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

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E doesn ' t talk often; students know little about him; but he is working tor the University in Los Angeles as few men have worked. We speak of Dr. Ernest Carroll Moore, who, with a great career of educational and university administrative work behind him, is making an experiment in the collegiate field successful. Graduating from the Ohio Normal in 1891, he received his M.A. at Columbia in 1896, a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1898, and an LL.D. from the University of Southern California in 1916. From 190 until 1907 he was Assistant Professor of Education at the University of California, and for two years of this time was dean of the summer session there. Serving as Superintendent of the Los Angeles Schools until 1 910, Dr. Moore at that time became Professor of Education at Yale, where he remained until 1914. He then held a like position at Harvard. In 1917 he returned to Los Angeles to become President of the Normal School. When that institution became the Southern Branch, the Regents, in recognition of his achieve- ments, made him Director and Professor of Education. Preceding the advent of the Southern Branch, Dr. Moore exerted his influence to bring the University of California to Los Angeles. Not only did he make it possible to give the degree of Bachelor of Education to graduates of the Teachers ' College, but also he introduced the College of Letters and Science. Last year, as he announced the granting of a full four-year course, few students realized that the man who, perhaps more than any other, made this possible was Dr. Moore. This, however, was not enough. He was working, with what success we are now aware, to expand the University and, at the same time, keep it intact in its several departments. The strong movement to divide the Branch failed largely through his efforts. We are glad that the incoming freshman is introduced to him through his course in Psychology X; we are glad that he is guiding the Southern Branch and can assert its rights before the Regents and the President in Berkeley; we are glad to see him pass through the halls, for we love him and respect him. He is a Californian. tu mty- fivi

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CALIFORNIA man himself, by birth and by the University, class of 1888, Charles H. Reiber, Dean of the College of Letters and Science, plays a considerable part in the development of California men on this campus. Aside from his work as Dean, his interest lies with the problem of transforming students who enter this University from all over Southern California, into California men. It is no small job. But beyond this, the Dean has the intention in the back of his head of making men on this campus distinctive: more than making them men of California he wishes to make them men of the Southern Branch. It is a task of distinction, a task for which he is fitted, and a task with which he is succeeding. i|N a similar way, Helen M. Laughlin, Dean of Women, through her work with the Associated Women Students, is making the Southern Branch co-ed one apart from the rest. Mrs. Laughlin has the well founded idea that a university woman is some thing other than the comic magazines would have us believe; that an institution of this type, in addition to an education should instill the refinements of culture and breeding. With good tact and common sense, the Dean of Women is exerting her influence to this end. The fact that Southern Branch women have nothing but praise and thanks for her efforts indicates in some measure her success. ]ARVIN L. DARSIE, Dean of the Teachers ' College, has succeeded in making that department an integral part of the Southern Branch. It would be easy for a division to grow up between the Teachers ' College and the rest of the University. The Dean has successfully worked against such a schism. He is planning, moreover, to make the Teachers ' College a hub around which the western field of education will rotate; he is fitting his department into the Southern Branch scheme of expansion. Dean Darsie, like the rest of the administrative officers, believes in the future of the Southern Branch and is working for that future. These administrative officers are the architects and engineers of student thought and activity in the South.