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

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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.

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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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In the second year Collar’s Rysenbach and Thomas’ Practical Ger- man Grammar are used as reference books. The work aims to pre- pare the pupil for college entrance requirements. In order to converse in German in the class-room, a Pamphlet called “Class-Room German, designed to facilitate the pupil in the use of a large vocabulary and of idiomatic expressions, is used. In addition to the translation of several German classics, stories and essays are written in German, and German poems and songs are learned. Following is an outline of the reading: Gliick Auf, Finer Musz Heiraten, Eigensinn, Das Edle Blut, L’ Arrabbiata, Hoehen Als Die Kirchc, Immensee, Germelshausen, Der Lindenbaum, W ilhelm Tell. HISTORY There is perhaps no study in the High School curriculum which can be made mose interesting to the average boy and girl than history. It has been said that “history repeats itself. If this is true, it is only by a careful study of the rise and fall of the earlier powers that we can predict with any degree of intelligence the future of our own country. The work in history is begun in the Junior year, when Myer's Gen- eral History is studied. The pupil is taken back to the earliest periods of which we have even the slightest knowledge, and from that vague be- ginning he traces the rise of the human race through its varied fortunes up to the present time. Current events are also called for frequently and at the close of the year the conditions existing at the present day are dis- cussed at some length. Three complete sets of encyclopaedias and various single volumes in the school library are a valuable aid throughout the course. During the first half of the Senior year United States History and Civics are studied intensively, while in the grades the pupils have learned the main facts of these subjects, and the object of the Senior course is to classify this knowledge. The different periods of our history are worked out as units then combined to make a connected whole. In addi- tion to the general class work, especial topics are assigned from time to time. Debates, often extemporaneous, are sometimes held. Here again the library affords excellent opportunity for reference work. Passages taken from historical and political novels add great interest to the class when time permits. SCIENCES. We have three years of Science in our High School Course. We feel as though it is the happy medium between the two and four year courses offered by so many schools. There is no one other study in the high school curriculum that brings the student face to face with nature, her laws, with life and its broader and more beautiful conceptions as does the study of science. Physical Geography is studied in the first semester of the Freshman year. The relation of climate to plant and animal distribution, the study