Horace Mann Lincoln High School - Lincolnian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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YE RS WINTER: THE DRIVEWAY The less said about Horace Mzum's snowfalls and ice skating the iN.'llCI'. Oddly enough, the camera caught not only three Seniors on their homewaral trek, but unc of the heaviest snow- storms in recent years. At this point the history of Horace Mann is linked with the Kitchen Carden Association. a training school for girls in domestic duties under Miss Emily Huntington. In their third year they broadened their scope to industrial education and the arts. and in the spring of l886 became the Industrial Education Association. Butler was invited to become President and begin training teach- ers for these subjects. He insisted that he train teachers for all subjects and also for the study of educationg it was called the New York College for the Training of Teachers-today, Teachers Col- lege. The College needed a uclinicf' and Horace Mann. first the Model School, was the result. It had two main objects: ill to afford students in the College an opportunity for observation and practice 121 to demonstrate that manual training can be introduced into schools of primer and gram- mar grades with benefit to the student and without interrupting their progress. The building at 9 University Place has just been vacated by the Union Theological Seminary. Rent was 356.000 a year. 13 4 ? i n -4 I ,F ze st. . if wsgfsg- L ,k .57,5,,ig..f fr- a, -.. awry ,it 1 ,. 1, , - - ..t f . , ' 1' V. -- N V3 1 1 YJ' :,wqq., se if at st fi,

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URACE MANN. fifty years after its founding at 9 University Place. is a far cry from its four pupils, its few rooms and two teachers, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler and Miss Ada Fairfield. The School was an outgrowth of the annual report for 1861 of the President of Columbia, Dr. Barnard. In this report were advanced for the first time theories of education for teachers. It was startlingly new and met with little approval. Dr. Butler was an undergraduate at Columbia then. Called into the President's olfice. Dr. Barnard asked Butler what he wished to do after leaving Colum- bia. Butler was uncertain. Be a lawyer or perhaps enter politics. he had answered. Dr. Barnard gave him the report to read and also uGerman Letters on English Education by Dr. Ludwig Wies. Dr. Barnard said: V I want you to make this subject your career. Somebody must do it. and it is the greatest oppor- tunity today in America. Neither faculty nor trustees believed a word of the report and refused to hack it. As a trial Butler offered four lectures on this subject to teachers each Saturday morning. hcginning in the Spring of 1886. The largest hall at Columbia was packed and fifteen hundred applications for admission turned away. Still. little further headway with the College was made. FIFTY FALL: THE GYMNASIUM .41 a Parents Meeting in 1921. Hen Feiner mazle a plea for suitable quar- lers fur the athletic department. The nltl gym. the hasketball ruurl an Ihr' roof, and a wood house for lockers were the only facilities. lmmetliatv action was lalren with Gustavus ll. Rogers heading Ihe camnzillec an funds. 12

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SPRING: THE IJURMITURY l orrnerl.v u lmurfling srlmol for girls railed Hangs mul lffiile. the flnrmilori was Ierzxml ln' Mr. Vun Sun! mul Mr. Cernw furji1'e yeurx in 1917. then lmuglrl Illllflhglll. lls nmsxiiw' rooms are rferorrllen' ,H'flllIifllllQ' in Vielnriun xlylf' will: purls nf Mmfern rrnpping up in ilu' neu' ullerulinnx. Qj.:zg5,.Q'f.A.s .fl 1-1.1 The new sclmol had four pupils. Two were children of Hiehard f f,,,VV Watson Cilder. American poet and editor. and the other two of Dr. .X 1 Cyrus Edson. then President of the lioard of Health of the City of .2 if New York. Its heginning was made possihle hy a 3510.000 cheek from M, K George W. Vanderbilt. The school grew quickly and in two years a high sehool was added. ln If-1911 Horace Mann had outgrown its quarters at 9 University Place. One of the trustees owned a pieee of land in the eountry. near Morningside Heights. lt had a white farm house. chicken, sheep and f-atlle. The grounds were oflered to Miss Grace Dodge for the school. It was debated for a long time whether to move so far out in the suhurhs. ll was a two-hour trolley ear ride from there to the head- quarters of the sehool on Madison Avenue. The risk was finally taken. as Columhia University had also hought some property there. Where the little farmhouse stood is now 120th Street and Broadway. Where the farmers once pastured their tloeks now rises the majestic Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The sehool moved into its 120th Street site in 1001. The huilding 14-