Hirsch High School - Maroon Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Science Sf1llItI'f7l1l.' Phyllis Larson Anne Klein Michael Cates Vl'illiam Fenner Dorothy Lee .Xlary Finn liverett Smith .X'1'u!4'll'i Hrzice Knospe Ruse fhrflrin VYilliam Mitchell Alice Larson .Nlartin Arvin Science Department What is hydrogen pentoxide? This and other questions of like perplexing nature issue from the chemistry laboratory, where twice a week industrious students gather in room 126 for their prized lab period. All pupils faithfully promise at the beginning of the course to blow up the school, but this feat has yet to be accomplished. Great scientists are also at work on the third floor, where the 'physics rooms are located. There, teachers expound the principles of Pascal and Faraday, while the awed listeners try to understand just what they mean. Courses in other laboratory sciences are also offered-botany and Zoology, both of which are divided into spring and fall terms to facilitate field work. On sunny fall days we see the energetic students chasing elusive grasshoppers, or trying to procure some rare leaves that are far out of human reach. In the spring we observe the botanists anxiously examining each adventurous blade and flower, or follow the zoologist to Brookfield Zoo to watch the bears emerge from their long hibernations. All freshmen are required to take general science, a course that treats of certain fundamental principles in many kinds of sciencesg and almost every pupil in Hirsch adds a laboratory science to his program sometime during his academic stay here. Science teachers spend hours preparing and rigging up interesting experiments for their students. Mr. Fenner's class in physics gives us a good idea of one of the branches of the science department. Florence Krimnxal

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Sea tml! Al lllln lrusg rovt' English .S'lur111f11gr I fiertriule l.:m1jil1lur Ruth Cullen X lfgllllfl llarclt Nlzirglierite lflersluini Luis Rlagg Nlilmlrezl lieigel' Czirnliile Perry Hillel llzlvismi Olga Lawrenv Czitnrrali l'ilNl1CI' Sara Nieclerniaii Nell liroli lelzi l llZSl1'lll1IHll4 Nlilmlrwl lfjlzmcls Lois lic-nneit English Department The English course, as offered to Hirsch stude-nts in all its myriad branches, allows great range for individual talent and inclination. The standard requirement is three and one-half years of Englishg but enterprising seniors who believe they are going to college may take a final semester of English literatureg while ma-ny dramatically, journalistically, and oratorically inclined juniors and seniors find an outlet for their propensities in the drama, journalism, and public speaking classes, where, a la Hugh johnson, they orate vociferously and sonorously. During the standard course, grammar Cthat student's nightmarej, composition, and all types of literature are hammered into the craniums of the unfortunate victims of teachers' zeal. However, in spite of all complaints to the contrary, we agree with the teachers that English in all its phases is a very enjoyable, as well as a very indispensable, course of study. If you will drop your eyes slightly, perhaps five degrees, you will 'note how deeply immersed in their work are some students of English composition. Miss Lawrenz and her 4B scholarship class are patching up the split infinitives and rescuing the dangling verbals.

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Foreign Language .S'rm1111'f1y: Helene I,l1'1'f'flC fiwcnslolyn liiltuer cxl'lZll'l6S Ruflcly Sruz'i'zI: Snsmiue Fisher Sophie Aekermzmn Mzirtlm Larson Elsa Kellershfr1',Qfer Beatrice Stern Foreign Language Department . If you expect to travel or to be really educated, you'll have to learn a language in addition to your native tongue. If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer, or a professor, study Latin. Oh, it's not easy, by any means, but with what satisfaction one masters the vernacular of Vergil. How much of the culture of two-thousand years one misses who neglects Latin! You scientists and scholars of tomorrow will be required to know German and French. Virtually all of your neighbors south of the Gulf of Mexico speak Spanish and if you Wish to do business with them or visit them, you'll need to know and understand the soft liquid words they use. just look at the picture below! Aren't they an intelligent looking group? These students, members of a 2B Latin class, are almost Hnished with the tedious conjugations, declensions, and other grammatical points that take up most of the time in the first year. They are translating old Roman myths and are really getting an insight into what those wise old Romans believed. l 1 6