Newark High School - Reveille Yearbook (Newark, OH)

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'IWENTY IQEVEILLE Twerilq-iiveveurs ul Nevvrirlx Hiqlw bfllilfll lContinued from page 185 ln 1911 little or no attention was given to extra-curricular activities. There were two or three literary societies. Today we have a large number of societies and clubs ranging all the way from literary and science to hobby and gun clubs. These furnish added interest and activity for more than half of the student body. In 1911 pupils were assigned to classes without regard to intellectual ability or individual achievement. Today pupils are grouped in sections according to intellectual ability and previous achievement. Superior pupils thus have an opportunity for rapid advancement while those less fortunate may progress more slowly, working side by side with their intellectual equals. ln 1911 the chief purpose of the school was to prepare pupils for the professions, foreign language, mathematics and English comprising the major part of the curriculum. In 1912 the school turned out 60 graduates: College l'1'epai'alory 28, l+Inglish 23, Commercial 9. Today there are many more subjects offered. Social Science, Commercial and Industrial subjects have a much greater place. Last year our graduates numbered 248: College Preparatory 103, Commercial 71, Industrial 35, General 21, and Special 18. With a view to giving you my feeling as to the present condition of the school permit me to quote from the recent report of the State High School Inspector, Dr. George Reavis. Referring to the Senior High School he says: The instruction varies but is more even in quality than in most schools of this size and type. Taken as a whole the teaching is clearly superior, the standards of scholarship maintained are excellent, the p-rogram of studies is well balanced and the attention to educational guidance deserves special mention. The High School is especially well organized and administered. II' the efforts of the past twenty-five years have realized in a major degree the standing expressed by Dr. Reavis, I shall retire in June satis- fied that we have not labored in vain. I

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