Archbold High School - Blue Streak Yearbook (Archbold, OH)

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COURSE OF STUDY Archbold High School FRESHMAN YEAR 1st Semester Algebra Physical Geography Latin 1. English 2nd Semester Algebra Botany Latin I. English SOPHOMORE YEAR 1st Semester Algebra Agriculture Caesar English 2nd Semester Plane Geometry Agriculture Caesar English JUNIOR YEAR 1st Semester Plane Geometry General History Cicero or German L English 2nd Semester Solid Geometry General History Cicero or German I. English SENIOR YEAR 1st Semester Physics American History Virgil or German II. English 2nd Semester Physics Civics and Common Branches Virgil or German II. English

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SONNET. With leaping pulse; with eyes some dim, some bright From which within, our lamps of knowledge beamed, We place this book before you, which to us has seemed. The very essence of our life; our light. And while you turn its leaves and read its name, May the ice (?) about your heart melt as the snow ()n mountain heights, and in swift overflow, Come gushing from your lips in praises of its fame. Make thou a full confession; and a gleam As of the dawn on some dark forest cast, Seems on our foreheads to increase; Bitter and Sweet—the remembered dream And the forgotton sorrow—give at last Those craved praises which give perfect peace. L. R. G„ ’12.

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(Emirar nf S’tm'ui The course of study of the Archbold High School has been re- vised and another year added to meet the requirements of the State Board of Education for a First Grade School. Under the new charter just granted March 11, 1911, by State School Commissioner Zeller, the students who are graduated from the Archbold High School are exempt from all entrance examinations and receive full credit for the four year’s work done here in all the lead- ing colleges and universities of Ohio. Also by a special Act of Rec- ognition our graduates are exempt from entrance examinations and are given Freshman standing in twenty-six of the leading colleges and uni- versities outside of Ohio. In order to get this recognition and college standing our physical laboratory had to be overhauled and almost an entirely new complete and modern set of apparatus purchased. We now have one of the very best laboratory out-fits any high school can afford. Our library also had to be re-classified and increased. Over one-hundred and fifty volumes of reference books and others for research work and supplementary reading have been secured. We have found that a course in either History, English or Science in which the student is confined strictly to his own text book is narrow and barren of fruitful results. Since our High School course has been completely revised from the modern scholastic and psychological point of view, and has received the approval and recognition of higher institutions of learning, we take pleasure in soliciting the inspection and patronage of the interested youth who are looking for solid school work and the recognition of the same in public life. MATHEMATICS. English for imagination and expression, science for hard cold facts and humility, Latin and German for culture, but mathematics for mental discipline. No one subject in school requires so much diligent study as mathe- matics, no one contributes so much to the development of the reasoning and perceptive powers. Again no subject is of so much practical utility after leaving high school to the student. We thus have borne this two- fold object in mind and have likewise strengthened our course.