Atlanta High School - Atalanta Yearbook (Atlanta, IL)

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Music, as a subject, should be taught in every school system as it contributes in varying degrees to health, worthy home membership, vocation, citizenship and worthy use of leisure and ethical character. The subject of music appreciation has been universally recognized as a definite part of the high school course of study in mucis through elective courses carrying credit. The course in itself is extremely interesting due perhaps to the learning of the earliest possible development of music up to the present day. The other course offered in the school is harmony. By this we mean the science of chord construction and combination. Harmony first began to be an important factor in music about 1600 A. D. at the time when opera and oratorio came into existence--when form was established and when our major and minor scales were adopted. Harmony as a subject should be elected only by students who have a good musical background, as this is a very essential thing to one understanding the subject well. Helen Kindred 36 “ 'U- A A Sg: %

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In the first year the declensions and conjugations are studied, a knowledge of most important words is acquired and simple facts of grammar are learned, and in addition a study is made of English words derived from Latin. Some time is given to the study of Roman customs and habits of life. The first part of the second year is spent in the continued study of Latin grammar. The vocabulary is enlarged and stories about the labors of Hercules are read. The latter part is devoted to reading the most important parts of the first four books cf Caesar. Among the benefits derived from the study of Latin is the fact that the student is at the same time making a parallel study of English grammar and vocabulary.

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The business courses being taught in high school today are greatly increasing in popularity. The courses taught in the Atlanta High School are bookkeeping, stenography, and typewriting,. ••• • ■ • Bookkeeping teaches the recording of business trans actions in a systematic form. These records follow a certain commonly accepted system. Accurate and detailed information about business may be obtained from these records at any time. Costs, sales, profits, losses, inventories, discounts and such items are vital facts to the bu'siness man. Each individual can apply these methods to his own personal affairs. Shorthand is a system of writing which uses abbreviated strokes and dots instead of writing out the entire word. Short symbols stand for the words which have been spoken or dictated. By themethod of shorthand you may write, when proficient, as fast as a speaker talks. Since typewriting is more of a manual skill, and success depends upon sufficient drill to develop speed and accuracy, the skilled t pist uses the touch system and does not look at the keyboard.