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

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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 '

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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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, But I almost forgot the musrc perrod We were smgmg Italia and Instantly before my eyes the Itallan words opus de capo rrtardo crescendo and others faded mto the Latm from whlch they came At noon I thought of the Roman slesta so refreshed myself that when we went to chemlstry m the afternoon the terminology seemed to shout to me so evldent dnd the derlvatron of the technlcal and scxentlhc names be come for they were l..at1n and m good number too And as we passed by the room where the botany class was recrtlng the sonorous soundlng words rolled out after us And as we passed the manual tralnrng shop the word manus fhandl was suggested to me Then m physrology our entrre lesson consisted of Greek and Latrn names whrch came very easily after knowing the Latm words When we went mto Latin lVl1ss Glllllland asked for volunteers for an essay on the Practlcal Value of Latln all three of us boys held up our hands but as Algot thought he mlght be absent the followlng day and Wynne had a letter to wrlte I accepted the commlssron and you are now readrng the resu t The second of the two vrsrons that came to me IS that of leadlng us out 1nto the future where we shall be trred and found whole or wantlng I see Algot Wynne and myself on our tour through Europe We can enter a Spanish French or Italian cafe and bv means of our knowledge of Latln be able to know what IS on the menu I can see us standmg before the architectural beautres of that world and we observe the srmllarlty of the bulldmgs to our own We notrce that the Pompelan rooms are like the ones ln Marshall Fleld s store or rn a Saratoga or a New York home The lrght cago Then I see us returned through wlth our college work and knockmg at the door of POSIIIOHS We find that what John lVl Zane a famous lawyer of Chlcago says IS true He says The study of the classrcs I re gard as of more lmportance at the present day than at any other There never was a time when every man engmeer doctor lawyer busrness man so greatly required the classical trarnrng as today All affalrs are now more than ever before a matter of words And for dealmg YVltl'l vxords only the classlcal tramlng the old fashroned drlll m Latin and Greek can glve a man the requrslte dlscrplme I-lavrng said thrs I pass bv the rmportant con slderatlon that the world of thought IS part and parcel of the classlcs and come purely to their practlcal bread and butter advantage Almost every legal record today IS merely a translatlon of a Latm document Read mg of Latm keeps the attention close keeps one vwerghrng words keeps one extractmg all the meamng there IS m words keeps one co ordmatrng words to get their fullest effect We now have by the and of our knowledge of Latm a positron ID the great world and we are able to hold our ovsn against all opposmg forces Therefore I consider the knowledge of Latm as of the greatest Importance as rt helps us with everythmg with whlch we come rn contact We who re mam of the slx who started ln the Freshman year rn l9I3 do now express Tuenty fouv ' I 9 7 . , if ' Y, Y 9 , 1 ' , ff f, . . . . . 7 G5 ' ' 9, - I , . 5 . Q , , , l . , . , . 1 .4 1 . . , . . . ings of the Roman houses are like those of the Northwestern Station in Chi- fl ' ' ,f . . , , . : - I 1. I 9 9 1 . i' ' Q , . 9 ' I . 1 . , ' ' 9 , - ' ,I , . . , .. .