Hillsdale School - Telescope Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Many girls are often seen racing toward the gym at recess, their faces a dull green, remarking about the gruesome experiences they have just been through. Leaf notebooks, field trips, and biology pro- jects are all part of the gratifying and wonderful course ionce the desections are overt. Instead of a lecture and then experimenting or observing examples as in biology, girls experiment, then are given lectures on what they have dis: covered. This is the new Chem study course which is just being introduced throughout schools and col- leges everywhere. Students also did research and experiments, arrived at a conclusion, and in March handed in a project on a subiect not covered in class. Along with diu- grams, pictures, and actual demonstrations, each explained her project to the others On Tuesdays and Thursdays, the two lab bells, odd smells and wierd actions could often be ob- served in the chemistry lab. Frequently girls were seen making poisonous solutions or working with such substances as gun powder! Chemistry students-bewarel Mrs. Schultz explains possible tests for bacteria. Polly Adair examines a colony of ulgae-or is it bacteria? 21

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Outside Reading Helps Students' Science Work Nancy Smith uses the library for biology research. Mrs. Lovett writes assignment sheets for her general science class. Mrs. Schultz prepares for her upcoming biology class. 20 Advancementethe most important ingredient in the field of science. To keep up with our modern world, the science department is continuously going through change. The program has expanded so that a girl may take more sciences and possibly physics in her senior year. This means that she must have had chemistry and at least three or four years of math. Hillsdaie girls are first introduced to science in the seventh grade. Meeting three days a week, they learn the basic principles and systems of biology, physics, and chemistry. This has been the first year that sci- ence has been taught in the seventh grade and it was a very successful year. The Freshmen and Sophomore science program also underwent a complete change. Under the old system a Sophomore had to choose between biology and ancient history. Since many wanted to take the history, but were also interested in the science, Fresh- men were freed from their general science require- ment; now in the ninth grade and next year in both grades nine and ten, 0 student takes ancient history i and biology, each giving a half credit. The upperclassmen are ottered two science courses, either biology or chemistry. This gives the students a choice between two different sciences. Biology gives a girl the chance to study intensely a course about all living things. The girls take detailed notes on basic information, and on Friday they look eagerly through microscopes at cells and minute beings or disect some unlucky Fish or pig.

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A tricky Algebra problem is solved by Mr. Loud. Mrs. Atkinson questions her students on a difficult math prob- lem. 22 Miss Johnson dictates a geometry assignment to the Sophomores. Fundamentals with Figures . . . Progress is our most important product. There fore, a new system was started at Htllsdale Five years ago: girls showing unusual ability and interest in math in the seventh grade, were placed in cm advanced section. The math 15 essential for chemistry and physics and is helpful for those girls who wish to take coIculus in high school. Though the advanced stu- dents Finish their required moth by the freshman year, many continue through algebra II and math IV. Math in the lower grades has also changed, the emphasis now being on understanding problems and coming to logical conclusions. For the first time, calcu- lus Was taught at Hillsdole this year. Two seniors struggled through the course under the guidance of Mr. Loud.