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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JULY 27, 1913- taken rank with the few best schools in the country. This school is located near Belmont, 21 miles Bouth of San Francisco. EXPERIMENT COURSE PROVEN PORTLAND HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS PAY OWN EXPENSES THROUGH COURSE Labor Proves Incentive Rather Than Detriment to Good Scholarship, Say Jefferson Graduates, Who Earn, Money While Gaining Education 35 of 86 Diploma-Winners Find Remunerative Johs Out of School Hours. Music is to children what sunshine is to flowers. . Give them lots of it. THAT lack of finances need not de ter any boy or girl from obtaining a high school education, that -Is, any boy or girl who has pluck and de termination, is shown by the record of the graduating class of Jefferson High School this year. Out of a class of 86 pupils, of which 35 were boys. S3 earned funds enough to carry them through their entire four-year course. They proved that labor was an Incentive rather than a detriment to good scholarship, for a large number of students obtained above 90 per cent In studies. In some cases the occupations chosen merely tided over the period until a permanent vocation could be decided upon, but in other cases they were the foundations for life work. Czerney Hastings was one of the stu dents who made good financially. "I began," he says, "working as ele vator boy In the Board of Trade build ing. In two months I earned enough to take me to the Seattle Fair, and for the whole Summer I made about $250. The second Summer I got work with a. construction crew on the O. W. " R. & N. bridges. I began, wheeling a wheelbarrow and from this was pro moted to checking and finally was given charge of the storeroom. I worked nine months and made about $800. The fol lowing Summer I had charge of a gang of men on the Broadway bridge and made $275. Last Summer, I did night work on the Oregon Electric bridge at $3.50 a night." Hastings took the English course at the high school, averaging about 85 per cent. He will enter college in the Fall, I and study engraving. J Collections Are Profitable. Frank T. Davis, another bright stu dent, who managed the football team three years, earned $240 In two Sum mers at collecting and otherwise. He collected principally from bankrupt stock. Robert McMurry worked for the Northern Pacific Lumber Company tying lumber and piling it on trucks. He says: "This kind of work keeps one hust ling, .but develops plenty of good muscle. I worked 10 hours a day at $1.75. The following Summer I was employed by the Hassam Paving Com pany to pave the street in my own neighborhood, and I made about $85. I put on my old clothes and went at It like any common laborer, and on. the whole I found my friends pretty dem ocratic, and as cordial to me as when I appeared in better clothes. The main objection to the work was the effect it had on shoe leather, as it cost me a pair of shoes about every week. The Summer of my third high school year was passed in a construction camp at Briggs. Or. All last Summer I worked for the Banking World- Magazine and reported a convention of banking clubs at Salt Lake City. Later I went to Chicago and worked in the office of the same concern. I was paid $40 for four weeks' work, and my expenses. This coming year I expect to go to Stanford, and enter the college of law." Train Flogging I Start. Raymond J Buckley, manager of the . class play and interscholastlc debate, also spent the Summers in a construc tion camp. Ho commenced flagging trains on. the Northern Pacific to pre vent their passing when blasts were fired. He also kept time for the men, receiving 25 cents an hour, and the first Summer made J200. He says: "The following Summer I did the .same work, but lived at a farmhouse and paid $1 a day for board. I reduced my expenses $10 a month by milking cows and doing odd Jobs around the ' farm, and during the Summer I cleared $170. In June of 1911 I found oppor tunity to work with a construction company at Sherlock, Wash., which was shortening the route to Puget Sound. I worked at night as brakeman on the small engines used in filling and earned $3 a night. Last Winter I carried Ore gonians in Irvington and earned from $35 to $10 a month. Next Fall I expect to enter the , University of Wisconsin, and shall probably work my way through college." Alexander Lange carried Oregonlans for three years during the Winters and earned $50 a month. One Summer he handled, two routes and made $96 a month. - Threshing Gives Opportunity! Clarence W. Hendricks made his start in business in the. basement of a hard ware store, handling nail kegs and va rious kinds of hardward. He received $8 a week. On Saturday nights, off and on, for two years he stuck papers for The Oregonian, and was paid 25 cents an hour, averaging $4.50 a night. Robert William Langley, after work ing two years as a drug clerk, decided to study at Jefferson High. He finished the college of physicians' course in two and a half years, and worked during that time as carrier on The Oregonian. making more than $500, and paying all ' his school expenses. He expects to en ter the University of Oregon next year, Frederick W. Heberleln worked in a hardware store two hours daily and 1 ' eight hours on Saturdays at about $2.50 a week. He also collected for a feed store, put in wood and carried papers. BOYS AT IIILIS WILL CAMP Military School Prepares Pupils for College or Business. A preparatory school for boys which has an enviable record In the number and success of the young men whom it has sent out to register in colleges not only of Oregon, but of all parts of the United States, is the Hill Military Academy, of Portland. It was found ed in 1901 by J. W. Hill, the present principal, who for 23 years previous . had been principal of the Bishop Scott Academy . The purposes of the Institution, as outlined In its catalogue, are: "To pre pare its graduates thoroughly for en trance Into any American university, college or scientific school and into the United States naval and military acad emies. "To provide every cadet with a gen erous, well-balanced education which will enable him to enter successfully upon a business career. "To Inculcate sound moral and reli gious principles and to foster bodily growth and sound health. "To give cadets sufficient military training to entitle them to recognition in any National Guard or volunteer or ganization or at any university where military drill Is part of the curriculum." The school Is open not only for board ing students, hut for day students. Courses offered are primary, prepara tory and academic and the military in struction is in the hands of an instruc tor of long military experience. A Summer camp Is also maintained and is one of the features especially attractive to the boys and young men enrolled In the academy. GROWTH OF ACADEMY RAPID Portland Preparatory Institution Sends Many to Universities. From a student body of 42 and a faculty "of three at its beginning in 1889, the Portland Academy has grown until at the present time it enrolls be tween 600 and 1000 students and has a faculty of 25 directing its work under Principal J. R. Wilson. Portland Academy has always stood high in the rank of preparatory schools a., . . - (,, , .-.- Kri-i. ..! .... f r ) mm k ' i J - ' I rlX 8WWT r hm a f ' f . f! , btwrn.Miii-iA;i ii, ,Ka , LirW V - . -s- if? Y ' - and has sent a large percentage of the students from Oregon to the State Uni versity from Portland, and to entrance in leading Eastern universities; Forty four colleges, all of National impor tance, have graduates from Portland Academy enrolled. The courses offered are primary and preparatory, involving both the grade school and high school, work leading up to college entrance. VILliAMETTE WILLi EXPAND New Departments Created and Fac ulty Is Enlarged. With an accepted endowment of $500, 000 and a building fund of $50,000, fol lowing the close of the Booth and Hill endowment fund campaigns, Willamette University has prepared for marked extension in all of its principal depart ments. Faculty salaries have been ad vanced and additional faculty members have been secured to care for new de partments. The school of med'lcine has been merged into that of the University of Oregon by vote of the trustees. Tho law school will be continued another year