Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-23

board of trustees, faculty and stu
dents. Secondly, he has done his best
to supply professors with an equip
ment that brings their efficiency to its
highest level. A biological expert
who knows the laboratories of the east
and of Europe, in visiting the biology
halls last year, declared that no more
complete equipment of the kind existed
anywhere A professor of rhetoric
from a well known college, when re-
Gently in the quarters Of the English
department, sighed for such a COM
Portable suite in his own home insti-
ttuion Not that his own college was
so defective; he might have come from
Berkeley or Stanford and made like
remark. The same conditions exist
throughout. The Bovard athletic field
Is first rate of it's kind; there is a
good gymnasium; a large hall in the
basement is fitted up as a cafeteria,
and proves a boon to students and IA
Guilty, and so forth. These things are
the immediate result of the presidents
careful and enlightened administra-
ton. The attendance increases yearly
at a remarkable pace; the freshman
class is nearly double that of last
year, and, for the first time, has had
to be divided into sections for teaching
purposes.
The college of medicine, which Is
housed in a frame building on the
northern side of the city, has been
steadily growing in numbers and in
huence. A patriotic citizen recently
presented it with handsome concrete
brick structure, which adds materially
to its efficiency. The Barlow library,
the gift of DR.. w. Jarvis Barlow, a
member of the faculty, is adapted not
For. dffIdU hIIf for research
work, and is the finest thing of the kind
west of the Mississippi.
In the center of the city stands the
law school, perhaps the busiest and
most thorough on the whole coast. The
Los Angeles legal fraternity is strong
in numbers and quality and can always
be relied upon to supply it with an eX-
cellent corps of instructors; and its
students are allowed the use of the
Los Angeles county library. consisting
of IL, 900 volumes, upon the same terms
as members of the bar. Moreover the
college has a fair working library of
is own.
At the extreme north end of the city,
close to Pasadena, is situated the col
lege of fine arts; while the college OF
dentistry, like that of law, has hand
some buildings in the busy streets or
the city.
Credit to Los Angeles
These different colleges of the uni
versity, while working under the same
charter are naturally more or less IN
dependent of one another. With the
college of liberal arts is associated
the college of music, which has It's
quarters in the south wing of the col
lege of arts building. On the fourth
floor of the main building is the col
lege of oratory, while the college of
pharmacy has its headquarters in the
new chemistry hall, built in the sum-
mer of 1907 on the college campus be-
cause of the increasing demand of this
department. A new engineering de-
partment has also been established
and the accommodations of the build
ing, supposed to be ample two years
ago, have been strained to their limit
There is thus In operation today in
this city great institution which re-
allies its responsibilities and is strain
ing every nerve to keep up with the
growing population and increasing in
huence of the city. On its staff are
men who, on the platform, at their
desks and in their laboratories are
active in the discharge of civic duties
There is no reason to fear lest the
Southern Californian be disappointed
in his hopes of finding the higher in
Struction at home.
There exists a strong desire at pres
ent to bring the various faculties to-
gether for social and general purposes,
so that the members may know one
another better and be prepared to work
more readily in unison banquet
held on the goth of the month which
members of all the faculties attended
was the first move of the kind, made
definitely to establish these closer re-
lations. and had much significance.