The San Francisco directory for the year 1869, Part 14

Author: Langley, Henry G
Publication date: 1858
Publisher: San Francisco : Commercial Steam Presses, S.D. Valentine & Sons
Number of Pages: 1076

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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.

This institution, now in active operation in the City of Oakland, was organized by Act of the Leg- islature, approved March 23d, 1868. It embraces five distinct Colleges, viz : A College of Agricul- ture, of The Mechanic Arts, of Civil Engineering, of Mines, and of Letters.

The management and control of the University are iutrusted to a Board of Regents, composed of the following gentlemen :

Regents of the University .- Ex officio : His Ex- cellency Henry H. Haight, Governor, and Presi- dent of the Board, His Honor William Holden, Lieutenant Governor, Hon. C. T. Ryland, Speaker of the Assembly, Hon. and Rev. O. P. Fitzgerald, D.D., State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Hon. Charles F. Reed, President of the State Agri- cultural Society, and A. S. Hallidie, Esq., President of the Mechanics' Institute of San Francisco. Ap- pointed : Hon. Samuel Merritt, M.D., Oakland, John T. Doyle, Esq., Menlo Park, Hon. Richard P. Hammond, San Francisco, Hou. John W. Dwinelle, Oakland, Rev. Horatio Stebbins, San Francisco, Hon. Lawrence Archer, San José, William Watt, Esq., Grass Valley, Hon. Samuel B. McKee, Oak- land. * Honorary : Lonis Sachs, San Francisco, Hon. Edward Tompkins, Oakland, J. Mora Moss, Esq., Temescal, S. F. Butterworth, Esq., New Al- maden Mine, Hon. John S. Hager, San Francisco, A. J. Bowie, M.D., San Francisco, William C. Ralston, Esq., San Francisco, John B. Felton, Esq., Oakland.

Officers of the Board of Regents .- His Ex- cellency Henry H. Haight, President ; Andrew J. Moulder, Esq., Secretary ; William C. Ralston, Esq., Treasurer. Office, No. 414 California Street, San Francisco.

The University was inaugurated on the twenty- third of September, 1869, in the buildings formerly occupied by the College of California, in the City of Oakland, under the charge of the following :

Faculty and Officers .- John LeConte, M.D., Acting President and Professor of Physics and In- dustrial Mechanics ; Robert A. Fisher, A.M., Pro- fessor of Chemistry, Mining, and Metallurgy ; Jo- seph LeConte, M.D., Professor of Geology, Natn- ral History, and Botany ; Martin Kellogg, A.M., Professor of Ancient Landuages ; W. T. Welcker, Professor of Mathematics; Paul Pioda, Professor of Modern Languages ; Ezra S. Carr, M.D., Professor of Agriculture, Agricultural Chemistry, and Horti- culture ; William Swinton, A.M., Professor of English Language and Literature, including Rhet- oric and Logic; Robert E. Ogilby, Instructor of Drawing ; Frank Soule, Jr., Assistant Professor of Mathematics.

The session opened with about fifty students, dis- tributed into four classes, and attached to the va- rious colleges.

The whole course of instruction in each of the colleges, occupies four years. In each year there are three terms, ending, respectively, on the twen- ty.second of December, the sixth of April, and twentieth of July, the last date being Commence- ment Day.

Method of Instruction .- In all the different col- leges, the method of instruction is by means of lec- tures and the study of text books, accompanied in either case by rigid daily examinations.

* The term "Honorary" applied to these Regents, indicates only the mode of their election, which is made by the ex officio and Appointed Regents. Every Regent, however appointed, is a voting, legislative, and executive member of the Board.

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Optional Courses .- Besides the students pursuing | thousand six hundred and thirty-four ; an increase for the year ending June 30, 1869, of ten .*

the regular courses, any resident of California, of approved moral character, bas the right to enter himself in the University as a student at large, and receive tuition in any branch or branches of instruc- tion at the time when the same are given in the reg- ular course.

