South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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mother need was also supplied in 1910 with the building of the auditorium. Now assemblies could be'comfortably conducted. Plavs, musical entertainments, and citizens' meetings were adequately housed. Vet for how short a time it seemed spacious! Toda not all of the students can find seats there at once.

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ik a few years after this South lived on placidly. Then the old trouble returned with renewed vigor. The school was packed to overflowing. Its crowded condition fast became a byword. The lawn was turned into a gymnasium where boys and girls went through their daily dozens to the tune of passing Cedar Avenue cars, while the real gym held students practicing calisthenics which consisted of juggling Latin verbs, comparing English adjectives, and telling when Paul Revere rode. Affairs became so acute that, when passing l etween classes, many students were almost pushed through the windows of the second and third floors. The Board of Education was awakened to the fact that South must be enlarged. In 1916 the new building was added to the old. 'File two parts joined easily, and have since lwcome so attached that they are separated only by the lunch periods. South High, united as it stands today, boasts of fifty-five rooms, including the lunchroom, gymnasium, and auditorium, and about 93 teachers, the latter instructing 2.100 students. The building itself, having grown rapidly, sprawls over an entire block, seemingly trying to reach the street in all directions. Blessings on the forefathers who foresaw that possibility away back in 1892! Page 18