Alton High School - Tatler Yearbook (Alton, IL)

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“ T II E TATLER 25 Rhetoricals required of all pupils throughout the four years. Daily instruction in music with privilege of joining the High School Chorus. EXPLANATORY. To complete the course a student must take four studies each year. Each student must take the studies in italics, and may select from the others a sufficient number to average four subjects for each semester of the course. The various courses are consolidated into a single flexible course, from which it is possible, without loss of standing, to select studies so as to make up as many different courses as there are distinct needs among the pupils. The course is designed to discharge a double function. On the one hand it is built upon the assumption that the High School course must of necessity be the finishing course for the great majority who go directly from it to the pursuits of active life. On the other hand it is arranged to meet the “Entrance Requirements' of the best universities, and is therefore, not only a finishing course for the many, but also a thorough college and university preparatory course. It neither sacrifices the many to the few by being strictly college preparatory nor does it ignore the admission requirements of the universities. HOW THE UNIVERSITIES ESTIMATE THE HIGH SCHOOL. The following colleges and universities have examined the High School as to preparation of teachers, methods of instruction and equipment of laboratories, and, as a result, have made arrangements whereby they receive graduates of the High School, without examination, upon the recommendation of the principal: University of Illinois. University of Iowa. University of Missouri, University of Michigan. University of Minnesota. University of Indiana. University of Chicago. Cornell University, Leland Stanford University, Washington University, Brown University. Syracuse University. Oberlin College. Shurtleff College and practically all of the smaller western colleges. Special attention is given pupils who signify their intention to prepare for college in the way of choosing the studies which will best fit them for the department of college work they wish to pursue. Pupils who expect to attend college should, therefore, make their intention known early in the course and be assigned to the appropriate preparatory studies.

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24 •• T FI E T A T L E R COURSE OF STUDY FIRST YEAR. FIRST SEMESTER. English Algebra Latin Physiology Drawing SECOND SEMESTER. English Algebra Latin Civics Drawing SECOND YEAR. FIRST SEMESTER. English Algebra Latin Physical Geography Grecian History SECOND SEMESTER. English Geometry Latin Botany Roman History THIRD YEAR. FIRST SEMESTER. English Physics Geometry Latin Zoology German French History SECOND SEMESTER. English Physics Geometry Latin Chemistry German English History FOURTH YEAR. FIRST SEMESTER. English Chemistry Political Economy Latin German General History Commercial Arithmetic Commercial Law Bookkeeping SECOND SEMESTER. English Astronomy General History Latin German American 11 istorv Commercial Arithmetic Commercial Law Bookkeeping

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26 “ T H E T A T I. E R ” ADMISSION. Pupils arc admitted to the High School: (a) bv certificate of graduation issued by the Grammar Schools; (b) by Common School diploma issued by a County Superintendent; (c) by satisfactory certification from other schools; (d) upon examination. Entrance examinations will be held in the High School building on September i and 2, 1905. TUITION. All pupils who arc not bona fide residents of the school district of Alton are required to pay tuition at the rate of $12.50 per half-year. Considering the advantages offered, this tuition rate is very moderate. It is a significant fact that the enrollment for this year includes tuition pupils from Upper Alton. North Alton. Elsah, Kane. Bel trees, Godfrey, Dow, Melville. Jerseyvillc, Carrollton and West Alton, Mo. ADVANTAGES. Young people of Madison and adjoining counties are especially urged to carefully consider the following special features of this school: The facilities are unsurpassed. The teachers are all instructors of thorough preparation and experience, five of them being college graduates and 1 two normal school graduates. The methods of instruction are modern, the teachers keeping themselves abreast of the times in modern pedagogy. The classes are not large, so that the teaching is personal and direct. Parents who desire a good school in the above respects, where their sons and daughters will be surrounded by the best of associations and taught by cultured and enthusiastic teachers, may rest assured that this school will not fail to meet their expectations.