Expenses .- An admission fee of $20 is paid on the entrance of the student. The total expenses for tuition are $60 per annum. There are no dormitories and no commons connected with the University. Students can obtain board and lodging at reasonable rates in private families in the City of Oakland. By forming clubs they can much reduce the price of board.

Equipment .- The University will be superbly equipped with apparatus of all kinds, of the most improved pattern. It has been selected with great care, and at a large expense, in the Atlantic States and Europe by Prof. Fisher. It is now on the way to California, and when it arrives the study of every branch of study, capable of illustration, will be aided by instruments and appliances of the most ap- proved workmanship and latest device.

The Site .- The University owns a beautiful tract of two hundred acres at Berkeley, situated four and a half miles north of Oakland. On this site ar. rangements have been made to put up permanent and spacious buildings, capable of accomodating five hundred students, and provided with all the modern conveniences which experience can suggest. The whole cost is estimated at $250,000. The new build- ings are expected to be ready for occupation by the summer of 1871, after which the University will be permanently located at Berkeley.

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.

The Act of the Legislature March 24th, 1866, ap- propriates the sum of sixteen thousand dollars bi- ennially for the support of the State Normal School, located on Market Street, near Fifth, in this city, Its management is instrusted to a Board of Trustees, consisting of the members of the State Board of Education " who are empowered to continue said school for the purpose of furnishing free instruction to such persons residing in this State, as may desire to prepare themselves for the profession of teach- ing.'

Pupils are admitted from the several counties of the State, in proportion to the representation of each in the Legislature. Average number, one hundred and twenty-five.

Board of Instruction .- Rev. William T. Lucky, A.M., Principal ; H. P. Carlton, A.M., Vice Princi- pal ; Miss E. A. Brongbton, Mrs. D. Clark, Miss Ryder, and Miss Matilda Lewis, Assistants.

Private Educational Institutions.

The total number of colleges and private schools in this city is seventy-two, of which fourteen are under the control of the Catholic denomination. Many of these institutions are in a very flourishing condition, and the private schools will compare favorably with the public schools for thoroughiness of instruction and excellence of discipline.

From the report of the School Census for 1869, it will be seen that the number of children between six and fifteen years of age that attended private schools for the year ending June 30th, 1869, was five thousand six hundred and ten; for the year previous, four thousand and eight ; an increase of one thousand six hundred and two. The number attending public schools for the same period, thirteen

In addition to the attendance of the private schools, there are about seven hundred and fifty children under six years of age at the different infant schools, and about eight hundred attending the higher private schools and colleges, the whole aggregating seven thousand one hundred and sixty, an increase during the past year of two thousand one hundred and sixty.

CITY COLLEGE.

The City College was established in 1859, by the Rev. Geo. Burrowes, D.D., in the basement of the old Calvary Church on Bush Street, from which it was removed to its present site, on the southeast corner of Stockton and Geary streets, in 1861. It was incorporated under the name of University Col- lege, in 1863, the valuable property previously ac- quired being then placed in the hands of a Board of eighteen Trustees, among whom may be specially named, the Hon. Thomas H. Selby, Mayor of San Francisco, Gov. H. H. Haight, Ex-mayor H. P. Coon, and Jas. B. Roberts. Esq. Pursuing a liberal and enlightened policy, the Trustees have not ouly provided ample grounds and buildings, admirably situated in the most accessible part of the city, and furnished with chemical and philosophical apparatus, but also secured extensive and valuable grounds for University purposes, situated in the suburbs of the city and known as the University Monnd, on which they have errected and furnished a beautiful college edifice, in the French Gothic style, now ready for the reception of students.

