Fostoria High School - Red and Black Yearbook (Fostoria, OH)

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ll xl- xx-X 'Q . A, K' 1 'K , , , ,, '- R - il I , V K' ,. - 'lT...,......... ........... -'bln . 3. Mah i' .t . . -an -fl 1 4 Q '. .- 1: : i , .0 I ul' , -' Llt.I.r 1 z'Y!...mXi fx. Mathematics and Science The aims of the teaching of mathematics in high school may be divided roughly into three groups-practical, disciplinary, and cultural. The practical aims are achieved in the teaching of the ability to solve the problems that arise in everyday life. Mental discipline is developed through the analysis of problems in which the student learns to reject those facts that are irrelevent, to establish correct relations among the remaining ones, and, finally, to reach logical conclusions. In many cases the appreciation of pure mathematics may be cultivated, and it is here that the cultural aims are realized. The science courses of the school teach the student the nature of his physical environment. In an age in which man has gained such control over nature through science it becomes increasingly important that education should provide the individual with its findings and methods in order that he may be satisfactorily adjusted to his surroundings. No student is graduated from our school without at least one course in this department. Mk. BLooM Miss KELLEY MR. CooK MR. STEED 1 -c - +-c 15,30 Q-e ' , to 4 i S I Page Twenty three I s ,

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- A :K-A: ' V ' 1515? ' -v--vu M - ' i , . ' A A l 55, I' . ----'-Q1--21.9452-,A .--fe. , f ,ga fi, U 7. :i: !i1f,lil1:4 'Q l' ' .fa The English Department The work of this department seeks first to provide, through training in both oral and written English, greater command of communication and facility in self- expression. The establishment of right habits in the matter of composition is regarded as fundamental. Literature in the English course is not regarded as an end in itself, a body of facts to be learned, but as an instrument through which the student may be initiated into the spiritual heritage stored up for him in books. The course hopes to train the student to use his leisure time profitably and happily, to broaden and to deepen his sympathies, to enable him to understand how the race has loved and worked and suffered and laughed. It aims to make what he learns function nobly in reverence for law and tradition, for humanity, and for God. The English department, in breaking away from the older and more formal methods of teaching, lays emphasis upon meeting the individual needs of the student. To this end the department supervises such extra curricular activities as Sigma Lambda, the dramatic work, debate, and the editing of the Red and Black publications. Miss McDERMoTT Miss SCHAEFFER Miss Surrox MR. TVARNER ' ' -- A 3 R 1-44,7 x t.-9:..1vg'?'v i A ii' s- - . .- v Page Tfufenty-tfwo :pu

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' ' 1? 'Jin Eff!--Alu C 15 I if N. 1' -P WL L - f- f . f Fi--ff ' f. 1 V ia- is- , Q -- -4 g M- . 5. ,. H T5 i ag.-3,1594 tg nf., f L. . J..- .-aww, .,a,......,.tF .- L y ' t A .1 XA 'llgw 1-155-,fu 7 5 l- ' - 9 -Q9 .. :'x1Z 'il g The Language Department Latin study not only provides the background for a better understanding of our laws and institutions, but also forms the basis for a real appreciation of what the English language is. The study of the social customs of the Romans is stimulated through the use of interesting projects and such illustrative materials as pictures and drawings. The Foreign Language department offers unusual opportunties to the students enrolled in its class, inasmuch as the basis of international good-will and tolerance rests in an understanding of the ideals and customs of the other nations of the world. We are able to enrich our own ideals only through comparison and contact with the best achievements of others. After certain fundamentals of grammar are mastered, the student begins to read the masterpieces of France and Spain, and to acquire a speaking knowledge of these languages which will definitely enlarge his horizons and outlook upon life both at home and abroad. Many students have enjoyed carrying on correspondence with students of these foreign countries. Miss MCCAULEY Mas. BLAND Miss VAN AUSDALL Miss STACKHOUSE -f.....l4- ..-......, ....-- ..- ,, , . -... V - - ,., ,-,. Page Tfwenty-four