Five College Institutions Located in the San Francisco Bay Area
CHAPTER 5 FIVE COLLEGE INSTITUTIONS LOCATED IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Pacific Grove is to be indeed a center of educational interest; the home of a summer school with a fac- ulty of teachers such as our best schools and colleges can furnish, and a gathering place for students from all over the Golden State.1 Drawing on the academic talent positioned in five college institutions, located in the San Francisco Bay area, the Pacific Coast Assembly gathered together a patchwork of departments of instruction directed toward the following: Natural History, Literature (both secular and religious), Languages (both classical and modern), Music, Art, a Teach- ers School of Methods (i.e. pedagogy), and Sunday School Normal Work. A brief de- scription of the early history of these academic institutions, 1) California State Normal School at San Jose, 2) University of the Pacific in San Jose, 3) Mills College in Oakland, 4) University of California, Berkeley, and 5) Leland Stanford Junior University in Palo Alto, and the instructors from each of these institutions who contributed to the Pacific Coast Assembly, lends to further our understanding of the educational efforts associated with the Pacific Coast Branch of the CLSC in Pacific Grove, California. Within these paragraphs is presented the Assembly or Assemblies each instructor contributed to, based upon information gathered from Pacific Coast Assembly programs, newspaper ar- ticles, and popular periodicals of the day. That being stated, there exists more than a strong probability that a number of these instructors contributed to more gatherings of the Pacific Coast Assembly than are identified here.
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