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Tl: The second fifty years IM: Los Angeles, University of Southern California, 1927 CO: 28 p. front., plates. 27 cm CALL: LD5101.S32.L6 MAIN Microfilms by University of Califomia Library Photographic Service, Berkeley, CA FILMED AND PROCESSED BY LIBRARY PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICE, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, 94720 DATE: 2/00 REDUCTION RATIO: 11 PM-1 3%"x4"” PHOTOGRAPHIC MICROCOPY TARGET NBS 1010a ANSI/ISO #2 EQUIVALENT l= Ec 2 RE JL Is [2 fs ne 9 250 203 A? & I on” , Ct oN BA, oR Wo “@ » & “ay 2 Kd WN jpg EE THE SECOND FIFTY YEARS THE SECOND FIFTY YEARS UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES THE GEORGE FINLEY BOVARD ADMINISTRATION BUILDING 1947 EXCHANGE Tur SECOND FIFTY YEARS A VisioN FULFILLED HEN the University of Southern California was founded in 1880, Los Angeles was a town of 11,183 souls. Today the western metropolis is the home of 1,300,000 people, with only four other American cities exceeding it in size. Forty-seven years ago fifty-five students attended classes at the Univer- sity. The past year found more than fifteen thousand men and women availing themselves of its educational facilities. City and University have thus grown up together, sharing many problems and difficulties. Both have achieved goals which would have been thought purely visionary fifty years ago. Los Angeles has changed from a village to a world center, increasing in size a hundred fold during this brief span of years. Southern California has developed from a small college of liberal artsinto a great many-sided university composed of fourteen schools and colleges; its output has increased four hun- dredfold. In the year 1884 three students made up the first graduating class. In the collegiate year just completed [5] 1339 persons received their degrees, certificates, diplomas and credentials to signify their completion of courses in different departments of the University. Among the degrees granted were 144 graduate degrees in philosophy, arts, science, law, education, theology, pharmacy and business administration. THE SoutHLAND'S OwN Although students are registered from every state in the Union and from a score of foreign countries, south- ern California is the institution’s major field of activity. The University of Southern California belongs to Los Angeles and the region surrounding. More than two- thirds of the alumni whose addresses are known to the University authorities live in the metropolitan district. Of the more than fifteen thousand students who at- tended the University in all its departments during the year 1926-27, at least eleven thousand came from Los Angeles and its immediate vicinity. The University has chosen to live close to the heart of the great city, immersed in its problems, rubbing elbows with its people, sharing in the rush and driving energy of its life, and educating its youth. Whenever the historic question has been asked, “Where should the scholar live? In the green stillness of the country where he can hear the heart of nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing [6] oN THE WOMEN’S RESIDENCE HALL First Unit THE LAW SCHOOL heart of man?” the University has unhesitatingly an- swered, “In the dark, gray town.” For in the town, though in this case it is neither dark nor gray, the University of Southern California finds it- self at the center of the activities which radiate over the entire region. Here it has the greatest stimulus and the richest opportunities to contribute to the life blood of the golden empire from which it takes its name. Here, during the first fifty years, it has afforded educational facilities to 40,000 men and women. And here, dur- ing the second fifty years it will continue to develop step by step with the community, responding to its every educational need. THE Trojan WARRIOR Every university and college worthy of the name has a personality of its own. There is something about it, intangible and often indefinable, that makes it differ- ent from its fellows. Harvard and Yale are not dissim- ilar in history, in make-up, in purpose and in method; but no one, whether Harvard man, Yale man or well- informed outsider, would claim that he could not tell them apart. Cornell is not the University of Pennsyl- vania, Brown is not Dartmouth, Michigan is not Wis- consin. Even Northwestern and Souzhern California, institutions essentially similar in type and function, are as different as Chicago and Los Angeles. [7] The figure that best typifies the University of South- ern California is that one of its bronzed young “Trojan” athletes, strong of sinew and muscle, graceful in poise, superb of figure, eager for the fray. That is the symbol of the University and of the sunny land that nurtures it. That is the symbol which roused the enthusiasm of the crowds at the Harvard Stadium in May, 1926, when Southern California repeated its feat of the year before by winning the National Intercollegiate track and field championship. That is the picture of the Southland presented to the world by Houser as he won the Olympic and Intercollegiate shot put and the discus throw; by Dye and Grumbles, the fleet of foot, as they set new national records for the 120 and 220 yard hurdles; by Borah when he made the National Inter- collegiate record for the 220 yard dash and by Paddock when he crossed the tape, victor for America in the 100 and 200 meter dashes at the