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 Whitman College 
 
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 “A distinguished student of 
 
 geography and of men has 
 declared that the Northwest— 
 meaning Oregon, Washington, 
 Idaho, a part of Montana and a 
 part ef Canada—is likely to be 
 the home of a better stock of men 
 of cur race than has yet been de- 
 veloped elsewhere in the United 
 States, or in Canada, or in any 
 part of the British colonies.” 
 
Che Old Whitman 
 and the Nem 
 
 HE present Whitman College is 
 
 enriched by a noble history. Harvard 
 
 reveres the English clergyman who 
 bequeathed it 4750 and his library of 300 
 books. Yale celebrates the name of the 
 English merchant who endowed it with 
 £600; both institutions have struggled up 
 from simple beginnings, by many sacrifices, 
 to their present opulent life. Whitman has 
 a yet more romantic and heroic history. 
 The College bears the name of a 
 
 aie Pie a; Its 
 
 great Christian missionary, who died H, 
 * at his post of duty in the Pacific 7” 
 . Northwest, and whose vigorous life of 
 _ service for his country will ever be an 
 _ inspiration to its students; it expresses in its 
 _.foundation the devoted loyalty of his friend, 
 ~ Cushing Eells, and his prophetic anticipa- 
 ~ tion of the future importance of the region 
 = in which Dr. Whitman died; it lives today 
 -» because of the sublime self-sacrifice of its 
 * founder, and in a lesser degree of those 
 
 “2 men and women who have given their lives 
 
 = and fortunes to it. As it looks backward, 
 it is conscious of an heroic past and a rich 
 - inheritance of faith and effort. It must be 
 loyal to its founders. 
 
[ IT HAS acquired traditions in the fifty- 
 one years of its actual existence. The 
 fine scholarship of Williams College was 
 ji; blended in Cushing Eells with Chris- 
 Traditions tlam earnestness, and today Whitman 
 College stands in the life of the 
 Northwest for these two distinct ideals, of a 
 service which shall be Christian in its spirit 
 and scholarly in its standards. To these 
 ideals must be added that of the College life 
 today, namely, a certain wholesome friend- 
 liness between all its members, exemplifying 
 the brotherhood of man. 
 
 HAT has the College achieved besides 
 these three inestimable traditions? 
 It has grown from a village school of 1866 
 to a college of the New England type, whose 
 The students pass with full credit to equal 
 standing in the best colleges and 
 universities of the East. Its present 
 Freshman class numbers seventy-five. 
 It has accumulated already a larger endow- 
 ment than Yale had after a hundred years, 
 and has a total property valued at over a 
 half a million of dollars. It has a beautiful 
 campus, several modern and well-equipped 
 buildings of stone and brick, a library of 
 over fifteen thousand volumes, good though 
 crowded laboratories for Biology, Physics 
 and Chemistry, a valuable museum, a Fac- 
 ulty whose learning and devotion could not 
 well be surpassed, and a student-body whose 
 loyalty and enthusiasm are equally note- 
 worthy. 
 
 Progress 
 
yf T OFFERS 227 courses each semester, 
 
 675 hours each week, of instruction in 
 Philosophy, Pedagogy, History, Economics, 
 Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, German, 
 Spanish, Italian, English, Mathe- 
 matics, Astronomy, Mechanical lis Present 
 Drawing, Physics, Chemistry, Work 
 Biology, Geology, Science of Music, 
 Domestic Science, and Physical Training. 
 The student who graduates must have fin- 
 ished acceptably 128 hours of such work, 
 made up first of certain definitely prescribed 
 studies; second, of 32 hours in his “major” 
 study, and the balance of electives, varying 
 with the degree for which he is a candidate. 
 The College gives four degrees, Bachelor 
 of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of 
 Letters, and Bachelor of Music. Its gradu- 
 ates are accepted as candidates for the 
 Master’s degree in one year by every 
 American university. 
 
 Y REASON OF its high entrance 
 
 requirements of thirty-two credits, the 
 College is obliged to maintain a preparatory 
 department, Pearsons Academy, in Th 
 order to prepare the many students 
 who come to it unable to enter the 
 Freshman class without conditions. All 
 work in the Academy is under the super- 
 vision of the Principal and the direction of 
 college professors. Its students have the 
 advantage of the College atmosphere. “The 
 graduates of Pearsons Academy are prepared 
 to enter any college or university in the land. 
 
