Angola High School - Key Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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SCIENCE. MR. ACKLEY Physics — The work in Physics is taken up in the third year of the High School course. It is the foundation of all the High School work in science. An effort is made to so arrange the work that it will be of equal value to the student whose education ends with his High School course, and the prospective college student as well. The work is taken up under the heads of Mechanics, Sound, Heat, Electricity and Magnetism, and Light; the subjects of Mechanics, Sound, and the first part of Heat being studied the first semester, and the work finished the second semester. The course consistes of class room work accompanied by illustrative lecture experiments, and individual laboratory work, the former oc- cupying four class hours per week, and the latter two hours. The fundamental laws and phenomena of physics are carefully studied and, in addition, throughout the course special attention is given to the applications of these laws to every day life. In the work in electricity, especially, a study is made of its applications in com- mercial and industrial lines. The equipment for experimental work, especially in electricity is good, and is being increased as rapidly as possible. Several new pieces of apparatus have been added this year. The text used this year has been Hoadley ' s Physics, with Cheston, Dean and Timmerman ' s Laboratory Manual. Each pupil is required to keep a note book containing a record of his laboratory work. fc Chemistry — The work in Chemistry follows the work in Phys- ics, being taken up during the senior year. The course consists of class room and laboratory work as in Physics — four hours of recitation, and two hours laboratory work per week. Remsen ' s Revised Chemistry is the text used, and the class room discussions are illustrated by demonstration experiments. The laboratory work is so arranged as to constantly supplement the text book work and apply the principles being studied. After a nreliminary study of the elements, oxygen and hydrogen, a careful study of the non-metals is made. Considerable time is spent in studying the more important of the non-metals, esoccially chlorine, nitrogen, sulphur and carbon : and the consideration of the acids which they form leads to the theory of neutralization and the formation of salts. Then in the second semester the metals are taken up in turn, accord- ing to their grouping in the Periodic Law. A review of both the metals and the non-metals completes the course. Each student is required to keep a laboratory note book as in the course in Physics.

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German IV. The fourth year course is simply a continuation of the third year ' s work. The works studied are : Schiller ' s Die Jungfrau von Orleans. Poems of Schiller, Goethe and Heine. Introduction to German Literature . (Bernhardt.) MATHEMATICS. MR. CARTER No subject will contribute more to mental discipline than mathematics. The chief object of the High School should be to develop efficiency. In order to become efficient, boys and girls must be trained to think well. The study of mathematics, if prop- erly directed, will accomplish this end better than any other subject. It may be that in a few years after leaving the High School students will have forgotten how to factor a complicated algebraic expression or to demonstrate a difficult proposition, yet the effect of the mental discipline will remain and that is the thing most to be desired after all. Algebra— This work covers one and one-half years in time, and is intended to give such a thorough notion of the elementary principles of Algebra that students completing it can readily take up college algebra. Subjects dwelt on in particular are: The four fundamental operations with rational algebraic ex- pressions, factoring, divisors and multiples, fractions, involution, the binomial theorem, extraction of roots, radicals, and fractional and negative exponents. In addition to the above, the following- are emphasized: The solution of equations of the first degree in which one or more unknown quantities are involved ; the quadratic equations of higher degree that fall under this type, and graphing. During the last half year special attention is directed to the general quadratic, and some of the subjects dealt with in a more elementary way during the first year are now treated in a more advanced way. A good deal of attention is paid to applications, and accuracy is emphasized throughout. Geometry— Our plan is to devote the last semester of the second year and all the third year to this subject. The work in- cludes all the usual theorems and constructions, with a study of plain rectilinear figures, the circle and angle measurements, poly- gons, areas, etc. In addition to the above the solution of original exercises and problems given in the text are taken up in full. The second semester of the third year will be devoted to the study of solid geometry.

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HISTORY. MR. BURTSFIELD The History work covers three years and includes Greece, Roman, Medieval, Modern, United States and a course in General and State Civics. The study of Grecian history is preceded by a survey of Egypt, Tigris-Euphrates States, Persia, Palestine, Phoenicia, and the States of Asia Minor. One year is given to Greece and Rome, taking the subject down to the time of Charlemagne. 800 A. D. Medieval and Modern history covers one full year. In this course special attention is paid to Feudalism, the Crusades, the Reformation— showing the origin of our Protestant churches of to-day— the French Revolution, and the political history of England. The United States history covers one semester, and is intended to be intensive in character, with the purpose of getting the student to see the great periods of our growth in their relations to each other. In the beginning of the course each student is assigned a special topic to report on at the end of the term. During the past year topics like the Tariff, Slavery, Banks, Indians, Political Parties, Bills and Compromises, etc., were handled by the students. This course is followed by one semester devoted to Civics, in which the workings of our government from the school district is traced up through the township, county and state to the centralized govern- ment as laid down by the constitution. This course will be made as helpful and practical as possible. DRAWING. MISS RIEMAN It is of more importance to educate a hundred people to appreciate art than to educate one artist. — Perry. The subject divisions of the course in drawing as given in the schools and adapted to grade and High School work are, briefly, as follows : Color: Primary, secondary, and intermediate. Nature Study: Grasses, leaves, flower and fruit sprays, veg- etables, trees, etc. Representation: Type forms, animals, birds, persons, etc. Design: Balance, rhythm, harmony, measures, etc. Illustration: Color, pencil, charcoal, inks, paper-cutting, etc. Composition: Horizon-line, entering and filling space, con- trast large and small masses, crossing of vertical lines and horizontal lines, etc.