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

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RoYCE Hall, Auditorium and Classroom Building Royce Hall, auditorium and classroom building, and the University library, were the first two buildings to be erected on the new campus. Facing each other across what will some day be the main quadrangle, the structures are prophetic of thirty-three others to follow. As the first units of a great unified architectural scheme, the buildings establish the Lombardian style, which future construction on the campus and in the University neighborhood will carry out. Typical of the early Italian period, Royce Hall makes use of a general symmetry of plan, while allowing slight differences in detail. Tapestry brick and ornamental terra cotta similar to the material originally used, will decorate the face of the buildings. Including complete equipment, the two structures will cost approximately $1,900,000. 4 1 ■ ife x ». t ,, W it It m ' f ff PfF k .fMM? rrr rFr FFT Iff ,JI-J Trr rrr n- . ■cAftiGii is:: The Library [20

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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]

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Chemistry and Geology Building Two of the four structures which will be completed when the University occupies its new site in February, 1929, will be the Physics and Chemistry buildings. Included in the former will be the biology department, while geology offices and classes will be temporarily located in the Chem- istry structure, pending the erection of individual buildings. Contracts were let early in Feb- ruary, actual construction beginning later in the semester. Adequate equipment for complete re- search work in the four scientific fields will be installed immediately, and provision made for the expansion of departments now hindered by cramped conditions on the Vermont avenue cam- pus. Immediately upon the completion of the buildings, landscaping of the quadrangle will begin, and an attempt made to rival the present campus in beauty. The total cost of the two buildings, mcluded m a bond issue of $3,000,000, will be $638,875.