Lake View High School - Red and White Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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HE unpretentious, white, two-story frame schoolhouse nestled under the protectirg branches of several stalwart elms, It was surrounded by wide sloping lawns, which in.: turn were encircled by a w white picketyy fence. The first floor consisted of a library, a laboratory, and, four classroon1s:1he second floor was simply one larqe room with aplaf Form at one end,v9yThis room served as a combination assembly hall and cloakroom. N the morn' of the first day of'99'n9 school, Zo, an eager group of prospective students assemble inthe 1 hall of' the new school.nn'Ihe trustees of the township of Lake View, toqether with-up Dr. Niqhtinqale, ascended the platform,yyancl after a few speeches and the necessary an- nouncements, supervised an examination., which was fqiven to all those presentin On the basis o their Ngradings inthis examina- tion, smboys ancl two girls were acceptedto form first class under the instruction of-' the one-man Faculty, Dr. Ni3htingale.vn'I'he dissappointed ones were then enrolled in a two-months' preparatory course.which was to be given in the same buildilgg. When., this had been done, the schoo was adjourn ed tbl' the day. Ebaiiaaf examinations in 1576 hady just been completed and a lot? breath or relief had been drawn by oth yy y y

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students and teachers when a request came.. from the State Superintendent that a special egcantination be hqiventhe pupils. Weaxied ss tltaockigh they were after the examinations which h recentliy been written,the students exerted themselves in a effort to honor their school, ss lbr these manuscripts were to be sent without' criticism or distinction to the state authorities' and were then to be forwarded to the Inter: national Exposition which was held in Phila: del hia that ear. OWARIS! the end of February Doctor-' Nightingale received word from the'+ chairman of the educational committee-' that the highest possible award, a diploma, had been .given View for their ed work, so well done that it stood our ove all the school work submitted by students--' throughout the world. But .greater honors were .yet to come. Ar the close of the Expo sition, when the examinations had been., returned and parents and friends were ad- miring the papers, a letter came from the President of the french Educational Commis- sion, requesting Dr. to send him sn some selected papers so that he might publish eyccerts from them in his report to the French qovegiugent rnarki s stem and teac ' la - ed a largelgqarfyin helpis? the tain such a high-degree o success. It one thing to have marks viewed privately and another to have them read before the school.