Hirsch High School - Maroon Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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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

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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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Mathematics Stalrdilzgl: john Taheny Harold Billings Vlfilliam Kooistra Scared: Dorothy Boch Charles YVatson Xvilletta Stapleton Harriet Blair Albert Arenrls lirlna Feltgzes Mathematics Department In the mathematics department we learn to think in terms from A. B. C. to X. Y. Z. Do you remember If X can work twice as fast as Y, and Z half as fast as X, how much did each do? We learn to reason from one theorem to another and include all the corollaries and problems under each. A little more algebra and an acquaintance with cubes and spheres carry us on through another year. In our senior classes we grapple with what used to be called college algebra, and eventually attempt to distinguish between the sine and the tangent. Almost all Hirsch students spend at least one year in the math department, and some gladly depart from the realms of reason. Others cannot get enough of it, and take all the courses ofered, from algebra through trigonometryg they also join a club which has been named for the man who argued that the square on the hypotenuse of ia right-angled triangle was equal . . . equal to . . . well, we were talking about Pythagoras, werenit we? M, Aren't the students in the pictultmllgt the bottom of this page tryfng to prove that old, old theorem of his, or are they? At any rate, we know that they should be demonstrating some geometric tru