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

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MATHEMATICS N COMING lnto the Hugh School as Freshles we thought we f S were WISC rn mathematics havmg had elght long years of arlth metlc but after the first day of algebra we felt conslderably I X' -75 humbled We found out that a b c etc occur rn other thmgs than the alphabet Durmg our Freshman course ln algebra we studred under the guldance of Mr Qurgley We wlsh to express our appreclatron for h1s patlence wxth us for we realize that vse were a rather troublesome class and dld not know much about mathematics The next year another teacher came to help us Mr Epps H steered us safely through our Sophomore half year of plane geometry and the half year of solid geometry The Hrgh School course requires only two and a half years of mathematlcs but those who wlsh may take another half year of lt solld geometry Generally the students by that tlme thlnk they have had enough of ab and the area of a triangle IS equal to and they declde to quit When the roll was called for solid lt was found that only four of us had declded to take It We were rather scared at first but due to the efforts of Mr Epps we got through the course safely and wlthout anyone s bemg affllcted wlth bram fever or semesters .l CcncvaM Czll I7 LATIN Facia non somma OOD thmgs are contamed ln small packages We were srx ln number Herbert Wynne Algot Thelma I..1II1an and myself Wrll when rn l9l3 we began Latln under the able mstructxon of Miss umnell who led us through the mtrlcacxes of word formatlon and Latm syntax craftlly concealmg the drfflcultles under the merry rhythm of a nursery rhyme Then Miss Glllllland steered us safely through the waters of Roman mrlltary Ilfe and forensic pleadmg I..1II1an was graduated ln l9l6 Herbert has passed forever from our num ber Thelma IS turnlng her knowledge of Latm to use ln a commerclal course but we three Wynne Algot and I wlll glide m a hltch and step w1II mount the rostra and there clellver our souls of the cream of wlsdom stored through three years of Latm graduates of one of the best Hlgh Schools ln the UHIOH And as I wrlte these Imes two pictures come before me-one of the past the other of the future I see us three on a memorable day when the vlslon of I..at1n s usefulness came to me more fully than ever before The thought pursued me and stayed wlth me throughout the day We were ln geometry our good Professor Epps was poundlng out mathematical truths and was trylng to explain Iocl maxlma mmlma segments acute obtuse reflex conjugate postulate quod erat dem onstrandum quod erat faclendum Iso perlmetrrc and manv others From geometry class we passed down the hall at the ring of the bell where the I..at1n darly paper caught our eye brmgmg lts message of the practical value of Latln this day s edltlon had a picture of a new scientific Tucnty tuu ATG!! 9 I I fxdkx . . . . . . K N 7 -1 xf.--as fx i ' ,wr-J. gm. X' ' ' LJ'--. 4 ffl . , , , ., . . . . . . V 9 . . 1 . . C U as 99 ss - - ' 99 9 ' I ' ' CC 1, - 9 9 - 9 . , .... - 9 c , u u - 99 ' , . WK nfs . . . . . - If 'nw I - , At'-.Pix , - ' ' Vi wr X 9 9 9 9 9 v . . . . . - - . 9 - Q, I gf: Q , 9 , - 9 9 i 9 1' 1 9 9 - 9 , . . . . , 1 - 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 ' 9 9 ' , - 9 O I . . . , . . . . . 9 .9 - Q

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,!Xlf.j'Q-442-1 ALFRED G EPPS Mathematics and Manual ,l-YBlI'llHg 1914 slr oseph Williamson s Mathematical School Rochester Kent England Bachelor of Manual Tralnlng Valparaiso Unlverslty I9I4 MANUAL TRAINING l URINC our four years trammg ln the Hobart Hugh School all we had much work to do Of course lt was mostly bram wollt F and we had an easy llfe IH the class rooms But a few restless 9 ones were sent down to Mr Epps to toll with plane saw and hammer on the board pxle ThlS was not so serrous as lt mlght have been for we were glVCH considerable freedom Here we made boxes tables chalrs and VHYIOUS gewgaws whlch we took home and Imposed upon our frrends as real hand made artlcles of furnlture and very valuable The classes were not very well tralned ln honesty and as no strlct at tentlon was kept over the board pile many got credlt for slabs carved and pollshed by others At one tlme a crowd of glrls came down to the shop to recelve the necessary treatment or tralmng to fit thelr muscles to become first class car penters As manual tralnlng IS not braln work and glrls have all the brams and men only muscles the girl gang proved a sort of fallure and they dldnt get very good slabs of wood carved from the board plle Mr Epps however has a very hne Job ahead of hlm as the classes coming up from the lower grades contam many prospectne artisans who are ln serxous need of a few hours culture on the board plle Wlshlng success to hlm and also to the commg generation who are taken from the easy gomg routine of the class room and permltted to labor on the board plle the present workers and we Semors who have been allowed to keep away from thls place of toll for a year on good conduct hope to see many works of art come up from the lower reglons of the school house where we developed con sxderable muscle and a llttle skull and found some rellef from the abstractrons of the class room Wynne Thompson ll Tzcenfu one . J . . , . , , wf':f17x , W , , 5 'P . , A 1.1 'J . . L D -fl . , . - , 1 9 - y ' 1 - Y . . V . . . . , 1 ' 1 , 1 , . . , . . . , Y Y , . . I -Y - , .

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GWENDOLEN GILLILLAND Latm and Publrc Speaking l9l4 Glenwood Hrghr School Glenwood Iowa 898 A B l903 Tabor College Tabor Iowa lnventlon whose name was taken from the Latm there were contrasted and compared the Roman and modern methods of electlon there was a newspaper cartoon wrth a plcture of Laocoon and the Snakes from Vlfgll comparmg lt wlth a feature of our llfe today In the Engllsh class to whlch we went next we had lVl1lton s poems LAllegro and Il Penseroso For the first time I appreclated fully the beauty of these poems They were full of references to Greek and Roman mythology prtfalls for the unwary but glVlI1g meanmg and lrfe to the page for the one who had an mtlmate knowledge of the storles such as one secures from readmg them ln the orlgmal Few people reallze that over one half of the words whlch they use are of Latm derlvatron for example that from the word mduco one hun frfty from propono and two hundred from lmpIlC0 In hlstory to whlch we went next we had current events and a chapter on the Creek and Roman constltutlons In dlSCLlSSlIlg the chapter we found how the very foundatlon of our government and constltutlon had come from the Greek and Roman constrtutlons Strll further we are surprlsed to Fund Caesar fightlng on the same flelds maneuvermg rn the same way and meetmg the same dxfhcultles of posltlon at Sorssons as the armles rn the present war found and fought agamst an I5 l9l5 Then lt was a Roman Caesar who was the aggressor now rt rs a German karser fCaesar the Romans meant to be a world power so do the Germans Caesar s use of transverse trenches and placmg there hrs arhllery rs exactly duplicated ln the present war by both French and German armres At thls time occurs to me the various abbrevlatlons A B M D LL D D D and the medlcmal terms R S C and O How many people know that these abbrevlatlons come from the Latm3 Tuenfy tlnee l ' l l . . . Z. . . U ,, I . . . . , . 1 . , . , , fl Y Y, il 1, ' ' , . , . . . . Q ' ' ' iv - U- H y . dred En lish words are formedg the same from refero, two hundred and g if ,Y ll' ' I, , . ' Y . 1 ' Y . . . . , . Q Y , : D: , a I . ., . ., y 9 Q s '