Withrow High School - Withrow Annual Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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From the beginning of schools in our City both the public and private schools have ranked high. After the evening schools were established, there came a time when the schools of Cincinnati were in the hands of the politicians. The schools suffered from lack of funds. and for many years not a single new school house was erected. Then came the renaissance of education in Cincinnati. Under the leadership of an able superintendent, aided by high-class men in the Board of Education, and a large body ofearnest teachers, the school system began to improve. The work was reorganized so as to make it meet the present-day needs of the community; and many old buildings, that were inadequate, unsafe, and unsanitary, were remodelled or replaced by new ones. Within twelve years, thirty buildings were constructed or remodelled; and some were replaced by handsome new ones at a total cost of five million dollars. The cost of the new Hughes, Woodward, and Withrow High Schools is included in this. In these high schools there are offered the general, manual training, domestic science, commercial, industrial, music, art, and agricultural. courses. The business of the high school is to furnish both liberal and definite vocational training to the student who knows what he wants to do; and to furnish to those who are undecided as to their choice of a vocation experiences which will assist them to choose. Vacation schools are provided as recreation centers for children who must stay in the city during the summer. These schools do not continue the hook work of the regular school. Its curriculum includes Such occupations as appeal to a Child whose school books have been put away for a time, but who must he kept busy. Summer Academic Schools, which were instituted in 1908, have two purposes: to enable pupils who failed in one or two subjects to catch up, and to enable unusually bright pupils to skip a grade. When Charles MCMiCken died in 1858, he gave by will almost the whole of his estate valued at $1,000,000 for the purpose of establishing and maintaining two colleges in Cincinnati. Nearly one-half the property thus devised was lost by a court decision; so that for ten years the revenue derived from the estate was applied to its improve- ment. Finally there was passed by the General Assembly of Ohio an act under which the University of Cincinnati was established. In 187-1 the Academic Department, now called the Nlchlicken College of Liberal Arts, was formally organized. In the years that followed the many varied departments that round out the functions of a complete university have been or- ganized. The College of Engineering is noted for its cooperative course. Students are handled in pairs, the members of each alternating so that one student is at work while the other is attending college classes. In this way the practice of engin- eering: is taught in the shops or on a railroad, under actual commercial conditions. and the science underlying the practice is taught in the University The College for Teachers is also a cooperative school; and the College of Medicine is arranged on a cooperative basis with the General Hospital. There are today seventy parochial schools in Clncmnati in which there are 500 teachers and 19,000 pupils. It thus appears that Cincinnati, with well- detined purposes is seeking through the cooper- ationinf all its civic, commercial, industrial, and educational institutions to develop a unified system of public education that shall adequately meet the Hrmms HIGH SCHOOL needs of all its people. FLORENCE E. CONNERS, t27.

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31R. E. D. LYON Principal of Il'fz'fhl'aw H 121m School 22