Central High School - Doubloon Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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Page Ten 5 f .-5 lr- 'h ,f. In 1851 high school was held in this two-story frame building on East Town street near Sixth, the girls occupying the room upstairs and the boys the one downstairs. In 1852 and 1853 the school was located in the basement of the German Reform- ed Church, a brick structure on the south side of Town street at the alley between Fourth and Fifth streets, while repairs were being made in the Academy located in the Covert Build- ing. There were two class rooms and a cloak room. One was the boys' room with Mr. Almon Sampson as teacher, the other was occupied by the girls with Miss Anna C. Mather as teacher. Dr. Asa D. Lord was su- MRS' MARY E. GOODING, .53 perintendent of all schools and prin- cipal of the high school at that time. The salary of the superintendent was S1000 per year, while the two high school teachers received S600 and S400 respectively. The school term was from October 1 to June 30. The course of study which appeared in the Public School Advocate of 1851, devoted to the interest of the public schools of Columbus, and edited by Dr. Asa D. Lord, is printed on the following page. Dr. Lord regularly taught Natural Philosophy in the high school. Sometimes he would take a class of four or five into the cloak room and teach them some astronomy or a snatch of etymology. Once a month Dr. Lord gave a talk to everyone in the school and each pupil was required to take notes, writing them in a special note- book. Some of these old notes are still in existence. A few of the sub- jects of these talks were Etymology, Science of Government, The Mind, Scotland, Ireland, and History. Every morning before school the boys came into the girls' room for songs, hymns, Scripture reading and prayer. School opened at nine o'clock. Later in the morning there was a recess, then an hour for lunch and school was dismissed at four o'clock. Those pupils who lived near enough went home for lunch, while the rest brought theirs.

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2 K 51... A Page Nine .,,,, 3-1 : - E 557' Early Years of the Columbus High School VER three-quarters of a century ago, in 1847, fourteen years JMLQSK before the Civil War, in the west room of the Middle Build- ing, as it was then called, the first school for higher education 5 , 1l3,Tl-jgjr gB'Lf 14 in Columbus was opened to the public. To this room came boys and girls eager to grasp the opportunity offered them to learn something other than the three R's. They knew the same successes and disappointments that the boys and girls of today experience, but they surmounted all obstacles and the following history is a record of the achievements of this small group and their successors, which the present generation, with its superior advantages and equipment, will find hard to surpass or even equal. The high school had its beginning during the administration of Dr. Asa D. Lord, the first superintendent of schools in Columbus and in the state of Ohio, whose first administration was from May 15, 1847, till February 25, 1854, when he resigned. During the first few months of his first year, three new schools were built, the South School, on the corner of Mound and Third streets, the Middle, on Third and Rich streets, and the North, on the corner of Third and Long streets, all of which were opened July 21, 1847. The schools at that time were divided into three departments, Primary, Secondary and Grammar. Some pupils were in advance of the qualifications necessary for entrance into the Grammar school de- partment, so, on September 22, 1847, the board decided to open a school for the accommodation of these more advanced pupils under the immediate direction of the superintendent. The school was opened in November of that year in a vacant room in the Middle School, the superintendent teaching one-half of each day, while a woman was employed during the rest of the day. Twenty-five pupils attended the High School during the first quar- ter, thirty-five the second, and fifty the third. Before the close of the first year the school had become so large that it was thought advisable to rent, for its use, the Academy on Town street and to employ another teacher. Thus the department known in our system of public schools as the High School, had its origin.

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OF THE COURSE OF STUDY IN THE PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL OF COLUMBUS SYNOPSIS I1 C I' S C I' Natural Philoso- I , , , English Language . G2U8raIJhy and phy, Astron- An9-t0mY- PIWM' Mental' .Moral wntmg' Draw' Rffndmg' Elncu' Ancient Lan- and Literature Mathematl s History amy and Chem- ology and Nat- and Political ing and'Book- tion and Vocal Images istry. ur-al History Science keeping Music First Year: Grammar Highe Arith- Mathematic Lectu es L0 tures P0 m8l'lSlliD Reading, Decla- Analysis of Elretic A1 and Elvll Ge- Physiology Egzments of mation and Vo- words ementary - Oxlrap Y rawinz cal Music Syntactical An- Zebra HiSt0FY 0f U- alysig States Composition Second Year Higher Grammar Practical Geom- Physical GEOS- Natural Phnom' BOHIIIY Constitllf-i011 Of Business Forms Rhetorical Read- Lal-ln Lesson! Analysis eh-y and Men- raphy Phy A1137-Omy. Physi- Ul'llt?d Stal-95 Drawing ing, Declamation Lum Gramm'-1' Compnsition surntion Chronology ology and Hy- Consgltuflon .and Elements of and Music and Render Elementary Ge- Modern History giene Inst 5 Of ohm Bookkeeping Third Year A tmnomy Natural History Mental Philoso- 1 L tl G Rh ' H' h A1 1 Ancient History S . Lectures phy Bookkeeping Reading, Deca- am rammar. Stuiifgg poetry Hlzhil- Girl,-lr: Chemistry Moral Science Double Entry mation and Mu- Caesar: Greek Elements of egry Evidences of sic Lessons. Slllllif Criticism Plain Trigg- Christianity llld Greek Composition n0m9tl'Y Reader ' , - Philosophy of Chelnistry Geology P 1'f,' 1 E- - Reading, Decla- Cicero's Orations: Fourth Year Eggsigfgng History Review Review snlgca bun mation and Mu- Greellf Reader, - - - N ' ' Logic sic Viral: Xeno- of Ln awgatwn Laws of Nations nhon's Annbasls composition History of Civil- ization COURSE OF STUDY ua E ..- as O -A-7 time anged from ch be SS GJ 3 .-Q :v O 'U s. N E U2 ..- .:: E1 ..: 0 O .c U VJ CD .:: 43 5-1 O 'Q-4 'U 0 .Q .- H O 43 rn H-4 O cu YJ P4 5 O U cv .S 4-7 u-4 O 0 G .- Z- as I3 O G C5 m .n-1 rn as I-4 D4 mi :- cu Q9 P: :- 5 o '+- Z D- 5 U 0 o .- I 3 Q2 UZ :- 5 o fu 1' 5 'O-4 cv .-C3 F 15 cu U1 o Q- In -- 'U WH ..- Z' cv 5-1 ..- +2 CI Q9 F N .-. an .-C1 -6-9 u-1 o bi 'Z' 5:1 4-7 V1 GJ -C as 4-1 ..- E O m GJ bo at 5 F'- cu E 60 C 5 O P4 d :- N U9 5: on as :- -Q 43 E ..- 'U as 4-7 cu ..- E' C 0 u as -Q Pa N E -. UI GJ -- 5-1 N .E E Q5 V2 CJ - C6 E Q2 W4 SI'- ..- 'U Q3 ..- T-4 N S: ..- 'U S-4 O 4-v C5 .-Cl -4-I Qui Em Ill v-1 .v-1 Qu 5 D4 Q3 -4-v N -4-1 .2 U gg.-. GTG 'a 2 2 'H 0 .21 ?' .-C3 m as o il ua ..- I-u VJ N 0 Q1 N GD course as full 3. of ui :- 5 O Q .II rn ..- 'So C BJ as .-CI E4 5 rn :- B in Z' 11 ness education usi b y good Ve I' Sa year 0 W int CUTS Se advanced, can ly respectab re, and atu m mewhat S0 eady alr