Inter-Allied games in Paris. Young in comparison with the venerable institutions against which it tried its skill, Sowzhern California symbolized in the laurels won by its sons, the high spirit and amazing accomplishments of its home city and of the West as a whole. As bold and as sturdy as its well-beloved Trojan warriors and as eager for the fray is the University itself. Strong and well builded, it stands on the threshold of [8] its second fifty years, a dynamic center of a dynamic community, ready to go forward, as additional means are made available, to new and splendid achievements in scholarship, in the building of men and women, in high service to the Southland and the world. THE University Topay The College of Liberal Arts is the heart of the University, for the most important and the most char- acteristic function of a university is to provide cultural training. Itis to introduce young people to what Nich- olas Murray Butler has felicitously called The Great Tradition. This includes the cultural and liberal arts and sciences whose possession and cultivation are the distinguishing marks of modern civilization. In a sense this cultural training in the elements that make up the Great Tradition is vocational as well. There are certain callings for which it constitutes the bulk of the appropri- ate training; and there is no calling likely to be followed by university graduates in the preparation for which the cultural element is not valuable. Culture—«to know the best that has been said and thought in the world” —enriches life and gives it power. To know great literature, to be able to read other languages than one’s own, to have had training in clear thinking, discipline in exact reasoning, and experience in the scientific methods of the pursuit of knowledge is to have a valuable preparation for life. [9] CARRYING ForwarD THE GREAT TRADITION In the College of Liberal Arts some twenty-five hundred students at a time are brought into intimate and inspiring contact with the Great Tradition. These include the students who are seeking only a cultural education and those as well who have not yet begun to specialize and seek professional training. At the same time the great majority of the students in the other parts of the University are also taking courses in Lib- eral Arts, in accordance with the sound principle that professional and vocational training should include ele- ments of general cultural value. Grouped around the central College of Liberal Arts are four other colleges, giving four-year courses and degrees in Music, in Dentistry, in Pharmacy, and in Commerce and Business Administration; six schools in which the student, beginning with his junior year, specializes in Law, in Education, in Religion, in Speech, in Architecture, or in Social Welfare and is granted the appropriate degree; the Graduate School for general post-graduate work leading to the master’s and doctor’s degrees; University (formerly Metropol- itan) College for adult and part-time students—most of them already established in occupations; and the Summer Session. [10] THE OLD COLLEGE FIRST UNIT OF THE SCIENCE BUILDING SCHOLARSHIP AND TEACHING Southern California is fortunate in the personnel ot its teaching staff, the quality of which is more impor- tant to a university than costly buildings, beautiful grounds or elaborate equipment. Its members come from the leading colleges and universities of this country and of the old world. In the ranks of the University faculty are men and women who hold ad- vanced degrees from the following institutions: Uni- versity of Berlin (Germany); Boston; Brown; Califor- nia; University of Cape of Good Hope (South Africa); Case School of Applied Science; Chicago; Colorado School of Mines; Columbia; Cornell; Durham (Eng- land); Edinburgh University (Scotland); University of Geneva (Switzerland); Harvard; Illinois; Iowa; Johns Hopkins; University of London (England); University of Madrid (Spain); McGill (Canada); Michigan; Min- nesota; Northwestern; Oberlin; Oxford (England); University of Paris (France); Pennsylvania; Prince- ton; Purdue; St. Andrews University (Scotland); The Sorbonne (Paris, France); Stanford; Washington; Wisconsin; Yale. Southern California’s “recognition” by the Associa- tion of American Universities—a distinction accorded only to those institutions which measure up to rigorous scholastic requirements—is another indication of the high standards of scholarship which the University [11] maintains. Its professional schools likewise are given the highest recognition by the national associations in their respective fields. STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP AND GUIDANCE Southern California takes the human material of the city and the Southland and develops its capacities and powers to the end that it may render valuable service in the community life. To make sure that this material is ready for the development process to which it will be subjected, the University insists upon a high scho- lastic standard from the very beginning. Its entrance requirements are as exacting as those of any institu- tion in the country. The applicant for admission must show that in his preparatory work he has done not merely as little as would enable him to get through but enough to mean something of real achievement. The University does not want students who, during their school years, were contented with “passing.” Nor does it encourage that type of student during his college