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

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PUBLIC SPEAKING 1SS Oil I i 1 land ’s public speaking class meets every Thursday and Friday. In this the technical principles of expression have been taken up. Of the twelve members, Elmer Ash- ley and John Frank were the only boys of the school who gave countenance to this new department. It is to be regretted that more boys did not take the oppor- tunity offered by this course. 1 £T = Q T) However, a great deal of work was given individually among the students. November 16 the Seniors gave “Merchant of Venice Up-to-Date, ’ ’ one of the richest comedies ever given in the High School. The large cast of characters consisted of the Seniors, assisted by other members of the school. Bassanio’s use of a “pony” to pass the examination is one sometimes true to High School life, but what mat- tered it, just so he won Portia. In February the High School was divided into eight parts, each representing a High School in “County Make- Believe.” Each school sent from one to three contestants to this contest, making in all a class of sixteen, who showed excellent training in the program which contin- ued through two evenings. In Oratory, Franklin Fet- terer was awarded first, Will Wollenberg second, Wynne Thompson third. In the humorous class, Agnes Len- nertz won first, Thelma Fetterer second, Helen Smith third. In the dramatic first place was given to Bess Johnson, second to Lyda Fulton, third to Lola Barnes. The work of this contest was in preparation for the Pre- liminary to the County Contest at Gary. In this contest which took place on March 26, Myrtle Wild ranked first in dramatic reading, Florence Pio sec- ond, Agnes Lennertz and Myrtle Neff third. In the ora- tions Elmer Niksch won first, Raymond Wood second, Wynne Thompson third. The prizes were beautiful H. H. S. pins with pearl set. In both contests the following standard of grading was used: Expre8sWTj % ; car- riage and gesture, 25%; articulation, Vop fSamuncia- tion, 10%. Although our contestants did not receive place at

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GERMAN HE regular inter-state course is taken up dur- ing the four years’ study in High School. The Freshman mastering grammar and composi- tion, the Sophomores translating several clas- and still more composition, the Juniors and SeniorsJ(y6 tmig plays and studying Lessing’s “Minna von Ka niihepl?. ’ ’ Therehas been a new line of work taken up along with the regular course The Freshmen last year gave 18 Q= T ..ST a “Koffee Klotch,” and invited their parents and friends and entertained them by telling “German Stories Retold and serving coffee and “ Koffee-Kuclien. ” The Sopho- mores this year also gave ' a “Klotch” and presented “Immensee” very creditably. The Juniors and Seniors are working on the play which they hope to present soon. HELEN SMITH. 1 Eigensinn ’ ’ LATIN ATIN has been a great pleasure to us through our high school career. While Freshmen we enjoyed reading the Roman fables, especially after our struggles with conjugations and declensions. In the Sophomore year we read Caesar and worked nearly as hard as Caesar’s army when they built the bridge. In the Junior year the Seniors joined us and we read the famous orations of Cicero. The Juniors joined us in our Senior year and we read Virgil Aeneid. We enjoyed the Aeneid very much after the wars of Ceasar and the speeches of Cicero against Cataline. The Virgil class felt great sadness over the fate of Dido, but Miss Gillilland made the class happy by giving each one of them a stick of candy bought with a dime which she found in the auditorium. We find that our minds have been made broader by this subject. Latin, itself will not help every one in their life work, but the training which such a subject gives to the mind will always beneficial. FRIEDA NAGEL, ’15. Cf

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r r? £ 0 = SI Gary on April 9, they did themselves credit, and we think ought to have been awarded something. At least, we congratulate ourselves on Myrtle’s having been given third place by the Lake Forest judge, who was the only one of the three judges who did not send a substitute in his place. The Senior class will give two plays on May 18, their class night, “The Graduate’s Choice” and “The Rivals.” All the Seniors will appear in the former, assisted by ten little fairies from the grades. Elnora Carlson stars as the graduate, Helen Hose as Fancy, who is Queen of the Fairies. “The Rivals” is a splendid comedy in which the Seniors and other members of the school will take part. Miss Gilli I land has given most generously of her time to the training of the students in their work, and has aroused much enthusiasm. A much larger number plan to take advantage of the regular class work in this department next year, which will put Hobart in line for winning place in the County contest another year. LYDA FULTON. LITERATURE ] THING our four years of high school life litera- ture has been a source of great pleasure to us. When we first entered the high school as Freshmen we took up the study of Rhetoric and Composition under Miss Wood’s direc- tion. We learned the figures of speech and wrote short compositions to show the teacher how much we “didn’t” know about it. The books we read were Ivanhoe, The Lady of the Lake, Sir Roger I)e Coverly Papers, and Washington’s Farewell Address. We continued our study of rhetoric during our Soph- more year under Miss Frank. We had several debates which added much interest to the English work. We read Silas Mariner, Milton’s Minor Poems, Macbeth, and Macauly’s Essays on Milton. When we entered the Junior year we left our Rhetoric Books behind us for unfortunate Sophomores and under the guidance of Mr. Thompson studied English Literature. We were interested by the peculiarity of the words in Chaucer’s writing and enjoyed reading selec- tions from the Canterbury Tales, but we were glad to return to our present day English where we were certain of the meaning of that which we were reading. We enjoyed reading The Tale of Two Cities, Idylls of the King, and Burke’s Speech on Conciliation with America. With Miss Gilli 1 land as our teacher during our Sen- ior year we finished English Literature and studied Amer- ican Literature. We read Hamlet and Sesame and Lillies in class. We read many other books, poems and essays besides and wrote a review of them for class. The study of literature and reading good books has a strong tendency to develop and broaden the mind. It gives the reader a better command of good English and his mind and life ai’e enriched and his inclination tends to influence him to read good books. FRIEDA NAGEL. ?n