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

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UNIVERSITY PARK ARE THE NUMEROUS BUILDINGS WHICH HOUSE THE VARIOUS DIVISIONS OF THE INSTITUTION. HERE ARE FOUND MANY PHASES OF EDUCATIONAL ENDEAVOR. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ' S DOHENY LIBR- RY AND THE BEAUTI- FUL MUDD HALL ARE BUT TWO OF THE CAMPUS HIGH-LIGHTS. ( ampus College. ' J (5W ITH THE Trojan Shrine as a nucleus significant of growth and achievement, the campus colleaes have each shown outstandinQ progress. From its inception as a coh lege of Liberal Arts, established in 1879, the institution has grown to a University, comprising twentythree schools and colleges. The total en- rollment in the University for the fall semester J 934- 193 5 was twelve thousand six hundredniinetynine stw dents. Leading the schools and col- leges in growth was the School of Social V elfare which had an increase over last year of slightly more than one hundred per cent. The campus beautification program mnovated last year has been contin- ued with the addition of Alumni Par which surrounds two sides of the Student Union Building. To fa- cilitate this jnoi ' ement the old T.M. C.A. house was removed. Complet- ing the years additions to the campus is the neiv studio added to the Col- lege of Architecture. 21

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Troy from the oAir THE STRONGHOLD OF THE TROJAN FORCES, ACADEMIC AND ATHLETJC, VIEWED FROM THE AIR, APPEARS AS THE CENTER OF MANY VARIED ACTIVITIES, WHICH IT TRULY IS. SCATTERED ABOUT THE CONFINES OF 20

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Qraduate School ' ITH THE observance of the twentyfifth anniversary of organ ' ized graduate worh, at the University of Southern California during the academic year J93? ' I936, the Graduate School loo ed forward to 1935 as a year which promised to he crowded with events, bringing to the graduate students of the campus much of interest and value. Ainicipating the commemoration, which tool{ the form of a two ' day con ferencc planned by Dean Roc well Hunt, President von KleinSmid, together with the Council of Graduate Study, brought to the campus at the beginning of the year Dr. Max Farrand, head of the re search division of the Huntington Li ' hrary. Dr. Farrand was the guest of hon ' or and guest speaker at the reception with which the Council and Dr. von KleinSmid honored the graduate students at the beginning of the school year. Fol ' lowing the lectures, group conferences; general sessions; luncheons; and a formal convocation were held. In conjunction with these, the University published im ' portant monographic and scientific wor s. The main purpose of the conference was to give due prominence to graduate studies and research. Rockwell D, Hunt Dean 22