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

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QL EUNICE ROPER German and Englrsh I9l3 Hobart Hrgh School l907 DePauw Unrversrty ENGLISH HE relatrve value of all other studres may be debated but the N P posrtron of Englrsh as first cannot be questroned Good Englrsh Gt rs necessary for a comprehensron of the scrences srnce no one L structed That any drscussron may not be confusrng rt must be wrrtten rn a clear drrect manner verbs must be rn correct tense and all ante cedents used properly Any translatron loses rts power and beauty and usually rts meanrng rf rt rs not prepared wrth regard to good grammar To attarn and hold socral posrtron good Englrsh rs requrred for the habrtual use of slang and a general neglect of elegance of speech rs and should be looked upon as bad form A lrttle observatron wrll show that the use of slang may lend novelty whrch wrll wear off but slang never lends force By far more rmportant than these rs the value of Englrsh to the busmess man No man who uses faulty language can secure a posrtron of trust and rmportance nor do people wrsh to do busmess mth such a man for hrs errors wrll draw therr attentron from what he rs sayrng thrs may become so great that the hstener may really be made mrserable Then agarn hrs letters and orders may be so bad as to be hard to understand resultrng rn expensrve mrstakes C-ood Englrsh rs not only xaluable rt rs a duty of erery patrrotrc crtrzen Hrstory wrll teach you what people drd By readrng works of ht erature we get more rntrmate mental prctures whrch tell why thev drd rt T be able to vote speak and act rntellrgently on eyents of today and tomorrow a knowledge of hrstory rs essentral but a knowledge of hrstory mthout a Tu only czglrt l W Gif! 'nffii . . . . . ' Q could follow a screntrflc drscussron whrch was carelessly con- I , L ' - 9 S V l l ' Y 1 . , . . y. ' . Z ' 9 - 9 . . . . V . .l 0 7 . . . V . V. , C Z ' is-C Q

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was formed to the groom s house headed by musrcrans followed by a lad carrymg a torch and vase next came the brlde supported on elther srde by a boy the groom throvu mg nuts to those about the arsles throwlng of r1ce IS a survlvall was followed by a boy carrymg the brrdes spmdle the rest of the weddmg party whlch consrstecl of all classes followed all carrymg torches and slngmg a hymn ln Latln to Hymen the god of marrrage march mg down through the mldst of the audlence out through the hall and back by a front entrance to the stage presenting now the grooms house The bride wound the door posts wrth woolen bands and annolnted them wx 1th orl to srgnlfy health and plenty The family alone entered the house and amldst the slngmg of the crowd outslde Tullla kmdled the flre on the altar wlth her torch and then threw lt to the grrl outslde who as wrth bouquets today at weddlngs was fortunate enough to catch the torch as a slgn that she would be the next brrde At the concluslon of the plays a prlze was presented to the puprl ln each class offering the best prepared Latln tablet of the years work Between plays lVlr Worthlngton presented stereoptlcon vrews of Roman llfe ANNE OF OLD SALEM Anne of Old Salem wlll be grven as the class play under the dl rectlon of MISS Grllllland The cast Reverend Cotton Mather Hosea Bayor Captain Hardman ohn Nlartm Roger Hardman rll Wollenberg Ezeklel Brown Algot Nelson Mistress Hardman C-race Henderson Goodwlfe Ellmwell Geneva Crll Phyllls Clara Llnkhart Ruth Ruth Muller Prety Gladys Flynn Truth Elsa Cruel Peace Atkins Ella Rossow Nathan Ellmwell Ralph lVlel1n Anne Elllnwell rs loved by Roger Hardman whose mother has other plans for hlm She has picked out Phyllis an Englrsh grrl for hrm Anne rs accused of wltchcraft but through a number of compllcatlons she rs proven Innocent Nathan Annes brother helps Ruth a uaker mald to escape and ln so domg wms the love of Phyllis Prety and Truth are begullmg Ezeklel but Peace at last entraps hlm Geneva Gill 17 , . . ' 1 ' - f ' . . 1 , ' f . . . , . , 3 . 9 9 1 . 1 1 ' Y Y ' 9 9 . 7 , ' 9 Y U 9 , . . . , il , 99 , . SK 91 ' ' ' Q 'A Q Q , , -' Anne Ellinwell .............. Helen Wild n l . , u . . . , , . . , , . D - 1 1 1 Q 1 9 1 ' l I , , . Twenty-seven

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I :IX comprehenslon of llterature becomes largely a catalog of facts wlth few un derlymg causes and IS therefore of little value lVlorover a study of llterature of forelgn countrles wlll show us thelr tendencles thelr characterxstxcs their thoughts and thelr standards enablmg us to deal wlth thelr people more mtelllgently Algal Nelson li GERMAN Taten mchl Trauma x HE. true value of German IS mconcelvable unless we study lt consclentlously and retaln all lts factors Thls has been proven to us by prevlous years of mstructlon by MISS Eumce Roper 'TIF necessary for the Interstate Course whlch IS requlred As Freshmen we were nlneteen fourteen of whom took German Dur mg this term our mmds were drawn to the study of Vos s Gelman Grammar Fmally thls was lard asrde two days of the week for the study of German Stones Retold of whlch we were entxtled to tell every story from memory We certamly dld accompllsh thls when we gave a Koffee Kloch where these were told German songs sung and then lxuchen and Koflee were served The followmg year there were several absent from our class although we were stlll greatly mterested ln the study The books read were Immensee Hoher Als dle Klrche Germalshausen and Der Lmdenbaum mensee was told by the class at another Koffee Kloch to whlch our parents and frlends and the remamder of the German students were ll'lVltCd Durlng our umor year we were accompamecl by two Seniors who helped make the study very lnterestmg We read Wllhelm Tell and Nathan der Werse a college book whlch we handled qulte easily thus showlng our great knowledge of German Now as we saw our last opportumty for Obtallllllg a greater knowledge of German and as we were all strlvmg to succeed the Kalser we were very fortunate ln havmg the unlors wlth us who encouraged us to a great extent We read Dre ungfrau von Orleans and studled some of Bernhardt s German Grammar whlch we soon laid aslde ln order to fmlsh the former In concluslon we thank MISS Roper for her kmdness and the ald she gave us for our own benefit and we are glad we were permltted to take the sub ject because lt IS one of the leadlng modern languages Elsa Cruel I7 Tuenty nzne G .1-fi ,. . . . l , . Y Q Y 1-1. , -. if I U9 , . fg, ,T I . . . . . .cle fo, I -tiff-I . . . . . ' who certamly has glven us all the mformatlon and guldance s I 9 - ' ' ' ' 9 fl I U, . . . . .4 ' . ,, . . , . KC f - 99 Y 1 ' I , ' ' ' if ,I ' Y If ' ' if if 19 SC ' il if , . lm- !! ' 9 J ' ' ff ' 1, sl u ,, I - 1 - 9 Q V , . . . , l , - if ' J Y, ' Q ,, ,, . . . . . , . , , - 9 - , - , .