Danville High School - Medley Yearbook (Danville, IL)

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cDepartment oj English (Continued) in prose and poetry, with four or five novels, three Shakespearean plays, and with a book of prose selections, including essays and short stories. The writing was continued during the last two years, the main emphasis being on the longer pieces. In the first semester of the Junior year he remembers his study and practice in Public Speaking of the various forms of oral English. This he recalls was followed by a semester in the study of American Literature through a histoy of literature containing different type illustrations. Those who took the required work will not know the pleasures of the study of the history and types of English Literature which those will call to mind who finished the last year of work offered in our course in English. A survey of English Literature with a study of every type completes the memory chest of those who have just finished this fourth year. MARY MILLER, - M.A. University of Illinois ELIZABETH OLMSTED, A.B. University of Michigan BURYL I . ENGLEMAN, A.B, Indiana State Normal Millikin University University of Colorado MARIE C. RHOADS, A.B. University of Illinois LOUISE TAYLOR, A.B. University of Illinois MARTHA A. WILSON, A.B. Rockford College Page Nineteen

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cDepartment oj Q V finishing the prescribed course in our high school, a student has completed either three or four years of work in English. If he has availed himself of the opportunity of taking all the English offered, he has finished the three required years and a fourth year which is elective. As he goes back to his start in high school, he remembers his first few meetings with his class room teachers in which he probably thought that the most work done in high school English was to become familiar with a large number of technical details, such as the requirements for oral and written themes, the proper endorsing of themes, the use of correction marks, how and when to give book reports, the use of the library, and the mysteries of conferences. All these he soon found were just the necessary equipment to understand the work. One semester sufficed to illustrate that the first two years of the English course were divided into two parts; the first for a study of composition and related subjects, and the second for a study of various types of literature, with a continuation of oral and written themes throughout. In the first two years he became familiar with the principles of the forms of discourse, with a group of selections JOHN E. WAKELEY, A.M. Wabash Co’lege University of Illinois MARY EWING, Ph.IJ. Depauw University Univrsity of Chicago Northwestern University MERRILL C. FAULK, A.M University of Illinois No thwestern University IRETA FREY. A.B. Knox College University of Illinois University of Wisconsin Page Eighteen

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Chilli Foreign Language department is divided into two parts—Latin, the uni-versal representative of the ancient languages and French, its offspring, the language of the courts and of diplomacy today. Latin may be studied by any student for the entire four years. Only two years of French, however, are offered. French is not open to Freshmen. Neither language is necessary for graduation but most of the pupils, believing the statement, “He knows not his tongue who knows only his own tongue,” take one or l oth. In Latin there is aside from the fundamental grammatical principles of the language, the story of Rome, the study of Caesar and his conquest of the Gauls, and Ovids Metamorphosis, store-house of Roman mythology. Senior Latin is Virgil’s Aeneid, the epic of Rome’s founding. The Aeneid is correlated with literature and art. The first year of French deals with the study of Paris and the French Provinces. In the second year, Victor Hugo’s “Jean Valjean,” Le Voyage de M. Perrichon and Favorite Short Stories are read. Thoughout there is constant drill in reading, writing and speaking the language. Ry the use of books, magazines, bulletin boards, pictures and clippings, the pupil is urged to know his foreign neighbors. EDITH W. MARKLEY. Pli.ll. University of Wisconsin University of Chicago McGill University FRANCKS SHUTTS, A.IS. Rockford Co’lege University of Illinois University of Madison GOl.DIA DKAN ROACH. A.IS. Western College University of Colorado HELEN S. CONOVER A.IS. Western College University of Chicago MADELINE I) AGUE A. IS. DePauw University HARRIET E. JOHNSTON. A.IS. Knox College Northwestern University CONSTANCE McCEANAHAN. A.IS. Monmouth College Paye Twenty