Marion High School - Cactus Yearbook (Marion, IN)

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n1h11.1I11111 TO THE CITY OI- MARION WHICH EOR EOUR YEARS IIAS OFFERED ACES IN HIGHER EDUCATION VVE RESPECDTFULLY DFDICATE TH S HOOK x . H . US THE NEST POSSIBLE ADVANT-

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Un 4'I1gl1 Drlxnnl luulhxug The Si-311101 H1gh School of M 111011 lI1Cl12lI13. locited xt the 1.011161 of Nelson and A stleets was bullt ln 1911 bx Ballex Sz Bowman LOIltl2'lCtO1S and Hnam Eldel alchltcct at an 1n1t1 1l cost of S2'8 189 It fxces Nclson stleet IS two btorles 1n helght and of fileploof COHStlLlLt10I1 As an addltlonal plotectlon agalnst fue there ale ive 6XltS wh1ch w1ll allow the bulldlng to be emptled of students ln three mlnutes and hose C.OI1Il9Ctl0l1S at the foul co1ne1s on each flool The fO1 mal openlng was held Nox embel 16 1917 although It was open 101 school September 3 It contams one hundred and fou1 rooms among wh1ch 'ue an aud1 torlum w1th stage and a seatmg capacltx of about eleven hunched a lectule room chemlstly physlcs and botany laboratoues a prlnt shop domestlc sclence draftlng wood and steel wo1 klng depaltments equlpped Wlth the most up to date apparatus and a llbrary contalnlng over 6 000 volumes Desplte the fact that It was constl ucted Wlth fd.Cll1t19S fol the accom modatlon of far more than we1e at that t1me attendxng H1gh School It has become a SCFIOUS problem to accommodate a student bodx wh1ch has mcleased f1om 590 1n 1915 to 887 1n 1921 22 Ps,

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