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

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Algebra. One and one-half years are devoted to this subject. In the Freshman year the four fundamental operations are securely mastered. Also much attention is given to the rapid manipulation of factoring, di- visors, least common multiple, involution and the extraction of roots. Much time is given to radicals and the application of the Binomial theorem, also to the solution of equations with two or more unknown quantities. The theory of exponents is taken up in detail and problems from various texts used. The first semester of the second year takes up the quadratic. Here much time is spent. A few days are given to the review of the radicals and then problems involving quadratics are selected from every source. College Algebra is also introduced and imaginary quantities, recurring series, logarithms and graphs each receive special emphasis. Geometry. The cultural value of this subject is inestimable. It teaches a student two things: first, that he must think; second, that he must tell the truth. One and one-half years are devoted to this subject, the first year taking up plane Geometry, emphasizing the triangle and relations of all polygons. The second semester of the third year is devoted to solid Geometry alone. e use Smith-W entworth s text, of which there is none better for lucid demonstrations and the large number of very practical originals at the end of each book. Spherical geometry is especially made interesting by charts and figures. Commercial Arithmetic is also taught for a few weeks in the Senior year to assist those desiring to teach or go out into practical life. No text book is used, just problems from business and educational journals. LATIN. Possunt, (juiu posse ridentur.—Acncid 5, 231. Believing that no one can appreciate fully his mother tongue until he knows its source, the Archbold Nigh School ofifers a full four vears course in Latin. The first two years are required of every student and the last two strongly recommended, especially to those who expect to do college work. During the first year the time is spent in mastering thoroughly the var- ious conjugations and declensions. The uses of the different moods and tenses of verbs and the cases of nouns are carefully explained and illustrated. The comparison between Latin and English is brought out and English derivatives from Latin words worked out in an interesting way. Enough vocabulary is learned to prepare the pupil for successful work in Caesar. A note book is required for credit. A quick but thorough review of the first year’s work occupies about the first two weeks of the second year. The rest of the time is spent on the first four books of Caesar's Gallic War. The histoi ical and literarv value of the work is brought out and Caesar himself is studied as a man. as a general and as a writer. The Latin constructions given each day and composition work once a week emphasize the grammatical rules most com- monly used. A note book is required for credit.

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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.

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Cicero’s four orations against Catiline and the orations for Archias and the Manilian Law are read the third year. I lere an excellent oppor- tunity to study Roman Political life and Roman oratory is given. One day each week is given to prose composition, the more unusual and com- plex forms being emphasized. A note book is required for credit. The last year of the course takes up the first six books of Virgil's Aeneid. The versification and scansum of the poem are studied thorough- oth the year. The figures of speech and the excellent descriptions are carefully pointed out. Much time is also given to the study of the life and character portrayed in the story itself. V irgil’s object “to inspire the patriotism of the Roman's is kept well in mind and often referred to. A short synopsis of the poem completes the work of each book. MUSIC. “The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with the concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, strategems and spoils. Let no such man be trusted. And since the Archbold Public School aims to turn out the most trust- worthy men and women, music is begun in the First grade and continued until the Senior year in High School. The work is under the direction of Prof. Tubbs, of Bryan, who comes to us once a week. At least fifteen minutes each day and sometimes more is spent in singing. This year new books, which contain excellent material, have been puschased for the High School. We have already learned choruses from several of the well-known operas. Several times the Seventh and Eighth grades have united with us for the music period, thus paving the way for better work next year. We have shown good musical ability and with the larger High School we hope in the very near future the work can be made most successful and enjoyable. GERMAN. The German language, a sister to the English, and having the same common origin, is recognized as one of the most practical of all modern languages. Realizing the importance and practicability of this language, the Archbold High School offers a two-year course. The aim of the first year work in German is to get a firm founda- tion of grammatical principles, and to become acquainted with practical German expressions and their use in conversation. The beginner is made to feel the meaning of the language, for the object of the study of Ger- man is the language principally, and not the grammar. 1 he grammar work, based on Collar and Eysenbach's text, is supplemented by Bacon’s “Im Vaterland,” a book which introduces the pupil to the real German life that is lived in “Deutschland. Several of the representative Ger- man poems arc also learned.