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

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This practice was begun with the inception of the first class and continued for many years' sc 0 assem in itornim a sf foil tim me endif the naarks of each pupil with the low est and ending withthe grades were sl read from the latforms. mall wonder that failures were agnost unheard of and that grad: gs. were carried out to Fractions to instu'e absolute airness. HE final exalnainations from which the-J winners of the awards were determined, were conducted in the followijg manner: The state anthoritiessentthe ques' nsinax sealed envelo' e which the principal opened in the sight of the pupils and teachers. Immed .1 3? 55fv3O3fQU39aoiHi'Le,?af2efri3nSlB?li?v'?fed Linder an honor system, beirggg-egnired to sign a HZQfL?5Q5E?23lX?E',.?',3nifTfy 'wm9Wen HEN the marhslwere dtil recorded the awards were receivedfyfhe girl olx taining the marks receivedthe gold Kiu-foot' medal worth twenty dollars. The oys had their choice oF a gold .Saint Andrews Gross or books. There was also an award for' those outstanding in botansy and mathe matics. ENJAMIN franklin Nl9Connell,q11:aduaf inq in 1876, was the first aliunnus. wo sa years later, Ella Mead, one of the eightsgradz dates of the class 1878, a very 'beatitiriil .young-r'

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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.

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qirl, become benjaminis bride and the lirstclass bride of' Lake View? we T was always a coveted privilege to ride into the woods surrounding the school to 'gather so spruce, evergreen, hemlock, and arbor vitae-1 in the lovely une mornings to decorate the halls and auditoriums. After havinghgvheedled per-2 mission from Dr. Ixliqhtingale, boys comman: deered eveuky biqgz and wagon available and set out ear y in mornimzwto return laden an with the fragrant boughs. W never a moment could be spared the students fairly flew to the-' basement: there with mergequips and much., laughter they worked on decorations, the boys cutting the boughs and the weaving wreaths or sewing ar or vitae on cardboar letters which were to fashionthe school mottd Ad astra per asperaf' HE .week precedinowjraduationtheyjuniors fetecl the seniors. T party, unlike our as proms, consisted of qames and as the games proving so hilarious that dancing was alwa s forqotten. OMMINQEMENI' the halls ands: the auditorium were orged with parents friends, and graduates-thefgirls in starch- ed white dresses andthe bozs in ia? collarsand Hin? shoes. Dresses and co lars w' ed visibly as t excited students awaited their ILIYIL to speak, For each one was required to xqive a thesis of a thousand words. In addition to their r ular speeches the two rankiio 'students l13i.?fO ss