Mechanic Arts High School - M Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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T-SOUARES -NFRIANGLES OUR ElRS'1' MURAL -EDUCATION ON CANVAS me .. 1 it N 4 4 l il . 1 , ,Q '-1 ' . 1 1 ln rooms 303, 309, and 311 the quietest students, but the noisiest rooms . . . X, reason: typewriters, new, old, and dilapidated . . . the steady click-click of A fast moving, slow moving fingers . . . students frowning . . . Dang it, an- yxother mistake . . . Ctruly a catastrophel . . . girls placing marginal stops xx N Q . . preparing for another speed test . . . Cfingers crossedl . . . getting ac- rlr aiiainted with dictaphone . . . Bookkeeping students puzzling over credits and A-X 4 debits . . . Short-hand classes struggling to decipher the peculiar twisting and 1 N turning lines that decorate the blackboards . . . silently praying to pass the L, 1 3, ''eighty-words-a-minute speed test. Q 'lk In room 421 youthful sales enthusiasts learning how to talk convincingly enough to sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo and a fur coat to a South Sea lslander Q 3 . . . husky football players canvassing mothers and girl-friends for pieces of N lace, chiffon, and satins to display before class . . . manly letter-men peeking into Men's Wear magazines to see what will be the fashion six months later N' 6 X sf . W' Cfaces flushing when eyes meet a flowered polo shirtl . . . Simply the latest 1' thing, my dear . . . quotes a mocking girl looking over his shoulder. ' ll, is Day after day from 8:30 to 2:20 . . . Latin tests and geometry problems , V . . . chemistry experiments and history topics . . . English themes and cook- 'fb ing lessons . . . hundreds of boys and girls learning to do scores of new things. 1UST PUTTY IN THEIR HANDS.

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CONCENTRATING ON SPECIFIC GRAVITY f.,...f.......,..... OR DIMENSIONS To rgfifwt E ' mm. of MM? Curriculum Curricula fl ,W w . . Two thousand seventy-six students assembled to acquire some knowledge of better living . . . seventy-nine instructors to help them attain this purpose . . . some fifty rooms in which to work. Down in the basement, room 2, the haunt of chiefs-of-police, sheriffs, high- way patrolmen Chave no alarm . . . they arrest the students only by their in- teresting lecturesl . . . earnest youths learning WHEN, WHERE, and I-IOW to step on the gas, . . seeing movies illustrating traffic hazards on the highway, . . . finding out how well they can see out of the corners of their eyes and how soon they might expect to become aware of an oncoming streamlined Zephyr at a railroad crossing. On first floor, two shops, wood and machine-here, the drone of the saws, lathes, planes drowning out the human voice . . . screw drivers, hammers, big and small . . . gears used for repairing . . . all things from mallets to lamps turned out. In rooms 200, 300, and 402 accumulations of mounted wild flowers, Caltha palustries . . . cowslips to you . . . drawings of the human eye, ear, and vertebrae . . . room 402 prides itself on its real honest-to-goodness skeleton . . . the scariest thing . . . Musea domestic Chorsefly to the laymanl in al- cohol . . . everywhere students peering through microscopes, laying open to the public eye the innards of a frog, standing about, mouths agape . . . eyes popping. BOUNDARIES CI-IANGE OVER NIGHT.

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ONFE AGAIN PLEASE DID SOMEBODY LOSE A BOLT ARE YOU LISTENIN FURRENT NOISE STUDIES . . . CULTURAL . . . STUDIES . . . VOOATIONAL P 22