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108 JOHN C. ALMACK

and Miss Armilda Doughty, for several years a teacher in the same school. There were nine teachers in the faculty; two hundred sixteen students were enrolled ; and four students were doing work of college rank. The buildings that year were rea- sonably appraised at $14,000, while Ashland with four teach- ers and forty-two students claimed a building worth $8,000. The tuition in both schools was set at five dollars a term of twenty weeks. Two terms constituted the school year.

The entrance requirements could not be called excessively high. On this point, early catalogues contained this state- ment:

"All persons of good morals and sufficient scholarship 17 are invited to enter the normal at any time."

The decision on both these points was left to the administra- tive authorities of the schools, no standards of uniformity being set. Conditions were not widely different in other states in this respect. There was a great variation among the several schools. In 1884, the National Council of Education reported:

"A uniform standard for admission to normal schools is impracticable."

Conditions in Oregon should be judged, not by the stand- ards of today, but by the standards of their own times.

The courses of study were prepared by the president of each school and his board of trustees. Ashland's course of study adopted in 1882 is given.

COURSE OF STUDY

Junior Year Intermediate Year Senior Year

(Orthography Orthography English Literature

Language (English Grammar English Grammar American Literature

Composition Rhetoric ( Word Analysis

(Mental Arithmetic Arithmetic Higher Algebra

Mathematics (Written Arithmetic Elementary Algebra Geometry

(Bookkeeping

(Geography Natural Philosophy Chemistry

(Map Drawing Zoology Geology

Science (Physiology Botany Map Drawing

(Physical Geography

17 Annual catalogue.