West High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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SARA MOORE. History; WINWORTH WILLIAMS. Hitfory; MARJORIE SPAULDING. Modern Prob-loms and History: FLOYD CHANDLER. History and World Problems; MARY PALMER. History and World Problems; PETER GALIN, Social Sciences. THE SOCIAL STUDIES Ralph Barton Perry says, The social sciences embrace internationality within their content. Human geography extends men’s acquaintance with the surface of the earth from the familiar regions where they live to distant and strange places, in order that these may become less distant and less strange. It creates a map and image of man's terrestrial domain which may be carried in the mind and referred to at will. Descriptive anthropology and sociology depict the customs, manners, and the diverse families of the one great human family. From history we learn of the life of mankind throughout recorded time, and of the interrelation of groups and nations. By studying it we are able to discern the enduring elements in the relations of people, but it must be honest and accurate, free from national prejudice and wishful thinking. Pierre Lanfrey in the nineteenth century said, It is no longer possible today for a historian to be national in any strict sense. His patriotism is simply love of the truth. He is not a man of any particular race or of any particular country. He is a citizen of all countries and he speaks in the name of all civilization. 14 Scionce Being Social

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WILBUR PALM. Biology and Geomotry; DONALD HOUCK. Biology and Physical Education; A. D. NELSON. Mathematics; ARTHUR NORTON. Physics and Biology: ARCHER MARTIN. Mathematics; THOMAS GRUWELL. Mathematics; THERESE GUDE. Geometry; ARTHUR SLIFER. Chomistry; HUGO WICKSTROM. Biology; HENRY DUELL. Physics. SCIENCE SUB dlfiTHEITIRTICS Science has done more than provide the material basis of the good life; it has directly fostered the spiritual values of humanism. To explain, science is both the outcome and the source of the habit of forming objective, disinterested judgments based upon exact evidence. Such a habit is of particular value in the formation of citizens for a free society. It opposes to the arbitrariness of authority and 'first principles the direct and continuing appeal to things as they are. Thus it develops the qualities of the free man. (Harvard Report). Ralph Barton Perry remarks in One World in the Making, The student should learn in the scientific classroom. that the good which science does depends on what is done with it by the human will; and that if science is to contribute to the peaceful and fruitful organization of mankind, it must serve under the supreme command of morality. Bottor Living Through Chomiitry 13

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JENNIE HISCOCK. French; LOUISE DUNBAR. Latin; ELEANORA POPPE. German; DWIGHT McLaughlin, edana connors. Spanish. LflnGUflGES The ultimate educational value of knowing a foreign language is that it lets you into the workings of other human minds, like and unlike your own. It takes you out of your narrow local self and points out ways of seeing and feeling that cannot be perceived apart from the alien words that record the perception. The reason educated people in every country find themselves using foreign phrases in the midst of their own speech is that these expressions point to real things but are untranslatable. These locutions—whether expressive of feelings or ideas or objects—are the signs of the bigger ones, represented by a nation's literature, philosophy, or contributions to science and religion. This being so. the study of a language becomes the study of a people, and the notion of a language as a tool destroys itself: a tool is a dead unchanging thing; a language lives. A tool is for some ulterior purpose; a language exists as a world in itself.' JACQUES BARZUN. A Trip Through France—With Miss Hiscock as the talontod guide. 15