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

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' ' 1 High atop Mt Hamilton wot the LICK OBSERVATORY. It be- came part of the University in 1888 and wat one of the first to be built on the top of a mountain. Besides housing the astronomical department of the University of California, it maintained the second largest reflector in the world. North of this citrus experiment station, which has been in operation for thirty-five years and which plays an impor- tant role in the research on the RIVERSIDE campus, a brand new College of Letters and Science was planned . . . though it was, last semester, only an architect ' s dream on paper. one university Located on the California coastline, the SCRIPPS INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY carried on off-shore studies of the ocean as well as maintained a small ship which traveled the seven seas gathering new information, making tests, and taking samples. Of interest to tourists was their aquarium-museum. Second oldest campus of the University of California is the Medical Center at SAN FRANCISCO which opened its doors in 1873. Last year 1,296 students attended classes in its medi- cine, dentistry, and pharmacy schools, as well as the Hast- ings College of Law, also situated on the northern campus.

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Expansion and building took place at DAVIS where the major work of the University ' s large agricultural program was carried out in the instruction of farming and other related subjects. Students made use of the new modern laboratories and class rooms and lived in recently completed dorms. eight campuses SANTA BARBARA is been opened in 1944. Liberal this coastal campus which had ing the 1952-53 school year. N miles north of Santa Barbara, the family circle, having are heavily stressed at enrollment of 1,547 dur- quarters at Golita, seven j to be ready next fall. BERKELEY ' S famous campanile towered over the rest of the campus which is the eldest child in the university family. With the largest enrollment of the eight campuses, since 1853 Cal has grown from a mere baby to a proud, dignified institution which now proudly boasts two Nobel scientists. Education stood as the unifying purpose which bound together the eight campuses of the world ' s largest university ... the University of Cali- fornia. Though separated by many miles, the eight campuses remained close in thought, tra- dition and practice; a nd students were indeed proud to claim the Blue and Gold as Alma Mater. I

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ucla pa nam nta Now located on a hill which afforded an excellent view of the blue Pacific or snow-topped mountains, the University of California at Los Angeles once occupied a single building at Hill and Second Streets in Los Angeles. This was in 1915 when the University was only an extension of the father branch up at Berkeley. After two years, it was decided to start regular summer sessions for south- landers, and in 1919 the first two years of regular academic instruction were established. The Uni- versity was referred to as the Southern Branch then, but it soon came into its own with four years of regular classes and the title . . . University of California at Los Angeles. The baby university was growing at such a fast rate that a new home had to be found to accommodate it, and the new home was found in the Westwood Hills . . . three hundred and eighty-three acres of them. Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Venice and Santa Monica paid for the land purchase by voting the bond issues. By 1929 students and faculty settled on the new campus . . . then rather void of buildings. The university con- tinued to grow with great speed. Before World War Two, twelve red-brick Romanesque buildings had been erected. With a building budget of forty-five million dollars the number of buildings has doubled since the war. And the facilities for teaching and research have been greatly enlarged. Second in size only to Berkeley, UCLA ranked high in its own right among other colleges and universities. It was one of the top ten. Recently awarded autonomous rule, it functioned for the first time under the new chancellor, Raymond B. Allen, who, with the rest, watched the uni- versity continue to grow in size and quality. UCLA was thirty-four and had come into her own.