Jacksonville High School - Crimson J Yearbook (Jacksonville, IL)

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8 The Nautilus Trains the eye, quickens the powers of observation, developes skill in the use of tools and above all teaches the dignity of labor. It does not make carpenters but its object is the same of the work the department turns out. Perhaps the most valuable piece of work made during the present year, is a steam launch which is worth at least three hundred dollars. Several as the fundamental aim of all education; namely, to fit the student for the enjoyment and activities of life. Three courses are offered: an elementary course in woodwork, a course in furniture making and a course for those desiring technical training. tables and davenports were made during the year worth from forty to fifty dollars each. Domestic science occupies two rooms adjoining manual training. One is devoted to sewing and the other to cooking. Both branches of the The manual training department gave three exhibits of its work during the year. The accompanying cuts are photographs of work exhibited March 22 and are good illustrations department are doing good work and at the various exhibits during the year have elicited the highest praise from those who visited them. We now ascend to the first floor

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The Nautilus The Jacksonville High School Wood Turning Department—M. T. Jacksonville has a reputation for being one of the most beautiful cities in the state of Illinois. It has the pioneer college of the middle west and the largest woman’s college west of the Alleghenies. It can also boast of one of the best equipped and most modern high schools of the state. The high school building is located on West State street about midway between Illinois College and Illinois College for Women. It is a handsome three story structure with a large basement in which are the departments of manual training and domestic science. The manual training department occupies three rooms. Two rooms for bench and wood work and one for wood turning. There is not a more popular or practical department in the high school thau manual training. None in which more efficient work is done. No other department gives such an all round symetrical training. It developes the mind, bod)’ and soul.

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The Nautilus 9 where we find eight beautiful recitation rooms and a general lecture room arranged around a spacious corridor which serves as a banquet hall on festal occasions. While the famous Turner Art Exhibit was with us from May 8 to 11, this beautiful corridor was turned into an art gallery. Two hundred reprints of the most famous paintings of Ancient and Modern shown below. The library contains two thousand volumes. Realizing that the collection was entirely too small, a movement was started this year to build it up until it shall be adequate to the needs of the school. The following books were added this year: Old Virginia and Her Neighbors, 2 vols. Beginnings of New England. The Discovery of America, 2 vols. M. T. Exhibit—Corridor First Floor times adorned its walls, making their complete circuit. The rooms on this floor are occupied by departments of Mathematics, Latin, German, History and Music. Climbing a second flight of stairs at either end of the East and West corridor we arrive at the second floor in a hall that extends acrossthe building from East to West. On the north side are two recitation rooms occupied by the department of English and Literature, separated bv the high school library, a section of which is The Critical Period in American History. Von Holst—Constitutional History of the United States, 8 vols. American History Told by Contemporaries, 4 vols. Thwaites Colonies, 2 vols. Doyle—English Colonies in America, 3 vols. Harris—Negro Servitude in Illinois. Thwaites—How Clark Won the N. W. Macdonald—Select Charters, 2 vols. “ — “ Statutes. “ — “ Documents. Frothingham—Rise ' of the Republic of United States. Mowry—Territorial Growth of the United States. Sparks—Expansion of the American People. B radford—Ply mouth Plantation. Avary—Dixie After the War. Semple—American History and its Geographical Condition.