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CENTRAL HIGH sc:-fool.
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EVOLUTION OF CENTRAL-Cont'd dated. In December, 1893, the new high school, which stands on the north end of the lot, was finished. It is separated from the original structure by courts forty feet wide and is connected on each iloor by an enclosed passage. There are three stories and a basement. On the north front is a tower one hundred and forty feet in height and on the southwest corner there is an observa- tory used by the pupils in connection with the study of astronomy. The revolving cop- per dome is of suiiicient height to enable the observer to survey the horizon in all directions. The interior of the building was arranged with an eye to the including both the old and the new buildings, there are forty-three recitation rooms. In 1897 Mr. Buchanan left to take charge of a high school in New York City. Mr.AE. C. White was re-elected principal but in 'or he resigned and Mr. I. I. Cainmaclz, then vice-principal, was made principal and still has charge of the school. What the school is today, what these men with the as- sistance of an able corps of teachers have made it, we all know. It has been the purpose of the Central high school to give a broad and liberal preparation for life, but the education has been more for i i . i 1-j d' I in W is il s l il l y il utilization of all the IOOI11 pOSSi- A3 - , a growth 0f Character and in- ' fx ' 'r-Ngiilx . . ble. On both the nrst and dividual strength than for a Second H001',1a1'gehHHS H111 the development of any particular entire length of the building. There are also on the first two floors large study halls, each of which is capable of seating more than two hundred pupils. The third floor, with the exception of live class rooms, was appropriated for a large Assembly hall with a balcony on three sides. In this auditorium more than seventeen hundred pupils can easily be seated. In the school, CENTRAL1875-1884 calling that may be chosen. More than twenty-tive hundred students have graduated from Central and these graduates are found today in every vocation and profession, demonstrating by their enterprise and intelligence their fltIl6SS to .deal with the practical affairs of life. ELIZABETH CLAY, Senior.
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