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

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LEADERSHIP Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul was inaugurated president of the university twenty-five years ago at the age of 39. He has held this post longer than any other current major university president, the average tenure being five years. Since his term began the university has doubled its and tripled its teaching staff, which is rated by most experts as one of the top four in the nation. Endowments have now quadrupled to some million dollars. Under the leadership of Dr. Sproul, the university has added the Santa Barbara campus, four new fourteen new schools, and various other institutes and lesser components like a gricultural field stations. Dr. Sproul ' s tenure, the university has gained prominence in government such as the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley and by the management of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico, where the atomic bomb was first developed. Under Dr. Sproul ' s wise and skillful leadership the University of has become one of the fastest growing and most extensive universities that can be found in the world of today. 22

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Since the establishment of the University of California in 1868 the Seal has been a symbol of unity and growth. Each of the eight campuses serves a particular need and contributes to the progress and general welfare of the state. Berkeley, the nucleus of the has done much to further the university family. T he Medical Center in San Francisco includes a teaching hospital, large clinic, College of Dentistry, and a student union. Lick Observatory, atop Mount Hamilton, will soon house a 120 - inch telescope reflector, the second largest in the world. Davis, though mainly an agricultural unit, recently added a College of Letters and Science. The Santa Barbara campus recently moved to a spacious new 408 - acre site. The Riverside campus expansion program is also well underway. The new cafeteria, once a horse barn, is now a picturesque and attractively furnished building. Scripps Institute of Oceanography continues to concentrate its study on the sea and its curious marine dwellers. The phenomenal growth of UCLA continues at a steady pace. One of the new facilities added to the enormous Medical Center is a cancer detection clinic which is designed to detect and determine the of the disease in its early stages. The Music Building, which houses Shoenberg Hall, opened its doors during the fall semester and is one of the most modern and complete music buildings in the USA today. Additions scheduled for completion next year are a Physical Science building and a classroom-office building. Other plans for building include an Engineering and Physical Science Building and five dorms, one of which will be started this summer. These are but a few examples of the university ' s growth. Un ited by one seal, the eight campuses stand for educational progress and community service.