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Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 20

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Oakland Tribunei
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Oakland, California
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WEDNESDAY EVENING SDaftlanD oiounc AUGUST 1928 EDUCATIONAL itect, in charge of the work at St, Mary's. He added: "The background of native trees will be cherished as the -keynote ol future plantings and exotic trees with large outlines wi'tkbe avoided as far as possible. A few eucalyptus of the rarer variety will nov doubt nwA in gmnll nllimnn tO DrSVidft Panoramic View of New St. Mary's College at Moraga Showing the splendid architectural group composing the buildings of the new St. course of construction, the science buildings, dining rooms, kitchens etc and (extreme Mary's college at Moraga.

(Left) The dormHory complex; (center) the chapel in right) the power plant. John J. Donovan is the architect and J. P. B.ennan, contractor.

Landscaping at New St. Mary's "The new Sairjt Mary's campus affords an unusual opportunity for the landscape architect. A new and almost complete institution sprung into being almost over night. There need be no piece meal operations but all effort can be made to conform to previously conceived general plans." Thus comments Howard Gilkey, noted landscape arch IT ST. i i (.

i I I I I ut rs TOLD .,1.1...... hma WVPUmO hOSt other natives will constitute the mass of new tree growtn 20 WORK I By BROTHEtt GREGORY Provincial of the Christian Brothers of California. The best way to appreciate the educational work, done at Saint Mary's college is to reflect upon facts which mav be regarded as es HERRICK IRON WORKS Oakland STRUCTURAL STEEL sential In the life of the Christian Brothers and in the management of their varied institutions. The Brothers are specialists in education; they do their teaching in consonance with an elastic yet defin- ite philosophy of life. The Brothers of the Christian Schools, ever since their foundation two centuries and a half ago.

In the days of Louis XIV, have concentrated upon educational activities. In a dav when it was generally as MKHWWraHW- Wl INI III I I I I I II ill Willi ill iHS II ll.l I I lIMHI Jj 1 MM! J.I different, human nature has not appreciably changed during the rel IP mi ativeiy few years of man's earthly lire. These foundational truths are Vast Amount of Material Used -ffome idea of the vast amount of material used in constructing St. Mary's college is shown by the fact that over 60,000 tons of building material including rock, sand and gravel, were unloaded and conveyed by a hundred foot Russell convenr to bunkers from where it was trucked to the various Jobs. This 60,000 tons of material represents a train load of over 1000 cars, the recognized at St.

Mary's college and their Influences play upon the conduct of every class and the teaching of every subject. To a great extent the modern world, including the modern educational world, is like a traveler who has lost his way, like a man Who, having missed the road, decides that there is no road at all. Yet the weight of human thought and human experience points to the existence of a road, even though it be hard to find; and common sense would seem to show sumed that anybody could teach, their founder, St. John Baptist de la Salle, recognized the need of specific training for teachers and came the originator of the normal school. Andtoday, when for both men and women entrance into the teaching profession often becomes merely a transitional step in the direction of law or medicine or business or housekeeping, the Brothers deliberately and freely vow themselves to stability in the teaching office.

The college Is not sectarian, but the college does recognize the validity of certain principles in Congratulations and Best Wishes to ST. MARY'S COLLEGE WM. MAKIN "Just Plastering" unloading of which was done, un der contract, by A. W. Westover, who for many years has specialized In this kind of work.

that any road is better than snp I II, 1, rxt llf Westover states, "Due to condi tions it was impossible to use the Jack London advised young writers customary clam shell to unload the cars, so it was necessary to dig a pit, erect bunkers and Install a The right one if you can get, but anyhow some philosophy." At St. Mary's there is a definite philosophy of life. It is the essential More than 60,000 tons of building material for St. Mary's College handled by a Russell Conveyor Local Representatives Coast Road Machinery Co. 4051 San Pablo Ave.

Piedmont 0077 G. W. Westover GENERAL CONTRACTOR Specializing in UNLOADING ROCK, SAND AND GRAVEL 2101 San Pablo Avenue Oak. 5526 Builders Exchange OAKLAND function of St. Marys college toJ Russell conveyor.

With this equipment it was a simple matter to unload the cars and convey the various materials to the different bunkers to await the arrival of trucks." teaching and in life. Those principles are derived from human history and human civilization through two thousand years, the principles which brought forth the world's greatest artists and musicians and poets, the world's greatest thinkers and educators and architects. To education as to other human activities might well be applied Bacon's trenchant saying: "The Counsels to which Time is not (foalled, Time will not ratify." Our ancestors in culture and thought made their mistakes; but they Were not always mistakes. The modern equip her students with that philosophy as the most fitting panoply wherewith to live in a world that wanders in a spiritual fog. rn rfraiin MfflMnT W-TITTrMWBirr--M ST.

