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residence street, resounded to the hoof beats of smartly-groomed horses taking their masters to work in surreys and landausy and on the outskirts near Con- gress Street, quiet Wabash Avenue had its hospitable homes set far back from the street in well tended lawns. Wealth was rapidly piling up, and many of the business men who came from New England intended to send their children to Eastern colleges: but educational facilities were not yet fully developed in Chicago. These condi- tions led Mr. Edward S. Waters, a scholarly Harvard man, to open a pre- paratory school for young men. lt was situated in a house at Congress and Wabash Avenues, and named the Harvard School for Boys in honor of his alma mater. The school struggled along: financial conditions were not so rosyp then came the Chicago fire and the depression resulting from it and the war. The population of Chicago had, however, more than doubled in ten years, it was over 400,000 in l875. lt was then that lohn I. Schobinger, a young Swiss graduate of the University of Zurich, came to the school as a teacher of natural science and remained to guide its destinies for the next fifty years. ln l875 the school, then at No. 21 Sixteenth Street, had sixteen pupils, in l878, thirtyffivep in l880, seventy-five: in l882, one hundred fifteen. ln spite of this apparently rapid development, the school labored under great financial strain during these early years. One year when final accounts were cast up, Mr. Schobinger found that he had earned just one dollar per day. ln fact, when summer came he had exactly nothing to live on for three months of vacation, and only the timely invitation of one of his pupils, Walter Grey, to spend the summer with his family in the country saved the day. Their country home was far out in Hyde Park, accessible only by rail. lt may be interesting to read the program of the commencement exercises of l882, which started at nine o'clock in the morning and lasted until four or 7' Congress Avenue at Wabash tBefore the Fire? PAGE 14
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five o'clock in the afternoon. A large part of the program consisted of public demonstrations of proficiency in various subjects, given before an audience of proud or apprehensive parents. if COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES FRIDAY, IUNE 16, 1882 PRIMARY CLASSES-A.M. HIGHER DEPARTMENT4P.lVI. 1:30 - 2:00 Algebra Cicero Arithmetic 2:00 2:30 Latin Greek Virgil French 2:30 3:00 Geography Reading Greek Prose 3:00 3:10 Recess 3:00 4:00 Declamations SPEAKERS Pierrepont Isham Samuel Dexter William B. lansen Walter Dore William Gold Hibbard Iames T. Hill Camillo von Klenze Iohn E. lV1cBean Iacob R. Wineman Morton Denison Hull Frank W. Wentworth 'A' In 1880 Iohn C, Grant came into the school as a teacher, became Mr. Scho- binger's partner the following year, and remained as co-principal until his death in 1913. Many old-timers will remember the tall, fine-looking man with his piercing blue eyes that struck terror into the hearts of any evil doers, and even of innocent bystanders. Mr. Grant was a man whose very presence and dignity inspired respect. In 1878 the school moved into a building it had purchased at 2101 Indiana Avenue, at the south-east corner of 21st Street. The facilities of this building were subsequently increased by the construction of a gymnasium and class rooms at the east end of the lot, with a tan-bark covered playground between. The school remained there until 1896, when a shift in population to the south made a move necessary. The city had grown by that time to more than one and a half millions. In 1905 the school was dealt almost a fatal PAGE 15
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