Packer Collegiate Institute - Pelican Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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'lff'Z -Y join- -UFCCK Col- oms, : use ling- ents, out- 1 the 1 the paid nsti- heck r the been e by 3 .zo 1 5 'The main Buiining. The main building of the Institute was opened for the admission of students on the oth day of November, 1854. lt stands upon the site previously occupied by the Brook- lyn Female Academy. That school had been organized by public-spirited citizens in 1845, but its career was ended by the burning of its building on the last day of December, 1852. lVlrs. Harriet L. Packer gave sixty-live thousand dollars for the erec- tion of a new building in memory of her husband. A special charter was obtained from the Legislature on the 19th day of March, 1853, incorporating the Packer Col- legiate Institute. A A The Institute gives systematic and thor- ough training through the grades of the grammar school and the high school, and overlaps two years of the usual courses at college. lts curriculum is as advanced as that of any American school below the rank of a college.

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line ieatker fituiiegiate gftwfifllffo Gllbe 3192111 Bnilhing. In September, 1907, a new building adjoin- ing the main building on .Ioralemon Street will be ready for the use of the Packer Col- legiate Institute. Spacious luncheon rooms, an assembly hall and a parlor for the use of the alumnx, a new library and reading- room, study rooms for collegiate students, additional rooms for recitations, and an out- of-doors gymnasium are provided for in the plans. The construction is fireproof. The costly plot of ground on which the new building stands was bought and paid for by the Associate Alumnae of the Insti- tute. A deed of the property and a check for 370,000 towards the sum needed for the erection of the building have already been handed to the Trustees of the Institute by the Directors of the Associate Alumnx. 'The H l0penCd 6 9th dal! O the site I lyn Fern been Ufg in 1345 5 burning 1 Decembe gave sixtj tion of 2 husband. from the March, 1 legiate lr The l Ough tra grammar overlaps college, that ai Of 8 collu

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36 The Peteleer Collegiate Institute The Institute is accessible to students from all parts of the boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan. It stands on Brooklyn I-Ieights, half a block Westward from the Borough I-Iall. Its grounds and buildings havea frontage of two hundred and fifty feet on both .Ioralemon and LivingstonsStreets. A garden on Living- ston Street, laid out in grassfplots and Walks, shaded by large trees, is freely used by the students. , The buildings are adapted to the Wants of a thoroughly graded school.. Besides the chapel, the studios, the laboratories, the libra- ry, and the gymnasium, it has forty recitation rooms. Its halls are spacious, its ceilings are high, its main stairways rise but six inches at a step, its rooms are large and airy. Its Utis elevator is furnished With every appliance for safety. The chapel, a beautiful Gothic inte- rior, has sittings for eight hundred students. The gymnasium is one hundred feet long, and is furnished with all desirable appliances for the physical training of young Women. The lecture-rooms for classes in physics and chemistry are well equipped for the con-