University of Southern California

History 

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History 

The Founders' Era 

Display of USC Presidents 

USC's Olympic Heritage 

Trojan Olympic Gallery 

Convention of Support for the Armed Forces 

Los Angeles was a harsh and-tumble outskirts town in the mid 1870s, when a gathering of open energetic subjects drove by Judge Robert Maclay Widney initially longed for building up a college in the locale. It took about 10 years for this vision to end up a reality, yet in 1879 Widney framed a leading body of trustees and secured a gift of 308 loads of area from three unmistakable individuals from the group – Ozro W. Childs, a Protestant horticulturist; previous California representative John G. Downey, an Irish-Catholic drug specialist and businessperson; and Isaias W. Hellman, a German-Jewish investor and giver. The blessing gave area to a grounds and also a wellspring of gift, the seeds of money related backing for the beginning establishment. 

At the point when USC initially opened its ways to 53 understudies and 10 instructors in 1880, the "city" still needed cleared roads, electric lights, phones and a dependable flame alert framework. Today, USC is home to more than 41,000 understudies and about 3,800 full-time workforce, and is situated in the heart of one of the greatest cities on the planet. 

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1870s 

1870s Los Angeles mural+1871: Judge Robert Maclay Widney and different residents in the outskirts town of Los Angeles start seeking after building up an establishment of higher education.Robert_Maclay_Widney+1879: Judge Widney frames a leading group of trustees and secures a gift of 308 heaps of area from three group leaders.donors+ 

1880s 

marion-bovard+1880: Marion McKinley Bovard is named the college's first president, simultaneously serving as educator of mental and good rationality and characteristic sciences.1880: USC formally opens, with 53 understudies and 10 personnel. A school of aesthetic sciences, a college band and a civil argument group are established.whidney-house+1881: USC's first residence, Hodge Hall, is opened.1884: USC's school of music is founded.1884: USC holds its first initiation, with a graduating class of three understudies; a lady, Minnie Miltimore, is named class valedictorian.ladowntown1884+1885: USC's College of Medicine, the first in Southern California, is set up. Eight graduated class frame USC's first graduated class association.firstmedschool+1885: USC gets a blessing to make its initially enriched personnel position, the John R. Tansey Chair in Christian Ethics. 300px-1888-USC-football-team+1888: USC plays its first football game and trounces the rival 16–0. 

1890s 

Widney_Joseph-P+1892: Dr. Joseph P. Widney (sibling of Robert Maclay Widney, and first senior member of the college's restorative school) turns into USC's second president. 1892: USC's first understudy daily paper, a four-page week by week called The University Rostrum, shows up. 1895: Rev. George W. White turns into USC's third president. USC embraces cardinal and gold as its official hues. 1896: USC's graduate school starts when a gathering of disciples shape an intentional relationship to think about under a conspicuous lawyer. 1897: USC starts offering courses in dentistry. 

1900s 

1902: USC's second school daily paper, the Cardinal, is distributed. The month to month production lives for a brief three numbers. 1903: George Finley Bovard (sibling of Marion McKinley Bovard) turns into USC's fourth president. Bovard_George-F+1904: USC's first Olympic competitor, Emil Breitkreutz '06, brings home a bronze decoration for the 800 meters.breitkreutz+1905: The USC School of Pharmacy opens, as the first in Southern California. 1905: The Women's Club of USC (renamed Town and Gown in 1927) is set up to produce support for the college and its students.1906: The USC Department of Physics offers coursework prompting degrees in common and electrical engineering.1909: USC's Department of Education opens, to accomplish full school status nine years after the fact. 

1910s 

1910: USC sorts out a halfway regulated graduate system represented by a Graduate Council made out of senior workforce members.1911: President William Howard Taft visits the USC campus.taft+1912: Los Angeles Times sportswriter Owen R. Flying creature names USC's energetic athletic group the "Trojans." fraternity1912+1912: Freshman Fred Kelly '16 turns into USC's first Olympic gold medalist. Greek letter social orders are built up. 1912: The USC Faculty Wives' Club is shaped (renamed the Faculty Women's Club in 1995). 1912: The college reports a noteworthy course in car science, the first of its kind in the world.1914: A gathering of universal understudies establishes the USC Cosmopolitan Club to "advance companionship" among understudies from Asia, Latin America and Europe. 1914: The renowned African-American political pioneer, teacher and writer Booker T. Washington visits the USC grounds. 1915: Ten-year-old Teresa Van Grove enlists at USC, making her the most youthful Trojan. 1915: Emory Bogardus, later celebrated around the world for exploration on migration, race, and ethnicity, establishes the USC human science division. + 1918: Mrs. Amy Winship, a girlhood companion of Abraham Lincoln, goes to USC at age 87 and is affectionately nicknamed "the most established co-ed on the planet." 1919: USC's Department of Architecture, the first program of its kind in Southern California, opens. 

