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

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Mathematics and Science Napoleon has said, The progress, the improvement of mathematics are linked to the prosperity of the state. The appreciation of the power of mathe- matics and of its fundamental place at the base of all our civilization has been stressed to establish within the student self-confi- dence and ability to analyze a situation, to apply the best methods of solution, and to reach a conclusion which he knows is correct. The practical side of the course has been developed by the emphasis of those parts of the subject which are more directly and frequently useful in everyday life. We are living in an age of science. Poor indeed would be a school which allowed its students to graduate ignorant of this subject. Our school requires each student to take at least one year of science work. This department aims to give an increased power over surroundings and an increased ability for adjustment to our present day civilization. In the pursuit of this objec- tive every student is required as a freshman to take the general science course. Nineteen 'jf ir . 11. K V MR. STEED MR. COOK Miss KELLY MR. BLOOM MR. BEARD

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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

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Miss VANAUSDALL Mrss MCCAULEY Miss STACKHOUSE Miss CRAWFORD Foreign Languages VVe feel that the teaching of modern foreign languages is very necessary in the high school of today. In studying the lan- guage of such countries as France and Spain we not only acquire a reading and speaking knowledge of the language of the country in question but a somewhat com- prehensive understanding of the customs and ideals of the people. Such an under- standing is an important factor towards world fellowship and international peace. The students must first master the essen- tials of grammar and then they may begin to read short stories, plays and novels of France and Spain. The objective of the modern foreign language department is to give to each pupil the ability to understand the spoken language, to read the literature of the country, and to be able to express himself orally or in writing. The study of Latin enables the student to better understand his own language and other modern languages and as well gives him a cultural residuum that is difficult to over-estimate. To a degree far greater than is generally realized our civilization is Roman, and so by the study of Latin there can be brought about an understanding of the sources of many of our laws, customs, beliefs, and ideals. Twenty