Angola High School - Key Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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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.

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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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The work is divided into two classes, — free hand and mechanical. The free hand drawing is done with pencil, charcoal, crayon and water- color, and includes work in ligtit and shade, nature studies, pose drawing, illustrating, copying, designing, and historical ornament. In connection with the drawing work the lives of great artists are studied. During the past year Michaelangelo, Reynolds, Rembrandt, Rosa Bonheur and Landseer have been studied. The mechanical drawing is done with the square, compass and other incidental tools. Each student taking this course has to provide himself with a drawing set. The course is carried out as outlined in Thomson ' s Mechanical Drawing Books. LATIN. The Latin course covers the full four years of high school study, three of wh ich are required. The object of the course is to give the student a general knowledge of the language which will enable him to read accurately and with some degree of fluency. Inasmuch as at least one half of the words in the English language are derived from thje Latin, it is absolutely necessary to study Latin in order to understand the English language. Latin I. The first year is spent on the declensions, conjugations and other fundamentals of the subject. The Subjunctive Mode is thoroughly worked out and the subject of Indirect Discourse analyzed in detail. Latin IL During the second year four books of Caesar are read. The study of Latin grammar is carried throughout the year and all references to the grammar are looked up. Latin IIL The four orations of Cicero against Cataline are read in the third year. In addition Pro Archias and some of Cicero ' s Letters are read. Prose composition is given one day in the week during the whole year. Latin IV. Vergil is read in the last year, six books being the usual amount read. Scansion and versification together with prosody and syntax are given. A brief survey of Latin literature closes the final year of the course. HISTORY. The history course covers three full years of work. The work begins in the second year with Greek and Roman history, is continued in the third year with Medieval and Modern and concluded in the fourth year with United States history and Civics.