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LEWIS INSTITUTE |
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By Agness Joslyn Kaufman |
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| In the second year of its existence
the Institute was host to a group of men from all over this western
section of the country. Led by Dr. Harper, with Director Carman and Dean
Greeson of the Institute, and Dr. Angell of Michigan, these man were
working on establishing standards in building and equipment, and the group
were anxious to study new physical developments as well as to work on
standards, so they filled our Auditorium, and at those meetings the
accrediting association known as the North Central Association of High
Schools and Colleges was formed. Lewis always occupied a place on its
list. In 1901 the trustees began granting degrees to mechanical engineers and, in the years that followed, this department was extended to include other fields of engineering. In 1903 the building on Damen avenue was erected to increase the facilities of the engineering department. John A. Roche, former Mayor of Chicago and the first President of our Board of Trustees, who was devoted to the interests of Lewis, promoted the undertaking. Home economics courses were opened with the Institute, and since this was a comparatively new field in this section for the country, they grew rapidly in attendance until, with the demand for college graduates as home economics teachers, the Institute took a step forward and granted that degree to its students. That was in 1912. This department ran the lunchroom in those early days, another novel feature found in no other high school in Chicago. Some few years ago the Home Economics section of the Bureau of Education at Washington, studying the history of this department, found that the course generally known as "Household Management" or later as "The House; Its Plan, Selection, and Care" was first evolved and taught at Lewis in the early 1900s. |
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| Page last updated on May 17, 2000. |
