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119-612: The hotel was named in honor of William Taylor , a Methodist missionary who served in San Francisco during the California gold rush. Conceived as an unusual combination of a large church surmounted by a hotel, construction of the building brought architectural dispute. Initially designed by Timothy L. Pflueger in the Gothic Revival style , the investors fired his firm and hired Lewis P. Hobart , who changed little of Pflueger's design. In

238-453: A "superchurch" with a hotel on top of it. From their initial $ 800,000 they bought property at McAllister and Leavenworth streets and hired the architectural firm of Miller and Pflueger to design the edifice. Timothy L. Pflueger was chosen as the designer. The new hotel, intended to be "dry" (serving no alcoholic beverages) in the "sinful" city, was to be named after William Taylor , a Methodist Episcopal street preacher and missionary who formed

357-735: A 400-seat performing arts venue within the Great Hall. William Taylor (bishop) William Taylor (1821–1902) was an American Methodist missionary reverend, who in 1884 was elected by the Methodist General Conference as bishop over the Methodist missions in Africa for the Methodist Episcopal Church . Taylor spent most of his adult life performing missionary work around the world. He began his missionary service when he

476-546: A 9:1 student–faculty ratio . The average class size is 18 students and most students take four classes per semester. the most popular majors, based on 2021 graduates, were Econometrics & Quantitative Economics (46), Psychology (38), Biology/Biological Sciences (37), Political Science & Government (34), Environmental Studies (31), International Relations and Affairs (31). Since 1908, Occidental has graduated ten Rhodes Scholars . In U.S. News & World Report's 2023 rankings of American liberal arts colleges, Occidental

595-487: A blanket, and a small mattress and together they pooled their money to secure basic canned goods. Taylor's initial objective was simply to assess the country and determine if it was practical to establish a self-supporting missionary as he had done in southern India. His main objective at this time, however, was not to undertake missionary work, but to secure the cooperation and support of the Protestant residents to establish

714-497: A church didn't attract the requisite number of guests and the venture failed to turn a profit. From 1990 through 2001, the church housed the theater of George Coates Performance Works – an experimental multi-media theater troupe that used the 60 foot high vaulted ceiling for projections. By November 1936, enough debt had accumulated that a bondholder's protective committee foreclosed on the property, buying it back for $ 750,000. The Temple Methodist congregation lost its investment and

833-483: A dispute, the architectural firm of Miller and Pflueger was fired from the project, and was replaced by Lewis P. Hobart. Miller and Pflueger sued for $ 81,600, alleging that Hobart's design was little changed from Pflueger's original. Three months after the hotel and church opened in January 1930, Miller and Pflueger won $ 38,000 in a favorable court decision. Dedication of the church's pipe organ took place August 31, 1930. It

952-755: A medical missionary under Taylor. On October 16, 1877, Taylor purchased two tickets for himself and his brother Reverend Archibald Taylor and departed from New York aboard the Acapulco , a mail steamship, for the west coast of South America at Callao, Peru , by way of the Panama Railroad in Colón , in Panama . Taylor sailed from Panama for Callao on the steamship Bolivia , of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company , arriving November 3, 1877. The repair shops of

1071-722: A missionary who had attended Taylor's services in Melbourne, Australia , along with a similar request from a missionary in New South Wales. In December 1865 Taylor's family arriving from California joined him in Sydney. He had not seen them for more than three years. His sons had grown such that Taylor would not have recognized them had he encountered them elsewhere. He arrived in Lucknow late in November, 1870, and at once began his work by preaching to

1190-525: A new 24-hour, 7-days-a-week telephone hotline. The school also created a permanent Sexual Misconduct Advisory Board made up of students, faculty, and staff. Two years later, the investigation was concluded with the Office of Civil Rights finding that "the preponderance of the evidence does not support a conclusion that the College violated Title IX, except with respect to the issue of promptness in several cases during

1309-518: A new mission statement that is still used today. Also, Slaughter led the college's community outreach expansion with the creation of the Center for Volunteerism and Community Service, the predecessor for the current Center for Community Based Learning. In November 1990, the college rededicated the campus' main chapel as the Herrick Memorial Chapel and Interfaith Center. The school also took down

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1428-464: A non-sectarian, non-denominational institution. The small size of the 15-acre (6.1 ha) campus and the disruption caused by frequent freight trains pushed the college's trustees to find a new location. In 1912, the school began construction of a new campus located in Los Angeles' Eagle Rock neighborhood. The Eagle Rock campus was designed by noted California architect Myron Hunt , also known as

1547-453: A number of publications . After many years serving as a Methodist missionary Taylor was elected Bishop of Africa. He has received acclaim and is noted for introducing Methodism through his missionary efforts to several countries around the world. Taylor is also credited for introducing the eucalyptus tree to California with seeds he gathered while serving as a missionary in Australia. Taylor

1666-504: A number of churches. Among the more prominent residents there at this time was Dr. David Trumbull , a Protestant missionary and founder of the Presbyterian church in Chile who gave his complete support to Taylor's efforts. Among those Taylor had recruited was Dr. Hoover, a young physician from northern Illinois with a thriving practice, which he gave up in order to come to Chile to serve as

1785-461: A population of 28,547, of which 15,118 were whites, about 12,500 Malays , and 1,000 Khoekhoe and Kafirs . Taylor found an ideal interpreter, Charles Pamla, a native then in training for the ministry. On Taylor's first Sabbath in Cape Town on April 1, he delivered sermons at two Wesleyan chapels. As Taylor continued to deliver sermons about the colony the revival spread in great proportion. It

1904-468: A resulting lawsuit, Pflueger won nearly half the damages he asked for. The building opened in 1930 as the William Taylor Hotel and Temple Methodist Episcopal Church . However, extra construction expenses had put the congregation at greater financial risk, and the church-hotel concept did not prove popular. No profit was made in six years, and the church left, losing their investment. In the late 1930s

