Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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ECHO T H Prologue A PIONEER is essentially a man of great vision. Were he not his labors would seemingly be in vain. While hewing rude cabins in trackless forests, clearing land or slashing trails, there inevitably looms up before him that which some day will result from his efforts, his beginnings. We often wonder if the institution we have today on Interlaken Boulevard resembles to any degree the visions which those pioneer fathers must have had when they founded Seattle College in 1894. We sincerely believe it does and that belief encourages us to hope for better things to come. Seattle College, though still in its embryonic stage, is rapidly progressing. It has experienced encouragement in numbers of students and successful graduates, and it has been helped along by generous patrons. In view of these facts we believe that it is only proper to found or rather re-establish the annual publication that we may each year chronicle the progress of the institution. This, then, is the end in view in publishing this book. We are sincerely grateful to all those who have helped, financially and otherwise, in making this edition possible, and we only hope that we will be able each subsequent year to give to those interested in this school a book of higher quality than the present. If there are any shortcomings or unintentional errors remember that this is only a beginning. Our faults we trust will be written in water and virtues on tablets of stoik The Editor

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THE ECHO The New Site SITUATED on a height directly opposite the University of Washington, with a sheet of calm water between, commanding a sweeping view of two lakes and two mountain ranges and the northeastern portion of Seattle, is the Seattle College of today, the nucleus of the Seattle College of the future. Far removed from the hot, dusty, traffic-burdened center of the city where it once stood, it is placed in an ideal spot which affords ample room for expansion. The development of the present site, which comprises seven acres, was begun by Dr. Schmidt in 1905, when he founded Adelphia College. When his plans failed to materialize, owing to the war times, he was forced to sell. Mr. T. C. McHugh, always a friend of Jesuit education, taking advantage of the situation, purchased the site and buildings and presented them to the Province for the use of Seattle College. When the place was taken over in 1919, it was in a depreciated condition. The buildings had not been used or taken care of for some time and were hidden from view by irregular mounds of dirt, shaggy trees and rotting brush. The renovation and improvement of the buildings was first in order. A thorough cleaning, new systems of sanitation, heating and ventilation and a complete remodeling of the classrooms, was accomplished during the summer months. In 1 920 the grounds were leveled. The blasting and pulling of stumps and large rocks and the incessant noise of a steam shovel disturbed studies for a month or more, but the little trouble caused, was amply repaid by the gratifying results. After cutting down and filling in, an athletic field three hundred and twenty feet by two hundred and thirty feet, replaced the hills, trees and brush. Each succeeding year has seen new improvements to both buildings and grounds. More classrooms have been made, a new chemistry and physics laboratory has been added and all old equipment has been replaced by modern. The main building pictured on the opposite page comprises three stories and a basement. In the basement is a commodious lunch room, the students co-operative store, the ath- 7