ORU_CA1892Dec13.xml Guide to the La Creole Academy Records La Creole Academy Records Tanya Parlet. Funding for production of this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives 2013
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La Creole Academy records La Creole Academy CA 1892 Dec 13 0.025 linear feet 1 folder 1892 December 13 La Creole Academic Institute was built in 1846 between the towns of La Creole and Dallas, Oregon as a non-sectarian, liberal arts college; the name of the school would later change to La Creole Academy. The collection (1892) contains student essays hand-written on Academy writing stationery on physical geography, rhetoric, algebra, Latin, the solar system, and book keeping subjects. The collection also includes a journal of the minutes of the faculty of Dallas College, dating from 1904 to 1914. 1 folder. English . 1-2 (shares a clamshell box)

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La Creole Academic Institute was built in 1846 between the towns of La Creole and Dallas, Oregon as a non-sectarian, liberal arts college; the name of the school would later change to La Creole Academy.

[Source: Eighth Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Oregon, presented to the Legislative Assembly, Regular Session, 1889. pg. 69].

The collection (1892) contains short student essays hand-written on Academy writing stationery on subjects such as physical geography, rhetoric, algebra, Latin, the solar system, and book keeping. The collection also includes a journal of the minutes of the faculty of Dallas College, which was born of the 1900 merger of La Creole Academy and Lafayette Seminary. The journal dates from 1904 to 1914.

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