Excerpt from Manual of the Public Schools of Pleasant Township, Wabash County, Indiana: For the School Year of 1898-99 In 1890 there was a partition put in upstairs, dividing it into two rooms. Four teachers were then employed. Four teachers taught the school until 1896, when an assistant principal was put in the school. After Prof. Long left the school in 1884 the high school work gradu ally died out. For several years the only high school work done was a little work in algebra and 'physical geography. During the term of 1895 98, when Mr. U. R. Young was principal. There were four high school pupils. It was during this term that the new county high school course was adopted in the school. In the year 1896 the school was again very fortunate. It succeeded in getting Prof. Chas. I. Kerr and wife, graduates of the State Normal and of the State University, to take the positions of principal and assistant principal. They remodeled the course of study and made many other improvements during the year. There were nineteen pupils who attended the high school during this term. In 1897 the attendance was so large that one teacher. Mr. White, had to use the Town Hall as a school room. Mr. Kerr worked very hard during the 'year to build up the library and start a museum. By furnish ing the school with books, stationery, by lectures, and by subscriptions from the patrons, he raised about $125 for the library. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.