Aiijj U.wuut LiwiA JULitkL i ujkiiiUiif . .v. .... i. c PORTLAHD LEADS art association In Portland. Miss Anna Crocker, curator, has filled this posi tion for the last 1? years. , It is largely furough her persistent, efforts that the mopeum has-com to Its present posi tion of Importance in tha community life of the city. - "Portland is rapidly devt'lor-lnjs as an . art center," said Clyde' Keer, local artist. "There are now many valuable private collections here." . ... It is his belief that Oregon offers substantial Inspiration te , a creative arUst through her scenery ,. t PORTLAND TAKES PRIDE IN HER NEW PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDINGS; PERCENTAGES OF mmmmmmsmtmsmmtm E III CITY'S AFFAIRS Portland's Museum Holds Sev . eral , Splendid, Collections Instruction of First Class. Attendance Is 48,000; Teachers Are "Competent Educational Advantages Are Extensive. ART.APPIiEC!AIil HOLDS HIGH PLACE SCHOOL STUD NTS Contrary to the cherished tradition, the average Portland boy anl girl of school age actually likes to go to school. This seems a sweeping state ment, but from figures compiled to the records 6f the administrative offices of the school board, Portland, which is the , twenty-first L' city In the . United States In point of population has the largest percentage of student in pub lic schools in the country.. The "Port land schools daily receive into their classes. 43,000 pupils. '-' :- ' ' 'This situation, from the observation of school officials, is due in part to the passing' of the old . fashioned poker spined, , nosey sort of school- teacher ..who- was commonly known to be the arch enemy and bugaboo of all school children. This person was generally a woman of indefinite but ill-concealed years who was, in the estimation of the pupils, bent on a secret mission of 'picking on the kids." She Had neither sympathy with their fidgets, nor . pa tience with their shortcomings in the business of gaining knowledge. TEACHERS , This schoolday ogress has' passed, along with the dunce cap, -the rusty super-heated cannon stove and the com mon drinking cup.lln Portland the schoo teacher, is a real human being. - The board will, not consider for election any but graduates of standard normal schools, who have had two years of actual teaching experience. They en- ;ter the city schools on two years pro bation during which time their work and "their . personal contact with the pupils are. under observation. At the end, of the probation - period. If the teacher's record is satisfactory, he or she is . elected to a - position in the schools on permanent tenure of office. "We've found the tenure of "office method of great benefit to the gen eral efficiency of the teaching force." aid Assistant Superintendent E. H. Whitney. -It gives the teacher a 'feeling- of justness and security. No one can be ousted on snap Judgment, and each person subject to dismissal is given a chance to be beard in Ms own delense. Ten weeks' notice must be given each teacher who is to be dis missed. . . PORTLAND BANKS FIRST Portland ranks first in the United States in the number of students who leave grammar school to enter" high school and also in its percentage of high school pupils who go 09 to insti tutions of higher education. The supervisors of education have gone into the business of making the student's burden as light as possible for the best advantage of its effective ness. ' For instance. In the last five years, the English courses have been cut almost in half in hieh schools. ? eliminating much of the volnrne tf -vuiaiue reacting wnicn couia oe spared without limiting the pupils' learning unwisely. The English class used' to be the horror of every red-blooded boy who entered the school building. Shake speare to him was "an old long hair" wno wrote a lot of uninteresting and burdensome plays. Chaucer was nei ther intelligible nor worth bothering about. Rhetoric was a futile game of words which would never get a boy t, anywnere and was therefore scorned. 1 In 1922 the instructor is a leader - and a discriminating one. The boy has v his classic study presented to him In a manner that appeals to him. The t story is explained in terms of every . day uses. The possibilities f the Eng- lish course develop into short etory ;- writing and amateur drama. The "why of the writer is made the rea- son for studying him. The English course gets over. TEACHING BECOMES SCIENCE "Teaching has become a science." ' said Whitney. "It has become Mgh- ly . professionalized. The teacher no longer tries to fit the child to the ii scheme of instruction, but fits the i teaching to the child's needs.' We p; have raised our standards here and we :- mean to keep them high because we I get better - results. The best influ- ence the student has is often his high school life. The 1922 child is mere :, open and frank and inquiring than the ' old fashioned child. I don't think " we're In any danger of becoming fl ap prised. The flapper Is a good lively American girl who, for the most part, , is unjustly criticised. This criticism ;-- doesn't revert to the school ; it reverts to the-insane laxity in the homes of many of them. Parents are busy hav- Ing a good time themselves and they don't bother to find out where their children are or how late they stay out . at night" -. ,1 The students of Portland are going to be taught every possible thing thai will help' them to be better men and . DRUGS Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Druggists Sundries A. Live Wire Company Soliciting Your Business Mail Us Your Orders PACIFIC WHOLESALE DRUG CO. 40-42 Front StrceT - ; Portland, Oregon " - - t ; Phone. Broadway 5443 7 ? - Is f r , ' . . t . - t . J - " " ' - 5 .tr . . , ft ' J - , 1 ' , . ' 0 " I 4 - x 4 . - N-S :. :-:v ; y ?:j''S - ' ': : : - - ... " S ,v ::.,X;.' : :i:r::i :,...:--v 7 ; y .