The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05

ers. are employed in the three
schools.
! The older part OF the present high
school was constructed in 1891 and
| the new section in 1911. The entire
building has been erected at an APP
proXimate cost OF $150,000.00. The
building is a large brick structure
! and houses both the senior high
school and the Franklin junior high
school. II contains an auditorium
with a seating capacity Of 212, a
! gymnasium thirty five by sixty feet,
! laboratories, shops for manual train
ing and machine work. domestic sci
eEce rooms and many class rooms.
The high school is we'll equipped
for the training of such pupils as do
not expect to continue their school
/ ing after graduating from high
school, as we'll as for regular AGA -
demic work. Recognizing the fact
that the aims, ambitions. and apu-
tudes Of, pupils differ it is the policy
OF the school to provide an oppor-
tunity for pupils to take those
things for which they are best fitted
naturally or those things which
seem to lay the best foundation for
the future of the student. According
ly-there have been provided three
different courses of study sstarting;
in the junior high schools and
carried on through the senior high
school. Each of these courses in
Guides fundamental training that
every man or woman should have,
but at the same time provides
choices in the curriculum that the
pupil may follow in certain degree
his own natural bent.
The academic course is recon
mended for all pupils who intend to
finish the senior high school. II
should always be taken by those pu
pills who intend to 60 to college,
Pupils who take the academic course
in the junior high school find album
dant opportunity to take industrial
or commercial courses in the senior
school.
The aim of the industrial course
is two fold It is designed primari-
" for the boys and girls who are not
certain to finish high school and
Il who are planning toward trade OF
manual occupation. To that end
! the course includes three years oil
industrial work.
The commercial course is also de-
signed for students who are not GER
tain of finishing high school, but
" no wish to gain some knowledge
} along the line of commercial pur-
suits. The short commercial course
! consists of special work in the sew
. entn, eighth, ninth and tenth grades
, Graduation from the junior high
) school calls for the earning of tif-
teen credits. five each year. In the
first two years all the subjects
; taught are required. in the last veal
, one elective is allowed. The re-
uuirement for graduation for the
senior high school Is completion
of the Junior high school course anc
/ thirteen credits in the senior higf
. school. A class is graduated at the
end of each semester, whether II
January or in May. In the first veal
tof the senior high school only one
| elective course is allowed. In the
last two years two are allowed ex
i cepting for the third year OF the
: commercial course.
, For the study of domestic science
the senior high school is equipped
: with two kitchens completely outht
: ted with desks, stoves. ranges, cup
+ boards and supply cabinets. For tint
. students taking domestic art twt
sewing rooms are provided, equipped
with five machines in each room be
2 sides tables and mirrors suitably ar
ranged.
Manual training courses are laugh
) in three shop rooms equipped 10
] the teaching of woodwork, forgeine
5 and sheet metal work. This depart
r ment is also equipped with lumbe
: store room and a finishing room
{ Complete equipment is maintalnet
Y for mechanical drawing courses.
. The school owns twenty six type
r writer's for use in the commercial
e courses. A library is maintainel
S with 1900 volumes of literary AM
ei reference works available to all stu
= dents.
D A high school orchestra is organ
v lied each year and is we'll known TO
: the quality of its work. Glass plays
s orch estra concerts, declamatory con
II tests, intramural athletic contests
: debates an similar entertainment
: are held throughout the year, bot
z I'm the school building and in buIid
J. ings down town The school en-
: courages sports and football, basket
e ball and track teams /are MAINTAIN
Il ed among the boys.
e, GUY D. Smith is the principal an
e is entering upon his first year Il
S that capacity.
d The Lncoln junior high school
n housed in the new Lincoln schoc
h building which also contains IN
IS lincoln elementary school 1t ha
lust been completed this year and
n one of the most modern school build
: Iines in the state. 1t was erected
S a cost of 100000. 1t is provide.
S with we'll equipped shops, domestl
II science rooms, laboratories, class
Il rooms, library and commercia
y rooms. Miss Ruth Brown is tn
: principal.
y The FRANKLIN junior high schoc
n IS housed in the same building wit
: the senior high school. The student
), share the same shops and othe
! special rooms with the senior schoe
e but use different class rooms. Nj
e w. G. Zilliox is the principal.
Mankato schools are NO" unae s
o the superintendency of Mr.. +.
d SelIe. who is serving his third yea
n in that capacity.
= The Ward Schools
e Four ward buildings are proVloe
IS for the common school work !
d Mankato. Roosevelt school is
e brick structure with six class room!
Is II is adequately provided with drink
,l ing fountains, cloakrooms and toi
q lets. Two hundred and three pupll
: are enrolled this year with a teacp
Re ing force of six. In addltion 20 III
n Kindergarten instruction the hrst
= the sixth grades inclusive are taugII
K. in this school. Mrs. Beatrice