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400 time. Yet it is a growing process all the time. The young men who had not been trained by patient discipline cannot begin to have the character of the older man who has had such discipline.

"There is also a distinction between the great commercial enterprise and this one in that the former uses raw material that is neither conscious of what is being done to it, nor is able to co-operate in the process. In this factory for the making of men, the raw material is a living man who can both co-operate completely in and enjoy heartily the process of his development. All honor to the young men who are making sacrifice of time and energy and money to become more truly finished products."

The art school of the Portland Art Association will begin its second year on October 3rd, under most auspicious circumstances. Mrs. Kate Cameron Simmons, under whose teaching the classes of the first year accomplished so much, returns from New York to resume work. In addition, H. F. Wentz, who has been abroad for the last year, has been engaged as an instructor. This artist's work as a landscape painter is well known in Portland.

The well equipped studios are in the Museum of Art, in an atmosphere of artistic things, and the students have the use of the collection of casts and photographs, as well as the inspiration of the various exhibitions.

The Gillespie School of Expression, conducted by Mrs. Emma Wilson Gillespie in Portland, has become a permanent and highly respected element of the literary culture of the city. The course of study includes vocal, physical, and aesthetic culture; conversation and sight reading; literature with analysis and interpretive reading; repertoire with theory and criticism; character reading, rhetoric, and oratory; life study, personation and dramatic art.

The school is regularly graded into classes that are in session four hours a day, from Tuesdays to Saturdays, inclusive. Individual work is done afternoons and evenings, either with the principal or with her assistants.

Portland has an institution devoted to the preparation of teachers for kindergarten and primary work. This is the Normal Training School, which is located at Oak Grove, a suburb on the O. W. P. carline. The head of this school is Miss Elizabeth K. Matthews, who as had much experience in the instruction of children and is well fitted to prepare others for the same work.

The North Pacific College of Dentistry in Portland is one of the largest schools of dentistry in the entire west, with a college building, a four-story brick structure, and the prosthetic technic laboratories and one lecture room in connection.

Because of the rapid growth of the college a new building is soon to be erected, a site for this purpose having been purchased at a central location on the east side. The new building will be of concrete, four stories in height, with classic outline, Corinthian columns and ivory white exterior.

The students are graded into freshman, junior and senior classes, these, with but few exceptions, having separate and distinct courses of study.

Besides instruction in dentistry, the college has just added a course in pharmacy. This course is to be very thorough and will give opportunity for