Bay View High School - Oracle Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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too. B mong them. There were no h v track session the athletes wo ld ay View's first athletes were a s owers. After a hard football or u dash into the shower room and cool off under a sprinkling can or a pail of cold water, inverted at will. Experiments were con- ducted with a tub having a perforated bottom, but still the water was cold. Later barrack athletes were a little more fortunate in having regular showers, but they, too, lacked hot water. For a small sch ion in many subjects. English, science, mathematics, household and manual arts hi subjects were all tau ht ool, Bay View offered instruct' ' , story, languages, and commercial g at some time in the barra k - ' c s freque ntly simultaneously in the same room: Mr. Fritsche teaching German in one corner and Mr. Berg, algebra in another! The bungalow day was divided into six hours, the fifth bein eral lunch hour, and lasting for an hour and a half. occupied the sixth hour and extra- g the gen- Programs usually H3504 - 1914 VINTAGE

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LATEST OFFICE EQUIPMENT large ash-box behind the school - the ash-box so huge that it never failed to get into an out-door picture. Best remembered of the bungalow equipment is the water-cooler, which served as a bubbler in the first days of the barracks. Even in later years, after a bubbler had been installed, the moss- covered iron-bound, weather-beaten cooler served as an oasis during periods when water, then as now, had to be boiled and longed for . Between class periods the cooler was always a meet- ing-place for the students. From each of the multitude of corridors they would congregate to drink and talk. The water system had other victims, LOCKERS INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

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curricular activities, the seventh, a per- iod corresponding to our ninth hour. Suntime controlled the periods for study of the academics, for lamps were few and gas jets fewer. There was in the barrack classes, an ever-present spirit of companionship, impossible to duplicate in our present school. Companionship, it is said, is always strengthened when the partici- pants undergo hardships together. Thatls probably how the happy fam- ily spirit of early Bay View came about. All ubungalowl' students alike had to smile when taunted about their school, Fritsche's Foundry , or when they were asked by strangers how large their really non-existent library was. All alike were victims of antiquated heat- ing and water systems, faulty building construction, poor lighting, splintery, CHEMISTS STYLE SHOW WAS IT RAGTIME?