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From the School reports for 1890-91, I glean sundry matters to pre- serve for future reference, or comparison :
THE PASADENA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
The boundaries of this district comprise not only the city of Pasadena in its entirety, but extend on the west to the Linda Vista hills, on the north to and some distance into the mountains, on the east to Allen Avenue, and on the south to the boundaries of the city, where they join those of South Pasadena, and thence eastward a little south of San Pasqual street to Allen Avenue. The district contains a population of about 7,000 people. [1891.]
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NATIVITY OF PUPILS .- As showing the character of this population, the appended statistics of the nativity of the pupils in attendance upon our schools will be read with interest as well as pleasure : Arizona, 3 ; Arkan- sas, 2 ; California, 181 ; Colorado, 7 ; Connecticut, 9 ; Delaware, I ; Illinois, 124; Indiana, 42; Iowa, 208; Kansas, 72; Kentucky, 2; Louisiana, 5 ; Maine, 15; Maryland, 4; Massachusetts, 43 ; Michigan, 40 ; Minnesota, 21 ; Missouri, 33 ; Mississippi, 3; Nebraska, 30; Nevada, 7 ; New Hamp- shire, 5 ; New Jersey, 6 ; New York, 49 ; North Carolina, 2; North Dakota, 2 ; Ohio, 74; Pennsylvania, 83; Rhode Island, 3; South Dakota, 6 ; Tennessee, 1; Texas, 21; Vermont, 9; Virginia, 5; Washington, 4; West Virginia, 5; Wisconsin, 34; Wyoming, I; Idaho, I; Indian Territory, I; New Mexico, 2; Canada, 39 ; England, 19; Scotland, 9; Germany 7; Italy, 1; Switzerland, 2 ; Australia, I.
HIGH SCHOOL .- On June 24, 1891, the electors of the district by an almost unanimous vote, adopted the high-school provision submitted by the last legislature. During the year five different professors in the State University visited the Pasadena schools ; and near the close of the year notice was re- ceived that Pasadena had been placed on the accredited list. Hence, from this time forward graduates of the Pasadena High School would be admitted to the State University, or the Stanford University, without preliminary ex- amination. Hon. Delos Arnold donated to the High School a classified collection of 200 Pacific coast marine shells, a starter for a scientific museum. As this was the first year of the High School, I give a list of its teachers :
Will S. Monroe, City Superintendent Science.
James D. Graham Mathematics and Science.
Mrs. Theo. Coleman English and History.
Ellen F. Thompson Latin and English.
L. L. Evans. German and French.
W. P. Hammond
Book-keeping and Penmanship.
Hattie C. Stacey. Music.
Marie A. Ney Drawing.
A special effort was made this year to raise the standard of scholarship among the teachers; and to show what had been reached in this line the following table is given in the year's report :
Number teachers employed, including Superintendent 34
graduates California State Normal Schools
6
of other State Normal Schools 16
of special Professional Schools
3
of Colleges
5
who have taught from I to 5 years
4
5 to 10 years
I3
66
15 to 18 years 5
holding High School certificates ....
4
60 Grammar Grade certificates
23
Primary certificates 4
66 Special certificates. 3
66 Io to 15 years I2
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HISTORY OF PASADENA.
The following is a summary of current expenses for the year :
Insurance [on $66,500 valuation] $
644.42
Repairs
679.03
Labor [including for election board, $45, and for washing towels, $74.70]
281.13
Fuel and Water
854.12
Rent [Opera House for graduating exercises]
20.00
Teachers' Salaries.
26,537.49
Janitors' Wages.
2,339.50
Printing and Stationery
200.10
School Supplies, Books, etc.
691.73
$32,247.52
J. W. Wood served as secretary this year, and also during 1891-92. The school year of 1891-92 was one of unusually quiet; easy-going smooth- ness. There were no strifes or contentions to mar the harmony of the work, although the problem of how to reduce expenses without impairing the efficiency of the school service was deeply pondered by the board of trustees and others who took a lively interest in educational matters; and some reduction of salaries was made. The school census this year showed an increase of 339 over the previous year. On April 15th, 1892, a special tax of $10,000 was voted by the district, and this was expected to supply the deficiency from State and county funds for the ensuing three years. The total of teachers' salaries and general expenses for the year was $32,783.82, being $530.30 more than the previous year. An item worth mentioning is, that out of twelve High School graduates of 1891, eleven were already enrolled in higher institutions of learning. At the close of this school year Superintendent Will S. Monroe retired by resignation ; the office of city superintendent was abolished, and James D. Graham was employed to take charge as "supervising principal " for the ensuing year.
