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Number found who might be subject to the operation of the Compulsory Education Law. 2
The increase since last year of children under 5 years of age has been 312, or 14 4-10 per cent. ; increase of those between 5 and 17, 882, or 22 8-15 per cent.
The growth of the schools, public and private, is shown by the table which we copy below. It is from the report of Superintendent Campbell, to whom we are indebted for much interesting information concerning the department under his supervision. Following is a statement of the number of children of school age, who have attended public, private and no school, for the last thirteen years :
Public Schools. Private Schools. No Schools.
Year ending June 30, 1863 . 109
193
75
Year ending June 30, 1864 .
138
276
90
Year ending June 30, 1865
227
288
112
Year ending June 30, 1866.
307
218
173
Year ending June 30, 1867 .
455
313
155
Year ending June 30, 1868.
567
317
196
Year ending June 30, 1869.
684
355
293
Year ending
June 30, 1870. 911
417
319
Year ending
June 30, 1871 . . . .1,132
333
312
Year ending June 30, 1872. 1,566
271
579
Year ending June 30, 1873 . 2,118
343
541
Year ending June 30, 1874 . 2,699
400
873
Year ending June 30, 1875. . .. 3,225
407
1,117
There are ten school buildings, sixty-three classes, and sixty-five teachers.
The total number enrolled, for each month in the year, was as follows :
January .2,931
August. 3,442
February
2,914
September
3,433
March.
2,985
October 3,451
April.
2,965
November 3,463
May
2,838
December
3,286
July
3,443
The value of the property owned by the department is thus given by the Superintendent: land $122,700; buildings
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$115,000; furniture $16,000; total $253,700. The amount of debt incurred by the city in the purchase of real estate and in the erection of school houses is $162,000. Secretary Campbell reports the following as correct estimates of the value of the several properties owned by the School Depart- ment:
High School $39,500 00
Lafayette
47,000 00
Cosmopolitan 2,500 00
Prescott.
19,000 00
Grove street 12,750 00
Lincoln 39,000 00
Harrison 2,250 00
Franklin
33,500 00
Swett
13,500 00
Durant.
26,500 00
Vacant Lots
15,000 00
Total $250,500 00
A new school building has been recently completed. It is located on the corner of Seward and Campbell streets. The building contains four rooms and will accommodate 250 pupils. It is called the "New Prescott." The cost of building and lot is $9,000. This addition to the school fa- cilities of that section was imperatively needed.
HIGH SCHOOL .- Corner of West Twelfth and Market streets. J. B. McChesney, Principal. C. B. Bradley, Vice- Principal. Emma Temple and S. N. Jewett, Assistants.
COSMOPOLITAN SCHOOL .- Corner of Eleventh and Grove streets. P. A. Garin, Principal and Teacher of French. H. P. Stearns and Cloelia Lewis, Assistants.
IRVING GRAMMAR SCHOOL .- Corner of Market and West Twelfth streets, in High School building. J. B. McChesney, Principal. J. Walbridge, Georgia Persing, Mattie Call, Georgia Smith, Mrs. Shorkley, Sara Boniface and Mrs. C. B. Bradley, Assistants.
LINCOLN GRAMMAR SCHOOL .- Corner of Tenth and Alice streets. A. F. Craven, Principal. N. A. Craven, M. L. Hoyt, Elizabeth Craig, S. H. Wilson, J. B. Kent, Minnie T. Kimball and Annie P. Meek, Assistants.
LAFAYETTE PRIMARY SCHOOL .- Corner of Twelfth and Jef- ferson streets. A. F. Aldrich, Principal. K. A. Campbell,
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Mary Alexander, E. P. Rann, Ella Myrick, E. W. Anderson, M. S. P. Robinson and M. E. Pelham, Assistants.
