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HHGH Gallupan and considering the handicap which the first year of Change and reorganie zation entails, the results have not been disappointing. A large percentage of the boys in the school have shown a marked improvement in their work, and almost without exception, there has prevailed a spirit of industry and of loyalty without Which no school can succeed. This brief sketch of the history of the new Blake School would be incomplete Without a few words about its plans for the comingtyear. The trustees wisely planned to begin from within, but they also included a generous and notable physical development which should make the school a real addition to the advantages and beauty of Minneapolis. So generous and enthusiastic was their support of the school, that early in the first year of its incorporation they began to search for a suitable site, where an appropriate edifice, and grounds ample for the play and recrea- tion which boys need, were the ends in View. The result of this search was the purchase of forty acres of ideally suitable land at the intersection of the Minnetonka trolley line and the Mendelssohn road. Plans were pre- pared for a building on this site by Mr. Edwin H. Hewitt, and a part of this building, sufficient for the needs of the school for a number of years, is now in the process of construction, and its completion is promised by the contractors in time for the opening of school about October first, 1912. This building, costing, together with the land, about $75,000, has been presented to the school by the generosity of the trustees and of a number of Citizens who have contributed the necessary funds. Here the Blake School will fulfill the earliest dream of its founders as a country day school, diminishing nothing of the sound ideas of its first year, and adding thereto the advantages of ample play grounds, and re- moval, during the live school days of the week, from the City environment. Here it will be a community of men and boys working and playing together under the happiest circumstances, yet keeping its boys at home at i the times when home counts most; in this way combining many of the advantages of the ordinary day school and of the boarding school. Here it will strive to carry out through efficient service and loyal co-operation on the part of both teachers and boys, the aim of education embodied in its motto, Urbz' L-t orbi ZummiHeillumination of mind and spirit for the City and state. C. B. N. J6 351th 21 nrhi lumen NHLDH Page win 6
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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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