University of Southern California - El Rodeo Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Lieut.-Gov. A. J. Wallace, Dr. Ezra A. Healy, who is dean of the College of Theology and president of the Board, Mr. George I. Cochran, president of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company, and eighteen other men of prominence in theology, business and the professions. To these is added a faculty primarily interested in the broadest development of the indi- vidual student for social service, and a student body whose benefits received from their Alma Mater are reciprocated by the general moral tone evident in her student life, as well as by the honors of scholarship, of oratory, and of athletics, which they individually return as tributes to her. In line with these tributaries of her progress, the Univer- sity possesses a material equipment which, owing to its rapid enlargement, may not be known to even many of its friends. During the last two years the library in the College of Liberal Arts has grown very rapidly, owing both to the increased expenditure for material, and also to the addition of the Dean Cochran Memorial Library, which has been placed in the University by his son. George I. Cochran, and a further valu- able addition from the education library of Dr. Thomas B. Stowell, head of the Department of Education. Besides the amount of source material in the University Library, access to the large city and county libraries give increased facilities for advanced scholarship. A survey of the laboratories in any of the science depart ments will discover their efficient equipment in the matter of 15

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'The. University of Southern California The University of Southern California in 1911 is composed of nine colleges which include: the five colleges situated on the University campus at Thirty-fifth street and University avenue—the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Theology, the College of Pliarmaey, the College of Music, the College of Oratory (a preparatory school being also maintained on the campus); the College of Fine Arts, very fitly placed among the foothills of Garvanza; the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the College of Dentistry, and the College of Law, all of which are favorably located in the uptown districts. Space does not here permit a history of the development of each college from small beginnings to the present state of progress, but suffice it to say that from 736 students in the year 1903, when Dr. George F. Bovard became the president of the University and dean of the College of Liberal Arts, the enroll- ment has steadily increased to a total of 1802 in the year 1911, with a faculty numbering 196 professors alone. A fair sample of the growth of each college during these years is that of the College of Liberal Arts, which has increased from 110 students eight years ago to its present enrollment of 624, with a faculty of some fifty professors, nineteen of whom are heads of as many departments; while it may be added that there are but six university law schools in the United States whose attendance is greater than that of the Law School of the University of Southern California. These facts do not make evident the bounding progress of the University merely in name, for the steady policy of Presi- dent Bovard to make the actual results of efficient work in each department count toward raising the standard of the whole, has been the solid foundation upon which the facts of its name depend; and in the support of such policy there stands a most able Board of Trustees, among whom are such men as 14

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modern appliances. The biological laboratories contain a large amount of histological material and a special emphasis is being laid upon research work, which has been greatly furthered by the recent establishment of the Marine Biological Station at Venice, California. The chemical laboratories of the Univer- sity, beside carrying on many investigations of scientific inter- est, have been responsible for some of the most important dis- coveries made in the industries of Southern California; among many others is the present method of manufacturing gas from heavy crude oil, and that of treating lubricating oils so as to remove all asplialtum and other gummy material. Another line of research has resulted in the discovery of the electrolyptic salt process of bleaching walnuts, the method used witli seventy-five per cent, of all the walnuts which are bleached in Southern California The honest place occupied by the University of Southern California of 1911 among the foremost universities of the West has recently been recognized by the State Board of Edu- cation, in the form of granting to the University the right to issue the High School Teachers7 Certificates on the same terms as those upon which they are issued by the Leland Stanford and the state universities. This means a marked stimulus to the work of the upper division as well as to the graduate department, and makes unnecessary the transfer of any student to the northern universities, either for greater advantages in under-graduate work or for the graduate course required for the teachers certificates. This significant honor finds the Uni- versity in the most prosperous season of its career; its develop- ment has kept pace with the steady growth and improvement of the city whose climate, harbor, water supply, and position in the citrus belt assure its continued prosperity; and it is the policy of the University of Southern California to continue to be a leading factor in the corresponding advancement of the educational life of the Southwest. 15