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On Manual! Proud has been thy pest! Thy present full of premise Thy future sure — Fiftieth Anniversary Yearbook Published by the Class of 1945 Emmerich Manual Training High School Indianapolis, Indiana
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Charles E. E Administration revolution, began to campaign for a school where boys and girls would be educated to use their hands as well as their minds. These men worked untiringly until finally the bill was passed to provide Indian- apolis with a free industrial training school, the first of its kind in the country. And so, when women were wearing four or five petticoats and men, peg-top pants, Adolph Scherrer was supervising the building of the Industrial Train- ing School, which cost $150,000 and was built on a $40,000 triangular-shaped tract bounded by Meridian and Merrill streets and Madison avenue. By the time the structure was fitted with equipment, the total cost went up to $230,359.06. In June, 1920, the cornerstone was laid for the new addition, which provided the auditorium, boys ' For fifty years Thou hast held the torch of learning high. Training of mind and hand and heart Has been thy goal. On Manual! T hese words from a poem by Miss Lola I. Perk- ins have been Manual ' s chief objective since that Feb. 18, 1895, when the gang plank- to the ship of knowledge was let down by Prin- cipal Charles E. Emmerich. A clue to the significance of these objectives lies in the story behind Manual. Before High School No. 2 was built in 1884, the old Shortridge was the only high school in Indianapolis. High School No 2 was still a small school and had been in existence only a fe»v years when a strong group of mechani- cally-minded citizens, inspired by the industrial Mz ' Io H. Stuart
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