Central High School - Spokesman Yearbook (Erie, PA)

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fill-E551-fi xb H 93-his 3 ,5 aaa!! nl6M?r..2 , chs Q In September, 1891 the High School mox ed lnto 1tS new quarters 1n the Central School Bulldlng at Elex enth and Sassafras Streets The por t1on of the bu1ld1ng extendlng from the Elew enth Street entrance to the tower was the or1g1nal structure At that txme the Hlgh School o cupled only sex en rooms and the grade school the rest Mr Henry C 'VI1ss1mer, who had been prlnclpal of the school 1n the old buxldlng s1nce 1873, contlnued to do h1S splendld work 1n the new sur roundlngs The old order changeth g1v1ng place to new Naturally wlth the assumlng of larger proportlons and respons1b1l1t1es a new order of thlngs was lnstltuted The classes whlch had formerly been seated ln one room were placed 1n seven rooms To ma1nta1n unlty the school met twlce a day ln the mornlng for openlng BXGFCISSS and talks by a member of the faculty and 1n the afternoon for transactlon of buslness The student body not only sang hymns every mornlng but met on Monday for vocal muslc practl e At th1S tlme there was a llbrary contalnxng about three hundred volumes, whlch record compared favorably wlth the other schools of the tlme It IS 1nterest1ng to note the att1tude of the general publ1c toward the Hlgh School whlch had not lost ltS novelty An artlcle 1n th Erle Graphlc, November 29 1891 gave the followlng edltorlal on the subJect The Central Hlgh School bulldmg IS turnlng out to be consld rable of a 355' 1 ggi ik 3 it 'W'- ' 5,2 xvvfww, li- '53 if .z. 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