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CHAPTER XVIII -- EDUCATION (CONT'D)HIGH SCHOOLS.The city of Harlan and the towns of Shelby, Defiance and Irwin have taken especial pride in maintaining high standards for their high schools. Graduates of Harlan and of Shelby are admitted without examination to the State University and to the other leading colleges of the state and other states. Graduates of Irwin and Definance receive credit for their courses, so far as maintained by these schools. The towns of Tennant and Kirkman are also building up strong schools, which are made possible by the consolidation of a large tract of surrounding territory, and it is likely that they, too, will develop strong high schools with courses of study in advance of what they now have. The county has long maintained a fine reputation for the number of its young people who are taking, or have taken, work in the leading colleges and universities of the country. Shelby county young people have been graduated from the following universities: Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Northwestern, Chicago, Wisconsin, Michigan and Yale, and from the following colleges: Iowa Agricultrual College, Simpson, Cornell, Grinnell, Des Moines, Highland Park, Tabor, Drake, State Teachers’ College and others.
Click on image to enlarge  Above top left, IRWIN HIGH SCHOOL. Top Middle, GOOD ROADS PICNIC DAY. Top right, PORTSMOUTH PAROCHIAL RESIDENCE. Lower left, NEW HIGH SCHOOL, DEFIANCE. Lower middle, POSTSMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. Lower, right, OLD HIGH SCHOOL, DEFIANCE.
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