The ideals of the Winchester School were always of the 
highest levels, and the members of the faculty were ever 
chosen for their ability to measure up to the high ideals pre- 
vailing in the management of the school, as well as for their 
high standing in the world of education and in the depart- 
ments they were chosen to teach. It was because of these 
ideals, and of the teachers chosen to inculcate them, that the 
school has prospered and expanded, until its present enroll- 
ment is between 250 and 300 girls. 
The course of study is thoroughly practical and complete, 
for it takes children through the Montessori and kindergarten 
grades, and proceeds upward, through college preparatory 
work, which has become exceptionally well known through- 
out the United States, and Winchester students are welcomed 
in the highest institutions of learning. By June of this year, 
when commencement exercises take place, 474 girls will have 
been graduated by the Winchester School. Many of these 
graduates have successfully passed the courses of the larger 
Eastern colleges for women, having received degrees from 
Vassar, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Wellesley and Bryn Mawr. 
A smaller number have graduated from universities and art 
schools. 
The Winchester is a private school, conducted by Miss 
M. A. Graham Mitchell. 
PARK INSTITUTE 
For a generation or two before 1889, the school that is 
now Park Institute was the preparatory department of the 
Western University of Pennsylvania. which later became the 
Univeristy of Pittsburgh. 
In 1889 Professors Levi Ludden, Charles R. Coffin and 
Wm. D. Rowan, bought the Preparatory School and changed 
the name to Park Institute. A commercial department with 
day and evening sessions was opened at once by Mr. Rowan. 
The school has functioned as a business school ever since, 
the preparatory department having been discontinued in 
1903. 
There has been only one real change in the management 
of Park Institute in forty years. O. B. Hughes came from