Dekalb High School - Kalibre Yearbook (Dekalb, IL)

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HREE and one alf years of soclal sclence are offered to all students An ele mentary course 1n c1v1cs M155 ADH IS grven enterlng fresh men One year of world hrstory and one f Amerlcan history are requlred of all students who wlsh to be gradu ated Electxve courses rn economlcs and A merlcan government are offered for semors Mlss Gertrude Ady and Mr Merlm Raddat7 mstruct ln CIYICS Amerlcan h1s MR RADDATZ SOCIAL SCIENCE tory world hlstory and economlcs M Paul Rutledge teaches Amen can history and Mrss Jeann Sohner teaches world hlstory I-llstory should b taught to flx the hablt of wexghlng h1stor1cal evrdence to glve tram mg ln the use of books to set up for conscxous xmltatlon xdeals of con duct of patrlotrsm of socxal servxce to mculcate practlcal knowledge that can be turned to account rn the daxly on cerns of lxfe It should persuade the student to lrve the life that makes for the welfare of hlm self and of the world MR RUTLEDGE ECREIGN LANGUAGES Two drstmct classes of language are repre language department romance languages and l.at1n Mss Edith Wentworth and Mrs Wxnlfred Stewart have charge of the Latln de partment T h e fundamental reason for studymg Latm IS to g1ve the stu dent a greater understandrng of Engllsh In con nectlon wlth th1s langu age comes the acqulsmon of a knowledge of hrs tory geography myth ology and many other by paths In llterature the orlgmal language renders the work more colorful and xt expres ses a meanlng that the translatxon cannot con vey The ultrmate objec MRS STEWART MISS VJEYTXVORTH Fourteen uve m offermg a course ID l atm rs to make one and understandmg for the c1t17en IS more valu able because culture augments lntelllgence The arm ln the teach mg of the romance language IS to acquamt the students of each language W 1 t h t h people who speak II and wlth what rs fmest students 1n these classes carry on an actxve and personal correspondence wlth students of Eng lxsh ln other lands MISS Mmme Jones mstructs German and Spamsh Mlss Mar guerlte Carnal teaches French and Spamsh Mlss Irma Wlttke teach es French Miss JONES ln thelr culture Fll'e MISS CARNAI h ' f ' . r. m x 1 f, ' e . 3 'I p . O ,. . . . p , ' I D U ,: . 1 I 1 7 J I I . A 7 i D I . sented in the foreign broader in his attitudes 1 3 I ' 1 . . . 1 u D . - . 7 n 1 e ' g M in in

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MATHEMATICS T e true end ol mezlh mums leaehznu rx pouer and no! kmzeeleefqe Sehtlllle To dexelop the In ectual of reasonIng facultres show that thInkIng IS more effectwe than memorI1Ing to develop apprecIatIon f mathematxcs and of IIS contrlbutron to sclence Inveatxons and human a w1llIngness to accept and to glVL helpful crItIcIsm to develop specIal characterlstrcs among whIch are accuracy and orIgInal1ty these are the arms of the teachtng of mathematics The study of mathematrcs aIds the IndIvIdual to thmk stralght reason logrcally and be honest wIth htmself In hIs CIVIC e onomIc and avoca txonal lIfe He IS helped to gaIn the vItal thIngs of lIfe by learnmg to analyze and to dIscrImI nate and to reject that vshlch IS valueless and wasteful of tIme and effort Emally he becomes acquamted wIth the eternal rIghtness of all wtth MR HOPPE betterment to develop whlch he IS surrounded The need for provmg stat m nts loglcally and for assoclatlng one thIng Wlth another IS reme dled In mathematIcal precIs ness Raprdrty In applled arIthmetIc as IS taught In commerclal arIthmetIc courses proves elf not Immedlately at least In tImeJ very valuable to the student Neatness IS a practIcalIty requrred In mathe mattcs Mathematlcs IS Indrspensabl for the study of the exact scrences and no on wlthout mathe matlcal scholarshlp can hope to advance far as an Investlgator In them Hence Kant saId A SCICHCB IS exact only In so far as lf employs mathemattcs Our entIre pres nt cIvIlI7atIon says Professor Voss far as It depends upon the Intellectual penetra tron and utIlIZatIon of nature has IIS real foun datIon In the mathe matIcal scIences E gIneerIng archItecture navIgatIon rulroad butldlng Ind survey Ing Ire more or ess based upon mathem1tIe al foundatlons There fore any natIon that NIISS WOI F hopes to rIse to com merctal and IndustrIal supremacy must not ex clude scIentIf1c methods Consequently lf must develop IIS mathematlc MISS STOONN al resources Two years of mathematlcs are requIred mf every student who 19 graduated begmmng algebra and plane geometry Otl er courses In mathematlcs whIch are offer d ar advanced algebra trIgonometry solId geometry and com mercIal arIthmetIc DUf1Hg the school year the electlve mathemattcs cours classes make note books whIch they dlsplay at the annual Xhlblt each sprlng Algebra IS taught by Mrss Edna Wolf Mr E O Hoppe and Mr O I Leach geometry by MISS Dorothy Stookey MISS Edna Wolf Mr E O Hoppe and Mr O I leach trIgo nometry IS taught by Mr E O Hopp MATHEMATICS IN BUSINESS Precrsely as the student of geometry the busIness man has t conslder the varxous means at hrs dtsposal he has to examlne each to elImInate those that are unfit and to Welgh and to compare the others In all steps he must have a clear notIon of the SIIUBIIOD of the means to be adopted f the end to be reached Lonfusrng the data and random guessmg wtll produce In busIness no better results than IH math mattcs More than one busIness man has testIlied that he owes hlS success In lxfe to the hablts of exact thlnktng whIch he formed when studylng mathemlttcs MR l.l:AC.ll The earlIest Amertcan mathematIcIan of dIstInctIon was accustomed to remark God IS the great geometer Th1S statement was made because he saw so many examples of geometry as they 1ppear In nature Iroclu, tells the story of LuelIel s replx to lxmg Ptolemy who Isked whether there wls any shorter way In geometry than that of the Elements There IS no royal road to geometry Thzrteen ' h, , . ' L., ' , , V. I ' Q- 'vu - ur 1 ' , . I tell, . use the - - , . ., ' I I0 4 1 H 5 . I Q I i K ' D . . . , , , -- , an ' o ' ' Q. . I 1 - . 1 1 ' ' V ' Tv ' l w ' ' 1 x ,- v ! 1 I 1 1 Q Y 7 - I I 1 u l ' s L x ' ' V' ' ' ' I - I . ' V Q 1 . Q I L' v Y . . . , . . . .' 1 - 3 . 5 . 0 . . . . . . f . 1 ak ak X Dk ,F bk Y V Y v v ' , 1' V ' O . , ' 1 ' v , e . v V C l - 7 , O . . . . - . ,, s , , , , e . I - ff It - . . . . ,, ' - ' ' ' I O , ,Q A H ' , . . ev , ' ' L 4. . a n a A ' . , . l . 1 ' V 1 c x 3- C I X I x V T Y . . ' . . . . A L ee I v L lk s e '-- ' e L A 1 s L 1 .

