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

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■• ' : ' ■■ ■ rr?Ts -rTv Western elevation of Royce Hall Progress of Royce Hall in May. 1928 -sac!-. . A REAR view of RoYCE HaLL sity tract at the foot of the Santa Mori ' ica hills is but one of the many educa ' tional sites in the immediate vicinity. On all four sides of the University of California at Los Angeles will be built other institutions of learning, including the Occidental College for men, the Westlake School for girls, Harvard Mil ' itary School, St. John ' s Military Aca ' demy, and the Los Angeles Lutheran University. Practically 800 acres of the most valuable land in Southern Califor ' nia, as well as millions of dollars, are being devoted to the pursuit of educa ' tion in the Southland. Is it any wonder, then, that the Athens of America is ex ' pected to arise in Southern California? We may pride ourselves that the ideals of our ovioi University will remain the same wherever the educational edi ' fices of the institution are located. At Berkeley, at Mount Hamilton, at San ' tiago, Chile, in San Francisco, in Los Angeles, at Davis, at Riverside, at La JoUa, at Fairfax, and in every extension room which is designated as part of the University of California, and which is characteri2;ed by that great spirit of loyalty which is known as California spirit — that spirit of fellowship and honor among both the graduates and under ' graduates which holds so vast an institution together in a bond of unity — in each of these locations, the ideas and ideals are the same. And, as Presi ' dent Campbell has written and said up ' on so many momentous occasions, the purpose of universities is not that of training their students to get rich quick ' ly, or even to earn more money than do the young men and women who do not go to college; the real purpose of uni ' versities is to train their students for service to humanity, as productive schol ' ars, or as especially useful citizens, one or both. And so, despite our proposed move to Westwood, the ideal of our Alma Mater remains the same. It has been

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metrical in plan, it will be somewhat dit- ferent in actual structure. Because the elapse of time between the laying of the medieval substitution for the modern corner-stone and the completion of the edifice only resulted in an inaccurate materialization of the first plans, Royce Hall will be symmetrical in that it will have two towers, but different in that one of them will be ornamented by two arches and the other by three. The slight architectural incongruity is ex- pected to add to the realism of the re- production of the period. To the students and alumni of the University who have treasured the Vermont campus with its shadowy ar- cades, its flower-bordered pathways, and its groves of eucalyptus trees, the main quadrangle at Westwood will also be an artistic source of delight. Two hundred and twenty feet wide, and a quarter-mile long, the main quad-to-be presents in- finite possibilities for landscaping achievements. Pathways of paving brick, flower beds of varied hues, level green lawns, and low shrubbery are ex- pected to make the area a charming cen- ter of campus Hfe. Somewhat to the south and west of the academic center, but on the same level, is the prospective site of the pro- posed Student ' s Union. Tentative plans for the $300,000 edifice, which is to be ready for occupation in February, in- clude adequate headquarters for student activities, recreation and clubrooms, and eating places. The location is very near that of the athletic area, of which a track, a diamond, numerous practice fields, and a general play area are to be ready in February. Football accommo- dations will be available the following autumn. Probably never in the history of the world has any single commun- ity developed such an extensive edu- cational center as is now being prepared at Westwood, for the 383-acre Univer- ■■■HTf ■ View of the west wing of Royce Hall The main entrance to Royce Hall takes form The auditorium is filled with a maze of scaffolding 17]

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difficult, our Regents have pointed out, to be idealistic when numbers were choking out individuality of thought, of leadership, and of accomplishment, but now, with added room, with en- larged teaching forces, with sufficient equipment, with increasing appropria ' tions and donations, and with more wholehearted interest on the part of the citizens of the southland, our Universi ' ties ' ideal is to become even more of an actuality and governing tenet than our limitations of the past have permitted it to be. The possibilities which Westwood has for us who are now students are only to be surpassed by the potentiali- ties which it holds in store for those who will succeed us. For though the present academic center is composed of only five units, the visionary plans of University dreamers include some thir- tyfive structures; though the new Uni- versity home will at present accommo- date only the College of Letters and Science, the edifices which will someday surround it are expected to be arranged in graduate school groups and in experi- mental research headquarters, and though the athletic area will in Febru- ary include only a track, a diamond, and practice and play fields, student and alumni interest is already centering up- on the erection of a football gridiron and a stadium seating approximately 25,000. While many years may elapse before these plans for the future become actu- alities, they are indicative at least of the prophetic vision and splendid spirit of the men and women who have the education of the young men and young women of California in their hands, who are so ably fulfilling their mission to posterity, and who are inculcating in the youth of the Golden State the same ideals of service which have motivated them. An interesting view of the Library Prooress of the Library in May. 1928 The dome of the Library takes form 19]