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

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IN this State of California the Golden, there are three strong universities recognized as qualifying institutions by the Association of American Uni- versities — the State University at Berkeley, standing second for enroll- ment in the whole country ; Stanford University at Palo Alto, and our own University of Southern California. All belong to different types. The State University, since its foundation, has taken a high rank among state insti- tutions. It draws its revenues from the state, is under a board of regents appointed by the state authorities, and, like other institutions of the kind, makes no provision for religious training or theological erudition. Stanford University is also without any theological department or theological chair ; it belongs to the foundational universities such as Johns Hopkins and Cornell Uni- versity, which have no connection with any religious denomination. Our own institution, on the other hand, belongs to an older type, like Yale and Prince- ton, which includes religious teaching among its main responsibilities and a College of Theology among its nine colleges. During the past dozen years there was a strong drift away from denomina- tional colleges to institutions on a purely secular basis. Happily, our university remains what it always was — a denominational institution, conservative in its teaching and yet liberal in its whole attitude. On our faculty and in our student body there are the same varieties of church aflfiliation as in a secular university; only the general management remains with the Methodist Church. During the period before us it is probable that there will be a powerful move- ment back to the old idea of a university as the home of colleges where the fundamentals of civilization are discussed and emphasized. Here on the Pacific Coast, close to another sister civilization, that of Latin America, and in immediate touch by water with the great Orient, Californians have a unique position for doing honorable work in the world, the high-grade work that centers in universities. Particularly with our own institution, the only one of the three leading universities where religion has a definite place in the organization and in the curriculum, is there a call to send out representa- tives south and west to teaching and missionary posts. Already we have done UNIVERSITY Page 18

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dministratioii [£ . George Finley ' Bovard, D.D., LL.D. President. On the Gaylord Hartupee Endowment George I. Cochran, A.M., LL.D. Treasurer and Financial Agent John Harold Montgomery, M.S., E.E . Registrar Thomas Blanchard Stowell, Ph.D., LL.D. Chairman of the Graduate Council Charles William Bryson, A.B., M.D. Dean of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Frank Monroe Porter, A.B., LL.M. Dean of the College of Law Lewis Eugene Ford, D.D.S. Dean of the College of Dentistry Ezra Anthony Healy, A.M., S.T.D. Dean of the College of Theology Laird Joseph Stabler, M.S., Ph.C, Sc.D. Dean of the College of Pharmacy Walter Fisher Skeele, A.B. Dean of the College of Music William Lees Judson Dean of the College of Fine Arts Beulah Wright Dean of the College of Oratory Albert Brennus Ulrey, A.M. Director of the Marine Biological Station Hugh Carey Willett, A.M. Principal of the University High School Robert Tyler Smith Executive Secretary of the Forward Movement A. E. Pomeroy ' Secretary Board of Trustees Stanley F. McClung Assistant Treasurer Warren Bradley Bovard Assistant Financial Agent Cora Dyar Minear Assistant Registrar » s . ., - . - VNII ' ERSITY Page 17

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well in this respect ; but with the development and strengthening of two de- partments, the Oriental and the Latin American, very much greater activity is assured. The newly organized Latin American Department of the University, co- operating with the departments of Spanish and History, has an ambitious plan of operations. It intends to standardize university courses in South and North America, so that the different systems employed may be easily evaluated. Al- though the southern continent has universities of greater age than those of the United States, there has been as yet no interchange of professors. Nor has there been brought together in this country, in any institution, a library of the history, literature and statistics of the Latin-American countries with whom we are coming every day into close relations. All this must be done on the basis of an accurate knowledge of the Spanish and Portuguese languages, indices of the subtle differences in the character and customs of the people of the northern and southern continents of this hemisphere. For the department, an especially suitable Director has been found in the person of Dr. Julius Ziegner-Uriburu. A graduate of the University of Buenos Aires, he spent several years in study abroad, and thereafter lost no opportunity of enlarging and deepening his acquaintance with the countries of Latin- America. He comes of a distinguished family, his uncle, Don Jose E. Uriburu, having been President of the Argentine Republic from 1895 to 1898. Already important information concerning entrance requirements, qualifi- cations for degrees, courses, etc., translated into Spanish from the U. S. C. Year-Boole, is in the hands of the printer and will be sent throughout South and Central America, Mexico and Cuba for the benefit of intending students. Competitive scholarships, the holders to be appointed by Ministers of Educa- tion, have been established in several countries of South America, and others are projected. The two courses of Spanish Lectures given this semester by Dr. Uriburu and prominent representatives of Latin-American countries are to be followed by instruction in Portuguese and other subjects of particular value in this field. In the Oriental Department, the Director, Dr. James Main Dixon, has secured the valuable services of Rev. John Hedley, for seventeen years stationed in Northern China, and a capable linguist. Professor Hedley has written a valuable and entertaining book, Tramps Through Dark Manchuria, and has contributed to the best journals dealing with Chinese life and civilization. He is personally acquainted with the present monarch of China, Yuan-Shi-Kai. His courses are already attracting much interest, and some of our leading graduates and undergraduates are planning to devote themselves to careers in the Orient. UNIVERSITY Page 19