North High School - Polaris Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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4..... e 1913 POLHRIS GROWTH Starting with practically no enrollment in 1890 we now find a North High School that has enrolled 2737 pupils in this school year 1922-23 and has had an average attendance of 2197 and average belonging of 2321. Since the Junior High Schools have been established fhe increase has been more marked showing that these schools have been a wonderful stimulus to the ambition for a High School education. The North Side has been highly favored as we have three Junior High Schools while other sections have only one. Pupils absent five times or tardy five times or a combination of five in absence and tardiness have been required to take a final term examination. It is considered an honor not to be required to take this examination and at the same time a privilege for the experience it gives. This requirement has no doubt greatly raised our per cent of attendance. The old Main part was once large enough to take care of the school, including four eighth grade rooms. It was in those four rooms that the departmental plan for eighth grades was first tried out in this city, so far as I know. Then came the addition of the South wing—next the North wing. In 1913 the fire destroyed all except the North wing which was partly fire proof. After the fire the Auditorium wing and Gymnasiums were completed, and now with over 400 pupils sitting in folding chairs in corridors, studying under artificial light, we need more room. North has made progress in school methods. We feel proud of our North High Method of Recitation. Pupils and teachers are doing their best to get better results and this North High Method, among other plans, has been productive of fine results. Next year North High enters upon a new phase of its experience. This school will be strictly a Senior High School next January, which means it will be the only one in this city to have the second, third, and Senior years of high school work, the first year being done in the Junior High Schools. We feel this will make possible plans for more definite and better work. For several years North High has had a special slogan each year which has been indicative of what was being attempted to be brought out as the spirit and purpose of the school. We feel they have been helpful and, to a large degree, have been realized. The following are a few of our slogans: Effi-cieny and Co-operation. Initiative is doing a thing without being told and next to doing it without being told is doing it when you are told once. Success depends upon the proper use of time. Loyally—work and the enjoyment of what is best. Loyalty and honest effort will continue I have no doubt. May worth be the real pole Star to which all may look and say in truth. Here is a guide to the best in school and the School of Life. -------N-------- 9

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 JWe m3 POLHBI s A NORTH HIGH SCHOOL 1805-1911