Central School - Deeds and Misdeeds Yearbook (Decatur, IN)

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DEEDS AND MISDEEDS —9 MARY FUHRMAN Second Grade URBAN B. JEFFRIES Physical Training

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8— DEEDS AND MISDEEDS NEVA BRANDYBERRY Fifth Grade DORIS DeVOSS Sixth Grade

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10 - DEEDS AND MISDEEDS DEPARTMENTAL ENGLISH. We sometimes find people who would rather break all the Ten Com¬ mandments than a rule of English but such persons are not numerous in the seventh and eighth grades. Perhaps this is because they know that real¬ ly great people are never bound by formal rules. Making slips of language or even actual blunders may be no great crime, yet the great educators of the country are emphasizing the need of all teachers to compel strict observance of proper English in all the student’s work. To insist on a child’s using good language in an English class and then allow him to murder it in his other work will not produce the desired results. No matter what one’s vocation may be the ability to speak and write the English language correctly and flu¬ ently not only wil increase his capac¬ ity for social enjoyment, but will also increase his ability to succeed in whatever career he may follow. Every progressive, intelligent per¬ son is concerned about his English for just as his deportment evidences his breeding in a like manner his English betokens either his illiteracy or his culture. To overcome the common errors of speech requires constant watchful¬ ness. Good English is largely a mat¬ ter of habit. Are you willing to make the effort to acquire the habit? —Miss Coffee MATHEMATICS. The pupils of the seventh and eighth grade have accomplished much during the past year in the sub¬ ject of mathematics under our able teachers, Mr. Heller and Mr. Brown. We have been studying the Went¬ worth and Smith Arithmetic during the past year. Albert Mumma says that he is going to write an Arithme¬ tic and we are all anxiously waiting to see the first edition though we re¬ gret to say tliatwe are afraid that many of us will be old and grey-head¬ ed before it is printed. He says that he is afraid that he will forget some of Mr. Brown’s formulas and will have to make a special visit to Decatur and have Mr. Brown dictate them to him again. The Arithmetic note books which have been prepared by the 8A pupils will be on exhibit this year at the fair and Mr. Brown has every reason to be proud of them because they are something out of the ordinary and are very attractive. —Esther Biggs. CIVICS. Civics is the science of civil govern¬ ment. Community Civics one of the text books used in the seventh and eighth grades is issued in the hope that it may prove an aid and guide to our bo ys and girls in the study of what is perhaps the most inspiring and significant subject in the whole curriculum. Community Civics discusses vari¬ ous phases of community life such as “Needs and forms of government,” “The rights and duties of citizens.” “The health of the community,” “Training the Young Citizen,” “Politi¬ cal parties and elections” and “Social problems.” The American Civic association is an organization founded in 1904 for the cultivation of higher ideals of civic life and beauty in America, the promotion of city, town and neigh¬ borhood improvement, the preserva-