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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1880)
The West TJADT? JLJL W JLiJLi VOL. B Nn 0 I k S"iil, ruMlalnr, Wiwhlimtuu 81, Portland, Oregon, Oetobor, 1880. rr Annum, I Mliiili, miilr OUR EDUCATIONAL IN STITUTIiS. In Tiik West Siiohk for September we furnished our renders a most excellent view of the Sttttc Univer sity ut Eugene City. We now present The Agricul tural College at CorvaU lis, rin institution possessing a thorough corps of profes sors, among whom we arc pleased to notice, B. L. Ar nold, President; Jos. Em ery, Prof, of Mathematics; 13. J. Hawthorne, Prof, of Languages, and E. B. Mo Elroy. The college is beau tifully located In the thriv- E- ' ing city of Corvallis, in the very heart of the Willam ette valley, and is connected hy rail with Portland, ns well as the principal towns in Washington, Yamhill, Polk and Benton counties. Corvallis hag regular steamboat con-I pcrimcntal farm adjoins the College nection with Portland and all the towns I grounds. There are at present 57 ng- lying on the banks of the Willamette 1 ricullural students enrolled the law, :f fill 1 i Iff I I .mm AM wVUM 39 50 arc young girls. Itetwcnt 13 and 18 years of age. The fee for paying stu dents is from Jti6 to $jo per year. Okkuon Aukicui.turai. COU.KGK AT CoRVAI.I.H-IMlcilO by river in ftiet, no better spot could pos- however, provides for the free tuition sibly have been selected for an ngricul-: of 60 scholars. The total number of lural college. A well conducted ex- i students enrolled is 160, of which about PACIFIC UNIVKRSITV, I'OR. KSTUROVK. The germ of this Insti tution was a boarding school established by Mrs, Tabithu Brown, nearly thirty, five years ago. With very inef- nVimlt miiliirlnlw mitt f A .."'I MIVII under the most discouraging circumstances, this pioneer educator of the Plains" clung- to her design of es tablishing a permanent cen ter of religious and social in fluence for this community, The next stage In the growth of the Institution was Dr. IIe1ip. due to Rev. Harvey Clark. I Ic was the real founder of the school us it now exists; for though closely connected by sympathy of de sign with Mrs. Brown's school, there was no legal connection between the two. It is now more than thirty years since -y - n. : - . ' ' ; Wm PI WW u fXciflC VNIVERSlTV AT FORFT GROVE, ORI-r-OV.frtW snooty Robert