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;EJacatiort in Oregon Got First Impulse Here History of Struggle for Mental and Moral
the Early Days of Willamette University Public and Private Schools of City Efficient
One-" of tbe most remarkable
htinka Interest stories of the
whole West 1 that of Educa
tion. . " -1 -
. Thera were,, and even still are,
tiro Wests. The one "was : the
gold-hontlng. adventurous West:
the roaring Forty-niners, the bon
anza argonauts . to Idaho ' and
Montana when there was noth
ing In the j mind bnt gold and
adventure. 'The Santa Fe trail
to the south,' and" the Missouri
river steamboat line to Hon tana
Bar, Aider Gulch and Bannack
and Last Chance ' Gulch In the
early 'SO's, and the eastern sec
tion "of the Oregon Trail to Ida
ho la the days of Florence and
tie Boise Basin were gold-roads
with hardly a thought of any
taing else. r'-' -1; .-J
These adventurers had hardly
a rudimentary thought of farm
ing, of permanent homes, of ed
ucation. The development of ed
ucation has vividly carried on "the
early ambitions of the first set
tlers In. these countries. They
never did have, and do not now
have, Jn these .typical, gold, states,
a real educational history; the
early days were filled with far
other thoughts than books!
But Oregon was the education,
al paradise. Men came to the
Willamette valley which was al
most the whole of the early Ore-gon--to
establish homes and to
worship God anftito educate their
children. Almost every little
community had ita little "col
lege," established by the evan
gellstic -efforts of some denoralna
tlonal church. There are more
than a score of communities, per
haps as many aa 50, that hare had
ai icasi me ruaimenis oi a conege.
JJever in the history of mankind
has 'there been "such a perfect
fury, such an utter devotion ;to
the cause of education, as that
which marked the early Willam
elte valley settlement. There
were more than a score of these
"colleges," A either established, or
projected In ; Oregon, before the
Civil War. In the gold states.
they would have seemed as strange
as for ;' the people of nebut
ous Mars to come here with their
strange : bodies and J stranger
minds and ideals. But: in the
- home-hunting Oreroa program
high among the Institutions of its
they were as logical as two and
wo to start the multiplication
table. . : 1
Salem - Home of - Education
Salem was the very first edu
cational center in the northwest;
In the whole WestWIUamette
University is the oldest west of
the Mississippi river! The city
grew up around, and because of,
the pioneer ; school, for which a
charter as a. university was asked
n 1849. iThat was the year of
the great gold rush to California;
when : men aold their souls for
gold. It is a strange picture, tne
difference of the two ideals; the
Oreeonians putting their beaver
skins and bear-skins and labor
into a christian college that In
their children should live on
through the ages, and the argo
nauts of the South shooting and
blasting their way to the cold.
yellow metal ; of their adventur
ous dreams! . N 1
j The Willamette University is
the foremost of the educational
Institutions! of Salem; In age and
in national standing. The old
school , has Bad a checkered ca
reer; "marked by superhuman
struggles, (disasters, with enough
triumphs, to keep its hope alive.
It has graduated more than 1,000
students: 1 it has served more
than 10.000 who did not gradu
ate, but' who T carried - some of ;
Its Impress - out into . the world.
Its oldest student. Hon. Joseph
Baker, still lives in Salem; he
attended first in' 1849,' 74 years
ago. What a procession of young
life has passed through its doors
in: that long period of time!
Willamette has struggled on
under crushing loads of debt, al
most from the beginning. One
of the early professors thought
he was mighty lucky to get $300
a year for all his time and the
use of his diploma aa a drawing
card. The1 University once owned
a large tract of land in Salem,
covering where the jcapitol build
ing now stands; but it was too
heavy . A ; : load to carry, and
gradually! the holdings were re
duced to the present campus.
This is hardly adequate to the
present ? ambitions of the school;
but it .would "not be easily possi
ble to extend Its holdings, what
ever the-future 'needs,
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kind In the state 2 and 3 Englewood and Garfield schools, two of
The university has had a small
endowment, of about 1600,000,
for the past. 10 years.-. This was
not, sufficient , for its ' needs; it
has been a constant fight for
enough money to carry on ' the
school. The ;tuition - has ; cost
practically three times what tne
students have ever paid; for the
effort has always been : to fairly
drag the young people . into
school, and to find enough mon
ey from, other sources to pay the
greater part of their expenses.
Million Dollar Endowment Cam-
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During 1922; however, an en
dowment campaign was started,'
that has brought an additional
endowment of $1,000,000 for the
university use. This was started
by a gift of $3fcO,000 from the
R eke feller Foundation, which
after an exhaustive investigation
designated Willamette as a col
lege of superior character and
promise, and worthy their sup
port. So ' certain were they that
Willamette would ; succeed, that
they have been paying the Inter
est on this endowment appro
priation, for the past 'two "years,
in anticipation of the successful
camagn now ended. The rest ot
the money was raised by popular
subscription; two lOyal Oregon-
lans, Hon. R. A. Booth of Eu
gene and E. S. Collins of Port
land, each added $100,000 to the
fund. - s v y f i
New Gymnasium Made Possible
In addition to this; permanent
endowment fund, enough money
was , raised , in, this campaign to
build a fine new ; gymnasium, a
cent raj heating plant and to clean
up all warrant and note indebted
ness: The school? starts In its
ISlS year in far the best finan
cial condition: it has" ever known.
