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

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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

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