Auburn High School - Follies Yearbook (Auburn, IN)

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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.

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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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German Gourse (•■HE two years' German course is not sufficient to give the pupil a thorough mastery of the German language. but it should give him a sufficient knowledge of its construction to enable him to appreciate the literature and create in him a desire for further study. The first year, as in the study of any new language, is made up of simple translations, drill in vocabularies, sen- tences illustrating the different principles, the turning of English into German and the memory gem6 and idioms. In the second year. Storm's lmmensee |and Hillem's Hoher als die Kirche are first read. Then comes the introduction of the German drama in the study of Schiller's “Wilhelm Tell and his “Jungfrau von Orleans.” Mathematics j|F there be a transfer of training from one menu) pro-cess to another, then there is no subject in the curriculum of the high school that is so adapted to train the reasoning powers of the student as the subject of mathematics. The course as offered in the Auburn High School not only endeavors to train the student in the powers of reasoning. but it seeks to give him such a clear cut knowledge and drill in the subjects taught that he will be led to see the application of this knowledge to the practical every day life, and to the laws of nature. Wentworth’s Algebra and Gcomotry and Moore’s Commercial Arithmetic are the toxt books used. The courto as offered is as follows: Freshman Year—Algebra to Quadratic Equations. Sophomore Year-Plane Geometry. Junior Year—Solid Geometry (First Half.) Algebra from Quadratic Equations (Second Half.) Senior Year—Commercial Arithmetic (First Half.)