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 Willamette Valley. A sermon was preached by Rev. Gu«tavus Hines, and $650 was contributed by less than twenty feunilies; and out of the prayerful dream of the "Lausanne" missionaries came forth the first university of the Pacific OLD OBEOON INSTITUTE

Coast. But the university was a long time is materializing. Meanwhile these were some of the things that took place:

The Indian Mission School, which has been mentioned, was moved (1842) to what is now the campus of Willamette University, where it was conducted in a $10,000 frame building. At about this time the white settlers planned a school for their own children, elected a board of trustees, subscribed funds, named the school The Oregon Institute, resolved that it should grow into a college, and began to look about for a suitable location. Their investigations resulted in the purchase of the Indian Mission School property. The Oregon Institute was formally opened as a school for white children, on the present University Campus in Salem, August 1 6, 1 844, with Mrs. Chloe Clark Wilson as teacher in charge of nineteen pupils. Mrs. Willson, who came to Oregon for the express purpose of teaching the children of 1

the white settlers, was present when the $650 was subscribed on the * 'Lausanne*' for the establishment of a school in the Willamette Valley. As soon as fhm Oregon and California Conference^ of the M. £. Church completed ill organization in f 649, it assumed entire control of the school, which vras incorporated as Willamette Untverstty in 1851. The Con** f erence also designated the Oregon Institute as the prepara* tory school of the Univerdity.

Waller Hall, the oldest building on the campus, was begun in 1864, Governor Gibbs delivering the address at the laying of the comer stone. The Greek cross form of. the building was suggested by Bishop Janes of the M. £. Church. The College of Medicine after giving