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Public Latin School has slowly grown into the modern high school, which trains boys and girls to face life. There is no business, industry, profession, or public enterprise which has not benefited somewhat from the higher intellectual level which the high school has given to the American people. It is worth noting, stated President Roosevelt, that social progress in the United States is following swiftly on the heels of the remarkable expansion at the high school level. The high school enrollment has grown five hundred per cent in the last thirty years.
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C avenporl s rJtrsl 'J(igh g c ioo and entered college at fourteen. “The rod and dunce cap were encouragement to the laggard, and school life was severe and terrifying. At many schools Latin was taught exclusively; English was considered not quite respectable enough. The principal activity of the “scholars was studying, but fishing excursions, when the schcx)l master read Latin, were frequent treats. Sports in their true sense were few, but in summer the good students were taken swimming, and such physical exercises as wrestling, run ning, and leaping were popular. Enough for the old schools; the scene shifts to the high school of today. The
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An interesting way to celebrate the Tercentenary Anniversary is to study the history of our own Davenport High School. Information concerning the early days is meager. We do know, however, that the intermediate school, the predecessor of the high school, was held in alternate years in what arc now the Adams and Jefferson grade buildings. In 1861 this name was changed to the Davenport City High School. Such a name had not been pre- viously considered, owing to public sentiment against supporting a high school by public taxation. This sentiment was not particularly local, since high schools were struggling for recognition all over the country. The high school was held in the two grade buildings alternately until the leasing of the Baptist Church building, on the corner of Sixth and Main Streets, in 1863. It was remodeled by the congregation for high school use in accordance with the requirements of the Board of Education. The next year the Board purchased the property for four thousand dollars and made fur-
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