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

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1 I AT BERKELEY: familiar landmark of 16,000 students is the stately Campanile. First member of the University family, Cal boasts a recently-completed biochemistry building, virus lab, and electrical engineering building, as well as two newly-elected Nobel prize winners in the field of science. eight campuses . . . AT LOS ANGELES: acquisition of a chancellor and increased local administration was a welcome accompaniment to the forty-one million dollar construction program in progress on the UCLA campus. Newly-completed law and art build- ings will be joined by others including a medical school.

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The University of California Board of Regents included, left to right, SIDNEY M. EHRMAN, GERALD H. HAGER, GUS OLSON, DONALD H. McGLAUGHLIN, ROY E. SIMPSON, EARL J. FENSTON, WILLIAM G. MERCHANT, Secretary ROBERT UNDER- HILL, JOHN FRANCIS NEYLAN, Chairman EDWARD A. DICKSON, FRED M. JORDAN, ROBERT G. SPROUL, EDWIN W. PAULEY, BRODIE E. AHLPORT, EDWARD H. HELLER, VICTOR R. HANSEN, JESSE H. STEINHART, NORMAN F. SPRAGUE, MAYNARD TOLL, and WARREN H. CROWELL, Alumni Association presidents from Cal and UCLA Governor EARL WARREN was introduced by President Sproul at the cornerstone laying for the Medical Center as the man most responsible for the appropriations which assure the realization of this great humanitarian dream.

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AT DAVIS: principal branch of the University ' s broad agri- cultural program is the School of Agriculture at Davis. Devoted to instruction in farming and related subjects, the campus includes modern classrooms and laboratories, as well as a newly-completed dormitory housing 400 students. ON MT. HAMILTON: the result of the dreams of a piano maker, James Lick, is the Lick Observatory, which became a part of the University in 1888. One of the first to be built on a mountain top, it houses the second largest reflector in the world and the University ' s astronomical department. . . . one university . . . AT RIVERSIDE: already one of the finest citrus experimental stations, the Riverside campus is planning a College of Liberal Arts, scheduled to open in September of 1953. With its many research and testing facilities, the campus has become an important part of the California citrus industry.