The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-28


and pedagogy at Berkeley and the afili-
ated colleges of law. medicine, pharmacy
and dentistry located in San Francisco,
ana the Lick astronomical observatory
on Mount Hamilton. The professors, in
structors and assistants in these colleges
number PIT and the students 1852. Uni
verslty extension courses have been estab-
lshed by the faculty in San Francisco
Oakland and Los Angeles.
Three normal schools are established by
the State and one by the city of San Fran
cisco. The oldest OF these is at San Jose.
In the central part of the State, about fifty
miles from San Francisco. Twenty-seyen
instructors are employed in this school,
and the attendance OF students in the nor
mai classes Is between 600 and 700. The
buildings and equipments for the practice
school, which numbers over 200 pupils, are
perhaps the most complete in the United
States. The second of these schools in age
! and size is at Los Angeles, in the southern
part of the State. In this school the in
structors number IA and the students
about $780, Attached is an elegantly ap-
pointed gymnasium, and additional build
iDgs are in process of construction. The
practice school attendants number nearly
200. The youngest of the schools is in the
northern part of the State. at Chico. In
structors. eleven students. 200 The prac-
tiee school has an attendance of 125. This
school. like the others, has taken high
rank from the first.
At the head of all the private colleges
and academies is the Leland Stanford Jr.
University at Palo Alto, endowed by Sen
ator Leland Stanford with $4,000, O00
| in
is for the education of both sexes, and as
In that institution tuition is free. Though
now only in the third year of its work. IT
already ranks with the best. 1t has
faculty of seventy-eight professors and In
! structors, and a student attendance of 764,
OF whom nearly $50 are from other States
Its courses of instruction are distributed
through the departments of the ancient
ana modern languages. history and politi-
cal economy, mathematics, the sciences,
philosophy and education. Neither Stan
ford nor the State University has a pre-
paratory departmental the students in
both are in college classes proper.
Teachers institutes, though maintained
in some other States, receive in California
exceptional encouragement. Ample funds
are provided for maintaining in nearly
d
structiOn and discussion relative to the
best and most fruitful methods of class
! teaching. 1t is in these meetings that the
stranger notes the high average intelH-
gence of the teachers of the State.
1t is stated by w. II. Y. Raymond. edi
tor of the California State textbooks.
from whom the greater part of these facts
have been obtained, that in no other State
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so far and in so many parts OF the State.
AS in other enlightened States there are
the excellent public high schools of the
great cities and towns, provided for by
their charters. OF these there are tw ent y-
five with standards so high that graduates
from them are admitted. without examina-
ton. to the universities. Three of them
are in San Francisco, and one in each of
the following cities and towns of the State:
Alameda. Berkeley, Fresno, Los Angeles,
Martinez, Marysvile, National City,
Nevada CITY, Oakland. Pasadena, Peta-
luna. Riverside, Sacramento, Salinas, San
Diego. San Jose. San Rafael, Santa Cruz,
Stockton, Vallejo. Ventura and Watson
vile. Other town high schools also are of
high rank.
Apart from the educational advantages
social opportunities are very great and
varied in character. Every known denomi-
nation has taken root within the State
limits. Churches, chapels and lecture
halls are to be found everywhere, San
francisco being the natural headquarters
of many religious jurisdictions. In this
city are some of the finest catnedrals and
oh urches In the States, most of them hav-
ing Sabbath schools, visiting work, sewing
circles and social organizations attached.
AS social center California is proven
bal. She inherits love of hospitality
from the early days of the gold excite
ment. when an Arabian hospitality was
accounted mans best virtue. Open
hearted generosity is instinct in the people
and pareD IS may always be certain of find
ing the refining Influences of society among
height ors in every section of the State.
The days of the wild, boisterous, red
shlrted miner have departed. bnt his
legacy of socability remains unimpaired.
In the same way the social and fraternal
organizations find kindly coil in Califor-
MIA. The great orders of Masons, Odd
Fellows, Foresters, Knights of Pythias,
Red Men, B'nai Birth, Herman's Sons.
/ Chosen Friends. Druids, Workmen, ETC.,
| the great military and naval associations.
! the temperance societies and those which
pursue special lines of culture, are all
represented here. One comprehensive
order of the Native Sons and Native
Daughters of the Golden West is peculiarly
characteristic of the State.
The libraries and collections of art treas
ures In the various large cities are of high
class. while large metropolitan journals
and local papers supply the fullest in
formation of the happenings in the great
world and the immediate neighborhood.
! In fact, with plenty of elbow room. fresh
sea air, mild climate, pleasant neigbbors
aud exceptionally good educational facili-
ties, children in California have every
element for an environment favorable 10
natural growth and the thorough develop
ment of their potentialities.
FOR THE TOURIST.