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Jones Academy
Established by intelligent Collin county citizens in 1902; object, to prove the value of proper conditions united with best methods in hands of superior teachers; results, continued and rapid growth from the first year; 35 students and two teachers. second year; 55 students and three teachers. third year; 113 students and five teachers, fourth year; fifth year current; 172 students and eight teachers.
Rapid Growth
Progress in other respects: first year, without apparatus, young men only, grades above the seventh only, confined to literary branches, school home in upper room in the business quarter, poorly lighted, unsanitary and unfurnished with recreation grounds; today, well-equipped studios for art and music and a gymnasium for physical culture, a good physical laboratory, a select and serviceable library, a well-furnished primary department, and complete apparatus for historic and physiological instruction in all grades, a handsome well-constructed brick building of two stories, upon a beautiful campus in the residence quarter, with exceptional ventilating and lighting facilities, equipped with water and sewage service, all owned by the President of the Academy.
High Purpose.
Jones Academy has before it the high purpose of bringing to bear the clearest light of teaching upon the way of the student when the way is through a well-chosen environment. The ideal is that of the new South toned by the heroism of the Southern Puritan, Huguenot, Covenanter and German Protestant. That ideal of new life about the landmarks of our heroic ante-revolutionary and ante-bellum periods, held before the eyes of our Southern boys and girls, will bring up a generation of which our nation is now in sore need. Apace with the phenomenal growth o four section in material wealth should go the development of intellectual, moral and spiritual forces. The cross materialism of money-mad hordes in well known centers will otherwise and repetition in this glorious marching, struggling Southwest. No age of the world ever laid so large a burden upon its schools as this time of American life has laid upon its educational establishments. Jones Academy is venturing upon a field of educational endeavor which is destined to enlargement and invokes the aid of every good citizen in its arduous campaign for better schools.
F. G. Jones
President, McKinney Texas.
Rapid Growth
Progress in other respects: first year, without apparatus, young men only, grades above the seventh only, confined to literary branches, school home in upper room in the business quarter, poorly lighted, unsanitary and unfurnished with recreation grounds; today, well-equipped studios for art and music and a gymnasium for physical culture, a good physical laboratory, a select and serviceable library, a well-furnished primary department, and complete apparatus for historic and physiological instruction in all grades, a handsome well-constructed brick building of two stories, upon a beautiful campus in the residence quarter, with exceptional ventilating and lighting facilities, equipped with water and sewage service, all owned by the President of the Academy.
High Purpose.
Jones Academy has before it the high purpose of bringing to bear the clearest light of teaching upon the way of the student when the way is through a well-chosen environment. The ideal is that of the new South toned by the heroism of the Southern Puritan, Huguenot, Covenanter and German Protestant. That ideal of new life about the landmarks of our heroic ante-revolutionary and ante-bellum periods, held before the eyes of our Southern boys and girls, will bring up a generation of which our nation is now in sore need. Apace with the phenomenal growth o four section in material wealth should go the development of intellectual, moral and spiritual forces. The cross materialism of money-mad hordes in well known centers will otherwise and repetition in this glorious marching, struggling Southwest. No age of the world ever laid so large a burden upon its schools as this time of American life has laid upon its educational establishments. Jones Academy is venturing upon a field of educational endeavor which is destined to enlargement and invokes the aid of every good citizen in its arduous campaign for better schools.
F. G. Jones
President, McKinney Texas.
