Hibbing High School - Hematite Yearbook (Hibbing, MN)

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am sf By Louis Stevens -A-D -wr French play time. ,gt 5 They would work. Although we had heard ru- mors to the effect that Latin was a dead language, we were uncertain until we took the language. French proved less trying, for there was some life there. We experienced the life of Paris but not of Paris today. Lex Miserables proved to be a grand inspiration for social workers, who set at the translation with vigor. In German we read of Imnzrlzsrr and other places, starting with deliberate slowness and ending with unbe- lievable speed. It took a year's course to teach us how to keep books other than library books. Transactions were recorded showing our imaginative profits and losses. Skill replaced our primitive methods of cautiously tapping out one letter at a time. Scribbling called short- hand is useful in dictation-but when approached by a dictator we arise bodily to declare, We will not be dictated to! Accounting was accounted for by bookkeeping. It con- tained drafts, promissory notes, and everything else. In Commercial Law we were told how to avoid the law. Trying to be model students. One type of writer. A rather grave matter. Kraft is not the cheese. 41

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Classroom Closeups . Poor egg! One sea's his hobby. In English we lived in the past! The castles with knights in armor, Indians in a primeval forest, and Paris of the Revolu- tion Were brought to us in their full glamor. Then came reality with periods, commas, hyphens, and apostrophes. No more could we read in lonely solitude, for just as Robinson Crusoe's solitude was bro- ken by Friday so was ours. Along came Friday armed with drills of unbelievbale appearance that kept us quivering in constant terror. While Rome burned and Nero played the fiddle, history was being written. Unluckily the fire did not destroy either history or the fid- dle. Now both are used as implements of torture. We suffered through World history only to take a year of U. S. history. Little known facts of our history and instructions in corruption as prac- ticed by leading men of their day were given to us. Biology is the study of living things, plants, and animals. The animals proved to be dead - in fact they were kept in formaldehyde. Chemistry saved us from Dull Physics . Some hobbies get thc air. Two many cooks spoil the soup. A discussion on non-musical organs. 40

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Sheet metal work-it seems odd for boys to meddle with sheets. Wfe learned that even machines shop. Une class would workg wouldn't they? Spare that tree! But the tree has been board for many days. A plane bit of work. Here .irc some real Hlnjunsu. Handling a ragged rug. Poor girl! She works in rags Wl1.it subject is this? I gas engines. A plane helped to plane the plain rough surface to a smooth degree. The wizardry of woodwork and the spell of the shop held us. The projects were per- fect. Mechanical drawing helped design the projects and aided us in our courses in mathematics. The pies and cakes baked were in themselves models of perfectiong of course, sometimes the pie crust was leath- ery, the cakes fell, but only on occasions which we wonit remember. Thus pre- pared housekeeping will be no burden for us. Crafty crafters took the course in or- der to change the word rag to rug. They knitted odd things which no one could recognize. They carried knitting needles about the school dropping both needles and stitches noticeably to attract atten- tion. Promising artists promised great developments in the field of art. Prom- ises are seldom kept. Houses and sketches of people were common. It was hard to tell which were the houses and which were the people. But music! Ah! Music hath charms to sooth the savage beast . Very little soothing music was found though. The choruses disturbed pre-Christmas quiet by marching through the halls trying their best to bring joy to the world.