Arsenal Technical High School - Arsenal Cannon Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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4 THE ARSENAL CANNON Tech's Ideal in Social Life is explained by Marguerite Mahoney of the January class. She shows that the social life of a school does not lie wholly in parties and social gatherings but largely in meeting people everyday. These various ideas are to be drawn up in the form of a set of resolutions and presented, by the president of the June class, to Mr. Stuart, in the name of the .I une class, in order to show him what their standards are. After the adoption of these resolutions a series of motion pictures of Tech's activities will be shown. This set of films is a gift of the June class to the school as a means of making a perma- nent record of the important occurrences of 1917 as well as keeping ever fresh the memories of the class of that year. EXTENSIVE SUMMER SCHOOL PLANS MADE Shortridge and Tech are planning to conduct summer schools during the summer. Shortridge as usual, will attempt to pound language and math into the heads of her pupils While Tech will teach several hundred boys and girls how to make their hands efficient. The fact is Tech is to have a vocational school. It will be open to all persons over fourteen years old wishing to study agriculture, office work and automobile construction. Classes will meet six days a week in the morning only. The agricultural course will include food preservation for girls and food conservation for boys and girls as Well as home sewing for girls and household management for women. The gardening will also be an important factor. If the present plans mature we will receive tomatoes, corn, beans, potatoes, beets, peas and pumpkins grown and preserved right here at Tech for our lunch checks next term. The ofiice work is to come under the name of the Ofiice Finishing Course. It is conducted for the purpose of finishing pupils who have gotten credits in bookkeeping, shorthand and typewriting in order that they will have a better chance of filling ofiice positions satisfactorily. The automobile construction course is to be the big thing. It is divided into three units. One will deal with the construction and operation of the gasoline engine and chassis of automobiles. The second unit is a study of the manufacturing processes of automobiles. To make this course more interesting several visits will probably be made to the large automobile plants in Indianapolis. The third unit is the study of the electricity of the automobile. That is, the starting, lighting, and ignition systems. In connection with these three courses there are to be three electives. These are elementary and advanced mechanical drawing, applied electricity, and machine shop practice. In addition there Will be a special course in the care of the automobile intended for owners and drivers of machines. It will teach them how to repair tires, ad- just carburetors and will endeavor to touch on the countless general details of automobile work. C. P. B.

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7 ecafbun W' Q4 Uiiafpg ' COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES Commencement exercises of the January and June classes of 1917 will be held on Thursday, June 14. Simplicity is the keynote of the program. This year there will be no individual speaker for the evening but instead eight members of the classes will present individually the different phases of Technical High School life. First, Hellen Algeo, June '17, describes Tech at Home. Her talk is chiefly an appreciation of Tech's setting. She also traces through her talk the parallel between Technical and the home. She tells of the difficulties of the school authorities in struggling for our school and of the final decision of the Supreme court. In concluding her address she gives a brief description of the grounds and pupils. Sidney Dailey of the January class will talk on Tech at Work, giving an account of the organization of the school and of the varied course of study offered. Caroline McMath, June '17, in describing Tech at Play, briefly reviews our different branches of athletics and describes the many forms of recreation. She sets forth the aim of the different organiza- tions, the Glee Clubs, Cabinet, Spanish Club, Electrical Club, Orches- tra, Ukelele Club and Band. She tells also of the Shakespearian Festival given at Tech last spring, of our floats in the Indiana Centennial Pageant. Tech at Lunch, a subject of universal interest, will be discussed by Arline Webster. Her address is a comparative history of Tech's lunch rooms. She has procured for the first time some interesting information concerning the first lunch room-the old Guard House near Michigan street. She makes her talk quite effective by some charts which show the amount of food consumed by the great army of hungry Techites and the proportions of various foods used. As the concluding part of the program Houston Meyer calls to- gether the senior class for a final meeting. At this time members of the class will address the seniors and the audience upon the subject of Welfare Ideas, thus showing the standards of Technical which have been established during its five years' existence. Jack Haymaker gives the first of these talks in which he shows that scholarship is an important feature of high school work. Dallas Crooke outlines Tech's ideal in athletics, emphasizing clean, honest playing and athletics for everyone. He gives the plan for the Tech-A Club, an organization to create more interest in athletics and to give every boy a chance of discovering what he really can do. Tech's Ideal in Integrity is the theme of the talk given by Frances Jones. She suggests a student Council and urges voluntary cooperation in a school for the purpose of regarding other students' rights and property.

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THE ARSENAL CANNON 5 MEMORIAL FLAG RAISED WITH HONOR Though May 22nd, which had been set aside as Supreme Day, was only a blur of rain and wind the following Tuesday, May 29th proved a glorious sign that the weather-man favored the Memorial Flag- raising exercises held that day. The ceremonies were by far the most elaborate efforts of this year. Beginning at twelve-thirty, the band gave its supreme concert. At one-fifteen the girls' gym classes executed a series of drills in the finished style that only Miss Patterson can produce. Then at two o'clock the patriots of Tech and of Indianapolis assembled around the flag-pole for final ceremonies. After the invocation, Praise Ye the Father, sung by the Chorus, Technical High School presented the Triumph of Liberty, a panto- Ilnimle written by Miss Shover and staged by the author and Miss 'ric '. This begins with the Messiah of Nations a brilliant choral work. In the prologue of The Triumph of Liberty, Liberty CClara Meyersj wearing a cloak of war and carrying a tall mountain-climbers' staff says that, after having traveled for three thousand years over the earth helping people to establish republics, she has come to America to help the Colonists who have recently declared their independence. Here she hopes to establish a strong brave nation which will help the world to free itself from the bonds of tyranny. The pantomime follows acted to the accompaniment of the orchestra which plays national songs and repeats the Dirge of War, Famine and Death, at the beginning of each period of war. In 1777, George Washington CRussell Kirshmanl and John Paul Jones CGlenn Bertelsl followed by six color bearers of the colonial flags QScott Clifford, Frank Standish, Abram Lorber, David Jordan, Frank Shotters and Paul Stiversl discuss the necessity of having one flag for the new nation and with Betsy Ross plan the original American flag. At the close of the Revolutionary War in 1783 Washington and John Paul Jones return to present their flags of triumph to Liberty. Betsy Ross, QMargaret Kieferj gives a small Hag. The children offer the Goddess of Liberty a shield for her hair. In 1814, which marks the Second War of Independence William Henry Harrison, fNewell Greenl and Oliver Perry CBernard Lorberl offer their flags, which have fifteen stripes, to Liberty as a token of further victory. After the close of the Civil War in 1865, the veterans Cmembers of the G. A. RJ representing the soldiers of this period of strife, carry to Liberty their flags of victory. In a similar way, in 1899, the volunteers representing the soldiers of ghe Spanish American War add to Liberty's possessions their battle ags. In 1917 a girl from Technical High School QElsa Nordmanl learns from the spirit of Betsy Ross how to complete the flag of today which has forty-eight stars. She and pupils representing those who have enlisted in the present war offer this Hag which as yet has won no battles. Liberty consults the other flag bearers who advise her to accept this flag. Shegrequests these pupils to raise the flag. Just then