2023-551: A series of meetings in the city's mission chapel which was attended by various Europeans and Indo-Britons. Here he succeeded in converting many, including some Muslims, to Christianity. Taylor's service in India lasted for a period of seven years. Other Reverends involved in missionary work and associated with Taylor were Reverend Knowles who was expecting Taylor's arrival and had readied accommodations for his stay in India, along with Reverend, and Reverend Henry Mansell, Presiding Elder of

2142-567: A smaller vessel, the Mooltan , upon reaching Australia their first stop was at Albany . From there Taylor made his way to Melbourne, with but two dollars and fifty cents to his name, with no letter of credit from anyone. Upon his arrival to Australia, Taylor was further encouraged by a Baptist missionary to make an evangelistic tour of the country. Subsequently Taylor became the principal figure in that there. His missionary work commenced in Melbourne, in

2261-516: A time when the only other chapters in California were at Stanford , UC Berkeley , and Pomona . English novelist Aldous Huxley , who had spoken at Occidental's convocation ceremony in the then-new Thorne Hall in 1938, lampooned President Remsen Bird as Dr. Herbert Mulge of Tarzana College in his 1939 novel, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan . Huxley was never again invited back to campus. During World War II , many students left Occidental to fight in

2380-707: A week in his church. Taylor spent a total of eleven months visiting England and Ireland. Believing that there was much "misapprehension of the principal facts and issues of the American war" among the people of Britain, Taylor was compelled to author a 32 page royal octavo pamphlet entitled Cause and Probable Results of the Civil War in America - Facts for the People of Great Britain , which he had published in London in 1862 The pamphlet

2499-705: A year. In 1896, the Boyle Heights building was destroyed by fire. The college temporarily relocated to the old St. Vincent's College campus on Hill Street before a new site was selected in Highland Park in 1898. Eventually, the college erected three main buildings: the Academy Building, the Stimson Library, and the Hall of Arts and Letters (the Hall still stands today, converted to apartments). The Highland Park site

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2618-612: Is available for special events in the evenings. Other floors of the building hold offices, apartments and residential conveniences. The mezzanine level contains a compact fitness center, the third and fourth floors contain classrooms and offices for political action groups and legal assistance organizations, and the 22nd and 23rd floors hold publishing headquarters for a number of scholarly journals. The Great Hall remains un-refurbished and has been judged by UC Hastings to be in need of substantial repair and improvement, including major architectural engineering work. The college has plans to create

2737-547: Is casually referred to as "the Tower" by Hastings residents and faculty, who have but a one-block commute to the law school's main building at 200 McAllister. The old Sky Room with its spectacular 360-degree view reopened in 1999 as the James Edgar Hervey Skyroom, in honor of alumnus James Edgar Hervey, Class of 1950, a prominent San Diego trial lawyer. It is used as a space for student study by day (no alcohol allowed) and

2856-503: Is estimated that six thousand natives were converted to Christianity during this time. His son Henry Reed Taylor was born in Cape Town became a pioneer ornithologist of California. As stated in his book "The Flaming Torch in Darkest Africa," the title of the work was adopted by the bishop according to the nickname given to him by the local community. In the introduction, written by Henry M. Stanley, it states, "The natives everywhere on

2975-555: Is one of the five schools that founded the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) in 1915 and is currently a member of the SCIAC and NCAA Division III . Occidental features 21 varsity sports teams and a program of club sports and intramural competition. Approximately 25 percent of the student body participates in a varsity sports program. During the 2006–2007 athletic season,

3094-563: Is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges on the West Coast of the United States. Occidental's current 120-acre (49 ha) campus is located in Eagle Rock , Los Angeles, and was designed by architect Myron Hunt . Due to its proximity to Hollywood and its architecture, the campus is frequently used as a filming location for film and television productions. Occidental is a founding member of

3213-547: The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Kristina Kvien , Dartmouth Professor Steve Swayne , and civil rights activist and initiator of " We Shall Overcome " Guy Carawan . Notable alumni who did not graduate from Occidental include the 44th U.S. President Barack Obama , former First Lady of Colorado Dottie Lamm , Academy Award –winning actor and filmmaker Ben Affleck , actor Luke Wilson , actor Nicholas Braun , filmmaker and actor Cooper Raiff , producer Todd Garner , and actress Emily Osment . Notable faculty members include

3332-588: The Baltimore Annual Conference in 1843. Between 1849 and 1883, Taylor traveled to many parts of the world as an evangelist missionary. His extensive missionary travels included Australia and South Africa (1863-1866); England, the West Indies, British Guiana, and Ceylon (1866-1870); India (1870-1875); South America (1875-1884); and Liberia, Angola, the Congo, Australia and Mozambique (1885-1896). Taylor

3451-567: The Isthmus , Taylor got the last berths on the Andalusia , a ship headed for San Francisco by going around Cape Horn at the tip of South America. About one hundred and fifty days into the voyage Taylor's wife gave birth to a daughter on June 8, 1849, who they named Oceana, while they were going around the cape, and who only lived to be about a year old. Their ship, Captain Wilson at the helm, had arrived in

3570-796: The Marathi language language he made use of an interpreter, Pastor Modak, to communicate with the native population. When Taylor arrived in Bombay, though he was not there to represent any particular denomination, felt somewhat out of place among the English and Eurasians in their church organization. From time to time he was approached by ministers and laypeople as to whether he was there to promote Methodism, per se. Subsequently he felt compelled to clarify his position, leading him to author his work, entitled, Four years' campaign in India In Bombay Taylor began

