Hemingford High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Hemingford, NE)

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miss RUTH E. ITlclNTljRE Physical Education HYSICIAL Education is one of the most important developments in the field of health. It means more than the muscular development and the winning of games. The spirit of fair play and the forming of health habits, which will make for healthier and happier women, is encouraged. In addition, physical, social, and moral leadership is developed. The athletic and play program offers opportunities for developing capacities for good citizenship, as well as promoting health. Team games aid in establishing habits, not only by knowing but also by doing. The playground is a place where encouragement may be given to fair play, team w ork, courtesy and loyalty. Thus, we might say, the playground is the laboratory of moral training for the school as a whole.

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HE fundamental principles upon which the study of Mathematics is based have become so much a part of our thinking that we often fail to recognize them as such. We have reached that stage of civilization in which it would be impossible to live a normal life without employing numbers in one form or another. In every prase of our lives we employ Mathe- matics in innumerable ways. The study of Mathematics is valuable not only for the content of the subject itself but also for the mental training that it affords. Clear, organized thinking, efficient methods of procedure, patience, preservance, and a logical way of meeting the problems of everyday life are a few of the results of the study of Mathematics. “My only talent is to look steadily at a problem until I see it through.” —Sir Isaac Newton.

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miSS ALTA L FOSTER History NE of the most common errors about the nature of History is to regard it as a “record”. It is not a record, at least not more so than is any other subject, for it dees not deal with the record as such. History is hardly the thing recorded, for it does not deal with events for their own sake, but only so far as they reveal the life of which they are the result. High national ideals and an intelligent and genuine loyalty to them should be a specific aim in American high schools. The teaching of history is not only presenting the subject matter of history as knowledge to be learned but also of building an appreciation of the nature and the laws of social life as will lead to a development on the part of the learner of a true sense of responsibility —individual as well as collective—for the improvement of that society of which he is a member. The History department of the Hemingford High School has attempted to achieve these aims and purposes stated above.