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OREGON NORMAL SCHOOL

Bethel Collegiate Institute, in the Eola Hills of Polk County, and Monmouth University, both under Campbellite auspices, were chartered in 1856. By consolidation of the two, Monmouth Chris- tian College was established in 1866, and two years later 40 schol- arships were sold at $500 each to provide an endowment. In 1869 the Reverend T. F. Campbell became president, bringing with him a small son, P. L. Campbell, who was to become an even greater benefactor of the state. The new president soon started the Pacific Christian Messenger, a weekly, "which became and long remained the leading family magazine among the Christians of Oregon and other parts of the Pacific Northwest." The college was designated a state normal school in 1882, though it was not given an appropria- tion by the legislature until 1893. Songs of O. N. S., published in 1926, contains this selection with its music and 15 other Oregon Normal School songs: Pledge to O. N. S. Where the western breezes bless 'Mid Willamette's loneliness, There's a campus dear, A school we cheer, We love you, O. N. S. For the high aims we revere, For the friends we've made each year, For the golden haze Of student days, We love you, O. N. S. Chorus: O. N. S., we dearly love you And our hearts allegiance pay To the flag unfurl'd above you, To the crimson and the gray. O. N. S., thy sons and daughters Proudly stand to pledge thy name, In our hearts you'll live forever, Here's to thee, thy health an