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HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



Mr. Arthur, on behalf of the citizens of Pasadena, presented to the 

 trustees of the Throop Institute, a very fine life-size oil portrait of Father 

 Throop, elegantly framed, which was unveiled to the audience by two young 

 lady students while he spoke. And it was accepted in a fitting speech on 

 behalf of the trustees by President Keyes, who spoke for Mr. Throop, presi- 

 dent of the board. 



HON. A. G. THROOP— FATHER THROOP. 



Following this, Father Throop himself, in a speech of deep earnestness 

 and pathos, made formal presentation of the Throop Polytechnic Institute, 

 with all its lands, buildings, equipments and endowments, as a free gift to 

 the City of Pasadena and her people. He bequeathed it to them as a sacred 

 trust, to be fostered and su.stained, and made to subserve the highest and 

 noblest uses of a thorough-going, practical, moral, self-helpful, unsectarian 



Note.— The damaged condition of the above cut was not known till on press, too late for remedy. 



