George Washington High School - Monument Yearbook (Cedar Rapids, IA)

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THE CZEIOfRF? Upper Row: Chaminade Blackford Martha Sil eth Spanish , Spanish Lower Row: Nell G. Boyack Vera Chamberlin Ina Hibbard Commerce Commerce Commerce William S. Kelly Clara M. Travis business l.aw Mathematics Mabel DeWoody Marguerite Chapman Leota Swem Commerce Commerce Commerce COURSES OF STUDY Elective COMMERCE Three Units Pupils who secure the recommendation of the school for business careers have in addition to their commercial studies, at least two years of English, a year and a half of history and government and a year of science. The required science should be taken in the tenth year. It is advisable to decide at the beginning of the eleventh year between accounting and secretarial work as it makes a program too full to take both bookkeeping and stenographic work. It is a questionable practice for a pupil to attempt to take a foreign language and mathematics for college preparation and to prepare adequately for a business career at the same time. The work involves the covering of too much ground in three years and the result is not the best training for either. In addition to bookkeeping or shorthand or typing, pupils may take business arithmetic, geography, law, and salesmanship. No graduate may receive the unqualified service of the employment service who ranks below the upper fourth of the class. Elective SPANISH Nine Units Reading, grammar, and conversation arc taught in the order indicated. Spanish is now acceptable in most colleges in meeting a language entrance requirement. Spanish, as well as any other modern language, should be taken long enough to insure ability to read, speak and understand it. It is questionable practice to pursue any modem language merely two or three years in high school without following it up in college with advanced work heading to mastery. Fourteen 1 9 3 C1

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TH Upper Rote: Emily Matouiek Mathematics Grace I)e Noon Mathematics Lover Rote: Lucile Reynolds Scienee Carr B. I.avell Social Problem Belle Hansen History Ruth hairy History A. G. Bowne Science Alice Rudd Mathematics Hilda Horn Science Walter Estby Emma C l.arson 0. John Gcrwift Ella Grissel Science History Science Mathematics Leonard Paulu Science COURSES OF STUDY Required One Vnit Elective SC1ENCE Two .Wore Units Biology, a tenth year subject only, is a desirable elective for pupils in commerce, elementary teaching, nursing and those interested in electing three full years of science. This subject is essential if one would understand the world of living things—plants and animals—in their true relation to human life. Chemistry, an eleventh year subject, is a basic science; it shows how, utilizing the raw materials created in nature’s laboratory, man creates the products required for the health, happiness, and protection of all mankind. Physics, a twelfth year subject, is the best college entrance science. It is a prerequisite for all technical and scientific courses as well as essential for an understanding of many common natural phenomena. MATHEMATICS Elective Three Units Plane geometry, in the tenth year, following elementary algebra in the junior high school, is a college entrance requirement. Intermediate algebra in the eleventh year is offered for a semester and is followed by a semester of solid geometry. Both of these subjects arc recommended for college entrance and essential for those •'nticipating engineering careers. Advanced algebra and trigonometry’ are given alternately in the twelfth year and are highly desirable electives for eastern college entrance or for those planning for technical training in college. SOCIAL STUDIES Required One and One-half Units Elect ive Two .Wore U nit s Modem history’ covering the time between 1600 and the present day, is offered in the tenth year. American history is required of all pupils in the eleventh year. Government, concerned primarily with the constitutional system of our nation and state but including brief summary of the types of government of other civilized nations, is required of all pupils for one semester in the senior year. The remaining half of the year may be devoted either to economics or to social problems. -1 9 3 0 iHmimmimmiiNmimimiNiNiiMii Thirteen

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Up pi' Row: Lower Row: Sadie Combs English Rachel Wiiwer English Iva May Quiitley English Lulu E. Peterson English Clementine Otto Elizabeth Cock Lucilc Powell Eva Byerly English Lnglish Latin Latin Caroline Souttcr Marian Martin l.orcne MacDanel Latin E.nghtb English Caroline Schichtl English Marie Schmermund Latin Genevieve Dotson English V COURSES OF STUDY Required . Two Units Elective ENGLISH 7U,0 Units Proficiency in speaking and writing and an appreciation of masterpieces of literature arc the general aims of the work in English. In literature courses there is intensive study of classics; broad appreciation and interest is developed through collateral reading. In the senior year there is opportunity to elect college entrance English, a writing course (journalism), or oral English (speech). This arrangement pupil to stress the phase of English in which he is weak or to develop any special ability that he may possess in speaking or writing. Work in second year Latin begins in the tenth Elective LATIN Three Units year of senior high school. It is still the most generally desired language for college entrance. Because of the Latin nomenclature in dentistry, Law, medicine and pharmacy, it is recommended for professional preparation in these fields. It is also highly desirable in teaching and as a foundation for specialization in modem languages. No longer is Latin taught because of the theory that it is good to “train the mind or in order to teach English grammar. As long as it is required in the liberal arts world and is recognized as an assurance of intellectual achievement it will maintain itself on its merits. 19 3 0 Fifteen