The year 1892-93 had some points of note, and I quote from the offi- cial report : "The year of 1892-93 marks a new era in the workings of the public schools of this city. The lines along which it was decided to re- trench were the offices of superintendent and special instructors in music and drawing, the duties of supervision being transferred to the principal of the High School, and the work of music and drawing being done by the regular teachers."
The schools this year prepared an exhibit of their work for the great Columbian World's Fair at Chicago. The national program for Columbus Day was observed in all the schools, with a detail of old soldiers from John F. Godfrey Post, G. A. R., taking part in the flag-raising and other exer- cises at eachı school. And in the observance of Memorial Day this year the children for the first time took part in decorating the soldiers' graves. It is noted in the report that the number of tardinesses had been reduced by nearly 300, and corporeal punishment had been almost entirely abolished.
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The High School had 123 enrolled (ten more than any previous year) and graduated a class of sixteen-and this, notwithstanding that many former pupils had gone to the Throop Polytechnic Institute. W. U. Masters made up the secretary's report for this year, Mr. Wood being absent.
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES.
CLASS OF 1890-Effie Bye, Walter Carrothers, Florence Hay, Eudora Kirk, Bertha Landreth, Fred Seares.
CLASS OF 1891-Hal F. Bishop, Annie L. Brush, Winifred C. Cald- well, Rennie W. Doane, Carlton E. Durrell, Roy D. Ely, Katherine Gard- ner, William H. Linney, Alva D. McCoy, Kate Louise Nash, Leonora Schopbach, Carl C. Thomas.
CLASS OF 1892-Ethel W. Bishop, L. L. Chambers, Ida M. Hampton, M. Mae Henderson, Eunice Hazel Hodgson, J. Paull Fife, Roy M. Gray, Ida M. Mellish, Dora E. Moody, Kate A. Mosher, Mary S. Mosher, Frank G. H. Stevens, Winifred Webb.
CLASS OF 1893-George H. Baldwin, Volney H. Craig, John W. Craig, Ruth Daggett, Harold W. Durrell, Harry D. Gaylord, Ralph A. Gould, Joseph E. Grinnell, Ina Goodwin, Maud F. Jones, E. Louise Kernaghan, J. Em- mett Louthian, Abbie Louise Marston, Gale McCoy, Mabel E. Prentiss, Anna M. Reid.
CLASS OF 1894-Literary-Eugenia Boynton Henderson, Edith Louise Hill, Grace Longley, Alice Palmer Marston, Marie Markham, Mary Scott Ogden, Mary Moulton Parker, Nettie Underwood, Lillian Eva Whiton, Bessie Horton Yocum, Marcia Jessie York. Scientific-Irving Cowan Allen, Ralph Arnold, Charles Frederick Buchanan, Charles Edward Groesbeck, Archelaus Price, Wacil Randall, John Speer Stevenson, May Wright.
CLASS OF 1895-Literary-Mary Louise Fish, Edna Gearhart, Myrtie Luella Hamilton, Grace Elizabeth Machin, Mabel Schopbach, John Calvin Kelso, Wallace Sprague Woodworth, Elbert Hubbell Shults, Fred Chaffee Nash, Alexander Craig, Benjamin Edwin Page, Charles Harold Briggs, Joseph Grant Yocum, Edward Burton Dwight, Neal Keely Traylor, Frank M. Wellington. Scientific-Ada Emma Palmateer, Bertha Annette Smith, Laura Edith Higley, Frances Leah Wadey, Lulu Augusta Bixby, Ruby Louise Breed, Sara Anne White, Leon Caryl Brockway, Henry Aaron Doty, Frank B. Coleman, Herbert Forest Brown, William Charles Doane, Donald McGilvray, Archibald McClure Strong, Joseph Marx, Lewis Freeman, Charles Matthew Coleman, Percy Nicholas Gibbings, Benjamin Overfield Lacey.
