Brookville High School - Echo Yearbook (Brookville, PA)

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The Year Book of Achievements Library UR new library is one of the prettiest rooms in the whole school. It is large and light and airy. It is well filled with pupils every period in the day. The magazine table is most popular. A bevy of busy readers always surround it. Many pupils, some doing reference work, others reading for pleasure, are found at the other tables. In connection with the library are two smaller rooms. The work room is being fitted for cataloging and repairing books, and for doing other supplementary work. The conference room will be fitted with table and chairs so that small meetings can be held there. In it tests will be given to small groups, teachers’ conferences can be held, and teachers can meet with small groups of pupils for extra work. These two rooms will add greatly to the value of our library. There are about thirty-seven hundred volumes in our library. We have some of the best reference books available. We have a great deal of English, French, and miscellaneous literature. Most of the greatest poets’ works are there. We have history books of all kinds and quite a few religious books. A great many more volumes of fiction have been added this year. They are very popular among both the high-school pupils and those of the higher elementary grades. We have a very efficient corps of workers this year. Mrs. Carroll and her helpers know just where to find any book. They teach pupils to find books for themselves, and to use the card catalogue and “The Readers Guide. They strictly enforce the rule of Silence. As our library has prospered in the past, so we shall make it prosper in the future. We shall try each year to make it better, for through books we gain the summit unattainable. Page Seventeen

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L’Annuaire, Brookville High School Commercial Department N education that fits for life is one of the aims of our modern educational system. To turn out graduates well adapted to take their place in out4 business world to be producers, and work for the betterment of mankind, this is the aim of education. No other department in our school does this as directly as the Commercial department. Here, under the watchful guidance of Miss Thomas, our newly established department seeks to turn out young people better fitted to cope with life because of the business education that is so efficiently acquired. To one planning a direct entry into the business world, typing, bookkeeping and shorthand offer a means of quicker promotion, easier and more enjoyable work, and above all, the satisfaction of a task well done. We consider this department one of the most progressive in the school system, and we hope that it will grow from year to year and accomplish more and better things for Brookville High School and the students. Page Sixteen

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L’Annuaire, Brookville High School Science HE present age has been appropriately termed the scientific period of hu-man progress. More advance has been made in things of a purely scientific nature in the past hundred years than in all previous history. This fact alone is in a large measure the reason for giving the study of Natural Science a place of importance in the modern High School curriculum. We need only look to the fields of Industry, Agriculture and Medicine to fully realize the important bearing of scientific investigation on human development. The science courses in the Brookville High School are outlined with the purpose of following in so far as possible the rapid advances that are being made in modern scientific thought. We try at all times to direct attention to the modern scientific method,—experimental fact, hypotheses, theory, law,—thereby setting forth the real meaning of science as organized and systematic knowledge. In the ninth year a viewpoint course is given under the title of General Science, the object of which is to open up the nature and usefulness of scientific study. This is followed in the tenth year by the course in General Biology. The primary purpose of this is not in the way of Nature Study. On the other hand the big generalizations of science as related to life processes are stressed and made the chief aim of the work. The science work of the eleventh year is General Chemistry which includes an elementary but rather detailed study of the more common metallic and non-metallic elements, followed by an introduction to the principles involved and the methods employed in the chemistry of organic materials. A course in Elementary Physics is given to the twelfth year pupils. The major topics of study in this connection are Mechanics, Heat, Light and Electricity. Page Eighteen