course. As soon as he has entered the University the stu- dent must pass a psychological examination. This form of test is planned to discover not what the student knows, but what he can do. It deals not with acquired knowledge but with native aptitude and men- tal development. It demonstrates the quality and the [12] condition of his mental tools. The material used in the psychological test is that supplied by the well- known Thorndike Intelligence Examination, which is used in some fourscore of the more progressive universities and colleges of the country. Southern California, however, has originated a new application of this examination, which makes it possible to predict with great accuracy the student’s achieve- ment in particular subjects. The student can be in- formed of his strength and his weakness, and can be shown where he must apply his energy if he would succeed. The results of the psychological test are also used by members of the University faculty to improve their teaching. To each professor are given the records made in the examination by the students in his classes, that he may have before him a picture of their respective abilities. He has a guide then to indicate what can be expected from each student, and how each can best be helped to a mastery of the subject. In this application of scientific principles to the educational process Sout/- ern California is a pioneer. Sound MiNDs IN Sound Bobiks Southern California’s achievements in athletic sports have been remarkable. Its men hold national records in the 100 yard and 220 yard dashes, in the 120 and [13] 220 yard hurdles, in the discus and shot put, and world records in the discus and sprint relays. Its football teams have won four of the five inter-sectional games played, defeating Penn State, Syracuse, Missouri and Iowa, and losing to Notre Dame last year by only one point. Both the city and the University are proud of these records. But these spectacular feats should not obscure the fact that the University’s main concern is in securing the proper physical development of all its students. In the invigorating sunshine and balmy air of California, the University is able to provide for all the opportunity to take part in healthful outdoor sports the year round. Thus it produces sturdy, well-conditioned men and women physically ready to take their places in the struggle of life. And incidentally through this attention to the physical training of all its students, it develops those outstanding athletes who have carried the name and fame of Southern California throughout the world. For every student, the University seeks to bring about that ideal combination—a sound mind in a sound body. RESEARCH AND SERVICE Research is essential to the progress of civilization. Knowledge is power and the more the scholar finds out about the working of nature, inanimate, animal and human, the stronger are all men in their dealings [14] with the world we live in. The physicist and the chemist who discover, first, that matter is composed of atoms, and later, that atoms contain whirling elec- trons; the historian who interprets the rise and fall of nations; the economist who inquires searchingly into the reasons why prosperity runs in cycles; the medical investigator who discovers that the germ of yellow feveris carried by mosquitoes and that of typhoid fever is borne in water and milk; the psychologist who tells us why we behave like human beings—all these are benefactors of humanity. Research is the process through which they arrive at their results. The activities of faculty and students of the Uni- versity are not only academic but practical; they are not confined to the study and the class-room, but reach out into the community. The research which is carried on in the University’s laboratories and libraries, and in the business, industrial and educational world outside, con- stitutes one of the institution’s most valuable services. In several fields it has achieved national prominence. The [Journal of Applied Sociology, edited and pub- lished at the University, is an authoritative and recog- nized periodical wherever advanced study of this subject is undertaken. T%e Personalist, a quarterly publication, and the Hoose Library of Philosophy, add to the distinction of the department of philosophy. [15] SOLVING ScientiFic P ROBLEMS Southern California’s professors, instructors, and graduate students are investigating problems of gen- etics whose results will throw light on the subject of heredity and race improvement. They are giving pains- taking study to the field of petroleum products in the quest for better fuels and lubricants, improved manufac- turing processes, and new derivatives to meet fresh de- mands from industry. They are seeking methods of making dyes from material hitherto considered value- less. They are inquiring into the vitamin content of such products as orange juice and the avocado. In the School of Education intensive study is being given to teaching problems; to the application of psychological tests in estimating the ability of students and in guid- ing them in their work; and to the important question of curriculum in schools and colleges. In its School of Social Welfare problems of social relationships, of racial differences, of social adjustments in industry and in community life are receiving earnest attention. So throughout every part of the University investi- gations are being carried on. The materials which it uses, the