Angola High School - Key Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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will be studied near the end of the year. A critical study of the whole field of English Literature will be made tracing its growth from early Anglo-Saxon times down to the present day. In this year a survey will be made of the world ' s best literature so that the student may know that all of the world ' s literature has not been English. ZOOLOGY. The first course in Zoology ever offered to the students of the high school will be opened in the fall of 19(»8. This course, like the one in Botany, will cover a full year and require laboratory, text, and field work. The course will start with a few lectures on general biological problems similar to those given in Botany. Steuben County presents a most interesting field to the naturalist and the course will be based upon local conditions as largely as possible. In the first semester grasshoppers, crickets, mosquitoes, house flies, bees, wasps, ants. Ichneumon flies, chalcis flies, butterflies, moths, lice and bugs of all sorts will come in for critical study. While in the field, birds, snakes, turtles, frogs, toads, etc., will be observed. In fact the object of the course is to acquaint the pupils with the animal life which we see all around us. It is time that the boy and girl of today knew that a horse hair never turns into a snake. BOTANY. ' The groves were God ' s first temples. There is no high school in the state that can study Botany to a bet- ter advantage than our local high school. In the county dotted with lakes and hills we find all forms of vegetation of this latitude from the aquatic forms to the high land forms. During the past five years, Mr. Shockley, the instructor in Botany, has made a careful study of the flora of the county and has listed and identified more than seven hundred flowering plants, eighteen differ- ent ferns and twenty-eight varieties of mosses. Apgar ' s Trees of the Northern U. S. has been placed in the library with seventy-eight trees marked which have been found in this county. The work in Botany covers a full jear. It begins with a few lectures on general biological problems showing the inter-relation of Botany and Zoology. This is followed by a series of lectures on the four great plant groups. Beginning with 1908 there will be special work put on the Thallophytes, Bryophytes and Pteridophytes, the time given to the

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Fitch to William Shakespeare; from Whitman to Tennyson. Thus it is seen that the subject of English has two sides, viz., the art of expression and the art of interpretation. The first side is studied under the caption of Composition and Rhetoric and the second phase under the head of Literature. The course in Composition and Rhetoric is taken during the first two years and includes a critical study of a text and the writing of composi- tions. An average of two days a week is put on this work, correlating it as much as possible with the study of the classics. The course in Literature intends to cover all the work demanded for college entrance as well as an intensive study of the general field of American and English literature as set forth in some good manual. The! classics read and studied are as follows : English I. Cooper ' s Last of the Mohicans. Goldsmith ' s Vicar of Wake- field. Shakespeare ' s Merchant of Venice. Hawthorne ' s House of Seven Gables. Lowell ' s Vision of Sir Launfal. In addition two books are read on the outside and a few recitations spent on them to bring out the main points. For 1908-09 these books will be Stevenson ' s Treasure Island and Bunyan ' s Pilgrim ' s Progress. English II. Scott ' s Quentin Durward. Shakespeare ' s Julius Cjesar. Coleridge ' s Ancient Mariner. Franklin ' s Autobiography. Arnold ' s Sohorab and Rustum. Swift ' s Gulliver ' s Travesl. During the second year Scott ' s Ivanhoe, Jane Austen ' s Pride and Prejudice, and Mulock ' s John Halifax will be read on the outside. English III. Tennyson ' s Idylls of the King. Dryden ' s Palamon and Arcite. Eliot ' s Silas Marner. Shakespeare ' s Macbeth. Irving ' s Life of Goldsmith. Ruskin ' s Sesame and Lilies. The outside reading for the third year will include Fliot ' s Mill on the Floss, Ruskin ' s King of the Golden River, Holmes ' Elsie Venner, and Wallace ' s Ben Hur. During this year an intensive study will be made of American Literature, bringing the subject up to 1909. Special atten- tion will be paid to present-day writers and to Luliana literature in particular. English IV. Shakespeare ' s llamlct. Milton ' s Minor Poems. Macaulay ' s Milton, Addison and Johnson. Addison ' s De Coverly Papers. Palgrave ' s Golden Treasurx. Carl le ' s Essay on Burns. The Seniors will read Dickens ' Tale of Two Cities. Eliot ' s Adam Bede, Thackeray ' s Henry Esmond and Hawthorne ' s Marble Faun for out- side work. A small handbook on philology, Anderson ' s Study of Words,

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subjects previously not being sufficient to study them in detail. Field work will be required during the fall and spring months in order to bring the pupils face to face with the growing plants in their native habitats. The minimum requirement will be fifty analyzed Spermatophytes and fif- teen each of the Pteridophytes and Bryophytes. MUSIC. If music be the food of love, play on. Music is occupying a more important place in our education today than ever before. Harvard now demands an entrance examination in music just the same as in Algebra or anything else. Recent legislation in our own state has put the subject into our country schools, and every new teacher after this year, will have to take an examination in music. The entering freshman from the city schools has had eight years of musical training in the grades and is well grounded in the fundamentals. The great difficulty in each freshman class is the fact that so many come from the country schools where music is not taught. This is bound to make the work in the first year in the high school more or less difficult. The law requires that each high school student take at least two years in music. This course in our own high school includes a review of the fundamentals, note, scale and syllable singing, ear training, harmony, the study of famous musicians and, finally the singing of some standard codas. The lives of Bach, Handel, Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Schuman, Schubert and Wagner have been studied. During the past year the following codas have been sung: Bells of Seville, XiglU, Praise Ye the Father, The Old Guard, Wandering in Woodlands, Hunting Song and Swing Song. The first condition in efifective design is to know what we wish to do. To know what we wish to do is to have an idea; to express that idea we require principles and a form. Viollet-le-Duc. The great purpose of drawing in the public school is to lead the child to see beauty in his environment ; to observe with care ; to read pic- tures intelligently ; to appreciate the beautiful in nature. The drawing work in our city schools has been going five years so that the present Freshman class has had four years of drawing before they entered high school. As in music, those pupils from the country are handicapped by not having had any previous work in drawing. Their work must be necessarily dilTercnt from those who have had it four years.