The enrollment was limited to
450, last year; but the demand
for room has been so Insistent,
that this limit was exceeded by
100 students.; With the erection
of more buildings, a registration
of 1000 Is expected within the
next three years; they, could be
had this year If the buildings
would hold them.
Salem School System Leads
, Following In the wake. of -Willamette
and , it actually ! that,
for the present Willamette aetu-
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administration hall of Willamette University. 6 Sacred Heart Academy;
EARNING
Betterment Clusters Around
$500,000 Bond Issue Voted v
ally preceded the present public
schools the school system is one
of the justifiable boasts of Salem.
The . school now comprises 10
buildings, with an enrollment
March first of 412V These
buildings and pupils are served
by '138 teachers,' an average of
3 0 pupils per teacher, including
all the grades. , ' The schools have
been badly crowded, . because of
their excellence; the army ot stu
dents coming in from out of
town, is almost like the army of
argonauts seeking the gold of
California.
Half Million Bond Issue
A recent election, provides for
a - city bond issue of $500000
for additional school needs. This
money is. to be spent over 'a per
iod of years, building new, perm
anent, fire-proof units tp supple
ment and eventually to supersede
the present older wooden struc
tures. The schools are growing
with really startling rapidity;
with the present high school en
rollment, of about 960, it is cer
tain that by spring of 1923 it
will be at least 1200, for a high
school building that Was original-;
ly calculated to be "chock full',
with 800. Most Of the school
buildings are similarly crowded;
only two of the whole number,
and these being in the less popu
lous outskirts of the town, where
they were given modern .build
ings in advance of the city needs,
are really only comfortably filled;
Because of the congestion in the
high school, in 1915 the' Junior
High School system was adopted.
This takes the seventh, eight and
ninth ' grades, putting them in
separate schools that, are 'espec
ially aimed to meet the needs of
adolescence. They are supposed
to ' be " provided -with assembly
rooms, where the pupils' meet fn
the growing "gang spirit" stage
that demands attention. The
three Junior - high schools have
been so terribly ; overcrowded
that " they hare no, assembly
rooms, and in that much the
Salem school system T has fatten
seriously short of Its doty. . The
junior high system calls for treat
ment of Its pupils as miniature
men - and. women. ' not . cnuaren
who are to obey because author
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the most recent type of tochool buildings recently erected.
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Has Attained National Reputation for Efficiency in Spite of Handicap in Equipment
Calculated to Improve Physical, Mental and Spiritual Cond ition of City's People Brief
In the magnificent cathedral
St. Paul's, London, there is no
specific memorial to the great
architect. Sir Christopher Wren,
who planned the building; , but
there is a simple tablet which
says: "If you would see his mon
ument, look about you." The
snlendid structure Is indeed a
monument to the man who drew
the design and worked it into
stone.
One can find the memorials to
the Salem YMCA In almost the
same way, anywhere In Salem
one needs but to look around
him, to Bee what the association
is, by what it does. Here is a
partial list of the public activ
ities in which the Y has engaged
during the past: year; most of
them it has carried on as its own
initiative, and others it has as
sisted materially, either . through
tits workers or its building facili
ties. Perhaps no one in Salem
would have believed that so many
things, of public moment have
been carried on, even by the
whole city:
Vacation Bible School, 629 pu
pils, 81 teachers.
Municipal play ground
Summer Camp, on Salmon riv
er N ,
Community Swimming -Week
Twilight Baseball League
Boys Twilight League
Tenni3 Tournament , ,
Willamette Class, accredited Y
work
Commercial basketball league
Midget Basketball League
- Snnday School Athletic League
'Boys' Baseball Pitchers course
Open house, Willamette Y
Open house, high school
. H1Y Club ,
- ' Cooperation with Marlon coun
ty S.-S. association
Cooperation with YMCA
All - secretaries ' members of
some -Salem Civic club
! Educational Extension work
Men's Handball tournament
Handball classes for men . .
Volleyball classes for. men
Swimming instruction 400
have earned to swim in Y tank
during year -
-Bible study classes .
Sunday
campaign.
School membership
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"Y" GREAT CIVIC LEAB
Y" ' "Twenty-Four-Hour-Day"
club -.'
, Inter-clty contests, men with
other cities
' Inter-city contest, boys '
Older boys conference
Boxing classes
Junior Hi-Y club, McKinley
schoo i "
Service 'membership
Boys' clubs, 16 clubs
Thrift Week Campaign
Mother-and-Son Banquet .
Visitation Team
j Cooperation with churches for
Easter Week
Sunday Park Services
' Men's Class In Public 'Speak
ing I Men's - Class in Salesmanship
: Men's Class in Citizenship
Boys' training class in Wil
lamette University
Hikes, paper chases, etc.
s Cooperation with County
work '
, ' Life Saving " Classes
, Tumbling Classes
i Pentathlon, fori boys, April. ,
Pentathlon for boys, Christmas
week
. Hexathlon for boys, classified
Christian Citizenship Training.
