Southern Branch of the University of California
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Southern Branch renamed in 1927 University of California, Los Angeles.
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Founded 1919 as the Southern Branch of the University of California, name changed 1927 to the University of California at Los Angeles. In terms of academic and scientific achievement, the University was not yet among the vanguard of the nation's great centers of learning; but it would rapidly achieve this status. Westward migration was swelling the population of California and the University was hard-pressed to grow quickly enough. Primarily because of rapid development of the "Southern Branch," Professor David Prescott Barrows of the Department of Political Science, who succeeded President Wheeler, signaled his induction into office by presenting the University with its first red-ink budget--red ink to the extent of half a million dollars.
