Franklin Central High School - Liberanni Yearbook (Franklin, NY)

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ILANQEJ UJACUJM The aims in the study of Latin are as follows: 1. To acquaint the student with Roman civilization from which many of our political and legal ideas have been inherited 2. To stimulate intellectual growth by opportunities to develop logical thinking. 3. To teach the student to take as his own, part of the experience of nearly a thousand years of history, science, literature, politics, and engineering. 4. To make lives richer through understanding the mean- ing of many Latin words, phrases, and quotations of frequent occurrence in English. 5s To teach the derivation of Latin words in English, enabling one both to understand meanings of many previously unfamiliar words and to appreciate the real meaning of many familiar words. The Department is using in French this year, for the first time, the Cleveland Plan, thereby French is the medium of instruction. The students learn French by speaking the language during the entire class period. Their prdgress is slower but their grasp of the content of the lessons studied is far more comprehensive under this plan.

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IUHEHZMQY Library service has increased in the past six years for the following reasons: 1. Increased facilities offered students 2. Increased correlation of subject matter by teachers. 5. Expansion of recreational reading 4. Use of the reference collection by people not connected with the school 5. Teaching of library usage through special instruction Grade libraries are housed at present in separate rooms and have grown proportionately in service and volume. These libraries include their own periodicals, while the main reference .collection is available to grade pupils and teachers. The number of volumes in the high school library when it was transferred to the new building in 1951 was 6013 the number of volumes at present is 1696. Each year 550 additional books from the State Traveling Library are available to the school. The library is a member of the Junior Literary Guild of America for older boys and girls which selects the out- standing books of the month for young people. A complete library catalog of author, subject, and title cards increases the usefulness of the book collection. The growth of the library necessitated additional shelving in 1956. The collection of reference books ranges from Famous First Facts to L1 incott's Gazeteer, a film catalog Index, and Book seI5Et on ographfes. The Americana Enc clo edia was purchased in 19563 the World Book in 19553 ew n ernational in 1952, Com ton'sEgcturgifgngzglopedia in 1950, WI5ston's Loose Leaf Eib 510 edlalfromgthe ormer D. L. I. Ifbrary, and Popular c ence cyclopedia purchased in 1950. The library subscribes to the daily Egg York Times and twenty-six periodicals on news, art, science, health, and occupation. French periodicals are available to language students. A vertical file of pictures, pamphlets, and clippings on important subjects has recently been completed. Important magazines are kept on file and are used by pupils locating magazine material on a given topic. A bound set of Nationql Geogqaggdc from 1919 to 1955 has been given to the Ifbrary throng e courtesy of Fred Hubbell. Circulation Statistics Year Average Daily Total Yearly 1951 16.9 1117 1952 17 2589 1955 16 2801 1954 18 5001 1955 24.2 5156 1956 24.6 4568 1957 CJan.-Apr.D 54.1 2505