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REED COLLEGE: ITS BEGINNINGS Reed College was made pOSSthe in 1904' by the wil of Reed died in 1904, and by her wil made provision for the insti- Amanda hYood Reed. It is the Erst institution to be establisht tution which bears her husband's name. under the endowment of The Reed Institute provided by Mrs. By Mrs. Reedis direction the control of the endowment is Reedis bequest. This endowment is the outcome of the desire in the hands of a self-perpetuating board of five trustees under of Mrs. Reed and her husband. Simeon G. Reed. Oregon pioneers of the Fifties. to he of servis t0 the Northwest and to the city of Port- land. Mr. Reed died in 1805. He bequeathd the bulk of his property to his wife with the sug- gestion that she devote a portion of the estate tn such benevolent objects as would the 0f perma- nent value and contribute to the beauty of the city and to the intelligence. prosperity and happiness of its inhuhitants. ' Mrs. the corporate name of The Reed Institute, and is to be invested for the nincrease and diffusion of practical knoledge among the citizens Of said City of Portland, and the promotion of lit- erature, science and arty With the exception of a limitation of the amount of the principal of this bequest which might be spent for bildings and equipment to a hundred fifty thousand dollars, and a provision for re- Iigius freedom and non- sectarian control, the wil
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121 REED COLLEGE ANNUAL + 1915 givs extensiv power to the trustees in the use of the endowment. The present trustees are Dr. Thomas Lamb Eliot, Mr. William Parker Olds, Honorable Charles Edwin VVOlverton, Mr. VVill- iam Mead Ladd, and Mr. James Bremer Kerr. After investigation of the educational needs and facilities of this section of the cuntry, and after secur- ing the expert and learned advice of the General E d u c a t i 0 11 Board, the trustees de- cided that the best use of the Reed endowment could be effected thru a college of arts and sci- ences requiring the com- pletion of a secondary scool course for admis- sion, and offering four- year courses leading to a bachelor's degree. The question of the selection of a campus was settled by the clona- tion of a tract of forty acres within three and a DR. THOMAS LAMB ELIOT First President of Board of Trustees half miles of the center of Portland by the Ladd Estate Com- pany, and the purchase of forty-six acres adjoining the donated land. In June. 1910, Dr. William Trufant Foster was elected president. On September eighteenth, 1911, the first Clas of fifty students, twenty-six men and twenty-four women, began college work in a bilding constructed for the temporary use of the college at the corner of Eleventh and Jefferson streets. On January twelfth, 1912, ground was broken for the first col- lege bildings. On May eleventh, 1912, the corner-stone of the Arts Bilding was laid, and on June eighth the corner-stone 0f the dormitory was laid. The second year of instruction and the hrst year of the college in its permanent location began with a registration of a hundred nineteen students.
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