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CHAPTER I THE FIRST ERA 0344-1853 t BEGINNINGS: THE IDEA The beginnings of Easternii and iiWesternii ithose educational twin sistersi constituted the next Outstanding Event in the history of Baltimoreis Public Schools following the establishment of uthe High School? and incidentally made it necessary to refer hereafter to that member of the school family with more precision. The year that these Female High Schools actually came into being was 1844, but the year preceding this must by all means be included in their respective histories, for it was then that the significant idea which produced them flrst became sufhciently clear and hxed in the minds of the School Commissioners to demand expression in action. This idea, slowly and with difficulty arrived at through the ages, expressed in different forms at different times and places, was, stated generally, the belief that the female of the species was sometimes the mental equal of the male and should be treated accordingly. Stated more specifically by the Baltimore Board of Education in ill
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THROUGH THE YEARS AT THE EASTERN HIGH SCHOOL 1843, it was to the effect that females who may have manifested superior abilities and attained suitable acquirements in the Primary School? are as deserving as males of the opportunity to obtain a more liberal English educationii and should therefore be given itfk And the Board, its conviction now screwed to the point of making a definite recommendation to the Council, concluded a section of its Fifteenth Annual Report with this passage: We earnestly recommend this subject to the consideration of the Council as one of very great importance in completing our system of education, and well calculated to give it new impulse. BEGINNINGS: PLANS AND ACTION Moreover, in this same Report the Board pointed out that not one, but two such schools were equally necessary, and suggested the general location of each. And why two schools? The answer was partly given in the next Report: because females were of. course far less robust than males and therefore far less able to endure the difiiculties of pedestrian travel presented by long distances and bad weather, aggravated no doubt, though these points are not enumer- ated in the record, by hard walking ldue to unpaved streets, high stepping-stones, and the likel and the proper attire of the day for young misses ltight, stiff bodices, long heavy skirts, pantalets cover- ing the shoe-tops, shawls, eth : As females are more delicate than males, and cannot attend school at a remote distance, especially in inclement weather, con- venience seemed to require two schools, one in the east and the other in the west. Thus either the eastern or the western school owed its origin-at least at this timbto the greater delicacy of the female! For early the next year-a memorable time in the annals of the sister schools-the City Council did consider favorably the Board,s akNot also a iiclassicalii education, it will be noticed, as in the case of the males of the first High School-the times were not ready for that idea-but at least a more liberal English education? and that was much. All credit to the wise and resolute members of the Board of 1843! The names of these members are as follows: John F. Monmonier, David Irelan President H. S. Sanderson William Rusk John Wilson J. B. Emery T. O. Sollers Elijah Stansbury, Jr. Hugh A. Cooper Stephen Collins A. H. Penington Samuel Harris M. Toner iZJ
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