The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-12-09
BE::MIDJI NAY
BUILD new
HIGH SCHOOL
Board of Education Meets and Con-
siders Plans; May Improve Cen
tral Building.
COST FOR BUILDING
ESTIMATED AT $4,000
Crowded Condition of Schools Make
Necessary Immediate Action;
Present Quarters Inadequate. -.

necessary Au110uAdI6 0OtAOAS
Present Quarters Inadequate. ...
Bemidji may build a new $4,000
high school building.
AT a regular meeting of the school
board held last evening at the Hay
ner-Lahr land Office, the building Of
a new school house was discussed.
Reports were given in regard to the
enrolment at the schools since 1910.
The building of an addition to the
present high school building and the
improving of the Central grade school
building were considered.
Drafts Presented.
Drafts and estimates for new
building were presented to the board
by w. D. Gillespie of the firm Of
Hagby & Gillespie, architects, at
Fargo, N. D.
The necessity of new building or
an addition to the old one has been
brought about by the crowded cir
cumstances in the graded school as
well as the high school.
Since 1910 the increase in the high
school building proper is So, while
the normal department., branch of
the high school in the Central school
building, has been increased by IA.
The increase in the seventh and
eighth grade is 81, there being 33
in the eighth grade and 21 in the
seventh grade. This makes a total
increase outside of the normal de-
partment, 1926. There has also been
a agricultural teacher, an eighth
grade teacher and sewing teacher
added and one of the teachers drop
ped which has left the increase of
the past five years in care of only
two additional teachers. -.
Increase in Glasses.
While there have been only two
classes in the high school in which
the membership has been decreased,
there has: been. increases in almost
every other class. Latin grammar has
decreased six and Ancient History
one The increases in the other
classes are, Caesar, eight, English l.,
23, English II, z, English III, 10,
English w, 9, elementary algebra,
%, plane geometry IL, modern his
tory "a, drawing 10, cooking AZ, ag-
riculture %, typewriting 6, wood
work II, mechanical drawing H.,
bookkeeping, O., shorthand 6, COM
mercial arithmetic 80, German I, 13,
German II, II, higher algebra z,
chemistry Is, physical geography AZ
and sewing II. In addition to these
increases several new classes have
been formed in other subjects.
Only Have 80.
Northwest colleges refuse to ad-
nit as students from first class high
schools anyone who has attended
classes in which there are over 30
pupils, without taking an entry ex-
animation. There are already three
such classes in the local high school.
Neither will the colleges permit the
teachers of high schools to have over
five classes a day, which rule is vio-
lated by all but one of the Bemidji
high school teachers.
Much Room Needed.
The need of new building is
shown by the inadequate quarters of
all the classes in school today. There
should be five manual training rooms,
one for each of the following purpos-
es: Bench work, forging, mechan-
ical drawing, painting and lathe.
The economic department needs
three rooms, one for bookkeeping, one
for typewriting and one for banking;
the agricultural branch demands
necessitate three, one for labora-
tories, one for recitation and one for
an Office. At the present time these
special departments are, all but one,
confined to one room.
Would Have Auditorium.
The plans which Mr.. Gillespie sub
mitted were for a $4,000 building
that would include an ideal gymna-
sium provided with bleachers, lock-
ers, track and all modern parapher-
MALTA and large, spacious, we'll ven
4;lat tad 4a -.