Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-28
EXPECTS OF OCCIDENTAL
A PACIFIC PRINCETON
NEW YORK OBSERVER COMMENTS
ON BAER'S REGIME
Coast Is Going to Be the Theater of
Great Events, Declares Writer,
Who Predicts Million Population
for Los Angeles

Rev. Malcolm Jones Mcleod of Pasa-
dena, in the last number of the New
York Observer, makes an earnest plea
for the small college and devotes
special attention to Occidental. He
writes in part:
great in her resources, great in her cli-
mate. great in her citizenship.
Southern California especially has
an outlook of unique and exceptional
promise. Here is to be found the pick
and flower of eastern culture. Hither
are f1ocking every year tens of thou
sands of homeseekers.
"Our population is overwhelmingly
American. From fifty to one hundred
thousand people of wealth and leisure
seek our climate every winter. And
every year the numbers grow.
1--WE are becoming the Mecca for mil
lions. There are safe, conservative men
who believe that by 1926 Los Angeles
will be city of one million inhabitants.
Our possibilities are enormous, our
responsibilities correspondingly grave
and weighty
"The church here is strong, the moral
tone high Our own beloved denomina-
ton is making tremendous strides. We
have the largest single organization
west of the Alleghenies. Our college is
entering on a new era of usefulness.
Wonderful Outlook
Occidental unquestionably has a
wonderful outlook With an endow..
ment of 100000. with John Willis Baer
for president, what may not her future
be? What may we not expect to be-?
know not what we may expect, but
know what we do expect. We expect
great things
I'VE expect a Pacific Princeton by
and by. We expect a great dynamic
force for Christianity and righteous
ness. We expect splendid feeder for
missions-both home and foreign.
1--WE expect an intellectual and spirit
ual stimulus to the life of the coast
aye, to the life of the country, for here
is radiating center. Here will be a
strategic point for generating power,
and scattering it far and wide. Here,
too, is going to be a crucial point in
the chemistry of time.
1.-THE Pacific coast is destined to be
the theater of great and world-touching'
events in the next fifty years. Here are
going to be met and fought out some of
the great International questions of the
future.
"Now, do we not need a strong and
distinctively Christian force of our own
fostering? We do most assuredly, but
it must be abreast of the times. A
weak, struggling. half-starved school
will not fill the need. 1t must be "a
drawing card.
Climate Attracts Students
THE college board can well afford to
be very generous just now with Occi-
dental college.
"If the friends of Christian education
will open their hearts and open their
purses, they can mark out for Occi-
dental a glorious future Far-seeing
men like o. T, johnson and Lyman
Stewart are seeing this. 1t is no ordi-
nary investment. I do not believe there
is a UNCONVENTIONAL institution in the
whole United States that has a more
promising future than Occidental coi-
lege.
1T is the strictest, truest most lit
eral sense OF the word Opportunity"
So let not the friends of Christian man
hood and Christian culture forget that
word--when their ship comes home"