Advertising church services
Swimming contests for boys
Work Highly Efficient
. The work of, the Salem Y as
described by one nationally known
Y obserrer. has been . pronounced
&3 without equal considering . its
equipment. And Harry Stdne, of
Portland, interrupting irt the
great :YMCA conference in Port
land last week, where John R.
Mott, the greatest: Y worker in
the world, was the 'principal
speaker, said: "The work of
training- Y, workers is being done
better through the Salem YMCA,
and Willamette University, than
anywhere else west of: the Miss
issippi " river." f Heshould know
be hss ' three of the WLHamette
Salem Y graduates already, ; and
will have three more this year -they
furnish - him; all, his new
men. and they are making ex
traordinarily good.. t . -
So much for the quality of
work that goes outside of the
city.- One -would Hardly "need to"
add to these superlatives from
such eminent authorities.
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Hall, women's dormitory at AVillamefto UnlTersity.
But the .real - quantity, - and
much of the real quality, is done
right at home. . Take, for,, in
stance, the swimming week, con
ducted for the past two years by
Tom Gawley, swimming instruc
tor' of tbe . Portland YMCA.
During -, Swimming Week, last
May, almost 1000 young people,
all the way from children up to
the young women of the business
classes and the Willamette Uni
versity, attended; 400 became
proficient enough through the : Y
teachings during the year,' to be
come real llfesavers in the water.
"Bill" East, one of the Y boys,
was life guard ' at the municipal
play grounds last summer; he
did save at least one - life that
was surely lost but for his " Y
skill. , The classes . in life-saving
are ot the highest efficiency; the
swimming has . the skilled super
vision of swimmers who can
teach tbe ' art and .400 - learned
it during the year. This swim
ming ; week is a regular Salem Y
Institution. ;
: Helps Municipal - Playground -
Either Secretary Kells or Phy
sical Director Boardman of. the
Salem ,Y was somewhere on the
job through most of the eight
weeks of the municipal r play
ground season, last year; and
for weeks before the season
opened, 'in planning and install-,
leg the apparatus and the gener
al scheme of the work. What
this play, ground meant to the
tired' mothers of Salem, and to
the children .. themselves, is- be-
yound the power of mere figures
to estimate.
Salem has been curiously re
luctant or unfortunate in keep
ing up professional . base .ball
teams. But the people like base
ball; it : is food . and drink for
many men and boys. The Salem
Y has taken over most of the
burdens of the annual Twilight
League, that. Is . growing to be a
real baseball classic. The sche
dule is arranged mostly through
the T. the listing of - members,
the annual banquet, and in every
way It is a recognized Y activity,
though . of course it enlists some
excellent assistance from ' outside
its -own Tegular membership. " r
. Supervises Boys League
. The Boys - Twilight League . Is
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vlatcn II
Sets Pace for All Movements
Review of the Year's Wo rk
a pocket edition - of t';e same
idea, cut down to boys': size. Th
league last summer functioned
so well, that It 'is . definitely
planned for this year. . It occu
pies the time , and energies of tbe
boys at a time when they most
need 'the -fine, manly t-uiervisfoTi
that, the , Xseriea gel3 from the
trained Y' workers. , . -
FIfty;ioy"s took "part in the
Boys tennis tournament list
summer, held mostly ' urider the
Y supervision, and" played mostly
by Y members. It was one of
the reddesthottest meets of tha
kind ever held on "the coast, and it
produced some stars among its
50 ; players. They oka sissal
honors In the Portland tourna
ment. The meet In Salem wa3 al
most thrilling in its - rivalry; ' and
it attracti)d the attention of a
good many men who would have
given -a thousand dollars to -be
able to play as well as some 1 ot
the Y "kids. .
Public Takes Interest
The New Year Open lloasa was
attended , by. almost .2,000 itecpla
of Salem, who crowded in to see
what their boys and girls are
doing. They found a delightful
program of clean athletics and
gymnastic i, and - good music, and
good fellowship: The Y has 'al
ways .been the center of thea
young, people's - public ? meetings.
The Willamette Y held such- a re
ception there, attended by 300 ot
the students; and the Salem Hfga
school held- their- open house,
which vu largely attended.
' There " are 16 Boys' "CIu'.. j,
groups of from slx to : ten I . 3,
each group under the' laadersl!?
of a young man from - Willai..- i ta
University. These classes I - a
been '.wonderfully helpful to t ".i
the members and; tha !ea,
Most of the Willamette - men u r
planning either-for regular T
secretarial -work, or for tit;
citizenship In which service co-" ' j
as the first duty " and privi'. ;
some are planning for the r.i!
try. and it is not to bs a 1: -faced,
-sacredotal black-clc I
ministry, but a good-fpllo-Vi
understanding of humanity r 1
what it heeds to make it : -and
healthier, and . bett?r. -
of the leaders take their boys t;t
their homes, for little parties; c:.
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