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the south boundary of Crater Lake National Park. It may be reached from Eastern and Western Oregon by way of the MciCenzie road. * The Three Sisters, ¥duch form the prindpal attraction of this region and ifvhich might be ap propriately called Faith, Hope, and Charity, are usually referred to as North Sister, Middle Sister, and South Sister, 'The altitude of North Sister is 10,067 teet; Middle Sister. 10,039 feet; and South Sister, 10.331 feet South and Middle Sister exhibit a comparatively smooth cone-shaped outline, "while the profile of North Sister is notched, its cliffs arc jagged arid steep, and its general appearance pyramidal.

Her sides have been deeply dug out, and her former out* lines so largely obliterated that we have little conception of how lofty a mountain North Sister originally was. It

takes only another glance at the other n:iembers of this group to tell us at once that it is quite greater in age than the other two peaks.^-* 'Mineral Resources of Oregon," Vol. 2, No. U

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Lafayette Seminary* Lafayette Seminary was opened

for the reception of studenLs in ihe old country court-house at Lafayette (1569), with Dr. W, C. Kantner in charge. The Seminary continued for a term of eleven years, during which diplomas were issued to sixty persons who had gradiiated from courses of sLu(l> that compared favorably with those of collegiate institutions in the state. In 1 900 negotiations were begun with the trustees of LaCreole Academic Institute of Dallas* Oregon, which resulted in the union of the two institutions at Dallas under the incorporate name of LaCreole Academy and Dallas Colleg