The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-01-08

deemed advisable By she board Of direo
tors
Asked Il ne would tell something about
the plans Of the trustees. Dr. Alison r.
piled:
Yes. We propose TO get under war, II
possible, by the esriy Summer, As 20
meet the conditions laid down by the
donors we must have the buildings up and
occupied By the LIST Of next January We
shall probably pat up one large central
bniidins. firss story brick and second and
third stories of wood We shall probably
have about thirteen recitation rooms on
the hrs: and seeon floors. while the third
floor will contain studios music aud So
clefy rooms for the students. We expecs.
Also, 10 have two dormitorv brildsngs
running ~ right angles TO each end Of the
main building.
Eve shall arrange for all the depsrt-
ments OF fua university course. We
shail have the usual academy or prepara-
tory Classes. aeoiiege IN arts and sciences
college in medicine, and u college in
law We shall also orgsnigs. If we secure
the consent Of the next general assembly,
which meets next May at Saratoga SPRINGS,
n. Y, Theological seminary OF the Pres
oyterian church. which shall De open. ii
desired by them. TO students wh no may de-
sire TO enter the ministry Of any other de-
nomination. a. well a. that OF the Presby-
terrain church.
I'VE shall be able TO give fal. course
in law of three years. with q diploma aud
the degree OF LII b. TO those students
who successfully pursue the prescribed
curriculum.
I'VE shall not be able TO give q complete
course in medicine probably for i've or SIX
years. but we propose TO give two years OF
the course, thus saving young men who
may select that honored profession the
expense of the first and second years of
their course in the Eas;f
To the query as to where the professors
for the course were 20 come from, the doc
tor said:
Il will answer that question by saying
that We expect 70 be able to select from the
physicians aud lawyers of our city the
REQUISITE number OF professors It's my
judgment and believe the judgment of
our whole board of trustees that Seattle
has in its midst as fine q staff of educated,
cultured and able physicians and lawyers
as any city of much larger population, /
might say OF any population, in the coun-
try. We are so thoroughly convinced of
this tAat We expect to produce faculties in
these departments that will at once COM
mand for our university the attention not
only OF the young men OF the West. but
also OF the East, when our institution has
been running a sufficient number Of years
to make their ability aud efficiency known.
II the Leland Stanford. IT.. University
has already one-ihird of its students from
the East. why may We not here in Seattle
have q similar experienc with the kind Of
talent We have IN the medical and legal
professions of this city to utilize7
AS to the name of the university, viii
say that at the meeting of the board Of
trustees held in October Mr.. r. III. Whit
worth, at the request Of his father. and
with the generosity 30 characteristic of
the family, proposed that the name should
be changed from Whitworth college TO
that OF The University of the Pacific
Northwest With great personal
reluctance the board accepted the change.
IL is. however, the intention of the board
that the honorable name Of DR.. Whit
worth, the founder and present president
of the board of trustees, shall be psrpetu-
ted in another way.
II think / have frankly stated a. much
a. I dare without the formal consent Of
the board of trustees.
As an illustration OF how our Presby-
terrain universities grow I may say that
twenty-one years ago similar offer Was
made to the Presbyter church of land
twenty-five miles from Chicago for the
foundation of what 10 now Lake Forest
university. Today there are over I.6oo
students in all its departments. The
Presbyterian church does not believe in
having many colleges, but few that shall
be thoroughly equipped. and thus COM
mand large constituency and patronage.
The synod of Washington at Spokane ex-
pressed itself most emphaticaiy in favor
of having only one In this state and that
one the university Of the Pacific North
west, situated at Seattle"