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i 916 Y EAR BOOK 9 The High School The American High School, in which are enrolled over one and one-fourth million pupils every year, is the institution of Secondary education in our great country of freedom. The High School itself reflects the democratic principles of our government, for it is a democratic institution in which the educational watchword is: equal opportunity for all the children of all the people. It is, therefore, in a position to render directly a wide and general social service. Our ideals of the true social service are shifting from the vague, general, externally imposed standards of mental discipline and college preparation to those translatable into- twentieth-century individual and social demands: a sane mind in a sound body; the ability to use the intellect upon the problems of ordinary social, civic, and commercial life. These demands are insistent and our High Schools must meet them if they are to fulfill their purpose and function in the everyday life activities of the boys and girls, as the vast majority are unable to acquire no further training for their life work. A word as to how the modern High School may satisfy these demands of society. The first essential in producing any product is first to have an adequate equipment with which to produce finished goods. The equipment, then, of the school plant is the first requisite. From every point of view, existing High Schools present interesting and varying degrees of approximation to an ideal. The poorest equipped High School we have is surely the one or two-teacher High School in a rural community. Aside from the teacher and a few books there is nothing worth mentioning in its equipment. Above this meagerly equipped school plant we have varying degrees of proficiency in equipment until we come near the ideal in the new Washington Irving High School in New York City, which was erected at a cost of one and one-quarter million dollars, and is acknowledged by experts to be the finest public school building ever erected. It is an eight-story structure and occupies half of a city block. Some of the interesting features are: Seven-room apartment for study of domestic science, cages for animals to be borrowed from the Zoological Park, bookbinding plant, four gymnasiums with shower baths, typewriting classroom with cco typewriting machines, etc., besides every modern appliance and equipment to be found in any part of the world has been obtained for the school. The latter High School may satisfy our social demands completely. Our High School claims a successful year's work, but with a more complete equipment it could claim a larger success, a better finished product. It has Literary societies, orchestra and athletics as socializing factors, but is in need of many more and better facilities to fulfill its social demands completely, H, 13, SAUL,
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8 i g i 6 YEAR BOOK H. B. SAUL, A. B., Principal and History
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