to give the present class the op portunity of graduating. Every other department of the uni versity is to be improved and enlarged as rapidly as possible, and many new buildings and classrooms are planned to accommodate the increasing student body. i From every viewpoint the school has been standardized, and the advance In the next few years is expected to be greater than ever before. ST. HELENS GRADUATES WIN Girls Take High Honor In Best Class of Universities. Miss Helen Holbrook, a graduate of St. Helen's Hall. Portland, has Just graduated from the University of Ore gon with highest honors in English. Miss Lucy Powell, another former St. Henen's Hall student, has Just gradu ated from ' Columbia University, New ToTk, winning the Earle prize for clas sics and the graduate fellowship for general excellence. This Is an indication of the general trend of the work at St. Helen's. The highest mission of the schools of this nature is to thoroughly prepare girls and young women not merely to sup ply them with a certain amount of knowledge, but to instill the ability to concentrate and to apply the experi ences of dally life. OLl ACADEMY WILL REOPEN Bishop Scott Grammar School Will Take Boys, Through Ninth Grade. Assuming a new and strong position in the educational work of the state, the Bishop Scott Grammar School will be reopened in September on its new site in the northern, part of Yamhill County, near Yamhill. This school of fers courses of instruction for boys. v i i; . . - - Rev. Barr Gifford Lee, rector of St. Paul's Church, or Salem,' has been cho sen headmaster, and the faculty is now being organized. The Bishop Scott Grammar and Di vinity School was founded by Bishop Morris in 1870, the divinity feature be ing dropped finally and the course di rected entirely In the one channel. It was known then as Bishop Scott Acad emy. In 1904 the school was closed for financial reasons, and since then the ground on which it stood in Portland has increased in value until the income has become sufficient to warrant the board in reopening the school. The courses offered in the beginning will take boys beyond the ninth and tenth grades of the public school work. Applications for admission Into the school should be made immediately, as the accommodations for the first year are sufficient for a class of only 30 boys. HITCHCOCK STANDING CLASS A Military Department Under Direct Charge of Regular Army Officer. Hitchcock Military Academy is now starting on its 36th successful year. Its well-earned reputation for discipline and scholarship keeps its dormitories full and enables It to employ the best and most experienced teachers In the profession, as well as to maintain Its equipment at .the highest standard of excellence. The military department Is under the direct charge of an officer of the United States Army and it Is designed by the War Department as a "Class A" Institution. Each cadet has a separate room, thus Insuring that privacy which is always desired and so rarely found In the boarding schools of today. This ar rangement reduces the common com plaint of homesickness to a minimum and makes It easy to maintain a high standard of discipline with the least possible amount of friction. Boys have been and now are pre paring for all of the large universities of the United States as well as for the United States Army and Naval academies. BOYS' SCHOOL WELL FOUNDED Institution at Belmont, Cal., Ranks - With Best in Country. The foundation of the Belmont school for boys dates back more than 25 years, during which time It has given hun dreds of young men preliminary train ing, which made possible for them an effective career in college. When W. T. Reid resigned from the presidency of the University of Cali fornia In 1885, he was' formally asked by a number of men, such representa tives of the higher interests of the state as T. O. Mills, E. P. Cole, Horace Davis, W. P Fuller and Louis Sloss, to establish a school for boys equal In grade to the best of the Eastern schools. Mr. Reid secured the country place, of Mrs. Senator Ralston and founded Belmont School, which has Y. W. C. A. Forced to Enlarge Room for Commercial Department. So successful have been