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CLASSES And they sat around the hearth, and the mother took her spectacles and read load out of a large book.-GRIMM.
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tl. Wi .-.rv 75' ' 1 'ff-'flf4 'u245 55553-F!359Jff1l'f35'Er2Sl. Y? 4'SQ '.1?'Q:Lt'Q ifl32'94Tf'-f f5'Ef2 ?i:!li?'34 2l-1'i31'k-Qi-Y-f' 1r 3W4S 5 17 'g QT? 1 if-at ' wr' g gg Corsicana now has a school system valued at well over a million dollars. 1 ku. The high school is the most valuable school: first, since it furnishes the highest 'W education in our school course, and second, because more money has been . spent on this building. gl .. Sf t, The high school was built in 1924 at a cost of approximately SS400,000, - ' f and school was first held in it in 1925. This building is very beautiful and is one of the most modern and complete high school buildings in Texas. Generous 1 gifts from various citizens of Corsicana have provided the building with t ' unusually attractive equipment and ornaments. Stage curtains and stage set- tings were donated the school by I. N. Cerf in memory of his father, Louis ' Cerf. Mrs. Kate Huey Vv'hiteselle gave the chapel seats in the auditorium in lgl lin memory of her father, Joseph Huey, and her husband, J. E. Whiteselle. Mrs. J Robert Neblett presented the school with the lights in the library and several is V 4 volumes of books in memory of her husband, R. N. Neblett. A later gift from ,iq X - e Mrs. Neblettis the statue of Minerva in the auditorium. Mrs. J. D. Jackson lil ' gave a marble seat and marble urns, that were placed in the main hall at the ,gl , front entrance, in memory of her husband, a former chairman of the school A, board. The Lions' Club of the city presented the school with the drinking l fountains inlaid with tile. Mrs. E. S. McGee gave the leggia and entrance gl FE! lights in memory of her husband, a former secretary of the school board. The El senior class of 1918 left a statue of Venus as their class memorial. The senior ' gif class of 1925 gave the trophy case in the library, and the class of 1926 S93 gave the speaker's stand in the auditorium. Many volumes of books and 92 yy y numbers of lovely pictures have been presented to the high school by different I citizens who are interested in the school system. ' it ' In the last three years cafeterias in the high school, in the Sam Houston, Ti lf ' Robert E. Lee, and William Travis Schools have been equipped and they now , I I function regularly under the supervision of Miss Bess Carlock. . 5-z 54. , Corsicana now has a teaching force of more than one hundred teachers. A - The course offered in the city schools is very complete. There is the regular i elementary course through the seventh grade completed in the Junior High :Q 1 School. The high school offers four years of English, four years of history, ,gl a half year each of economics and civics, four years of science, two years of algebra, plane geometry, solid geometry, applied mathematics, commercial ' 3 , arithmetic, shorthand, typewriting, bookkeeping, domestic art, domestic science, A 1 manual training, mechanical drawing, four years of Latin, and three years of ai? Spanish: all these courses are affiliated with the University of Texas. tl Corsicana's schools have always been very prominent in Texas. She has Q 5 S' gained state-wide recognition through such activities as boys' and girls' debate, 'if declamation. typing: contests in football, basketball, track: the Blue and Gold S51 Hi News, and the annual, The Corsican. I -IZA MURCHISON. l u ' fi mir ' 1 H9 5,1 we is -assay . e ' f ue-am-Qeaftamaa -:4Ewsisasie'wi+fsaa.ff 1 Page Fourteen l.1Mlixw, ,,.,.,. ,.iyl,w'Wv' i.1 V. A N 1
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