University High School - Bisbila Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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T H E 19 2 4 B I S B I 1 A Katharine Matson, B. A. French Margaret McGuire, H. S. Mathematics Frances M. Morehouse, M. A. History P. H. N'vgaard, .» . A. Mathematics Alma M, Penrose, n. A.. B. I., s. Librarian K. E. Kom.kfson, B. A. Physics Katharine Sia , B. A. Physical Education Doha V. Smith, .V. A. Enylish J. Aaron Smith, B. Ed. Chemistry Lynne E. Stockwexl, M. A. Manual Training Lous A. Tmuix, Suzanne Torres KloRECo M. 8. B. A.. V. of Paris History French : is j

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THE 19 2 4 B I S B I L A SCHOOL HISTORY WHEN one spends several years of daily work at an institution, especially when that institution is a school around which most of his friendship centers, there seems to grow a sort of a patriotism in his regard for it. Everyone in the University High is interested in the school, in its past history, and in its future. We can’t furnish the future (we leave that to our successors) hut we can give a little of its past. The beginning of the University High was the old “Prep” school. The following account, written by Miss Alice J. Mott, shortly before her death, shows that the old school did not lack pep in the days of her principalship from 1908 to 1914: “THE MODEL SCHOOL “Which, of course, it never was, even in name. “The University Praetiee School was organized in 1907, but did not occupy its present quarters until 1914. Before that it was housed for six years in what had been a 36 room boarding house, still standing at Oak and Beacon streets. “When the first University High School class of twelve boys graduated in 1912, the connected name of ‘University High School' was tucked into the diplomas by the unprincipled principal, and as the higher University officials had never seen these scrolls until called upon to sign them, and as said diplomas, already engraved, were on real parchment and cost $85.00, the name of the school was allowed to pass unchallenged, though not unrebuked. “And that, my little dears, is how you came to lie christened what you are. “The School was a Practice School in very truth. Forty University Seniors, mostly girls, were scheduled, each semester, to teach an hour a day (each her own specialty) in the University of Minnesota Practice School. These eighty girls did the teaching pretty well, too, of the one hundred pupils, mostly boys. “There were, besides, a principal and two assistants teaching something all the time, according to the defections of the Senior Girls. “These three regular teachers never sat down once during the six years of their incumbency, for fear, if they did so, they might not have strength to rise and continue their labors. “They of course supervised the practice teachers. “The Practice School was never dull. We had many interesting events and some catastrophes. The most devastating thing that ever happened to us was the Experimental Engineering Building which was wantonly and violently reared, with only the width of a side walk between us and it. This is now a quiet and dignified edifice, but, in its building, blasting took place on a far larger and louder scale than in the Siege of Verdun, while the peaceful little 'Model School' shivered to its foundations like the nest of Burns’ ‘Field Mouse.’ The first morning of the bombardment every window but two in the south wall of the school was broken; the second day’s offensive shattered those two Then a wooden wall, eighty feet long and thirty feet high, was set up as a shield in front of the school. “Whenever the College of Engineering did not care to blow anything up for a little while, a gate in the center of this wall was opened, and everyone desiring to attend the University of Minnesota Practice School or to teach therein was urged to hurry and get in while there was yet time. But familiarity, even with war, I is J