1920s 

1920: The USC School of Social Work is begun by Emory Bogardus. USC's College of Commerce and Business Administration opens, the first business college in Southern California. vonKleinSmid_Rufus-B+ 1921: Rufus B. von KleinSmid, later tenderly known as "Dr. Von," turns into USC's fifth president. 1922: USC dental understudy Milo Sweet creates the music for USC's official battle melody, "Battle On," as a section in a Trojan Spirit challenge. cardstunt-detail+ 1922: USC makes an augmentation division, offering evening and night courses to the group in areas running from Glendale to San Diego. 1923: The first Rose Bowl amusement is played in the present Pasadena area, with USC winning against Penn State 14–3. 1923: The USC Trojans play in the first varsity football game ever held at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, beating Pomona College 23–7. cromwell+ 1924: USC builds up the nation's first school of worldwide relations. The college holds its first formal recognition of homecoming. 1925: The USC College of Engineering is shaped. 1927: USC gives its first Ph.D. to David Welty Lefever in the School of Education. 1929: The USC School of Public Administration opens. USC's Department of Cinema — the nation's first filmmaking project — is built up. 

1930s 

1930: The Trojan Shrine is disclosed in festivity of USC's 50th commemoration. 1930: With more than 700 remote understudies (10 percent of the understudy body), USC positions third in the United States in global enlistment. 1932: USC's Edward L. Doheny Jr. Remembrance Library is committed. Edward L. Doheny Jr. Remembrance Library+ 1934: USC debuts its "College of the Air," an instructive effort project show on radio. 1935: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt visits the USC grounds and gets a privileged specialist of laws degree. 1937: Gil Kuhn turns into the first Trojan football player to be drafted into the experts. 1939: USC's Elizabeth Holmes Fisher Gallery (now called the USC Fisher Museum of Art) is committed. fisher-opening+ 

1940s 

1941: The custom of passing the chime between adversary schools is built up. + 1942: USC's Department of Occupational Therapy opens as one of the first projects of its kind in the nation. 1943: amidst World War II, nearly 2,000 military students include to swarmed conditions grounds. 1945: USC builds up biokinesiology and non-intrusive treatment offices (now converged into the Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy). 1945: The USC Department of Drama is established. kusc+ 1946: KUSC goes reporting in real time. 1947: Fred D. Fagg Jr. turns into USC's 6th president. Fagg_Fred+ 1947: A feisty stray pooch, nicknamed George Tirebiter, is received as USC's official understudy body mascot. tirebiter+ 1947: The University Senate (redesigned as the Faculty Senate in 1973 and renamed the Academic Senate in 1992) is shaped at USC. 1948: Troy Camp is established. 

1950s 

1950: USC English educator and separation learning pioneer Frank Baxter is named by Life magazine as one of America's eight finest school teachers. 1952: USC's Health Sciences grounds opens. 1952: USC dispatches the first doctoral system in social work in the western United States. 1952: USC's Institute for Safety and Systems Management starts offering degree programs in security, human elements and frameworks administration. 1953: University Avenue (today's Trousdale Parkway) is shut to vehicular movement, denoting a noteworthy stride in making an independent, person on foot agreeable grounds. 1954: For the first run through, a white steed shows up at a Trojan football game, with rider Art Gontier. USC's first Songfest is held at the Greek Theater. 1955: Psychologist J.P. Guilford's celebrated around the world "Structure of Intellect" hypothesis proposes a 3-dimensional model of insight rather than a solitary IQ score. 1957: USC's custom of on-grounds pre-diversion picnics starts. 1958: Dr. Norman Topping turns into USC's seventh president. Topping_inauguration+ 1959: The USC Associates, the college's head scholarly care group, is established. 

1960s 

1960: Then U.S. congressperson John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon talk at USC. kennedy+ 1961: On May 17, President Topping reports the "Ground breaking strategy for Enterprise and Excellence in Education." + masterplan+ 1965: The USC School of Dentistry establishes its portable dental center, now the most seasoned and most broad independent office of its kind. portable dental+ 1965: Tailback Mike Garrett wins USC's first Heisman Trophy. 1966: The Gamble House is deeded to the City of Pasadena in a joint concurrence with the USC School of Architecture. gambl