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

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Forty-Nine Years of Continuous Progress Since 1880 Colleges Have Been Organized and Discontinued, But the University Goes On I N July, 1875, the first hciard of trustees of this University was elected with the names appearing on the list as follows: A. M. Hough, Charles Shelling, E. F. Spence, P. Y. Cool, S. ' C. Hubbell, E. S. Chase, P. M. Green, J. G. Downey, R. M. Widney, J. A. Van Anda and F. S. Woodcock. This was the culmination of the work of four years during which time property locations in four different parts of the city had been considered. Maclay College of Theology, 1888 During the summer of 1880 a frame building was erected, the corner stone was laid in September and the building was ready for occupancy by Octo- ber. Fifty students entered the institution at this time and were graduated as the first cLtss in 1884. Those receiving degrees were F. E. Lacey, Bachelor of Philosophy, G. F. Bovard, Degree of Bachelor iHt Old Student Uniun. ur The Journalism Building, 1926 of Arts, and Minnie C. Miltmore, Bachelor of Philosophy. From this period to the year of 1893 the policy was one of extension and expansion, and ideas were planned and partially carried out in keeping with this program. The financial deflation in 1893, how- ever, completely wrecked this progress. After the deflation of property values during that period the policy for the University was concentration and cen- tralization. The School of Oratory was organized in 1895 which later grew into the School of Speech; at the same period the present College of Commerce and Business Administration was opened. What is now the School of Education was established in 1896. The first music department was organized as a part of Liberal Arts in the fifth year of the insti- tution. A degree of Bachelor of Music was granted Lipon the completion of four years of work. In the fifth year of the institution ' s history, five members were graduated. In June, 1885, the graduates of the University met in the office of the University to consider plans for the formation of an Alumni Association of the College of Liberal Arts. Among other things it was arranged that thereafter a reunion of the alumni members with the new graduates should be held each year during commencement week. The Y.W.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. came on the campus in 1887. That made them next to the oldest organizations in the University. The two oldest were Athena Literary Society and Aristotelian Literary Society. These two literary groups had been made from one organization, which had been formed in 1882; the separation into two groups came in 1884. College of Liberal Arts, 1899 18