Barnard School for Boys - Bric Yearbook (Fieldston, NY)

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A RETROSPECT' The Barnard School was founded in the Fall of 1886 at II7 and 119 West 125th Street, New York City. A score of years is seemingly' a small span in the life of an institution. One can realize, however, how long such a period is by noting the changes that have taken place in the immediate surroundings of the school. Harlem in I886'was nothing more than a country town, almost wholly disconnected from New York proper. One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, now one of the busiest thoroughfares of our great metropolis, resembled then a country lane, shaded by beautiful, wide-spreading trees, and lined on both sides by stately detached homes with spacious lawns. A bob-tail horse car made regular half- hourly trips on this street, and, when fortunate enough to make connections with it. one had the pleasure of ringing up his own fare. The elevated railroads had but recently pushed their way northward, and these, by traversing the intervening goat pastures, brought Harlem in touch with the busy city below. All that residential part of the city on the W'est side between Iroth Street and 59th Street, was made up of vacant lots with the exception of a few fine residences on 72d Street. In Harlem, also, between 120th Street and Central Park there was open country, and here at 114th Street was located the old polo grounds where national base ball and college football games were played. These grounds at times our school teams used for practice in their sports. Above I2Otl1 Street running well to the North was our territory. The Barnard boys looked upon it as such, and the people of Harlem looked with peculiar favor upon the school as its local institution. This section of the city hitherto had not had the good fortune of numbering among its local institutions, a preparatory school for boys. The needs of the com- munity had been brought to the attention of two young men who had just gradu- ated from Columbia College, then located in the lower part of the city, and by them the school was founded. One of these two was the present headmaster, Mr. Hazen, and the other was john Wlesley French, a fine fellow of marked ability, who remained with the school for four years, then 'entered the law, and finally died in Porto Rico in the service of his country. i In seeking a name for the school, it occurred to the founders that the name of the venerable president of their :Xlma Mater would he a fitting choice, and, in a personal interview with him, Dr. Barnard willingly and generously consented to its use. lt might be interesting to note that llarnard College took its name in mem- ory of the same eminent educator. but not until his death. The first home of the school was one of the line old residences on 125th Street. ln addition to the residence which formed the main hall of the school, there were two other buildings on the premises, a carriage house and a barn. The carriage house was quickly changed by the head masters into a gymnasium, and the barn