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

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Crystal ball gazers look ahead into the distant future, envisioning a building for every School, a lab for every Science, a space for every car, and an enlarged campus chuck-full of beautiful buildings. Sound like a campaign promise? In reality it is the goal toward which the great white fathers are directing their sights. The prospect of an entire campus framed by Ieiferson, Fig, Exposition, and McClintock is intriguing. The processes necessary to this vast expansion have already accelerated. How- ever, in comparison with the ultimate dream, today's accomplishments are yet embryonic developments. Imagine two paralleling additions, the size of Founders Hall attached behind it. On the site of Bovard Field, a towering monument housing the Intercollegiate Athletics Department. From this location, one may someday over- look blocks of solid grass, consisting of numerous foot- ball fields, a track, intramural sports, baseball diamonds, and bleachers. lust north of the field will be the dental clinic. Facing the south end of the field an entire block of Engineering and Naval Science buildings loom. The next two blocks south from 37th Street to Exposition will be set aside for the Institute of the Arts, a huge pano- rama of buildings. Across the street from Founders Hall, a building comensurate in size will be the home of the School of Education. Women's and Men's Residence Halls of great proportions will be separated by large recreation areas, equipped with the pools, courts and green shrubs conducive to an atmosphere of study. These buildings will be in proximity of the new women's residence hall. A dome-like structure, reminiscent of Roman times, will house International Relations near the technic building of Dentistry. Almost all building groups on campus would expand facilities, some to al- most twice the present size. All these improvements are but hypothetical now. lt is a reality however, that SC is keeping apace with the needs of a rapid growth in Cali- fornia population. Every year brings more improvement, newer buildings, better professors, and above all, better education.

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AV. Almost every SC'er has heard the story of the growth, which started with one drab building in the midst of the sea of mustard, though few have witnessed the 70-year history. 1880-fifty students moved into the ever-present music building with the Bovard family, to begin classes. 1880-Old College put into operation. '86 Theology- Every year more Colleges. An early SC expansion pro- gram intended to include schools in every population center of the Southland. The beginnings of this chain of schools, from the San loaquin to San Diego, folded into one as a result of the bust of '93 , establishing Liberal Arts as the central campus. The Gay Ninetys ushered in the story-book styles, and an era of tom-foolery, which has become legend. College girls wore fascinators and Martha Washington dresses, the Happy Hooligansn, pegged corduroys and sombreros. Early SC football teams sometimes managed to win over the local high schools. In 1889 SC played a heavy schedule, two games. The thundering herds of the Great Iones later rumbled SC to gridiron fame. Instead of game rallys, everybody attended the Iollyup, where freshman-built bonfires spirited the rooters. Yearly class rivalry started with the annual Color Rush , a spectacle in mud and blood, participated in by Freshmen and Sophornores, to ascertain whose class colors mounted the lofty flagpole. During the year any lowly Freshman who failed to salute a Prof., wore pegged cords or a sombrero, didn't part his hair in the middle, failed to wear a beanie, attended. the Burlesque show, was caught Queening ttalking to or wooing females? on the stairs of Old College was promi- ly and uncerernoniously dunked into the slime-filled duck pond. Since this slime pond was easily observed from the vantage points of Old College, whole classes frequently watched the early morning dunlcs in the slime. The disappearance of the traditional customs, the dog-gone button, the ivy spade, and the mystery bag attest the age of SC. Throughout the history of SC, there has been the ever restless surge of progress created by the independent thought, which characterizes the demo- cratic spirit of SC.

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