Auburn High School - Follies Yearbook (Auburn, IN)

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FOURTH YEAR COURSE. U. S History and Civics, simply a branch of Modern History. The underlying principles of government should be carefully noted in the study of this subject. The differences in political principles which arose between the colonies and Great Britain and finally led to the Revolutionary War should be thoroughly mastered. In the study of the various wars throughout the History, more attention should be given to the situation causing the war and to the situation after than to the battles themselves. A thorough knowledge of the constitution should be had and for this reason it is best that a book dealing with Civil Government be studied along with the History. A much different consideration is given to History in the Senior Year than in the Grammar Schools. The student is supposed to be better acquainted with the situations giving rise to different events and for that reason a much more systematic study may be taken up. Much supplementary reading is encouraged and facts are recognized from any source.

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History ISTORY denotes the events, forces and insitutions. which together disclose a peoples social character and progress. The history of a people includes every item which has interest or importance in connection with that peoples life and growth and it is a summary of social, industrial. intellectual, religious and political effects and a biography of those great men whose lives have directed events in that particular age or locality. Historical investigators have been compelled to depend upon various classes of materials for thoir information. Those writing about the more remote nations have derived the greater part of their knowledge from (1) rcmainsof buildings, implements and ruins. (2) art and literature and traditions. Those dealing with the later day nations have had the advantage of being able to deal with known facts. History has been organized into somewhat arbitrary divisions upon a chronological basis. SECOND YEAR COURSE. Ancient History deals with the civilizations and careers of the nations of antiquity such as Babylonia. Assyria. Egypt. Greece and Rome. It begins with the first event whose character is positively known and is generally conceded as terminating with the Fall of Rome in 476 A. D. A genoral knowledge of tho various branches of civilization of the above named countries should be ac- quired and especial attention given to the Wars and Conquests of such men as Hannibal. Alexander. Pompey. Caesar. etc. THIRD YEAR COURSE. (a) Mediaeval History begins with the termination of Ancient and extends to tho discovery of the new world by Columbus in 1492. This period includes the centuries of Confusion during which the ideals of universal unity in politics, religion and thought which prevailed in the ancient world were supplanted by extreme individualism. During the study of events of this period attention should be given especially to the Conquests of Charlemagne. The Crusaders. Feudalism and the gradual approach to that period in history known a6 the reformation. (b) The Extreme Individualism of the Medieval period which supplanted the universal unity of the Ancient in turn gave way to the ideal of nationality. This nationality or formation of nations is the greatest factor in modern history which begins with the discoveries in 1492 and deals with the period during which we are now living. Nearly all the events of this period point to and aid in tho nationalization of the world. The period known as the Reformation and the French Revolution deserve much attention.

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 Latin JVtE say to the parent who asks why his boy should study Latin, that Latin is one of the most perfect instruments for expressing human thought that has ever been developed. It affords a manifold and varied training in the processes of logical reasoning: it trains the memory and powers of observation: it yields a more precise and extensive knowledge of English through the comparison of of the words and construction of the two languages. It loads to a larger view of life and a fuller appreciation of our own times by comparison with the life and civilization portrayed in the literature of Rome and it leads to a realization of all that culture which can be claimed for the study of literature and history. FIRST YEAR LATIN. For the benefit of those studonts who will go on in Latin after the first year, the work 0 this yoar must pre-par c for the subseqeent courses. This preparation consists of training in pronunciation, vocabulary, forms, syntax, practice in translating from the Latin and practice in using the Latin sentence to expross thought. Gourse SECOND YEAR LATIN The second year is devoted to the reading of. at least, four books of Caesar's Gallic War in connection with Roman History during the Republic. Tho composition work for this year follows the Caesar text with a systematic study of syntax and a careful review of declensions and conjugations. Sight reading is also encouraged in this year. THIRD YEAR LATIN. Cicero's four orations against Catiline and his oration on The Citizenship of Archias. make up the translation of the third year. Roman oratory and the construction of the oration is carofully studied. The composition work is also carried on throughout the year. FOURTH YEAR LATIN. Vergil’s Aeneid in the fourth voar is the introduction to the study of Latin poetry and an effort is made to lead the pupil to an appreciation of classical poetry. The first fivo books arc read and special attention is paid to the scanning. The study of Grcok and Roman mythology is also a feature of this year's work.