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

 - Class of 1926

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I I I I I I I THE LILBRARY I Undoubtedly the focus of the acade I ic activities of the LaSalle-Peru Town- ship High School. and Junior College is glue remarkable library which it has been the good fortune of the school to acquire through the generosity of private patrons and the liberal provision of the township! board of education. An unusually well- lighted room, twenty feet in height, withfa Hoor space of fifty-one feet by twenty- two, easily permits the housing of the Ieight thousand or more volumes. The spacious walls accommodate five large oilIpaintings. Two of these, The Sacrifice of Abraham , and The Easter Sacrificelv, are original oil canvases painted by Solimena Ccirca 17405, the son-in-law of iepolo, and were presented to the school by Mrs. Adele M. Blow of LaSalle. T e third magnificent oil canvas was pre- sented in the autumn of 1925 by Mrs. C. IH. Matthiessen of LaSalle. This canvas is an oil copy by Van Salk of the famous Iportrait of an old woman by Rembrandt in the Rijks Gallery, Amsterdam. Two' other impressive paintings are the gift of the Class of 19259. They are copies in oil by Edward Salzman of New York, from originals in the New York Public Library: Milton Dictating Paradise Lost by M. Munkacsy, and RudolphIH in the Laboratory of His Alchemist, I5'76,,, by V. Brozik. i But while the paintings and the numerous original etchings and engravings possessed by the school are a conspicuous feature of its aesthetic equipment, yet the school is mosttproud of its collection of books. The effort has here been made to purchase in every department the grelat standard classical works. :Especially in books of reference is the library rich. Not only does it possess copies, sometimes in duplicate, of works like the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encyclopaedia Americana, the International Encyclopaedia, the Catholic and Jewish encyclopaedias, but it has acquired the standard encyclopaedias of the different special sciences. It possesses dictionaries of nearly all foreigin languages and the standard encyclo- paedias in German and French. The objbect has been to establish a library from which authoritative information in any field can be obtained. The junior college has made necessary the acquisition of bo ks of a type which high school libraries would not ordinarily include and a syste atic plan of development has purchased the standard works of reference of highe grade in the fields of sociology, educa- tion, economics, political science, philosophy, psychology, logic and all branches of natural science. , ,As a further example of the resources of the library may be cited the fact that although the classics, especially Greek,I are little emphasized in middle-west schools, yet the library possesses a full coIlection of the Loeb classics for reference and for the inspiration of teachers and xceptional students. Notable also are the collections in English and American lterature and history and of the atlases and gazeteers, not only geographical bu historical and cultural. Some thirty odd magazines are on Hle in the racks at d include such periodicals as the New York Times, the London Times, Lilllustra ion, etc. The furnishings of the library whichlwill seat sixty students were supplied by the Library Bureau and include in addition to the usual standard contrivances many filing cabinets for conserving the materials for instruction used in the modern high school: blue-prints, photographs, pbst cards, lantern slides, instructional phonograph records, etc. The floor is cbvered with a heavy cork carpet, the windows and doors are of leaded glass, the Iillumination is semi-indirect and power- ful. The libraryhas been carefully cataldgued and is in charge of a professional librarian. The excellence of the equipment and the richness of the collection is due to the munificent gift of fifteen thdusand dollars made by Mrs. Adele M. Blow and Mrs. C. H. Matthiessen in IQIQI-IQZO as well as to the generous budget which the Township Board of Education has supplied for the purchase of books. 10' I N. L I L.. L LLLEL L



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BRIEF HISTORY OF THE HIGH SCHOOL BUILDINGS ' The original main high school building was erected in 1897-1898. In 1903 the present manual training building, a gift of the late Mrs. F. W. Matthiessen, was erected. In 1913 Mr. F. W. Matthiessen gave to the high school four building lots to the north of the main building and the lots on which the Hygienic Institute now stands. ln the same year and on the lots to the north of the present main building the social center building was erected. To the construction of this build- ing, hir. Matthiessen gave 575,000 and the citizens of the township raised by a bond issue 525,00o. In this year the old lhigh school building was remodelled and the little auditorium in the basement built. To his gift of 1913, Mr. Matthiessen also added the building now housing the Hygienic Institute. In 1915 the large athletic grounds to the west of the manual training building were donated by Mr. Matthiessen and in 1916 the out-door swimming pool also was built by him. ln 1918, through a gift of the same donor of 545,000, an annex was added to the social center building, and the main high school building further remodelled. To these donations, in 1920, Mrs. C. H. Matthiessen and Mrs. Adele Nl. Blow added 515,000 for the equippinglof a new library. In 1923-24, the Town- ship Board of Education added a new story to the social center building, contain- ing five new recitation rooms, at a cost of about 540,o00. Altogether, in the past twenty-seven years, the late lylr. F. W. Matthiessen and his family have given to the local high school over S203,000, reckoned in values prior to 1918. During the same period, the tax payers of the township contributed for buildings and grounds 595,5o0. The new gift of Mrs. Matthiessen and hairs. Blow, together with the new township bond issue will add 56oo,0c0 to the sum spent for grounds and buildings prior to 1925. 1 12

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