NEW FRANKLIN GRAMMAR SCHOOL .- Tenth avenue, between East Fifteenth and East Sixteenth streets. J. H. Sumner, Principal. E. R. Tucker, L. E. Bentley, L. E. White, L. D. Watson, L. Kinkade, C. M. Ellis, E. S. Elliot, M. S. Kimball, F. C. Sutherland and H. A. Buel, Assistants. -
DURANT SCHOOL. - Corner Grove and Twenty-eighth streets. H. P. Carlton, Principal. H. P. Sexton, Mary L. Dame, Kate Elliott, Octavia Wetmore, Amelia Clow, Mrs. Tarbox and Helen Blakeslee, Assistants.
GROVE STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL .- Grove, between Fourth and Fifth streets. N. D. Standiford, Principal. Clara Hawley, Jennie Nesbitt and M. O. Neil, Assistants.
HARRISON STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL .- Corner Sixth and Harrison streets. Ada Hamilton, Principal. S. G. Towle and Mary Bradford, Assistants.
PRESCOTT GRAMMAR SCHOOL .- Corner Campbell and Tay- lor streets. James Stratton, Principal. R. R. Johnston, Clara Germain, S. J. Wythe, Julia Sherman, Sallie Germain, Mrs. Winchester, E. A. Stevens, M. V. Kingman, Louisa Allen, Assistants.
SPECIAL TEACHERS .-- Professor T. Sohlke, Teacher of Ger- man ; Mrs. A. W. Brodt, principal Teacher of Drawing ; Miss Lizzie Mann, assistant Teacher of Drawing; George S. Needham, principal Teacher of Music; Miss E. P. Brown, assistant Teacher of Music.
The University of California.
The University of California is located at Berkeley, the most northerly suburb of Oakland, situated about four and one-half miles from the city, and is reached by a horse rail- way from Oakland, and by ferry from San Francisco. That the site was well chosen may be seen by the following from the (manuscript) report of Professor Soulé.
" The diversified character of the surface brings into use all the principles of surveying and topography. It is in area 200 acres, is watered by numerous springs in the hills. With the spring water and "surface water saved, the grounds can be thoroughly irrigated through- out the year, and made to blossom as the rose. The lower portion of the grounds is flat and moist throughout the year,
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and will nourish such trees, flowers and shrubs as require such soil. Then there is a higher plateau, upon which the various buildings have been or are to be located, forming the campus proper. Beyond, toward the Monte Diablo Range, the ground rises into hills, the highest of which is 884 feet above tide water, and 584 feet above the base of the south college. The average height of the tract is 400 feet above tide water. The hilly portion could be well utilized for forestry. The University is supplied with water from a reservoir of 38,000 gallons capacity, situated at the foot of Strawberry Canon, and at an elevation of 205 feet above the basement of the south college. It will carry water entirely over any building contemplated. Strawberry Creek is for a large portion of the year a beautifully clear stream ; during the winter it discharges an enormous quantity of water, and runs between steep banks ten to fifteen feet in depth, and with a span of from 30 to 100 feet. Along it are found many shady, quiet nooks, gracious to the scholar, philosopher and naturalist. The soil of the lower portion of the site is a deep rich adobe, capable of being wrought into a soil of great productiveness ; on the plateau it is a lighter kind; on the hills there is a thin soil of decomposed shale rock, etc. It would be difficult to find within so small an area as the Uni- versity site a spot with so many varieties and capabilities in the way of soils, irrigation and exposure." The view, too, is magnificent. Facing the Golden Gate, the eye takes in the whole peninsula at a sweep, with its great mart of com- merce, its shipping, and the bold yet lovely islands that deck the bay, while to the eastward the towering hills afford a fine background of relief to the eye, as it turns from the extended plain below.