3689-714: The Mediterranean Sea . After a week long visit to Paris he boarded a steamer, the Massageries Imperialias , and made his way to Beirut and then Palermo , in Sicily. From there his ship proceeded through the Greek Isles in the Aegean Sea , stopping at the island of Syra , for a few days. Accompanied by a dragoman Taylor's company made additional stops at Sidon , and Sarepta , then proceeded to Tyre . They arrived at

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3808-544: The Moradabad District . Taylor's calling to Chile was inspired by his interest in establishing churches and schools in that country. To serve in Chlie Taylor previously had recruited three groups of missionaries who arrived at different times. The first party included A. P. Stonewall, William A Wright and Ira Haynes La Fetra , a Methodist missionary and graduate of Boston University School of Theology who founded

3927-685: The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and its 20 varsity sports teams compete in NCAA Division III . The college's curriculum emphasizes diversity, global literacy, and civic engagement. Notable alumni include President Barack Obama , a Cabinet member, several members of the United States Congress , CEOs of notable companies, 10 Rhodes Scholars , and recipients of the Pulitzer Prize , Academy Award , BAFTA Award , Tony Award and Emmy Award . Occidental College

4046-426: The U.S. Department of Education named Occidental College as one of 55 higher education institutions under investigation "for possible violations of federal law over the handling of sexual violence and harassment." In response to student and faculty outcry the college adopted a new interim sexual misconduct policy, hired a former assistant district attorney as a full-time, independent Title IX coordinator, and added

4165-514: The colony of Virginia , about one hundred and thirty years ago" (i.e. 1766). The Hickman family was of English ancestry and settled in Delaware in the late 1750s. Both families "fought for American freedom in the Revolution of 1776", and afterward emancipated their slaves. Taylor’s father, Stuart, was a " tanner and currier —a considered a mechanical genius of his times"; his mother was "mistress of

4284-472: The 1960s and 1970s, and again since 2000. It originally operated on the frequency 104.7 in and around campus from 1968 to 2009, but switched to only being available by webstream in 2009. KOXY sponsors several on-campus events. In 2010, students launched a TV station called CatAList; The station produces 20–30 minutes of student-run content weekly. Occidental College's Greek Council consists of roughly eight members, both sororites and fraternities. Occidental

4403-530: The 2012-13 school years." President Barack Obama attended Occidental for two years prior to transferring to Columbia University . In 2015, " birthers " falsely claimed that Obama's Occidental College transcript revealed he received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia after the resurgence of a fake news story from 2009. In July 2020, Harry J. Elam, Jr., formerly vice provost for undergraduate education and Drama professor at Stanford University , became Occidental's 16th president. In August 2023, it

4522-700: The Conference, being designed for a field southward which. Bishop Taylor afterward had opened. On January 29, 1885 Bishop Taylor presided over the Liberia Conference. While in Africa Taylor encountered cannibal tribes throughout the interior. He was appalled at such practices, which included the display of human skulls on and about the various homes and other structures. At the World’s Congress of Religions, Taylor exclaimed that he had witnessed first hand in

4641-445: The Congo where women, who were too weak or ill to catch fish, or do other work, were subsequently strangled and burnt to ashes. He was convinced that the only way to change their ways was to appeal to their hearts by way of the gospel, an effort to which he committed much of his time, often to no avail. Though Bishop Taylor received much acclaim during his missionary career he was, however, criticized by Robert Cust, Acting Secretary of

4760-653: The English speaking people in the evenings, and to the Hindustani people, through an interpreter, in the mornings. The impression produced was immediate, deep, and abiding. In the autumn of 1871 Taylor received a special invitation from the missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions , in the Bombay to serve a few weeks, beginning in Ahmednagar , and then in Bombay with Reverend Charles Harding.by establishing self-supporting missions. Unfamiliar with

4879-493: The Gospel was also preached in many of the mining camps. As the immigration increased so did the numbers in the congregations. Before Taylor was able to set out for California, all the routes to California became flooded with prospectors and adventurers. Not wanting to subject his newly wed and expecting wife to the risks of Indian attack while crossing the plains, or sailing to Panama at the risk of contracting yellow fever by crossing

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4998-557: The Multicultural Hall in Pauley (open to all years), all-women housing (Berkus House, named after alumnus Dave Berkus ), Food Justice house, and several communities that support and uplift the experiences of students of color and LGBTQIA students. The campus newspaper is The Occidental , an independent, student-run publication. It has been published continuously since 1893. KOXY is a student-run campus radio station , in operation in

5117-1010: The Occidental Men's Basketball Team reached the SCIAC championship game, ultimately losing to Pomona Pitzer in the Tournament Championship game. Famous Occidental College Tigers include NFL coach Jim E. Mora , former American Football League Most Valuable Player and politician Jack Kemp , former NFL player Vance Mueller , 2011 U.S. Senior Open Champion Olin Browne , CFL Quarterback Bryan James Scott ( Edmonton Football Team ) and CFL player Justin Goltz ( Winnipeg Blue Bombers ). Notable graduates of Occidental College include filmmaker Terry Gilliam , football player and politician Jack Kemp , pioneering African-American physicist and inventor George Edward Alcorn Jr. , former New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts head coach Jim E. Mora , co-inventor of

5236-681: The Pacific Coast. He had spent a total of seven months in England and Ireland and was well received at every place he visited, but he longed to make his way for Australia and begin missionary work there. Taylor played an integral role in the Christian revival that swept South Africa in 1866. From 1863 to 1865 the prospect of religion was little felt, mainly due to unforgiving circumstances, which included drought that had brought ruin to farmers, which in turn impacted trade. Along with lung-disease, compounded by

