Central High School - Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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,mr-qi ,. -V.-5-Q-..v.0 . -1 . as if W .: if v 1 M Fw -fs r Q 3 fi Q T ... ai EQI, s Q, 3 The sTrange-sounding names seemed more remoTe, and more sTrange. Than ever. In 9B, in languages, we reached a criTical poinT. There were Two alTernaTives: know grammar, or Tail. Some of us knew grammar: oThers . . . We pause here To describe The oral reciTaTion, analogous To a vaccinaTion or oTher similar horror. The Teacher indicaTes a sTudenT-called The vicTim - by The hiT-or-miss-iab-The-' pencil-inTo-The-rolI-book meThod. and puTs a quesTion To him in his respecTive foreign language, wiTh machine gun rapidiT . The sTudenT - vicTim - blushes profusely, makes a Tew, barery audible. subhuman noises. and sinks inTo his seaT. This is The oral reciTaTion. Foreign language TesTs were alTogeTher enigimaTic. We were led To believe ThaT They were really psychological TesTs. designed To see how we could cope wiTh TrusTraTion. NeverThe- less. we sTudied. prayed. biT our nails, and did our besT. Those of us who reached The lOTh grade were pleased To learn ThaT The remainders of our respecTive courses consisTed mainly of reading. ATTer Two years, Foreign Language was no longer a re- quired subiecT. Accordingly. iT disappeared from a greaT many rosTers. Each class was whiTTled down To a hard core of dedi- caTed sTudenTs: Those who were proTicienT in foreign languages, and Those who could wriTe very small. We proceeded merrily. TranslaTing sTories, and spending weeks reading books ThaT could have been 'Finished in hours. had They been read in English. Only The LaTin sTudenTs sTruggled along, sTill Trying To comprehend The rudimenTs of Their scholarly Tongue. When we Tinally became sTaTely seniors, we were preTTy well adiusTed To our languages courses. There was a warm sTudenT-Teacher relaTionship, Tempered by The muTual agree- menT ThaT iusT abouT everyone would pass if he paid a reasonable amounT of aTTenTion and didn'T snore. For The mosT parT. we read The classics of our adopTed counTries. We sympaThized wiTh our Teachers when They sadly announced ThaT They were forced To give us TesTs. and we iTied Them Tor having To mark Them. raTher Than ourselves for having To Take Them. In The end, we were surprised To find ThaT we had goTTen Through The Tour-year course sTill a greaT disTance away from The desired goal of high proficiency in The language. 2l

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