ЈУБИЛЕЈ – 120 ГОДИНА ОД ОСНИВАЊА СРПСКЕ МУШКЕ ГИМНАЗИЈЕ У БИТОЉУ (1897) Извештај Петра Р. Косовића о Српској мушкој гимназији у Битољу (1911–1912)
A JUBILEE – 120 YEARS FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE SERBIAN MEN’S HIGH SCHOOL OF BITOLA (1897) A report by Petar R. Kosović on the Serbian men’s high school of Bitola (1911–1912)

Summary/Abstract: There was issued an important historical source, A report on the Serbian high school of Bitola for the school year 1911/1912, which was written by its principal Petar Kosović. The report tells about the teaching staff, changes throughout the school year, appointments, conditions at the end of the school year, changes in the subject distribution among teachers carrried out during the year, school chronicle, important events in the school, important decisions made by the teachers’ council, scientific resources and scientific collections, library, school books, classification and annual results. There is also a statistics of the students as well as the statistical overview of the students according to the number and the birthplace ever since the school’s foundation. It was determined what had disrupted the work in the previous school year and what should not occur in the following school year. Plans for the following school year had also been made, however, it was the school year when the High school in Bitola started operating within the borders of the Kingdom of Serbia because Bitola had been freed from Turkish authorities. The first principal of the Serbian Men’s High school in Bitola was Sava Jakić, the teacher from the Seminary of Prizren. It was a four-grade junior high school which directly influenced the increase in number of Serbian primary schools in the Bitola vilayet. After finishing this school, the students could continue their studies in Serbian high schools in Skopje and Salonica. During the high school’s existence, there had worked 57 teachers (Kosta F. Kovačević, Aleksa Jovanović, Jerotije Topalović, Aleksandar Marić, Grigorije Božović, Petar Kosović, Svetozar Tomić et al.). The teachers were educational but also national workers. A board called “Serbian defence” was formed in Bitola and it prepared the Serbs’ defence from the armed attacks (1904). The high school teachers were the creators of this organization. In Bitola, there was also the three-year Girls Workers School (1897–1910).

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