Hibbard High School - Lantern Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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THE LANTERN ' 15 COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT The Commercial Department has a great deal to do because it prepares both the boy and girl to face the obstacles of this wide world. Stenography, account- ing, commercial geography, and comptometry are taught in the main building and branches. If bookkeeping is taken, one may obtain a favorable position and be an efhcient secretary, when completing the four-year course. English is the main thing in business and in a commercial course, one secures a thorough knowl- edge concerning this one of the most important things in business. Shorthand and typing enables the student to take down notes in a quick and accurate manner and to type them neatly for their employer. Many clubs are formed in the Commercial Departments to make the stu- dent see the necessity of shorthand and its accuracy. Commercial Georgraphy gives the student a brief idea of the world, its natural resources, and the part the business center plays, together with commercial views of the different cities. DRAMATICS Hibbard, last semester under the direction of Mrs. Smith had a Dramatic Club, that undertook many interesting projects. Oral expression is a major subject and anyone is eligible to take it. By having a considerable and thorough course in oral expression, one can join the Dramatic Club. The Dramatic Club, with its willing members have in the past put over many successful plays like, The Charm School, Anne What's Her Name, and Seventeen Oral Expression gives the student an ability to face people in the world and talk to audience without self-consciousness. , THE HOUSEHOLD ART DEPARTMENT The two branches of Household Arts, Sewing and Cooking, have been making wonderful progress in the projects that have been undertaken this semester. The Cooking Department has adopted the Younger Sister method, by tak- ing the 7B's and trying to bring the young girls up to the Health Standard chart. They have gone on many trips to dairies and at the end of the semestei hope to have a party for both the younger and older girls. The Cooking girls have also tried to pick out boys and girls along the corridors of school and sec if they are normal or need diet or nourishment. So beware! you may be a specimen.

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18 THE LANTERN After this, great Cicero raises his voice in eloquence throughout the junior year. How long, oh Catiline P he cries and, verily, the students do enjoy it. CiCCl'O,S orations are most interesting,-in places. The only dark spots are the weekly prose lessons, which are generally regarded as awful. The fourth year brings its own reward to those students who have sur- mounted all the difficulties of the so-called dead-language. Then anna virumqlue camo sings Virgil and the Seniors revel in the pages of the ancient epic. he most difficult passages are eagerly attacked, and the tale of heroism is enjoyed to the utmost. Then it is that the faithful few realize the truth of the moth, Ad astra per aspera, for the splendor of the starry attainment far excells the diliiculties of translation. , UNE VISITE DU CHASSEUR DES LIONS Laissez-moi tranquille! Je sais ou je vais. Mais ou llez-mous ? a demande le garde du corridor de l'ecole Hibbard, at un homme certainement dr6le qui etait habille comme Turc. Il portait quatre fusils et il trainait un canon derriere lui parce qu'il etait un fameux chasseur de lions. ' 'Mais je vais parler a la classes de francais sur le sujet de la chasse du lion, dit l'ho1nme etrange. Eh bien, ou est votre passeport alors? Vous ne pouvez pas entrer dans cette ecole et aller a une place quelconque que vous desirez sans un passeport. Un passeport? dit le petit homme gros et trapu, d'un ton fiere, Je suis Tartarin de Tarascon, tueur de lions. Je n'ai pas besoin d'un passeport. Ne me connaissez-vous pas ? Il est arrive que le gard du corridor etait aussi un etudiant de francais que Robinson Crusoe est parmi les Americains et les Anglais. Allez donc asse ez-vous et racontez-moi de voss aventures marveil- . f ,, . Y . . . . ,. . leuses en Afrique, dit le gard dur carridor qui savait bien qu 11 allait entendre beaucoup de mensonges spirituels qui viennent du bon soleil du Midi. 'Qlevous dirai, dit l'intrepide Tartarin, il n'y en a plus de lions en Afrique. J'ai tue tous le lions la ou s'il y en a des autres, il faut qu'ils se sont sauvest quand ils ont eu vent de Tartarin de Tarasconf' C'est dommagef' dit le garde du corridor, parce que j'avais l'inten- tion de faire un voyage en Afrique pour tuer les lions quand j'ai fini le cours de l'ecole. Mais, bien entendu, si vous avez tue les lions, c'est inutile que j'y vais moi- meme. Tout de meme j'ai une grande surprise pour vous. Nous avons recu un gros lion d'Afrique pour etudier dans la classe de zofilogie. Voudriez-vous le voir? Voir un lion? Le brave Tartarin commencait at trembler ilaa fait une excuse et tres vivement il s'est sauve. Un peu apres le depart de Tartarin, il y avait un eclat de rire dans le corridor parce que le garde a oublie de dire 51 Tartarin quelque chose d'important. C'etait que le lion d'Afrique etait mort et empaille! La bonne chance Monsieur Tartarin! Avez-vous vu un autre mirage? V