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HHmH Gallnpan Elie $lh $thnnl At the solicitation of a number of persons interested in the education of boys, the Blake School was opened for students September 20, 1907, at 200 Ridgewood Avenue, Minneapolis. . The organization embraced two schools, the Junior, which included boys from ten to thirteen years of age, and the Senior, for boys above thir- teen. An additional school was added at the opening of the second year for boys of six to ten years of age. The growth of the school is indicated by the enrollment. The first year it was twenty-five, with three teachers; the second, thirty-six, with four teachers; the third, forty-eight, with five teachers; the fourth, seventy- five, with six teachers. During this time, having outgrown its first quarters, the school was removed to 1803 Hennepin Avenue, in January, 1911. WM. MCK. B. 311th 21 nrhi lumen NHDH Page seven
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HHLDH Clallnpzm Elna New Sthnnl In the spring of 1911 a group of Minneapolis men who had interested themselves in enlarging the scope of the Blake School, incorporated the School under a self perpetuating Board of Trustees, fifteen in number. The purpose of the new Blake School, was, put briefly, to carry on all that was excellent in the institution founded by Mr. W. MCK. Blake, and to infuse into it the energy and effectiveness which competent backing and an enlarged staff would bring. The new trustees proposed to begin at once the enlargement of the schools influence by adding to the teaching force and by giving the school sufficient guarantee so that it would not be hampered in beginning its new work. While retaining Mr. Blake, whose kindness and culture endeared him to all, the trustees called Mr. C. B. Newton from Lawrenceville School to relieve him of the more strenuous executive part of his work, and commissioned the selection of four new teachers for the Senior School and one for the Junior School. This division into a Senior and Junior school marked a new depart- ure in the Blake School along several lines. The new head of the school had come to believe, in the course of many years, observation and expen- ence that boys should begin the study of foreign languages before the High School period. He also believed that after the age of ten or eleven years, boys should be taught by men, and that thorough work rather than amount of work should be the aim of a good school. Hence, the Blake School as reorganized had two women teachers in the Junior department containing boys from six to ten, and six men teachers in the Senior depart- ment for boys from ten'to eighteen. The course of study was so arranged that boys began Latin at the age of ten to twelve, and modern languages in succeeding years, so that by the time they reached High School age they . would have gained a good start in subjects which prove very difficult to a late beginner. The number of studies taken by each boy was limited, as far as possible, to include only the essentials, and to emphasize thorough work in these. The school thus planned opened September 20th, 1911, with an enrollment of eighty-five boys to which number eight boys have been added in the course of the year, making a total enrollment of ninety-three boys. The work of the school has progressed along the lines laid down above, NHLQH QHrhi 2t nrhi 1111an Page eight
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