The following tables of school statistics, expenditures, etc., in success- ive years are valuable for reference :
YEAR
RESOURCES
EXPENDITURES
AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE
AVERAGE COST PER PUPIL
1889-90
$35,599 03
$32,507 00
1,036
$31 37
1890-91
33,041 09
32,247 52
1,059
30 45
1891-92
33,745 59
32,783 82
1,108
29 59
1892-93.
40,527 2I
30,770 80
1,167
26 36
1893-94.
33,270 26
34,129 48
1,352
25 25
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HISTORY OF PASADENA.
VISITS.
YEAR
SCHOOL CENSUS
ENROLLMENT
AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE
TRUSTEES
PATRONS
1880
I33
61
40
(
30
188I
139
85
54
6
60
1882
160
II7
76
6
52
I883
274
165
100
4
50
1884.
363
222
155
5 .
46
1885
460
278
205
IO
16I
1886.
527
394
254
5
I2I
1887
844
703
446
4
I28
1888.
2033
I354
849
4
Soo
1889.
1776
1687
II33
70
700
1890 ..
I 388
1427
1036
IOI
1840
1891.
1412
1437
1059
I13
978
1892
1739
1469
1108
II2
IIIO
1893.
1835
1644
1167
I54
I243
1894
2043
I862
I352
158
64
18957
2413
SCHOOL BUILDINGS.
NAME
DATE OF ERECTION
COST+
NO. OF ROOMS
SEATING CAPACITY
Wilson Schoolt (High School).
1887
$30,000
IO
425
Lincoln School, East Walnut street.
I888
20,000
S
400
Garfield School, West California street.
1888
22,000
7
375
Washington School, North Pasadena.
1888
25,000
9
450
Grant School, Bandini Avenue?
1884
2,000
2
76
The Grant school was originally built at the corner of Colorado street and Allen Avenue, and afterward moved to its present location on Bandini Avenue. In 1884 the first school building was erected at North Pasadena, with two rooms, and seating capacity for seventy-four pupils, at a cost of $1,200-and was called the "Lincoln School"; but when the present fine nine-room building superseded it and was named " Washington School," the name " Lincoln " was transferred to the eight-room building on Walnut street which had previously been called the "Wilson Primary School." In 1888 a one-room school building costing $700, with capacity for twenty-five pupils, was erected at Linda Vista by the Land Company operating there, and named the "Jackson School." For two years it was provided with a teacher by the district board, but in 1891 a special tax for it was voted down, and no teacher has been sent there since.
The school census for 1894, as compiled by Secretary F. P. Boynton, shows a remarkable increase over the preceding year, as follows :
No. of white children between 5 and 17, 1981 ; same last year, 1811. No. of negro children between 5 and 17, 62; same last year, 24; total number of children between 5 and 17, 2043 ; same last year, 1835. No. of
*The school census of 1895 showed 3068 native-born children ; 117 foreign-born ; and 591 children who had not attended any school, either public or private, during the school year.
+The furnishing is not included in these figures.
#" The fine new flag purchased by the pupils of the Wilson School was hoisted to the flag-staff for the first time on Wednesday, by Miss Mamie Thompson, granddaughter of "old John Brown, Ossawat- amie Brown."-Pasadena Standard, June 1, 1889.
¿See article on "Bandini Avenue" for explanation of how it happens to be called Michigan Avenue.
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children under 5, 806 ; same last year, 781. No. of children between 5 and 17 who attended public school during the year, 1520; same last year, 1368. No. of children between 5 and 17 who attended private school, 116; same last year, 95. No. of children between 5 and 17 who have not attended any school, 407 ; same last year, 372. No. of native-born children, 2763 ; same last year, 2500. No. of foreign-born children, 86; same last year, 116. Total No. of children in district, 2849 ; same last year, 2616.
The increased number of census children (a gain of 208 over that of last year) entitles the district to three more teachers.
A report at Christmas time, 1894, said :
"There are now 197 enrolled in the High School, forty-seven in the senior class, of whom thirty are young men, and seventeen young ladies, a condition unusual in High Schools. The five buildings now occupied by
LINCOLN SCHOOL. Architecture, Old English-Elizabethan type. Cost $20,000 ; 8 rooms ; 400 seats.
the Public Schools are fine specimens of architecture and are capable of seat- ing about eighteen hundred pupils ; but with the exception of the Washing- ton, are filled to their highest capacity. The entire enrollment is 1765.''
LIST OF SUCCESSIVE HEAD TEACHERS.
School Years.
