Hughes High School - Hughes Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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I K41 Flt s: ?3 $.. jEONTENTs. .-.oog3;oo., . THOMAS HUGHES QT. Sampson PowarQ, . 9 OnIGIN OF THE HUGHES FUND, . . . . 11 THE HUGHES PnorEnTY-LOCMION AND VALUE, . . . . . . . 12 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE. HUGHES FUND, . . . . . . . 14. THE CINCINNATI HUGHES HIGH SCHOOL, . . . . . . . . 15 Tm; CINCINNATI HUGHES HIGH SCHOOL BUILDlNl;-BY wnom AND WHEN ERECTED, . 19 CATALOGUE OF GRADUATES OF THE HUGHES Hum SCHOOL-OCQUI'A'PNms ANT? Annlucssm . 20 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE HUGHES TEACHERS, . .' . . . . 4:4 TOAST-n OUR. TEACHERS ' Ovrom the Old Central School Reunion Pamphleb, . . . . 46 CYRUS KNOWLTON LProf. John M. Edwartm, . . . . . . . 51 FORMATION OF THE SOCIETY or ALUMNI U1- .I. Omoh-nndroL . . . . . . GO CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE SOCIETY OF ALUMNI, COMPLETE LIST OF OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY OF ALUMNI mom 11's Onchtmrmx, . . I51; OUR. ALUMNAL DEAD, . . . . . . . 7:; REPORT or THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Mrs. Em I3. Rogwrs Rva, . . . . 7-I PABTING SONG Mlbart H. Allem, . . . . . . . . . 52 A RETROSPECT Tl1eodore F. Sputum . . . . . . . . 83 THE MONUMENT MOVEMENT Sidney Dmohundro, Secretary of the M'onumenl Commilled, . . 91 CORRESPONDENCE, . . . . . A . . . . . . 94 THE COMMITTEE'S TABLE, . . . . Illustrations. THE HUGHES HIGH Scnoor. Bumnma, . . . . . . . . 18 THE THOMAS Hucums MONUMENT, . . . . . . . . . 90

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SSH Wcmoviam. THOMAS HUGHES. J. SAMPSON POWERS, ESQ., CINCINNATI, OHIOt ' PROMISED a short note in regard to my recollections of THOMAS HUGHES, the man Who left by will the bulk of. his real estate for school purposes, and Which property ' ultimately, in pursuance of an act of the legielature of the State of Ohio, and 0f the Union High School Board of the City of Cincinnati, successfully terminated in the Hughes High School of the said city. Were it not for such men as THOMAS IIUGHES and WILLIAM WOODWARD, this generation would look in Vain for institutions like the Woodward and Hughes High Schools of our city. I believe that Mr. HUGHES took the initiative in school bequests, followed by Mr. WOODWARD. It is worthy of' note that in both of these bequests there are no doubts as to their objects, and n0 reversions -the bequests being absolute. The writer first became acquainted with THOMAS HUGHES in the fall of 1818, and from that time until the fall of 1822 had a more ex- tended knowledge of him, and which, from that period up to the month of March, A. D. 1824, ripened into a more intimate acquaint- ance. It is mainly from the last mentioned time, that the writer