the classes In the commercial department of the T. "W. C. A. that the largest classroom in the building is. now employed to allow sufficient room. This depart ment was started last Summer as an experiment, but this year It has been found necessary to employ a substi tute teacher while the regular teach er is on a vacation, in order that the Instruction may be kept up through the vacation period. , Miss James is of the opinion that the one feature of this work is the refusal of the authorities to grant any certifi cates or even a note of recommenda tion unless the girls have completed a thorough course. t "Many girls have come with the Idea of taking Just sufficient work to se cure them a place in business," said Miss James, "and to them it has seemed hard that we have been, unable to grant them any recommendation, but It has repaid us more than a hundred fold in the reputation it gains for the Y. W. C. A." The employment department will be run as much as possible in conjunction with this commercial department, and girls who apply to the association for help In securing business posts will be tested in the commercial department bo that the association will be as se cure as is possible In its recommenda tions. . In connection with the teaching of English to foreign girls, efforts are being made now to double the classes, not only in the building, but also in the East Side branch, as this Is a work which is considered a crying need and (Concluded on pare 7.) Y. M..C.A. Day and Night Schools Sixth and Taylor Fee 3 Mo. COURSE. or Course Accounting (course) $150.00 Advertising 13.00 Algebra 5.00 Assaying (course) 30.00 Apple Culture no fee Architectural Drafting T.50 Arithmetic 2.00 Automobile (course) 50.00 Bookkeeping 6.00 Boys' School 4.00 Business Law 2.00 Carpentry and Woodturnlng 10.00 Chemistry 10.00 Electricity 15.00 English for Foreign Men 3.00 English Grammar and Reading... 3.00 English Literature 3.00 Freehand Drawing 7.00 French 6.0O Geometry 5.00 German 3.00 History 5.00 Latin 5.00 Machine Design , 7.50 Mechanical Drafting . . 7.i0 Penmanship 3.Kl Pharmacy (course) . . . . ; 30.00 Physical and Commercial Geog raphy 5.00 Physics 7.00 Plan Reading and Cost Engineer ing S.00 PlumbJn. Shop Practice 15.00 Poultry Raising no fee Public Speaking 6.00 Reinforced Concrete Construction. 6.00 Salesmanship . 20. OO Spanish 3.00 Shorthand 6.00 Surveying and Mapping 10.00 Telegraphy and Dispatching (course) .. 2O.00 Trigonometry 5.00 Typewriting 6.0O Vocal Music 3.00 Wireless Telegraphy 50.0O Call or send for Catalog. Similar schools In Seattle, Tacoma, Spoka-ia, Oakland, San , Francisco and Los Angeles. Pacificllniversity FOREST GROVE, OREGON Liberal Arts College, four' years' course above high school. Ac credited by U. S. Bureau of Edu cation. Conservatory of Music. Modern buildings; strong faculty: ideal location. . For Catalogue Apply to PRES. C. J. BISHM3LL, Poieit Grove, Or. A school for boyg. Now lo cated at Yamhill, Or., 40 miles from Portland: 100 acres in grounds. A thorough grammar school (secondary) education at .moderate cost, under the best Influence and environment. Make early application, as the number of boye la strictly lim ited. Address the rector. Rev. Barr Gifford Lee. Yamhill, Or. Marlborough School for Girls Over Fourteen 865 West 23d Street. Los Angeles, Cali fornia. 2 (it ti Year Opens Sep tember 30th. OUT-OF-DOORS STUDY Gymnasium, Tennis. etc. CERTIFICATE admits WITHOUT EXAMINATION to tvelles ley, Vassar, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, Berko iey and Stanford. FRESHMAN AND SOPHOMORE COL LEGE WORK; special courses in LIT ERATURE. HISTORY OF ART, ETC. DOMESTIC SCIENCE CLASSES. LIM ITED TO 5 EACH. Work in prettily furnished family kitchen and dining room. Sewing, millinery, etc. MUSIC DEPARTMENT in charge of MR. WALDO F. CHASE. - MRS. GEO. A. CASWELL. MISS GRACE WILTSHIRE, B. L., Principals. For catalogue and information address Secretary Marlborough School. THE KING SCHOOL OF LIP READING AND SPEECH FOR THE DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARING Children who are falling behind In their grades because of deafness taught lip reading and enabled to succeed in hearing schools. Adults