UPPER—Radio and Physics Class. Mr. Oswald, adviser. LOWER—Miiss Hills’ Biology. Class. Preparedness The pre-induction radio course was born in October, 1942, due to a War Department order. Commerce’s traditional preparedness in emergencies at once sprang to life, and Mr. Oswald was drafted as instructor. Since then, Room 323 has become the haven of radio-minded boys, who daily decode the sharp “dit dit dit dot” of the Morse Code mes- sages. The sending technique quickly is mastered by apt pupils; and soon the boys are tapping the telegraph key, or striving to receive ten to twelve words a minute. Closely allied with radio is the physical science course. Combining a variety of physics, electricity, and machine fundamentals, this course contains a “little bit of everything.” The usefulness of these courses will not decline after Commerce boys come home again; instead they may find them very important in the post-war world. [25 ] A Wartime Jradition The fact that American girls need more scientific knowl- edge has spurred curriculum specialists to require biology asa subject for all Commerce girls. During the past year, even lily-fingered maidens undertook the application of biological facts to their daily lives. To be sure, these girls who shiv- ered in their loafers when extricating “innards” from an unhappy worm never understood the apparent enjoyment of Yet, led by Miss Hill, Dr. Gadaire, and Mr. Jones, the girls plunged heroically into their task of learning formulas, terms, and other biological complexities. Perhaps they did not realize how the vertebral structure of a fish would affect their own backbones, but inevitably some small factor would emerge from the textbooks which actually would pertain to their lives as American high school girls, biologically-minded pupils.
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