problems with which it concerns itself are very often those which are peculiar to Los Angeles and the Southland. The results, therefore, are of especial value to the community whose industries, social prob- lems, history and activities are being intensively studied. [16] Of lasting value to the community, too, is the training in methods of independent thought and accurate, painstaking investigation which the University gives those advanced students who are concerned in research. REsearRcH aND TEACHING There is another important aspect of university re- search. Every member of a university faculty must, of course, have a thorough preparation before he enters up- on his work, but he dare not remain satisfied with that preparation. He must go on learning as long as he con- tinues to teach. Knowledge does not stand still; nei- ther may one who aims to impart knowledge. A teacher who is not also a student tends inevitably to become fossilized. Research, the continued quest for more knowledge and a broader acquaintance with truth, is the university instructor’s way of life. Just so far as the demands made by the University’s rapid growth upon its teaching staff and upon its financial resources will permit, it encourages its faculty members to engage in research. A continu- ing effort is made so to lighten the teaching load that the instructor will have time and energy available for study and for replenishment of his intellectual store. As more ample resources for faculty salaries become available, the research opportunities for faculty mem- bers will be made always more generous. [17] RELIGIoUus ConvicTioN AND FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE Southern California, having a religious foundation, frankly recognizes that Christian influences in educa- tion make for the stability of the social order. The University has no apology to offer for laying continual emphasis upon the Christian conception of life. But it is no less definitely committed to the doctrine of individual freedom of judgment and of conscience. The University is non-sectarian in intention and in practice. No religious test is required either of students or of members of the faculty. Theinstitution is attended by young men and women of every variety of religious faith. A survey made in 1926 showed forty-one denom- inations and religions represented in the student body, nine of which had more than one hundred adherents and five more than two hundred each. Among the most numerously represented were the Baptist, Cath- olic, Christian, Christian Science, Congregational, Episcopal, Methodist and Presbyterian. SWIFT RESPONSE 10 CoMMUNITY NEEDS Southern California, true to its responsibility as the city’s own university, goes promptly to meet any need developed by the community for services which such an institution can render. University College—for- merly Metropolitan College—was organized to meet the need for a downtown institution to give training [18] 0 BARS SA -» CS Fe Ie yr P —— A CORNER OF THE CAMPUS z s z = = z & A D b= w = on = of university grade to men and women already engaged in business, in industry and in educational work. Its courses are taken by more than five thousand persons in a year. When there was expressed a desire for instruc- tion on a high plane in the principles of advertising and merchandising, the University entered into coop- eration with the Advertising Club of Los Angeles to provide it. A professor of economics of high standing, expert in these important branches, was brought to Los Angeles to serve on the University faculty and at the same time as Educational Director of the Adver- tising Club. : ; And when the associated realtors of the State let it be known that they wanted courses in salesmanship and the underlying principles of their calling the University promptly agreed to provide them. There is urgent need in the Southwest for an institution of the highest grade to train men for the medical profession —and Southern California proposes to establish it. Whatever Los Angeles and the Southland need in the way of collegiate, technical and professional education this community university of theirs will undertake to supply. It will provide it, however, only on a basis of high standards, strictly adhered to. Souzhern California will not undertake quantity production at the expense of scholastic excellence. [19] WHAT SoutHERN CALIFORNIA PRODUCES The quality and the value of the educational service which the University renders may be indicated by cer- tain facts taken from the records of the School of Law, the School of Education and the College of Dentistry. These three are selected because their alumni can most easily be traced. There are 366 lawyers in Los Angeles who learned their law at Southern California. One hundred and thirty-five alumni of the University are members of the American Bar Association and 227 are members of the California Bar Association. One in every ten of the judges of the California Superior Court is a Southern California man—14 out of 132. One of the University’s alumni is Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court, two are justices of the District Court of Appeals of the State, and seven are municipal court judges in Los Angeles. The only woman judge in the city is a graduate of the Southern California Law School, as is the woman who is the Assistant United States Attorney General at Washington in charge of prohibition cases. A Law School graduate is