Berkeley High School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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to 1905 with an enrollment of over seven hundred and a faculty T% of twenty-two teachers. The first graduating class was in Mil; 1883, when one lone senior stepped forth into the world; now the School is turning out from one hundred to one hundred Wsdriba and fifty finished graduates a year. Of these the majority — ' move into the University of California, where the School is fully accredited. The School building, although only four years old, is already inadequate for the large classes and that the present High School building will some day bear the more dignified title of Town Hall is a prophecy which the Olla Podrida dares to set forth with a vision of an immense new school in the midst of a large athletic field. Almost every branch of athletics known to academic insti tutions is supported at Berkeley High and its athletes are known throughout the State as leaders in healthy sports. Recently the girls have been taking their share in athletics, and have basketball, tennis and rowing meets as respites from the routine of study. Literary talent has an outlet through the Olla Podrida which is published bi-weekly during the term, debating is actively engaged in through a society for that purpose and dramatics are encouraged throughout the year. In social events the School is not dull, receptions and farewell dances being given by each class. The School has recently tried the One Session System and has found that it works with great satisfaction to all con- cerned, making recitations less of a drudgery and raising the standard of study. Berkeley High has just passed a year remarkable for the unison among the students and between the students and faculty and for the support, especially by the girls, of all the School ' s activities. Politics has been accompanied with little bitterness and all have acted with one accord in bettering the School ' s interests. 9

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The Berkeley High School (A Review) THAT the Berkeley High School conforms to its surround- ings as an institute of learning. There ran be no doubt. The atmosphere of the State University pervades its halls and actions, and it is really another undergraduate class of that institution. Its position gives it an advantage over interior schools in its broadening effect on the mind and its escape from the rut into which schools at a distance from the University and the broader field of knowledge are liable to fall. Besides These general benefits. Berkeley High affords an opportunity of carrying on a high school and an under- graduate college course at the same time. This is evidenced in the number of college students who are making up deficiencies, especially in the science courses, in This School. The School in its four years ' course embraces almost all the departments of high school instruction; Mathematics, in- cluding Algebra. Plane and Solid Geometry and Trigonometry. Physics. Chemistry. Geometrical Drawing. Free Hand Drawing. Latin. Greek. French. German. English. History and Physical Geography, and is governed by a thoroughly reliable faculty. The most notable fact in the history of the School is its rapid growth from 1880. with seven students and two teachers.

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