Denfield High School - Oracle Yearbook (Duluth, MN)

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1 COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT A small part of the Denfeld commercial department is shown above. This department offers a well established three-year senior high school course. A commercial geography which treats of reference to industry and commerce has been prepared. This subject is offered in the sophomore year. A choice between three commercial courses is offered in the junior and senior years. It may be two years of shorthand and typing, or bookkeeping, or retail selling. A knowledge of the fundamentals of shorthand is accumulated in the eleventh year and dictation is given in the twelfth year. The theory of book- keeping is taught in the eleventh year and erudition of how to open and close books in different types of business is taught in the twelfth year. Retail selling offers practical knowledge and experience in store practice. This course is offered in the twelfth year. Business law, a study of elementary principles of legal procedure, and personal efficiency, a study of personal salesmanship and development of efficiency, are offered in the leventh year to all commercial students. The students of Denfeld think that personal efficiency helps them in many ways to be better than if they hand't made a special study of this subject. -I 23 1-

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l l LIBRARY The Denfeld library is situated at the center front on the second floor of the building. This immense room is well lighted and has been equipped with the best of reading comforts. The library is supplied With approximately three thousand books, three com- plete encyclopedias, and subscriptions to thirty-five of the best American magazines. The high school and junior college each have a separate book collection and card catalogue. Miss Grace DuClos, the librarian, has several high school girls, called cadets, to help her. They assist the students in finding books, and they get out back numbers of magazines for their reference work. The cadets also check the attend- dance slips, file magazines, shelve books, and take care of the mail. With the aid of the teachers the librarian has been able to equip the library with the very best books for our reference work. The library is open from 8 A. M. to 4:50 P. M. every school day. --l22l-

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SCIENCE DEPARTMENT 'l'ake interest, I implore you, in those sacred dwellings, which one designates, by the expressive term: laboratories, demand that they be multiplied, that they be adorned, these are the temples of the future, temples of well-being and of happi- ness. There it is that humanity grows greater, stronger, better. -Louis Pasteur. In our science department, wc attempt to develop a wholesome attitude towards the community. Lasting interests and adjustments to life are our aims. Although courses in science are not necessarily required for graduation, we have a total enrollment of four hundred and twenty-six, one hundred and ninety-eight boys and two hundred and twenty-eight girls. Courses my be elected in physiography, the study of planets and rock forms, the study and functions of the organs of the human body, in biology, the study of plant and annimal life, as is shown above, in physics, the science of mechanics, light, and sound, in chemistry the study of the composition of substances and of the transporation which they undergo. -l 94 l-