operative a real University affiliation. The School has been fortunate in the fidelity and loyalty to its interests and aims of those who have filled its chairs. Most of them have known what it was to practice the self-denials of the pioneer days and that not grudgingly but as cheerful promoters.

The building in which the opening service was held -formerly the Home of the Armitage Orphanage—was thoroughly refitted to house the Divinity School and was known as "Gibbs Hall." In 1895 two new cottages were occupied as residences of the Dean and Professor Lincoln respectively. In 1901 a dining hall and rooms for students were added to Gibbs Hall. In the same year with notable ceremony, a large delegation of Bishops and Deputies from the General Convention held in San Francisco that year sharing in the event, the cornerstone of a projected new Divinity School group of buildings was laid.

A beginning of a quadrangle of stone and brick had been made, principally through the generous provision of Mrs. George W. Gibbs, but the earthquake of 1906 affected it seriously, especially as it was under construction.

The Divinity School was removed November 17, 1911, to the spacious Cathedral block in San Francisco, to form part of the quadrangle of the Cathedral close, for which a complete plan has been drawn so that memorial buildings may be erected as a part of one symmetrical whole. The first building is a spacious hall of stone and steel construction to be known as "The George William Gibbs Memorial Hall," the noble gift of Mrs. Gibbs, who laid the corner-stone.

While in San Mateo the School was remembered by many friends in California and the East with Chapel Memorials and gifts for buildings and furnishings and for improvement of grounds, notably for the first intalment of the new Chapel which was wrecked by the earthquake, and for special courses of instruction and for running expenses. Economy of management and

appreciation of securities together with the patient continuance under small salaries of the paid staff have ever kept the School out of debt. In her lifetime habitually making and securing rich gifts and showing her interest in the School in many ways we should remember the late Miss Augusta Hart Williams, a former parishioner of the Bishop at Christ Church, Hartford, Conn. She died in 1913 and in her will she made generous provision for an addition to the endowment of the School of about thirty-five thousand dollars which has been named "the Augusta Hart Williams Fund."

In 1923 the San Mateo property was sold and the amount received, some $25,000, was added to the endowment. A Library nearing 10,000 volumes has been accumulated, much of it from gifts of libraries of departed alumni and other clergy and friends.

The list of Alumni shows nearly a hundred names in all, scattered throughout the Church in its foreign and domestic fields, several holding important positions in New York City. China, Japan, the Hawaiian Islands and far off Tonga number them on their clergy lists.

The offering at the first service was taken for foreign Missions and the first to be enrolled as a student gave his earliest years in the ministry to a foreign field. Many are officiating in the fields of the Province of the Pacific, keeping true to the Pacific title of the School. And the Alumni are represented in six out of the eight Provinces of the Church. One Alumnus is Dean of a Theological School and has declined a nomination to the episcopate, two are Deans of Cathedrals, and there is already a fair representation of Alumni among Deputies to General Convention the Alumni at the General Convention in Portland, Oregon, in 1922 having an enjoyable dinner together and Synods and in Diocesan Offices. The record of the quarter century then very generally speaking is that of Alumni “making good” in their ministry, in character and in work. Through their Association acting jointly with the School for Christian Service and Deaconess Training School of the Pacific,

they send out annually an Advent appeal for the better observance of Ember Seasons and the emphasis of the vocation to the Ministry, addressing it to every clergyman in the Province of the Pacific.

For its earlier years it had seemed wise to keep the inclusion of the Corporate entity in the "Corporation Sole" functions of the Bishop of California. Accordingly the property interests were vested in that corporation. Diplomas have been granted to those who took the courses of the School, and twenty-five years passed in a conservatism in granting Degrees which looked to a proper standardizing of Degree values out of an extended experience, before proceeding to any empowerment to confer them. As marking the turning point into a second quarter of a century however, steps for further Corporate privileges were taken for due chartering by the State of a Board of Trustees which among other powers has the authority to grant Degrees, and three Honorary Degrees of Doctor in Divinity have been granted. As we have but one other Church institution in the Province so far as at present advised, competent to do that, our clergy and distinguished laity far removed from the Eastern institutions, have scant honorary recognition in such decoration and many of our students in Theology, if the Degrees in Course are guarded for their worth while, might be stimulated to advanced studies for such Degrees. The by-laws provide for the co-operation of a committee of the Bishops of the Province to be Advisory in all such Degrees as well as in the Administration and Policy of the School itself. In the Constitution of the Board of nine Trustees three of the Alumni are included to be elected by the Alumni Association. The hope is that while for quorum for ordinary business a local Board seems the more practicable, in the more vital matters the wider interest and counsel of the Bishops of the Province and the Alumni can be made efficient. This is all the more timely since training methods for the ministry and courses and general conditions themselves are in the melting pot.