who are hampered socially and in business will be benefited. Corre spondence courses. Studio 308 Cen tral bldg. Phone Marshall 298. BEST'S ART SCHOOL 1625 California St., SAN FRANCISCO Life Classen Xa.r nd Night Illustrating, Sketching, Painting Special attention paid to cartooning and illustrating. Situations secured. Send for catalogue. THE GAMBLE SCHOOLS, ,2. Santa Barbara. California A boarding and day school which main tains the best standards. Lower and upper school. Advanced classes for high ecboo graduates. College preparation. Domestic: science, art, music, travel classes, outdoor sleeping and study. Surf bathing, riding, camping, separate cottage for younger girls. Circular on request. Miss E. Antoinette Ely, M. A., and Miss Ina M. Richter, B. A.. Principals. Address Secretary, box 2. Sim Grades. Twelfth yesr - Aur. 2S. 1911. 3m. Conducted for Girls by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Refined, moral, intellectual and practical training in Music, Art and Womanly Accomplishments. Complete Grade, Academic and Collegiate Courses. Commercial, Domestic Science and Elocution departments. Rentdeat and Day Students. No interference in matters of re ligion. vV'rite for announcement de scribing school and outlining Btudies. School reopens September 2d. Addnsa Slater Superior. St. Mary's Academy, Portland. Or. A STRONG faculty of tested teachers, who are the companions of the boys, is the backbone of the strength of De KoTen Hall. Lads thoroughly- pre pared for business or for admission to college or the Government schools. Placed where mental and moral wholesomeness are possible, De Koven en sourages manly contests. Summer camp now open. JTor catalogue write D. S. Pulford, A. M., Princi pal, South Tacoma, "Wash. J, MOUNT ANGEL COLLEGE Conducted by the Benedictine Fathers. Begins its Twenty - Sixth Year on September 15. Courses : Preparatory, Commercial, Class ical, Normal, Scientific, Philo-. sophical and Theological. Experienced and Efficient Teachers in Every Branch. Heating plant of the entire buildings perfected during vacation. Board and Tuition, $250 a Year For particulars apply to . the President. MOUNT ANGEL COLLEGE, Mount Angel, Oregon. MANZANITA HALL PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA A preparatory school for boys and young men. Here the mind, body and morals receive equal development. Fall term begins August 26. For catalogue and further particulars, address W. A. SHEDD, Head Master. Miss Catlin's Board ing and Day School Opens its third year September 17. Pre pares for Eastern schools and colleges. Primary and Intermediate departments. Montesaorl department for little children. Bpeclal primary for boys. Courses fln art, music and dramatic work. Open to visitors during; Summer at 161 Xorth Twenty-third street, Portland, Oregon, Seattle Gollegeand Seminary A Christian, coeducational day and boarding school of recognized standing. Twenty-first year opens September 10, 1913. G-ra'des, college work, special col lege Qreparatory courses, with grammar and primary departments. Special courses in music, art and elocution. A strong faculty of fourteen up-to-date instructors. Four modern, well-equipped buildings on a picturesque campus. Best moral and social Influences. For partic ulars, for catalogue address ALEXANDER BEERS, President, Station IT, Seattle, Wash. SEATTLE COLLEGE AND SEMINARY A Christian, coeducational day and board Ins; school of recognized standing. Twenty first year opens September 10. 1913. Grades, college work, special college preparatory courses, with grammar and primary depart, ments. Special courses in music, art and elocution. A strong faculty of fourteen up-to-date instructors. Four modern, well equipped buildings on a picturesque campus. Best moral and social Influences. For par ticulars for catalogue address ALEXAKDEB BEERS, President. Station. F, Seattle. With. Miss Blanchard's School 2315 Sacramento Street, San Francisco. Home and day school for girls. Num ber of house pupils limited. Upper and Lower School. General, College Pre paratory and Special Courses, Music and Art. Fall term opens September 18, 1913. For catalogue address MISS ELISABETH BLAKCHARD. Principal. CVMNA3IUM