Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-06-19
The College Question.

EDITOR HERALD: The editorial in
your issue of the 18th, calls to mind
forcibly the advantages of the right
kind of educational facilities in build
ing up any community. Over a
year since, the writer originated
and gave publicity here to a
plan for the founding of a
college in Los Angeles. No one can
feel deeper the vital necessity of thor
Ough educational institutions in this
portion of the Pacific Coast than the
writer, and every energy has been bent
toward the establishment of such an
one.
1t is now admitted that education, to
be effective as preventive of the
ills of the body politic,n should not
only teach classical lore, but that kind
of practical everyday and work-a-day
common sense that serves best it's pos
SCISSOR.
TO establish college on an enduring
basis and make the benefits so palpa-
BILE that none could fail to see them, it
was thought best to obtain as large a
tract of land as could be conveniently
procured within reasonable distance
of the pueblo, and at an altitude that
should insure a pure and healthy at
mosphere, together with plentiful
supply of perfectly wholesome water.
Some months were occupied in a care
full survey of this and adjacent coun-
ties, to find the best location, ire
spective of any private interests what
ever. The ground selected as best
suited to the wants of the institute are
as near to the city as it is possible to
obtain sufficient area, with water for
irrigating, culinary and sanitary pur-
poses, and comprises a tract of over
three thousand acres of land suited to
the growth Of wheat (Only small part
of the land in this county is adapted
to wheat, and fruit of all kinds, espe-
cislly the orange.
The land, with water sufficient to ir-
rigate the whole-delivered on the
ground in pipes, under from 200 to 400
feet pressure, so as to be useful for
power as well as other purposes, can be
had at cost not to exceed $50, 1000, and
$4,000 it is estimated will be required
for suitable buildings to commence
operations. With this outlay the in
stitute can be placed in self-supporting
order within two years of the COM
mencement of the work.
Too many visionary people have
haratoforo ollnu,aI thancoly.c 70 ha
carried away with the idea that edu-
dage, to De spOrted as Sunday apparel
or jewelry, on especial occasions, but
of little or no use in everyday life. The
great public are learning that another
sort of meaning is possible to the
term; and that the useful industries
are a perfectly proper and essential
component in any thorough educa-
tional establishment; thus we have
had the Oberlin University, the Cor
nell, and many agricultural and in
dustrial colleges, founded from time
to time, all of which have paved the
way and made the Southern Califor-
MIA Sanitary Hotel and Industrial
College a necessity of the age.
BY the arrangement of series of
endowments and the reservation of
the alternate lots, to be sold when the
improvements shall have appreciated
the value to many fold their present
cost, a fund can be created that would
be the true representative of capital
and labor combined, giving the best
possible "credit fercier."
The whole world is looking toward
Southern California as place of resort
for health and permanent residence,
and not small proportion of the at
tention drawn to this section is attrib-
utable to the earnest, faithful labor,
and money expended by the writer in
the East and Europe to show the adj
vantages of our soil and climate over
any known portion of the earth's sur
face. n q Ii tEW fstssI
1t is but natural to anyone looking
about for desirable place to educate
their children, or to spend their even
ing Of life, to choose the most salu-
brious climate, all other advantages
being equal; so that it isquite possible
by carrying out the plans we have per-
fected after years of study, to give the
conditions of superiority in every
point of view.
F. NJ. SHAW.
Los Angeles, June Is, 1874.