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

The schools and colleges of Los An
geles are very close to the people, and
that our readers might learn, at first
hand, just how the higher schools are
conducted The Herald invited the Off
GERS of The University of Southern CAL
ifcrnia to set forth tho aims and re
suits, as known to them in the case OF
this roted school.
Professor James Main Dixon of the
faculty writes as follows:
BY PROFESSOR JAMES MAIN DIXON
fz=z1ITH the rapid growth Of the
IEYkYM W city of Los Angeles 1t is
q imperative that the insti-
IS tutions of higher learning
IL "A ~ within her borders should
lAszzA1sI expand and strengthen pro-
portonately. OF one fea-
ture of the modern national life
tan this country be heartily proud
the vigcr and excellency of the busy
colleges and universities that dot the
land from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Where these institutions are particu-
lar,y strong the civic life is all the
better for their presence; where they
are weak and without prestige, the
tone of the community is apt 10
suffer.
Happily it can be said of Los An
geles that the University of Souther
California, situated in her midst-her
colleges are scattered over the city,
north and south-has grown with the
growing population and has an outlook
commensurate with the outlook of the
city and the fine territory from which
she takes her designation. southern
California, although an integral part OF
the great state that stretches hundreds
of miles along the Pacific seaboard,
covering almost as many square miles
as the island empire of japan, has
character and quality of her own, and
in MANY ways demands separate recog-
milton.
Remarkable Transformations
In the features of her landscape, In
the products of her gardens and or
chards. she possesses a marked indi-
viduality; and this individuality natur-
ally extends to her educational as
poets and ideals. the Southern
Californian is bound to desire
more and more to have gram
mar and high schools that respond to
his special needs and to demand col
leges and university which shall be
in the closest touch with the hlgf
schools Moreover, the city of Los
Angeles, which has such a wonderful
future before her, cannot for a mo-
ment suffer her colleges to fall below
very high mark.
Former Los Angelans, returning
after the lapse of several years to theil
old habitat, have difficulty in recog-
MIXING theI new quarters on Wesley
avenue, where the college of liberia
arts of the University of Southern Cali
fornia has been housed for over twenty
years. Forl la number of years it stood
off from the city among orchards ano
fields with AIN hourly horse car service
Today 1t stands in busy neighbor-
hood, with three car routes at Its doors
to choose frbm, which carry the pas
sengers into the heart of the city IN
fifteen minutes. The original unpre-
tentious halls of frame and of brick
have been superseded by spacious
building with well equipped lecture
halls and laboratories. In this build
ing are housed the colleges of liberal
arts. of oratory, of music, of pharmacy
and of theology,
An Efficient Management
IT is now four years since DR.. George
Finley Bovard was called to be presi-
dent of the university and took up his
quarters in the offices on Wesley ave-
nue. Known as an excellent admlnls-
traitor. as man of level head ana
great determination, he was expected
to do great things. During the lean
years which had to be passed through
in the later nineties, the university
suffered severely and a heavy task
Law before him. But he has more than
justified the confidence, that was placed
in him. and his friends have every
reason TO be satisfied. First and fore
most. he has been able to ln1use
shirt of good fellowship into all the in
Ter relations of the nstitution-among