Boys High School - Red and Black Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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The Red and Black. II School 'lbi5lIOI'Q. N American city of 55o,ooo souls containing no high school and affording its people no opportu- nities whatever for secondary education at the public expense would be an anomaly in these days. Yet this was the state of things in Brooklyn in the year 1878, when the old Central Grammar School was formed. Great private schools had grown up, and smaller ones were appearing. These existed, for the children of the rich, while a knowledge of the three R's was deemed amply sufficient for the poor. The educated people of the city had paid for their privileges, and saw no reason in the nature of things why a system which had been good enough for them should not suflice for their suc- cessors. In the year mentioned a measure of economy was proposed and carried by the Board of Education whereby the upper grades of the grammar schools were consolidated under the name of the Central Grammar School and placed in the old building on Court street. There is little doubt that the chief promoters of this scheme, one of whom was Colonel John Y. Culyer, were far-sighted enough to see that eventually this school would develop into a high school, but no one of them had the temerity to say so then. Indeed, any man with nerve enough to have advocated the establishment of a public high school would have aroused a storm of opposition from press, and pulpit, and pew strong enough almost to have driven him from the city. So the course of study was modified somewhat by making a commercial course of one year and a general course of two years, which in its second year was open to graduates of the commercial course. History, English, and Mathematics were the

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I0 T he Red and Black. MARCUS B. LAMBERT, A.M. fLafayetteJ, German. . EDWARD. B. PARSONS, Malheflzatzks. CLIFTON W. BATES, A.M. CDartmouthJ, . German. ISAAC N. FAILOR, A.M. COhio Wesleyan Universityj, Commerczh! Arzlflzmetzk. FRED. W. MAR, Ph.D. QYa1eJ, Plzyszcs and Clzemzlvlry. HENRY E. HARD, Lalzh. THOMAS J. CALLANAN, A.M. fXavierJ, Book-keepzhg and Malhefzzalzks. JOHN BEADLE, Ph.D. CYa1eJ, Lalzh and Hzlvlory. DANIEL W. E. BURKE, A.M. fHami1tonJ, Lzbrarzkm. CHARLES G. BRACE, Natura! Sczknce. 'CHARLES S. HARTWELL, A.M. QAmherstJ, Erzglzklz and Rhclorzk. JOHN H. STOCKER, Ph-yszts and Chenzzlviry. HARRY O. BERNHARDT, Plzonograpky. HAROLD E. BUTTRICK, Ehglzkh ah!! Rkeforzk. RALPH W. ALLEN, Mechafzzkal Drawzhg. BURTON M. BALCH, Algebra and Natura! Sczbnce. TRACY E. CLARK, Naizaral Sczknce. PHILIP B. GIBSON. Phonography. GEORGE S. FAIRBANKS, Englzkh and Hzktory. JOSEPH C. GROFF, Englzlvlz. ALBERT S. CASWELL, Mzzszb. JEROME WALKER, M.D. Lzrlurer on Pkyszblogy. WILLIAM H. ANDREWS, Plzyszka! bzstrurior. DR. JOHN BROWN, J.B.H.S Names arein order of appointment. Absent on leave.

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