Barringer High School - Athenaeum Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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i cS8o. THE HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL, A SELECTION OF ESSA VS AND ORATIONS ISSUED BY THE SCHOLARS OF THE Newark Public High School. Printed by L. J. Hardliam, Newark, N. J.

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THE HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL. VOL IV. NEWARK. N. J., JANUARY 1.1880. No. 1. EDITORS FOR THE CLASS OF 'So. Bruno Hood. Owe W. Kitchell. Lizzie K. Graves. Florence Patton. E D I T O R I A L . Among the numerous gods which found their place in the Roman Pantheon, there is one whom we would draw forth from antiquity. It is Janus, the god who pre- sided over the beginning of everything. He was regarded as the guardian deity of gates, and therefore is represented with a double head. For, said the ancients, even, door looks two ways, to the entrance and to the exit: to the past and to the future, to that which to a large extent is known to us, and that which we arc yet wholly to experience. How fit a representation for this Christ- mas season is Janus. We may now con- sider ourselves at a door which will soon shut out from us the old year, with its weal and its woe ; —the weal, the gradual increase of prosperity in God’s most cherished land; the woe. the evil, which, as far as men know, all time bears in her bosom. Soon this door will open and spread out before us the mazy new year—the maze that conceals good and evil which we, with our short sight, cannot distinguish. But before this door closes, and forever shuts out from us the old year, let us in this Annual reflect the work and changes in the High School in the last year. With the new year the High School will enter upon the twenty-sixth year of its existence. The building remains the same; none but those within it know the pressing need for larger accommodations. The course of instruction has been greatly improved. We have to record the intro- duction of three new studies: Drawing, which gives the young ladies and gentle- men an opportunity to evidence their skill by embellishing the blackboards with marvelous designs: Mental Arithmetic, from which we shall undoubtedly receive much benefit : and Physical Geography, which is the exclusive privilege of the Second Year Class. Another important change in the young ladies’ department has been made so that now either a classi- cal, - scientific or commercial course of education may be pursued. During the past year much esteemed teachers have left us: Miss Laura P. Hill, now Mrs. Hyatt; Miss Lena A. Bosworth, who has accepted a position in the Mt. Auburn Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio ; and