-i-VV;-: :.f : 'rWM . ' i;. . . i ; . -J - i - - 1 r " v , I i. , , , . - iP' ' - ( x " . . : r ' ,.,.':"-K(.fiiia f : ji : 1 - l i! !! !"! .- Mir. v I ... -'.-. fcifti ' 1 PORTLAND WINS ! ' I a pi CffT-. , SJ RECOGNITION AS rwd-MJ V ( MUSICAL CENTER I if a if r: :r - - r Tj -jfj ij jj Above Roosevelt high school, Hearing completion in St. Johns. Below women," In the new Roosevelt high school in the St. Johns district, lec tures on social hygiene will be included. There will be separate classes for boys and girls. Portland has two schools for the subnormal child. The Etna school lias about 60 pupils, most of them girls, divided into sub-normal and dull normal. Five teachers guide them in instruction and training best adapted to their mental equipment. At the Atkinson school there are three teach ers and a smaller number of pupils, mostly boys, who are given industrial training and as much mental food as they can digest. Miss Ida M. .Manley. principal of these schools, does the measuring and testing for the whole city. The question of a site for the new Washington high school is before the school board, GTH IS ASSET ' A canvass has been made of the resi dence of the students and It has proved that 55 per cent of the Wash ington pupils are on direct streetcar lines; 30 per cent within walking dis tance and -only 15 per cent had to transfer on cars to get to the build ing. Also there is 1120,000 invested in a gymnasium on the present campus. The problem of seeking another site was brought up for discussion because of the present limited ground for the school, but it has almost- been defi nitely decided that with the consolida tion of the Buckraaa school, which has 28 rooms and eight portables, and the Hawthorns building, which has 18 rooms; the present site la most suitable for the rebuilding of the school. The available insurance on the burned propety has proved to be a sum of fStO.000, but the new building will cost at least 750,000. Plans, however, are not yet made for the new structure, but the subject will come up In the very near future. STJPPtT tH PER CENT Oregon orchards and canneries sun- ply 28 per cent of all the Pears eannedl in tne united states. Public School Enrollment Four-Fold Increase Since Public school registration in Port land, year by year, since 1 900 : J School Year ending June. 'Pupils Registered 12.280 12,674 . 13,299 14,241 14.909 15,877 17,031 20.389 22.213 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 190a New Schools Are Planned $3000,000 Fuid Is Ready FoUowing a cautious expenditure of runas and an unusually economical ad ministration in which thousands of dol lars have been saved during the last year, the next 12-month period looks forward to an extensive -building pro gram ror scnooi purposes. Class room facilities have been taxed beyond the Hmit during 1921. New buildings for elementary and high school uses must replace the portable, in which the pupils have been cramped during the past two or three years, and for this purpose 3,000,000 bond hare teen voted by the people. 4 During the last year e, new high school has coma Into being in the 8t Johns dlstricCa school will take the place of the old James John high school and is built on the general plans of the Franklin high school. , For its site with recreation grounds such as every modern school should have. IS acres have been acquired and the school is now -neanng completion. SECOND U3T1T PLAKNXD ; The Buckman school, an elementary school building, with housing for a much larger number of children than the old building which it replaces is now in use and the second unit of the structure is now under the hands of the workmen. J ; , :ir-t- r.;" : An administration bnlldlnar. which will furnish lodgement for the depart ment of the board of education, the business and property office has been constructed out of the old Holladay school which was flOHujed bv fire ast February. The men t the ad ministrative department will move Into their new office next spring. The new structure la finished in a manner to harmonise with the wew . Holladay school located ea the adjoining blocks and the cost of the project was about tsc.ooo. x.. .. ; . ,. The budding program for the coming year includes the purchase of play grounds. - elementary school buildings and possibly two new high schools if the Washington high school which "was destroyed. last, month by fir is to be tackled in the sear future. BOAXD BTJT8 SIT : The dyaeea SL Grant high school is a project which la looked upon wit unusual interest because the alt for Its erection has been purchased by the school board and the city of frtlaad and includes three tracts lying between tsd and 7th streets and bounded by Braaee and Knott on the other sides. 