Anderson High School - Indian Yearbook (Anderson, IN)

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COLLEGE PREP. Pi equals .... lv1acbeTh plus l-lCl .... ShakespearwroTe ...... 3.l4equalsl-l2O ...... IT someone is walking around The halls in a daze, muTTering someThing like This under his breaTh don'T misiudge him. l-le is noT necessarily crazy. l-le is only a college pre- paraTory sTudenT, mornenTarily conTused. The College PreparaTory Course is a diTTiculT one and iT Taxes one's menTal capaciTy To keep up wiTh iT. Yes, This course is probably one oT The mosT dif- TiculT oT The seven courses in Al-IS, buT iT is worTh all The hard work because The College PreparaTory Course TulTills The enTrance requiremenTs To any sTaTe oper- aTed universiTy and mosT oT The privaTely Tinanced colleges in The UniTed STaTes. The College PreparaTory Course is seT up exclusively Tor The high school sTudenTs who are planning To go on To college. This course also has an advanTage over mosT oT The courses oT This school in ThaT The sTudenT has a beTTer chance To Take more elecTives Than in some oT The oTher courses. There is room Tor one elecTive in The sophomore year. Two in The junior year, an Three in The senior year. The purpose oT This course is To develop The sTudenT's inTeresT in a varieTy oT sub- iecTs such as hisTory, liTeraTure, languages, and maThemaTice, so ThaT he can choose whaT he would like To Take in college.

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BUSINESS ED. Esfablished wifh a definife purpose, fhe Business Educafion Course has fulfilled fhaf purpose well. The infenfion behind ifs founding was fhe giving fo sfudenfs a general knowledge of business. This know- ledge will be useful fo fhe sfudenfs in re- ceiving and holding a business posifion in fufure years. Sfudenfs are faughf many subiecfs. They become fhoroughly acguainfed wifh subiecfs such as bookkeeping. fyping, shorfhand, commercial law- commercial geography, business arifhmefic. sales- manship- and compfomefry. Cuffing a sfencil on fhe fypewrifer and mimegraph- ing are also among acfivifies of Business Educafion Course pupils. lncenfive fo mainfain high speed in fyping is given bv fhe use of fhe big fen rafing. Shorfhand is anofher subiecf re- quiring speed and concenfrafion as nofe- books musf be filled wifh hundreds of symbols. Bookkeeping includes balance sheefs, and long columns of figures. and in salesmanship. sfudenfs gain experience in fhe arf of selling. This Business Educafion Course is a four year course. During fhe firsf fwo years all sfudenfs fake approximafely +he same subiecfs, and for fhe lasf fwo vears selecf a maior in one of fhe fwo fields offered- Some subiecfs of fhe Busi- ness Educafion Course are popular wifh sfudenfs in ofher courses. Typing

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GENERAL The General Course is The course pre- scribed Tor any sTudenT who is undecided abouT whaT he or she wanTs To be. This course prepares a sTudenT Tor college enTrance as well as giving him a greaT varieTy oT high school exTras Trom which To choose. IT is The only course, wiTh The excepTion oT The Business EducaTion course, in which The sTudenT is allowed To choose his elecTive wiTh a wide variaTion and a large exclusion oT required subiecTs. The only required subiecTs in This course are a maior or Three years in English and hisTory, one year oT maThemaTics or al- gebra, one year oT physical educaTion. and one semesTer each oT saTeTy and physiology. ln This course The sTudenT may elecT a science course- a maThemaTical course, music. Typing, nuTriTion, Toreign language' arTs, business course, and various Types oT indusTrial arTs- One oT The elecTive courses oT sTudy which is aT The sTudenT's disposal is The science maior. This course oT sTudy begins Physical Ed- So. American Geography Egg b e wiTh biology and conTinues wiTh biology, boTany and Zoology, saTeTy, physiology, physics, and chemisTry. This course gives The sTudenT a brighT view oT scienTiTic worlds and prepares him Tor TuTure sTudy in The colleges oT science. Along wiTh The science The sTudenT sTudies, he musT have a more advanced maThemaTical knowledge. ln The maThe- maTical course The sTudenT has The privi- lege oT elecTing Tour addiTional years oT sTudy. These are iusT a Tew oT The many advan- Tages To which a sTudenT in The General Course is exposed.