Elko High School - Pohob Yearbook (Elko, NV)

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lgnhnh for good reason a student may be allowed to postpone takmg rt untll his Senlor year Thls however IS dlscouraged as much as posslble ln 1922 23 there were two sectlons of elghteen students each Mr Anderson follows hrs own outlme of Amerlcan Hlstory whlch he devlsed at Harvard Unrversrty last summer Beard s HIS tory of the United States IS used as a text but IS not closely followed slnce Mr Anderson wlshes to have the students get therr mformatlon from as WldC a variety of sources and from as many dlfferent pomts of vlew as posslble One of the prmclpal objects of thc course IS to teach the students to reason out present day problems by applymg the lessons learned from hlstory Problems m Amerlcan Democracy IS another one of the few courses whlch every student IS required to take ln order to be grad uated lts place rs ID the Semor year and only for especxally urgent reasons are any allowed to take lt before that tlme The subject matter of thls course IS very mterestlnv The greater part of the first semester IS taken up wxth a study of economlc prob lems connected wlth the productlon exchange and consumptlon of goods and the dlstrlbutlon of wealth such as the advantages and dlS advantages of large scale productlon corporatlons and thenr control monopolles and trusts raxlway regulatxon labor dlsputes and many others The remamder of the semester and the first part of the second IS devoted to the studv of varlous soclal problems such as poverty crlme the race questlon lmmlgratlon and the like The remalnd r of the second semester 19 occupied by a study of the Natlonal State and local governments ln the country Usually all students are requlred to take the full year s work ln Problems ln Amerlcan Democracy but where good reasons exnst some may be permitted to substltute Commerclal Law th first semester The Commercial Law Class thls year was taught by Mr E Martle The text was Cano s Commerclal Law Thls subject takes up contracts notes partnershlps and every day pOllClCS ln bushes questlons CIVIC Patrlotlsm IS taught nn our school one hour a week ln con formlty with the State law The entlre school IS dlvlded mto four classes The Semors are taught by Mr Martxe wlth the RCVICW of RCVICWS as a text MISS Cralg has charge of the umors who prefer the Independent for thenr source of mformatlon The Sophomores taught by Miss McRae also use the lnclependent for reference The Freshmen dlrected by lVl1ss Knemeyer study the world s happenmgs as they are chromcled rn Current Events I4 1 . , , . N . . . . v u - . H . . , . . . . X . Y ' Y D' 1 l Y 1 Y , 9 , t , . S ' 1 - v . Q fs V . . v 4. . n . . , , ' L S . . . . . . . - . . u . 0 fl 1 a , . J , ll If a 1 n ' 9 - H U Y n ' ' I 1 7 9 5 I If 'V

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15111111 h Social SCICDCCS N the last few years the hlstory depart ment has Improved bv leaps and bounds Thns year Amerrcan Hrstorv Early Euro p an l-llstory and Mod ern European l-lnstory are taught There ar A now two mstructors ln charge of thls department Mr George H Anderson who has charge of the first and lVllss Angle Roosa who teaches the last two Th Early European l-lrstory Class IS composed mostly of Sopho mor s Freshmen dodge history rf they can but by the time th y have comaleted thelr first year s work MISS Knemeyer usually conslders that the tlme has come when they should begln upon some of the serxous thmvs of llfe and accordmgly she enrolls them ln the class ln Early European l-lrstory ln the Early European l-llstory Class Xvest s Early Progress 1 and thelr development down to the time of the French Revolutlon ln thus way the foundatlons for the study of Modern Europe are lard Ten students comprlse the class ln Modern Hlstory thls year Last year lt had but slx members It IS hlghly regretable that so few students take up the study of thr hlghly Important subject bearlng so drrectly as xt does upon the problems that confront the Amerxcan c1t17en USlDg West s Modern Progress as thelr text the students m thxs course take up the tangled threads of European life and polrtrcs wlth the French Revolutlon and follow them down to the present tlme A thorough understandmg of the compllcated sltuatlon ln Europe to day IS thus obtamed The State law provldes that no one may be graduated from hrgh school wlthout completmg satlsfactorrly a course m American history and more students take this subject therefore than any other rn the school Normally xt comes ln the unxor year but once ln a whlle I3 I I - ' I . e - ndcrson I - Rouse 1 U ll fl is used for the text. This study takes up the history of the early races ' :S A u t I y l

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151111 n lt Foreign Languages HE forelgn lang uages taught here thus year wer Spanlsh French and Latm Two years of each language IS taught ln order to prepare the tudent for h1s college work ln the first ear Spanlsh Class emphasls IS placed upon the speakmg and readmg of Spanlsh The first semester IS devoted to the study of grammar so that the student wlll have a ood foundatlon for speaking and readmff Durmg the second semester much practlce work IS carrled on The umor Red Cross gave the class the prlvllege of correspondmg with th schools ln South America The class wrote two letters one tellmv of Nevada The class does not expect to hear from the South Amen can students untll the first of next s mester ThlS correspondenc 1 carrled on to create a better feellng between the students of the United States and th lr southern nelghbors B sides thls mterestmg work th puplls worked out one act plays based on a well known fairy tale The French Class thls year was very small Second year French onlv was taught The work consxsted mostly of the study of advanced grammar and of the readln of standard French prose of whlch th class completed several hundred pages more than IS requnred by the state course of study Two Latln classes were tau ht-one m Grammar and elementary reading and the other In Caesar Both of these also were very small but what they lacked ln quantlty they more than made up m quallty the Cesar Class haung read far ln advance of the required mmlmum lVlxss Mlldred Rauner IS head of the department and mstructor ln Latln and Spanlsh whlle Miss Cenevleve Robison teaches French I5 Y 'K Q s ' y -L . Robinson Rauner . . y U n ' g 0. n . 9 . ni e . ' -. , ' . t , ' .. of the points of interest in Elko and the second telling about the State . ' . e . ' e 7: I g I n , l . S n . so g . O ' 7 , I. . . . . , .