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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Jim Kershner’s this day in history

From our archives, 100 years ago

Between 2,000 and 3,000 visitors walked through Lewis and Clark High School to see the best students from every department demonstrate their proficiency. It was the school’s annual reception, or what today we would call the open house.

Here’s what visitors saw:

• Dumbbell and Indian club drills by the girls’ gym students.

• Football drills by the football team.

• Blackboard flourishes and script, by the school’s star penmanship students.

• Double entry accounting demonstrations, by the bookkeeping students.

• Charts showing the debt the English language owes to the Latin tongue, by the Latin students.

• Cookies baked by the students in the cooking department.

• A complete concert by the choir and orchestra.

• Hammered brass trays made by the students in the shop department.

• Test tubes full of hydrogen, which exploded with a loud pop, in the chemistry department.

• A bank of clattering typists, all turning out “Now is the time for all good men” and other tests, at the rate of 60 words per minute.

• A complete four-page newspaper, the Lewisonian, complete with social notes and humor columns, turned out by the English department students.