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

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vufORNiA AT LOS ANGELES Orisinally a small, two-year institution with only a few hundred students, U.C.L.A. has become, in twenty-one years, the third largest University in enrollment west of the Rockies. Established in 188! as the Los Angeles State Normal School, it soon, as the city grew, became necessary to move the school away from the business section. A then spacious tract on Ver- mont Avenue was chosen, and here the state school continued operations until 1924, when as the University of California, Southern Branch, the institution again outgrew its campus. At this time the regents took advantage of an offer of land in the Westwood hills, and the Uni- versity was again moved to a more accommodating location. Since taking root on the West- wood Campus, the University of California at Los Angeles has fought continuously to become more than a little brother of a great university. And, today, as the youngest major university in the United States, U.C.L.A. boasts a scholastic and athletic standing which compares favorable with the oldest and best universities in America. ACADEMIC

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ue-jiA- ' , 9 I N 1926 when the architects were drawing up their blue-prints, they were puzzled as to the style of the campus. The traditional Spanish architecture did not seem adequate to the practical needs of a University, and consequently the warm dignified Italian Romanesque of the Lombards was chosen. In September, 1929, four buildings greeted curious students on the new campus. In little more than a decade the number has been increased to eleven, with a future full of promise.