Glenville High School - Olympiad Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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rOIIKS AMI SH.VALS AMI IIKA( (I LllillTS The English Department of Glenville has, it seems, within the last year placed particular emphasis on the literary division of its curriculum with a view toward the cultivation of an appreciation of literature with particular regard to modern literary efforts. Moreover, under the instruction of each English teacher, it has been evident that the pupils of Glenville have been advised how to write with far more facility than formerly, and in some cases creative writers, or at least creative thinkers, have been developed. We say here, “advised how to write,” rather than, “taught how to write,” because the teaching of the student consisted merely in his following and developing individually, the advice given him by the teachers. Too, this year it seems that the English Department has succeeded in accomplishing one of its main objectives, that of making the student realize that English is not a subject to be confined to the English classes alone, but a pursuit that can be carried into all of his class rooms where he will speak more correctly and write more clearly and intelligently with the aid of this background of English grammar and literature. An item which tends to prove that these accomplishments are genuine advancements, is the fact that our school library ranks among the very highest among similar libraries in the number of books in circulation, although Glenville has by no means the large enrollment which would justify this fact. We also have the evidences of The English Club, which sets as its only qualification a high standard of English scholarship; our school paper. The Torch, and its literary supplement which reflects the spirit and the progress of Glenville through the medium of its English Department. Payc twelve

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POINTS OF VIEWS They launch their ships, bend to their oars, and are borne away. For long, long years Ulysses wandered; Over the faces of strange lands Among the homes of strange peoples Upon the surface of strange waters, In danger, always, . . . secure, never . . . Page eleven

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COMPASS, TELESCOPE, and IIA It O M ETE It Among those departments in Glen-ville ranking as the best developed in their particular field of work, is numbered the Science Department, the branches of which, chemistry, physics, physiology, botany, biology, geography and photography, cover to their fullest possible extent the fields of individual experimentation and group discussion, which are considered two of the best means by which to approach a thorough knowledge of any subject. A project which has been successfully attempted by the department as a whole is the editing of a “Science Digest,” containing interesting and humorous items with a background or basis of scientific thought. Page thirteen