Carteret Academy - Carteret Yearbook (Orange, NJ)

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The Beginning ei Carteret Carteret Academy was founded by Mr. C. A. Mead and Dr. Kennedy in 1901, an outgrowth of the Dearborn-Morgan School. The new Academy changed the co-educational policy of the old school to one strictly for boys. Carteret was, as it is now, backed by a group of local share holders and the subscriptions of prominent citizens. At the corner of Orange and Essex Avenues the Academy stood on a three acre plot. According to the school's first catalog. the site is easily reached by the Cross town electric cars . . . The two story building, made of brick, had a large gym in the basement and also a locker room. shower baths, a dining room, and kitchen. On the first floor there were a large school room, several recitation rooms. and the Head Master's office. On the second were a similar school room, recita- tion rooms, laboratories for Physics Chemistry, tarnply supplied with the best apparatus! and a drawing rin school also boasted an indirect system of heating . . . and adjustable seats . . It is also interesting to note that one of the sets of furniture that was usedfor the first time in that building in 1901 has survived till our present This furniture consists of about eighteen old one-armed desk chairs which are now in use in our present Physics lab. ..Ley. p pp .t p Carteret Academy of 1901 offered the services of Bi! professors in con- trast to our twelve of today. Five the six were men and the subjects they taught were: English: science: Latin:lfGennani, French: gymnastics drawing: and manual training. The grades of the school were only six forms in preparation for college, with the studies of the last three forms divided into classical and scientific courses. Some forms had only one or two students. The only changes in the course of study, as we know it now, were the addition of Roman History, English History, Greek, and German. The only differences in the school day of then and now were: dismissal at 2:30 followed by two hours of outdoor exercise and then when the boys will come to it rested and ready for work a study hour from 4:30 to 5:30. This plan supposedly did away with the necessity of evening study. Another change was a forty-five minute lunch period at which . . . nothing of an indigestible character will be served. The custom of the Saturday detention has lasted half a century. thereby proving that contrary to our father's opinions this younger generation is no different from their own. In closing, a fact is mentioned which will bring nostalgia to the Old Alumni of Carteret and disbelief to the present graduating class. The tuition, for one year for a senior at Carteret Academy, in 1901, was Sl80.00.