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

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Wheeler Hall The first appointed tu the Presi- dency of the University was Henry Durant (1869-72). He was followed by Daniel Coit Gilman (1872-75), John LeConte (1875-81), William T. Reid (1881-85), Edward S. Holden (1885-88), Horace Davis (1888-90), Martin Kellogg (1890-99, Benjamin Ide Wheeler 1899-1919), David Pres- cott Barrows (1919-23), and Yillianl W. Campbell (1923). A movement, in 1896. for a permanent bnilding plan on the Berkeley campus was organized and financed by Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst. The idtimate plan was selected after two international competitions. A large group of build- ings are now erected on the Berkeley site, as a result of private donations, state appropriations and bond issues. In the Southland in 1881, a legislative act founded the Los Angeles State Normal School. A five-acre site at the corner of Fifth and Grand avenue was obtained and the corner stone was laid December 17, 1881. Instruction began August, 1882, with a faculty of three members and an enrollment of sixty-one students. Under the presidency of Jesse F. Millspaugh (190-t-17) the school was greatly developed. His connection with the school is commemorated in the name of the executive building. He was succeeded in presidency by Dr. Ernest Carroll Moore. In 1907, the original site having become inadequate, the Legislature author- ized the sale of that property and in 1911 made appi-opriations for the purchase of a more suitable location. In 1912, the present site on Vermont was purchased, and on November 18, 1913, the corner- stone of Millsjiangh Hall was laid. In September, 1914. the school occupied its new building. By an act of Legislature, which be- came eti ' eetive July 24, 1919, the school became the Southern Branch of the University of California. The Regents of the University of Califor- nia assumed control of the grounds, the buildings and the equipment and „, , ., appointed Dr. Moore as Director. The Library Twenty-seven

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the granting of the state eharaeter for a great sys- tem belonging to tlie state whieh would provide the citizens with higher education. Among these individuals who strove for a Uni- versity, Keverend Henry Durant is conspicuous. Reverend Durant in 1853 opened in Oakland the Contra Costa Academy under the auspices of the Presbytery of San Francisco and of the Congre- gational Association of Oakland. In order to signify that his undertaking was simply prepara- tory to a dreamed college, he soon changed the name to that of College School. In 1855, it was incorporateil as the College of California. The college was formally opened in 1860 and classes were gradiiated from 1864 to 1869. The instruc- lli ((imptiinlc iJq, ygg given in a group of buildings in Oakland. In 1856, a tract of land five miles to the north was obtained, the buildings were begun and the townsite around the campus was given the name of Berkeley. State action began in the Constitutional Convention in 1849, which includ- ed a section in the constitution recognizing and providing for a state university. After that there was a constant agitation until in 1868, the citizens were given means to making the provisions effective. Federal acion was marked b.y the granting of 46,000 acres of land for a seminary of learning. In 1862, the Morrill Act, which provcided for the establishment of an Agricultural, Mining and Mechanical Arts College, passed same end, combined their efforts. The private institution, known as the College of California, contributed its buildings and four blocks of land in Oakland and its 160 acres of land in Berkeley ; the Federal government granted a Con- gressional gift of 150,000 acres of public lands ; and the State gave the property already accumulated for that purpose and added legislative appropriations. The act creating the University of California was signed liy the Governor March 23, 1868, and the newly created institution opened its doors September, 1869. 7 ' hc Stuilrnt I ' tiinn Buihlinq Ticoity-slx

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The Third Year Upper (livisiiiii woi ' k was addt ' d to the liraiicli at Los Aii ifl( ' s as the result of the decision handed down by the regents at theii- meeting at Los Angeles, February 13. The Regents investigated the Branch and. as a result, decided that the time had come for the enlargement of the State University at Los An- geles. The conditions in Los Angeles made it important that an educational center be established. When the Branch was first founded, the regents proposed to add to its facilities as the need arose. They were then persuaded that Los An- geles had that need and that U. C. L. A. was the logical place where that need should be filled. This action of the regents takes the University at Los Angeles from the class of junior colleges and toward the full college course. The meeting was conducted by Governor Richardson, the newly-elected Gov- ernor of California. It was the first time a Governor of the State, who is Presi- dent ex-officio of the Regents, presided at the meeting of the Regents. The meeting was held in Jlillspaugh Hall, ju.st iniside the hall from the Library Arcade. Throughont the afternoon, enthusiastic students who were de- termined that the future of the Branch should be decided in a favorable way, gave yells and songs outside the room. The announcement of the final decision, after about four hours of discussion, filled the Cubs with a realization of tlie re- sjionsibility which accompanies the granting of the third year work. ! f •: - I, Rcficiits ] ' alh ' SfTrT Twciitj - ii ht