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Rh from a church or public school, and the property and enterprise of the principal, Dr. Joseph Wood Hill, a class-mate and personal friend of the present president of the United States, William Howard Taft.

The faculty embraces twenty professors and special teachers.

Students in attendance—boarders, 60; day pupils, 41.

States represented by pupils from Oregon, Alaska, British Columbia, California, Idaho, Washington, Minnesota, Missouri and Montana.

The charge for tuition in all branches, (except music, drawing, not in class and dancing) furnished room, light, heat, board, use of arms and equipment, 20 pieces of laundry per week, in accordance to department $550, or $500 per school year for boarding pupils, and $120, $80 and $40 per school year for day pupils. The school is divided into two terms; the fall term and the spring term. Bills are payable half yearly in advance, upon entrance and upon February 2.

Taking the name of the Pioneer academy of Oregon, founded by James H. Wilbur, on land donated by Stephen Coffin, the present Portland academy, was organized as a private enterprise by its present principal, Joseph R. Wilson, D. D., and his former associate. Dr. S. R. Johnston. Both men were well equipped with large experience and scholarly attainments to conduct such an enterprise, and the school was a success from the start.

At the end of the third year the school was incorporated under the name "Trustees of Portland Academy," with the purpose as set forth in its constitution, of teaching the principles of a scientific, classical, and literary education under Christian influences. The school having outgrown its first building, steps were taken to provide a new and permanent home. Hon. H. W. Corbett then presented the academy with a building site consisting of sixteen city lots of land. On this site was erected a brick building 194 feet long, sixty feet deep, and two stories high, and is now complete in all its appointments and furniture. By his will, Mr. Corbett added to his former gift, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars as an endowment for an instructorship in penmanship and bookkeeping.

Students at this academy are prepared for entrance to any eastern or western college. Prizes are offered for best scholarship in Greek, Declamation, Highest Scholarship, English, History and Mathematics.

The school year covers thirty-seven weeks, divided into two terms of 18 and 19 weeks, respectively.

Tuition in the academy, sixty dollars per term. Tuition in the preparatory school, thirty dollars per term for the first, second and third years, forty dollars per term for the fourth, fifth and sixth years, and fifty dollars per term for the seventh year. A reduction of twenty per cent is made to the children of ministers.

The attendance for the year of 1909 and 1910 was 433, and pupils prepared here were sent to, and entered thirty-six different universities and colleges in the United States.

The Allen preparatory school, was founded by Mrs. Margaret V. Allen, and opened September 17, 1901, with an enrollment of thirteen pupils. It was incorporated in June, 1905, and has forty-five graduates. At the end of the fourth year it was decided to secure a suitable location and erect permanent buildings for the use of the school. A tract of land was obtained from the Hawthorne estate, at the corner of East Twelfth and Salmon streets, adjoining Hawthorne park.