Tuesday, November 28, 1922
THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
OKKGOX 47 YEA11S AGO
At an all-college dinner recently
given in Condon Mrs. D. S. Brown
wa3 the principal speaker. Mr. and
Mrs. Brown are "old timers" in the
Condon country and are much es
teemed by a host of friends. Mrs.
Brown's remarks are as follows:
"The University of Oregon in thf
early seventies, as I knew it, was a
far different institution than today.
As you know, it was created by an
act of the legislature in 1872. Ore
gon had been a state only 17 years
and the Southern Pacific railroad had
i JjOId and Young Patriots Unite in Ceremony
G. A. R. and Hill Military Academy Cadets Salute the Flag.
One of the features at Hill Military academy recently" was a patriotic
'Ceremony in which the honored guests were prominent members of the
Grend Army of the Republic. The tiniest cadets and the elderly heroes of
"the Civil war united in the service. These inspiring ceremonies are frequent
ioccurences at the academy in Portland. Among the juniors were three
little lads whose mother passed away a few months ago. The father who
lives in California could not leave his business 'to care for them and so
sent them to the Hill Military academy saying, "Keep them through the
.grades and high school." The private schools of Oregon are carefully caring
for many orphans and half orphans who would be most directly injured'
If the so-called compulsory educational measure should become a law. For
that reason many taxpayers are working to dofeat that measure. In addi
tion if adopted the bill would cause a great increase in taxes as the private
school children, numbering nearly 8,000, would have to be cared for in public
institutions and schools.
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just been completed to California.
Lane county, by the act that located
the university at Eugen was required
o furnish a site for the university
building, which was not to cost less
than 150,000.
"Through the efforts of Lane coun
ty citizens were laid the plans for
the futude educational instituvion of
this tiate.
"'ihe money was :on1ribut1 to
build Deady hall, trie first building
end it was presented to the board r
regents in 18 76. Uehool began in
September of the same yeai. At
th.-i- time only one ;cor of the build
ing was completed.
"Admission to -'Ii. univvit-ily was
from the public schools, whic'i v.e:o
not then graded, ana was by passing
the teacher's examination and by
flaying $20 tuition fees and a $?.C0
jiiniioffee.
The first faculty consisted f of
Pi '.-sklent J. W. Johnson, languages;
Prof. Mark Bailey, mathematics;
Prof. Thomas Condon, state geolo
gist; and Mrs. Boi3j Shiller, prepa
ratory department? who fsr.ght the
students tha subject tbey had neg
Ucted in the public selicoi.
"It was decided by the faculty to
hold commencement exercises at the
close of the first year. The exer
cises consisted of recitations, essays
and musjic. The first class was grad
uated the second year in J uns,
13 ?. It consisted of grown men and
not of boys, as today. The graduates
ware Judge Robert Bean, of Port
land; Wallace, Wooloy, Clay an 1
Farmer Hill, lawyers and ministers:
and .Vrs ellie Condon McCvn:icf.
of San Francisco. '
"A few other early students and
graduates were Dr. E. P. Geary, of
Portland; J. M. Jearcy, o prominent
lawyer of Portland; Cadet Powell, at
onetime clerk of Multnomah county;
-M-iue sievens, present superin
tendent of St. John's school. Port
land; and may others I could men
tion.
I had the honor of being a char
ter member of the Young Women's
-'luh, known as the Eulaxian Society
"i7iiich is still in ix'stt.nc-?. but no
doubt now known as a club not a
society."
Mrs. Brown's father was J. J.
Scott of Lane county. His donation
land claim (homestead) was a part
of what is now the city of Eugene.
Mr. Scott was deeply interested in
Uij success of the new educational
iiisiitution and made the final con
tribution to the fund that enabled
Lane county to furnish the site l'oj
tie university building, thus mak
ing its location certain at Eugene.
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