Eastern High School - Lantern Yearbook (Lansing, MI)

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LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT Students wtshmg to comply wlth college entrance require ments take at least two years Latm whxch IS the foundatxon all language study It glves enrlched English vocabulary a helps 1n the understandmg a apprecxatlon of llterature For those puplls who expect the future to travel or engage xn engxneermg projects 1n South acquamtance wlth Spanlsh IS valu able equxpment The study of thls language has been advocated by well known authorltxes and ln our hlgh school IS engaged an by many students That we may appreciate the language and llterature of France that our thoughts may run nn un trled channels that w1ll create new methods of thmklng and that we shall be sympathetic with the cul ture the customs and the xdeas of the country the French lan guage s studled A readmg knowledge augmented by conver satlonal practlce makes up the two year course MW A Language Room 2 67 I Page Twenty one I ' f 'W of . . . . of . ' an ' ' nd ' ' nd ' in American countries, an intimate , , , , , - i ' . ' 1 . - ,

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ADMINISTRATION It may be sald that the admm xstratlve department rs the heart o the school If If an efHCl ently orgamzed machme the work of teachlng and tralmng llk8WlS6 runs smoothly There can be no doubt that much of the progress of Eastern Hlgh School IS due to the work of this department and the zealous efforts of 1ts members The office stenographers Mlss Bertha Moore and Mlss Melba Rooker are two persons always cheerful capable and obllgmg Performlng the mamfold tasks and the sometimes drab dutres of office routme rs Mxss Derby our assxst ant prmcxpal She rs a woman of vlgorous mtellect a character of genume frlendlmess admlred and respected by those she darly meets Who can say wrth such personalltles dlrectlng the busl ness of our school what new worlds lt shall marchmg conquer? Mann Office 1 I Page Nineteen I

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A Mathematics Class 3 39 MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT The study of mathematlcs helps cultlvate DFCCISIOH and clar 1ty of thought for the student equxpped wxth correct modes of reasonmg IS able to arrlve at d1Hi cult concluslons very quzckly Therefore two semesters of alge bra whlch equlps the student with methods for SO1Vlng problems that would be dlmCl1lt or lmposslble to conclude wlthout algebralc pro esses and two semesters of geom etry that teaches correct reasomng and the appreclatlon of thls sub Ject m art, llfe and nature are re qulred In addltlon a thlrd semes ter of geometry and a semester of trlgonometry useful ln any en gmeermg course are offered Numerals and figures have much to do wxth the brlllnant sclentlfic and archltectural achievements of today and justify the extenslve study of them In the high schools I Page Twenty-twol