University High School - Bisbila Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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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