Des Moines Technical High School - Engineer Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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Srxrnrr Mu LAFAN rrr Hlcc nt Miss ft Lt MA lx0sIOMLAlSlxN Miss I RANcrs Mt FARLAND C IPNICE holds a xery lmpor tint plxce xn the work of the hugh school both Natural and Physical gcrence bemg tauvht The former ha one laboratory one lecture room anfl one recltatlon room and the branches taught are Physlcal Geography Bot any and Phy slology The latter IS re quired from all students but the num ber talung Botany changes very little from year to year the great lncrease vomv to Physlcal Geography Two laboratorles and txso lecture rooms xxrth all necessary equxpments are devoted to Physlcs and Chemlstry and Mr Hlggms has also a prnate labora torv In Chemrstry about three fourth of the vorlc IS done ln the laboratorx IH Physlcs one half therefore good equipment IS essentlal to the satlsfactort study of these branches l-he depart ment has an Increase of slxty per cent ox er last year

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martmeumitiw. MIss lVlAR'l'IIA Bl-QHSON, MR. A. W. MI1RRII.I., MR. H. B. SMITII, MIss MARX' S'I'ANI.EY. MIss JESSIE TAFT. I5 lf ' If I R. SMITH, Miss Stanley, and I' Miss Taft embark the pupils I l on the troubled sea of Mathematics and Miss Beeson and Mr. Merrill pilot them safely over the dangerous depths. According to the latter Theres no play about Mathematics which certainly true In West High Three semesters of Algebra and two of Geom etrv are required of every graduate 1nd there lb enough elective work to keep nIm more than busy lhe real aim of this department IS not merely to make pupils learn rules and solve prob lems for which they see no practical application but It IS to teach them how to apply the knowledg they have gathered and how to think and act independently sf'-fr' yr? , . ,, . . , lm f - . K . . , ,f , o I - . . Q f:f Q 1 .,r ' 1. 'C r it '-Jil I I , X T ,'f-A gr A, in . ' ?- .- '. 'Qs fi 'tn ' ' sea. . V' NA

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ilatm Jon I IIINI WII.I.IAwIs MIss km III RINI WILLIS MISS MARC ARI I IXINL Mm jrsslr IAFI HE l.atIn department I grow Ing growmg groxxmg lhere enrolled In It thle yewr uhrch makes a good half of the total school enrollment It requIres eIght classes a day to ac eommodate the freshmen and the sopho Irores a e not far behrnd Every hour In every day fmds a Caesar class In sesmon Though many pupxls after lllllbllllli., two years of Latm turn to scIence or a modern language here IS an ever Increa Ing number who com plete the LatIn couree lhIs yeur there are aloout srxty Jumors and forty lne QCDIOTS The work IS vers thoroughlx done Grammar and readmg are lmlced together throughout the course and prose IS never forgotten 5 iff' ,, W ' ' ,X N 'II it . . Zliwllh , s A 'f km 5 , 'A , . 'Q ,l'I- Tl iff fx 'X are four hundred and sixty-hve students l ll' ll IWQI I . . , K Y . A E 1 f' ' ' . , , Y I l 3 I I .Q? I . ' ' I 'I' I . . ' K Y I , MII? lr I . 1 I '27