Lieutenant Governor of the State, another is District Attorney for Los Angeles County, a third is a member of the United States Court at Shanghai. [20] There are to be found teaching in the schools of the metropolitan area 583 men and women who were prepared for their profession in the University’s School of Education. An equal number of graduates and for- mer students of the School may be found teaching throughout the State and beyond its borders. There are 1140 dentists registered as practicing in Los Angeles; of these well over half—691 to be pre- cise—were trained at Southern California. The presi- dent and secretary of the Southern California Dental Association are both graduates of the University. CLost 10 THE City’s HEART Because Southern California, believing wholeheart- edly in scholarship, yet believes in scholarship applied to the activities and the problems of modern life, it has kept unalterably to its resolution to remain as the city university, close to the heart of the metropolitan community, rather than to accept any of the attrac- tive proposals that have been made from time to time for transferring the institution to more spacious grounds outside the city. It has definitely made its choice between the compact, self-contained plan of ar- rangement imposed by the conditions of a city site and the more ample and ingratiating possibilities of a rural location. This close connection with Los Angeles, and with [21] FE an ES oe mil ria Bi nn i TREE iit 5 aA Rd rr —— a A 2 ra - the Southland of which it is the capital, imposes upon the University a heavy responsibility. It must be pre- pared at every moment to provide whatever facilities for cultural and professional education of university grade are required by the people of the metropolitan area. The demands are many and constantly pressing, even though some are not apparent to the city at large. A Curturar, COMMUNITY ASSET There are important collateral advantages flowing to the community from the presence at its center of this great institution. The University draws to Los Angeles students from all over the country and from many foreign parts, who carry back to their homes knowledge of this great community and its achievements. It brings to the city many families who reside there while their young people attend the Uni- versity, and in not a few cases remain as permanent citizens. No more desirable type of visitor or of resi- dent could be found than such as these. The University brings to the city as members of its faculty men of learning and breadth of vision whose influences upon the life of the community are of great social and cultural value. These members of its teach- ing force take part in all kinds of community activities, both as rank and file participants and as expert leaders and advisors. A list of the club and organization con- [22] THE SCIENCE BUILDING When completed as proposed > x < «4 2 pr . > w eZ a Z. 5 a = wo Q & S & a tacts of the faculty members of the University and of the addresses and speeches which they have delivered in the metropolitan district in any given year would fill many pages of this book. Such a body of educators adds an important element to the life of the city. A FiNaNciAL Asset To THE COMMUNITY The University also makes a financial contribution to the community greater than that made by many an industry or business to which the city would extend an enthusiastic welcome. The institution itself spends two million dollars a year in Los Angeles. During the last college year there were more than twelve hundred students at the University from outside the metropol- itan district. Painstaking investigations by the Uni- versity accounting department disclose the fact that the average amount spent by such students in Los Angeles during the college year is more than one thousand dollars. The aggregate, therefore, of their expenditures in the city in a year is close to a million and a quarter dollars. This takes no account of more than two thousand students, out of the more than four thousand attending the summer session, who come from outside Los Angeles. These large items are far from making up the whole story. But it is not neces- sary to pursue to its hiding-place in the books of the accountant or in the more hazy fields of conjecture [23] the last penny of profit accruing to the city from the presence there of the University. Such an institution —in fact, any such great collection of human activi- ties—is inevitably of financial value to the community in which it stands. A Sounp Financia. RECORD The affairs of the University have been managed with rare financial skill and effectiveness. The Uni- versity is an endowed institution receiving no state or city aid and having no other public source of income. It must be supported by fees for tuition paid by the students, by income from invested endowment funds and by benefactions made for current expenses. A study of some six hundred universities, colleges and professional schools, made by the United States Bureau of Education, shows that their average receipts from benefactions constitute 16.1 per cent. of the yearly income, and the receipts from endowment 27.7 per cent. The University of Southern California obtains only 1.7 per cent. of its yearly income from benefac- tions, and 1.8 per cent. from endowment. And yet, with this very small proportion of income from endowment—Iless than one-fifteenth of the aver- age for six hundred institutions throughout the