Elko High School - Pohob Yearbook (Elko, NV)

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lilnhuh Sclence INCE. the foundmg of the Elko Coun ty Hrgh School a great deal of emphasls has been placed upon the teachmg of sclence especially smce l9l 7 when the openmg of the new bulldmg wlth rts splendldly equlpped shm laboratorxes provlded excellent faCllltlCS for the study of thrs branch of learmng The Blology Class thls year was made up of Sophomores unlors and Seniors It was a small class but the enthusiasm shown by its members brought lt to a hngh standard A field trlp was made ln the fall of the year as the result of which many blologlcal specxmens were brought back to the study hall A full set of experlments have been completed by thus class Mr Anderson boasts that his Chemrstry Class has the highest scholarshxp average of any class of 1ts slze ln the school The tech nlcal slde of chemxstry has been emphasrzed and an effort has been made to glve to the students tramlng ln sclentlflc m thods of thought and observatron that will be of value to them whether they contmue the study of the subject further or not The class has had at lts dns posal what IS probably the second or thxrd most complete stock of chemlcals ln the State besides an unusually complete equipment of apparatus It has made good use of these facllltles thrs year l'laVln0' completed some twenty more than the required number of expert ments The PSYSICS Class was composed exclusively of Semor boys While the stock of apparatus at hand for the use of thls class IS not as extenslve as that avallable for the chemists no Important experx ments have had to be omltted Several new pleces were added durlnfr the course of the year Including a Hartl Optlcal Disc and a wireless set for demonstratlon Mechanics of sollds Hulds and gases sound heat magnetism electricity and llvht were covered as thoroughly as time and the mathematical preparation of the students permitted I6 0 r X . . . Anderson I ' . S , J 7 . , Q . .... Q N4 l . , O , .. ' ca . . . . . x Q ' Y Y I Y 1 1 5

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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. . . . . , .

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lgnhnh Mathematics HIS year Elko l-ll h School of f red courses IU Commerclal Arxthme tlc fir t year General Vlather atlcs Plane Ge ometry Solnd Geome try Advanced Algebra Trigonometry and The oretlcal Algebra One MR, hlgh school credlt was UIVCH for each of the flrst four courses whxlc one half credlt was glven for each of the last three ln these courses the study of mathematxcs IS as completely pro Vldefl for as m most of th larger hr h schools of the Unlted States Elko l-'hgh S hool IS probably the only school ID thls state that new course that IS just bemg trled out ln thrs hugh school for the firs year stud nts Many of he students who would find the first yea course of Algebra hard haxe l1ttle or no trouble wlth the mterestmg wor of Algebra Geometry and Trwonometry combined ln General lVl1themat1cs The work m graphs of statlstlcs PICYOUYBIIIS and canto grams whlch the students have done thls year IS not only lnterestmg but fasclnatmg The Plane Geometry students are taught practlcally all the fun damental pI'lI1C1plCS of planes trlanvles quadrllaterals other polygon and clrcles The development of the formulas for prisms pyramids cyhnders cones and spheres even the prlsmatold formula have been worked out by the Sohd Geometry Class The makmcf of models has been an mterestmg part of thls work Besides mak ng polyhedral angles pyra mlds prlsms paralleplpeds and frustums thus class has made the Hve regular polyhedrons These are the tetrahedron of four faces hexa hedron of SIX faces octahedron of elght faces doclecahedron f twelve faces and the lcosahedron of twenty faces I7 . . , I .0 1 . ' 5 ' .' . Q It- , L V l . ' . - , - K 3 l Kncmeyer ' 1 ' C C x D . 3 ' '. . . e C 'g . r ' - . C . . . offers a course in General Mathematics. General Nlathematics is a . .... . . P 2 . T r ,v Y . . . .x , D 4 . . k Q, O , ' 4 , I , L Y 9 Y , a , . O , K ' ' Q - . . . . , 3 Y 9 n L , , -I , 7 , , 9 0 , Q '