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146 JOHN C. ALMACK

which the students came to the normals. In 1903 Monmouth made this statement:

Number of counties represented 22

Number enrolled from Polk County 63

Multnomah 20

Marion 17

Lane 16

Washington 14

Yamhill 12

Clackamas 18

Lake 8

Clatsop 7

Benton 6

All other counties 32

Other states 10

Total 213

Two hundred seventy-five students were enrolled in the Weston school during the biennium 1907-1908. Nineteen per cent of these were from Umatilla County, the remainder from seventeen other counties. Nineteen counties were represented at Ashland in 1903, with eleven students from California and Washington. The catalogue for 1905 contained this state- ment:

"A canvas of the enrollment of last year shows that eighty- five per cent of the students would not have attended any other institution of secondary learning had the normal at Ashland not existed, and that but fifty per cent of them would attend school elsewhere should this school cease to exist. The state normal at Ashland is not a local high school in any sense. . . . Some thirty students from Willamette Valley counties attended the school last year, but our chief reliance for patron- age is upon the southern counties of the state, and the teaching of the public schools of Southern Oregon is being largely done by graduates of this school."

Regarding the occupations taken up by her graduates, Mon-