New Britain herald., 1920-11-27
HIGH SCHOOL MUST
 BE ENLARGED SOON
Principal Shades Report Also
 EXtOlS Educational Merits

In his annual report. Principal l.. r. slade Of tho High school deals extensively with the work of his High school graduate after leaving the school, more especially with their, success in colleges and universities. In the linc Of recommendations. MT slado depicts the need of High school addition erected between the academic and vocational buildings that would contain an auditorium. gymna aAiuns and library. An addition to tho vocational building is also de- sirab ble. he says.
 Taking last years gratuation class as basis for figures. Mir. Slade re- ported that out of 224 who were grad uated 10 per cent entered college, I5 per cent entered Normal school. { per cent entered training schools. s per cent entered preparatory schools and bl per cent took employment locally. or the entire class g per cent are continuing their educational studies. Those who are either at home or not placed totSl per cent and per cent arc employed out of town.
 After quoting a list of the leading colleges and universities to which members of the 1920 class went MT Shade, to prove his contention that the High school gives an excellent foundation for college study. quoted from a questionable relative to this Of tho institutions queried concerning the work of local graduates, 34 have made reply. Within the past five years these schools have accepted l45 To- cal graduates.
 Work in Other Schools.
 Of these, thirty-two. or 22 per cent have received honors or other dis tinctions: seventy-nine, or 54 per cent have done good avera gc work; 27 or 19 per cent have merely passed; seven. or five per cent have failed. We invit- eel comment upon tho preparation which the students had been given There has been no adverse comment Yale says: Record shows all men prepared 10 do work of college grade. Average is high" Vassar remarks: The New Britain High school stu | dents. few in number. have main tained a high percentage of good | grades" Worcester Polytechnic in- stitute writes, We have always had | q high opinion of your school,' and | tho registrar of RenssClaer, an insti- tuition which awards no honors. | thinks that it is a very good record" when nineteen out of twenty-three | have done work from fair to very !. good"
 More Room Needed.
 Relative to additional room for High school purposes. MT. Shade says:
 "Our auditorium was long since outgrown. 1t will still be inadequate. oven when our numbers are tenn porarily reduced by the establishment of tho junior High schools. II is very difficult to maintain the unity Y.F to assembly the student body. Phys ical education and systematic instruc- tion in hygiene demands baths and dressing rooms and large areas, in- door and out-of-door The courses should be given to all and with a liberal allotment of time. one gym nasium shared by tho young women i Of the first three years and the young men of the first year, u state armory a quarter of mile away an made auatc playground. two shower baths and few small dressing rooms arc our facilities for the activities of tho departments Of physical education and of military science. When the weather is indictment, substitute ar. engagements become necessary Al no time when large groups are en. gagged can we offer any opportunit,
 for bathing.
 Comparatively few. persons know how to use a public library efficient
 ly. Yet there is no source of educa . ton more accessible to the ordina r., American citizen. Every high schoo
 graduate should be familiar with it
 possibilities To bring ths about ther,
 must be a library and an adequate
 one. in the school plant.
 our vocational courses for younl
 women should be increased so tha
 there may he opened to them oppor | tunity to gain livelihood in tn,
 practice of the deco orative arts Wt
 should not be obliged to deny in.
 struction in drafting to any pupil ir
 the school who has the time and apti
 tudc Tor it's pursuit, nor should help.
 ful instruction in sewing be denied tC
 the young women.
 The ful1llment of the needs {,
 which allusion has been made mus U he dsferred unLIl such time as tho