Pacific University
a coeducational institution in Forest Grove, Ore.; founded in 1853 under the auspices of the Congregational Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 12; students, 150; Dean, R. F. Clark, A.M. opposition of Cape Horn into two PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, a coeducabranches, one of which, the cold Current tional institution in San José, Cal., of Peru, or Humboldt's Current, ad- founded in 1852 under the auspices of America, becoming finally absorbed in vances N. along the w. coast of South the Methodist Episcopal Church; rethe Equatorial Current; the other wash- ported in 1919: 34 instructors; 465 students; President, J. L. Seaton, Ph. D. ing the coast of Brazil, and becoming an Atlantic current. The existence of this ocean first became known to Europeans through Columbus, who had received accounts of it from some of the natives of America, though it was first seen by Balboa, Sept. 29, 1513, and first traversed by Magellan eight years afterward.