The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-10-30
ANON GIVES LAND
TO M. E. SCHOOLS
Horse Heaven Acreage and Mon
: ey Given to Willamette u
and p. S. College

Il +
resident of Kennewick, has given q
large acreage of Horse Heaven land
and sum of money, the amount Of
!, which has not been made public, to
the Willamettes University at Salem
Oregon, and the College Of Puget
Sound at Tacoma.
Mr.. Anon, who spent the summer
in Kennewick, left recently for his
home in Pasadena, Calf. Enroute he
stopped in Salem where the details of
his gift were arranged with the uni
lversity officials.
In writing to the Courier Reporter
to announce the gift, Geo. H. Alden,
dean of the College of Liberal Arts,
says:
Mr.. Anon is making gift of some
3400 acres Of Horse Heaven wheat
land to Willamette University and
the College of Puget Sound jointly,
besides money gift, these institu-
tions giving him something of an an
nuity for the rest of his life in return
for deeds to the land. But it was
something concerning Willamette Uni
versity, the recipient Of a one-half in
terest in the. land, about which you
wished me to write,
sThis 'old institution is not very
well knokn in your part of the coun-
try, altho there are a good many stu
dents attending Willamette from the
Yakima and Columbia River Valleys.
We1are the oldest institution Of high
er learning west Of the Mississippi
River, the Oregon Institute, which is
the old name for the University, hav-
ing been founded IN 1884, It's organ.
ization was due chiefly-to the zeal and
intelligent foresight of early Metho-
dist missionaries il the Willamette
Valley. In fact the first money rails
fer The institution was contributed by
a band of Methodist missionaries on
shipboard as they were sailing around
the Horn from New. York to. the Co
lunnbia River. =
tFor many years Willamette Uni.
versity was the only institution Of
higher learning in the Pacific North
west, and very many Of the leading
men and statesmen of old Oregon re-
ceived their education in her halls.
at was perfectly natural that Mr..
Amcn, who was brought up as boy
only few miles from Willamette's
campus, should send two of his sons
to be educated here, one OF, whom COM
pfeted his course and went, out as a
graiuate Of the institution. It was
perfectly natural, too, that Mr.. Aonm,
q lifelong Methodist, when he wished
@ rive his property to some institu-
tion connected with the Church, should
think of Old Willamette.
"For the information of those who
have never visited Salem, let me say
that +f.e Willamette University cam
pus, Of 1S acres, is located just across
the road from the state capitol build
ing We have on the campus at pres
ent some six buildings used for in
structional purposes, and we are just
beginning the construction of an $780,
10000 girls dor1nitory. The present
enrolment of students, including the
law school, which by the way, is con-
c;dorod fho hact In the ctata has mass
ed well beyond the 400 mark and will
doubtless reach 500 before the year
is over. The grade of work done in
our class rooms is equal to any in
the Northwest, our. standards being |
in Dlany re spects, higher than those of
some of our state universities.
Willamette graduates are in great
demand as high school--teachers all
over the Pacific Northwest, and we
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