Central High School - Doubloon Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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3 ff. Page Twelve gs m QE : If- '!1 Every Friday afternoon the pupils read essays. Some person would be appointed to take notes and from these notes the Columbus School Board published the first school paper. It was just a pamphlet contain- ing the notes and appeared once a month. If a girl was disorderly or disobedient, she was sent into the boys' room for an hour or two and the punishment for a naughty boy was two or three hours in the girls' room. The classes were not at all crowded, usually five, six, or seven occu- pied the front row seats, while the other pupils sat in the seats in the 1'ear of the room and studied. At that time there were no school or class colors. The school often went on picnics to such places as Neil's Woods, now Indianolag Goodale Woods, now Goodale Park, and to the home of Lucas Sullivant, which has been replaced by one of the buildings of the State School for the Feeble-Minded. Lucas Sullivant came to Ohio when a young man, as an early settler. In August, 1797, he surveyed and laid out the site for Franklinton, now West Columbus. Hacks were used to take pupils to and from these picnics. In the first class graduated from the Columbus High School in Decem- ber, 1851, there were four members, none of whom are now living. The exercises were held in the Presbyterian Church. Two years later, in 1853, there were eight girls and four boys, of whom only one member is now living, Mrs. Mary E. Mattoon Gooding. Each class had an orator, Montgomery Lewis serving in this capacity for the Class of '53, The graduation exercises were held on the night of June 30, in the City Hall, which at that time was located at the corner of Town and Fourth Streets. It was a long structure which faced on Town Street and extended back to Rich Street. At the commencement exercises in 1853, the pupils read essays which formed a debate. Mrs. Mary Gooding, the oldest living graduate of the Central High Alumni Association, prepared a paper in favor of Women's Rights, while another student's essay was against Women's Rights. A copy of Mrs. Gooding's essay appears elsewhere in this publication. Women's Rights was at that time a very humorous topic and since the debates were to be as mirth-provoking as possible, that subject was chosen and the pupils had many good laughs at the discussions. The diploma received then was similar in size and wording to those awarded now. The only material difference is that there was a picture of the present State House, while in the lower left-hand corner was a gold seal of Ohio.

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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

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-5. Jn Sis P 3? 43:37 state street Years 1853-1862 Tpgfglipri plot of ground on State Street where the present Admin- istration Building stands was purchased in 1852 and a plain brick building, 60 by 70 feet, containing three stories and lQi'f QQ.g2. basement, was erected at a cost of S15,000. To this building, called the State Street School, the High School previously located in the Reformed Church, was moved in 1853. In 1870 this old building was condemned and torn down and in 1871 the Sullivant Building was erected. In the State Street Building the course of study consisted of a full English Course, a Business Course, and an Academic Course. During the first year 150 pupils were enrolled and the average attendance was 100. ' Dr. Asa D. Lord was superintendent for the first few months after the school was moved and was succeeded by D. P. Mayhew, who served for less than two years. Erasmus D. Kingsley was superintendent from 1865 until the school was moved to its larger home. No Alumni Association was ever formed. Later, after the new Columbus High School was opened at Broad and Sixth Streets on September 8, 1862, the graduates of the State Street School became a part of the Alumni Association formed by the pupils of the new high school. Activities were few and such things as a school paper or magazine were unheard of. Graduation exercises were held at Bigelow Chapel, which Was, at that time, a Methodist church, at Third Street and Cherry Alley. This building is now owned by Max Rieser and is used as a garage. COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL 1862-1893 In the spring of 1859 the lot on the corner of Broad and Sixth Streets, including the stone foundation which had been intended for a church, was purchased of Trinity Church for the sum of 58,820 Major W. B. Kelly drew the plans for the building which forms the main part of the present High School building and the structure was ready for occupancy in the fall of 1862. The building cost 323,400 and accommo- dated about three hundred pupils. No better description of the school as it appeared at that time can be given than that taken from Studer's History of Columbus, pub- lished in the seventies. age Thirteen