Newark High School - Reveille Yearbook (Newark, OH)

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22 The Reveille up-to-date with all modern equipment. The swimming pool occupied one-fourth of the whole gymnasium. I was told by the guide that every one of the sixteen hundred pupils took exercises one period each day. They were much stronger and more it to resist epidemics than the pupils of former years. It was almost lunch time so we took 'an electric elevator from the gy'mnasium to the lunch room. The room was entirely white with tables enough to accommodate fifteen hundred people. The domestic science rooms were just off the lunch room where the food was prepared by expert cooks. -After lunch the guide said we would rest awhile, so he took me to the library. It was the most delightful place I had ever seen. The books were handsomely bound and well kept. There were comfortable chairs at the many reading tables. Small reading lamps were on each table. Flowers and ferns were placed in all the windows and charming posters, calling attention to all new books, were on the walls. Several pupils were in the library during their free period. They were using the reader's guide and card index. 'The library was so extensively used that it required two trained librarians to manage it successfully. ' After leaving the library we visited the club rooms. The Civic Society. Dramatic Club, Athenian Society and Thalian Society had their separate rooms in which they held their meetings. There were two rest rooms on the same iioor. A trained nurse had charge of each rest room. The next place we visited was the printing room There were several teachers and about fifty boys setting type, oiling the press, and hauling paper from the eleva- tor to the press. The guide told me that the Reveille was about to go to press. He said that these boys would be experienced printers when they left the High School. We intended to visit some study halls and recitation rooms but an electric gong sounded which summoned the pupils to Assembly. The guide told me an Assembly was conducted by the pupils every day in the week. We went into the enormous auditorium and took seats in the balcony. The orchestra which was almost three times as large as the one in 1920 was playing a stirring march. The stage was large with appropriate scenery. An inter- esting program was given by the pupils. The entire program was devoted to agricul- ture. The guide said that each Assembly was devoted to some special subject but tomorrow the Dramatic Club would present a one-act play as it was accustomed to do every two weeks. An announcement was made that the student council would meet afterischool. I learned from this that the school was governed entirely by the pupils. School was dismissed early on account of a football game. There was a general rush for the garage. I waited until the stream of automobiles and bicycles had sub- sided and then started for my hotel.

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