Paris High School - Arena Yearbook (Paris, IL)

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Fourteen IN THE MODERN WORLD SOCIAL AND LABORATORY SCIENCES ARE Don Sweelry. Effir M. Fancier, Catherine Farrell. Harold Cotlingham, El.ia Tale. Social Science and Language LATIN IV Miss Fansler and Mr. Sweeley of the social science department believe a knowledge of history is essential to understand the institutions of society in our own and other countries. The four history courses reveal the centuries of struggle through which the race has passed to attain its present stage of freedom. Miss Fansler and Mr. Cottinghain endeavor to picture the government of American people as a going concern, with activities which reach deeply into the social and economic life of the nation. Paris High School offers its students Latin and French, which are taught by Miss Tate and Miss Farrell respectively. Latin affords valuable training in English and in principles common to all languages. French students learn of actual life in France hv reading hooks written by French authors. They gain knowledge of the people, their customs, habits, and characteristics as well as the government, the geography, and history of the country. To understand our own tongue wrc should have a knowledge of some other language, preferably Latin or some Romance language such as French.

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Thirteen ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AND AIDED BY AN EXCELLENT LIBRARY ELLA M. JACOBS Our Library J A new addition was built to the Paris High School this year for use as a library. The library is supervised by Mrs. Ella Jacobs, who took it over in 1923. At that time there were about 1,500 books in the library. At present there are approximately 3.800, about 200 of which were added this year, including the Americana. This increase is due to the adoption of new educational methods stressing wide reading and reference work, rather than dependence upon one textbook. The most popular sections include novels, travel books, biography, and autobiography, which are used for reports and outside reading. On the shelves you find also year hooks, dictionaries, science hooks, and periodicals. There are 1,500 different books in the library, leaving about 2,000 classics, such as “Pilgrim’s Progress,-’ Treasure Island,” and “Cranford,” for classroom use. Last year 3.800 hooks were taken outside the library for use by the pupils. Because our library seats hut eighteen persons, the last two rows in the assembly have been designated for use by pupils doing reference work, so that as many as 200 have been able to use the library at the same time. AT WORK IN THE LIBRARY

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Fifteen OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE WITH LANGUAGES AND MATHEMATICS Olio R. Aritas, Margaret Steele, Leellyn Clapp. C. J. Little. Fannie M. Luckhaupt. Science and Mathematics Above are grouped the staff of science and mathematical teachers at P.H.S. Miss Steele, instructor in General Science, is a graduate of Paris High in the class of ’26, and has been on the staff seven years. Some of Miss Steele's objectives are: the acquirement of some basic principles which help us understand modern life better; tin development of wholesome intellectual interests which furnish a basis for vocational and educational guidance. Miss Luckhaupt, a popular zoology and botany teacher, has been a member of this staff for nine years. Her main object is to teach a pupil how' to solve problems by using facts, and on the practical side of the subject to teach pest-eradication and better methods of cultivating plants. Mr. Little, our expert chem-R. WILLIAMSON, SCIENTIST j8t, ig notefl chjefly for his scientific view' on subjects. However, he also teaches modern history and vocations. Mr. Clapp is an “old grad who teaches geometry and commercial arithmetic. Mr. Ariens, our instructor in algebra and physics, came to us in 1934. If any of the class stumbles on a problem, he finds Mr. Ariens an expert mathematician.