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

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a SPENCER G. STOLTZ Science and History CHEMISTRY N OUR Freshman year, Botany is taken up and as Sophomores, science is omitted altogether from our course of study. When we enter the Junior year, the privilege is given us of either taking Physics or waiting until the Senior year to take Chemistry. This year our Chemistry class con- sists of eight girls, who certainly are master hands at science. t) i r We began this study bj depositing fifty cents, in case something gets broken. Our first introduction to the secrets of Chemistry was to molecules and atoms. It took some time to distinguish them but I think now we would all recognize them, should be see them floating in the air. Laboratory work loomed brightly before us, so we were an eager crowd when we went down to the larboratorv for the first time. We waited breathless for an explosion, but all in vain. This proved the fact that we were careful workers. When “Sodium” was taken up we were warned against its explosive power. Everything was progress- ing smoothly, when suddenly Agnes was knocked to the- floor. We searched for the cause of the explosion, but finding no other reason, came to the conclusion that her imagination had been playing with her. A few months- later, Mr. Stoltz attempted to demolish the schoolhouse and its contents (himself included) by spilling bromine. His attempt was unsuccessful, but I hardly think he will try it again as it did not prove .to be funny in the end. Another joyful event was the day we generated hydrogen sulphide. Owing to the teacher’s absence from the room, we decided to play a joke on the High School,, and the door was opened, allowing the sweet odor to pass to the upper regions. Everybody who went through the hall was entirely disgusted with the Chemistry class. Now the laboratory apparatus soon becomes disar- ranged, so we girls turned scrub-women and gave it a general overhauling. We were rewarded by being allowed to test come candy donated by Mr. Thompson, proprietor of the “Ten Cent Store.” I assure you, there was little to test after it had been sampled.

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Q= II 1 IN MEMORIAM CARRIE BANKS February 8, 1872 — September 24, 1914 First Graduate of Hobart High School Class of 1 889 Mamie Jory ' 91 Edwin Gordon ' 96 Howard Gordon . ' 93 Bernard Peterson . ' 99 Ida Lutz ' 94 Howard Halsted . ' 07 Hugh Thompson . ' 95 Theresa G. (Butts) Halliday . ' 09 p =D 0= £5 — a

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Since we have passed successfully through hydrogen, oxygen, sodium, hydrogen sulphide, and various other chemicals, we are looking eagerly forward to when our fifty cents shall be returned, as nothing was broken •except test-tubes, wide-mouthed bottles, Erlenmyer flasks, thistle-tubes, etc. This lack of breakage and our success in every way is due to the kindness and careful guidance of Mr. Stoltz, through all this delicate work, and it is to him, we are sincerely grateful. AGNES LENNERTZ. PHYSICS IX pupils made up the Physics class at the beginning of the term, but only four of us are continuing the subject. The four of us mak- ing up the Physics class includes all the Junior boys. We have, to our notion, selected a very interesting and profitable subject, under the guidance of Mr. Stoltz. Physics brought us back to many of our old acquaint- ances and gave us a better knowledge of what they were and to what advantage we could be able to use them. Among the different subjects studied in the term, the most interesting one was electricity. We studied conduc- tors and non-conductors, and desiring to know whether or not we were conductors or non-conductors, we per- formed an experiment on Raymond in the “lab,” and by his actions, and the description of the results he got from the electrical machine, we concluded that we were very good conductors. We enjoyed our laboratory experiments very much but Oh, my, when we got about six or seven experiments behind in our note books, or when an unexpected test was sprung on us, we thought we were non-conductors. But as a whole we will never regret our experience in the old “lab,” or our pleasant instructor, Mr. Stoltz. PHILIP WALDECK, ’16. HISTORY AND CIVICS IH, THE records and monuments and fragments! Thoughts of these burden our minds, engage our tongues, and drive our pens and pencils over the examination paper. The mysteries of the prehistoric age are as impenetrable as the stone implements that reward the search of the anti- quarians. Thus, in our first term of history, do the worn out and extinct civilizations hold us for a time, but not so firmly as “The glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.” As Juniors, we study the rise of world-empires and the inroads of the barbarians. This is made interesting by the study of individual generals and statesmen whose lives are set forth in our historical library. Modem history is more definite, for in this we trace the development of the nations that divide the earth today. Their struggles during the later centuries seem gigantic, but not any conflict of all the past ages ap- proaches the present devastating “Great War.” However the struggles of the past enabled the peo- ple to attain more liberty. Let us hope that the present war may have the same result. £5 — a - 1 -sib