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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PRINCIPAL MORRIS C. JAMES