Alliance High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Alliance, NE)

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THE SPUD 27 Normal Training Class Normal Training Normal Training has proven to be one of the most helpful and satisfactory courses in the present day High School. Nebraska last year appropriated $125,000 for carrying on this training, and officials state that no appropriation of equal amount has done so much for the betterment of rural schools. The interest in, and the enthusiasm for, the work, so general thru-out the state, comes from the real test. This is shown by the result attained by Normal Training graduates of the High School, who have wonderfully improved the grade of work done in rural schools. City superintendents agree that normal training has improved the discipline in the High School; given higher ideals to the schools; helped normal pupils into a better attitude toward their studies, as well as toward discipline; and brought the community into closer and more helpful relation to the schools. The Alliance Normal Training class consists of eighteen members—Juniors and Seniors—under the direction of Miss Gabus. The course covers reviews and methods, work in Geography, Arithmetic, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Penmanship, Drawing, Physiology and Mental Arithmetic, and a semester’s work in Pedagogy, Civics and American History. On completion of the course and passing teachers’ examinations in the reviews, students are granted a second grade county certificate, which after one year’s successful teaching entitles holder to a first grade county certificate. The class is to be congratulated upon the excellent grades they have earned for their teachers’ certificates. To quote an instance of the quality of work done, the class of eighteen averaged 90 per cent in both Reading and Grammar in the teachers’ examinations taken the first semester—a record which probably is not surpassed by any other class in the state.

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26 THE SPUD First Year Shorthand Class at Work Business Course The Commercial department was introduced into the high school in 1913 and has proved to he one of the most popular departments in the school. The curriculum is two years in length and offers work in English, Bookkeeping, Arithmetic, Writing, Spelling, Shorthand, and Typewriting. There are now twelve typewriters in the department and all of them are constantly in use. Students completing this work are given a diploma of graduation from the Commercial Department of the High School. Many students, however, who are not enrolled in the Commercial department are taking some subjects from this curriculum as electives, principally shorthand and typewriting.

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28 THE SPUD Domestic Science --------------------------- The enrollment in Domestic Science was sixteen the first semester, and twenty-one the second. The course this semester has included the cooking of various simple dishes and a special course in Invalid Cookery. They have made cakes and other delieacies for private families at different times. Four weeks this spring were devoted to serving, in which the girls were required to plan and prepare the dinner for eight people, $2 being the amount allowed for expenses. Dc me stic Science Class