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

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ome :.conormcs Since both have as a partial objective the production of virell organized and beautiful homes, the Home Economics and the Industrial Arts courses are appropriately housed under one roof. The lower floor, devoted to the Industrial Arts classes, is a place of suggestive sounds and odors. An anvil chorus effect from down the hall announces that students of the metal classes are vigorously vk orking on ham- mered copper trays or lamp shades. The smell of clean paste leads us to the bookbinding department, where students learn to make anything from an unassuming desk blotter to an efficient looking leather vanity case. There is very little theory work in the Industrial Arts courses. The weaving classes handle the looms, large and small, w hile rugs and towels on display bespeak their usefulness. Upstairs in the Home Economics Department the needle and the cooking apron are the distinguishing insignia. Here, too, the work is of a most practical nature, as the shining gas range and spotless white shelves in the cooking room testify. So also, do the sturdy dresses for children and the jars of fruit which line the exhibition cases in the halls. The value of the course lies in the fact that the Home Economics grad- uate is triply equipped. She can apply her knowledge for her own benefit in her own home; she can teach the work to others; she is capable of planning or purchasing for a large institution. The Industrial Arts student can teach, or work directly in the designing or manufacturing end of the craft itself. Home Economics and Industrial Arts courses, in short, supply the demand for beauty and economy in the necessary things of life. 18

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fl l i V iC ine Arts 1 © r In keeping with the ideas that are paramount in the Fine Arts Building, is the artistic setting of this one of the group. Though unobtrusive, and one of the least decorated buildings, this simple Lombardy type is probably the most beautiful scene on the campus, from the standpoint of location. It is situated at the southeastern end of the quadrangle, and the ivy- covered, stone balustrade continues the line of the east wall of the building, and makes an effective corner for shrubbery. Just a little to the w est of the main entrance is a magnificent group of stately eucalyptus trees, and across the walk on the lawn is a larger group which forms the background for the annual May festival. The first floor of the building is given over to music. A line of white arches reflected dimly on the dark floor, is the first thing one notices on entering the building. Piano harmony, voice culture, teaching methods, choral, glee club and instrumental music all have a place here. Through the arches is found the office of Miss Frances Wright, head of the Music School. The second floor is devoted to the many classes of the Art department. Ihe main corridor is lined with wall cases exhibiting various kind of water- colors, oils, pastels, charcoal and pencil sketches. Showcases display wonder- ful pieces of exquisitely dyed silks and tapestries. A small hallway which leads to the office of Miss Nellie Gere, head of the department, opens from the main corridor. Prominent artists have loaned works to the school for exhibition pur- poses, and these are frequently seen in this corridor. There are classes in costume design, stagecraft, elementary design, showcard and poster art, free- hand drawing, advanced designing, and painting. This department is well known for the modern interpretation of art. 17

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i lllfi t ocience When, in the course of Botany, Physics, Zoology and similar studies, it becomes necessary to attend classes, one must needs enter the Science Build- ing. This edifice graces a prominent position in the center of the campus. Here the student wrestles with unsolvable problems in Physics, unspellable names in Zoology and Botany, inexplicable phenomena in Bacteriology and similar activity in like phases of scientific study. Besides the faculty and stu- dents which engage in the search for scientific knowledge, this building houses many other strange creatures, live or otherwise. Scattered here and there are cages, cupboards and cabinets containing live birds, chipmunks, rattlesnakes, and other reptiles; great varieties of stuffed birds, animals and fish; pickled snakes, toads, lizards and bones and skeletons of animals, some thousands of years old. Hence, the Science Building is an attractive feature of the Southern Branch, its collection of natural specimens interesting not only the students engaged in work therein, but others as well. The Science of the Military in the So uthern Branch first received its birth in this building. The fact that the personnel of the military department was first stationed among the bones of weird, prehistoric animals has caused no small wonder to the students. The Colonel and his staff first planned the activities of the Military Department in a section of the Science Building. Later, however, the executive section of our War Department saw fit to leave the portals of this edifice and sought more palatial quarters elsewhere. Even now, however, the clerical division occupies a part of the building, and the hum of typewriters and the click of heels announces that in this quarter there is much activity. The building itself, however, is a very modest affair, although it takes up a very prominent position on the campus, and is of the same simple architecture as the adjoining buildings. ■ 19