1 For the mv Washington high school building to : replace the fire-wrecked structure on th east side, no definite Entrance to new Bnckman schooL Sh ows 1900 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 23.709 25.598 28.362 30.517 J 1265 33,142 33.222 35,209 36.470 40.237 44.091 45,279 47,010 48.333 plans have been made except that the architects to draw plans for the new ch'pl will be Houghtaling A Dougan. The new school will probably occupy the old site because of the $120,000 gym nasium adjoining it and for other Mod I reasons.' A site has been purchased for a sum of $55,000 adjoining the old Holladay school building which will house the new school for grammar grades. It will Include 20 classrooms, auditorium and piay sheda It will be a two-story brick building. A. E. Doyl has the plans now ready to submit for ap proval by the board. ' ' Th board is now tnslderlng plans for the erection of a new elementary school building in Goldsmith addition which will be known as the new Chap man school. The sum of $63,750 has been paid by the board for the new project thus far. - , - t That the children of Kenton school may have a definite and proper place for recreation during school days, a site, one block from the present school building, has been purchased by the board for consideration of $10,000: Glencoe schooi has acquired an addi tional two and one half acres of play ground space for which the board paid $7(00. , . . J&RJBOX. HEIGHTS-SCHOOL The present housing of the Enrol heights school is in portables and a tract of 10 acres has recently been ac quired for $8000 for the erection- of a new avd permanent building with suit able playgrounds although the vnew structure has not yet been taken under advisement by the board. ' . j The new 'UuUnomah school building Will occupy the present site of the portables where th elementary classes are housed. The new school -win con sist of 30 classrooms and an assembly hail. Ciena th and Goodrich have been selected as architects for the new build' ing. . --.v ; v-f. , Another school site, now occupied by portable buildings Is the Scott schooi in Laorelharat -where a new building wijth 10 class rooms and. assembly hail will be built. Plans are being drawn by Oaussen ac Claussen. architects. A 12-room unit with assembly haC will be bunt on the site of the present Gregory heights portable school build ings. Richard Martia Jr., is archi tect for this Structure. ' The budget for anticipated expenses for -1922 as submitted by the schooi board to the tax- supervising and con servation commission was approved and passed without question, . . Symphony Orchestra, Grand Opera Association, Other Or ganizations Are of High Class 'Portland Is recognized as the center of musical art in the Pacific North west, a distinction obtained not with out competition. Portland has a symphony orchestra. a ' grand opera association, a light opera company, many men s, women s and mixed choruses, choirs and quar tets, chamber music, string ensembles, several concert and military bands and, finally, the fundamentals of these or ganizations enumerated, an array of talent most diversified. - The physical growth of Portland has been quite amazing, yet the creation of its musical atmosphere even more so. Fifty years ago the city was a village, but the sturdy pioneers lent character and furnished -the foundation upon which rests so solidly the suDer- structure of today. And the musical growth of the city has been steady and substantial. -8TMPH05T ORCHESTRA Tne symphony orchestra, with a membership of 65 professional and paid performers, is now In its twelfth year. and an institution accepted by its sponsors and the general public as essential and integral a part of the community as the Public Auditorium or the city hall. The Portland Opera association was organized 10 years or so ago and has presented a season of grand opera in English each year with remarkable success. With a few exceptions the participants have been local artists. The wonderful success of the Chicago Opera company in Portland on its last tour of the West may in a, large meas ure be attributed to the' missionary work of the local organisation in behalf of this branch of musical art. Light opera has been sung here from time to time by touring and local talent, but not until a few .months ago were steps taken toward the formation of a permanent organisation. It is known as the Portland Light , Opera company and plans to give two or more operas each season.. MA3CT LOCAL BOOKINGS Portland is the headquarters for the leading concert managers of the Pa- -ciflc Northwest, and most of the book ings for other parts of . the Pacific JNOrthwest are done through Portland. That these managers have the confi dence of the public is indicated by the high class of artists booked. The lists include the best obtainable. It would be difficult to mention many artists or special distinction who have not been presented here. Hand-in-hand with the general in crease In musical appreciation is the growth of the city's musical educational facilities. The percentage of musics tty educated here is relatively large, espe cially , among the younger element. Music in rudimentary form is taught in the public grade schools, . and in the high schools credits are allowed for time devoted to th study of music with accredited teachers. - Orchestras and glee clubs are important factors ux tne nigh school activities. Naturally, In a city so deeply Inter ested in musio the number of teachers must be large, and it is, but apparently not too large, for the field is constantly expanding. . mttsic studios ; ; 7 Several large buildings In the busi ness district are ' devoted almost ex clusively above the ground floor to music studios, and in addition thereto are. many elegantly appointed residence studios.. Portland has a number - of conservatories ;f music and art with which arc identified distinguished teachers.