5355-642: The Royal Asiatic Society, writing in the introduction to Heli Chatelain's Grammatica Elementar du Kimbundu ou Lingua de Angola for conducting "Self-Supporting Missions" in Angola, implying that the poverty his leadership caused for his deacons resulted in the death of Dr. Summers at the Luluaburg mission on the Upper Kassai River, Angola. Nonetheless, the mission did produce the first modern grammar of Kimbundu,

5474-636: The Santiago College in Chili in 1880. His brother Ira gave to the college a printing press with which they printed great volumes of religious literature in Spanish. The Taylor party assembled in New York ready to make the trip, but Taylor as of yet was not provided the appropriate funds needed to make the journey comfortably. Determined, they had no other recourse but to settle for steerage passage, and each were given

5593-491: The Tigers cross country , American football and basketball teams were Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference champions. In 2014, diver Jessica Robson set the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference records for both 1m and 3m diving. The school's Blackshirts Rugby union team was also league champion for the first time in five years. In 2011, Jeremy Castro ('99) and Patrick Guthrie ('86) steered

5712-448: The Tigers have played both the Sagehens and the Poets over 100 times. In 1982, the Occidental College football team had the rare opportunity for national prominence when, due to the 1982 National Football League strike , their game with San Diego was broadcast on national television. In 2017, Occidental cancelled the remainder of its football season due to lack of healthy players, as few as 30 in some cases. The team forfeited two games and

5831-415: The ancient city of Acre and while there ascended Mount Carmel , then spent time visiting Jerusalem . By early spring of 1863 at Suez Taylor's company boarded the steamer Mooltan , of the Penin sula and Oriental line of steamers.The cost of the fare from Suez to Melbourne, Australia , was one hundred and twenty pounds. When they reached Ceylon the passengers bound for Australia were transferred to

5950-444: The beginning of May, 1863. For the next three years Taylor served in Australia, also venturing to Tasmania, and New Zealand,. where he recruited thousands to the membership of the Wesleyan Methodist churches. He was known already through his books, and was warmly received by the Wesleyan ministers from England. During all this time he secured support for himself and family from the books he had published. In Melbourne, Taylor raised

6069-433: The board later dropped the proposal. Two weeks after Booker T. Washington came to visit Occidental, on March 27, 1914, Swan, Fowler, and Johnson Halls were dedicated at its new Eagle Rock campus. Patterson Field, today one of the oldest collegiate sports stadiums in Los Angeles, was opened in 1916. In April 1917, shortly after the United States entered World War I, the college formed a Students Army Training Corps to aid

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6188-429: The building housed the Empire Hotel, known for its Sky Room lounge, then from World War II to the 1970s, 100 McAllister served as U.S. government offices. Reopening as university housing and offices in 1981, McAllister Tower is home to some 300 law students and their families. "The Tower" is sited one block from the administrative and scholastic center of Hastings College of the Law, and is the most prominent building in

6307-429: The building, the most prominent in the Tenderloin district, and began two years of refurbishment and redesign. Calling it "McAllister Tower", 248 units were modernized for residential use by law students, and the building opened in 1981 with a combination of compact studio units as well as larger one- and two-bedroom apartments taking up a total of 17 floors. The building, home to about 300 law students and their families,

6426-493: The children of alumni in admissions. At the beginning of every school year, freshmen participate in convocation , a formal ceremony welcoming new students to the college in which the faculty wear their full academic regalia and students don robes. Founders Day is celebrated annually at the school on April 20, the day in 1887 when Occidental's incorporation papers were officially signed by the California Secretary of State. There are also themed-living communities which consist of

6545-429: The class of 2020 acceptance rate being 37.3%. Of those admitted submitting such data, 52% were in the top 10% of their high school class. The SAT 25th - 75th percentile scores were 1810–2120. Of those admitted to the class of 2020, 50% identified as persons of color, and 13% of those admitted were international students. In 2023, it was announced by President Harry Elam that Occidental eliminated legacy preferences to

6664-465: The company were situated here, which employed about four hundred men. From Callao Taylor proceeded to Mollendo , a port city with a railroad that extended into Bolivia , passing through the important city of Arequipa . In Mollendo received by the British consul. Taylor's next port of call was at Arica , just across the border in Chili, which was still recovering from a tremendous earthquake and tidal wave. They were subsequently not very interested in

6783-434: The crosses in the chapel in an attempt to "broaden Occidental's appeal among non-Christian students." In July 2006, Susan Westerberg Prager became Occidental's first female president. She left her position in 2007. Robert Skotheim served as interim president. In July 2009, Jonathan Veitch became Occidental's 15th president, and the first native Angeleno president. The college received national scrutiny in 2014 when

6902-401: The district. It is a contributing property to the National Register of Historic Places's Uptown Tenderloin Historic District since 2009. The skyscraper at 100 McAllister began in 1920 with a plan formulated by Reverend Walter John Sherman to merge four of the largest Methodist Episcopal congregations in San Francisco, sell their various churches and properties and combine their assets to build

7021-447: The drought, that killed thousands of cattle and sheep, any thoughts of hope and religious pursuits were not likely. Taylor arrived in South Africa on March 30, 1866, by way of the ship the St. Vincent , having anchored in Table Bay , Cape of Good Hope . At this time docks and a break-water were under construction in response to a gale force storm that had reeked death and destruction some eleven months prior. Cape Town at this time had

7140-478: The end of seven years of missionary service in California Taylor aspired to the idea of being an itinerant preacher . After being granted a leave of absence from the General Conference he traveled through the United States for a brief period, preaching wherever the opportunity presented itself. He spent three months in Philadelphia, during the summer of 1857, preaching in all the main Methodist churches in that city. During autumn of 1857 Taylor visited New England for

