Hobart Senior High School - Memories Yearbook (Hobart, IN)

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r a THOMAS H. QUIGLEY Mathematics and Manual Training MANUAL TRAINING. N ORDER to keep pace with the forward march of events the high schools of this country must include some course in vocational training in their curricula! The advance of the world along industrial lines has created a big need for trained men. As large numbers of the boys cannot go any farther than high school there has come up in the past few years a demand for vocational training in the high school. Manual Training is probably the most im- portant of these, because in everv home there are manv TT small jobs of carpentering or repairing that can be done without the aid of a carpenter, if some one in the family has had some experience in the use of a few simple tools. Mechanical Drawing is important also because it teaches the boys how to design and plan structures and articles. It helps to develop habits of accuracy and expression in the boys. Manual Training and Mechanical Drawing were started in the Hobart High School in the fall of 1913. The shop has a complete equipment of the best makes of tools, including a lathe. There are benches with a vise for every boy. The mechanical drawing tables have a sloping top and are high enough so that the boys can stand up to work without stooping very much. A stock rack was constructed for the purpose of holding the unfinished articles and the raw lumber. A tool room was built to keep all the small tools in and a cabinet for hold- ing the mechanical drawing boards. All of this work was done in the Manual Training shops. The drawing tables are arranged in pairs facing each other and one electric light for each pair of tables. The course starts out with simple lessons showing the uses of the tools and the methods of joinery used in cabinet making, also in the varnishing and finishing up of the articles made. The first drawing lessons give the uses of the instruments, angles and try-square. Until the boys become accurate in squaring and cutting stock and in making the drawings they are kept under close super- vision by the instructor. After they get used to the work they are given the directions and have to do the work alone. With this system, under the efficient management of Mr. Quigley, the bovs derive much benefit from the work. ' ‘ ' JOHN PRANK, ’17. £T“Q

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t r? MATHEMATICS. HE High School course of mathematics requires a year and a half of algebra, at least one year $ of geometry, but the solid geometry, which only takes half a year, is an elective. When the class of 1914 entered High School we were initiated into the wonders of Algebra by Miss Quinnell. We learned how to substitute x, y, z, and a, b, c for numbers and be able to work out an answer. For several months we continued in this pleasant manner until we received the terrible news that the High School lacked a drawing teacher and that Miss Quinnell was to take that position. Mr. Thompson then took the Fresh- man Algebra class under his wing for the rest of the year. Mr. Wiley was our mathematics teacher during our Sophomore year. Under his supervision we finished Algebra and then came Geometry, with its isosceles tri- angles and many others, with names which some of the students struggled hard before they could pronounce. In our Junior year we finished plane geometry with Mr. Haughtelin as our teacher. The mind of one member of the class seemed to run to the axiom that “Things equal to the same thing are equal to each other” and afforded the class many pleasant jokes and laughs. When it was time to decide who would take solid geometry there were many negatives and only three affirmatives, so with a class of three, we worked our way through many hard propositions, at the same time enjoy- ing them. At the present time the mathematics course of three years is under the supervision of Mr. Quigley. RUTIT SMITH. 24 DRAMATIC. “Oh ye gods! ye gods! must I endure all this?” “Julius Caesar,” Shakespeare. O ONE realizes how much expression can be put in this simple line until he is up in front of the class quoting from Caesar and all eyes turned in his direction. But all through our High School life we have, more or less, enjoyed the dramatic work. Every year we have given at least two plays and our class has always been well represented. And during our four years of High School there have been seven medals won by our class in Reading and Oratory, four silver and three gold ones. At the beginning of our Senior year the High School was divided into two Literary Societies with Dorothy Thomas and Alice Sarver as presidents. Every two weeks one of these societies gave a program. The fol- lowing were the programs given. “Home Ties” was given for the benefit of the “Aurora.” Violin Solo .Traeumeri Myrtle Wild— ’16 Reading How Sockery Set a Hen The Dutchman’s Snake Agnes Lennertz — ’15 Quintette AH Thru the Night Elmer Niksch — ’17 Isabel White — ’16 Herbert Petterson — ’17 Myrtle Wild — ’16 Evelyn Mantueffel — ’16 Reading ’Ostler Joe Ethel Halsted— ’14 G £T Q