Emerson High School - Emersonian Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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ART The world is so full of beautiful things that we are indeed poor who cannot see and enjoy them. To live with and create that which is beautiful makes the drudgery of life’s common duties easier to accomplish. Make it one of the rules of your life to find something beautiful to look at every morning, and take time to enjoy it. You will not have to go out of your way. The Creator made nothing unsightly. All around us are wonders in form and color if we only have our senses trained to see. Let none of us belong to the class of those who “having eyes, see not.” —Ida A. Lull BOTANY IDA A. LULL A few years ago we were frequently asked why the subject of Botany should be offered in the high school, but now we are more frequently asked why we are not giving more time to so important a subject. The knowledge, which touches our lives at many points, thereby enabling us to understand our environment, is of most use to us. This is true of the knowledge we get from the study of plants, and we need to have much of such knowledge, whatever our business in life is going to be. Plants are having more to do with the making of history than kings and armies with all their war and commotion. The class of 1917 seems to have appreciated this fact, since more than fifty per cent of them have studied botany in the high school. CORA SNYDER, B. S. LATIN The Latin department offers a course of four years and enrolls about one-third of the High School students in classes. Caesar is read in the second year, Virgil and Cicero alternately in the third and fourth. The practical value of Latin is strongly emphasized, and an interesting Latin exhibit has been prepared by the students. The Classical Club is a live organization of about forty members from the advanced classes. It meets monthly in the Public Library Club Rooms. The Mercury GRACE OTT, Ph. B. News Service is a news bulletin published weekly by the department. Thirteen

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THE AUDITORIUM The auditorium in the Emerson Building has been called the “Heart of the School,” and rightly so. All the children circulate through it every day, and all teachers and all visitors come to it in course of time. It is a heart, and something more; it is a clearing house for ideas; it is a place for dramatic and musical expression; it is a m axttm pd u t community center. There correlation of work in various departments is found, . A. CHANDLER, B. L. work j s visualized, the abstract is made concrete, a motive is found for individual IDA ANDERSON effort, patriotism is taught, and the pupils grow to feel that they are the essential Ph. B. part of a great school system, and an important factor in American civilization. C. L. BROWNELL, A. B., A. M. Twelve

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J. A. WHITE EMERSON COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT The work offered in the Commercial Department is both academic and vocational. The content of these subjects, when studied as other high school studies are usually studied, contribute both to general culture and mental training. The North Central Association of Colleges allows entrance credits for bookkeeping, shorthand, business English, and other commercial subjects. When these subjects are taken with the intention of making them vocationally useful, they must be pursued somewhat more intensely, and to a considerable greater degree of perfection than is usual in other high school studies. Definite knowledge must be obtained and a considerable degree of skill acquired, for it is only that knowledge and skill which is one hundred per cent perfect most of the time that can be used in business, and which commands good pay. By including some of the commercial subjects in his elective studies, any high school student may receive at graduation a diploma that will admit him to college, and at the same time he will be qualified to enter a business office at a good salary. MINNIE KNICKERBOCKER EMERSON DRAFTING DEPARTMENT In the fall of nineteen hundred twelve, 0. N. Yeager took charge of the Emerson drafting department. Under his direction, the first systematized instruction was begun. Beginning with practically no equipment—rough-top tables, ragged-edge T- squares, cardboard triangles etc.—and no permanent room, the drafting department has grown by leaps and bounds until today it enjoys the distinction of having no superior in equipment or in desirability of location of room among the high schools and higher institutions of learning of the state. The work has been planned to meet the needs of two classes of students—those who intend to become draftsmen and those who wish to learn this “world” language that they may use it in their daily work. Provision has been made to care for all students—boys and girls—in the high school, and extending down to the third grade. HISTORY The study of History presents an opportunity this year that we seldom have. The aim of our work is to create a good citizen; a citizenship founded upon a knowledge of the problems and needs of our country. Current Events have formed a large factor in our work in an effort to meet this. O. N. YEAGER Fourteen