Verona High School - Shadows Yearbook (Verona, NJ)

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- r ' 1 Sl-IADGWS THREE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE AMERICAN SECONDARY SCHOOL The First Step, Boston was In 1635 it was wild country. task of carving BY EDWARD JOHNSON AND JOHN HOAGLANO 2635 founded in 1630 by a group of Puritans from Salem. but a small settlement surrounded by more or less Its inhabitants were still engaged in the arduous from the wilderness suitable homes for themselves and their children. But already they had given thought to the ed- ucation of their sons, who would in future years perhaps become leaders in the politics and religion of the growing colony of Massachusetts. we read that on the 23rd of April in 1635 the rough farmers and fishermen who governed the village met in the sod-roofed, dirt-floored meeting-house and decided to establish, at public expense, a Latin Grammar School to instruct their sons in the mysteries of Greek and Latin. Thus, amid such circum- stances, did the Puritans in Boston prepare the way for the great number of high schools and academies that today dot the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of MexicoQ Soon many similar Latin grammar schools were founded in New England, but it must be remembered that they were a far cry from the modern ideal of a high school education for every child. The grammar schools attempted to train only a few boys of superior position and attainments to become leaders, especially ministers, and for this reason only two subjects, Latin and Greek, were taught. The only English learned was in Latin translation. Be- fore they attended the grammar schools, the boys were taught to read and write and to do simple problems in arithmetic by their mothers or t Boys until they Latin was cluded, as were at the dame schools. attended these grammar schools from the age of 7 or 8 ready, at 14 or 15, to enter the university, where the only language written or spoken. Girls were Hex- inconsistent with such a Grammar Schoole.H we quote here from an article which recently appeared in The New York Times: HFrom 6 in the morning till 4 or 5 in the afternoon, with two hours out for lunch, little wriggling boys were obliged 'to keep itontlnued opposite Music page! - ----------- 1955 'Z , , 1 nr

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------- SHADOWS ,rand--1 1,14 HIGH SCHOGL FACULTY Frederic N. Brown-Supervising principal Harold Crane--High School principal E. Herman Anderson Helen Botchelder Edith M. Burton Alice G. Cheney M. Imogene Cook Sarah B. Decker Paul E. Dimmers Maurice K. Dwyer Margaret Esher Paul W. Goeltz Axel L. Johnson Muriel W. Lewis Mary O. Merriam Vera A. Michel Harriet S. Overton Harriette E. Prince Edmund Schill Clarence Smith Aline Van Houten Clifford D. Wilkin . Josephine Hoornbeek Margaret H. Wood BOARD OF EDUCATION Maud I. Conway Paul J. Zingg John Culp Orrin G. Ferry Gordon Mills 1935 -----S S !

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