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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1887)
,m THK WEST SHORE. c,nv.'ut of St Vincent ami w under the receipts from tuition, the aid from its rharco of the .Sinters of the House of patron, the American College and Edu-IWh-nceof Vancouver. The attend- cational Society, and the interest from anco in alwut one hundred. The Walla a considerable endowment fund, place Walla Umnow college was established the college on a good financial founda in lVri, and employs five competent tion. The president, with the aid of the U-achera. Whitman college crowns the faculty and trustees, has succeded in .durational system of this region. It pervading the institution with a spirit of was organized as an academy in 1859, laudable ambition, noble endeavor, thor and work commenced in ISfifi. Itstrug- oughness and high christian morality, gled along until 1HS3, when, by charter, which, if continued, can not fail to place it waa changed to a college, and placed this college among the very first in the under the charge of Dr. A. J. Anderson, land. aa president The tireless energy and There are in the city a number of com nkillful work of the president, both as modious, and even ornamental, houses an instructor and manager, has improved of worship. The largest and most cost Ihe institution within a few years so that ly structure is St Patrick's Catholic in the breadth and thoroughness of in- church, a large brick edifice, forty-five htruction, in its general equipments and by one hundred feet in size. It was financial status, it occupies a high posi- completed in 1882, at an expense of $20, tioii among the educational institutions 000.00, and is one of the finest and larg of the country. The faculty consists of est churches in the entire Northwest, six instructors and five special teachers. The Methodists have a fine edifice, which The organization aud system of instruc- was dedicated in 1881, and cost $9,000.00. tion is after the best New England mod- St Paul's Episcopal church was corn ea. A preparatory, or academic, course pleted in 1873, at a cost of $5,400.00. of three years for the classical, and two The Congregationalists, the first relig years each for the scientific departments ious organization to enter this region as precede the college course of three or missionaries, as early as 1836, organized four years in the literary, scientific and a church in 1804, and completed their claaaical courses, respectively. Special present edifice in 18G8, at a cost of $5, branches are a normal course and a bus- 000.00. The Baptists have a church nn cuure, of three years each, a con- building costing $5,000.00. Other relig matory of inusic, with a course of ious denominations are the Cumberland lUn years, modern languages, elocu- Presbyterians, whose structure cost $0,- u.n. iunUng and drawing. The col- 000.00, in 1870; the Presbyterians, who K- u in jHH.on of a library of two have a strong organization and valuable WKMn two hundred volumes, and one church property; the Seventh Day Ad thouaand o.ght hundred pamphlet; it ventists; the M. R church, south; the bMpyl phjMcal and cheuucal appara- United Brethren, and the Christians. uZ evinTi? , ,U8trUmenU are two lodges, one chapter, ni"r ".n an", w of Perfection, one chapter I ! t !mple RD,1,fiaely Croix, and one commandery, of atfcndane in KsiL7 r V lodges one encampment of the Odd S Stt FellW8; o'f Workmen; and twenty aw in llTlu ne orgtion each of the orders of enty art, in the college proper. The Knights o Pvtaiaa Friendfl,