Bay View High School - Oracle Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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A winding path, softened by hiy- 7'l-C1015 of gay autimzn leaves, circles a placid pool, while in the foregroimd trees embrace and engage in a wlzispered coiwersattion with N atitre.

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8 i ll A e g l a1 -I Foreword In 1635, just a few years after the landing of the Pilgrims, the doors of the Boston Latin School, the first public school and the first secondary school in the New World, were opened to a few boys of Boston. The group of generously minded citizens who founded the school little realized the extent to which this undertaking of theirs would grow in the nation soon to be founded. It was two centuries before the American people realized that all persons, regardless of race or sex, should be educated. Today, a democratic civilization rests upon the ideal of universal education, and there are in the twenty-six thousand public high schools of our forty-eight states one out of every twenty-two of the population. Consequently, the traditional curriculum has undergone revision. With the needs of a democracy constantly in mind, those in charge of American education have gradually added to the conventional secondary course in the classics, which pre- pared students only for the professions, training in the natural and social sciences, the modern languages, and the manual as well as the fine arts. Extra-curricular activities have also be- come an important part of the education of the modern high school student. The literary societies, a heritage of early days, no longer offer the only opportunity for self-expression. To the life of the school have been added dramatic clubs, art clubs, musical organizations, such as bands and orchestras in addition to the long established glee clubs, newspaper and year book staffs, athletic associations, all of which help to develop the latent capacities of the modern student. By such training it is hoped that he may enter adult life better prepared for citi-- zenship and able to contribute his share to the progress of this democracy. All of these new tendencies are reflected in the life at Bay View High School. May this yearbook of the class of 1935 adequately present a record of the life in one of the many thousand high schools of these United States.

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