Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-06-17
Shall Los Angeles Have a College?

ward the broad and beautiful valleys
that stretch around or near our city.
Thousands of hearts, in which the
memory of the bitter cold Winter and
long, dreary Spring-time is ever too
fresh, are longing for homes where the
lemon and orange trees are ever fruit
ing in perpetual Summer. Hundreds
Of men of enterprise and capital are
waiting to cast their lots among us and
make the now almost uncultivated
plains and hillsides literally blossom
as the rose, and our city true metrop-
oils; but the first question of every
parents heart, will my children
be thrown into the society of public
spirit and refinement, and have the
advantage of schools of cast and char
acter? remains unanswered to their
satisfaction, and they are very slow to
sacrifice the first and truest interests
of those for whom they are living for
these gains of soil and climate, great
as they are and seem to be. But let
these people once feel that we have
advantages forculture in all its various
departments, and schools of art equal
or superior to those of their Eastern
homes, and we have done more to de-
velop the resources of our country and
build up our city with an enterprising,
cultured and permanent people than
in any other way at twice the expense.
Excellent as are our public schools,
and excellent as they must always be
under the efficient management of DR..
Lucky, yet the experience of people
not in our cities, and especially people
of the East, gives them no proper con-
ception of the advantages which our
city public schools afford, and it will
be found impossible to bring people to
our county for educational purposes
with only our public schools, or even
to retain our own students. Our land
is no longer, as it is now to SO many
of them, a dark, wild West, unknown
to schools of refinement and culture;
but land first in all these advan-
tages, and thus we have added the last
needed argument, we have answered
the last objection. But how shall We
secure such school has been ques-
ton eagerly asked by many of the cit
liens of cur city and county. To such
we feel assured the answer has
come. There Is now in our
city a young man of fine cul-
tnre, great enterprise, and most
brilliant and valuable experience
as teacher and founder of schools,
who offered to our city and county
such opportunities as they may never
see again for securing school of the
widest range and culture. 1t is pro-
posed to establish college of true and
full classical and scientific culture,
thus securing to our people all the adj
vantages usually found in schools of
this class; but besides this, it is pro-
posed to establish at once, a depart
ment of painting and drawing; also
a commercial department, and con-
servatory of Music; the latter to be in
charge of Prof. Davis, now in Germa-
ny, and one of the most accomplish
ed musicians and efficient teachers to
be found in any land. This will be
the only conservatory of music ON the
coast, and it is the determination of
the founders to make it most complete
and popular. We thus have the OPP
portunity of securing school having
a range of studies and combination of
talent unsurpassed in either East or
West, and we are utterly deceived if
our people fail to secure this prize.
We have already mentioned in our in
PRODUCTION some of the advantages to
be derived by our county and city
from such school. There are thous-
ands of other advantages; we shall
briefly hint at some of them. 1t will
rapidly add to the wealth of the
county. AS near as We are able to
learn fifteen or twenty thousand dol
lars go out of our county every year to
support our children at schools away
from home, and to every one hundred
students brought here to school from
other counties and other States, forty
or fifty thousand dollars would be
brought to our county every year, and
left in it. This with our county rap
idly growing, and the superior advan-
tages offered in such school as it is
proposed to establish amongst us
must make yearly difference of from
fifty to one hundred thousand dollars
to this city and county. Nothing
would tend more to bring capital to
this place and with it enterprising
and desirable citizens. But great as
are these gains they should by no
means he made first. Around such an
institution refinement and culture al
ways cluster, and its influence would
be speedily felt among us. Los Ange-
les should be holding TIE first
places in our State University, and in
the different enterprises and pro-
LESSONS in our State and this
we believe she will do when
ever our children have such in
elements to culture and opportunities
to secure it as such school would
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