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

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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

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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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