Brookville High School - Echo Yearbook (Brookville, PA)

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The Year Book of Achievements Home Room Organizations NFLUENCES in the home account greatly for one’s actions in the outer world. In the same way the Home Room Organization accounts for the conduct of the student in his everyday school life. For several years Home Room Organization has been stressed. It is only reasonable that if each room becomes a cooperative body, the school itself must run smoothly. A great body of students cannot function properly unless it is subdivided and organized in smaller groups. This year the home rooms have worked together and as a result have accomplished a great deal of good. Each has elected its officers and held meetings in which home room and school problems have been discussed. The students have given to their groups short, impressive talks dealing with individual reponsibility, correcting defects in the study halls, better methods of study, and many others. The students attend to all the business which comes before the group. Therefore, they become intimately acquainted with school problems and as a result are more interested in the welfare of the school. More good can be accomplished in ten minutes by a student's talk than can be ac-complished in half an hour by a teacher giving out rules and regulations. The Home Room Organizations are responsible for the interesting programs which have been presented in chapel this year. Some very unique ideas have been portrayed. It is the universal opinion that this year's chapel programs have been exceptionally fine. Are not all these facts sufficient proof of the good that the Home Room Organiza-tion does in the school? In innumerable other ways the school has been benefited by this busy, efficient department. Page Nineteen

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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

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L’Annuaire, Brookville High School Boys’ Gymnasium E are coming to realize more and more that pleasant recreation and good scholastic ability are closely united. So this year, in addition to our course in girls' gym, has been added a course for boys. Brookville High has needed something of this sort for a long time. The girls have received gymnastic training all the way through school, while the boys have had no opportunity for regular instruction along this line since entering high school. This is not as it should be. The boys require the training just as much as the girls. It is quite generally thought that boys receive enough exercise without additional care, but systematic supervised exercise is what we need. It is what we now have. Then, too, this new field is very valuable in another direction. Often boys are indifferent about school work in general, and may, through the medium of supervised gymnasium work, be led to take an interest in all school work. The boys are under the direction of a special teacher, Mr. Rathman, who is also the basket-ball coach. Their first duty was to learn the “Code of a Good Sport.” They play basket-ball and practice military tactics. Preparations for football are also under way. The new addition is of great value to our school and its usefulness will probably be varied and increased each year. Page Twenty