7259-441: The evenings, and to the Hindustani people of lower India, through an interpreter during the mornings. Taylor's influence was immediate and well received.and greatly provided the impetus within the revival that was then occurring. Taylor received a letter from Reverend James Thoburn , brother of Isabella Thoburn , inviting him to come to north India was extended every facility for conducting sermons to people there. The letter

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7378-432: The expansion of the Methodist Episcopal Church beyond Europe and North America." Taylor University , a Christian college in Indiana , was named after Taylor. Occidental College Occidental College (informally Oxy ) is a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles, California . Founded in 1887 as a coeducational college by clergy and members of the Presbyterian Church , it became non-sectarian in 1910. It

7497-422: The first Methodist church in San Francisco. The large church was named Temple Methodist Episcopal Church, or simply "Temple Methodist". Beginning in 1925, Pflueger designed a 308 ft (94 m), 28-story, step-back skyscraper made of brick framed with steel, along the lines of his just-completed Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company Building . Its main decorative theme was neo-Gothic, expressed strongly in

7616-449: The first time and attended the New Market Camp Meeting, in New Hampshire. Thereafter he visited Boston and sat in preaching at the church of Reverend Edward Taylor . At the beginning of 1861 just before the Civil War broke out, he went to Canada and spent a year on a line of work where he preached and offered services at nine camp meetings for the next four years, where he was often favorably received. Though Taylor's time in Canada

7735-416: The funding needed to build ten chapels on plots of land granted to the church by the Australian government. Throughout the continent he helped to add more than twenty thousand people to the Methodist congregations. In 1863 Taylor collected seeds of the eucalyptus tree and sent them to his wife and a horticulturist in California who both successfully cultivated them, thus introducing the eucalyptus tree to

7854-517: The gospel in the streets to settlers, prospectors, Native Americans, Chinese immigrants, and to the sick and the poor, without receiving any salary. He subsequently came to be known as "California Taylor" throughout his missionary career. In October 1849 Taylor acquired a lot next to the home of Reverend Hatler on Jackson Street who invited him and advanced him the money at no interest to build his own house. Thriving congregations also emerged at Sacramento , San Jose , Stockton , and Santa Cruz while

7973-1140: The hard disk drive William Goddard , psychopharmacologist and professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Roland Griffiths , federal judge Jacqueline Nguyen , academic, film executive and novelist August Coppola , historian and chancellor of the California State University system Glenn Dumke , former Lieutenant Governor of California Robert Finch , adventurer and writer Homer Lea , poet Robinson Jeffers , librarian and writer Lawrence Clark Powell , entertainment journalist Sam Rubin , Tony Award -winning actress Joanna Gleason , civil rights activist Ernesto Galarza , television director Jesus Salvador Trevino , voice actress and internet personality Ashly Burch , entertainment executive John Branca , political scientist Eqbal Ahmad , journalist and current dean of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Steve Coll , actor and writer George Nader , veteran executive at Walt Disney Imagineering Joe Rohde , former CEO of Warner Music Group Stephen Cooper , President of Catholic University of America Peter Kilpatrick , Ambassador to Armenia and former chargé d'affaires to Ukraine during

8092-409: The local draft board. The high vaulted ceiling of the Great Hall worship center was hidden by a dropped ceiling . After the war, the Internal Revenue Service moved offices into the building. Many federal groups at 100 McAllister moved their offices in 1959–1960 to the newly built federal building at 450 Golden Gate Avenue, later named the Phillip Burton Federal Building . Occupancy at 100 McAllister

8211-436: The luxurious bar in April, 1938, that it "has no prototype west of New York", referring to Manhattan's Rainbow Room which opened three-and-a-half years earlier. At the beginning of direct American involvement in World War II , the U.S. government bought the building and converted it to federal offices, officer billets, spaces used by the Army's Ordnance Procurement department , a passport agency and an induction center run by

8330-488: The manufacture of all kinds of cloth". Both parents, he says, were of "powerful constitution of body and mind…their English school education quite equal to the average of their day". Taylor married Isabelle Anne Kimberlin on October 21, 1846 after waiting an mutually agreed upon arrangement that he would serve the church for four years. Taylor had two sons and two daughters, Morgan Stuart, Oceana, William Jr., and Charles Reid. Only Morgan lived to see adulthood. Before William

8449-427: The midst of a thick fog and so he cautiously landed just north of the Golden Gate . During the voyage they had experienced incidents of damage to the rigging and sails due to high winds, which the captain was able to remedy en route, without have to stop at any port. Having been informed about the very high cost of food in San Francisco due to the gold rush, the Taylors brought a year's supply of food along with them. As

8568-619: The national language of Angola. At the age of seventy-five, longing to be with his family for his remaining years, Taylor was relieved of his responsibilities by the General Conference in 1896 and was replaced by Joseph C. Hartzel . He returned to California to rejoin with his family, with whom he had often been separated because of his missionary work around the world. At the age of 81 Taylor died in Palo Alto, California on May 19, 1902, shortly after his 81st birthday. He had been called

8687-459: The necessary funds to rebuild. In the process he had organized the first Methodist church in San Francisco, while also establishing the first hospital in California. Taylor also had prepared at Baltimore the basic materials of a church, which he had shipped by sea with that were used to construct the first Methodist edifice in Sacramento. There were several other preachers in San Francisco at

8806-585: The next port, in Caldera . They arrived at Valparaiso in 1878 and began ministering first to seamen in that port city. From 1878 to 1879 Taylor had recruited and sent to Chile twenty-five missionary preachers and teachers. He gave them each an assignment and appointed a committee chairman who was responsible for their provisions and salary in their efforts to establishment badly needed schools. The Liberia Conference met January 28, 1884, at Cape Palmas , with Reverend. C. A. Pitman presiding. Reverend. Daniel Ware