 Academy 
 
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THE Whitman Conservatory of Music 
 maintains similar high standards of 
 musical art and scholarship. It has well- 
 developed departments of Pipe Organ, 
 The Piano, Voice, Stringed Instru- 
 ments, Wind Instruments, and 
 Science of Music, with a large 
 corps of thoroughly trained and experienced 
 teachers. [he pipe organ, orchestra, band, 
 choral society, glee clubs, chapel choir, 
 concerts and recitals enrich the life of the 
 institution and contribute both to its pleas- 
 ureableness and to the development of 
 artistic appreciation. Besides the degree 
 of Bachelor of Music, diplomas and normal 
 certificates are awarded to those who have 
 attained the requisite scholarship and pro- 
 ficiency. The President of the College is 
 also Director of the Conservatory. 
 
 Conservatory 
 
 HITMAN COLLEGE, therefore, 
 
 is today a small institution of less than 
 
 four hundred students of both sexes, estab- 
 lished on a firm foundation of endowment 
 and property, dependent in part 
 upon the tuition fees of its students 
 and the gifts of its friends, and already rich 
 in its history, traditions, and religious spirit. 
 As a private institution, it is free from politi- 
 cal or sectarian domination. It stands for 
 the highest in scholarship and in character. 
 
 Summary 
 
Che New Whitman 
 
 ORDER to understand the natural 
 ‘development which is before the College, 
 it is necessary first to appreciate its geo- 
 graphical location at the strategic centre of 
 the great Northwest. Cushing Eells 
 was providentially guided when he 
 located the College at Walla Walla, 
 the garden spot of “Old Oregon,” for he 
 unconsciously selected the one site which, 
 with incomparable advantages of mild 
 climate and fertile soil, would be equally 
 advantageous as an educational centre for 
 the future populations of Idaho, Oregon, 
 and Washington. Other cities will be larger 
 as the Northwest develops, but none is so 
 centrally located, and as the great agricuit- 
 ural and horticultural enterprises of the 
 Inland Empire are pushed to completion 
 and irrigation reclaims great areas now use- 
 ful only for grazing, Walla Walla will be 
 surrounded by a densely settled territory of 
 unrivalled prosperity and will be recognized 
 as an ideal college town. Within a radius 
 of two hundred and fifty miles are found 
 the present cities of Spokane (100,000), 
 Portland (200,000), Tacoma (100,000), 
 Seattle (250,000), Boise (25,000), and 
 many smaller towns of from two thousand 
 to ten thousand population, with a total 
 population today, within the circle, of at 
 
 Strategic 
 Location 
 
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least a million and a half. And this region, 
 blest with extraordinary natural resources, 
 is easily capable of sustaining a population 
 of fifty millions. Whitman College is at 
 its centre. 
 
 ECAUSE of this remarkable central 
 location, Commanding the three states, 
 the Trustees of Whitman College feel that 
 the College must be made, in a larger 
 The sense, the representative educa- 
 tional institution for the whole 
 Northwest. It must meet the needs 
 of a larger constituency than it does today, 
 and without forgetting its history and tradi- 
 tions, must contribute more effectively to 
 all the developments which shall take place 
 in the life of the Northwest. What Harvard 
 and Yale are to New England, Whitman 
 hopes to be to the Northwest. 
 
 New College 
 
 S THE first step towards its new 
 responsibilities, it proposes to establish 
 
 a School of Technology, where engineers 
 will be trained to develop the astonishing 
 natural resources of the Pacific 
 
 rpitalic’ Northwest. Certain definite 
 peculiarities will characterize its 
 engineering departments: first, they will be 
 established in order, one after another, as 
 rapidly as means are provided for equipment 
 and instruction equal to the best in the 
 United States; second, the hig’est standards 
 of proficiency will be demanded of the 
 students who receive a degree in engineer- 
 
 Technology 
 
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ing; third, the value of culture as well as of 
 technique will be distinctively recognized in 
 the curriculum; and fourth, the influences 
 and inspirations of the present life of the 
 College will be brought to bear equally 
 upon the lives of the engineering students. 
 Departments of Civil, Mechanical, Elec- 
 trical, Hydraulic, and Mining Engineering 
 will be founded, in fact are already begun 
 so far as the first three years of instruction 
 are concerned in which a common founda- 
 tion is laid. 
 
 THE Trustees of the College feel that 
 
 Whitman has a distinct and rare influ- 
 ence to exert on the development of the 
 Northwest, and they believe 
 that this may be exerted in 
 a large degree by means of 
 the skilled engineers whom it will train. 
 The natural wealth of the region tributary 
 to the College is incalculable. Great water 
 powers, mines of gold, silver, copper, lead, 
 and coal, vast stretches of irrigable lands, 
 forests of fir, pine and cedar, await develop- 
 ment and presage a rich and _ populous 
 civilization in the future. 
 
