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

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:» m ' ms s ; cziDc=Diz: i3y s §5 c 1 MOTHER UNIVERSITY 3Czr3CzrK So ate3 mm torch of learning is not Al Berkeley tli( liid, l)Ut placed upon a hill — or, rather, upon several hills — for the campus extends over a series of rolling green slopes. Be- liind rise towering heights which over- shadow even the lofty tip of the Campanile. From the top of this beautiful marble shaft can be seen the surrounding hills — Berkeley proper, Oakland, Alameda, San Francisco Bay, the City of San Francisco, the wonderful Golden Gate, and beyond all the vast Pacific. The City of Berkeley, the Blue and Gold college town, is nestled around the Univer- sity campus. The newcomer finds that a subtle spirit of fellowship and of friendli- ness pervades this City of Homes ' and en- ters into every activity of the students. The plans of Mrs. Phoebe Hearst have been in a large measure adhered to in the TheCampaniU ' plienomenal expansion of the University. The old buildings form historical land- marks and furnish material upon which are reared hoary traditions, while the many new edifices supply up-to-date equipment and a modern, progressive atmosphere. As society at large in so many ways resembles a vast student body on an interminable campus, the enormous size of the Berkeley Student Body pre- S- 3 pares its members for the complex associations of real life. Here one forms 5£5 the habit of co-operating as an intelligent, loyal unit with others in vast under- KM mi cm § k r8 Ttvenry- Four

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:f€ ii?SM p -::. ' I— rjf-riiR ' Zn!3£ lf-l. - s J i: :??: ' - ' nczDCZDi;: m q-fe 54:0 §0 31 r l U-..vg .- ' l Vi SUMMER SESSION UNIVECSITY EXTENSA ? ?Ss r£i 5e:z}(z:zz]CZDczrjczrz!c: nDcrzDcrz)cr3€: S The Summer Session Southern Branch does not close its doors and relapse into a torpor after June graduation. Instead, it spends a busy fortnight in preparation, and then welcomes a totally new group of students, almost as numerous as its regular student body. These summer sessioners are, for the most part, an exceptionally am- bitious group of students who elect to spend six weeks of the summer in study. Some aim to accumulate additional units towards diplomas or degrees; others to absorb special knowledge that will better fit them for work during the rest of the year. School teachers of both sexes, predominate, but there are always a large number of undergraduate students, professional workers, business men, and the year-round class of Federal trainees. Some attend merely as auditors, taking no examinations, and receiving no credit; but the great majority seek to get the most possible from their courses and obtain recognition for the maximum amount of work permitted — six units. Dr. Baldwin M. Woods, professor of aerodynamics at Berkeley, is the Dean of the Summer Session, and is supported by an exceptionally able summer session faculty, which invariably includes a number of nationally famous instructors who come to Southern California for the summer. Many students attend the summer session chiefly to hear the lectures given by these notables. The summer sessioners are a happy and enthusiastic group and develop a surprising a mount of university spirit and solidarity during their six weeks ' existence as a student body. A big assembly, addressed by some prominent speaker, is held once a week, arranged for a different hour every week so as not to repeatedly conflict with any one set of classes. At these gatherings California songs are sung and a brand of California spirit generated which would do credit to the regular student body. Several informal dances are held during the session, taking place in the QP Cm •,r i Twenty -six