8925-461: The nick of time". The District Conference had just opened and right off there was a serious misunderstanding between the chairman of the district and conference members. Greathead exclaimed his confidence to Taylor feeling that only someone as he could remedy the situation. After Taylor finished preaching to the people, and to the children, and had converted some five hundred people to Christianity, it appeared that Taylor, albeit indirectly, had remedied

9044-524: The numerous other ships abandoned in the San Francisco Bay , as a “Seamen’s Bethel Church", which was soon well attended. While the building of the permanent Bethel was well in progress it was destroyed during the great San Francisco Fire of 1851 , and with the prospect for it to pay off loans Taylor found himself in debt. Taylor persevered, however, and with the financial aid of those appreciative of his dedication and continued services, he acquired

9163-513: The only time Occidental has produced two Rhodes Scholars in a single year. Paden and Segal were among the ten Occidental students who participated in Crossroads Africa that year, a forerunner to the Peace Corps that later became a national program. In 1969, 42 students were suspended for peacefully protesting military recruiting on campus. One year later, faculty voted to suspend classes in

9282-518: The pamphlet was worth more to the American Union than a regiment of soldiers at the front. Taylor had been encouraged by Reverend James Brown of Canada in 1861 to venture to Australia and look into the possibility of doing missionary work in that country. After further consideration Taylor set out for Australia In the spring of 1863, first making an extensive tour in Paris, Sicily and other points around

9401-459: The patrons of those establishments. Taylor had preached hundreds of sermons in the streets of San Francisco, and would sometimes take up a collection which he saved and used to build a Bethel Chapel in 1851. Sometimes various miners, who appreciated Taylor's service, donated generously. Before securing a permanent location for the Bethel, Taylor had converted an abandoned ship, the Panama , one of

9520-594: The people of this island as "...exceedingly kind and appreciative". His next visit brought him to Georgetown in British Guiana , and not waiting for the scheduled steamer to bring him there, he boarded a small schooner and, enduring a 450 mile voyage over rough seas, made his way to the South American coast thusly, arriving Sunday morning. Upon his arrival he was greeted by Reverend John Greathead, who welcomed him, but also confided that Taylor had arrived "just in

9639-625: The planner of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) campus and as designer of the Huntington Library and Art Gallery and the Rose Bowl . That same year, Occidental President John Willis Baer announced the trustees' decision to convert Occidental College into an all-men's institution. The plans were met with widespread backlash from students and faculty who protested the change. The community outcry garnered national headlines and

9758-562: The religious services Taylor had offered but were in need of teachers. From there he proceeded to Tacna , a flourishing city of fourteen thousand, where he managed to secure passage money for a teacher needed in Arica. After making more stops along the coast he arrived at Chañaral . where the Reverend Langbridge and his wife had already arrived from England, a month previous, to teach and preach. Not being very needed there he continued on to

9877-452: The rents for housing accommodations were also abnormally high, Taylor and his wife found lodging with another Methodist minister who gave them the first month's rent free. Having logging experience, he crossed the bay north to the redwood forests and acquired his own timber in which he used to erect his own house, in less than a month. Taylor described young San Francisco at this time as a "city of tents". Because of poor living conditions and

9996-433: The sanctuary, representing Faith, Love and Hope in three tall, narrow panels. Two assembly halls could be combined to hold 1,100 attendees for theatrical or athletic events. Some 500 guest rooms and 32 tower apartments were intended to bring a steady flow of visitors and a source of profit to the church. Though never the tallest building in San Francisco, it was to be the tallest hotel on the Pacific Coast for many decades. In

10115-433: The scarcity of good food, many took sick with scurvy , tuberculosis or Asiatic cholera , often resulting in death. Here Taylor spent much of his time giving aid and words of encouragement and prayer to those afflicted. The main square had many gambling hotels, where Taylor would spend time outside preaching in the streets about the vices of gambling and drinking, which was, to the amazement of some, often well received by

10234-521: The school opened its first two co-ed dormitories , and two more followed a year later. In 1988, John Brooks Slaughter , formerly Chancellor of the University of Maryland , became Occidental's first black president. Building on faculty and student advocacy and a series of grants the college had received previously to increase the diversity of the Occidental student body, Slaughter led the process of creating

10353-462: The sermons and meetings that were being planned by Taylor. In 1867, Taylor's wife, weary from all the traveling, decided to take the growing children back to California and resume their education. Taylor's next assignment brought him to Bridgetown on the tiny island of Barbados , where for three weeks he preached indoors and out in many of its towns. Everywhere he went he was received with favor and glad tidings. In his autobiography Taylor described

10472-525: The situation by the time the Conference had resumed. While in Georgetown he also ministered to the lepers at the lazaretto there. Taylor arrived in Bombay on November 20, 1870, to begin his missionary work on the self-supporting plan, continuing the missionary work first started by Reverend William Butler in 1856, and Bishop Thoburn . Taylor began his service by preaching to the English speaking people in

10591-837: The squad to a NSCRO final, falling to Longwood University 36–27 in Virginia Beach , Virginia . In addition the college has a dance team that also performs at every home football and basketball game. Occidental athletics date back to 1894, when the college helped organize the first intercollegiate athletic competition in Southern California. Since then, Oxy has produced more than a dozen Olympians, world-record holders, and national champions, including 1935 national girls' tennis champion Pat Henry Yeomans '38, two-time diving gold medalist Sammy Lee '43, and pole vault silver medalist Bob Gutowski '57. Occidental has long-standing football rivalries with Pomona College and Whittier College ;

10710-529: The steamship Kangaroo first stopping for a term in Liverpool . Without much delay he went directly from Liverpool to the Wesleyan Conference , then in session at Camborne, Cornwall , and put up at a hotel. Upon arrival to the Conference he submitted letters of introduction addressed to Reverend William Arthur , Dr. Prest, president of the Conference, along with other distinguished members, and subsequently

