Tubman High School - Maids and a Man Yearbook (Augusta, GA)

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G? .Brie isfary OF TUBMAN I-IIGI-I Co-education in .-Xmerican public schools is 99.-l-l per cent pure. That is to say. these schools are nearly all co-educational. More than a tlxousand public high schools are now members of the Southern Associa- tion of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Ui this number, only eight or ten are for girls only. Tubman is one of this small number. It is a safe guess that many other high schools would like to be in this select company. XX'hen love breaks out in adolescent life. the wisest school administrator is sometimes put to his wits' end to know whether to treat it as an emotional or a physical rash, or both, Tubman lligh School began its career in 187-l in a church. Its enrollment has grown from 35 to 1.200 in these sixty-three years. The school is named for Mrs. limily Tubman. a native of Kentucky and a ward of llenry Clay. who was married in Augusta and lived the remain- der of a long life here. Mrs. Tubman purchased a small Christian church building and site valued at twelve thousand dollars and presented it to the lfioard of lfducation to be used as a high school for girls. Prior to that time female education had been carried on by private teachers and in a few private seminaries of learning. In reporting this generous fr 4 xq W ' Aft l ,, l X . H .. , . i i, 3. I k w fx . . 1 . 3 I 'H' 5, sa I, xl, - ', :17,, Q . l' 5 x -1 1 , lil s -..' b, V. El f J l EJ gift, the superintendent of schools expressed the opinion that It surely ought to settle for all time the high school question in the city of .-Xugustaf' The first faculty consisted of one male and one female. In 1877 the first class of six girls was graduated. They had completed with satisfaction to those in authority a three years' course. This is what they had studied: First Year. manship. reading. historv. ,'Xrithmetic, spelling and defining, Latin, French, rhetoric, natural philosophy, pen- Second Year. .'Xr1thmetic, algebra. synonyms, Latin, French, natural philosophy, physical geography, pcnmanship, reading, history. Thu'd Xear. omy, penmanship, reading, history. critical course in parsing. Algebra, Latin. French, English literature. physical geography. chemistry, astron- Students cou students. XYand public exhibitions. ld choose between Latin and French. Calisthenics twice a week was required of all drills and dumb-bell exercises were popular numbers on the program ot frequent Girls were allowed to remove their corsets and bustles for these exercises. No other concession was made to freedom of movement or to display of form. Blooniers were unknown. The mod-ern one-piece gvm slllt was undrcamed of. 'PQ i 1 The course of studv seems to have been practically unchanged dur- ing' the lirst twenty' years. There was no science laboratory of any d kind. .X wall map of the United States and a map of the Ancient Roman .X 1, t'l' up . limpire were all the equipment the school had. Steele's Fourteen - Mllf, XYeeks series of science textbooks was text and laboratory. ,V 3' The school seems to have been popular from the beginning. Indeed Qgffx, it soon established a place in the aH'ection of the city that made Tubn1an iz, ii ll, liirlsn synonymous with charm school. The annual commencements 5 ' were events that always packed the Grand Upera House to the doors. f The sweet girl graduate was annually written up in the local papers 5 4 , as a vision of lox elinessf' Here is a typical conunencement program: I-'C Class Motto: To Do, Not to Dream. f ig-A '- XYt'lL'lDlllL' Song-School. q,55.j' A -. .4 Salutatory. Nfl? of 4 3 .fr Q, Kecitation: .Xnnie's Ticket. Song: Sweet Yision of Childhoodu---Schoo Necitation: Dream of Eugene .'Xram. Song: XYelco1ne Pretty l,rimrose -School. Recitationz Sam XYeller's Valentine. Song: .Xlpine Ilcrdsman -School. Rt-citation: Little jerry. Yalcdictory. Song: Down .Xniong the Lilies -School. IN if.-ev .me A-U.. - I