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398 Upon this tract a colonial building, 44×60 feet, two stories in height, with attic and basement, was erected. A handball court has been added and a field for baseball practice laid out on the grounds.

The trustees are Catharine A. Coburn, president; Frederick W. Mulkey, secretary; Wm. F. Woodward; Greenbury W. Allen, and Margaret V. Allen.

This school is designed to furnish the best advantages for earnest students preparing for college. It is also intended for those who do not wish to fit for college, but who desire a thorough course of study and advanced work in special branches.

Its aim is to teach pupils how to study, to help them to gain a mastery over self, and to develop character.

The government of the school is designed to establish relations of mutual courtesy and honor between teachers and pupils, and among the pupils themselves. Those that are not ready to work in harmony with this purpose are not desired as pupils, and no student whose character or deportment is detrimental to the best good of the school will be retained.

Rates of tuition for term of nineteen weeks:

The Holmes Business college of Portland, Oregon, lays down its platform as follows:

"We believe in work. It brings us into sympathy with the poor, who cannot avoid it, and makes us rather pity than envy the rich, who stagnate without it. We dedicate our college to it, the great democratic burden and blessing of a busy age. Learn to work, and learn to like it. Learning to like it is the conquest of a brave and humble heart. Learning to do it is the simpler, but no less important, mission of the business college. In such measure as we have mastered both, we offer our best to our students."

This institution of which John H. Long is principal, and Elnathan Sweet is dean, assisted by teachers in all departments of study offers courses of study in spelling, grammar, arithmetic, correspondence, penmanship, bookkeeping, shorthand, typewriting, stenography, accounting, commercial law, advertising, legal forms, banking, corporation laws, and accounts, commercial and general history, in both day and night schools at an expense for tuition fees of $105 for a combined course covering twelve months' time. As to character and influences, the principals say: "While the greater number of our students are mature young people, who have had the advantages of good early home training, we feel that we are in a great measure responsible for the moral atmosphere of the college, and, so far as possible, endeavor to maintain a pleasant, and at the same time wholesome, spirit throughout the institution. The business world, even more than the social recognizes the supremacy of character. It is not sentiment, or ecclesiastical religion, but the plain self-interested common sense of humanity, that has bred the universal conviction that a man must be straight in himself before he can be straight with the world."

The Young Men's Christian Association, organized in Portland, March 31, 1868, has now developed into a great school of instruction in many lines of useful and practical knowledge. The buildings and grounds occupied by the institution represent an outlay of half a million dollars. Special teachers in many