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PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH SCHOOLS 131 thirty acres fronting on the Columbia River in the vicinity of Rainier, as a site for the Bishop Scott Academy. They accordingly made efforts to dispose of the Yamhill prop- erty but were unsuccessful. That same year, Dr. A . A. Morrison, Rector of Trinity Church and member of the board for many years, made an investigation of the prominent church schools of the Eastern states and reported the result of his investigation to the board. That body decided that the time for re-opening the school had not yet arrived but when it did, the proper place would be the farm in Yamhill County. It accordingly arranged to return the land near Rainier to Mr. Thayer. In February, 1912, a proposition was submitted to the board by the Ashland Commercial Club and citizens of that place to secure the donation to the board of the site of the former state institution known as the Ashland Normal School. The offer included about 15!/2 acres of land about a mile from the center of Ashland, on which were located two large buildings and a number of smaller ones. This was a very generous offer and was considered for some time by the board but finally rejected because it was situated too far from Portland. 21 In the fall of 1913 the school was finally opened on the Yamhill farm, under the name of the Bishop Scott Grammar School. Bishop Scadding said, "The idea is not to compete with the high priced boarding schools in the East, but to provide a good grammar school education, manual training, and healthy out-door life on the farm, 21 At a meeting held April 24, 1912 , the board adopted the following resolution, "Resolved, That this board hereby adopt as its settled policy and plan of operations, the establishment of church homes for boys, availing itself, so far as secular education is concerned, of the facilities offered by the public school system of the state of Oregon, and supplement- ing such secular education with Christian home influences and that the efforts of the board be devoted, primarily but not exclusively, to the establishment of worthy destitute boys in the city of Portland and other centers of population in the diocese; that the farm owend by the board in Yamhill County be operated in the interest of such homes as shall be established, and to be used during the summer months as a summer country home for the inmates of such homes." This resolution was evidently not considered, however, when the school was actually opened.