La Salle Peru Township High School - Ell Ess Pe Yearbook (La Salle, IL)

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- .LISP - .... ELL ESS PE ftllnntemplateh Beahing Baum ants Qnnex in Becrsatinn Euilhing The classes of 1911 and 1914. left funds which combined were to be used to furnish a reading room or library for the Social Center. These funds are still at interest and since now the plans of the Social Center Building are complete, it will be feasible to establish in the Social Center the long-deferred library and reading I'00111 for the use of the young people of the towns. These plans will be carried out as soon as prac- ticable. Gruunhs The grounds of the school cover two-thirds of two city blocks. Two-thirds of one block are taken up by the Nlanual Training Building, Heating Plant, and two tennis courts for the boys. This property was a gift of the late lVIr. F. VV. lkdatthiessen. The two-thirds of the other block are taken up by the remaining buildings of the school. Between the main building and the Hygienic Institute is situated a tennis court for the girls. All the grounds are neatly terraced and planted with trees and shrubbery. The most important of the grounds, however, is a large athletic field west of the llflanual Training Building, a field of eleven acres, which was a gift of Mr. F. VV. Nlatthiessen and which is being used in connection with the Social Center. The field is surrounded by a large running track with a one hundred-yard straight-away. The ground enclosed by the track is used as a football gridiron and baseball diamond. At the east end of the field is a large and adequately equipped out-of-door swimming pool and natatorium. A large concrete stadium costing 352,560 has been constructed on the field, the expense being defrayed by public subscription. The capacity of the stadium is about five hundred. The entire field and equipment are valued at about S25,000. Recently lN'Ir. F. W. Matthiessen gave to the school about eleven acres directly west of the athletic field. This will probably be used for the present by the Social Center and the cadets. At considerable expense it has been graded, the top of a hill being used to fill up a ravine, and it is now in good condition. Equipment anh finurses SCIENCES The department of Physics and Chemistry is probably the most adequately equipped of the school. The lecture room has a sloping Hoor and opera seats, a large laboratory table with water, gas, and electrical connection, and all apparatus necessary for instruc- tion in science classes and class demonstration work. The Physics department is fitted with large desks and apparatus for instruction in this branch. Each student is supplied with a complete set of apparatus. The store-room is also used by the instructor as a laboratory. The workshop is equipped with a screw lathe and a pattern-maker's bench for work in metals and wood. The instructor also has a complete set of tools, and the lathe is driven by a one-half horse-power motor. In this workshop many pieces of apparatus have been built, including a dissectible dynamo, which is used for class instruction, and also to charge storage cells for ringing the school bells. The dark room is equipped with chemicals and apparatus necessary for photographic workg and there has recently been purchased a large camera, which is now used for all school - Eleven

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DSP ELL ESS PE O UTDOOR NTATATORI UM - Lam. TENNIS COURTS AND ATHLETIC FIELD Twelve