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

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A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN OF THE TEACHERS COLLEGE THE Teachers College has continued to show healthy growth during the past year. Not only has the number of students pursuing the courses leading to the degree ot ' Bachelor of Education increased, but large numbers of prospective teachers in the College of Letters and Science are taking advantage of the opportunity to complete .1 part of the training required in Education for the general secondary credential. It is hoped and expected that this number will grow continually larger, thereby bringing about a better mutual understanding between the colleges. A very interesting step forward has been the creation of a demonstration school in connection with the Alexandria Street Public School. Here opportunity is given to students in training to observe the methods used by teachers who are master craftsmen in their fields. In a sense the work is comparable to that of a clinic in a medical school. It is hard to overestimate the value of this type of observation to those preparing to teach. For the future our effort is directed toward continually improving the quality of both students and instruction intheTeachersCollege. Assoonastheadministrativepolicy of the University renders it expedient, all students will be held to the requirements for the ]unior certificate in the College of Letters and Science as a prerequisite to the pro- fessional studies of the upper division. Our hope is the creation of a teacher training which in its own field will be second to none m the country. A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN OF MEN INSPIRATION born of the great opportunity knocking at our door should fire the imagination and stir the hearts of all true Californians. Ours is the oppor- tunity to build a new and a great University. Everyone is dreaming of beautiful buildings and picturesque lawns which we are to have at the new site. There is danger, however, which lurks in the shadow of this beautiful prospect. In our enthusiasm for these material things we must remem- ber that the real University is not made of bricks and mortar and of rolling greens. The most important phase of our building is not waiting upon deeds of land and the voting of bonds. The foundation of our new University is being formed today. The Administration has the opportunity to recruit a truly great faculty. Faculty and students may construct a foundation of high standards of scholastic achievement. The students have the opportunity during this period of growth to lay the corner- stone of a healthful and uplifting type of hero worship. The student community con- tains many kinds of folks. Among them we find the cheap politicians, grafters, idlers, fussers and social butterflies who fritter away their time, and others who dissipate their energies and faculties by many forms of excess. There are also serious minded and industrious folks, whose moral judgments are sound, who have clean habits, who adhere to their basic purpose of scholastic endeavor and who participate in extra cur- riculum activities in an intelligent manner truly beneficial to themselves and to the University. Upon what type of achievement shall we bestow the reward of prestige? What kind of folks shall we place m the positions of power and influence in our stu- dent community? What sort of heroes shall we set up for future generations of stu- dents to emulate? Ours is the opportunity to mold the real University of the future. (Q a-. o? M

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A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE THE colleges of Liberal Arts in America are finding increasing difficulty in meeting the claims of the many new vocational enterprises. There is a per- ennial and persistent demand that the vast amount of modern knowledge concerning the physical order and the many other achievements of men be consid- ered, in a much larger method than hitherto, a part of liberal education. It is, there- fore, ' difficult, particularly in a State University, to stand uncompromisingly for the liberiil arts ideals of a century ago. The serious risk in our College of Letters and Science is that we may attempt to meet these pressing demands too rapidly and embark upon work that is, after all, alien to our central interest and for which we really are not prepared. We de- plore the fact that today so many students want an education because they believe that thereby they may become equipped with a better set of tools for the economic struggle. In keeping with this conservation plan, our College of Letters and Science has added but three new departments to the list of the thirteen departments which originally were authorized to offer majors. A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN OF WOMEN Dean C H. Rieber Dean H. M. Lauuhlin THE editor of the Southern Campus has asked me to make a statement of what 1925-26 has meant to the women of our beloved University. This is a pleasing task but not an easy one, for it is impossible adequately to discuss your many ac- complishments m the space of this article. Last semester this institution enrolled three thousand nine hundred seventy-six undergraduate women students. This number exceeds the enrollment of undergraduate women at the University of California at Berkeley. Yet, so harmoniously have you worked and played that even the members of our own company do not realize that you probably form the largest group of women students gathered on one campus anywhere. Highest commendation is due for your standards of behavior and dress. High stand- ards do not just happen. Yours are the result of a well organized and never ending cam- paign, the effectiveness of which is all the more laudable because of the quiet manner in which It has been conducted. National sororities have signified their approval of you by granting charters to twenty-five local groups in less than three years ' time. Additional locals should be or- ganized if you are to offer sorority privileges to all who desire them. Highest praise should be given Phrateres, an efficient, democratic organization that has done much to make your slogan, Famous for Friendliness, a vital force in your University life. Prytanean deserves approbation for the unselfish service it has rendered in coaching deserving students. You have had the honor of entertaining the Intercollegiate Conference of Associ- ated Women Students and the Western Section of the Athletic Conference of Ameri- can College Women. In each case you reflected credit on yourselves and on the Uni- versity. This is a fractional part of your story, but I have already exceeded my space allotment. J jU- I 201

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REGENTS COMMITTEE ON REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY REGENTS EX OFFICIO His Excellency Friend William Richardson Governor of California and President of the Regents. Clement Calhoun Young, B.L. Lieutenant-Governor of Calitornia Frank F. Merriam Speaker ot the Assembly Will C. Wood State Superintendent of Public Instruction Robert A. Condee President of the State Agricultural Scciety Byron Mauzy President of the Mechanic ' s Institute C. E. Merrill, B.S., Met.E. President of the Alumni Association William Wallace Campbell, Sc.D., LL.D. President of the University Arthur William Foster Garret William McEnerney Guy Chaffee Earl, A.B. William Henry Crocker, Ph.B. James Kennedy Moffitt, B.S. Charles Adolph Ramm, B.S. APPOINTED REGENTS Edward Augustus Dickson, B.L. James Mills Chester Harvey Rowell, Ph.B. Mortimer Fleishhacker George I. Cochran, LL.D. Mrs. Margaret Rishel Sartori John Randolph Haynes, Ph.D., M.D. Alden Anderson Jay Orley Hayes, LL.B. Ralph Palmer Merritt, B.S., LL.D. OFFICERS OF THE REGENTS His Excellency Friend William Richardson President Arthur William Foster Chairman Robert Gordon Sproul, B.S. Comptroller, Secretary of the Regents, and Land Ageni Calmer John Struble, A.B., J.D. Assistant Comptroller and Assistent Secretary of the Re- gents and Assistant Agent Land Mortimer Fleishhacker Treasurer John U. Calkins Attorney Regents REGENTS COMMITTEE FOR THE SOUTHERN BRANCH OF THE UNIVERSITY Dickson Cochran Merrill Mrs. Sartori Wood Rowell Merriam Haynes