University High School - U Highlights Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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volume Five Thg Cofrglatof Nineteen-Eight The largest class graduated was in 1893, eighty-seven in number. Although the course of study extended over three years only, graduates were admitted to the Freshman classes of the best engineering schools of the country, such as: The Massachusetts Institution of Technology Con examinationj, Cornell University, the 'Universities of Illinois, Michigan, VVisconsin, etc. ton certificatej. Also, to I-larvard, Yale, Princeton, and other colleges. Frequently owing to pro- ficiency in Mathematics, Drawing and Shopworlc, graduates completed a four years' engineering course in three years. About fifty per cent of the graduates entered college, the others going directly into business of various kinds. The alumni ot' the school are found in all honorable callings: Engineers- civil, mechanical, electrical-designers, contractors, merchants, manufacturers, lawyers. doctors, teachers, and 0110 ClCI'g'j'lllUlZ. They may be found in Canada, in Mexico, in Europe, in South Africa. They wear the uniform of oHicers of the army and navy of the Tfnitecl States. Some of them smelled gunpowder in the Spanish war, on the Oregon and elsewhere. 1' , -,, ff f fl Old Manual Entrance. 26

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Volume Five I The C0ffC1at0f Nineteen-Eight Ijniversity. From its inception the Chicago School stood for high scholarship, manual skill, and good character. The motto on its seal-Mwzfe afque mcmu acl 'L'1'7'fIlfC77L QThrough brain andhand to manhoodj expressed the thought of its founders. Admission was by examination only. Idlers and weaklings, if by any chance ad-mitted, were promptly dismissed. Boys showing immoral tendencies were removed as soon as their true characters were revealed. The school was not a reform school nor an asylum for weak minded. Neither political nor personal influence availed in securing or retaining membership. The hrst class, seventy-four in number, many of whom had finished part of a high school course, was admitted, as has been said, january 4, 1884. Twenty- seven of these seventy-four graduated june 24, 1886. T-he first annual sermon-for there always was an annual sermon-was preached by Rev. Dr. S. I. McPherson, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, june 20, 1886. At the first annual exhibit June 23, 1886, was shown, among other products of the boys: skill, a steam engine built by the school, a picture of which may be seen at bottom of this page. T-his 8 H. P. engine, exhibited in operation, was considered a marvel by the fifteen hundred visitors, because it had been made by boys. It attracted far more attention than did any of the numerous horizontal and upright engines built by succeeding classes. As the character of the sohool became known, applicants for admission in- creased in numlber, until it became necessary -to refuse several hundred every year, notwithstanding the enlargement of the building. This large number of appli- cants, so much greater than the capacity of the school, enabled it to select a choice body of pupils. But it was a painful duty to refuse admittance to so many b-oys, and the Director labored with members of the -City Board of Education and with others, until the English High and Manual Training School Qnow the R. T. Cranej was openedl Later, the Arm-our Institute was founded by Mr. Philip D. Armour, a member of the Commercial Clulb, and a contributor to the Manual Training Sc-hool. Mr. Armour frequntly said in public: 'fIf there had been no Chicago Manual Training School there would have been no Armour Institute. He thus recognized the infiuence of the school. In fact, the great work of the school has been, not the education of its pupils, but the education of public senti- ment. Many manual training schools were planned in the office of the old school building on Michigan Avenue, and the existence of a great number can he traced directly to this school. As manual training schools multiplied in all parts of the country, the Com- mercial Club felt that the work for which the sc'hool had been organized had been accomplished, and in 1897 it offered the school as a gift to the University of Chicago, and the offer was accepted. This conviction of the Club is expressed in the following qu-otation from the beautiful bronze tablet which commemorates the transfer of the school 1- That it has caused the establishment of many similar institutions, and especially, that it has secured the incorporation of this system of education into the public schools of this city and of many other cities, is evidence to the founders of the school that it has successfully accomplished the purpose for which it was organized. P Z5

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