THEGRAFONOLA Life of the School Coupled with COLUMBIA educational records a Grafonola FAVORITE , Price $50.00 Is the most popular for practical school-room use, as its name implies. Its tone qualities are made up of richness, mellowness, warmth and purity. At Your Dealers or Columbia Phonograph Co. 371 Washington Street Y. W. C. A.. Day and Night Classes 1913-14 Registration Sept. 15 - Oct. 4 (Term 16 Weeks) COMMERCIAL BRANCHES HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS ENGLISH AND EXPRESSION FRENCH GERMAN MUSIC PHYSICAL TRAINING BIBLE AND MISSION STUDY Triumph Automatic and Adjustable Desks Guaranteed Against Breakage for 20 Years Gillespie School of Expression VOCAL. PHYSICAL, AND ESTHETIC CULTURE LITERATURE. WITH ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETIVE RENDERING RHETORIC, ORATORY AND DRAMATIC ART A STUDENTS' CLUB FOR DRILL IN EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING DEBATE AND PARLIAMENTARY LAW CONTINUOUS FORENOON CLASSES INDIVIDUAL WORK AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS A PUBLIC CLASS EVERY MONDAY" EVENING FALL TERM OPENS OCTOBER 14, 1913 Individual Work Ueartns September 1). EMMA WILSON GILLESPIE, Principal 534 Morrison Street Phones Main 503 i, A-4S72 PORTLAND. OREGON PORTLAND ACADEMY Twenty-fifth Tear Open ft September 15. Office Hours July and August. 0 to 12 Daily. Fits boys and girls for Eastern and Western colleges. Well-equipped lab oratories In Chemistry and Physics. A Gymnasium in charge of a skilled di rector. Field and Track Athletics. The Academy includes a primary and grammar school which receives boys and girts as youri as six, and does the work of the grades in seven years. Emphasis on essentials. Physical train ing and free play In Gymnasium and on playground. All departments in charge of thor oughly qualified and experienced teach ers. Catalogue on application. Thirteenth and Montgomery. ITCHC0C MILITARY ACADEMY, SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA The Only Western School Having Separate Room for Each Boy. Accredited, Government detail, large campus, gymnasium, rifle range. Thirty-sixth year begins August 18th. Catalogue on appli cation. Rex W. Sherer and S. J. Halley, Principals. R M Full course. 6 months, $50.00 In advance, or $10 per month. Shorthand, Typewriting- Proofreading; and Offica Practice. 3 months, $20.00 in advance or $7 60 per month. Daily speed practice, per week, $1.25. One lesson per week evening- per term $4 00. Mrs. Jessie Hinsdale. Classes in Cooking, Serving, Home Nursing, Sewing- Millinery, etc., open October 7. Director. Miss Mable Stegmer. Assistant, Domestic Sci ence. Miss Eliza Baker. Assistant, Domestic Arts, Miss Margaret Ksgleston. Classes for foreign girls, $2.00 per term. Ele mentary and Intermediate classes. $4.00 Der term. Expression, $4.00 per term. Elementary and Intermediate classes, $4.00 per' term. Advanced classes twice a week $6 00 per term. Mile. Maillet. Elementary and Intermediate classes, $4.00 per term. Advanced classes twice a week $6.00 per term. Freu. Senftleben. Mandolin and Guitar In clubs or In private lessons. Chorus work if enrollment is sufficient. Gymnasia and Swimming pool for class and pri vate work. Open daily except Wednesday. Classes in the building, In churcnes and in homes for neighborhood groups. No tuition. PLEASE REGISTER EARLY. School Furniture and School Supplies Hyloplate Blackboards, Globes, Maps, Charts, "Window Shades, h'lnga, Chairs, Bells and Teach ers' Desks Heating and Ventilating Plants for Ru ral Schools. Catalog and description sent on request. These Plants endorsed by leading educators and physicians. NORTHWEST SCHOOL FURNITURE CO. 246 THIRD STREET, PORTLAND, OR. THE RAYMOND COACHING SCHOOL Fourteenth Year. Individual Instruction Only. Preparation for Colleges and Uni versities Twelve Departmental Teachers of Thorough Training and Extended Experience. By reason of the thoroughness of individual Instruction, students can cover the entire high school course in one year. 2659-61 California Street, Nan Frssclttco, Cal. Tel. West 261. Mrs. Mabel Butterworth TEACHER OF EXPRESSION AND DRAMATIC ART Home Studio 560 E. Taylor St. Phone E. 5734