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In all of this work there has been no idea of aping the university 

 to the slightest degree. Many years of experience as student and 

 teacher in a number of colleges and universities, have convinced me 

 that the American college has a destiny uniquely its own. I believe 

 that there are greater possibilities in the Christian college for the 

 building of individual character, and for laying the broadest and 

 soundest foundations for true culture and great scholarship, than 

 anywhere else on earth. Just so, I also believe that tremendous 



Showing the tide pools at Mussel Point. Here are immense colonies of mussels, 

 barnacles, sea urchins ami coralline algae. This place is exceedingly rich collecting 

 ground. 



ideals of really adequate and sane high school work can easily be 

 built up without overlapping the college in any way, and I came to 

 this belief while associated in practical high school work with two 

 masters of that subject Prof. Bryan, now Assistant Superintendent 

 of the St. Louis schools, and Miss Ernst, now Principal of the Cote 

 Brilliante School in St. Louis. 



Our work in Pomona College, and all connected with it, has been 

 developed along strictly college lines, with all of the intimate indi- 

 vidual interest and assistance, and all of the varied and endless sacri- 



