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PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH SCHOOLS 113 term begins, as these things are a great tax upon the teachers' time and a serious interruption of study." In specifying the clothing with which each girl is to be sup- plied, emphasis is placed upon simplicity and economy. One catalogue states, "Parents are earnestly requested to provide their daughters with plain and inexpensive dresses only, and not too many of them. Fine dresses for school girls are entirely out of place." Another states, "If the pupils bring very costly dresses, they will not be permitted to wear them." That the physical welfare of the girls was carefully looked after, is shown by the rule published in the catalogue of 1882 that, "Pupils are re- quired to take part in the daily calisthenics, unless excused by a physician. The pupils are drilled on school-day evenings in light gymnastics." All of these things indi- cate a high standard of work, accompanied by a distinctly religious and wholesome atmosphere in which the general welfare of the girls was carefully watched. Shortly after the founding of St. Helen's Hall, the other major educational enterprise, the Bishop Scott Grammar and Divinity School for boys, had its beginning. On the evening of June 21, 1870, at an informal meeting of the vestry of Trinity Church at the rooms of the Rector, Bishop Morris called the attention of that group to the subject of establishing a boys' school in the city of Port- land under the auspices of the church. On this occasion Captain George H. Flanders and his sister, Mrs. Couch, gave for this purpose four blocks, including the streets, to the church. The property was located between what is now Washington and Everett, Nineteenth and Twentieth Streets, and included a total of thirty-eight city lots. It was at that time sufficiently distant from the business portion of the city to be free from the attending noise and yet of access by means of two lines of street cars. The cornerstone for the building was laid July 5, 1870, and the school opened on the 6th of September. This building cost about $10,000, of which $4,500 came through Bishop Morris (evidently from friends in the East),