Bedford High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Bedford, IN)

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IB I be Honeer- BI ] MISS BEItTIIA MONTGOMERY Our high school curriculum offers three years of German, although only two years are required for graduation. The text books used in the first year are Vos' Essentials of German and Gluck Auf. Immensee and der Letete are used in the second and Die Jungfrau and Wilhelm Tell in thethird. Nearly everything read in class is translated into English. The German conversation is based upon the texts used. Composition work begins with the second year and continues until the end of the third year. ] 12 3

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MISS ABIIY MAUItl.K » 3B I be ttereee? i[ For graduation from our high school two years of language are required. Either Latin or German may be elected for these credits. The Latin department offers three years of Latin, however. In the first year Dooge’s Latin for Beginners is the text used. In the second year Walker's Caesar is studied and in the third year. .Johnston and Kingerry’s Cicero. For the composition work the texts are Bennett’s Prose and Bennett’s Latin Grammar. MISS KI.OISK MII.I.IS [±iBryj j i 11

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L 3B i be ttereee BC HISTORY! We teacher of history have i» definite Held of labor. The task we perform i a most worthy and practical one. executed with but little aid from other field of educational effort. The curious may ask us what is the worthy task performed; the advocate of vocational training may inquire concerning the practical value of history. We answer in the words of a famous educator, “It isfor us to put the student in touch with his times: to develop in him the historical view point, by which he will sec our present day institutions-family, church, state, business enterprise , educational movements—all a living, growing element in the development of human society. Without going deeply into the past, that time of both origin and development, we fail to appreciate the fact that we are heirs of all the ages; fail to catch the vision which is a revelation of the value and sacrcdne of well directed human endeavor. Can not other subject do for us what history does? Other studies interest us in law orgroupor type. History alone deals with the individual, the concrete. History is the one science of reality.” Thcculturai value of history lies not in merely knowing the past but in living and acting its life. We then realize our dependence upon it ami by detaching ourselves from the present we are enabled to clearly understand it. Our best preparation for life and action come through touch witn other . A survey of history carries us to the very heart of human effort and inspires us to find MISS CLARA KKIKDLKY our PLACK and do our part in the strife for that which is higher. The famous German scholar. Adolph Hamack. admonishes hi hearer . Whatever else you study neglect not history. Do not suppose that you can gather the fruits of scholarship without some in- the ner touch with the |M-r»onnlitie» to whom we owe so much and without knowing path by which they have been found. N'ohigh revelation of science is a mere fact. Every one of them ha been once lived a an experience, and in the experience lira it worth a culture. Who then would question the cultural or practical value of historical study which enables us to live the nast. adjust ourselves to the present and plan, in a measure, the future .-ill in an intelligent, helpful way. The world of business demand today, a never before of our educational institution . that they give it well trained, almost mechanical worker . The world’s wise realize that the most valuable product of the educator's art are efficient, yet sympathetic, human men and women. Where are ueh men and women to be found? What field of learning can furnish type studies? The characters of history, not fiction, reveal the efficient personalities of all classes, from the least to the greatest, from the slave to the Christ. C IBQa la [