Woodward High School - Treasures Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Editorial. After spending four years at VVoodward, we are now leaving her halls. Perhaps some, especially lower classmen, think that this is said with considerable sat- isfaction, but deep down in our hearts we know that it is mentioned with regret and sorrow as well. When we left the lower grades, a four -year course in high school seemed long, indeedg but now, as we look back, the period seems all too short. It has meant much to us. VVe have spent four happy and eventful years, the profit of which cannot be measured in dol- lars and cents. We have had four years of a happy combination of work and enjoyment. They are years that we shall never forget. We are at a stage in our lives that represents the turning point in our careers. WVe can now understand the value of higher education, and are able to see the world's requirements from a little wider angle. Some of us will go on to college, some will take up the life work chosen by them. The former will use their high school training us a foundation for further schooling, while the latter will employ it as a means toward pleasure and profit. But whatever we do, we will carry with us the VVoodward spirit, for, whether at work or at play, the knowledge and ideals gained at Woodward will always, either consciously or unconsciously, influence our lives. May we always I:-e loyal students of life and true American citizens-be all that lives and breathes in our inspiring motto: Esse Quam Viderif'

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schoolhouse, which had become too small, soon be- came only a memory, but a very happy memory it was. The old school had served its purpose, and in it many a lesson had been learned. A sum of 830,000 was allowed for the new school. and on December 31, 1855, the second Woodward was dedicated. It was so fine a specimen of Gothic architecture, with terra cotta ornamentations in the form of gargoyles, that when the Prince of Wales visited Cincinnati in 1860 he was taken to see this splendid high school. The building had four entrances, those on the north and south being exceptionally beautiful. There were spacious halls, which crossed each other, on the first and second floors. The north and south halls on the second floor were used as a chemical laboratory and a library, although there was a labor- atory in the basement. On the third floor was the assembly hall, where all the pupils gathered. At the sides of this hall were two retiring rooms, sur- mounted by balconies. As' the attendance increased steadily, more classrooms had to be provided. The retiring rooms were used, the south end of the hall was partitioned into rooms, and, finally, when there was no more available space in the building, an addi- tional wing, three stories high and one room deep, was built. Woodward now had fifteen rooms besides the gymnasium, which had been added in 1890. These arrangements served for a while, then the school became overcrowded, and pupils had to be transferred to the VValnut Hills High School. Be- sides, it became necessary to establish colonies in the Second and Third Intermediate Schools. It was quite evident that something had to be done to accommodate the ever-increasing number of stu- dents. The Woodward of 1855 was about to end its career and become, like its predecessor, Old VVood- ward, a memory. Soon the New VVoodward, our school, was to begin its existence. lt is needless to describe the building, t'or we all know every inch of it. But do we ever stop to think what the many conveniences, which we consider real necessities, would have meant to the pupils of 1831? The spacious library, the gym- nasium, the lunch room, the rest rooms, the audi- torium-with its seating capacity of eleven hundred -without all of which we could not imagine our school complete, were things unknown to the pupils of Old Woodward. New Woodward was begun in 1907, and on the fourth day of November, 1908, amid a gathering ot' thousands, the corner stone was laid. The Honor- able VVillian1 Howard Taft otticiated at the ceremony. On this occasion the gavel and trowel made from wood of the building of 1855 were used. These treas- ures are now to be found in the Woodward Museum and Graduates Room. Some of our other precious possessions are furni- ture from the house of our Founder, pieces of per- sonal property of the Woodward family, and the flag, now worn and tattered, which the Woodward girls made for their soldier classmates during the Civil War. Another thing of which we are very proud and for which we are thankful is the Bettens Library, presented to us in 1919 by Mr. Bettens, a former pupil of Woodward, in honor of his mother. Mrs. Louise E. Bettens. There are many other things in which we take great pride, but we must not forget the generosity which made all this possible. ln the crypt under the statue at the Broadway entrance lie the two peo- ple, Mr. and Mrs. VVoodward, who gave so gener- ously. To them must be attributed much of the suc- cess of the many famous men who have gone out from the old school. To them, we, too, owe a debt of gratitude, which we can best repay by living up to the ideals of VVoodward. ALBIA RlETM.AN, '21.

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