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THE 19 2 4 B I S B I L A breeds contempt, and, in a few weeks, teachers as well as pupils effected ingress and egress by crawling under the screen, and ignoring danger signals. Clamor went on without cessation for months; however, the school continued to grow. It was during this military occupation that the President of the Board of Regents and the Superintendent of Construction visited the school, and unanimously decided that the school, as a whole, ‘lacked finish.’ It was really a very nice school, beloved by teachers and taught. Out of this grew the school as it is now. The Education building, which had been the Engineers’ Building, was made to give room to the aggressive young high school. Chronicles show that the school in early days was not entirely dead. Mr. Kent, who is now at Northwestern University, may he honored for his work with this school. Athletics were clean and prosperous under his guidance, and we find records of good work. We also find, during this same period, not only the first Bisbila,” but also a club that can claim to have been the forerunner of our Dramatic Club, Junior-Senior Debate, and the Campus Breeze.’’ This was called the Literary Club, and was made the big intellectual activity of the school. Years pass, and behold! We find that the school has changed. Many of the faculty have left. Wc find Dr. Miller as principal. Miss Inglis and Miss Hub-man, our ancients,” have arrived. After them, Miss Denneen, Miss Morehouse, Mr. Reeve—but why should I repeat those whom everyone here knows. Let it suffice to say that things have changed, that the Bisbila,” allowed to lapse for some years past, has been picked up again by the aid of Miss Hubman, (in 1919) and that the Breeze,” formerly struggling in mimeograph form, has suddenly, with the help of Miss Inglis, burst into an excellent printed monthly, with state recognition. Behold! U” High has entered into the historic period. Hats off! We shall never again have to peruse ancient chronicles and raise the dead to obtain the history of the past. The Dramatic Club, the Boys’ “U” Club, the Girls’ Acme are all well organized and developed. Wc find the boys’ athletics have still grown into strong, red-blooded, fighting teams under the careful hand of Mr. Walter Ray Smith, who remained with us until 1923. Again time lapses. Dr. Miller is professor of educational psychology in the Universty of Minnesota, and Mr. Reeve, of our mathematics department, lends a ready hand in steering our ship. Our activities become better and more developed. Our faculty, as well as our student body, is added to; in fact the poor Education Building is in many respects similar to the famous “Toonerville Trolley.” Construction on the new Mines Building makes another bombardment, and also a hole in our roof caused by the precipitation of a builder’s brick. (We may add that it is at this period Mr. Tohill practiced his “daily-dozen” on the patriarchal piano, upsetting it, and causing some slight injury of same). But all this culminates in one thing, A NEW BUILDING! This is in the extreme future tense, but better future than not at all. And now we are at the present. Mr. Reeve leaves us to join the faculty of Columbia University. Dr. Johnson from Brookings, South Dakota, replaces Mr. Reeve. Everything is quiet at U” High—that is, normally so. Only now and then is the peace broken or a riot brought to life by a candy sale, a new idea in music, a students’ mail-box. or a roll-call at assembly to break the business-like (at least in appearances) procedure of the student body. Dr. Johnson leaves for California after the second quarter, and he is replaced by Mr. Hudelson of the Education Department. And still no revolt! But wait a minute! I’ve been told to describe the plans of our future building, and I swear there’ll be a revolt before I attempt it. [ ifl 1
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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
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