The city department, popularly known as the City College, bas already completed the tenth year of its existence. During the first six years of its history, it grew, under the presidency of the Rev. Dr. Bur- rowes, from small beginnings to the proportion of a college, with a number of students nearly ready for graduation, some of whom have since received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Since the resignation of Dr. Burrowes in 1865, on account of the tempo- rary failure of his health, the college has been on- der the direction of the Rev. P. V. Veeder, A.M., formerly tutor in Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. A Chemical Laboratory has also been erected, front- ing on Stockton Street, and placed under the care of Prof. Thomas Price, M.D., in which the best facilities are afforded for obtaining a thorough prac- tical knowledge of chemistry in all its applications to Assaying, Mining, Pharmacy, and the Manufac- turing Arts.

The main college building is forty feet wide by one hundred and thirty feet long, and contains five large and well-lighted and ventilated halls for study, capable of accommodating two hundred students ; & philosophical hall for lectures and experiments ; Kiepert's mural maps of ancient geography, and a neat observatory rising from the roof for the teles- cope. A corps of able professors and teachers con- duct the instructions. The Classical Department is under the carc of the Rev. Thomas Kirkland, a graduate of the University of Edinburgh. Instruc- tion is given in Mathematics, by Prof. T. A. Robin- son ; in English Studies and Military Drill, by Prof. J. K. P. Wilson ; in Physics and Modern Lan- guages, by Prof. G. C. Arnold, of the University of Erlangen, and in French and Drawing, by Prof. E. A. Pesoli, of the University of Paris. The Prepar- atory and Primary departments are amply pro- vided with able and faithful teachers, and are well attended.

* The Superintendent of Public Schools reports an at- tendance of nineteen thousand eight hundred and eighty- five, an important difference in his returns and the canvass of the School Marshals.

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ST. IGNATIUS' COLLEGE.

This well known literary institution, located on Market Street, between Fourth and Fifth, which is conducted by the Fathers of the Society of Jesus, was first opened for the reception of students on the fifteenth day of October, 1855, and was incorpora- ted under the law of the State on the thirtieth of April, 1859, and empowered to confer the usual de- grees and academical honors. Since its commence- ment, this institution has been attended with the highest degree of prosperity and success. The course of instruction pursued is thorough, and comprises a complete classical, mathematical, and philosopical course of training, calculated to prepare the pupil for entering upon the study of any of the professions, or commencing any business vocation. The college is provided with an extensive laboratory, comprising all the necessary appliances for the assaying of metals and making chemical analyses, which is an important feature not generally found in institutions of this character.

SANTA CLARA COLLEGE, SAN JOSE.

This establishment is under the superintendence of the Fathers of the Society of Jesus, and is open to all who choose to avail themselves of its advan- tages. It is situated in the beautiful valley of Santa Clara, so celebrated for the mildness and salubrity of its climate, and is about three miles distant from San José and quite close to the San José and San Francisco Railroad.

The college was founded in 1851. On the twenty- eighth of April, 1855, it was incorporated and em- powered to confer degrees and accademical honors, and to exercise all the rights and privileges common to any other literary institution in the United States. It has a full staff of professors, and presents advan- tages for the mental, physical, and moral training of the students unsurpassed in California. It possesses a complete philosophical apparatus, purposely made in Paris for Santa Clara College, and furnished with all necessary instruments for experiments in me- chanics, hydraulics, pneumatics, caloric, electricity, magnetism, optics, acoustics, and surveying. New and important additions are being made every year to keep pace with the progress of science.

The chemical laboratory is provided with a fall assortment of chemicals, a very good set of furnaces, and all that is necessary for the different kinds of chemical analyses. The museum of natural history comprises a collection of mineralogy of more than one thousand five hundred specimens ; also three thousand specimens of shells and other natural curi- osities. As an accessory to the scientific department there is a photographic gallery, where the students who wish may learn photography in all its different branches. Practical lessons are given also on the electric telegraph. The college library numbers about twenty-five hundred volumes .- (See adver- tisement page lv.)

ST. MARY'S COLLEGE.

