The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1915-08-26
Reed College.
BY r.. A. Truesdale.

, Reed College in Portland, Oregon, is u new in
stitution having graduated its first class of "A
students last June. It's funds are from the in
come of an endowment fund left by Mrs. Aman-
da Wood Reed who died in 1905. The value
the endowment, which is chiefly in property in
Portland, is estimated at about $3.000,00000.
Much of this property is not now incomebear-
ing. About $6OO00O.00 had accumulated before
the college was started, and this amount has
been expended on grounds buildings and equip
ment The campus is composed of S6 acres, 40
acres of which was donated by the Ladd Estate
Company.
Reed College is a college of liberal arts and
sciences and has no professional courses. AS
is usual with colleges, is in need of more funds,
for every college in the country sees more to do
than its resources will allow it to do However
Reed College rigidy adheres to the set prn-
ciple of never having debt or deficit, and of
doing whatever it does as well as it can be done
The work it cannot do well, it does not do at all
IL is for his reason that no new departments
will be added to the curriculum until new funds
are provided for the college, either through adj
ditiOnal gifts, or through an increase in the m-
come from the present property
So much for Il brief sketch of the material
side of the college, which, though important. is
not the college itself. Although Reed College
has as healthy and happy group of students as
can he found anywhere, the dominant purposes
oI tne institution are Serious ana III OffefS no at
fractions for students who want a good time en-
tirely outside of their work
There is at the college strong intellectual
interest on the part of the students, and love of
hard work either at books, athletics or physical
labor. Probably majority of the students are
partly self-supporting, and number entirely SO.
Although the entrance requirements are rigid,
mere entrance does not guarantee permanent
residence and a number each year are asked to
leave, after showing their inability to get into
the spirit of the school.
Reed College students have no interest in ath-
letics from the standpoint of winning teams, but
they are intensely interested i'm making athletics
Il part of their education, realizing that outdoor
sports furnish the best possible basis for a
healthy body and cheerful mental spirit, two
essentials for success in life. Acting ON this
theory everybody plays at regular times and any
one who is not prominently interested in some
sport is listed as deadhead. In fact, one must
have dominant interest i'm something if he is
t0 keep his standing in the college community.
Wide freedom is allowed i'm the matter of ch0os-
ing interests, except the rigid understanding
that every student should do something and do
it well. 1t is in this spirit that the hope of the
future for Reed College rests
The intellectual interests of the students are
exhibited in the regular studies and i'm the de-
partmental clubs that are formed for the pur-
pose of bringing a social atmosphere into the
curriculum and for making side excursions into
fields of knowledge that are reviewed perhaps
too briefly in the classroom. These depart