Franklin Community High School - Kite Yearbook (Franklin, IN)

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' HN o+++4avwQmo+u 2' Eepartment of Science tv V1 0-Q-.4++4o+oo+ooo-o moo I value science-none can prize it more. It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee. Abraham Coles. To the natural philosopher, to whom the whole extent of nature belongs, all the individual branches of science consti- tute the links of an endless chain, from which not one can be detached without ' destroying the harmony ot the whole.- . Friedrick Schoedler. I The department of science in the MISS NETTIE CRAFT Franklin High School includes botany, chemistry, physics and physical geogra- phy. One year is given to each, with the exception ot physical geography, which is completed in one halt year. :IBotanQ The course of botany extends through the freshman year. The aim of this year's work is to bring the pupil in closer touch with the beauties of' nature, enabling him to understand his own environment and to widen his horizon. - Dr. Coulter's Plant Studies is the text used and made the basis of the work. The nature ot the plant is studied and for this work the student is provided with notebook and drawing tablet, in which his observations are recorded and sketches made. The plant is also studied in relation to its surroundings and a little time iz' given to histolo0'ic-il study. During the latter part ot the spring term the- 'J es Cv f .. is c student makes an herbarium of the flora found about Franklin. Gbemietrig The work in chemistry runs through the sophomore year. The text used is Williams, c'Elements of Chemistry. Williams' Manual is used in the- laboratory. Each student is requiredwto do individual laboratory work. During this year's work it is hoped that in addition to acquiring facts of elementary chemistry, the student will acquire the habits of thinking scien- tin'cally and observing accurately. Ilbbnsics Carhart and C'hute's Elements ot Physics is used as a text through the Junior year. Laboratory work is done in connection with the text. llbbnsical Geography Physical geography for the first halt and book-keeping for the last halt of the year form one line of work through the Senior year. The text used in O physical geography is Tarr's 'fEleinentsf'

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tional growth of this nation, and the development of the English Constitu- tion. Supplemenary courses in reading, reviews and reports at stated times are required in this years work. The texts are a History of England, by Coman and Kendall, and the Elements of English Constitutional History, by E. C. Montague. The study ot the history of the United States is the last in the course because to the American student it is of greatest importance. The United States is closely related with previous ages and with other civil-A ized countries. The more advanced mind is essential to thc grasp of our in- stitutional life and its dependence upon the life of other nations. The elfort in this yearis work is to establish the facts of our history and to develop an admiration and respect for American institutions which will manifest itself in teh loyalty of our students when they assume the duties of American citizenship. Channing's United States History is used, together with H'ouiig .: Civil Goveriiinent.

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0044 f Department of mathematics and :English f o++44+o+oo-o+o+oo Q04 oo Q4-Q+eoeo44o+o+o4 Perhaps the most considered ques- tion in the arrangement of a Mathemat- ical course for our secondary schools to- day, is the one confronting every depart- ment ot the school, that is: What is the ultimate end of the work given, is the student to be prepared by it for higher work along the same line in college, or is he to be fitted at once for the so-called practical affairs of life? The question comes to the inatheniatical department somewhat niore forcibly than to the oth- M155 HERRIOTT CT-ARE PM-MER ers, perhaps, in that vvhile thc average High School student in any department does not become the college student, but goes to his liteyvork without a col- lege education, because ot this very fact he usually regards the mathematical course as the most practical fitting for this yvork and demands that it contain those subjects and that they be so presented as to justify the faith he has placed in the study. On the other hand, colleges and universities are mak- ing their demands of the secondary schools and especially if the student is to specialize in mathematics. must he find his foundation in the High School. 'l'he work in niatheinatics in the Franklin High School comprises three years. One year and a half is devoted to algebra and one year and a halt to geometry-plane and solid. The textin algebra is Taylor's Elements ot Algebra, the text in Geometry is 4'Wentxvorth's Revised Edition. 'l'here is a natural order in the development ot mathematical subjects. while a part ot-arithmetic may tind its demonstrating principles in geometry, the equation ot' algebra can not be comprehended and solved without certain Ql'll1ltl2llllC'lll12ll processes ot arithmetic: the demonstration of a proposition and the solution ol' an exercise in geometry tind their basis in the equation of algebra. lt is this development. therefore. which determines the subjects chosen and their order ol' arrangement in this or any secondary school. 'l'his tact. then. together with. tirst. the inherent' nature ot mathematics which calls into play certain powers ot the mind. and. second. the mechan- ieal action ol' the mind and hand which is the practical result of the previous development ol' the subject, determines our beliel' to be. that the mathemat- ical course in the lligh School is the same and the presentation is the same, whether the student is to go to college or to go to xvorlv.