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our most populous and opulent city, in order to secure in future years 

 liberal endowments from its wealthy citizens, it may not be improper to 

 state, what evciy one will recognize as a universal truth, that after an 

 institution of learning has been fixed at any particular location, the fact 

 of location eeases to bo an inducement for donations; while, if the loca- 

 tion be fixed upon with strict reference to its adaptability to the objects 

 and success of that institution, and the institution itself be so organized 

 and managed as to secure a high character and promise great practical 

 benefit to the State and future genei'ations, it commends itself to the 

 judgment and furnishes a constant and powerful appeal to the pride and 

 liberality of those who have the disposition and means to assist worthy 

 educational enterprises. Institutions of learning never become famed 

 or renowned for tueir location only, but rather because they secure and 

 judiciously use the elements of success and greatness, and promise and 

 accomplish great good to mankind. 



No man ever desired to associate his name by endowment with an 

 educational institution because of its particular location, but rather that 

 the institution endowed might become the certain and honorable bearer 

 of his name down to posterity as the benefactor of his race — something 

 in the same spirit that a high minded and intelligent father feels a pride 

 and joy in the perpetuation of his name, through the usefid and noble 

 deeds of a worthy, honored, and successful son. 



It having also been urged as a reason ior locating the Industrial Col- 

 lege in San Francisco that the climate there is more " bracing and healthy, 

 and better fitted for sustained study and intellectual effort than that of 

 any other part of the State," we hope it will not be considered improper 

 in this report, while speaking especially for the interests of the indus- 

 trial classes, to notice this argument and probe its defects. If this reason 

 be good in reference to this college, which is intended principally for 

 practically teaching the miners and the farmers, and their sons, in the 

 several arts and sciences which relate to their respective callings, and 

 which can onl}^ be thoroughly done on the one hand by a frequent 

 recourse to and an examination and work in the mines themselves, as 

 the most valuable laboratorj' for the mining student, and on the other 

 hand by a constant and continued system of experiments on the farm 

 and in the garden, as the best laboratory for the agriculturist and horti- 

 culturist, then with how much more power such a reason would apply to 

 all the mere literaiy institutions of the State — including the numei-ous 

 newspapers and journals of the interior — to the religious organizations 

 whose lay members depend on the study and research of their ministers 

 for correct instruction in the divine truth — to legislative bodies, upon 

 whom the people depend for wise and beneficent laws, and to legal tribu- 

 nals, who are expected to perform the almost impossible task of reconcil- 

 ing and expounding those laws? If such reason or such argument be 

 sound, then every man in the State who is pursuing a calling which 

 requires intellectual study or research should remove at once to that 

 particular loeality for relief, leaving all other portions of the State to be 

 inhabited and developed by physical labor alone, by the mere machines 

 of society, who are governed and controlled by instinct rather than intel- 

 lect and reasori. 



Such a reason, followed to its legitimate results, should lead to the 

 establishment of this institution in some colder and more bracing climate 

 than we have within our borders, and as it seems to ignore the real 

 objects of the institution itself, pei-haps it Avould call upon us to go to the 

 highlands of Scotland — to the gi*eat City of Ediuburg, which is said to 



