1909 OHS Yearbook

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OSAWATOMIE HIGH SCHOOL

The Osawatomie High School was organized in 1891 with one two-year course of study, when Will Light was Superintendent. The first class of the High School was graduated in 1894 with four members.

The High School building which was completed in 1891, is centrally located in the city on a block of ground 300 feet square. It is a substantial, three-story building, including the basement, built of brick.

The building is equipped with furnace heat and a modern ventilating system. The grounds are made beautiful by well-kept lawns, with flowers and with many shade trees.

The High School occupies four rooms in this building. Since the organization of the High School, it has constantly grown in number of students until this year there are eighteen in the graduating class with a total enrollment of one hundred and one.

Excellent facilities have been provided for laboratory work in Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Physical Geography. The laboratory occupies a separate room equipped with a laboratory table, gas, sink, hood, storage room and cases. The equipment includes an air-pump, compound microscope, dynamo, motor, linear expansion apparatus, micrometer, vernier, thermometer, hydrometer, batteries, leyden jars, test tubes, retorts, crucibles and chemicals. New apparatus is being added each year. Work in the natural sciences with such facilities for experiment, is both attractive and helpful to the student.

The library contains about 500 volumes including dictionaries, encyclopedia and reference books. The students also have access to the excellent city library.

In order that the student may have ample opportunity to practice in debate, essays, music and declamations, the school has two literary societies, the Forum and the Athenan. The societies hold their meetings at night in the High School Assembly room and have had good attendance throughout the year. The work done by both societies during the year has been excellent. In addition to the society work each class has regular rhetorical work. Thus the students are drilled in literary work, public speaking and parliamentary law, to fit them for future citizenship.

From time to time prominent men of the city are invited to the High School, and interesting lectures are delivered along the lines of the speaker's profession or business.

The different courses offered by the High School are as strong as High School work will permit and secure full credit at the State University. The number of units in the various branches are as follows: English 3 units, Latin 3 units, German 2 units, History 3 units, Mathematics 3 units, Science 4 units, Commercial work 4 units, and training in spelling and rhetoricals throughout the four years.

 

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