Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Qin tbeiwllasses nf 1914: Beloved Students: The time has arrived all too soon to say 'a word of farewell to you. You are the last of the old Central and the first of the new. You can appreciate most the differences between what was and what now is. I am proud to have been able to lead you through the old and into the new. While I have striven as best I knew to make the new all it could pos- sibly be in material structure, and equipment, my greatest desire has ever been, and now is, that each one of you should reflect in his own individual character all that is perfect and beautiful. Our beautiful building will never accomplish its proper results unless, through its service and work, we unfcld that which is beautiful and good in the minds and character of our students. During these four years we have struggled to teach you to work to be worth something. Wherever you may go and whatever you may have to do, we want you to be of efficient service in every good work. Let the spirit of old Central ever be alive within you to make each duty nobly performed and each problem of life well measured and solved in Truth. Affectionately, your Principal, JOHN N. GREER. l I 4

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G illllli ffRI1ilN.XI. l'll'lI,l7!X4Q. l Qllentral ifaigb Snbunl HE school was first organized as a high school in the old Washington Nw building which stood on a part of the block now occupied by the City Hall and Court House. In 1873, the Board of Education requested its building committee to look up a suitable site for a new high school building. In 1874, the committee recommended the purchase of a block in Penniman's Addition. In January, 1875, the Superintendent of Schools submitted sketches for a high school building. These sketches were placed in the hands of archi- tects with the request that they draw plans in accordance therewith. In 1875, the site in Penniman's Addition was decided to be unsatisfactory and the east half of Block 20, Snyder 8z Company's First Addition to Minne- apolis was purchased. This is on 4th Ave. South and llth St., where the present building now stands. If the Board of Education at that time had been willing to pay 551,500 more they could have purchased the whole of Block 20. They have recently paid about 380,000 for this other half. An increase in values from 31,500 to 380,000 in 37 years, illustrates how rapidly our city is advancing in its regular realty values. March 9, 1875, it was decided to accept the elevation plan of a high school building made by Long 8: Haglin, and the ground plan made by Buflington 8: Radcliff. May 2, 1875, at an election called for the purpose, it was voted to issue bonds to the amount of 812,000 for the erection of a high school. In