10829-531: The territories where his missionary work called him knew him as 'The Flaming Torch,' or 'Fire Stick,' as some might translate the Zulu word Isikunisivutayp." On April 18, Taylor took passage on the steamer Natal and departed, for Port Elizabeth. He was received by reverend John Richards, the Superintendent of Port Elizabeth Circuit. Together they ventured into town and informed Richards' friends and associates of

10948-406: The three Gothic arches which formed the main street-level entrance for the church. The Great Hall, the large worship area located within the second, third and fourth floors was to seat 1,500 churchgoers and a smaller chapel was designed for 125 more. A grand pipe organ from Skinner Organ Company was installed with four manuals controlling 3,881 pipes. A stained glass window was placed 80 feet above

11067-501: The time but, “Father Taylor,” as he was commonly referred to, was the best-known preacher, because, among his other efforts, he often went out of his way to find the people who needed his service and console. When Taylor came down with a rare sickness he was confined to his bed for awhile, and soon discovered he had an ability for writing, as, after seven years in San Francisco, he had much to write about. Here he produced his first work, Seven Years of Street Preaching in San Francisco , which

11186-545: The wake of the Kent State shootings and America's invasion of Cambodia. Subsequently, Oxy students wrote 7,000 letters to Washington D.C., protesting U.S. involvement in the war in Southeast Asia. Occidental launched one of the country's first Upward Bound programs in 1966, aimed at increasing the number of low-income, underrepresented high school students who become the first in their family to go to college. Also in 1969,

11305-467: The war effort. Under Occidental President Remsen Bird, the school opened a series of new Hunt-designed buildings, including Clapp Library (1924), Hillside Theatre and a women's dormitory (Orr Hall) in 1925, Alumni Gymnasium (1926), the Freeman Student Union (1928) and a music and speech building (1929). The Delta of California chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was established at Occidental in 1926, at

11424-738: The war. In July 1943, the U.S. Navy established a Navy V-12 officer training program on campus that produced hundreds of graduates before it was disbanded in 1945 at the end of the war. Occidental President Remsen Bird worked behind the scenes to help Oxy students of Japanese descent continue their education despite mandatory evacuation orders; his letters are included in the Japanese American Relocation Collection in Clapp Library. After having its first Rhodes Scholar , Clarence Spaulding, named in 1908, Oxy seniors John Paden and Aaron Segal were awarded Rhodes Scholarships in 1958,

11543-518: The year after gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill , resulting in the California gold rush . Due to the thousands of people flooding into California the Methodist General Conference deemed it necessary to send missionaries there to provide social work and religious services. The first sent for this undertaking were Reverends William Taylor and Isaac Owen. When Taylor arrived, and with no chapel for people to gather in and listen to sermons, Taylor preached

11662-527: The “Flaming Torch” by the Africans. In 1890, Reverend David Ela said of Taylor, "Nothing more romantic than the “ Taylor movement ” has occurred in the history of the church since the crusades, and nothing better calculated to excite the imagination." David Bundy, Professor of Church History at the Christian Theological Seminary maintains that, "Taylor, more than any other, was responsible for

11781-400: Was E. M. Skinner's opus 819 of Boston, Massachusetts. The combined congregation was very satisfied with their new place of worship. Eventually costing US$ 2.8 million ($ 51 million in current value), the building's completion required several rounds of new financing from its investors in order to overcome unanticipated expenses. Unfortunately for the congregation, the idea of a hotel above

11900-534: Was addressed to the "Wesley an Headquarters in London.". Taylor didn't receive the letter until almost a year later. He was met at the Lucknow station on November 25, by Reverends Thoburn, and reverends Waugh and Parker. Thoburn had already known Taylor since twelve years. On the following Sunday morning, the twenty-fifth, he preached his first sermon in India at Lucknow. He had already been encouraged to make an Evangelistic tour of India in 1863 from Reverend J. Smith,

12019-604: Was also bisected by the tracks of the Santa Fe Railroad, and was the site of two presidential visits, first by William Howard Taft in 1909 and subsequently by Theodore Roosevelt in 1911. In 1909, the Pomona College Board of Trustees suggested a merger between Pomona and Occidental, but the proposal came to nothing. The following year, the college severed formal ties with the Presbyterian Church and became

12138-436: Was announced that he will retire in 2024 for health-related reasons. On March 26, 2024, it was announced that Tom Stritikus , late of Fort Lewis College , will become Occidental's president effective July 1. Architect Myron Hunt created the original campus master plan for Occidental's Eagle Rock campus in 1911. He structured the campus in a Mediterranean style , with covered walkways and tile roofs. The campus landscape

12257-522: Was asked to leave. The Skinner Opus pipe organ was removed to be sold to Occidental College in Los Angeles and rebuilt in their Thorne Hall. The three-piece stained glass window was removed and exhibited, eventually making its way to Stockton, California where it was installed in the Morris Chapel at the University of the Pacific . The 100 McAllister building itself was refurbished: the church's floor area

12376-507: Was assigned by the Conference to establish missions in California and provide services in San Francisco during the California gold rush of 1849. His other missionary work involved the establishment of self-supporting missions in various countries about the world, bringing him to England , Ireland , India , South America , Australia , New Zealand and Africa , all of which he wrote about in

12495-670: Was born May 2, 1821, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia in Rockbridge County . in the Commonwealth of Virginia . William was the oldest of five sons and six daughters, born to Stuart Taylor and Martha Hickman. In his autobiography, Story of My Life (1896), Taylor describes his grandfather, James, as one of five brothers who were "Scotch-Irish of the Old Covenantor type" who emigrated from County Armagh , Ireland, to

