Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-15
The University Of Southern Cali
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The University OF Southern Cali
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The proverbial "needle in the hay.
stack" is not more difficult to find
than is information Of any sort in Los
Angeles. The incomings and out
goings are SO perpetual and the growth
of the city is so phenomenal that it is
well-nigh impossible for anyone te
keep a correct schedule of persons
places or events. Hence it is that
with very few exceptions the utmost
confusion prevails concerning the
character and methods of the Uni
versity of Southern California.
That magnificent structure, known
as the University, is to be found in
West Los Angeles, is well known to
everybody, but that it is but part Of
the University OF Southern California
is fact difficult to understand. Yet
the Medical College, also OF this city
the Maclay College of Theology al
San Fernando, the Chaffey College OF
Agriculture at Ontario, the Seminary
at Tulare, and the Freeman School OF
Applied Sciences about to be erected
at Inglewood, separated as they
are, compose the University o.
Southern California. In some re.
spects it might be better, if al
OF the colleges were clustered in West
Los Angeles around the college oi
Liberal Arts and the College OF Music
but as they are scattered over the
State by the generosity of different
benefactors, they are all more liberal.
ly endowed than they otherwise would
have been. The University OF South
ern California was founded in 1859
and was formally opened for students
October 6, 1880. The present faculty
of the Colleee of Liberal Arts are Re,
M. M. Bovard President and Professor
of Christian Ethics, Rev. w
s. Mathews, Dean and Professor
Of Mental Philosophy and Political
Science and }. P. Widney
Lecturer on the English Language
and Literature, E. r. Sprader, Rev
John Dickinson, Ella A. Tarr, Rev
q. A. Moser. Rev. E. r. Watson, c.
r. Gunne, lamar Gray, Elmer F.
Merrill and s. S. Durben complete the
aist. In the absence of Dean Math-
.ews, whom I vas extremely sorry to
miss, was escorted over the building
bp Professor Gunne, who displayed
the utmost sweetness Of temper, in
climbing the long flights of stairs sew
eral times in the pursuit of the janitoi
and two or three keys not in
his possession. The College build
ing is three stories high and
is surmounted by a clock tower
and observatory from which the
most extended views of the
city and it's suburbs can be OBJ.
tanned. From its summit the race
course can be distinctly and pictur-
esquely seen, while the out ines oil
Santa Monica and the misty ocean are
visible, as they always are, from ar
elevation. Upon the third floor are
located the art studio, the society
halls and the museum, which. filled
with local curiosities, is highly inter.
esting. Upon the second floor are
the principal recitation rooms and
on the first floor are the chapel, and
the library which bids fair to become
one of the prominent features of the
institution. All of the rooms are we'll
lighted and ventilated, while the halls
are cheerful as we'll as spacious. 1t is
to the muniicence of Messrs. o. w
Childs, j. G. Downey and !. w. He'll
man that the college is indebted fol
the valuable ground upon which it is
erected. The University of Southern
California is under the directors of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
is a monument that will for
ever stand to the honor Of
that Jealous and devout organi.
zation. But the mixed character
OF the college is one OF its most com
mendable features. The daily asso
Citations of young men and women, boys
and girls has tendency to refine the
former and strengthen the latter. In
after years the sexes are sure to drift
into each others society, and the
sooner and with the least ado they
begin to understand and to mould
each other, the better it is for both
parties. Besides, in mixed schools
such as the College of Liberal Arts,
the excessive feminity which individ-
ualizes young ladies' seminary has
no part. Thus, the girls have the
same opportunity as the boys, and in
consequence stand better chance OF
becoming learned instead of fashiona-
BILE.
working WOmen's Difficulties.
A girl who is devoid OF social aspir.
atoms, and who is fortunate enough
to secure q good place q mean a place
wh~re her humanity is considered)
ha, comparatively smooth sailing. Sc
has well-drilled school teacher and
a competent saleswoman. 1t is true
that both the teacher and the shop
girl are inadequately renumerated
for their services, and that, as we'll,
they are expected to perform twice
as much labor as is the man who
occupies positions relative to their
own, but then these considerations
are merely the spokes of the mann
moth wheel beneath which the
women OF the working world are
crushed, and so in the present discus
sion do not count. The difficulties to
which now refer are those which
beset woman through the medium
of her sex. 1t is the easiest thing inn
aginable for lady whose every want
is supplied, and who is hedged in by
parternal or matrimonial protection.
to map out the line Of action
and the code of morals by which
the lives of working women
should b governed; but unfor-