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396 prise in the person of Miss Mary B. Rodney, who was quahfied by large experience for the work.

St. Helen's hall has now been in successful operation for forty-two years and is ranked as one of the leading institutions of its class on the Pacific coast. Nominally under the control of a board of trustees composed of Rt. Rev. Charles Scadding, Bishop of Oregon, and Revs. A. A. Morrison, G. B. Van Waters and P. K. Hammon, and laymen John Kollock, J. W. Ganong, and S. H. Gruber; yet its management is practically in the hands of the Sisters of St. John the Baptist, an order founded at Clewer, England in 1851, and affiliated in the United States in 1881. The sisters have made a great success of this school.

As showing the cost of education furnished by such schools as this in the year 1910 at Portland, Oregon, the annual expense at St. Helens hall is here copied :

Music—Piano—two lessons a week, including for resident pupils, the use of the piano for two practice periods daily. Per year 80.00 Vocal music, including, for resident pupils, use of piano for two practice periods daily, per year 80.00 Piano or vocal lessons for day pupils, two lessons a week, not including practice. Per year 70.00 Violin — two half hour or one hour lessons a week, per year 80.00 Art — charcoal, pen and ink, oil or water colors, two lessons per week. Per year 40.00 Art — full course, daily lessons. Per year 100.00 Elocution — two private lessons a week to pupils of St. Helen's hall. Per year 60.00 The same to outside pupils 100.00 Dancing — term of ten lessons in class 5.00 Fencing — term of ten lessons 5.00 Laboratory fee 3.00 Seat in church, year 5.00 Tutoring, per hour 1.00 Hot luncheon, day pupils, per week 1.00 Graduation fee (including life membership in the Alumni Assn.) 15.00 Library dues 1.00 All bills must be paid before graduation. No extra charge is made for Latin, Greek, French, or German, for class singing and physical culture.

This is a training school for boys, and is virtually the successor of the Bishop Scott grammar school, founded by Bishop Morris. It is now a private, as dis-