The Constitution of the State requires the legislature to provide for the maintenance of a university, and in March, 1868, a law was passed, creating and organizing the Univer- sity of California. The State appropriated $200,000 from the sale of tide lands, as part of the Endowment Fund. A " Seminary and Public Building Fund," amounting to $100,000, existed, which was made another part of the en- dowment, while the old College of California, which had been in existence since 1855, and had accumulated a large property, transferred it entire to the University ; this latter property was valued at $120,000. Congress had already made a donation of 150,000 acres of land for the estab- lishment of an Agricultural College in California. Noth- ing could be more pertinent or proper than making the Agricultural College a part and portion of the University,
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and it was done. This combination of circumstances gives the University a very handsome Endowment Fund, which will be largely increased from the advance in real estate held by it under the grants. Two large and commodious build- ings were occupied, though not fully completed, at the commencement of the college year, in September, 1873.
The south hall is of brick, one hundred and fifty-two feet in length, average width fifty-six feet, and four stories in height. It contains thirty-four rooms, six of which are thirty-two by forty.eight feet in size.
The north hall is built of wood, is one hundred and sixty- six feet in length, average width sixty feet and four stories in height. It is divided into twenty-eight rooms. The as- sembly room is forty-three by fifty-eight feet, and the phil- osophical lecture room thirty-six by fifty-eight feet. The cost was $357,000.
The institution embraces seven distinct Colleges as fol- lows: Scientific, Agriculture, Mechanics, Engineering, Chem- istry, Mining and Medicine.
In the College of Letters the Degree conferred is that of A.B .; in the College of Science, Bachelor of Philosophy, and in the College of Medicine, M.D.
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE .- Instruction is given by exper- imental and illustrated lectures, recitations, essays and class discussions, and in the practical illustration of principles upon the University grounds.
COLLEGE OF MECHANICS .- This college educates mechani- cal engineers and machinists. Advanced classes are in- structed in civil engineering to the extent 'necessary for the purposes of this college, including Mathematics, Physics and Theoretical Mechanics. Special attention is given to Industrial Drawing, with view to thorough education in the principles of construction of machinery.
COLLEGE OF MINING .- In this college are given courses of lectures on Chemistry, Metallurgy, Geology, Minerology and Engineering. The laboratories are ample to conduct the. most refined investigation.
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING .- The object of this college is to give thorough instruction in those studies which pertain to the profession of a civil engineer. In the advanced years instruction is also given in Physics, Geology, Zoology in lit- erary branches, including Modern Languages, History and Political Economy.
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COLLEGE OF LETTERS .- The College of Letters maintains two courses, the Classical and the Literary. The former is identical with the general course of studies in the great col- leges of the Eastern States and England. The latter affords a most complete and thorough training in its special studies.
COLLEGE OF MEDICINE-Is held at Toland Hall, in San Francisco, and affords ample opportunities for acquiring the highest degree of excellence in the theories of the profes- sion.
Applicants for admission should be at least sixteen years of age, and bring satisfactory testimonials. Young ladies as well as young men are received as students. There is no charge whatever for tuition.
The number of students now attending the University is reported in the annual catalogue as follows: Seniors 34, Juniors 27, Sophomores 56, Freshman 155.
REGENTS.
EX-OFFICIO REGENTS.
His Excellency William Irwin, Sacramento, Governor, ex- officio President of the Board.
His Honor J. A. Johnson, San Quentin, Lieutenant Gov- ernor.
Hon. G. J. Carpenter, Placerville, Speaker of the As- sembly.
Hon. Ezra S. Carr, Sacramento, State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
R. S. Carey, Esq., Sacramento, President of State Agri- cultural Society.
A. S. Hallidie, Esq., San Francisco, President of the Me- chanics Institute of San Francisco.
John Le Conte, Berkeley, Acting President of the Uni- versity.
APPOINTED REGENTS.
Rev. H. Stebbins, D. D., San Francisco.
Hon. Lawrence Archer, San José.
J. West Martin, Esq., Oakland. Hon. Samuel B. McKee, Oakland. Hon. John F. Swift, San Francisco.
Joseph Winans, Esq., San Francisco.
J. Mora Moss, Esq., Oakland.
J. M. Hamilton, Esq., Guenoc.
D. O. Mills, Esq., Millbrae.
William Meek, Esq., San Leandro.
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Hon. Frank M. Pixley, San Francisco.