1874-75. Miss Jennie H. Clapp, now Mrs. Rev. F. J. Culver of Pasadena.
1875-76. Mrs. Rodgers two weeks [fell sick]; Miss Eugenia Rudisill.
1876-77. Miss Eugenia Rudisill. [Returned east.]
1877-78. Newell Matthews and Miss Florence Royce, in new Central School building. [See pages 170, 171, 172.]
1878-79. The same teachers. [Mr. Matthews is now one of the firm of Matthews & Bosbyshell, hardware and implement dealers of Los Angeles.]
1879-80. G. C. Hall* and Miss Royce.
*Present place not learned.
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HISTORY OF PASADENA.
1880-81. Mrs. Jeanne C. Carr, principal, with Miss Royce and Mrs. Eliza- beth M. Winston as assistants. [Mrs. Carr still resides in Pasadena- retired.]
1881-82. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Winston [same as Mrs. L. C. Winston], prin- cipal, and Miss Royce, assistant.
1882-83. Orin N. Raney, principal, with Mrs. Winston and Miss Royce as assistants. [Mr. Raney is now secretary of the Security Title Insurance and Abstract Company of Southern California, at Los Angeles.]
1883-84. Edward T. Pierce, principal, with Mrs. Winston and Miss Royce for assistants. [At the close of the year Miss Royce retired and became Mrs. H. R. Case, now of Westminster. Mrs. Winston also retired, for domestic reasons. ]
1884-85. E. T. Pierce, principal ; Mrs. E. T. Pierce, assistant.
1885-86. E. T. Pierce, principal ; Mrs. E. T. Pierce, assistant.
1886-87. E. T. Pierce, principal; Mrs. E. T. Pierce, assistant.
1887-88. E. T. Pierce, superintendent of schools ; Herbert Pinckney, prin- cipal of the Wilson Grammar School.
1888-89. Pierce and Pinckney, same. [Prof. Pierce is now (1895) principal of the State Normal School at Los Angeles, and member of State Board of Education. Mr. Pinckney got married and went back East.]
1889-90. Will S. Monroe, superintendent of schools; Chas. E. Tebbetts, principal of High School.
1890-91. Will S. Monroe, superintendent ; James D. Graham, principal of High School.
1891-92. Monroe and Graham same. [At the close of this year Prof. Mon- roe resigned and entered for an undergraduate course of study at Stan- ford University.]
1892-93. James D. Graham, principal of the High School and supervising principal for the district.
1893-94. James D. Graham, same.
1894-95 James D. Graham, same.
SUCCESSIVE PRINCIPALS OF THE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS.
Wilson Grammar School .- Herbert Pinckney, 1887-88-89. Chas. E. Tebbetts, 1889-90. James D. Graham, 1890-91-92-93-94-95.
Wilson High School .- Chas. E. Tebbetts, 1889-90. James D. Graham, 1890-91-92-93-94-95. Mrs. Theodore Coleman, vice-principal, 1893-94-95. (Mrs. Coleman had been vice-principal of the Wilson Grammar School in 1888-89-90.)
Lincoln School .- [Formerly called Wilson Primary School.] Mrs. Clara A. Burr, 1889 90. C. W. Hodgson, 1890-91-92-93 [then went to take a course of undergraduate study at Stanford University]. G. W. Strominger, 1893-94. Mrs. Frances S. Burt, 1894-95.
Garfield School .- A. L. Hamilton, principal from 1888 till 1893. Will- iam W. Payne, 1893-94. [Mr. Hamilton, in fall of 1893, took the depart- ment of mathematics in Throop Polytechnic Institute.] G. W. Strominger, 1894-95.
Washington School .- Miss Hannah Ball [now Mrs. F. R. Harris of Pasadena], 1884-85. Miss Carrie Hill, 1885-86-87-88. B. V. Garwood,
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1888-89. W. H. Housh, 1889-90-91-92. Luther G. Brown, 1892-93- 94-95 .*
Grant School .- Miss Elma Ball [now Mrs. H. I. Stuart of Pasadena], 1884- 85. Miss Pauline Wright, 1885-86-87. Miss Helen Crittenden, 1887-88. Caspar W. Hodgson, 1888-89-90. L. L. Evans, 1890-91. Charles C. Hill, 1891-92. Wm. B. Frackleton, 1892-93-94-95.
