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The names of the unsuccessful competitors have been so scrupulously guarded by the means taken for that very end, and also to insure absolute freedom from bias in the minds of the jurors, that not a single one, so far as I have been able to learn, has been divulged. That many of these unsuccessful competitors were men of standing is rendered certain by the high average of the plans submitted and by the greatness of the names of the winners.

That the result of the competition is likely to be a really notable plan is assured; for M. Pascal, President of the Jury, is said to have stated in his speech at a dinner given Mrs. Hearst at Antwerp after the first competition, that should the second plans show no improvement at all over those first submitted yet the University would be in possession of the most perfect architectural scheme ever devised for such a purpose.

The successful plans have not been exhibited to any save the jury and the necessary attendants, for it was not deemed wise to give to the competitors in the sec

ond trial the ideas of their rivals. After the second competition has narrowed down the choice to one or two, the plans will all be exposed and used by the architect chosen to construct the buildings.

It is not possible, therefore, to say what the style" of the new buildings is to be. Indeed, it seems that the first competition hardly reached a point where the question of architectural style figured much. Before it could be decided whether the buildings were to be Gothic, or Romanesque, or Moorish, it had first to be considered how many buildings there would be, how grouped to meet the needs of the University, how arranged to make the most of the natural contours of the ground and to harmonize with the beauties of the site.

It therefore required something of the training of the skilled landscape gardener in the broad sense, as well as that of the architect, to make a winning plan. For when these questions had been studied to a finish, the detail of ornamentation was in comparison, but a trivial matter. Even in the second competition only so much

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of the case and the surroundings, both of them almost unique in the history of buildings, may result in something new under the sun.

An illustration of this point that I have recently seen used, is the case of the engines in ocean steamers. When they were first built some of them were constructed with great arches of iron in correct Gothic proportions. But the exigencies of the case soon overcame any such foolishness, and

sort of a building in any other place or for any other use. Its requirements are so exacting that to make the buildings exactly embody these and perfectly fulfill its purposes, may well result in something that has sacrificed all attempt at imitation of anything that has gone before.

And if this be a true principle, and can be carried out, we shall have a series of buildings; grand, because the idea it embodies is large; beautiful, because it will

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WHERE THE N. E. A. IS TO MEET THIS YEAR

BY WYLLYS S. ABBOTT

N COMING to Southern California in July the National Educational Convention will find a State now thoroughly Americanized and modern, but which was so long under the dominion of Spain that her impress was left upon the law, language, manners, and customs, of its inhabitants as indelibly as is now the case in Cuba or the Philippines.

At Los Angeles they will find themselves in the metropolis of the first great settlement of the Anglo-Saxon upon the western slope of mighty mountains and the shore of a vast ocean. They will come into a region normally semi-arid, but so

fertile under irrigation that it is called "The Modern Eden," "The American Italy," which is fast becoming the source. of the world's greatest fruit supply. They will reach a latitude which belongs by climatic right to the semi-tropics, but where the atmosphere of the mountain range, commingling with the breezes of the sea, preserve, in spite of geographical location, a dry and equable temperature, always cool or warm to Caucasian blood, and never hot or cold.

Our English ancestors, on their little sea-girt isle of rolling land and wooded hill, could only dream of the environment

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of the Southern Californian, unrealized even upon the Atlantic Coast, vast as that seemed to them, with its lesser ocean, its atmosphere of hill and lowland, much less fertile as to soil, and with a climate varying with the latitude. The New Englander finds that the summer here is like his fall, while midwinter is like a favoring spring.

In December and January, towns and cities here have their flower festivals, tournaments of roses, and floral parades. In July and August, though all nature is dry, and according to the calendar, it is the hot season, it is generally cooler than it is a thousand miles to the north, inland from ocean or mountain breezes.

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needs all the year round medium-weight clothing, and for evenings a cape or light overcoat. The last is for comfort rather than for fear of catching cold; for bad colds in Southern California are like insect pests, very scarce and almost universally imported.

One of the surprises is the difficulty of taking cold, and another is the difficulty of getting rid of it when contracted here, and another is the rapidity with which a cold disappears if contracted elsewhere and brought here. Consumption brought here is generally cured or so palliated as to be endured. If contracted here, however, it is said to be fatal. It is, therefore, perhaps better to get it somewhere else

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