Butler High School - Magnet Yearbook (Butler, PA)

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HHlHEN MNEUHEEE ON-IOUR, comment allez-vous? Here is the French department passing in revue . . . first are declensions, then came conjugations . . . ir- regular verbs . . . then came the D's and E's and aching heads . . . begin the translation today, Monsieur John . . . take a half sheet of paper . . . conjugate the verb clormir . . . now comes Petits Contes de France with Napoleon, Jeanne cl'Arc, I-lansli le Bossu, and many other per- sonages well known to French Addicts . . . where did Trissaleau go? . . . who stole the money? . . . note the subjunctives . . . brush up your vowel sounds . . . synopsis lst person plural . . . tomorrow Weill have a dicte . . . who is this coming next? . . . Louis Quatorze and the other Louis, Charlemagne, the Gauls . . . all these slowly plod befoze us . . . Au revoir . . . au plaisir . . . Ego amo te . . . Caesar qui-quod . . . Cicero . . . subjectives . . . vocabulary . . . winged harpies . . ego amo te . . . Hercules . . . -us, -um, -ibus . . . Vergil . . . Pluto of the Underworld, march . . . back in line, Atlas . . . ego amo te . . . Mercury, stop racing . . . Cornelia and her jewels . . . et tu Brute . . . Romulus and Remus . . . Cerberus, quit barking . . . vale. Hepler helps . . . Miss Colds economists . . . Martha and Iris doing historical research . . . Speaker of the House . . . Who done it? . . . Mademoiselle Helm, n'est-ce pas? . . . Olga registers sincere admiration for her history prof. . . . How did Eileen and Bob get in here?

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1 flfxi , k..-- I. , - .t .asa Miss Weisen lein Using Language Skills . . . Teacher's pet? . . . Miss Campbell as Hamlet. gets the best grade . . . following these, a column of people leer at us as they pass, the group dreaded by every student, known simply as Themes To Be Written . . . we shudder and glance away, but our attention is drawn back by the sound of trumpets, and we see approaching a great army led by Julius Caesar . . . we are thrilled to see again the beautiful women and daring men met in such stories as ulvanhoen and Lady of the Lake . . . there are other old friends . . . ah! there are Paul Bunyan and his blue ox Babe, Edgar Allen Poe surrounded by a group of weird characters, the militant Miles Standish . . . now advances a great section of Shakespearean characters: Hamlet, Romeo, Juliet, Macbeth, Prospero, Miranda, and Puck . . . at the end of the line we find two great divisions, one includes the Ancient Mariner with his gray beard and glittering eyes, Gray's weary plowman, the wife of Bath, Silas Marner leading Eppie . . . in the grand finale of this parade come famous authors: Shakespeare, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Rupert Brooke, Masefield, and innumerable others . . . as they disappear from view, we feel a little sad but remember that from them we have acquired something which we can carry with us always, a greater sympathy for humanity and a greater love for beauty.

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McDowell stands with his army . . . Miss Doerr gives pleasant directions . . . Heinzer, a lesson in attention. HE social science section of our parade is one of which We may all be proud. Included in the passing array are Problems of Democracy, Economics, Civics, and History. Sometimes Commercial Law steps over in this division of our parade and tells us whether or not it is lawful to burn down the house for insurance- incidentally, it isnlt-Problems of Democracy carries a banner of understandable details that arise in a democracy such as ours, taking time out from the cavalcade to dramatize legislative sessions, murder trials, and traffic violation courts. Doesn't that sound interesting, and it is, especially when one of your own classmates is brought before the court and tried by a student jury. The Economics division centers attention on the Whys and wherefores of living conditions in the world-like why Brazil exports coffee and Argentina Wool, Why the Canary Islands exports canaries, or donlt they? Marching along in line with this section, we find the answer to the question of why some people live in flats and some in towers, why some businesses are sound and some bankrupt, why our salary never catches up to the bills. Dignified Civics struts by, delving into the deep, dark annals of the basic principles of American government, tells what makes a law unconstitutional, a senator tick, and that even you can be president of the United States. Constantly changing, History strolls by our vantage point, vivifying the heroic struggle of man- kind in the previous centuries as well as revealing astounding details of what went on behind the romantic adventures and dramatic wars. Of course you know that Columbus discovered America, but can you safely name the date? What was Ponce De Leonis fountain of youth, a soda fountain or What? Get acquainted with History, in an expansive moment, he may fell youl MPH EUEEM SHWRS