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SCIENCE fln oulposl or fha! eeonelrous realm Wherern lonvorruu, .s Izrlzsons luu lounclulrons for undreannd uchretrnnnrs HE COURSES rn natural and physr cal scrences arm to grve the student a clear er understandrng of the composrtron of the drf ferent materrals of hs envrronment the rela tron of these materrals to each other the effect of these materrals on hrs lrfe some apprecratron of the rmportance of s r entrfic changes rn rndus try and an arm whrch rt shares wrth oth r scr ences the development rn some measure of scr entrfic method of thrnk rn MR EVERX to Junrors and senrors The laboratory rs at the drsposal of these stu dents and two perrods each week are devoted to experrmentrng rn the fields of physrcal scr ences The practrcal experrence garned by the students rn controllrng the reactrons whrch take place by varyrng the condrtrons adds much to MR STEPHENS an understandrng of the materral world M W T Emery drrects the chemrstry work Physrcs the scrence MR BEAUMONIT of matter and energy treats the study of me chanrcs heat sound lrght and electrrcrty The arm of thrs work rs to strmulate the student to rnterpret hrs experr ences rn the lrght of natural laws Mr XV H Beaumont has charge of the physrcs work The major arms of general scrence are to rncrease the puprl s ap precratron of hrs surroundrngs to develop the powers of observatron to trarn the student rn the screntrfrc or experrmental methods of reason rng to provrde opportunrty for acquarntance wrth such elementary laws of nature as are neces sary to the welfare of the rndrvrdual and of the communrty and to provrde opportunrty for exploratron resultrng rn educatronal and voca tronal gurdance To as sure these results rn a measure the students are allowed to experr ment wrth varrous ma terrals and to report therr drscoverres ln the report the materral used MR OBFRI rv rn the experrment the method of experrmentatron the observatron of the student and the practrcal applrcatron of the work are the all rmportant factors Mr J T Moss and Mr W B Beaumont teach general scrence Hrgh school brology arms to rnstruct the student rn gathermg valuable rnformatron re gardrng the plant and anrmal lrfe rn order that he may attam more precrsron and accuracy rn hrs observatron The puprl should be started to a screntrfic habrt of mrnd wrth a fearless rnvestr gatron of data and wrth a development of a love of the truth that wrll carry over rn hrs future judgments Mr W S Qberlrn and Mr E T Stephens teach brology bk Dk Pk Tongues rn trees books rn the runnrng brooks Sermons rn stones and MR Moss good rn everythrng Fifteen e I y . Q 'I 1 , . r ' v ' ' - I m x ' - , , . ' , - , , - ' i . ' ' x x , l ' . , r V ' - , e - r - , X . ' 3 3 2. , ' Chemrstry rs offered - , , ,- . , . . ' x ' e A . . . . , , . r. . . . , , 1 ' - . . - . y L L Y x ' . x ' i , ' Y ' A 4 ' . e ' .