Evanston Academy - Bear Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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Presentation Into your keeping We give our Brown Bear. You gave him to us. VVe have clone our best to make him an enjoyable companion for you. May you turn often to these pages and live again in memory the good old days of IQI2.

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Tries ear N1 eteenTvvClVe- 4 is s s - Historical Sketch The origin of the Academy is rather obscure. just when and how the school was organized is not made clear by University records. Before preparatory instruction was undertaken by the University, boys, as Well as girls, were prepared for College in tl1e Northwestern Female College, one ofthe earliest colleges for women, which was situated in the southern part of Evans- ton. This institution was merged later in the Evanston College for Ladies, which in turn was absorbed by the University. The University opened in November, I8-QS, but too much of the time of the College faculty was occupied in giving elementary instruction to the students who came to the University, ill-prepared for their work. So in May, 1857, the faculty adopted a resolution recommending that the trustees establish a prepara- tory departrncnt. Later in the same year, there was a tutor in the University building, COld Collegej giving preparatory instruction on his own responsibility. At all events in 1860 Prep became a reality, with VVarren Taplin as Prin- cipal, and an enrollment of forty-nine students. In 1861-62 the school increased its registration from forty-nine to fifty-six. During the year 1862-63 the prin- cipal was Nathan H. Axtell who succeeded Mr. Taplin. The preparatory school, in 1863-64, was under the principalship of Charles Smith, then a student in the University and in Garrett Biblical Institute. The next principal was Louis Kistler. It was under his guidance that a more com- prehensive organization of its curriculum was established. He instigated a three year's course, in which the students were arranged as seniors, middlers, and juniors, and which fully prepared the students to enter Northwestern University. Under Mr. George VV. Vllinslow, principal 1869-73, the school greatly prospered. Its enrollment in his first year was 153, in his fourth year, 317. His administra- tion was an epoch-making one in the history of the school. Young women were granted admission under his regime. Mr. W'inslow proved that the school had a right to exist as a part of the University.. Another important fact was that HOld College was assigned to the school for its exclusive use at this time. The administration of Herbert Franklin Fisk, from 1873 to 1904, was a period of more thorough organization and of fuller iruition. The school continued to increase in its enrollment and made a deeper impression than ever for the sound- l7l