Title supplied by cataloger. In 1865, the Vincentian Fathers were commissioned to found St. Vincent's College for boys in Los Angeles, and appointed John Asmuth, C.M. as its first President Rector. The college was originally located in the Lugo Adobe House at the southeast corner of Alameda and Los Angeles streets. The building was one of few two-story complexes in the city at that time and had been donated by Vicente Lugo. Although the building no longer stands, its original site was across Alameda Street from the current Union Station on the Plaza near the southeast end of the city's historic Olvera Street. After two years, the school moved several blocks over. The campus encompassed Broadway, 6th, Hill, and 7th streets, the entire block being used for athletic fields, etc. Rapid growth prompted the Jesuits to seek a new campus on Venice Boulevard in 1917. In 1918, the name was changed to Loyola College of Los Angeles. The school relocated once again to the present Westchester campus in 1929, and achieved university status in 1930, becoming Loyola University of Los Angeles. In 1973, Loyola University and Marymount College merged to form Loyola Marymount University (also known as LMU). Through this union, the expanded university maintained the century-old mission of Catholic higher education in Los Angeles. Advertisement for St. Vincent's College reads: "This Institution, chartered according to the laws of the State of California, and empowered to confer degrees, is situated in the city of Los Angeles, proverbial for the salubrity of its climate and the beauty of is scenery. Students are received at any time of the year. The College is open to all over ten years, no matter of what denomination they may be, provided they are competent to enter the primary course at least, and provided they come with respectable recommendations, and are disposed to comply with the rules of the College, which though strict, are mild and parental. - The course embraces the commercial, the classical, and the scientific - Board, Washing, Tuition, and mending of things washed, per session of five months - $140.00; Vacation spent at the College, $40.00; For day pupils - Tuition per session of five months, $25.00; Extra charges - For Piano, and use of instrument, per month, $8.00; For Violin, Guitar, Flute, etc., per month, $6.00; For each Academic Degree, $10.00; For Diploma in Commercial Department, $5.00; For Stenography, per month, $2.00; For Drawing, per month, $2.00; For Typewriting, per month, $2.00; For further particulars apply to the Very Rev. J. W. Hickey, C. M. Prest."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. on board 26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
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