known for its pure water, shady groves, its temperance and religious principles. There is not a saloon within seven miles of town. The school buildings are about one mile south of the depot, directly on Main street. There will probably be accommodations for all, at reasonable rates, who desire to move their families here, and send their children to the academy.

GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS.

There has been a considerable amount of labor expended in fitting up and beautifying the grounds. The academy is a one-story building, containing a large, well-lighted study room and chapel, and two recitation rooms. The primary department will be under the charge of two experienced teachers.

DEPARTMENTS OF INSTRUCTION.

There are three departments of instruction

1. Academic, including an ordinary high school course.

2. Normal. Those who complete the third year of the academic course, and demonstrate their fitness for teaching, by conducting satisfactorily one class for ten weeks, and answer correctly 80 per cent of all questions asked in regular examinations on first and second year work, will be given the normal certificate or diploma. 3. Preparatory, including a primary and intermediate course of about six years.

INSTRUCTORS AND METHODS.

The instructors are professors and teachers of experience, being acknowledged experts in their several departments. The use of the text-book is supplemented by lectures and oral instruction and many illustrations from apparatus, drawings, or nature, creating in the mind of the student a love for investigation, and thorough, practical work.

DISCIPLINE.

Milton academy aims to develop character of the highest type as well as scholarship of the best quality; and its discipline is such as experience has proved conducive to these ends. But it is not a reform school, and patrons of the school should not send to it children too incorrigible to be governed at home. If children themselves have not a sincere desire for true mental and moral culture, it would be better for them to remain away. We have no place for students who hinder and injure others in all manly and scholastic attainments.

While some persons, predisposed to pleasure-seeking and associations not permitted here, have turned away to seek schools of looser discipline, scores of young men and women of real worth, who value

true culture and hard mental labor more than frivolities, have been attracted to this institution by the very thing that repelled the others.

One peculiar feature of the government of this school is that all, rules and regulations are rigidly enforced. Parents who regard the moral culture of their children in its true light, are unwilling to launch their sons and daughters into the maelstrom of popular boarding-school life.

NOTRE DAME ACADEMY.

BAKER CITY, OREGON.

This academy is conducted by the Sisters of St. Francis.

PHILOMATH COLLEGE.

PHILOMATH, OREGON.

OFFICERS OF FACULTY.

REV. WILLIAM S. GILBERT, A. M.,

President.

PROF. H. SHEAK, M. S.,

Secretary.

LOCATION.

Philomath college is an institution for both sexes, under the control of the Oregon conference of the United Brethren Church. It inculcates the truths of Christianity, but teaches no sectarianism. It is located in Philomath, Oregon, on the Oregon Pacific railroad, seven miles west of Corvallis, and forty miles east of Yaquina bay. For grandeur of scenery, healthfulness, and desirableness generally,

this location is not excelled in the State. The town of Philomath is situated on the western boundary of the far-famed Willamette valley, at the foot of the Coast Range. Mary's Peak, the highest mountain on the range, rises grandly as a background only a few miles away, Mary's river within half a mile on the south, the Cascades, seeming but a few miles to the east, with the Three Sisters, Mount Jefferson and Mount Hood plainly visible, clad in snowy grandeur, all present a scene sublime, and inspiring to the student and lover of nature. The mountain air and the ocean breeze are cool and invigorating, and render the atmosphere entirely free from the elements of malarial diseases, so common in the low lands of the valley. But few cases of sickness have ever occurred in the history of the institution. As the name Philomath (lover of learning) indicates. the college was the founder of the town. It endowed itself largely by the sale of lots, gave the name to the town, and attracted to itself a population seeking learning, culture and moral elevation. Saloons were prohibited by a provision in the deeds of the land. and the town and community have always been noted for temperance and sobriety. Those wishing to find a place where a thorough education can be obtained, away from the temptations incident to the society of larger towns and cities, and under moral and relig ious influences, will find their idea, to a good degree, exemplified in Philomath college.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.

The college building is a substantial brick structure, situated in a beautiful campus containing about ten acres, well ornamented by maple and fir trees. It is centrally located, and connected by walks with all parts of town. In the northwest corner of the campus is a neat residence for the president of the college, and in the western part is a well-arranged, commodious boarding hall, with capacity for the accommodation of between thirty and forty students. half mile west, on Mary's river, connected with the town by sidewalk, is a beautiful park belonging to the college, well fitted up for pleasure grounds, which is a resort for students, and a place for holding picnics, commencements and other out door meetings.

APPARATUS, CABINET AND LIBRARY.

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The apparatus of the college is sufficient to make the study of the natural sciences interesting and practical, including among the ordinary instruments or experiments a very powerful microscope and a telescope of sufficient power to be of use in astronomical ob

servations.

The cabinet contains quite a variety of specimens of the animal and mineral kingdoms, from various parts of the world, but its

chief merit consists in its containing a large number of specimens which are especially instructive in the natural history and mineralogy of the Pacific coast.

COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT-CLASSICAL.

Although this course has lately been subject to vigorous attacks by the extreme advocates of "practical education," it is yet regarded by nearly all leading educators as the best preparation for professional life.

SCIENTIFIC.

This course differs from the classical chiefly in omitting the Greek and prescribing only six terms of Latin, and is found to completely meet the wants of those who are not studying with a special view to professional life and yet desire a liberal education.

NORMAL.

This course is rendered necessary as a part of our collegiate work by the demand for well-drilled teachers in our public schools. It differs from the classical and scientific chiefly by omitting the Greek and Latin and including lectures and studies on didactics. Although this is a three years' course and one may be able to teach the lower branches in the common school before entering it, it is the design of the course to fit teachers for the principalship of high schools, as well as to make them efficient teachers of the common branches, and to give those not desiring to study the ancient classics a good English scientific education. A diploma will be awarded on the completion of this course and in our final examination we shall endeavor to secure the cooperation of the county and State superintendents.

DEGREES.

Students completing the classical course will receive the degree of bachelor of arts, and those completing the scientific course will receive the degree of bachelor of science.

The degree of master of arts will be conferred upon every bachelor of arts of three years' standing, who, during that time, has sustained a good moral character, and has pursued professional or scientific studies.

The degree of master of science will be conferred upon every bachelor of science of three years' standing, who, during that time, has sustained a good moral character, and has pursued professional or scientific studies.

ACADEMIC PREPARATORY.

Many candidates for admission to the college are not prepared to

enter any of the prescribed courses, not having satisfactorily completed the common English branches. To meet the wants of such, advanced classes in these branches are organized each term, so that advantages of the high school or academy are furnished those who either desire mental training beyond what is furnished in the district school or wish to prepare themselves to enter the regular

courses.

ENGLISH PREPARATORY.

In many parts of this State, especially in the mountainous districts, many families are so isolated that it is impossible for them to obtain the advantages of the district school except to a limited extent, and many parents thus circumstanced either spend part of the year with their families where they may enjoy school privileges or send their children from home to obtain them.

DISCIPLINE, STUDIES, GRADING, EXAMINATIONS.

The government of the school is mild, but firm and decisive. All the liberty consistent with the welfare of the institution and the good of the individual is allowed to the student, but rowdyism of any kind is not tolerated, and persons habitually addicted to misconduct will not be retained. We appeal always to the manhood 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 100 from monthly reviews and a written examination at the close of each term. Any student receiving a grade of less than 65 must repeat the study before advancing.

BUSINESS INSTITUTE.

A commercial course in the business institute embraces bookkeeping by double and single entry, and its collateral branches including stock and partnership sets, wholesale and retail merchandising, commission, compound company business, administrators' 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.