coun- try—the University has been able to balance its books without a deficit for the past eight years, with the [24] exception of a single year. Being, by the terms of its charter as well as by the very nature of its existence, a non-profit-making corporation, any excess of income over expenditures must be used for the benefit of the institution. The excess which has resulted in these seven years has been expended on new equipment. In the past twenty years its income has aggregated $6,619,526 and its operating expenses $6,361,699. This means good management, efficient operation and economical administration. AN INADEQUATE ENDOWMENT If we compare the University with older institutions of the East the disparity inendowmentisoverwhelming,. Yale, which is just now seeking additional endowment of $20,000,000, receives an annual income from en- dowment of two and a half million dollars. The Uni- versity of Chicago has an endowment income of $1,700,000 and the University of Pennsylvania income from endowment of $870,000. New York University receives $182,000 yearly from endowment and Boston University $126,000. The income from endowment of Northwestern, a metropolitan university bearing the same relation to Chicago that Sowzhern California does to Los Angeles, amounts to more than $430,000. Southern California, when it comes to balance its annual budget, begins with a beggarly $21,500 from [25] invested endowment funds. During the past year it has received additions to its endowment funds of some $800,000, but this will carry the University’s figures for income from endowment only just beyond the $60,000 mark. If we compare the University with its two great sis- ter institutions of the State, the result is similarly illum- inating. Stanford has an annual income from endow- ment of $1,300,000, and the University of California, although its grant from the State last year amounted to over $5,000,000 and its student fees to a million and a half, has an income from endowment of $400,- ooo. Financially, the University of Southern California has year after year been making bricks without straw —but iz has been making good bricks. THE NEED For BUILDINGS The University has a plant which is modern and efficient in many of its aspects, though the rapidity of the institution’s growth has outstripped its equipment in other important directions. The George Finley Bovard Administration Building, the School of Law, the Science Building, housing the College of Phar- macy, and the Women’s Residence Hall are modern structures of the highest type, all erected since 1919. Notable additions to the Southern California plant are now under construction in the Student Union, whose [26] = 5 @ < Z > = Qo Pe E w ot od Be Z 5 A = w Qo & Q 0 a - . es oz Wet pm a . : . GS ES 055 LT MR i oc 0 Z a ) = /m Q Z RY & @ Zz Qo Zz @ Qa 2 w oO a Oo RY a = wo = a Z, < 0 = < ud = QO 8 e Mm i Qo Oo we © w = o wl oS) oo - building is financed by the Associated Students of the University, and the Men’s dormitory. Yet, the University authorities are faced by the ne- cessity for notable additions to the plant if the institu- tion is to meet its opportunities fully. There are sorely needed an arts and science group; a library; a gym- nasium; second units of the science and engineering building and of the women’s residence hall; and struc- tures to house adequately the Colleges of Commerce and of Music, and the Schools of Religion, of Educa- tion and of Architecture; a building to contain the School of Speech and a University Theatre; and a Marine Laboratory. The University recognizes, too, the urgent demand for the establishment of a School of Engineering and a Medical School. As THE SeEconD Firry YEARs BEGINS What is the destiny of the University of Southern (alifornia as it enters upon the second fifty years of its existence? It is as true for institutions as it is for men that “not in our stars but in ourselves” are found the possibilities of greatness. The certainty of Southern California’s future is contained in its past achievement and its present quality. Given the necessary additions to its material equip- ment and to its financial resources, it will go to meet the years ahead, remaining loyal to the high ideals of [27] he A a BE A eC Sper — at si De scholarship, of culture and of devotion to the truth that have been its pride from the beginning. It will hold fast to its conviction that education is a living process, as adjustable as life itself, using the materials provided by the past to make the products of the future. It will continue to devote itself to what it conceives to be the urgent problem of higher education in this present age —the adapting of university facilities to the needs ex- pressed in modern society. It will refuse to stand still, convinced that its sacred obligations are continually to meet the demands which the community makes upon it. It will continue to improve its educational processes as fast as it is persuaded in what direction true improve- ment lies, to keep abreast of the progress of human knowledge, and to interpret in their true relation to the facts of contemporary life the eternal spiritual val- ues. Thus it will continue not only as the able and loyal servant of the city and the State, but as an adorn- ment and a source of proud distinction to the South- land whose name it bears. PM-1 3%"x4"” PHOTOGRAPHIC MICROCOPY TARGET NBS 1010a ANSI/ISO #2 EQUIVALENT Il ti 2 7.1 = fie lle lS [E22 fs pee e b e 2 ™ END OF TITLE