Middletown High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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in lieu of the entrance examination, by permission of the New England College Entrance Certificate Board. With a broad-minded, efficient Principal, a corps of well-trained, faithful teachers, a large body of enthusiastic, industrious pupils, a comfortable, convenient, modern and fairly well equipped building, and the cordial support and active interest of all the people, this school well deserves the high place it holds among the schools of the State, and with a continuance of these conditions its future is bright with promise.

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action was twofold-to provide more room for the increased attendance in the grades, and to place the High School in a building by itself. The Board proceeded at once, bought the site on the corner of Court and Pearl Streets, then occupied by St. Lukels Home, and put up the building which is now occupied by the School. The entire cost of build- ing and furnishing was f5Q,27S.29. It was dedicated on the afternoon of March 26, 1896, by public exercises in the assembly room, and the school went i11to it for the spring term. The building committee were William T. l-ihner, W. U. Pearne, and Dr. Leonard Bailey. 1 Since the occupancy of the new building classes have been graduated as follows : 1396, . 28 1900, 39 ISQ7, . 39 1901, 48 1898, . 33 1902, 33, 1899 ,... 36 IQO17, ,... 42 Such is the brief history of the first sixty-four years of this High School. It had its inception in the desire to provide for tl1e young a fuller and more complete education than was pomzible under the old and long established system of free public schools. To Dr. Charles Woodward much credit is due for his far-sightedness and activity in behalf of the IICNV order of things. The people of the City School District have been liberal in the sup- port of their schools. The first two years a tax of one and one-half cents on the dollar was laid for each year, tl1e next year three cents, and the next four cents on the dollar, while for the next seven years the tax was five cents on the dollar for each year. At the present time there are nine regular teachers and one special teacher, in addition to the Principal, with a registered attendance of 116 in the first year's class, 83 in the second, 43 in the third, and 53 in the fourth year's class--a total of 295. The number of persons in the dis- trict between four and sixteen years of age in October, 1903, was 2,206. This school participated in the Connecticut Educational Exhibit at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, receiving a medal and diploma, and has just completed a similar exhibit for the Louisiana Purchase Ex- position at St. Louis. It is one of the largest schools in proportion to the population in the country, and the equal of any in its standard of scholarship. The certi- ficate of its Principal is received by most of the New England colleges

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