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Now, here you have scholarship, system, organization, reputation, every- thing but money ; but we, the state, have none of these things, but we have money; what a pity that they can not be brought together! To make a long story short, they were brought together, but it was only after encountering many and stubborn difficulties that the work began to move smoothly and evince vitality. The state accepted the trust and adopted the site that we had chosen for the University. Its progress halted for a period of years, but the present gratifying proportions of the University do ample credit to the state which so gener- ously assumed its support. The history of the College of California has been elsewhere published. It indi- cates the type of life in those early days, and shows how naturally it developed into the fullness of the University life, as it now is. DR. VII.I.KY. 10
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Dr. Durant defied him (pointing to an axe which he had under his bed) and refused to surrender possession. During the day. by the assistance of the friends of the school, the building was completed. In due time the school was opened and other buildings were added, to accommodate the boys who came from far and near. A few of these pupils chose to take the classical course, and prepare for college, and the school became known as the College School. Preparation for the College of California advanced steadily. By 1857 there were forty pupils in attendance. Some additional buildings were erected in Oakland in which to begin the college but in 1858 the present site of the University in Berkeley was decided upon as the permanent location of the College of California. In October, 1858, a meeting was held of all college alumni, who could be assem- bled. The novelty of the occasion brought together a considerable number of liberally educated men. made them acquainted with one another, and awakened in them for the first time in this new country the stirring recollections of their own student life. A- a much needed relief from a twelve-year pastorate in San Francisco. I agreed with the College Trustees to join the Faculty, hoping to renew my own strength by a change of occupation and at the same time contribute to the success of our young college. So, under the title of Vice- President. I took up the outdoor work tempo- rarily, superintending the erection of some new buildings, and endeavoring to secure trained scholars for the Faculty and an adequate endowment for the institution, such as the East had given to colleges in other new states. And so. beginning with the year 1860, the organized college life began in earnest. It went on in a genuine way for nearly ten years, supported by annual gifts of our business men. But meanwhile the Civil War was fought and left the nation deeply in debt, and in settling up measures had to be taken that influenced individual business men. and diminished their readiness to furnish us the means to meet expenses. At the same time the college curriculum had been greatly enlarged everywhere, especially on the side of the natural sciences, and the expenses of instruction tended to increase. Nevertheless, we went forward and trained and graduated six annual classes without any financial help to speak of from any quarter, but with the hearty good will and confidence of all lovers of learning in the commonwealth. Still no one came forward with an endowment to support the institution. No scholar whom we asked to head the undertaking could see his way clear to leave engrossing engage- ments in the East and contribute his life to the uncertainties of this farthest West. vertheless, our undertaking had the sympathies and good wishes of our best citi- zens. Even- year a larger company of men and women assembled at our commence- ments, and made the occasion inspiring and satisfactory. At one of the later ones Governor Low was sitting beside me on the platform and. looking over the audience, he said to me: i.-,
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Early Days at Berkeley This short article is for the purpose of giving a few personal reminiscences of the early days of the University, and is not in any sense a history of the institution. Being what it is. please pardon the introduction in many places of the pronoun, first person, singular. The College of Calif ornia. which antedated the establishment of the State Uni- versity by ten years, was located in Oakland, at Twelfth and Franklin Streets, and was housed in a little reddish brown building of five rooms surmounted by a square belfry. There were in California at that time six schools, at each of which it was possible for a young man to prepare for college. The first and largest of these was the College School, more familiarly known as Brayton ' s. in Oakland, and located on the parcel of ground bounded by Twelfth. Fourteenth, Franklin, and Harrison Streets, four blocks in area. The same interests that had established the College of California maintained the College School. The five other schools included the Boys ' High School in San Francisco, the Grass Valley High School, the California Military Academy in Oakland, familiarly known as McClure ' s Academy, located on the hill between Telegraph Avenue and Broadway, at Twenty-ninth Street. Santa Clara College, and the University of the Pacific, located between San Jose and Santa Clara. The writer of these few remembrances was attending McClure ' s early in the fall of 1869 and engaged in preparing for Princeton. He had never heard of the con- gressional land grant for the establishing of colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts, and knew nothing of the proposed opening of the University of California, to which had been ceded all the interests of the College of California and of the College 17
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