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Garrigues' 'History of the DB' Plucks Common Threads: 25-Apr-2007; By Rees Clark, 1965; Part 1 of a serial version of the book by George Garrigues, who has carefully researched the DB and its predecessors, the Cub Californian, The Grizzly and related branches of the UCLA news tree.

Series: Garrigues' History of the Daily Bruin

Chapter 8: World War II (1939-1945): Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, was a clear, sunny day in Los Angeles — the kind of weather that makes Easterners envious. It was a lazy, pre-holiday weekend. Most of the Daily Bruin staff was sleeping late; parties had been many the night before to celebrate under
Chapter 7: Official Notices and Official Concern (1911-1939): As campus administrators saw it, a young man or woman with a pen might be dangerous enough, but a score of young people with a printing press could wreak havoc indeed.
Chapter 6: Bruin Spirit vs Council Power (1919-1940): The spirit of the Daily Bruin was born early. It evolved from hard work and cooperation among students working together on a common task.
Chapter 5: The Decade of the Thirties: The 1930s were years of Depression, years of preparation for war, years of disillusion. Joe College was dying, and the Daily Bruin was doing its best to finish him off.
Chapter 4: Campus Humor - The Safety Valve (1926-1930): In a kind of a fumbling, bumbling way, university administrators through many decades attempted to channel the youthful energy of their students into what were supposed to be "constructive" releases. Not wanting to admit that such activities were vitally
Chapter 3: The Bruin is Born (1925-1928): There is a stereotype of the late 1920s as a vacuous period of goldfish-swallowing, flagpole-sitting, hip flasks, boola-boola and Mamie the College Widow, Pride of the Yoo-ni-ver-si-teee. The Daily Bruin, as the Press Club Vode showed, was certainly not i
Chapter 2: Beginnings and Early Growth (1919-1924): The world or the campus, that was the question. George Garrigues' Bruin saga continues.
Chapter 1: The Predecessor (1864-1920): This (first campus newspaper) and subsequent ones at the "State Normal School" died out with the passage of time, and it was not until 1911 that the newspaper that later gave place to the Daily Bruin was founded.
Introduction: George Garrigues lays out his premises and sets the stage.