University of San Francisco - USF Don Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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r | 'he purpose of the University of San Francisco is to mould men, and thus form them to serve their fellow men, their country and their God. If we, the editors of the Don, have adequately recorded the seeking of and the fulfillment of this ideal by the men of the University of San Francisco, then gratification is ours. May this Annual, in the years to come, bring back fond memories of that gallant struggle.

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The FACULTY COMMITTEE A. R. Bcrti (Adviser). M. K. Quinlan (Chairman). G. G. Dexter (Secretary) r I 'hi: faculty committee on Activities consisting of three members of the University Faculty was originally conceived and established by Father Albert I. Whelan, Dean of the University, at the outset of the 1934 scholastic year. The main purpose of Father Whelan in appointing this group was to turn over to it the guardianship, as it were, of the scholastic calendar. With this understanding the committee has since functioned as chief co-ordinating factor for the activities of the numerous student’s organizations. It has of necessity from time to time drawn up rules and regulations governing student participation in extra curricular activities and has exercised a certain amount of control ov er social functions such as the various class dances. In the main, however, the committee endeavors to guide and counsel rather than initiate procedure, the latter being left to the student body through its elected officers. In the same spirit the committee does not possess any special disciplinary powers but relies normally on the Student Board of Control for the enforcement of its decisions. The Committee serving as it does under the direct supervision of the Dean of the University makes a weekly report to him in the form of the minutes of each meeting. Normally, any member of the faculty serving on this committee will do so for a period of three years. Fach year, one member will retire and his successor will be chosen by the Dean. The new member will ordinarily act as Secretary during his first year, as Chairman during his second year, and as adviser for his final year.

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History of the UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO It was on December 8, 1849, that a schooner slipped through the picturesque Golden Gate and dropped anchor in San Francisco Bay. The craft was five days out from Portland, and another day was required before its passengers could set foot on land. Consequently, on December 9, Father Michael Accolti and Father John Xobili, the first of the long line of “San Francisco Jesuits,” landed at the scene of their apostolate. True, Father Eusebius Kino, the Jesuit missionary-explorer, had touched California’s shores in 1700, but his stay was of the briefest, and Jesuit Action in California did not get under way until the advent of the two Italian Fathers, Michael Accolti and John Nobili. What kind of a city did the Jesuits find? Accolti has left us a vivid description: “Whether San Francisco ought to be called madhouse or Babylon I am at a loss to determine, so great was the disorder, the brawling and the reign of brazen-faced crime on a soil not yet under the sway of human laws.” Into this atmosphere, the two Jesuits plunged, and the results of their initial zeal are evident in the modern University of San Francisco. Jesuit “Forty-Niners” • Although Xobili and Accolti were the first Jesuits in the city, it was another Italian priest who was to begin the Society’s formal work of education in San Francisco. This was Father Anthony Maraschi, a member of the Turin Province, who arrived in San Francisco on November 1, 1854. It was not long before he was asking the first Archbishop, Joseph Alemanv, O. P., to designate a spot for the proposed college. His Excellency answered with a sweep of his hand towards the vast sand-dunes on which most of the city is now built, and said: “Any place out there!” Market Street, between Fourth and Fifth, then not even graded or open to traffic, was selected as the site. A plain wooden building was the first St. Ignatius’ College. Situated behind the church, it consisted of one large room, and instruction commenced on October 15, 1855, when Richard McCabe was enrolled as the first pupil. After a few months, classes were interrupted for a short time, due to fewness of students, but Father Maraschi was not daunted and used to say: “Here, in time, will be the heart of a great city!” The need for a new college soon became imperative. Consequently, on May 11,1862, the site of the second church and college was blessed. This was but a short distance from the first unit, and San Francisco’s mighty Emporium now stands on the spot. By December, the new building was complete and proved so attractive that the number of students soon exceeded 450. In 1870, Father Bayma added a three-story, rambling structure—more useful than ornamental—which provided sixteen more classrooms. But already the Fathers were planning to move west with the expanding city, for it was early evident that their present site would soon be located in a busy commercial district. In 1878, Father Yarsi informed Archbishop Alemanv that Rome had approved plans for a greater St. Ignatius’ College—to be built on “lot 74 of the W estern Addition.” A great throng crowded the new site on Hayes Street and Van Ness Avenue on October