Hon. William T. Wallace, San Francisco.
Hon. Eugene Casserly, San Francisco.
HONORARY REGENTS .*
Hon. John S. Hager, San Francisco.
A. J. Bowie, Esq., San Francisco.
Hon. John B. Felton, Oakland.
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS.
Acting President of the University-John Le Conte. Ad- dress, Oakland; office, Berkeley.
Advisory Committee-Regents Hager, Martin, Moss and Stebbins.
Treasurer-D. O. Mills.
Dean of the Academic Senate-Martin Kellogg.
Chief of Military Instruction-W. T. Welcker.
Secretary and Superintendent of the Grounds .- Robert E. C. Stearns. Address, Oakland; office, Berkeley.
Assistant Secretary --- J. Ham Harris.
Land Department of the University --- Office, 728 Mont- gomery street; P. O. Box, 2040, San Francisco.
ACADEMIC SENATE.
John Le Conte, M. D., Acting President, and Professor of Physics and Mechanics.
William Ashburner, Professor of Mining.
George W. Bunnell, A. M., Professor of the Greek Lan- guage and Literature.
George Davidson, A. M., non-resident Professor of Geodesy and Astronomy.
Stephen J. Field, LL. D., non-resident Professor of Law.
Frederick G. Hesse, Professor of Industrial Mechanics.
Eugene W. Hilgard, Ph. D., Professor of Agriculture and Agricultural Chemistry.
Martin Kellogg, A. M., Dean and Professor of Ancient Languages.
Joseph Le Conte, M. D., Professor of Geology and Natural History.
Bernard Moses, Ph. D., Professor of History.
Paul Pioda, Professor of Modern Languages.
Willard B. Rising, Ph. D., Professor of Chemistry and Metallurgy.
*The term "Honorary," applied to these Regents, indicates only the mode of their election, which was made by the Ex-Officio and Appointed Regents. Every Regent is a full member of the Board.
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Edward R. Sill, A. M., Professor of the English Language and Literature.
Frank Soulé, Jr. (U. S. Military Academy), Professor of Civil Engineering and Astronomy.
William T. Welcker (U. S. Military Academy), Professor of Mathematics.
W. A. Barbour, A. B., Instructor in Chemistry.
George F. Becker, A. B., Ph. D., Lecturer on Metallurgy.
Samuel B. Christy, Ph. B., Instructor in Chemistry.
George C. Edwards, Ph. B., Instructor in Mathematics and Commandant of Cadets.
Carlos F. Gompertz, Instructor in Spanish.
Leander L. Hawkins, Ph. B., Instructor in Mathematics and Surveying.
John D. Hoffmann, Instructor in Mechanical and other branches of Instrumental Drawing.
Henry B. Jones, Assistant Instructor in German.
G. de Kersaint-Gily, Instructor in French.
Robert E. Ogilby, Instructor in Free-hand Drawing.
Edward A. Parker, Ph. B., Instructor in Physics and Mechanics.
James M. Phillips, A. B., Instructor in Hebrew and An- cient History.
Albin Putzker, Instructor in German.
Ambrose C. Richardson, A. B., Instructor in Latin and. Greek.
Joseph C. Rowell, A. P., Librarian.
E. H. Sears, A. B., Instructor in Latin and Greek.
F. Slate, Jr., S. B., Instructor in Chemistry.
Robert E. C. Stearns, Secretary and Superintendent of the Grounds.
J. Ham Harris, Assistant Secretary.
John Ellis, Gardener.
Abel Whitton, Manager University Press.
GRADUATE ASSISTANTS.
John W. Bice, Ph. B., College of Engineering.
Isaac T. Hinton, Ph. B., Mathematics.
Wm. Carey Jones, A. B., Recorder of Faculty.
Franklin P. McLean, Ph. G., Chemistry.
Frank S. Sutton, Ph. B., College of Agriculture.
STUDENT ASSISTANTS.
Charles Butters, Telegraphic Operator.
