Angola High School - Key Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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Book No. 1. The second semester completes the subjects of geometrical drawing and then takes up projection drawing, the foundation of all further work in mechanical drawing. This work is done from models, and the text used is Thomson ' s second book in the above series. The second year course takes up the subject of mechanical drawing proper. Each member of the class is required to provide himself with a set of drawing tools, T-square, triangles and drawing board. The work consists of drawings of bolts, screws, and ex- amples of carpentry work drawn to scale. Towards the end of the course actual working drawings are made of various forms of girders, trusses and roof construction. (Emtl trB Mtttxn B The city teachers have met monthly throughout the year and discussed various pedagogical questions. At each meeting a pro- gram of varied interest was given with the result that the meetings were both a pleasure and profit. Supt. Shockley arranged the programs so that each teacher would appear twice during the year. The programs were as follows : September. Supt. Shockley — Essays in Application. Miss Fairfield — Pestalozzi. Miss Rieman — Mozart. Mr. Kyper — Philology. October. Parent ' s Meeting. Kyper — Relation of Parent to Teacher. Klink — Relation of Teacher to Parent. November. Wm. B.C. Prof. Carter — Essays in Application. Miss Schovill — Froebel. Miss French — Handel. Supt. Shockley — Ten Thousand Years of History, • pW

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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

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December. Prof. Ackey — Essays in Application. Mr. Willennar — Rousseau. Miss Burkett — Wagner. Miss Parish— World ' s Ten Greatest Pictures. January. Prof. Burtsfield — Essays in Application. Miss Mathews Esperanto. Prof. Carter — Volapuk. Miss Rieman — Chopin. February. Miss Wicofif — Essays in Application. Miss Parish — Comenius. Miss French — Beethoven. Miss Fairfield — E volution of Dodd. March. Miss Gochenour — Essays in Application. Mr. Kyper — Horace Mann. Miss Burkett — Mendelssohn. Prof. Ackley — Every-day Science. April. Miss Mathews — Essays in Application. Mr. Willennar— W. T. Harris. Miss Wicoff — American Musicians. Miss Gochenour — Manual Training. May. The last day of school, May 31, the school building was thrown open to the public. The teachers arranged an exhibit of their work and gave the parents the opportunity to see what had been done during the year.