Tipton High School - Tiptonian Yearbook (Tipton, IN)

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A History of the Tipton High School THE year eighteen hundred seventy-two marks the beginning of our present High School system. It was in the autumn of that year, that Prof. Rust, then superin- tendent of the city schools, succeeded in forming a class of twelve which was to be the first on the roll of our Alumni. But few people realized the need of higher school facil- ities then and the new movement met with much opposition. However, through the untiring efforts of the school authorities the work progressed and in eighteen hundred seventy-six the first High School commencement was held for a class of seven gradu- ates. This class established the fact that Tipton had a High School and people began to get interested in its work. The next class three years later numbered sixteen and since that time almost every year has marked the graduation of a class of aspiring High School students fitted out to fill responsible positions in life. Twenty-eight graduating classes including the present one, have gone forth from the old High School Building. In all there have been two hundred eighty-two gradu- ates, one hundred seventy-nine girls and one hundred-three boys. The fact is worthy of note that of this number all have been true to their Alma Mater and the in- spiring principles it has fostered. Of the Old School Building which has witnessed all the scenes of High School life of thirty-two years a great deal might be said. It was erected in the year eighteen hundred sixty-eight as a township school and not until a few years after was it turned over to the city for school purposes. Then the first story was used by the grades and on the unfinished second floor what is now Room C. was fitted up for the first-class of High School students. Our Chemistry Laboratory was an office room for the super- intendent and the large Assembly hall, furnished with a rude stage along the east wall and with Room E. fitted up as a dressing room, was used for private theatricals and entertainments given by the students. Here large audiences gathered and, seated about the room on planks laid across trestles, enjoyed ameteur performances of such plays as Handy Andy and Ten Nights In A Bar Room. Here also pupils and teach- er met for lectures etc., and hence this room was proudly spoken of as Our Chapel. The exterior of the building had not yet received its coat of dull gray but stood in all its brightness and towered far above all neighboring structures. Surrounding the campus was a high board fence with a rude stile for an entrance, and on the south side the lawn was closely partitioned to separate the girls and boys. This was pro- bably done for the benefit of the grades down stairs. Since then the school building has been modernized in every way but it still has an air of ancient times about it and in the last year of its occupancy it might with Na- poleonic inspiration say: Pupils, forty years look down upon your acts to-day. Be- have like men.

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Tipton High School Course FIRST YEAR EIRST TERM Algebra. English. Ancient History. Latin. ( Geology or 1 Physical Geography. SECOND TERM Algebra. English. Ancient History. Latin. {Geology or Physical Geography. THIRD YEAR EIRST TERM Plane Geometry. English. English History. Latin Cicero. ( Physics or ( German. SECOND TERM Plane Geometry. Civics. Latin Cicero. ( Physics or ( German. Each subject four hours per week. SECOND YEAR EIRST TERM Algebra. English. Modern History. Latin Caesar. f Zoology or I Botany. SECOND TERM Algebra. English. Modern History. Latin Caesar. (Zoology or ( Botany. FOURTH YEAR EIRST TERM Solid Geometry. English. American History. Latin Vergil. {Chemistry or German. SECOND TERM Trigonometry or Arithmetic. English. American History. Latin Vergil. ( Chemistry or 1 German.