West High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Physical Education Prepares Them for a Strenuous Life of the Future Training for lloallli Is this wak-mad world nothing is so important to a belligerent nation as health. A physically weak population, which undermines the vitality of an entire nation and saps its strength, is a detriment as deadly as a nest of fifth columnists. A principal requisite to good health is exercise. Plenty of exercise is necessary to build up our bodies in order to better our ability to resist disease. Included in our high school training has been a physical education program. This—along with football, basketball, track, boxing, hockey, and wrestling—has helped us to toughen our muscles and improve our endurance. America’s youth has been called soft. Hut in the years to come America’s twentieth century youth won’t be remembered for its softness, but rather for its toughness in repelling the forces of wrong. LOUIS ZAVODSKY . . . Physical Education . . . Track . . . Tumbling

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This Machine Age The fellows who work wilh skilled hands arc the men of the moment today. As never before, we recognize how dependent we arc upon the men who keep our cars running smoothly, the fellow who shapes the tools to make that car. the man who rolls out the steel and plans the construction of our modern living devices. High school shop education must stimulate not only the desire for this type of work, hut must also lay the foundation and develop the knowledge and skills necessary. We well remember our first frantic endeavors to produce from machines and tools reproductions of expert articles. We need only re-examine the results of those efforts to note improvements—improvements which will mean perfection in our particular line of work in future days. Machines of this Machine Age depend upon skilled hands for manipulation. Training in the schools produces that skill. Standing: RAY SOUTHWORTH . . . Mechanical Drawing . . . Drafting . . . Architecture; JESSE E. MOORE . . . Machine Shop; Seated: WII.I. B. TITS WORTH . . . Woodtuming . . . Cabinet Work Production Depends Upon Them . . . Skilled Workers Trained for Efficiency

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We Won't Forget the Hours We Spent Trying to Keep Our Figures Trim C irls’ 4 vni Masses The housewives of tomorrow will look back upon blissful hours spent in the rigorous activities of their high school gym classes. They will recall the many hours devoted to setting up exercises in order to secure and maintain those eagerly desired girlish figures. There will Ik visualized in their minds' eyes the early attempts at mastering the puzzling problems of scoring a shot in basketball, or overcoming the profound mysteries of the games of soccer and volleyball. Nor will they overlook the valuable instruction in dancing, a pre-requisite to the success of a socialite. The matrons of future years will thankfully remember the coaching in athletics, for to Ik a successful wife requires the ability to participate with the other half in a good share of his activities. Hence the need for such proclivities and the necessities for such classes. KATHRYN CAREY . . . Physical Education . . . G.A.A.; MRS. FRANCES ABRAMSON . . . Physical Education