The same river furnishes abundant water power for the mills and factories. Lebanon is the centre of one of the richest agricultural regions of the Willamette valley. It has a good public school, good churches, and the intellectual and moral tone of the place is far above the average of most of the western towns. The last is a consideration of the first importance to parents having children to educate. Giant cedars and pines arch the walks, while immence maples almost conceal the building under their dense foliage.
Study is especially delightful where the beauty of nature abounds as here.
For fifty years the Academy has been closely related to the progress and developement of the town of its birth. The students who went forth from the Academy, there wholly or partially equipped for their life work, form no small proportion of the potent influence that took the once little village and made it the energetic and enterprising town it now is. More than that, students have gone throughout the state and other states and justly won honor and unquestioned reputation. Wherever they have gone they have used their influence for honesty, moralty, and material educational development. These facts reflect credit upon the Institution and stimulate present effort.