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I s This Book was Edited by Howard Tullis and Gerald Brody — Engravings were by Jahn C Ollier Co., and Printing was by Ottumwa Stamp Works. d0 d o dd 1— xw
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Three hundred' years of learning! Three hundred years of teaching! Three hundred years of advancing! I his is what the three hundred years between 1635 and 1935 have meant. Cn .April 15, 1635. when the freemen of Boston provided for the first secondary school in America, they little realized what a period in the history of education they had started. From that small school with one teacher and a handful of students has grow n our great modern high school w ith many hundreds of pupils and teachers. Did they dream, these innovators of the greatest free public school system in the world, that only three centuries later the seed they planted would be multi- plied into the 26,000 high schools and 6,000,000 students of the year 1935? On this three-hundredth anniversary of the first high school wc wish to cele- brate the accomplishments of those who have preceded us in the great struggle to establish a free education for a free people. Moving w ith the nation as it ex- panded westward, conquering the obstacles of poverty and ignorance, those early teachers and educators impregnated every pioneer community with the desire to educate its children until the schoolhouse became the focal point of American life. Where they sowed, we reap, and no pride in our splendid buildings, far-sighted ideals, and search for public good can ignore what they did for us. And so we ask this question of us all—graduating seniors, underclassmen, faculty, parents, impartial friends—will the next three hundred years see as great an advancement in education as the last? Knowing what has beeen done and what is left to do, will we seize the torch and carry it on toward the goal to which our forefathers' glorious past urges us? We hear the challenge and ponder. Are we puppets or are we men? On with the march! OTTUMWA V
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