A New Name

In 1911, California State Assembly member Lyman Farwell—who was also an architect best known for Hollywood’s Magic Castle—proposed that the state establish a public engineering school named the California Institute of Technology. Throop president James Scherer went to Sacramento to lobby against this tax-funded competition to Throop, and persuaded Farwell to instead propose that the state convert Throop to a public institution. Opposed by the University of California’s regents, the bill never passed the State Senate. Throop remained a private institution, but still adopted the new name nine years later.

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Throop Tech, February 1920