Fostoria High School - Red and Black Yearbook (Fostoria, OH)

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Miss MCDERMOTT MR. CAMERON Miss HUNT Miss AsH The English Department It is the primary purpose of this depart- ment to give greater command of com- munication and facility in self-expression. The establishment of right habits in the matter of composition is regarded as fundamental. Literature in the English course is not regarded as an end in itself, a body of facts to be learned, but as an instrument through which the student may be initiated into the spiritual heritage stored up for him in books. The course hopes to train the student to use his leisure time prof- itably and happily, to broaden and to deepen his sympathies, to enable him to understand how the race has loved and worked and suffered and laughed. It aims to make what he learns function nobly in reverence for law and tradition, for hu- manity, and for God. The English De- partment, in breaking away from the older and more formal methods of teaching, lays emphasis upon meeting the individual needs of the student. To this end the department supervises such extra curricular activities as Lambda Sigma, the dramatic work, debate, and Red and Black Annual, and weekly material for the city daily papers. Eighteen