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PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH SCHOOLS 127 being used for an endowment. The board accordingly was authorized to close the school, sell the Academy prop- erty if they considered it wise to do so and reopen else- where as soon as practicable. The building was rented in December, 1904, for $250 per month and became the Glendora Hotel. The period from 1904 to the present time has been one of continued misfortune for the affairs of the Bishop Scott school, but with the exception of one reverse, the history of St. Helen's Hall has been one of general prosperity. During the first years of the administration of the Sisters of St. John the Baptist, the attendance rose until in 1910 it had reached 243. The quality of the work was very high, as is indicated by its recognition among colleges and unversities, particularly in the East. The Sisters introduced a kindergarten which was discontinued in 1911, opened again for a short time a few years later. They also created a new post-graduate department which was fairly well attended for a few years but for which there now seems to be no demand. It consisted almost entirely of work in Languages, Music, Art, and English Literature. At the present time there are only two departments, called the Lower School and the Upper School. The Lower School consists of six classes, covering in English and Arithmetic the same ground as the elemen- tary public school to the seventh grade but with a broader range of subjects. The Upper School covers six years and is divided into two courses—the College Preparatory Course and the General Course. The first and second forms of the Upper School correspond with the seventh and eighth grades of the public schools, and the other four forms correspond with the four years of the public high schools. The College Preparatory Course is so arranged to meet the requirements of the leading Eastern colleges, while the General Course is intended for pupils desiring to lay the foundation of a broad general education and meets the requirements of those universities and colleges which do not require four years of preparatory work in