North High School - Polaris Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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North Hioh School Foreword To all Seniors: Hail and farewell! This year you close I lie doors of North High School behind you; not with a slant, but gently and with regret. Some of you will open the doors of yet higher institutions; others will find their places in the jostling world of industry. Yet wherever you go, you will find that it was during these years that a deep imprint was set upon your lives. Here the windows were opened, and the bright light of truth streamed into your souls. Some of you, probably not all, have learned that houses and lands, mortgages and bonds are not the dearest possessions of life; that just to knoiv things is a constant joy. To understand radio-activity, to conceive the depth of space, to know how the little violet grows, to measure the centuries of man’s slmv struggle from the wild desert to the humanized city, to read through the glass of literature the tortuous story of man’s hates and loves —these are a greater happiness. Still to think high thoughts, to do justice, to speak truth; to help and not to hinder, to sing and not to sorrow, to give and not to covet—these bring supreme happiness, and these your alma mater has taught you. Live worthy the name by which you are called—graduates of North High School. 5

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The 1922 Polaris. Retrospect My acquaintance with North High began in September 1892 in wliat is now known as the Logan School. North High enrolled 215 High School pupils during that year as compared with 2761 during this school year. There were 17 teachers in the High School and we 1107c have 90. In 1896 the school was moved into the “new building on the present site. This new building was the main part of the present building before the fire. The year 1908 sate the South wing added to the building and in 1911 the North icing teas completed. Two days before the close of school in June 1913 fire destroyed the main part of the school, the South icing, the roof and third story of the North icing, the North wing being supposed to be fire proof. While the flames were raging and firemen were losing their lives, workmen were laying bricks in the construction of what is now the auditorium and gym wing facing Girard Avenue. During the school year of 1913-1914 the school occupied the old Central High at Fourth Avenue South and Eleventh Street, while the present building was being rebuilt. It is to be hoped that those looking back on the next year or two may be able to say that another needed addition was completed in 1923. North High, in addition to the growth of the physical plant, has grown in many other ways which make a great school of a large city. It has been endeavoring to keep abreast of the times and to initiate some things long before they were attempted in other schools. North High was the first school in this city to establish a lunch sendee and to have the Faculty organised under what is known as the uCommittee System ” Many thousands of dollars in works of Art and educational equipment have been secured by the energy of the graduating classes directed by a feiv teachers in charge of the Senior class plays. The first graduating class was composed of sixteen young people and the present class will number over 240. The total number who have completed courses in North High, with those who finish in June, will be 4119. Another year of history has been lived and is here partially recorded. May success attend the class of 1921-22, and may the history of North written in the future be even more glorious than the past is my wish and that of all who have really worked for and built North High. 6