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722 POPULATION AND SOCIETY.
and sectarian colleges and universities " are numerous.
The means 6( education are furnished at the institution
for the deaf, dumb, and blind, the orphanages,
and the Industrial school" near San Francisco. The
state is also ambitious to supplement practical education
with special and general forms of culture. It is
but natural that art u should follow science, 14 and but
reasonable that a higher development should be looked
for in both. No better field for the scientist
could be found; nor a more inviting one for
the artist, although the extraordinary heights and
depths of mountain scenery militate against thtj
production of small and unpretending pictures, and
tend to the bizarre effects of great single objects.
Sculpture ia California is not represented by
American artists, and but slightly at all, although
tion for the education of young women, has maintained a high reputation.
It was incorporated as Mills college in 1886.
71 University college of San Francisco was founded under the auspices of
Calvary church in 1800. It opened in the basement of that edifice under
the direction of Dr Burrows. A lot was purchased at the cor of Geary and
Stockton sts, upon which a suitable edifice was erected, with the intention of
removing in time to a tract of land 4 miles from the city on the San Bruno
road. It is however at present located on Haight st, bet. Octavia and
Laguna sts. The plan of this institution is to give an education equal to
any of the eastern colleges. It is now in the hands of a board of unsectarian
trustees. S. F. Theological seminary located on Haicht st was opened
in 1871 for students of all denominations. The Jesuit college of St Ignatius
in S. F., opened in 1855, is a wealthy and well-equipped institution, and
the same might be said of the colleges of other catholic orders, whose sectarianism
is the means of power. Sacred Heart college had in 1887 700 students.
Sacred Heart Presentation convent, opened in 1869, had GOO. St
Mary's college, opened in 1863, had 250 students.
72 In April 1859 the legislature passed an jict for the establishment of a
state reform school, and an appropriation was made of $30,000 to erect
buildings on a tract 5 miles from Alarysville, which in 1861 was increased
by the further appropriation of $25,000. The institution was broken up in
18G8, and the property turned over to the city of Mar/sville. Cb/. StaL,
18(50, 20O-5. In April 1858 the legislature established the Industrial 8ebool
department of the city and county of San Francisco, still in existence. Itj
aini3 are reformatory and punitive.
7J San Francisco has an academy of design doing very creditable work.
It has net hitherto attracted the attention of men who had money to bestow
on erfneational objects, and has struggled along with such support as
pupils and artists have given it. For many years it was under the care of
Virgil Williams, a landscape painter of note, and a conscientious teacher.
74 The California academy of sciences in S. F. organized April 4, 1853,
first occupied hired rooms, but subsequently moved into the olcl chnrch at
the cor of California and Dupont sts. There was given to the society hy
James Lick a valuable lot on Market st, on which the future home of the
academy will be erected. The membership is at present 350.