This institution is situated near the country road to San José, at a distance of four miles and a half from this city. The college building covers a space of | the University. This school is located at the corner

The annual course of lectures at this institution commences on the first Monday of June, and con- tinues four months. The college building is commo- dious, well located, and in every other respect admirably adapted for the purposes to which it is dedicated.

During the regular term the students will have an opportunity of visiting the various hospitals of the city, under circumstances which will enable them to observe medical and surgical treatment, to listen to clinical teaching, and make records of the pro- gressive development of diseases, with the results of medicine and hygiene.

The faculty desire to call attention to the follow- ing local advantages : 1st. There is no climate, per- haps, in the world which has a more invigorating effect upon persons coming from the interior of our States and Territories, thereby qualifying the vota- ries of study with essential health and inspiration. 2d. No city of the same population has more ample hospital facilities, or greater opportunities for organ- izing and maintaining the very best elements of clinical teaching. 3d. The singular characteristics of our climate are such that every branch of medical study can be prosecuted during the entire year. In winter or summer, dissections can be made without detriment to the health of the student.

H. H. Toland, M.D., President, Professor of Principles and Practice of Surgery ; James Blake, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children ; L. C. Lane, M.D., Professor of Anatomy ; Campbell Shorb, M.D., Professor of Physiology ; J. F. Morse, M.D., Professor of Clin- ical Medicine and Diagnosis ; Thomas Bennett, M.D., Professor of Principles and Practice of Medi- cine ; Henry Gibbons, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica ; Thomas Price, M.D., Professor of Chem- istry ; Thomas Bennett, M.D., Dean of Faenlty.

CALIFORNIA BUSINESS UNIVERSITY.

This school is different in its nature and plan of operation from any other mentioned. It is de- sigued, as its name indicates, to impart instruction upon business matters, and is intended to supply the same facilities to those desiring to enter the mercantile profession as the medical college to the student of medicine. It is conducted upon what are termed " actual business principles," each student becoming for the time being, an actual bookkeeper, merchant, or banker, and performing all duties per- taining to those offices. This system gives a prac- tical knowledge of the various branches taught, by means of which students are enabled to pass directly from the school-room to the counting room. This institution was established by Mr. E. P. Heald, who first introduced this system upon this coast six years since. It is one of the Bryant and Stratton chain of schools. This chain comprises over fifty universities of business, extending throughout the leading cities of the United States and Canada. Scholarships are issued by this school which constitute their holders life members of the whole chain. There is an ex- tensive telegraphic department connected with the University which offers excellent facilities to those who wish to become operators. A long line has been constructed for the special use of pupils, which runs over the city. There are thirteen different telegraph offices upon the line, and it connects the City Hall, Fire Alarm Office, Woodward's Gardens, etc., with

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of Bush and Montgomery streets. Its yearly attend- | and active sympathies are apt to seek out and assist ance numbers about five hundred students, among whom are representatives from every county in this State, as well as many from Oregon, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Mexico and the Sandwich Islands.

Sabbath Schools.

The schools connected with the different churches exhibit an unusual degree of prosperity. The ag- gregate enrollment is nearly eighteen thousand, with an average attendance of ten thousand eight hun- dred. Of this number about one-third are attached to the Catholic Church. Number of schools, seventy- six.

Religious and Benevolent Societies.

The people of California, and of San Francisco in particular, have ever been distinguished for a free and bounteous liberality-responding with an open- handed fullness to almost every appeal made to their sympathy or benevolence. None have ever given so munificently or with so little hesitation as they. Indifferent to the éclat that is apt elsewhere to prompt to good deeds, and often with scarce suffi- cient regard to the merits of the recipient, they bestowed their charities at first with a spontaneous and careless freedom not often practiced in older and more cautious communities. Having been for years without any organization to serve as the almoner of this princely and impulsive generosity, whereby it was frequently perverted and almost always shorn of half its efficiency, our citizens be- gan to form associations and societies for rendering it more potent for good ; the number of these insti- tutions now in existense in San Francisco being larger, perhaps, in proportion to ber population, than in any other city in the world ; the most of them being liberally supported by popular contribu- tions, aided in some instances by Municipal or State appropriations ; a few also having, in part, perma. nent endowments to depend upon. In their charac- ter and aims, these institutions are both protective, educational, and eleemosynary ; some being subject to a purely secular, while others are governed by an administration partly or wholy religious. It is but just to observe, however, that the latter are apt to be controlled by a broad and catholic spirit, the usnal asperities of sectarianism being here toned down and softened by the cosmopolitan character of our population. Almost every leading nationality and order has in this city its hospital or asylum ; many of the religious sects also having their own schools, cemeteries, and benevolent societies.

