Baltimore City College - Green Bag Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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This is Baltimore City College - a magnificent gray and brown stone building set amid tennis courts and athletic fields, rising from the grassy slopes of the campus at Thirty-third Street and The Alameda. The tower is a Baltimore landmark, visible from most parts of the cityg but this school is far more than a landmark or a monument. Her history speaks eloquently for itself. The Baltimore City College was founded on Octo- ber 20, l839, in a small building on Courtland Street in order to provide the more mature students of Balti- more with a classical four year education. Only a hand- ful of young men attended this one-professor school to take up courses in Latin, Greek, English, and mathe- matics, but from that year on, both the school's size and reputation began to grow. That was one hundred and eighteen years ago. Since then, City College, the third oldest public high school in America, has gone through a vast series of changes. As the size of the student body increased, the school moved successively from building to building, until, outgrowing what is now the XVestern High School on Howard Street, the class of 1927 moved into its brand new home which so much resembles a castle. YVith a student body of about twenty-three hundred young men and a faculty of ninety-seven teachers, City College has broken from the classic style of education it once taught and has become a true academic high school, with courses encompassing most of the fields of knowledge. Her alumni have gone on to become famous actors, great lawyers and statesmen, businessmen of note throughout the city and state, and possibly most im- portant, to return to their alma mater as members of the faculty to continue the tradition which is so much a part of them. XVith the branching of academic interests and the increase in size, City College students themselves began to create a new and integral part of the school. Extra- curricular activities began to spring up. The Bancroft Literary Society was created, soon to find itself locked in debate with its rival, the Carrollton-XVight Society. A student orchestra began to practice after class, competing for membership with a Geology Club, a Mathematics Club, and even a struggling young organization attempt- ing to publish the first GRHENBAG. Organized athletics were well under way, though new sports were being added to the list ol varsity teams regularly. Though the course of time has brought change, it has also brought the old and honored traditions which mean so much to the school. Indeed, student life today abounds with traditions which were begun when our grandfathers attended the BCC. The City-Poly Game and the Bancrolt-Carrollton-XVight Debate, both in their sixty-eighth consecutive years, are prime examples. The Founder's Day Assembly, Farewell Assemblies, and even our school song and our rooters' cheers are old traditions being carried onward. Thus, as the years passed, City College grew ever larger and ever more complex until today the story of one school year can barely be recounted in one volume. There is so much to remember - the close football games won, and the one lost, the lacrosse games and the swim- ming meets ancl the wrestling bouts, the clubs we joined and the organilations which we helped, the dances we attended and the friendships wc- made, and most of all, the classes we attended and the teachers some of whom made such deep impressions on our lives. These we will never forget. This, then, is the story of one school year, of the events which made it exciting, of Life at City College.

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