University High School - U Highlights Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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CORRELATOR OF 1935 1:1

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Some l-llqh Pomts ln the Hlstory of UH1V6TSllY l-llqh School CHARLES HUBBARD IUDD Head ot the Department of Educatlon The Un1vers1ty Hrgh S hool IS one ot the many outgrowths of PI'GS1d9I1f Harper s broad conceptron of the tunctlons of a umversrty Pres1dent Harper dtvlded the un1vers1ty year mto tour quarters because he saw the poss1b1l1ty of provrdrng advanced courses for protessronal people who are occup1ed w1th thelr regular dutles for most of the tlme but are able to attend the Un1vers1ty for short perlods He organ1zed extensron lectures Members of the Chlcago Faculty gave courses m all parts ot the Un1ted States He brought the htgh school teachers and adm1n1strat1ve ofhcers ot the surroundlng states together at the Unlversrty 11'1 an annual conference where problems ot educatlon were helped to organlze the North Central Assoclatron of Colleges and Secondary S hools He accepted a pos1t1on on the Board ot Educatton of the C1ty ot Chrcago He organ1zed a number of attthated Junror colleges All these moves to broaden the scope and contacts ot un1vers1ty work were express1ons of Presldent Harper s convlctron that the educatronal system of the Un1ted States should be a cont1nuous and mternally well organ1zed umty Many of the mnovatrons whrch he lntroduced at the Untverslty of Ch1CGQO have been taken over by other 1nst1tut1ons Many un1vers1t1es now conduct summer schools The state un1vers1t1es have taken over the extens1on work on a large scale Conferences between secondary schools and colleges are now common One of the largest ot these conferences 1S conducted by the Um vers1ty ot lll1no1s The Jumor college movement wh1ch was maugurated by Presrdent Harpers extended report made ln 1896 showmg the necessrty or d1v1d1ng the conventlonal college 1S today one of the most vlgorous movements for the reorgamzanon of the educat1onal system ot the Un1ted States Prestdent Harper was from the tlme of the openmg of the Unlversmty greatly fn: C O R R E l. A T O R O F l 9 3 5 discussed between members of the University Faculty and the Visitors. He I

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interested in participation in some Way in the reorganization of secondary education He was very sympathetic with the organization under private auspices of a classical preparatory school which was opened in the neighbor hood of the new University in 1892 under the name The South Side Academy In 1897 this academy was definitely affiliated with the University and in 1901 became a part of the University ln the same year that the South Side Academy became affiliated with the University in 1897 another school ot secondary qrade was also taken over by the Trustees of the University after negotiations which had been carried on during the preceding year The school thus added to the Unlversity was the Chicago Manual Training School This instltution was a pioneering school which opened in 1884 as the flrst high school in the City of Chicago to offer technical courses The Ch1CGQO Manual Training School was organized and supported by the Commercial Club ot Chicago The members of th1s club th of 1884 were too 11m1ted in the curriculum which they ottered and that the development of the industries of the city called for the education ot boys along 11nes which would prepare them to assume leadership in the manufacturing and cornmercral actlvities of the community During the decade following the organization of the Manual Traininq S hool a number of lnstitutlons with somewhat srmilar purposes were organized in the city and by 1896 the special contrrbutions whlch the school was intended to make to the education of the youth ot Chicago had been extenswely duplicated both in the public schools and in such instltutions as Armour Institute and Lewis Institute The Manual Training School was at this Juncture taken over by the University and, after a few years of continued operation at its downtown site was moved m 1903 to the Universrty campus The th1rd institution which was united Wlth the South Side Academy and the Manual Traininq School to form the University Hrqh School was the Morgan Park Academy a secondary school which was the property of the Umversity and had for a time been conducted ID the buildinqs formerly occupied IP Twelve I i . I3 leadinq business men ot the city, were convinced that the public high schools