Jackson School .- [Linda Vista] Lydia A. Burson, 1889-90. Ella G. Wood, 1890-91. [In June, 1891, a proposition for a special tax of $6000 to buy the school-house property at Linda Vista and for other purposes, was rejected by a popular vote ; and thereafter no teacher was sent by the school board to that point.]
TABLE OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES BY SUCCESSIVE YEARS.
1874-75. Col. J. Banbury, Henry G. Bennett, Dr. W. W. Edwards.
1875-76. P. M. Green, Banbury, Bennet.
1876-77. P. M. Green, Edson Turner, A. O. Porter.
[After the removal of the original school-house from Orange Grove Avenue and California sireet, up to Colorado and Fair Oaks, in November, 1876, Green and Porter resigned, and on June 30, 1877, L. D. Hollingsworth and I. B. Clapp were elected to fill the vacancy. Meanwhile a movement was in progress to have a new district created south of California street, and I. B. Clapp resigned, S. Washburn being appointed, November 15, 1877, to fill the vacancy ; and the new district was duly authorized by the county board in January, 1878.]
1877-78. Edson Turner, L. D. Hollingsworth, S. Washburn.
1878-79. Turner, Hollingsworth, Washburn.
1879-80. Washburn, Hollingsworth, Col. J. Banbury.
1880-81. Washburn, Banbury, B. F. Ball.
1881-82. Washburn, Ball, Banbury.
1882-83. Washburn, A. K. McQuilling, Dr. Lyman Allen.
1883-84. 1884-85. 1885-86.
Washburn, McQuilling, Allen.
Washburn, McQuilling, H. W. Magee.
Washburn, Magee, A. O. Bristol.
1 886-87. Washburn, Magee, Bristol.
1887-88. Bristol, Hon. H. H. Markham, Z. Decker.
1888-89. Decker, R. Williams, C. W. Buchanan.
1889-90. Buchanan, C. F. Holder, George F. Kernaghan.
[In the spring of 1890 it was discovered that by the creation of the city of Pasadena in 1886, carved out from the old San Pasqual school district, a new school district was thereby created, comprising the same territory as the city ; but this was not understood at the time, and hence the proper legal steps were not taken to comply with the law until a judicial ruling was had in 1890 upon some unsettled points. At that time two of the trustees resided within the city, and the third, C. W. Buchanan, outside. The county superintendent therefore appointed W. S. Wright as the third man within the city district ; and R. Williams and M. D. Painter for the outside
*Mrs. E. M. Winston, of the Washington School, taught in our public school in 1880-81, and was her- self the principal in 1881-82. In 1884 she retired for a season ; but as she held a life certificate she was called in occasionally to fill transient vacancies. In 1891-92-93 she was ready for regular service again, and taught those two years in the Wilson Grammar School. In 1893-94-95 she was in the Washington School, and was here when the dreadful calamity occurred of her husband perishing in a snowstorm in the mountains. Another teacher in this school in 1893-94-95 was Mary E. Thompson, a granddaughter of the historic " Old John Brown " of Kansas and Harper's Ferry fame.
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HISTORY OF PASADENA.
district. The two boards worked together to keep all the schools going on without any break or jar, the same as before ; and in a few months the legal consolidation of the two districts was again effected, under the name of "Pasadena City School District." Then Trustees Wright, Williams, Painter and Holder resigned, leaving one vacancy for the consolidated district ; this was filled by the appointment of E. E. Spalding ; so Buchanan, Kernaghan and Spalding constituted the full board for the time.]
1890-91. C. W. Buchanan, Hon. A. G. Throop, J. W. Wood.
1891-92. Buchanan, Wood, W. U. Masters.
1892-93. Buchanan, Masters, F. P. Boynton.
1893-94. Masters, Boynton, Calvin Hartwell.
1894-95. Hartwell, Boynton, Hon. Delos Arnold.
1895-96. Hartwell, Arnold, E. A. Walker.
During the school year 1894-95, the school attendance was so large that it was found necessary to divide the primary schools into half-day sec- tions, so that one section could be in school during the forenoon only, and the other section during the afternoon-and even then the rooms were crowded, especially at the Lincoln School. To provide for this difficulty it was decided to erect two more school-houses, one in the northeast and one in the northwest portion of the district. And accordingly on May 27, 1895, $40,000 of school district bonds were voted for this purpose. The vote stood : For the bonds, 302 ; against, 22. For the east school a lot 300x400 · feet, at corner of Lake Avenue and Walnut street, was bought for $4,000. For the east school a lot 200x220 feet, at corner of Lincoln Avenue and Peoria street was bought for $3,850. It is a historic incident that " bicycle racks " are to be provided in these new school-houses-the first instance on record.
