Notre Dame High School - Maryscript Yearbook (Moylan, PA)

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Skillful fingers move with speed and accuracy cn machines of the latest types . . . typical rapid transcription . . . hands, artistic, yet useful . . . pot- hooks and curly-kews at 130 words u minute in the Senior stenography class. HE Commercial Course at Notre Dame, comprising as rt does all the modern methods of office technlaue, is the answer to any hopeful young secretary! prayer. baokkeeptng is taught so thoroughly in one year, that lt includes as much practical knowledge as is embodied in many two-year courses Shorthand is so stressed that at the end of the second year all at the students are able te takg dlctahon at more than a hundred words a mlnute, Arrangements are made in the twewntung classes so that each girl has the opportunity af becoming acaualnted with all makes of typewrlters, the regular standard models as well as the later llOlSC' less ones Thus students learn the mechanics of each machine and are nractussd in the use of any make they might have to use in an office AL lfl' Sfllltl l li Elflllltlll HHHIJS

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Hllllllll on the CLHSSICS N OUR tour years at classical training a taste tor turther knowledge ot history, science, mathematics, and the languages is acauired. Not the least important at these branches is the Course in Language Study as language is the chiet medium ot human expression, and correct language is the expression ot logical thinking. Students who study Latin and French in high school, We think., receive an incom- parable grammatical trainingg turthermore, French is increasingly important in the Modern World while Latin imparts a disciplinary training that We feel has had a retlex action on our English speech and writing, The study ot history by the modern methods ot panel discussion and open torum gives the students that knowledge ot the Past so necessary tor the solution ot the problems ot the Present with a poise and ease in address requisite tor those destined to be the leaders ot tomorrow. DOROTHY GWESSER An old French custom comes to Notre Dame-Singing carols, we bring the Kings to the Creche at Epiphany . . . panel discussion in History Class . . . an English Symposium . . . an embryo lecturer reads her initial effort to an interested group. use

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FIRST SlEPS in LHBUHHTUHU lESHllIllUE NCE upon o time o smoll boy, Aloddin, ruhhed o lomp ond o vvondertul genie oppeored. Feor not, my children, the doy tor such mirocles hos not possedl Our sophomores see os wcndertul visions by looking through their microscopes ot leoyes, cells, or drops ot woter. Things they hondle dolly seem to come to lite hetore their eyes os lXloture's mirocles untold. The toscinotion ot science does not belong wholly to the biologists, but is shdred by our young chemists. The some thrill produced by creotiye work thot is so odmirohly described in The Lite ot lvlodome Curie hos greotly influenced the Chemistry students. Seeing moteriols that they hove mixed unite ond provide the world with o voluohle product is the omhition of oll chemists, Mony ot ours hoye decided on loborotory work tor o Iite's coreer. ANNE PORTFR Sophs discover new worlds through a microscope . . . Magnesium Carbonate and Silicon Dioxide hold no terrors for these scientists . . . squinting at life . . . l found it! I found it! Oh! it's gone! . . . students find water distillation intriguing and col- orful.