- . During the summer months a num ber of distinguished and nationally noted maeetros conduct ' courses here In the various branches. On account of th attractive summer climate, such courses promise to .become more and more popular with -both .teacher and students, many of 'whom come from distant' parts. For advanced music students exten sion courses are conducted in Portland by the University of Oregon, the classes dealing with musical form, ap preciation, harmony, theory and com position. ' Instrumental performers wishing- to obtain routine may-do so by attending- any one of several orches tra school i in charge of competent conductors. fc . But. musically speaking, Portland should not be looked spon as an oasis in a desert. : for musical advancement throughout the entire Pacific North west is keeping up with th pace set her. World famous artists on tour, who have been booked for appearances in the smaller communities, hav fre quently commented on the evidence of discrimination and appreciation on th part of their. 'audiences. ... " Connected with practically every in stitution of higher education in Oregon is a school of music with a large faculty- of competent Instructors. - . It may take a second look to -con- vince a a: outsider that Portland is ! a thriving; art center and that her -museum is the home of the moat con centrated artistic activity in the North west as wen as th- residence o some of the most valuable art treasures in the country. - It takes a' second-look because Portland's work along this line has been as unostenatious as the external appearance . of . her - modest brick museum. Quiet, persistent work by art stu dents andV art masters has made of Portland a power in .this field In he west. Her artists have not sought pub licity for themselves or .-. their work, and they have not -received it. There Is a comparatively - large' number of artists of national and , International reputation now in Portland. The out standing names are Henry W. Went. Clyde Leon Keller.;- Sidney Bell. An thony- Buwer, - Lucy Dodge : Itambnrg, C. C McKim, E. D- M. Fowls. - Bruce Hoi ef all, Fred Strickland. Clara Steph ens, and N. B. Zane. COLLECTION LARGE lit the galleries of the Portland Mu seum of Art their sure' rich collections, including - originals by. ' European and American masters. A large oil paint ing, i the work . of V Adolphe Monticelli, celebrated 19th century man. Is one of the most valuable pieces in the gallery. It was the gift of the Ladd heirs in memory of their mother, Mrs. W.J S. Ladd. Such names as William Sartain, contemporary American. Corot, famous Frenchman. Gaurdi, the last of the old school of Venetian painters C ; F, Daubigny, ' another Fceach artist. George Inness, the American. Theodore Rousseau, A. Mauve, the Dutch water colorist. - and . many others - are -epre-sented on the gallery walla! .v :. - . : Among the association's possessions Is a Proctor bronze, "Indian on Horse back." " Three bronse medallions, .the work of Olin Warner; the late Amer ican sculptor of International reputa tion, are bung on the wall. They are loaned to the museum by C E. 6. wood. Rare examples of Greek glass, attribut ed to the early Christian centuries, ex quisite jade and crystal pieces, and porcelain vases are displayed in glass cases FI3TE LACE EXHIBITED A room devoted to examples of the world's finest lace adjoins the gallery rooms. It 1 the only one of its kind on the Pacific coast. During the year various exhibits are brought to Portland by the art associa tion. This fall there have been four in teresting displays, one of ecclesiastical embroideries, illuminations and brasses, another of the drawings of Pamela Bianco', another of the paintings, draw ings and sculpture of Oregon artists and one of the works of Western artists which will remain in the museum gal lery until January . A collection of representative designs will go on dis play In the room January 27. Since 1905 the art association has maintained' a school in the museum. The course offered includes flesirn handicraft, drawing, painting and art history. "Our system of 'instruction," said Miss Anna B. Crocker, curator, "lays special stress upon the first two years of the student's work. Henry F. Went. Clara J. Stephens, Lets. Kennedy and Henrietta H. Failing compose the teach ing staff. At various times during the year student worK is placed upon dis Play. ,- FIRST OF KIID It is saf to say that Portland is the art pioneer of the Northwest. Her museum was the first of Its kind In this section of the country. When neighboring cities were not concerning themselves with the esthetic refine ments of life Portland was taking steps to offer public recognition to the artis tic, aspirations- of her people through the establishment of a museum. Back in J892 citizens of this city or ganised an art association and at tempted to gather together art treas ures that would serve as inspiration to the people of Portland." In the up stairs of the old library building rooms were set aside for this purpose. . "The first -outstanding gift to the as sociation was s set of 83 casts of Greek and -Roman sculpture purchased by the late II. W. Corbett. Then came the lot at Taylor and Fifth streets, which was also th gift of Mr. Cor bett,: - .i- fi " ERECTED n IMS ' , Mrs. W. S. Ladd donated the funds for a building and the museum was erected in 1905. . :The . first board of trustees of the association consisted of H. W. Corbett, Henry Failing. Will lam M. Ladd, Holt C. Wilson, C. E. S. Wood, W. B. Ayer and T. L. Elliot. Ther are now 12.000 members of the Miss Catlin's School r FOR lOIRBIlia AND OAT rUPILS - OecuplM m Own BulMtns sa DVESTOVCR TERRACES -: An IdMl Location BMkMfeaK anS .... 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