Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-02
A High School Building.

To the Gazette:
a high school building is not neces-
sRrily'a very large structure or very
high house The designation high
SCHOOL, carries with IL the idea
means really--a school for advanced,
/ liberal, higher education. All systems
! have Il elimination, head, step
! ping from the lower to the higher.
! The high school il the elimination,
the higher stepping, the actual reach
ing of the heai or goal of the public
school cot re.
Fort Worth, September 1889, COM
mtnced in earnest 10 build up sys.
TEN of public instruction, free to All
alike. The city, by an unprecedented
unaninity, voted to tax herself the
one-half of one per cent. TO support
the schools--lo pay for the instruction
of all its children. Not having any
buildings at all, rooms were rented
the schools were commenced-temp
rary structure were improvised--
the schools were kept open for eight
months, having had an actual pres
ent ana absent average attendance OF
800 nolu the beginning till the close.
During last vacation the city coun-
ell took steps to supply buildings,
properly constructed, well-lurnished
aud equipped. of thes, new houses
the city has to-day five, only renting
one of the six occupied by twenty
eiyht teachers land this week. with
LOG pupils. These buildings have ca
p,city for more than l200-some
If the rooms are crowded,
some still have vacancies. II the
grades Just evenly fitted, 400 could
he well accommodated, well instructed.
The actual gain upon last year In
round numbers to the present has
been 1871 per cent, should The classes
remain ut their present status. IL IL
believed, that as the good weather re-
turns, the number Will increase. vi
the present pupils, and To- whom IN
sfruction is given, the grades
extend from first, or lowest grade
through The tentl or second grades VI
q high school. OF these pupils mere
are in the ninth and tenth grades
some thirty odd. But at the end OF
this school session the eighth grade
will become the ninth, thus adding In
the public schools alone say twenty
five more las all may not continge); or
there will be OF the public schools ma
lerial enough 10 furnish say MY wen,
prepared students for the high scnooi
at the close of the present session
There will he other material. Parents
have sent their daughters, particular
lv. and their sons oil this session that
would not have done 50 had there been
high school in their midst.
/ have thus ut length stated the his
tory. the development OF the schools OF
Fort Worth 10 show how she has liber-
ally, opportunity and throughout met
every demand; aud what the schools
themselves show as the result 81 this
muniiicent action Of her publicspifit-
ed and iar-seeing citizens.
Fort Worth will NEED pubiic
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING
the beginning OF the next scholastic
wear, October. Heretofore all bhs
been done by taxation In this move
| ment for this structure, which nhhll
he at once useful and ornamental TOO,
shall lie adapted TO, and constructed
| for the higher instruction OF the SON
and daughters of Fort Worth. !
believe there can be found men and
enough of them who will subscribe q
sufficient amount to build this ediiice
this peoples college for the city OF For
Worth!
/ Why do / think so? From what tn
ciiiz+n Ms OF this city haze done; iron
what they are doing to-day, am ~
surrd lin my judgment) that they WI
do this too. The sum of 100000 wil
be needed. Let US resolve this amour
into "fact )rs:p 50D0x10; 5)OxlOJ;5Oxl0O'