<p>UCLA HISTORY<br />

The University of California had been established at that<br />

time&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; 1868&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; in northern California at Berkeley&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; across the<br />

Bay from San Francisco. Los Angeles area students who<br />

wanted to attend the state university had to go 500 miles<br />

from home. Even so&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; by 1910 there were more freshmen<br />

on the Berkeley campus from Los Angeles than there were<br />

from San Francisco.<br />

Southern Californians&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; however&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; wanted a state-support-<br />

ed&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; four-year college in their area. Their campaign for<br />

such a school&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; however&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; was resisted by most of the Uni-<br />

versity of California s regents and by the state s governor<br />

who did not want a &quot;second &quot; ~ &quot;<br />

university at Berkeley. umverslty to challenge the<br />

Those seeking a state university in Los Angeles were led<br />

by Edward A. Dickson&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; who owned and edited the Los<br />

Angeles Herald-Express. He was also a university regent.<br />

Another supporter was Ernest Carroll Moore&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; director of<br />

the Los Angeles State Normal School.<br />

Negotiations over several years finally led to state officials<br />

okaying the opening of a &quot;Southern Branch of the Uni-<br />

versity of California.&quot; The two-year school&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; which would<br />

become UCLA b the University of California&iuml;&frac14;&OElig; Los<br />

Angeles b opened in September 1919 with 250 students<br />

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