 Natural Resources 
 of the Northwest 
 
 ZA SCHOOL of Forestry and Irrigation 
 
 is needed for the training of experts 
 to conserve the great tim- 
 ber resources of the North- 
 west, to assist in caring 
 for the thirty-one forest reserves which the 
 Government of the United States has 
 
 School of 
 Forestry and Irrigation 
 
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already set apart with a total area of 
 63,250 square miles, and to direct the 
 reclamation of vast areas of arid and semi- 
 arid land. 
 
 SCHOOL of Commerce and Banking 
 
 is needed to develop trained finan- 
 
 School of ciers who can adequately 
 
 Commerce and Banking solve the business prob- 
 
 lems of the Northwest 
 
 and honorably guide its economic and 
 financial development. 
 
 N ADDITION to the School of Music 
 already flourishing, an Art School is 
 needed for the cultivation of the zsthetic 
 School ofidet side of life and for enriching the 
 civilization of the future with the 
 influence of painting and sculpture. “The 
 study of architecture and the training of 
 architects will be a feature of this depart- 
 ment. 
 
 HEN these steps have been taken, 
 all in the line of higher standards of 
 education and of a more efficient life, what 
 will Whitman College be? It will still be 
 a college and not a university; it will 
 Modest : : 
 Ai still offer work only for the bachelor’s 
 1miS * r i : 
 degrees; it will still be true to its 
 traditions and its religious spirit; and it will 
 still aim at quality, rather than quantity, 
 seeking not so much large numbers of 
 students as to give the finest and most effec- 
 tive training to the students, whether few 
 
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or many, who come to it ambitious for the 
 
 best. 
 
 to being big. 
 
 It will steadfastly prefer being great 
 
 Che Cost 
 
 HAT will it cost 
 plans? 
 
 to carry out these 
 
 A conservative estimate 
 
 would provide for the following buildings 
 as necessary: 
 
 Two Science Buildings, 
 equipped, each 
 Three Dormitories, each 
 A Central Heating Plant 
 Library Building . } 
 Conservatory of Music 
 Chapel (in memory of 
 Cushing Eells) 
 Aoundine=. 2. 
 Academy Building (for 
 Pearsons Academy) 
 
 Total for buildings 
 
 $100,000 
 50,000 
 
 $200,000 
 150,000 
 40,000 
 50,000 
 75,000 
 
 50,000 
 50,000 
 
 50,000 
 $665,000 
 
 BY T these buildings must be maintained 
 
 and the new departments 
 
 An 
 
 an increase of expenses. 
 of the College must be greatly increased. 
 
 Five Science Departments, 
 each wis 
 
 Library Pardee’ 
 Twenty Professorships, 
 
 euch ree se). 
 Total for endowment 
 
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 properly 
 
 ndowed, or the College would quickly 
 
 e 
 ee bankrupt. 
 
 of students and equipment means 
 
 increase 
 Budow ment 
 
 The endowment 
 
 $100,000 $500,000 
 100,000 
 
 30,000 600,006 
 $1,200,000 
 
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 Still a ae 
 
 [f THESE figures seem too ambitious, 
 
 it should be remembered that they would 
 still leave Whitman a “small college,” in 
 the class of Amherst, Dartmouth, Oberlin, 
 and Williams, the endowments of which are 
 listed respectively at $1,800,000, $2,600,- 
 000, $1,800,000, and $1,400,000. They ~ 
 contemplate no costly post-graduate depart- 
 ments, no “university’’ work, but merely — 
 the fitting of the College to do in the best 
 manner the preparatory training of the 
 professional men of the Northwest, its 
 engineers, lawyers, doctors, ministers, bank- 
 ers, merchants, artists, architects, musicians, 
 and scholars. In large numbers these men 
 are now going to Eastern colleges because ~ 
 of their superior advantages. Is it not time 
 that the Pacific Northwest should have its 
 own Yale or Harvard, a non-political, non- 
 sectarian private institution, maintaining th 
 highest standards of scholarship and loyai 
 to the noblest ideals ? 
 
 
 
 Help Whitman College to become this! 
 
 Prof. A. W. Hendrick has been appointed 
 by the Trustees Dean of Whitman College 
 and entrusted with the campaign outlined 
 above. 
 
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