Ellis School - Ellisian Fields Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Cfhrouqh The Heats This year is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Ellis School For Girls. ln the heginning the school consisted of one main huilding, in which classes were conducted, and a pavilion, Where assemblies and gym classes were held in good weather. On cold or rainy days the narrow front hall and present reception room served as auditorium and gymnasium. Before the new gymnasium was added, the girls played hockey on the old Shady Side Academy grounds and practiced haslcethall in the recreation rooms ol the Church of the Ascension. As the student enrollment and teaching staff increased, the West Building was added. in 1953, when the Shearer School merged with the Ellis School, the East Building was bought to accommodate the ever increasing student hody. international conditions seem to he much the same today as they were when the school was founded. The world was then engrossed in World War 1 and it is now in the midst of World Vvar 11. The three patriotic minded Seniors ol 1918 carried Hags at their commencement, hut the twenty-six graduates of '41 will carry the customary Howers. The two graduating classes are similar in that while in school they lcnitted husily and rolled handages for soldiers. A comparison oi Cooperative 'Government rules with early official regulations illustrates another way in which the school has progressed. Formerly for punish- ment a girl had to remain after school and copy the Constitution of the United States. Today her period of detention depends upon her offense and is used for study. Neatness as well as deportment was checked upon hy the faculty in 1916. Deslcs were inspected every Friday afternoon, whereas now there is no such inspection, the responsihility for good manners and hehavior resting largely with the girls. They watch each other more rigidly, on the whole. than the faculty ever did. ln 1916 the Student Government was conducted on the demerit system, while the present Cooperative Government is hased on the detention system. K During the past twenty-tive years the school has established a record for sound scholarship and has huilt up interesting traditions. School customs and ideals when well established put their stamp upon pupils and, in a measure, form a type. May this Ellis typeu continue to he one that will hring honor to the school 'through the college years and eventually in the wider social world. ELLISIAN FIELDS Page T100