have acquitted them- selves in a confidence-begetting manner during this year. Some of them will return for further work next year. Others will not, but will go out from this companionship to their life tasks. Both those of us who stay and those of us who go will learn that to have pursued the same studies in the intimate and conscious life of a new institution, is a bond which will bind us closely through- out the years. We shall all watch, with something of keen personal solicitude, the growth of the new college of the University in whose beginning we have had a part. In ten years, or in twenty, we shall look with amazement upon its development, for it is certain to be greater, far greater, than the imagination of any of us can foresee. In that day we shall prize this volume as an unassuming account of a great undertaking in which we all shared. You who are students will use it as a book of friendships by which you will keep alive the memory of the associations of a splendid period of your lives. And we of the Faculty will bring it out from year to year and by its aid check off the accomplishments and the triumphs which we expect you to win, and are confident that you will win because of the steadfastness and solidity of character which you made us know while here. Ernest C. Moore.