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

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Twenty-two years of faithful service as president of his alma mater were completed this spring by ROBERT GORDON SPROUl. Dr. Sproul was a student of engineering at the Berkeley branch of the University and was graduated with a B.S. degree from there. Before assuming the gargantuan tjsk of supervising the activities of the eight campuses . . . Berkeley, Davis, La Jolla, los Angeles, Mount Hamilton, Riverside, San Francisco and Santa Barbara, he worked in various university capacities as cashier, assistant comptroller, secretary of the Regents, and vice president. tap at the mark Superlative is a word which describes, in part, the University of California, for it is larger than any other college or university in America both in its enrollment and in its faculty- administrative staff. The golden state ' s University also ranks scholastically with the fore- most educational institutions. The University of California is unique because its facilities are spread over the entire state on eight different campuses. Steady growth has been evi- denced since 1853 when the Contra Costa Academy, the tiny beginning, was opened by the Rev. Henry Durant. The College of California, as the Academy was later called, contributed its lands in Berkeley and Oakland, and the federal government contributed public lands as did the state. In March of 1868 a legislative act creating the University was signed and the first Charter Day was celebrated. The first addition to the baby university was the Medical Center in San Francisco, which was opened in 1853. The Mount Hamilton Observatory was added in 1888, Davis in 1909, Scripps Institute in 1912, the Riverside campus in 1913, UCLA in 1919 and Santa Barbara in 1944. Further progress saw UCLA beginning to catch up to its Berkeley brother, more buildings, more students, more land . . . and the progress continued . . .