Frederick L. Button, Mathematics. J. B. Clarke, Mathematics.
X. Y. Clark, Natural History and Geology.
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JANITORS.
John Scannell and Cornelius Quick, North Hall. John Hart and Peter McEvoy, South Hall.
Golden Gate Academy.
J. N. Harkins and A. E. Kellogg, Principals. Located on Academy Hill, near Telegraph avenue. Students of both sexes received, either as boarders or day scholars.
ACADEMY DEPARTMENT.
In the management of this department three objects are made prominent. First, to provide for the young men and women of this Coast sure advantages for obtaining such fitness for college and university as to prepare them to realize the highest results from their after study. In the academic, classical and English courses, the student will find such studies as are necessary to a thorough preparation for university courses. Any who have a partial preparation, whose studies have been interrupted, will usually find here
classes which they can enter without loss of time. By far the larger class of students do not expect to pursue a col- legiate course, yet desire an English education more or less complete. These will find in the English course a complete curriculum of English study, special attention being paid to English composition, grammar, language-lessons, and other studies bearing upon our much neglected mother tongue.
A system of daily marking is observed in all departments of the school, and a weekly report of the scholarship and deportment of each pupil is made out and read before the assembled school every Tuesday morning. Each separate report is transferred to postal card and sent to the parent or guardian interested, so that week by week he is kept informed of the progress of those whom he has in the school.
PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT.
This department has two divisions-a grammar room and a primary, The grades correspond very nearly to those in the public schools; however, examinations for promotion are held quarterly, so that those capable of rapid advance- ment are not necessarily detained a whole year in one grade.
The building occupied by this department was built with special reference to its accommodation, and is a model of convenience in every respect. There are some thirty rooms, large and well ventilated, furnished with single beds, and as
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the building faces east and west, they are open to the morn- ing or afternoon sun.
Many of the boys who have been for some time in the Institution, have carpeted their rooms and adorned the walls with pictures, making for themselves perfect little homes, in which they take great pride.
The matron resides in the building, and gives her entire time and attention to superintending the home life. The rooms are carefully inspected each day; the clothing attended to, and in her the boys find a sympathizing friend. Some four acres are set apart as a playground for this department. Thus, while giving ample room for out-door sports and exercise, they are separated from the boys of the Academy Department.
COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT.
In this department it is designed to afford young men a thorough practical preparation for business; something that shall serve them in the same stead as though they had acquired their experience in the office of the most rigid and exacting business man. The Business Course of instruction embraces three departments: Theoretical, Junior or Actual Business, and Senior or Banking and Office Department.
THEORETICAL DEPARTMENT.
In this department the student is made acquainted with the whole theory of general business, including correspond- ence, bookkeeping in all its branches, the forms and uses of commercial paper, such as drafts, notes, bills of exchange, powers of attorney, deeds, bonds, etc.
JUNIOR OR ACTUAL BUSINESS DEPARTMENT.
Here the student is assigned his office desk, and furnished with a capital, consisting of cash, real estate and stocks, corresponding to the business in which he is first to engage. Here the student is taught the application of the principles learned in the preceding department, and it is designed not only to afford him veritable experience in the practical man- agement of a set of books, but also in all details of business as occurring in the daily experience of merchants, bankers, brokers, etc. Everything is conducted here on a real money, merchandise and business paper basis. It is regulated by a standard chronicle of trade and prices current, which is daily revised and corrected by the city market. Some sixty thousand dollars in commercial currency have been issued, and are in circulation in this department.
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SENIOR OR BANKING AND OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
In this department are the Railroad, Steamboat, Express, Real Estate and Insurance offices, the First National Bank, and the Golden Gate Commercial College Bank. This bank is conducted in every respect the same as our city banks, there being no difference in regard to the manner of doing business, or in keeping the accounts.
PENMANSHIP.
A special department of penmanship in connection with the commercial department affords unequalled facilities for imparting a knowledge of the art. The special course of penmanship embraces business and epistolary writing, fancy lettering, pen-drawing, and India-ink shading, or if the student prefers, he can spend the whole of the prescribed time, six months, in the acquirements and practice of an elegant and rapid business and epistolary hand.
