and womanhood of the student, and use such discipline as will develop the better nature and ennoble the character. Studies are selected with the advice of the faculty, and no study selected can be discontinued without the consent of the teacher. Excuse must be given for absence from recitation. The grade is made on a scale of one hundred from monthly reviews and a written examination at the close of the term. Anv student receiving a grade of less than sixty-five must repeat the study before advancing. BUSINESS INSTITUTE. A commercial course in the business institute embraces bookkeeping in double and single entry and its collateral branches, including stock and partnership sets, wholesale and retail merchandising, commission, compound company business, administrator's books, importing, banking in all its departments, with the use of college currency and detecting counterfeits, commercial arithmetic. short methods, rapid calculations, business paper, commercial law, penmanship, lettering, composition, correspondence, the use of the automatic shading pen, and political economy or the science of wealth. PORTLAND BUSINESS COLLEGE. FACULTY. A. P. Armstrong, principal, superintendent of course of studies and business manager, in charge of business practice department. J. A. Wesco, secretary, teacher of plain and ornamental penmanship. H. W. Herron, in charge of theoretical and practical department. ment. Richard H. Thornton, lecturer on commercial law. Miss Cora B. Crossley, assistant to the principal. DISCIPLINE. Discipline is of the greatest importance in the management of a school. No matter how thorough the course of study, or how efficient the teaches, without good displine the work of the school is without avail. Good discipline forms habits of care, industry, perseverance and promptness, so essential to success in after life. Poor discipline swells the ranks of that unreliable class who are of no account in any capacity. We strive to have all students feel that in us they have faithful teachers and true friends who will aid them in every possible way, and we do not intend that any student shall come to us with good habits and principles and leave us with those habits and principles tarnished. We require all students to be punctual and regular in attendance and faithful in application to study. No business education is of any value without correct business habits. Those only will succeed who are honest, studious, persevering and industrious, and these qualities we endeavor to inculcate. HISTORY AND DESIGN OF THE SCHOOL. In November, 1866, this school issued its first scholarship, and admitted its first student. Since that time it has been in session day and evening throughout the year, without vacation. Thus we have a history extending over a period of twenty-two years. time the school has steadily grown, so that while one room afforded sufficient accommodation for its students at first, it is now found that the space afforded by the third floor of the building covering a quarter of a block gives us no room to spare. The course of studies has undergone many changes, also. From a few studies taught at first, additions have been made year by year until instruction is now given in almost any branch called for. The design of the school is to give to young and middle-aged men and women a thorough knowledge of business affairs, so that whatever may be their occupation they will be the better able to secure themselves the substantial fruits of their labor. To this end the institution is made a practical school of business, complete in all its appointments and offering advantages of the highest order in all its departments. A BUSINESS EDUCATION. At no time in the history of the world has a business education been more essential to success than at the present. Competition has grown fiercer every day until "the race of life has become intense; the runners are treading upon each other's heels; woe to him who stoops to tie his shoe-string." The weak are pushed aside, while the strong win fame and fortune. Not only so, but the rich of to-day may be the poor of to-morrow, and the best capital one can possess is a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of business. and how it is transacted. This capital is permanent; it is always available. Thieves cannot steal nor reverse of fortune impair or destroy it. It is the hidden force which impels through all currents and over all obstacles. Thousands are to-day out of employment because they have qualified themselves for nothing beyond unskilled manual labor. In the great business centers of the country the majority of those whose active minds and busy hands direct and control the complex network of systems necessitated by our immense commercial interests, are those who possess a business education only. The demand of the day is practical knowledge suited to the every-day affairs of life. ST. HELEN'S HALL, PORTLAND, OREGON. The Rt. Rev. B. Wistar Morris, founder and rector. Miss Mary D. Rodney, principal. Miss Lydia Rodney, vice principal. Miss Clementina Rodney, teacher of music, in charge of the musical department. Henry N. Bolander, Ph. D., sentences and languages. Miss Martha M. Giltner, B. A., (Wellesley) ancient languages and psychology. Dr. F. B. Eaton, lecturer in physics and chemistry. Miss Mary I. Norton, drawing and painting. Miss Elbertine C. Sellers, music. Madame Louise Schmidt (nee DeAvalia), French. Miss Charlotte E. Crawford, Miss Elilabeth J. Wallace, Miss Mary C. Sullivan. Mr. W. S. James, teacher of writing. The instruction of this school is of the most thorough character: the constant aim being to give a sound and practical education, and to surround the pupils with the influence of a refined Christian home and intercourse. Special efforts are made to cultivate, in the pupils, a taste for reading the English classics, and for speaking and writing their mother tongue in its purity. Exercises in composition and recitations in poetry are required from all. The pupils in the senior and middle classes have constant exercise in reading and writing. Such of the pupils as desire to remain at the school after grad uating, and pursue their studies farther, will be permitted to do so on the same terms as members of the classes. The past-senior course will include religious instruction, the classics, modern languages, music, drawing, painting, the higher mathematics, history, philosophy and literature. This course may be varied, as the student desires. The regular course of study, in the senior classes, will occupy four years. At the opening of each term the work of the term will be arranged with reference to the classes of regular pupils. Admission into any of the classes, or advancement from one class to another, is granted to such, only, as sustain an examination in the studies which precede it. Pupils not entering upon the regular course will study those branches which they are fully prepared to comprehend, and which they can pursue without interfering with, or retarding, the regular classes. SANTIAM ACADEMY. J. L. Gilbert, principal. FACULTY. Miss F. Gilbert, assistant teacher. Miss H. Gilbert, music teacher. ST. MICHAEL'S COLLEGE. Portland, Oregon. This college is conducted by the Christian Brothers. ST. MARY'S ACADEMY. Portland, Oregon. This academy is conducted by the Sisters of the Holy Names. Mother Mary Justina, superior. SACRED HEART SCHOOL. Portland, Oregon. Conducted by the Sisters of the Holy Names. ST. JOSEPH'S SCHOOL. Portland, Oregon. Conducted by the Dominican Sisters. ST. MARY'S ACADEMY. The Dalles, Oregon. Conducted by the Sisters of the Ho Names. Sister Mary Margaret, superior. ST. MARY'S ACADEMY. Jacksonville, Oregon. Conducted by Sisters of the Holy Name Sister Mary of Mount Carmel, superior. ST. PAUL'S ACADEMY. St. Paul, Oregon. Conducted by Sisters of the Holy Name Sister Mary Victor, superior. ST. SCHOLASTICA'S ACADEMY. Gervais, Oregon. Conducted by the Benedictine Sisters. Sist Mary Gertrude, superior. ST. JOHN'S ACADEMY. Oregon Cty, Oregon. Conducted by the Benedictine Sister Sister Mary Agatha, superior. ST. JOSEPH'S ACADEMY. Pendleton, Oregon. Conducted by the Sisters of St. Francis. |