Angola High School - Key Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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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.

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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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Picture Study: The Angelus, Sistine Madonna, The Mill, etc. Lives of Great Artists: Millet, Raphael, Corat, Rosa Bonheur, etc. You must look at a picture studiously, earnestly, honestly. It will take years before you can come to a full appreciation of art; but when at last you have it, you will be possessed of one of the purest, loftiest, and most ennobling pleasures that the civilized world can offer you. — Y. C. Van Dyke. MUSIC. MISS RIEMAN The man that has no music in his soul And is not moved by the concord of sweet sounds. Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. — Shakespeare. The purpose of the course in music has been : (1.) To inspire love of good music. (2.) To develop a musical voice. (3.) To teach sight singing. The problems in melody and rhythm are developed in the proper grade, according to the advancement of the grade in the subject. The first four books of the Natural Music Course are used as the basis of music reading. Many supplementary songs are learned, including codas. The biographies of great musicians are studied and a brief sketch written of each. The music course given in the High School consists of the following: Theory of music, history of music, musical forms with definitions of same, and biographies of great musicians. The choruses studied, besides several other songs, have been as follows: Song of Peace, Lovely Appear, Bright Star of Eve, King of the Forest Am I, Gloria, Morning Ramble, Springtime, Our Jack, Joys of Spring, and Medley of Na- tional Airs. Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, if its man- ners be good or bad, examine the music it practices. — Confucius. MECHANICAL DRAWING. MR. ACKLEY Two courses in Mechanical Drawing have been given this year. The first course has been an introductory course for those who have never taken up any form of mechanical drawing. The work of the first semester consists of a study of the principles of geome- trical drawing, using as a text Thomson ' s Mechanical Drawing