West High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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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

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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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C 0 0 HI fl G HD 5 e ijj i n g Loarning the way to a man's heart. The civilization of a nation depends upon many factors, one of which is its standard of living. In the United States it is the wife and mother who determines the physical, spiritual, and cultural level of the American home. Harmonious relationships within a home are not accidental; they are the result of careful training and thoughtful planning by both father and mother. A strong nation is a nation of strong home ties, for home life is the very heart and strength of any country. Through the ages men and women have fought and died for their homes and their children. Consequently the welfare of a nation depends upon its home makers. Today young people are contributing to the future welfare of the world by securing the training necessary for a happy home life; the more proficient and skilled they are in all the domestic arts, the greater will be the health, the prosperity, and the happiness of a nation. DOROTHY STYER. Clothing; FRANCIS FORD. Food . 16