Beloit High School - Trojan Yearbook (Beloit, KS)

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The llnreelinq of Historq ..... In the Sunday rotogravure section of the Kan- sas City Star there is a sheet. called Unreeli11g History. ln this section are writings and illus- trati-ons of history from the beginning as seen through the camerafs eyes. From Bomc's marble senate, down the lazy Nile to Cleopatra 's perfumed palace we see history pictorially. Think of going bacl-: to 1695, wl1en tl1e first high school in the Uni- ted States was founded, and tracing its develop- 111ent to our modern schools of A Tilday- - IIllIIIIIIllIIlllllllllllilllllllllilllIIIIIlillllllllllllllillllillIlllllllllllillllllllllllllllllll A little less colorful but far more important is the unrecl- ing of educational history up- on which we have focused our attention this year. How we wish we could illustrate that Farewell VVhen rings the last school bell story brick building, each story consisting of one room. School was always dismissed when there we1'e signs of a storm because the school house was unstable. ln 1878 a stone addition of two rooms was added. The upper room was used for the high school and the lower one for the primary depart- ment. In the first Beloit High School only English. Latin, mathematics, and history were taught, until gradually the courses were en- larged and various other sub- jects were taught. lt wasn't until 1883 that there was a high school grad- uating class and only two stu- dents were graduated. ln 1884 bonds amounting to l history which started in 1695 in Boston where the Free Latin grammar school was establish- ed. But you'll have to draw on your imagination and pic- ture for yourself those quaint lads and laesies of Puritan New England. Sometime during the year of 1935 there will he a national .observance of the three hun- drcdth anniversary of the American high school. In many high schools there will be ex- hibits showing the progress of the high school in these three hundred years. The anniver- sary of the first high school has prompted the celebration of the ter-centenary of sec- ondary education of the Uni- ted States. How those prim students would gasp if they could step into our modern schools and see what progress has been made as in home eco- nomics, physical education, Upon our senior year, We bid a last farewell To halls and rooms so dear. What life will hold we do not know As from your halls we pass. But never Shall we all Return en masse. Fame and fortune call us all To make our mark in life Some will rise and some will fall In the seething strife Some will go to foreign shores Some will stay at home. And some will till the Kansas fields And some will ride the foam. But. years within a school house door Make it fond and dear: XVe'll not forget your ringing halls Or words we loved to hear. To us you mean far more than we Can ever hope to Day. Our hope can only be To return some day. Farewell, Farewell, we bid to you Our school, our four years home Farewell, Farewell we'll think of you Where e'er we roam. No matter if we ne'er return Our thoughts will be of you And in our hearts a love will burn 3420.000 were voted to erect a high school building which was completed and ready for use by the fall term of 1885. In February, 1919, i'li25,000 bonds were voted to build an addition to the high school building. which had been tot small for the number of stu- dents attending. This was al- so completed in a year. On September 21, 1918, when the building burned, school was held in Beloit churches, the court room, and the city hall. The new building, which is now the Beloit High School building. was completed hy 1921. The new high school of- fered the Smith-Hughes course in vocational agriculture. Since that time Beloit High School has progressed in every field. striving to uphold the ideals of the institution. The senior class of 1915 wiil have a reunion at Beloit High and in the business world. The Free Latin Grannnar School of Boston endeavored to train young scholars in grammar which fitted them for Academic learning. In 1821 the English Classical School of Boston was started, which was With brightness pure and true. lllllllllllllllllillIlllllllllllllIIlilllilllilll!lllllIllhlllflllllllllIllllllllllllllillllllfi F' School, Monday. May 27. ln- ritations have been issued to all the class members, the fac- t ulty, and the living members of the board of education. The person coming the greatest distance is Dr. Howard Brown of New B1 EDWARD F. RASING. JR. see1-etm-y-Tmuure1- 1 year st. York Lfity. There will he a banquet later called the English High School. Sgxdsggmfgl''Half-.gg at the 12.0811 Room of fha Ax-mmm. lts aim was to give those who didnit ketball 'si-'seg om-eos, cena- Iiotfq' Richmd fDir-kj Alsop, Thi. desire a classical education instruc- tions in practical ways, which were al- ways taught. only in colleges before lished. this time. ln the spring of 1872 bonds were voted in Be- loit. for a. school house, which was partly erected in 1873, and there wasn't enough funds to continue until 1874 when it was complet-ed and ready to open for the fall term of 187-l. The structure was a two Page Eighteen dies , '35: Sailor Maids , '34. Because Edward enrolled too late. his picture could not be pub- president of the class, will be toast- master, and members who have come from a distance will give speeches. They will visit the high school grounds, and attend commencement exercises at Beloit High School, llllonday evening on May 27. together. and Mr. Guy Keeler, a graduate of this class. and now the assistant extension director at Kansas Vnivcrsity. will deliver the address. May, 1925

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