South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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5, p. ,ef ,f if , i f , A MJ al l T EFL ' is gave - . ,, p N -A f,f,.,.i Q .' Some Facts About Your School Attendance Do you know that South High has an attendance of 1,935 students, that freshmen compose 631 of this total number, that by june 290 students will have graduated this year, and that the enrollment of the day and night schools is 3,085? Faculty Do you know that South High has a faculty of eighty-eight teachers, that her library contains approximately 9,650 books and fifty current magazines, and that an average of 525 students take advantage of this library daily? Running the Building Are you aware of the fact that it takes nine janitors and two engineers to keep our huge building clean and warm for us? Does it seem possible that from 16,000 to 19,000 tons of coal are required each season to heat the build- ing, or that from 18,000 to 23,000 pounds of coal are consumed each day? In fact, have you stopped to think of the vast growth of our school or of the marvelous changes wrought in her various departments within the last few years? If not, come with me for a few minutes and we will explore our commo- dious building, taking a peep or a glance at the fine equipment in the various departments, or visiting briefly some class room where the real substantial work of the school is being done. The Ofhce Let us begin at the office where ten years ago one principal and one clerk labored in very narrow, cramped quarters. Now, if you look, you will observe that one principal, one assistant principal, one vocational guidance teacher, and four clerks compose our oflice force, each having his own desk where he may quietly and undisturbed work out the problems allotted to him. French Department If we next ascend the stairs into the new building, we are attracted into the French department where we Find five teachers with their live hundred students. We can scarcely realize that ten years ago there was only one teacher here with fifty-two students. Here it was that the purely socialized recitation was first introduced into South High School five years ago by Miss Mary La Vigne. Q Through this method of recitation, the students easily and freely, by means of the objects and actions themselves, learn to speak in French. Art Department Passing down the corridor, we approach the Free-hand Drawing and Applied Design departments. Here we learn that art is a language by which 28