—Courtesy Evening Express.
Architect John Parkinson’s Conception of the New Administration Building for the University of Southern California.
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Trips Planned for Mountains and Seashore; Two Weeks’
Hike for Spring
New Edifice To Be Completed In Aug, 1920-—Cost $500,000
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Hiking trips, under the leadership of directors from the physical educational department, will form an important part of the athletic program being arranged for women at U. S. C. this year.
A hiking club, under the auspices of the gymnasium department, will be organized within the near future. Membership in the club will be open to all women who successfully complete the trial hike, which will be a round-trip up the big Santa Anita Canyon to Sturtevant’s Falls, a distance of about six miles from Sierra Madre.
Numerous week-end as well as one day hikes are being planned by thoao in charge of the organization of the club. Among the interesting spots to be visited are Millard Canyon and J)awn Mine, Monrovia Canyon, Mount Baldy, Stoddard Canyon, Mt. Lowe, ^lifton and Point Pirmin, Cucamonga (’anyon, Santa Monica mountains, Cupids Camp in the West Fork of the
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“The erection of the new administration buildinr; at U. S. C. is to be the outstanding achievement of my life,” says John Parkinson, prominent California architect.
“Everything else I have done fades into minor importance when compared with this accomplishment."
This building will be followed by others as funds become available, it being the intention of the university trustees to eventually raise through donation and endowment a fund sufficient to accomplish a great group of buildings on the present university site. The fund raising campaign will be conducted by Dr. C. E. Leitzell, executive secretary of the university, through whom $1,158,130 was raised in the campaign a year ago. Subsequently $170,000 has been added to the original fund. It is expected that the ultimate sum raised to cover the university’s plans for expansion will be between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000.
The design for the new administra-
tion building is in the early Italian Romanesque style of architecture, this style having been adopted, according to Architect Parkinson, because of its adaptability for the purpose and because appropriate to the climate of Southern California, together with the flexibility when considering the varied character and purpose of the buildings which will form the university group. This building will be erected on the west side of University avenue, between Thirty-fifth place and Thirty-sixth street, occupying the entire block of frontage. In the front and center of the building will be a tower 116 feet high and thirty-seven feet square.
Has Two Wings
The main building will consist of two wings, one running north from the tower to Thirty-fifth place and back along that street 200 feet. The other wing will run from the tower to Thirty-sixth street and back to a depth of 200 feet. These wings will be three stories high ana will be connected by open corridors twelve feet wide by 172 feet long.
The ground floor of the south wing will be occupied by the executive of-
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THIS AFTERNOON’S PROGRAM The Presiding Officer President George F. Bovard, D.D., LL.D.
America
Invocation
Hugh K. Walker, D.D. Words of Greeting:
From the City of Los Angeles Mayor M. P. Snyder From the Public Schools Ernest P. Clarke, A.M., President State Board of Education From the Colleges Silas Evans, D.D., LL.D. President Occidental College Address
Bishop Adna Wright Leonard,
D.D., LL.D.
Laying the Stone Singing of Alma Mater Benediction
Francis M. Larkin, D.D.
t^lans have been completed for the laying of the corner-stone of the new
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Vol. XI
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, October 14, 1919
No. 4
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