Southern California; . - those schools placed onthe accredited list can admit students to the Universitywithout examinations. It is sufficient to add thatalthough the requirements are rigidly enforced, thegraduates of a large percentage of the high schools, evenin country towns, are allowed to enter the Universitywithout examination in all or nearly all subjects. The old Southern California, so graphicallj- picturedby Dana, is but a poetic background for the new, so dif-ferent, so much more subtle and intricate in its signifi-cance, fraught with such boundless promise of all that is. 138 inspi


Southern California; . - those schools placed onthe accredited list can admit students to the Universitywithout examinations. It is sufficient to add thatalthough the requirements are rigidly enforced, thegraduates of a large percentage of the high schools, evenin country towns, are allowed to enter the Universitywithout examination in all or nearly all subjects. The old Southern California, so graphicallj- picturedby Dana, is but a poetic background for the new, so dif-ferent, so much more subtle and intricate in its signifi-cance, fraught with such boundless promise of all that is. 138 inspiring in modern civilization. It is a region wheremen look not backward but forward, preserving only inthe countrys names the romance of an earlier day. Inthis forward look they see the commerce of the Orientcoming to their doors and an endless procession of trainsthundering across the continent freighted with the prod-uce of their fields and groves. Fourteen thousand car-loads of oranges were sent East during the past may not the future bring forth ? The mission bellsare cracked and the adobe walls have crumbled away,but phoenix-like upon their ruins has grown up a newlife and a new people, the pioneers of enlightenmentand culture.


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