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Page 9 text:
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(Our Arrui Addition It is a pleasant spring morning in the year 1911. A friend and myself having occasion to be in the neighborhood of South High School, decide to go in and renew our recently broken ties. We approach the building from Twenty-fifth street, and view with pleasure the long-desired New Addition. The need of such an annex has long been felt. Do we not remember the class on the landing, and the green curtains in the Assembly Hall, which made four rooms out of what was supposed to be one? Who of us that as seniors had the fourth period vacant will ever forget the penmanship class that met in our room that period, aud Mr. Greenwood's monotonous, one, one, one. one? Finally, two years ago. it was decided to build a small addition, but for sonic reason it did not then materialize. Last year, to our mingled joy and sorrow,—joy that our school was to be improved, and sorrow that it had not been, while we might have enjoyed it.—the plans were completed and the building started. As we approach the building we see two new wings, three stories in height, made of red brick with brown stone trimmings like the main building. We enter, and are greeted by Mr. Jorgens, who offers to conduct us through these new additions. We accept with pleasure, aud he takes us fir t to the Cedar Avenue wing. On the first floor are the Manual Training rooms,—the Forge, the Turning and Pattern rooms, etc..—and one Drawing room. ()n the second floor are two Class rooms and the Mechanical and Freehand Drawing rooms. We then go to the third floor, where we find a Commercial Department as well equipped and as up-to-date as any business College in the city. There is a large and spacious Bookkeeping room, and a Penmanship room in which our friend Mr. Greenwood holds undisputed sway. The Stenography ami Typewriting rooms are separated by a glass partition. There is also a Commercial Geography and a Law Recitation room. The interior of the whole addition is made of reinforced concrete, entirely fireproof, so that, in case of fire, the walls cannot carry the fire to other parts of the building, but each room can be closed off. and the only resulting damages will be to the furnishings of that one room. Thus, in theory, a fire may be raging in one room, while in the next one. or the one above it. recitations may be going on as usual: but 1 am afraid that in actual practice, one will prefer to be at a somewhat greater distance, for his feet might get hot if nothing else happened. On the way from the Cedar Avenue to the Eighteenth Avenue wing. Mr. Jorgens points out with pride, the heating plant, which is on the outside. 1 his contains the furnace, the coal room, and the fan and ventilating apparatus, and covers the space between the two wings, on the basement floor only. He tells us that this is something unique in high school building in Minneapolis. 7
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Page 10 text:
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The bell for the close of the second period now rings, and Mr. Jurgens invites us into the auditorium, with its seating capacity of fifteen hundred, where the pupils have been asked to assemble to listen to an eminent speaker. We cannot help being more interested in this hall than in the speaker, and our eyes wander around, noting the large well-lighted room, covering the whole floor, with the balcony around three sides, the comfortable chairs, the broad, beautiful platform, and the decorations, which have been furnished by the graduating classes, and we know that it will be made still more beautiful by future class memorials. When the classes have again taken up their work we go down stairs into the (ivmnasium. Around the outside is a running track. As we stand watching. three or four girls come in and toss a basket ball back and forth, and they invite ns to conic and watch them sometime in one of their practice games. We see footballs, baseballs, gloves, masks, boxing-gloves, turning poles.punching hags, swinging bars, and everything necessary to make a well equipped gymnasium, even the shower baths, and Mr. Jorgens tells us. that they expect next year to have a physical director constantly in charge. For some time past, savory odors have been reaching us. and wt are now-taken into a lunch room, where they are preparing for the rush of hungry students who every recess find this a better congregating place than the little store ever was for us. Blit this reminds us that it is nearing our own dinner time, and we thank our host who has given us such a pleasure in inspecting the New ddition. the fulfillment of the anticipations of so many South High students. MARV E. IIOSKKW 8
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