· TELEGRAPHY.
There are altogether three offices in the various buildings of the Institution, one connected with the Western Union Telegraph Co., others in connection with a private line. The offices are in charge of a skillful sound operator.
INSTRUCTORS. .
J. N. Haskins, Latin and Rhetoric.
A. E. Kellogg, Greek, History and English Composition.
H. L. Henderson, Mathematics and Science.
W. R. Barbour, Lecturer on Chemistry.
Madame Martinez, Modern Language. Lucie A. Hale, Music.
L. K. Mihills, Landscape Sketching, etc.
W. V. Marsh, Penmanship.
COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT.
L. K. Mihills, Principal.
W. V. Marsh, Assistant and Instructor in Telegraphy.
PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT.
G. C. Hall, Principal. Mrs. Mary Ward, Hall, Assistant.
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Mills Seminary.
This is a large and admirably conducted'institution devoted to the culture and education of young ladies. It is delight- fully situated at Fruit Vale, at the foot of the San Pablo range of hills, in the midst of charming and romantic scenery. The location is all that could be desired, in all that concerns health and beauty. It is sheltered from the fierce westerly winds, and escapes the unpleasant penetrat- ing fog. This Seminary was opened in 1871, and, although now private property, it is the design of the founders to make it a permanent institution. The grounds embrace fifty acres, adorned with fine oaks, through which winds a stream of water, rendering the verdure fresh at all seasons. The main building is 218 feet in length, with a wing 136 feet deep, two stories high, surmounted with a Mansard roof. It has accommodations for two hundred pupils. The scholastic year is divided into two terms of twenty weeks each, commencing respectively January 10th and August 2d of each year. Board of Instructors: Rev. C. T. Mills, Principal and Professor Mental and Moral Philoso- phy; Mrs. C. T. Mills, Associate Principal and teacher Liter- ature and Natural Theology; Miss E. C. Hatch, Assistant Principal and Teacher Natural Sciences; Miss Jane C. Tol- man, Instructor in Literature, Rhetoric and Art; Miss E. S. Wilson, Mathematics and Physiology ; Miss Cynthia K. Gould- ing, Mathematics and Mythology: Miss Ellen A. Raynor, History; Miss Mary F. Gass, Grammar and Natural His- tory; Miss Ellen A. Hatch, Elocution and Composition.
Preparatory Department-Miss R. A. Bills, Principal; Miss Clara D. Edwards, Assistant.
Telegraphy and Penmanship - Augustin Knoflach, In- structor.
Department of Languages-Miss E. C. Hatch, Instructor in Latin; Madame Camile C. Berill, Instructor in French and German; Augustin Knoflach, Instructor in Spanish and Italian.
Department of Music --- Ernst Hartmann, Edouard Von Adelung, Ferdinand F. Zellner, Edward Hohfeld, Otto Seyd, Miss Marion E. Rowell and Miss Kate S. Spencer.
Instructor in Vocal Music --- Alfred Kelleher.
Instructor in Painting and Drawing --- Raymond D. Yel- land.
Attending Physician --- M. W. Fish, M. D.
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California Military Academy.
Rev. David McClure. Principal. Location on east side of Telegraph avenue near Prospect avenue. This school was established in January, 1865, by the present proprietor and principal. There are three buildings, each three stories high, connected by corriders. The symmetrical develop- ment and discipline of the mind and the formation of a good physical constitution are the prime objects of the system of instruction. The military system of drilling and discipline has been adopted to secure physical culture, promptness, presence of mind and its attendant results. The Legisla- ture of California in 1872 passed an act to "Commission the Commandant of this Academy as Major in the National Guard of California," and to furnish the cadets with arms and accoutrements. The scholastic year is divided into two terms of twenty weeks each, beginning respectively on the third Wednesday of July and the first Wednesday in Jan- uary.
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