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

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■Q MANUAL TRAINING ]T THE present day of our civilization, the advanced world is making a great demand for trained people. Therefore, since many can not go farther than high school, it has become nec- essary to establish in high school some forms of training. Of all these, perhaps the most interesting to the boys is manual training. The first few lessons are to show the boys how to use the different tools. Then they learn how to make the various joints. At first, they are watched closely to see that they make no mistakes, but after they can handle the tools quite well, they are permitted to work along freely. To help the boys in this work, the School Board bought a large number of better tools than was already in the shop. They also installed large, strong benches, which were certainly much better than the old ones, which were then placed to one side of the shop and only used occasionally. When a boy wants to start a new piece of work, he is given a book or pamphlet with that article in it. Then he gets out his mechanical drawing instruments and makes a drawing of it, cross section and all, so that he becomes more familiar with the article which he is going to make. When the drawing is completed, he is given the raw lumber and lie gets to work. This year the boys turned out cedar chests, library tables, center tables, £r=n pedestals, piano benches, chairs, Roman seats, porch swings, magazine and book racks, and many smaller arti- cles. This school term the- boys had to turn on the lathe which thing was never permitted them before. They fin- ished many things here, such as cups, mugs, vases, chair legs, candle sticks, base ball bats and mallets. When working on the lathe, the boys had to watch what they were doing, because if they don’t the chisel will fly out of their hands, the wood will split into a number of pieces, and there will be a general uproar at the lathe, which has happened more than once before they “got the hang of it,” as we would say in slang. About three months after school started, Mr. Epps told the girls they might come down to manual training and work certain nights in the week, from half-past six to half-past eight. And to tell the truth the girls pro- duced a number of very good articles. Along with manual training, the boys take mechani- cal drawing. After half a year of mechanical drawing, they started projection, which was a good deal harder than the former. On the whole, the manual training classes of this year have progressed rapidly. Under the present system the efficient management of Mr. Epps, and his ever ready willingness to help the boys, they certainly derive much benefit from the work. WILL WOLLENBERG, 22

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A evolution of music has been steady from rlv times to Hobart times. The Indians of uerica with tlieir war whoops progressing m an unmusically high pitch to a low moan, the Greeks and other nations of the Old World with their advance toward our ideal of music, the Puri- tans with their slow tempo psalm tunes, were all neces- sary to the growth of this art in their own particular J 12: sphere. Slow were the steps to making it a requirement in the education of a boy or girl, but today it is as much a part of the school curriculum as any other study. Hobart High School is not behind in this. It is one of the progressive centers in which music has an import- ant place, and the High School Chorus which was organ- ized for the study of the best music is one of which we are justly proud. One essential of this work is a competent director, and this we have found this year in Miss Ellwyn Roper. We have studied “Toreador,” “Sextette from Lucia,” “Sweet and Low,” “Gloria,” and “Carmena” in chorus. The Gloria was worked up with enthusiasm to such a perfection that it won third place for us at the Lake County Contest at Gary this April. We are the more proud of this from the fact that we had to compete with larger schools, many students of which have taken special vocal lessons from professors of music. A girls’ Octet has been organized this year which has presented many beautiful numbers at various pro- grammes. Miss Roper has been an enthusiastic worker in orchestral music, also, and the Hobart High School Orch- estra which she organized has made great progress. At the first of the year a benefit play for the Orchestra, “The Private Tutor,” in which Miss Eunice Roper assisted her sister, brought the needed shekels for providing its music. In consequence, the High School has enjoyed on many a program the advantage of its own orchestra. We have had a successful year of music. BESSIE OLS.