Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-06-23


sbould cover the ground occupied by
the higher grades of the common
achools, so as to give as many youths as
oossible Christian rather than a secu.
lar education in all branches above the
primary. This plan should also be 50
comprehensive as to give ifst'class in
struetion in all legitimate departments
of human knowledge. Adequate provi-
sion should be made for both general
and special education, encouraging,
however, those who seek general edu-
cation to add to it some speciality. and
ali those who aim at some professional
or other special training, TO lay broad
foundation OF general knowledge. In
ducements should be held out to stu
dents in all lands; particularly to those
who need to pursue an education in
mild climate; to all seeking thorough
acquaintance with Asiatic history, Lam
guaRe and literature; aud to the children
Of American merchants and missionaries.
and, indeed, of all English speaking
people living within the regions Of the
Pacific ocean. A speciality should be
made OF the training OF missionaries and
teac hers for Asia and South America.
Dtchuhe VI thtso hDeioi AIMS VI oui
University it should be made TO har-
monte as far as practicable with the
great universities Of the world.
None of these provisions can wisely
be omitted from our plan. They may
not all be realized Immediately, but our
system should be so comprehensive as to
provide for them all without friction
Just as fast as they can be providentially
developed. Now is the time tor giving
our best thoughts and efforts to these
great ends, and our policy should be
adequate TO their accomplishment.
To do the work outlined the plan OF
the university should be to establish
three distinct grades of institutions.
For lack of better names, and to be in
harmony with the best university CLASH
fications, l will call these seminaries.
colleges and schools.
The seminaries should have two dis
tinot purposes. The first should be to
furnish a seminary education and the
other o college preparatory education.
The seminary education should not be
the same as the other, nor the same
with the addition Of one or two col
legiate years. 1t should have its own
individuality, and should be liberal,
complete in itself, adapted to the wanis
OF the masses and dignified by gradua-
ton and diploma.
The college preparatory course should
be with reference to the College Of
Liberal Arts at West Los Angeles. Ad-
ditionaI courses in music, art and busi-
ness should be provided. Students
should also, when they desire it, be
taken through the first college year be-
fore leaving the seminary. These In
stitutions should in every sense be made
first class OF their kind. The expenses
to the students should be reduced to
the lowest possible amount, and every
thing practicable done to bring the
blessings of these institutions within
reach OF every youth in Southern Cali
fornia. A specially religious and
homelike atmosphere should pervade
these seminaries. The teachers should
come in immediate contact with the
students in daily life as much as posi-.
BILE and have a very paternal watchcare
over them, seeking to give them pure
and refined culture intellectually, NOR
ally and socially.
These seminaries should be increased
from the two now projected TO suffi.
Gent number to furnish adequate SEMI
nary privileges for all of Southern Cali
fornia and Arizona. will roughly in
dictate where l think they ought to be:
At Los Angeles, in the San Gabriel val
ley, in the Santa Ana valley, at Oataric,
near Cotton or Riverside, at San Diego,
Escondido and perhaps FL Cajon, one in
Ventura county, one at Santa Barbsra,
and one in San Luis Obispo county;
one at Tulare. aud possibly one or two
more in the San Joaquin valley-at
least q dozen in all. With such dis
tribution Of seminaries we can diffuse
the blessings OF Christian education
through our homes and churches mani
fold more than with the one college and
its preparatory department at West Los
Angeles. These seminaries will also
furnish preachers for our pulpits and
students for all our colleges. Now is
the time 10 establish them, and thai, too,
with good endowments. hesitate not
| TO saw that these seminaries are neces-
sary TO the best success of our educa-
tional work, and on the whole form the
most important part OF it.
The plan for the Colleges is already 80
well defined that only few words need
to be given to it. All the Colleges
usually belonging to a real University
should be established as soon as practi-
cable, and each should be tirst-class Of
its kind. The policy adopted of dis
tributing them over the city and country
may have some drawbacks, but it has
some positive benefits, especially in null
tiplying the centers OF educational ad-
vanlages and influence. and in greatly
increasing the patrons and friends OF lib
sral learning. The policy is also provi-
dental one. Besides, we already have
i've or six Colleges where otherwise we
should have had but one, and that one
is none the poorer OF weaker because OF
the others. --Eyery complete University
should have series Of institutions above
the colleges where the principal courses
of study are formed on the superstition
that collegiate course or its equivalent
has preceded, although in practice all the
students enjoying the privileges Of these
higher institutions may not be college
graduates. The standard, however, Is
lifted up, and many thereby viii be stim.
ulated to this complete course Of liberal
learning. No better name can BIO found
TO distinguish these institutions from the
colleges than the term schools. Thus far
| in the history Of our University we have
made no distinction between colleges and
schools; but all are colleges, and
consequently Of the same grade. A
proper classification would probably
make the departments Of Liberal Arts.
Agriculture, Music. Mining. Engineer
| ing, etc. Colleges, and the departments
Of Theology. Law. Medicine, Oratory.
Fine Arts, etc. Schools. Candidates for
the latter should be encouraged to
graduate first from the College of Lab
eral Arts. The course of study in the
schools should be made somewhat diff
ferent for those who are and those who
are not college graduates, and different
recognition should be given to the two
classes of graduates from the schools.
These distinctions are demanded both
by Justice and scholarship.
The aim of the University should be
to add to her seminaries, colleges and
schools, facilities for postgraduate in
struction in as many branches Of learn.
ing as possible. This will become more
and more practicable by increased en-
IdoWments anu ny ofBaniziitk INV WV
various faculties those eminent scholars
who from time TO time will come from
many lands to make their homes in
Southern California. This want will be
supplied by organizing in due time the
School of all Sciences. Attention should
be called to the matter of degrees. In
nv Judgment the educational interests
Of the University will be greatly pro-
NOTED by comforting only scholastic
degrees, no honorary ones. All degrees
conferred by this University should be
the rewards of scholarship tested by
proper examinations. such a position
would help to give our University q
standing among the best in the world,
would lift her above the Inultitudes OF
inferior colleges and universities Of the
land, aid in correcting great evil in the
American educational system, set good
example in the Church of Christ. and
prove great stimulus to true scholar
ship. Be-
| This excellent address then goes on &c