12614-513: Was committed to bringing salvation to those he deemed were in need of it, and to this end he wrote a work, entitled, Reconciliation, or, How to be saved , which he had first published in 1867. To assist other preachers in this effort he also wrote the work, The Best Mode of Preaching the Gospel , published in 1859. Taylor's missionary career began in San Francisco, California in September 1849,

12733-536: Was cordially received. At the Conference he listened to an oration from William Punshon . While the Conference was in session, lasting several days, Taylor was invited to preach at the chapel on three occasions. He also once preached on the street, and once to the miners a thousand feet down in Dalcoath Mine. After the Conference Taylor visited Drogheda, Ireland , accompanied by Reverend William Crook and preached

12852-523: Was designed and developed by Beatrix Farrand in the late 1930s. All of the 19 buildings designed by Hunt remain in use today. The campus is noted for the outdoor Remsen Bird Amphitheater, where between 1960 and 1996 plays and musicals were performed in the summer. Financial cutbacks caused the theater department to end the summer festival programs. Since 1996 the Occidental Children's Theater has performed there each summer. Occidental College

12971-619: Was elected clerical delegate to the General Conference. The members reported were 2,337, with 35 Sunday schools and 2,178 scholars. On May 22 of that year Reverend Taylor was elected "Missionary Bishop for Africa" by the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church by a vote of two hundred and fifty votes out of three hundred and fifty-three, and was also duly ordained along with other bishops. Dr. W. R. Summers, Levin Johnson, Reverend. Taylor and C. L. Davenport were received into

13090-465: Was founded on April 20, 1887, by a group of Presbyterian clergy, missionaries, and laymen, including James George Bell , Lyman Stewart , and Thomas Bard . The cornerstone of the school's first building was laid in September 1887 in the Boyle Heights now East Los Angeles neighborhood of Los Angeles. The college's first term began a year later with 27 male and 13 female students, and tuition of $ 50

13209-525: Was given over to parking, a coffee shop was built in part of the first floor lobby and the new enterprise opened again as the Empire Hotel, noted for completing, in 1938, the first view lounge in the area, the Sky Room on the 24th floor. With plush carpeting, a large Art Deco-style oval bar, and plate glass windows on all sides, the Sky Room provided a panoramic view of the city. Architect & Engineer wrote of

13328-623: Was low, though the United States Army Corps of Engineers moved their San Francisco District offices there in the 1960s, and local draftees were still required to appear there through the late 1960s. The San Francisco Selective Service System offices were located in the lower floors of the building during the Vietnam War . In 1978, the University of California, Hastings College of the Law bought

13447-479: Was outscored in the other three 170–19. The Tigers played nine games in 2019, finishing with a 1–8 record. It was the final season for the Tigers football team. The school dropped football in 2020. In 2011, Occidental College lost a basketball game to Caltech with a score of 46 to 45 giving the Caltech Beavers their first conference win in 26 years and putting an end to their 310-game losing streak. In 2019,

13566-575: Was published in 1856. While in California he had accumulated a debt trying to expand his ministry with sailors in San Francisco, which he was able to pay back through the sales of his book, Seven years' street preaching in San Francisco, California , published in 1856. This work made him a popular revivalist in north-eastern and mid-western cities. Taylor was so impressed with the overall California landscape, he once stated in his work, California life illustrated , 1858, "The Lord has lavished more beauty on California than upon any spot I have ever seen." At

13685-549: Was ranked as the sixth "Most Beautiful" campus by Newsweek in 2012. The campus is home to a 1-megawatt ground-mounted solar array , which is the largest hillside array on an American college campus and the largest of its kind in Los Angeles. The 4,886-panel installation was completed in Spring 2013 and inaugurated on the school's 126-year anniversary. There are 40 majors offered on campus (and nine minor-only programs, including Public Health, Linguistics, and Classical Studies) and

13804-521: Was received with mixed editorial reviews among the various newspapers in England. Various reverends and the Quakers in particular, discussed and circulated the pamphlet among their congregations. Taylor made no attempt to sell his pamphlet, but instead put together a long list of names of lords, ministers, and people of all classes, and sent out 11,000 copies for free distribution. Some years later President Rutherford B. Hayes praised Taylor's effort, saying that

13923-573: Was short lived he used his connections and time there to expand his religious-social network to include people from the British Methodist realm. In February 1862, Taylor was informed about the rising colonies in Australia from Dr. James Brown who had previously lived in that colony. Brown informed him that they were in great need of a clergy such as Taylor could provide. So inspired, Taylor left Canada by way of Sandy Hook on May 1, 1862, aboard

14042-544: Was ten years old, his grandmother had taught him the Lord's Prayer and explained that he could become a son of God. At age ten he longed for this relationship, but was unsure how to obtain it, during which time he underwent a "profound religious experience", which was affirmed for him in 1841 at the age of twenty. After overhearing the story of a poor Black man who had received salvation , he wondered why he could not, also. He recounts in his autobiography, So inspired, Taylor entered

14161-897: Was tied for 35th overall, 26th in "Top Performers in Social Mobility," 68th for "Best Value," and tied at 112th for "Economics." The 2017 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges gave Occidental four-star ratings (out of five) in academics and quality of life. Princeton Review 's The Best 381 Colleges 2017 Edition gave Occidental ratings of 91 (out of 100) in academics and quality of life and 95 in financial aid. In Forbes ' 2019 ranking of America's Top Colleges, Occidental ranks 102nd out of 650 liberal arts colleges, universities and service academies. Kiplinger's "Best College Values 2019" rankings places Occidental 58th among 149 liberal arts colleges. Fall Admission Statistics U.S. News deemed Occidental's admissions "more selective," with

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