Manual High School - Thunderbolt Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL In the first class in Manual in 1896 '- Boys regularly dressed in school about like they do now at a seinifformal dance. The girls wore about a pound of steel springs in their corsets. Their skirts were thirtyfiour inches long and six to eight yards around the bottom. There was not a pair of silk stockings in the school. Everyone carried four prepared subjects and two periods per day in home economics or shop work. There were no study periods in school. Pupils could prepare here. as they can now. for any college or university in the country. The prefengineering and mathematics courses were especially strong. The athletic teams established the well' known Manual tradition of the highest type of sportsmanship and fair play in all contests. In the gym, the girls wore about three and onefhalf pounds of clothes not including shoes. In the shop, the boys wore blue overalls, a blue and white checked jumper, and a black mechanic's cap. Fashions change, but the high standards of behavior and scholarship established here in those early days endure. jAMiss H. STEELE. DEAN OF GIRLS Dear Manualites: Manual has changed since I first entered its doors. The school then would scarcely meet todayis situation. The proportion of young people of high school age now attending sec' ondary schools is larger than ever before. Naturally, with the increased number of pu' pils, there is a much greater range of abilities among them. In consequence, the high school has found it necessary to broaden its curricuf L I T ' v l L N 'f e .. it ' at N JG 4 i ia.-in-. it f K 'Q l ' ,iv V! V ,rj x XX . .X l i'I Q TV rx. ' - Trl i, 1 S 1. ' ll is is-1 -,lj fs I i 'ii' of .. Q +I I 'S , ii ' 1 W i lilvlvlu li ,,,. I 1 al' g.x ,l l l ni i ii l wi il 1 - I l it ' 'pi ,Li 'l .XI it I 1 , ,qi is I i if .xii i inf :V JN f xx V Y ,- .x'f nI r . ll i lil ji' l '.- 'v H. al ei,.c3Eb-twig i ,l ll l' -T l A: X. A j if l 1 it o , O o xi 3 'U lum so that there might be courses fitted to J V, I if the needs of each individual pupil. 7 MY ' 5 P , , X -N . , a .Iii Above everything else, however, rises the i:!.ifm!'l AE -,'!'lij4lqH:1 Nfl W wonderful Manual spirit which began with JqllflllllllllmgjIiimllimf N the school's first class in 1894 and has been J'l.il'f.'l'HL'i'in-91'l'gf, I x All handed down from class to class up to the ' lf .l'jwfii1al, I A present time. May that inspiring spirit conf ' Vial pull - ' -- tinue so long as the school exists! l J - l ' Y HELEN L. Arxms. W 'l W i 'A 61 R. yt f .DfX r , 1 I Q . 0 if -1 '

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