Hemingford High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Hemingford, NE)

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MAII1FMAI IC I DEPARTMENT The study of Mathematics is by its very nature different from many other studies. In the sciences one generation tears down what the preceding generation has built up, but in mathematics each generation adds another story to the lofty structure that the preceding generations have raised. Neither is mathematics a static subject, it is constantly growing as is evidenced by the great theory of relativity propounded by Einstein. The invention of the Arabic numerals made possible our tremendous advance in finance and commerce. The perfection of the algebraic notation was necessary for the development of physics, chemistry and engineering. Our study of symbolic mathematics is largely the result of the last four or five cen- turies. A knowledge of the history of mathematics gives both teacher and pupil an appreciation of the subject and a source of its value in connection with the progress of civilization. “Mathematics is a common heritage from many races and many ages.”

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N EAiAI TI AININT DCI 4I1HCN1 The Normal Training course given in our high school makes it possible for ambitious young men and women of high character to prepare for teaching in the rural schools, without facing the necessity of leaving home to prepare for such teaching. A study of the training given teachers by the teacher-training Institutions of the state readily concedes that the higher teacher-training in- stitutions are not actually preparing teachers for the rural schools, and as a result, those who go from these institutions often lack proper understanding of rural conditions and rural needs. The training given in high school Normal Training cirriculum is given by no other institution in the state. It is coming to be a recognized fact that in the near future the man or woman who aspires to be a teacher but who is net a Chris1 ian person and lacks Christian training and leadership will have small opportunity of teaching in Nebraska schools. Normal Training students in our school have the privilege of organizing a modern, standard, rural one-room school and developing the problems con- nected with it under the supervision of the Normal Training instructor and the superintendent of the city schools. Normal Trainers graduating from this department and having passed the state teachers' examinations receive a diploma which qualifies them to teach in rural schools.

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 Miss Leah J{. Dorsey ITlusic Supervisor HI M I I I ti l HI SI More attention has been given to music in our high school during the last year, and we intend tc enlarge this department still farther by having a teacher who is qualified and has a program so arranged as to have time for the development of a school band and teaching of instruments to beginners. Realizing that there is a very universal need for music appreciation, giving due place to music in the essential impressions it may make upon the minds and affections of a group of people, recognizing also that music-contributes to the fullest realization of the beauties of literature, the direct understandings of the progress of the nations, as well as the lives of nation’s leaders, we can expect as a result therefrom to develop students whose ideals and outlook upon life reaches higher and that these lives may be thus awakened to impressions, experiences and associations which may have greater significance in a national and racial way. Servant and Master am I; “Servant of those dead and master of those living. “I am close tc the marriage alter and when the grave opens, I stand nearby. I call the wanderer home. I rescue the soul from the depths, I make the king my slave as easily as he subjects his slave. “Through me spirits immortal speak the message that makes the world weep, laugh, wonder and worship—I am Music.”