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Female education - gender - high schools - history of education - school chronicle

Publication |
2016

Abstract

According to the rules for public schools were required to keep the school chronicle and record her progress each school year. In the case of Minerva the chronicle includes regular, chronological entries, written usually by director of the institute.

The records factually informed about changes in the teaching staff, about number of female pupils and about results of their tests, as well about premises where the teaching took place. In addition, the chronicle captures the events of the wider social and political range, which the school took part in or is reminded of the special celebrations or meetings.

It describes the main visitors and the school excursion of each class, too. In the 1890s one find details on the efforts of teachers and students themselves about the girl's permission to university and its first effects in the chronicle - all of the first graduates of the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Medicine in the early years of the 20th century were graduates of Minerva.

At the same time there was a gradual transformation of the original classical grammar school gymnasium into the more practical with less lectures in Latin and Greece language to give to graduates broader labor market. At the very beginning of the first World War, the school was awarded the status of municipal institutions, and thus as well an important financial support to the city.

At the beginning of the 20s of the 20th century to the huge interest of girls divided in two separate real gymnasium, where the tradition took over Minerva I. Girls Grammar School, though not under the name of its founder - Elizabeth Krasnohorske.

Since the school year 1922/23 is therefore only chronicle associated with this institute. Since the beginning of its existence, the school tried to get suitable premises.

In the summer of 1936 - ending the Chronicle