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Lis 1 l- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL T is over forty years since Central High School, of blinneapolis, came into being. Its birthplace was on the site of the present City Hall, but its location has changed twice with its ever-increasing size. The first move was to Fourth Avenue South and Eleventh Street. An addition to the building erected here doubled its capacity and enabled it to remain adequate until we moved into this new building at Fourth Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street in 1913. Central High's present building was built at a cost of seven hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars and is conceded to be the finest high school building in the Northwest. This building contains forty-two class rooms built to accommodate sixteen hundred pupils. In the center of the ground floor is the lunch room, with adjoining kitchen, etc., which has a capacity of eight hundred. Domestic .-Xrt has a cooking room, two sewing rooms and a house- keeping suite. At the opposite side is the Botany suite of lecture room, class room, and experimental garden under a glass roof. Also on this floor are locker rooms, some connected with the gymnasiums: shower baths: and in a one-story annex, the Manual Training department. Here are completely equipped shops for both wood and metal work. Above them are the mechanical drawing rooms. Un the first floor, to the right of the entrance, is the administration suite. Occupying the central position is the auditorium which with a gallery opening into the third and fourth floors seats eighteen hundred people. The stage is of ample proportions. Science laboratories to the number of five occupy the end spaces of this floor, and one end of the floor above. To the rear, with openings out of the auditorium stage, are the two gymnasiums, each eighty by forty feet. Roller partitions enable them to be thrown together, while an eighteen-and-a-half-lap-to-the-mile running track serves both for athletics and as a spectators, gallery.
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f ' m3':::'-ff. x -1 f ' f -X7 - + 'r IAX in Q 'A -ex l FWMJQJ fi' iiiifsl J g 1 l r c c c an ' is .4 ' . . . . N l Un the second floor is located the large library with its stock room. Ni l l, Linder the auditorium gallery is a wireless telegraphy room completely lg equipped with high-power receiving and transmitting apparatus. Upon the third floor is a supplementary music and lecture room seating four hundred. :Xt the south end is the commercial group consisting of six rooms. The north front is occupied by art rooms with studio lighting. The rear corridor also is overhead-lighted, so that it may be used as an exhibition gallery. The building is equipped with a steam plenum system of heating and ventilation, with ventilators in all rooms, with temperature and humidity control and air purification. Nlechanical equipment is completed by a generating plant, electric wiring and fixtures, a synchronizing clock and hell system, a house telephone system and vacuum cleaning apparatus. Of fireproof construction throughout, the 3,556,000 cubic feet con- tained in the building were erected at a cost of 14.2 cents a cubic foot. No detail has been spared to make the building most perfectly equipped. ln this new building is offered a wide diversity of courses to suit all UISICS. The General course receives usually the most patrons. Next in num- ber enrolled is the l.atin course, in which are found all who go away to college. The Commercial, Nlanual Training, Home ffconomics, Arts, and Nlodern Language courses each claim a good-sized number of adherents. All. however. must have two years of gymnasium and the same of music in order to graduate. These courses require attendance but two days a week. The range of subjects taught, and, therefore, the field of usefulness. has slowly been enlarged to take in even more strictly practical education. The object of these courses is to help solve certain educational and voca- tional problems which have come to the front. .X person may take only those portions of them which he needs. The ''non-commissioned orlicersn group is a four years' course designed to prepare boys to be ready to undertake work dealing with technical business and the directive side of industry. Corporations and individuals have agreed to take all students graduating from this course at a minimum or advanced wage and place them in positions of responsi- bility. .-Xll the work in this course, that in the five divisions of industry, in architectural drawing and machine design, in laboratory study, in power. and even in the general subjects such as Nlathematics, Science, lainglish, and llistory, is given a vocational and technical trend. The second group is that of agriculture and gardening. The agri- cultural course aims to train boys to be able to enter an agricultural college or go directly into farming. That in gardening is designed to give boys llul
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