The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-15
HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS WRITE ON
 ADVANTAGES OF NEW BUILDING
(contlnued from Thirteenth Pase)


 there is plenty in the high school. The old chairs, some with four legs, some with none, will be replaced by handsome, comfortable ones and then our new plano and bookcases will find themselves in congenial company for the first time. The outlook will also be much improved. Instead of looking out on an uninter- esting back yard we will gaze at our own well kept grounds and many plants and birds will speak to us "rememberable thing" Here then surrounded by best and most unlifting influences our char acters will be ennobled and our stan dards raised if the three or four hum dred pupils will come to the high school each year are helped, that alone would justify an even more costly high school than we are to have.
 But great as is the need of better en- vironments it is not greater than the need of facilities In every line of work These necessities the new high school will supply. Smaller classes and better equipped rooms will tend to more thor ough work A good chemical laboratory will be especially beneficial as it is inn possible for the pupils to do any indi- vidual work now. The gymnasium will be of untold pleasure and profit to all. as a place for absoltue recreation. The pro- posed club music and art rooms will put an end to much trouble by affording con- venient places for the clubs and music and art classes to meet "undisturbing and undisturbed." But the high school pupils are more interested in a library and read ing room than any other improvement. We now have several hundred dollars worth of fine reference books, but we want our library to grow until 1t con tains all the best literature of the world.
 Outside the benefits to the pupils the new high school will be of great advan- tage to Birmingham as whole. Higher education is no longer a luxury-it IS necessity" and no broad minded man will bring his family to a city where there are not good schools. The high school al- ready has an enviable reputation but is so crowded and unsantary that no con- scientious man can recommend 1t to out siders. But the new high school will change matters and people will be drawn here from all parts of the state where there are not such good schools. And so the prosperity of the high school will add much to the prosperity of Birming ham and will be an advantage to every business man in the city.
 By Randell Waddell, Class T., E.)
 As we all know, Birmingham has been in neeu oI d new Iigu SCHOOL TOT d lOnB time and I can safely say that it Is an assured fact that we will have a new high school despite the slight opposition we had against one.
 I will endeavor to name a few of the advantages in having new high school First. being able to have a laboratory in which many new equipments can be made and points can be brought out that will enable the pupils to see and understand more about science For instance the first class pupils on entering the high school is given the study of physiology, and having no laboratary or place in which experiments or demonstrations can be made the pupil passes through the class perhaps without ever having the opportunity of seeing the things he reads of proven.
 Another advantage is in having an as- sembly hall large enough to accommodate not only the pupils but to furnish seats for visitors that would like to attend the school on exercise day when we have debates. music and entertainments
 Another thing is the necessity of hav-7