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OREGON NORMAL SCHOOLS 137

drawing. The faculty at Monmouth had from seven to nine- teen members ; Drain in its palmy days had twelve teachers ; the other two schools as a rule employed nine.

The salaries were low. State aid enabled the regents to increase salaries, but at the highest mark there could be no just criticism on the score of their being exorbitant. In 1901 Drain received an appropriation of $10,000, yet spent only $6,903.20. The positions were dignified by being called "chairs," and the salary schedule at Drain in 1901 was as follows :

President $1,500

Chair of Mathematics 800

Chair of History 750

Chair of Science 750

Chair of English 700

Principal of Training School 600

Assistant 400

Music Teacher (half time) 250

Janitor 200

Monmouth paid better salaries, as witness in 1898 : 41

President $1,800

H. B. Buckham 1,200

Sarah Tuthill 1,200

J. M. Powers 1,000

A. F. Campbell 1,000

B. F. Mulkey 1,000

W. A. Warm 1,000

Ellen J. Chamberlain 800

Mrs. R. C. French 700

Louis P. Freytag 650

William Fellows 375

J. B. V. Butler 500

The sessions were uniformly forty weeks in length, and the year was divided into four terms of ten weeks each. School usually began the first week in September, and closed the following June. The first summer school was held at Mon-

41 Report of Board of Regents, 1889.