Occidental College - La Encina Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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As for the future, it is in no idle, boastful fashion that we speak, but rather in quiet and serene seriousness, when we claim for our Occidental an ever brightening and increasingly useful career. - President Baer has fulfilled all our high hopes as to his administrative ability and his splen- did personality. His grasp of the situation is broad and statesmanlike, and under his guiding hand, with the blessing of Almighty God, nothing can keep Occidental from beinglone of the greatest4-if not the greatest 'POWC1' for Christian education and civic righteousness in this western world. Its faithful and highly efficient faculty, its loyal and enthusiastic body of students, and its rapidly growing corps of alumni are all domi- nant factors in the situation. As for equipment and endowment, we have not the slightest fear. The wealth and consecration of our great de- nomination in this Golden State will see that any lack-'in these things will be Sulfllliefl. Friends in other parts of the world will gladly con- tribute to a cause that means so much for the uplift of a section that is soon to be the strategic ground for the gathering-of all the greatest forces of Christendom. Nothing except our own disloyalty can stay the prog- ress of our College. We regard quality as of the very first importance, but with that achieved, other things will be added. Mark the prediction, thnerefore, that in less than ten years, our campus of thenty-three acres bculpovered with substantial and beautiful buildings, our student his 3H21d?c?1E51Stlof one thousand students, and, with ?I'CSIClCl1t Baer and to 1 I u 'acl' 'CY 2-lJOut'linn, our Occidental will have gone a long way , Walf Wmnmg the position of which we have often dreamed, and will indeed be a veritable Princeton of the West., Preserve this prophecy, if you PICEISC, and I do not fear that I will ever be the target for a shower of stones. . A 17

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letic fields on Boyle Heights, fully persuaded that their youthful Alma Mater would one day stand among the stateliest flames of the educational world. It was a great blow to these fond hopes when the fire came and robbed the growing institution of its building. Many hearts were sad that day, when the picture of the ruins on this page was taken. But after the first feeling of depression came the determined desire to rebuild and equip upon a far larger scale the college, which had already grown so dear to the good Presbyterian folk of Southern California. And if you will look upon the splendid new buildings pictured also before your eyes, you will know at once that this was no idle dream. The story of the last decade has been one of steady development and gratifying growth on the part of our fair Occidental. lt was President Wadsworth and Rev. Dr. A. A. Dinsmore who started her on the way anfhsteadied her steps for many a strenuous day. The outlook was always bright and the cheery optimism that used to thrill us when the President would an- nounce at Commencement that he believed that in two or three years we could certainly count on having one hundred students, can never be forgotten. lt would take more space than is assigned this article if the upward steps were traced. The campus more than trebled in size, the buildings increased ,almost ten-fold in value, the number of faculty and students nearly ten times as large, all in these last ten years. ln property and endowment, the increase in these ten years has been more than twen- ty-fold. VVe are proud of this growth and grateful for the loving and gen- erous hearts that have made it possible. Our benefactors are many. The register of their noble deeds would be a long one and we will not at1 tempt to give it. Like Little Tim, we can only say, God bless them, every one. 16

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.inaugural iirngram V Ellrihaq, GDM. 25. IBUE Rev. Hugh K. VValker, D. D., President of the Board of Trustees, Presiding. Music: The Son of God Goes Forth to XVar. A Invocation: Rev. XV. S. Young, D. D., Secretary of the Board of Trustees. Address of Wfelcome in Behalf of The City of Pasadena: Hon. G. C. XVaterhouse, Mayor, The Institutions of Northern California: David Starr jordan, LL.D., President of Leland Stanford Junior University. Benjamin Ide VVheeler, LL.D., President of the University of - California. ' Solo: Mrs. Catherine Collette. The Institutions of Southern California: Rev. Geo. F. Bovard, D. D., President of the University of Southern California. Dean E. C. Norton, Ph. D., Pomona College. The Schools of Southern California: Prof. Ernest C. Moore, Ph, D., Superintendent City Schools. Address of Wfelcome in Behalf of The Presbyterians of California: Rev. XVarren D. Moore, Moder- ator of the Synod of California. The VVorld's Christian Endeavor Union: Mr. XN7illiam Shaw, Bos- ton, Mass. The Faculties of Occidental College and Occidental Academy: Prof, I. A. Gordon, D. D. The Trustees of Occidental College: Rev. E. S. McKitrick, D. D. Inaugural Address: President John Willis Baer, Ll.. D. Congratulatory Address: Mr. Robert E. Speer, M. A., New York City. Music: America Benediction: Rev. Drummond McCunn, Moderator of the Presbytery of Los Angeles. INAUGURAL PROCESSION lf 18