TOLD by the PIONEERS - Washington Secretary of State

Told
by the Pioneers
ern California at Los Angeles. The opening' week classes were organized
in the three academy years and in the sub-academy, art, music
and commercial departments. In the first year there appears to have
been no students registered in the College of Liberal Arts, although
arrangements had been made for such students. In the school vear'
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1891-92 there were two liberal arts registrations.
In June of 1893 Charles M. Sherman received the bachelor of arts
degree, haying done previous college work in Iowa.
The first graduate to complete the four years of liberal arts work
in this institution was the Hon. Browder D. Brown, in 1895. At present
Mr. Brown is assistant attorney general of this state.
The moral standards of this school is its beginnings were shown
in the warning to students against intoxicating liquors, visits to
drinking or gambling saloons, card-playing or any form of gambling,
"the use of tobacco in any form" and obscene writings or drawings
on the college grounds.
The majority of the students made their own way, carrying newspapers,
mowing lawns, caring for furnaces, clerking in stores, waiting
table, shining shoes, preaching, and in doing many things students
find to do.
Boarding clubs sprang up in the neighborhood and much of the
time the school sponsored a boarding' club and dormitory rooms.
Student fees were moderate, being only $15.00 per term for the liberal
arts and less for the academy students.
At the close of the school year in June, 1891, Pres. Cherington made
this summary of the school year: "The Puget Sound University has
closed its first year successfully. A class of seven graduated from
the academic department. All classes have been full and enthusiastic.
" .
The fine university building was the home of the school only one
school year. Litigation arose over the titles to the donations of lots
and lands near the university, thus stopping the sales and depriving
the school of its chief source of revenue. Not being near a street car
line, the campus was found to be difficult of access. So in the summer
of 1891 the university building was leased to the Tacoma school
board and two years later by purchase became a part of the Tacoma
school system.
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In September, 1891, the second year of the university began ill the
Ouimette building at South Tenth and Yakima streets. At the end
of four years in the Ouimette building, the school was transferred to
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