MARY'S COLLEGE SAINT MARY'S, CALIFORNIA "World can learn from both their failures and their triumphs. And though clothes are different and Our Heartiest Congratulations and Best Wishes for the Continued Success of ST. MARY'S COLLEGE Store Front Construction Estimates Furnished certain material aspects of life are Opening September 1 4th on its new 400-acre Campus near Moraga Chartered by the State to confer University Degrees. (SCHOOLS: Arts and Letters, Education, Commerce, Science and Compliments of Engineering. Resident and Non-Resident Students.

For formation address the Dean. 100-foot RuBiall Conveyor In Use at St. Mary's College, HBk. ja I niiiTTim tjih mir HS nm SH 5m na niiniiinim iiriii niirnTTfiT inMiTiVnirrTririiiii mFfim inn HBrBSsp Plate Glass Vitrolite Glass Skylight Glass Mirrors Auto Glass Furniture Tops SUNSET I 'V- -vvzlXMrXXMIXMIVMKXIZ in 1 lm Congratulation 9- I NURSERY 101 4 1 ST STREET Pied. 1044 to the New St.

Mary's College Iibbey Owens Window Glass 1928 Shattuck Avenue Phone Berkeley 3367 BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA Congratulations and Best Wishes to ST. MARY'S COLLEGE Staples and Pfeiffer 528 BRYANT STREET San Francisco Institutions such as 1 St. Mary's College have by their preference made Producers' Milk and Producers' Ice Cream the "Standard of the Eastbay" PRODUCERS' MILK ICE CREAM CO. mm MILK CO. HOWARD GILKEY WMSsnP.bl.

Oik.Und.blif. 31 tlkttidtjm-JJW-MTJ CONGRATULATIONS To St. Mary's College SUPERIOR? DOUGHNUT COMPANY 4260-62-64 Broadway Landscape Architect 337 Seventeenth St. Oakland Mn, MHkl. Congratulations and Best Wishes to ST.

MARY'S COLLEGE GEO. W. SCOTT LATHING 2743 San Pablo Avenue In ChaxKe of T.mnd.'apo Development of New St. Mary's College. Phones 3272-3-4-S-6 OAKLAND Congratulations and Ilest Wishes to ST.

MARY'S COLLEGE JOE STERN DEAL ER IN USED TRUCKS AND PARTS 2717 Peralta Street, Cor. 28th-Peralta Sts. Telephone Oakland 7678 OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 4067 Harding Wa Telephone Fruitvale 3I35W Oakland SI SARGENT LOCKS and HARDWARE AND McKINNEY BUTTS and HINGES FROM Associated Hardware Co. 3862 San Pablo Ave. OAKLAND HARDWOOD FLOORS FROM Aetna Hardwood Floor Co.

74 NEW MONTGOMERY ST. SAN FRANCISCO Congratulations and Best Wishes to ST. MARY'S COLLEGE Alhambra Water Co. 5736 TELEGRAPH AVE. Telephone Piedmont 0774 OAKLAND Congratulations and Best Wishes to Congratulations to ST.

MARY'S COLLEGE Cavigne and Perata SHEET METAL WORKS 814 29th Street OAKLAND California Corrugated ST. MARY'S COLLEGE LANNOM BROS. MFG. CO. GENERAL1 MILL WORK 5th and Magnolia Oakland Compliments of Jenison Machinery Company Successor to Smith-Booth-Usher Co.

Northern California Division 50 Fremont St. San Francisco THE H. V. GARTER COMPANY Extends compliments to St. Mary's College Upon a Beautiful Achievement H.

V. CARTER 52 Beale St. San Francisco Distributors of Lawn, Garden and Gotji Course Equipment. Culvert Company i Manufacturers of ARMCO PURE IRON Corrugated and Flumes, CALCO Drainage and Irrigation Gates WEST BERKELEX, CAL. IS 1 Congratulations and Best Wishes tp ST.

MARY'S COLLEGE FRANK W. DUNNE CO. PAINT MANUFACTURERS 41st and Linden, Oakland Congratulations IKi iT nTfgSWMWffi to Congratulations Saint Mary's College Reinforcing Steel Bars, Wire Fabric Furnished and Installed by SHASTA STEEL PRODUCTS CO. W. C.

HAUCK, Manager, Rialto S. F. McGRATH STEEL CO. Wm. E.

McGrath, Manager, Builders Exchange Oakland ST. MARY'S COLLEGE i Si Congratulations to SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE from Harrington-Mclnnis Cb. PRINTERS Congratulations and Best Wishes to ST. MARY'S COLLEGE R. N.

MURDOCH EXCAVATING AND GRADING C. T. MALCOM GRADING ImI WALNUT CREEK 1 1 263-265 12th St Oakland 0089 .5376 Belgrave Place, Oakland 1.

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