SIERRA MADRE COLLEGE.
Although this College enterprise failed and at last went out entirely, leaving no sign of its existence, yet it did during the few years of its struggle for life cut quite a figure in Passadena history ; and hence it must be re- ported.
The first public or formal action in regard to it was at a convivial gathering or banquet of about forty persons, held at the Sierra Madre Villa Hotel on January 20, 1884, and reported in the Pasadena Chronicle of Janu- ary 24. There a board of Trustees was appointed, as follows : Rev. J. W. Ellis and Dr. Cochran of Los Angeles ; Abbot Kinney of Kinneloa ; C. C. Hastings of Sierra Madre ; Gov. Samuel Merrill of Des Moines, Iowa ; D. H. Newton of Holyoke, Mass. ; Hon. P. M. Green, Judge B. S. Eaton, Rev. Williel Thompson, and H. W. Magee, Esq., of Pasadena.
A call was made for competing offers of land for a building site, and other aid, to determine where the college should be located. Offers came from Los Angeles, from Sierra Madre, from Santa Anita, from citizens of Pasadena, from Painter & Ball, and from South Pasadena school district.
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Painter & Ball offered the Monks hill site, comprising fifty acres of land with water, and $2,425 in cash. [I at the time advised the acceptance of this offer as the best.] South Pasadena offered her Columbia Hill school grounds, comprising six acres with water, and the public school building already there, and which had cost nearly $4,000, upon the college paying to the school district $1,000. This offer was accepted, and the College was started there. Its formal opening took place September 17, 1884, with an elaborate program of thirty-two numbers, and speeches in nineteen different responses to "toasts " or sentiments proposed. The faculty then consisted of Rev. J. W. Healy, D. D., president, mental and moral philosophy ; M. M. Parker, A. M., classics ; Prof. F. D, Bullard, mathematics; Rev. Williel Thomson, engineering ; Mrs. Vernam, art department ; Mrs. E. A. Nims, music. A local item in the Union of October II said the College had 25 pupils enrolled and was making good progress.
"The new faculty will be as follows : Rev. W. Thomson, A. M., president and professor of mathematics and civil engineering; Rev. M. M. Parker, A. M., professor of ancient languages and instructor in natural sciences ; Mrs. C. T. Thompson, A. M., instructor in English and German languages ; W. G. Cochran, M. D., medical supervisor ; Mrs. E. A. Nims, teacher of vocal and instrumental music ; Mrs. L. G. McKee, teacher of oil painting."
Again, on April 24, 1885, the same paper reports :
"The Presbytery of Los Angeles met in Pasadena on Thursday eve- ning, 16th inst., and was opened with a sermon by Prof. Ward of Sierra Madre College. On Saturday the subject of the Sierra Madre College was taken up. A financial report was made by the president, Rev. Williel Thomson, stating that the College held property valued at about $18,000, and that the income of the College during the past year had been about $400 ; that three teachers had been employed, who had faithfully done their work, and that the examination showed the instruction to have been of a high order.
"The number of students in attendance during the past year has been twenty-five, which number was diminished toward the close of the last term from sickness and other causes.
"A new board of eleven trustees was elected, consisting of the following gentlemen : Rev. M. N. Cornelius, Hon. P. M. Green, Geo. A. Swartwout, Abbot Kinney, of Pasadena ; Rev. Mr. Wells, Dr. Cochran, Howard Mills, of Los Angeles ; Rev. Alexander Parker, of Orange; O. C. Johnson, Esq., of Riverside ; D. H. Newton, of Boston, Mass. ; Mr. Hughes, of Tustin."
The local newspaper did everything it could to aid the enterprise. But the fact was, this college was mislocated, was premature, was not on a plan in touch with the spirit of the times, and had no money behind it-hence it was born with failure in its bones. After two years of hard struggle, con- tinually running in debt, its property was all heavily encumbered, was sold under mortgage, and eventually bought by C. D. Daggett ; and the building which had served successively as public school-house, college hall, Congre-
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