Hirsch High School - Maroon Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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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

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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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Social Science Department lfim' 1: Cornelia Ryan l lm'e11ce jel'fc1's Helen l'll1lJll2lI'Kl Katlilecn Hrirmlnei' lfllzi KVKQ-cfs lileimor Ross lfuru 2: .Xllmcrt C. Russ ixlZl!'5I?lI'L'f Slizmnon Social Science Department The social science subjects lead us, unprotestingly, from the prehistoric times to our own day. We understand with what patience the Caveman chipped off his pieces of stoneg we admire the courage and the intelligence of the founders of civilizations in the Orient as well as in the Occident, although it has always puzzled us how they managed to invent the innumerable languages that Hll the world. We long to re-live the beautiful life of the ancient Greek citizeng we really respect the genius for government and law which the Romans possessed. The age of chivalry makes our romantic hearts skip a beat or two. In the renaissance period, that era of discovery, invention, and love of life and learning, we realize that our modern life began. From our study of economics, civics, and American history we begin to have glimmerings of what it means to be citizens of America. Mapwork is featured in all history classes, often to illustrate our ignorance of the world's geography. Rome is just about here, declares Lester Johnson in Miss Jeffers' world history class, as he hesita-ntly points to the location of the eternal city. 18