Manual High School - Mirror Yearbook (Peoria, IL)

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senior history class the work of the school FOR twenty-three years Manual Training High School has been training students to ht their own particular patterns into the design of the community. To this end have its courses been changed and added to throughout its years of earnest public service. The school today is not primarily a school of manual arts, but is a modern senior high school, consisting of many departments offering a great variety of courses. The Department of English attempts to give pupils the power to use the Mother Tongue correctly and effectively in both written and oral composition and to understand and appreciate the best that literature has to offer. In order to meet this twofold pur- pose, one semester of each school year is devoted to the study of English as a means of adequate self-expressiong another is given to the study of those books which by virtue of their subject matter and style are suitable and profitable to young people. The Speech Department endeavors to train students in the joys of successful self- expression. The work ranges from two-minute speeches through formal twenty-minute lecture recitals and the interpretation of three-act plays. The Department of History has for its principal objective preparation for good citizenship. The courses in European and United States history endeavor to give students an intelligent understanding of the past in order to enable them to interpret more accurately the present. Every student is required to complete a course in United States history before graduation. Along with the history courses is given a study of the United States Constitution and a brief course in American politics. A four years' course in mathematics is offered at Manual. Elementary algebra is given for those who have not taken it in the junior High and feel a need for it after entering the senior high school. Both plane and solid geometry are offered. Advanced and college algebra review the fundamental processes and give the student an opportunity to get an insight into the theory of mathematics. Solving of problems by trigonometric means receives the major attention in the course in trigonometry. boys' cooking class twenty

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MISS JUSEPHINE GILBERT 3111 illiemnriam MANUAL sustained an irreparable loss in the sudden passing of Miss Josephine Gilbert on August 1, 1932. The memory of her sunny smile and her wholesome personality, however, will linger long in the hearts of all at Manual who knew her as teacher and friend. Miss Gilbert was a graduate of Peoria Central High School. She attended the Applied Arts School in Chicago and the Boothbay Harbor Studios in Maine, and was a graduate of Peoria Normal Training School and Bradley Polytechnic Institute. She was a teacher in the Manual Training Department, where she taught mechanical drawing. Here her kindliness and helpfulness endeared her to all with whom she came in contact. For fourteen years she worked diligently, faithfully, and whole-heartedly. Faculty members, as well as the student body, loved her as friend and fellow-teacher. It seems sad that one who loved life as Miss Gilbert did must relin- quish it, but she will live on in the minds and hearts of her associates at Manualg and the cheerful influence for good which she quietly exerted will broaden and deepen through the years. Uifzefeen

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senior typing machine shop tu enlg one class THE Music DEPARTMENT offers an opportunity to the student body to develop an appre- ciation for musical art and to participate in the performances of some of the finest works of choral and orchestral repertoire. The applied music course for students who are taking private lessons consists of the study of harmony, history of music, ear training, and music appreciation. The band and orchestra provide an outlet for the latent talent and ability of the instrumentally-minded student. The art work at Manual is divided into three groups. The classes in the beginning group are taught the general principles of design, color, and lettering in many different media, developing their own techniques. Then the pupils choose the trend of their work for the next two years, either applied art or commercial art. In the commercial classes, the aim is practical work in signs, posters, window decorations, reproduction for zinc etchings, wash drawings, and linoleum block cards and calendars. The applied art course, for advanced students, is planned with the aim of enabling the student to bring beauty to useful things. The Foreign Language Department offers four years of Latin, three years of Spanish, and two years each of French and German. A careful study is made of pronunciation, idioms, and style in prose and poetry. Conversation, reading, and composition in the modern languages are taught, and an appreciation of the best in foreign literature is encouraged. The Science Department offers courses in physics, chemistry, and biology. The classes, which are growing larger each year, are finding the study of these subjects invaluable. Since science has contributed so largely to human welfare, students are becoming inter- ested in its achievements and are learning to appreciate the work of scientific men. The subject points out to boys and girls possible vocational opportunities and also offers' a splendid field for training in the profitable use of leisure. The Commercial Department offers a practical training for those students who wish upon graduation to enter the world of business. Commercial arithmetic and geography are offered and prove attractive as well as beneficial. Advertising and salesmanship give invaluable training in the field of psychology. Bookkeeping, shorthand, ofiice training, and typing complete the training in commercial subjects.