Foremost among the great philanthropies of San Francisco being untrammeled by considerations of creed, color, or nativity, stands the Ladies' Protec- tion and Relief Society, one of the earliest founded, and most efficient of all her public charities. The field of its labors is broad and diversified ; its aid being extended to all worthy applicants, due care being taken to discriminate between the meritorious and the undeserving. The patrons and managers of this society belonging to a class naturally of warm

many, who though really needy, are restrained by u sense of delicacy from applying to others for gra- tuitous aid, but who, for this very reason most re- quire it. In the cantions and economical application of its means, its prudent management and truly catholic spirit, the patrons of this institution have ample guaranties that their bounty will be wisely and effectively distributed. In the San Francisco Benevolent Association, the Young Men's Christian Association and the Ladies' Seaman's Friend Socie- ty, the charitable of all nationalities and sects can also find safe and capable almoners for disposing of all contributions committed to their charge.

The British Benevolent Society and the German General Benevolent Society, the French Benevolent Society, each fill a wide field of usefulness in its appropriate sphere, their operations being confined to the natives of the countries they severally rep- resent.

The Scotch, Welsh, and Irish, as subdivisions of British subjects. have each their society for the pro- tection and relief of the sick and indigent of their own race; the Russians, Scandinavians, French, Italians, Portuguese, Slavonians, Swiss, Mexicans, Colored People, and the Chinese, also having each a society or association dedicated to the performance of similar offices ; the whole in connection with the various other benevolent and protective institutions of the city, such as the several Orphan Asylums, Woman's Hospitals, Magdalen Asylum, Lying-In and Foundling Hospital, Prison Association, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, etc., con- stituting a far-reaching and efficient system of char- ities highly creditable to the enterprise and human- ity of its inhabitants.

The following annual appropriations to the Benev- olent Societies of this city were made by the Legis- lature of this State at its session 1867-8: Orphan Asylum, (Protestant) $9,000; Orphan Asylum, (Catholic) $7,000; Foundling Home, (Catholic) $2,250 ; Ladies' Protection and Relief Society, $9,500; Magdalen Asylum, (Catholic) $2,000 ; Prison Com- mission, $1,000.

For complete list of the various societies, Reli- gious, Benevolent, etc., see page 824.

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.

This association, founded in 1853, has for its object the moral, mental, and social improvement of young men. It has, at its elegant building on Sutter Street, a fine reading room, library, gymnasium, lecture room, etc. It is also the design of the association to provide, so far as possible, employment, a place of social comfort and resort, and a local point of pleas- ant attraction for young men arriving here without other acquaintance than those made here. The li- brary contains about three thousand volumes of well- selected and valuable works, embracing all branches of literature ; and the reading room is supplied with the best newspapers and leading periodicals of the country.

The regular meetings of the association are held on the third Monday evening of each month, when the usual business is transacted ; and when there is

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The San Francisco directory for the year 1869, Part 14

Author: Langley, Henry G Publication date: 1858 Publisher: San Francisco : Commercial Steam Presses, S.D. Valentine & Sons Number of Pages: 1076

Author: Langley, Henry G
Publication date: 1858
Publisher: San Francisco : Commercial Steam Presses, S.D. Valentine & Sons
Number of Pages: 1076