Beloit High School - Trojan Yearbook (Beloit, KS)

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Manual Training and Commercial Courses. The present enrollment in the High School is 243, including 34 Seniors, 40 Juniors, 58 Sophomores, 5 Special Students and Post-Graduates. The Board of Education now employs, aside from the superintendent, twenty-six teachers. There are ten teachers in the High School and sixteen in the Grades. In 1886 bonds to the extent of $9,000 were voted for the erection of a new school building, to be located in the Second ward. This is the present Rodgers building. It contained four large, well furnished rooms, two in each story. Since that time, however, the building has been doubled in capacity, containing now eight large, well furnished rooms, equipped with all modern fixtures. Besides these two large buildings there is in the west part of the city a beautiful brick structure, of ten rooms, called the Field School, also equipped with modern tix-tures, which was built in 1910. The building is situated on a block of ground just west and across the street from the old stone building. The schools of Beloit are widely and favorably known throughout the state, and the chief reason for this is the intelligent interest taken in their welfare by the citizens in general and the School Board in particular. Politics and religion have never been of any force in the School Board. Teachers are elected on their merits alone, which action in itself insures good schools. Dr. E. E. Brewer, the present president of the School Board, is a vigorous, wideawake executive officer and is ably seconded by his co-workers on the Board. Of those who have done much in the past for the upbuilding ot the schools, three names must take a prominent place—those of Hon. W. H. Mitchell, ex-mayor of the city; Hon. A. T. Rodgers, and Dr. E. E. Brewer, who is now president of the Board of Education. Each of these gentlemen have served many years as president of the School Board, and the result of their careful, conscientious handling of educational matters can scarcely be estimated. Beloit has been particularly fortunate in her educational advancement in the past, and everything points to a bright, progressive future. A. R. L.

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R. L. HAMILTON Superintendent Normal Training “Give Them a Square Deal.” A. R. LOOP Principal Agriculture and Botany “Cut Down Those Loud Tones. CLARA W. CARPENTER Assistant Principal English “You Should Be More Careful of Your Actions.”