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

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GOING- DOWN! OUR LITTLE GRAYC E UNCLE BILL AND THE KIDS GAUGHT! JUNIORS THREE Twenty-seven

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Q P 6 Q 0 =d a The rocking motion of the boat, suggested by the rhythm or movement of the piece has a tendency to lull him into sleep. Music, I yield to thee, ' As swimmer to the sea, I give my spirit to the flood of song ; Bear me upon thy breast In rapture and rest Bathe me in pure delight and make me strong. From strife and struggle bring release, And draw the waves of passion into tides of peace. — V an Dyl(e. The humble song, Folk Songs, etc., play an important part in giving to the physically spent man the thing he most desires, rest. After all, music, this deep, broad, beautiful, scientific art, must be fash- ioned according to the dictates of intellect. The narrow person can never hope to become a musician, neither can he ever experience a true appreciation of it. This is due to the limitation of his education along other branches. In Miss McLinn, our music supervisor, we have found a true musician. In the music course of this year she required her pupils to study the lives of our great composers, and in doing this we have been brought face to face with classical literature. For example, in studying the life and works of Beethoven we are told that for the emotional setting of his D minor Concerto, we must read Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”. I don’t know whether Paderewski’s rural life ever gets into his music or not, but the master enjoys stocking a small estate he owns in Switzerland, and one day bought some little pigs from a ne ighboring farmer. A friend of the farmer arrived on the scene as the pur- chase was completed, and asked who the buyer was. “Oh, that,” said the farmer, “is Paderewski, a pig dealer.” Being a pig dealer wouldn’t be bad at all if behind it we were all true lovers of the best in music. — Thelma Fetterer. PHYSIOLOGY HYSIOLOGY ; what a lot of things the one word stands for. But since only one-half year is given to this study many are prone to underestimate its value. However, a good understanding of the structure, workings and care of the body is something that cannot fail to be of use, whatever work we may take up after our graduation. Miss Malone was our teacher and she led our small but studious class through a thorough and advanced version of the physiology we had in the grades. We thought it would be easy but, to our chagrin, memory failed us and so we studied! I’m sure none of us will ever count the time lost and we wish to thank Miss Malone for her careful guidance and patience. — Mary Gearhart, ' 18. Twenty-six Q

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D CL A= 7 LATIN Q 0 a A 0 N ENTERING High School as a part of our course we made the choice of Latin or German as our foreign language. There were eight who took German but there were eight of us, five boys and three girls, who made a jolly class for Latin. Our first year of work included a thorough study of D’Ooge, and some sight reading, and composition given to us by our instructor, Miss Gillilland, who the three years since has been our instructor. Next we started to read Caesar, one of the most interesting and instruc- tive texts, about the wars of Caesar and the expansion of the Roman Empire, also giving us a glimpse of the habits and customs of Rome and the Barbarian tribes surrounding Italy. John and Hosea made a wooden model of the fa- mous bridge across the Rhine. Latin card games livened our knowledge of vocabulary and derivation. This year we began editing our Latin daily “Hermes” which is now in its third volume. Beginning the third year the famous Latin poet Virgil was introduced to us; so we began the study of Virgil’s Aeneid. We read the description of Aeneas, the city of Troy, the Laocoon Group, the wonderful Troian Horse, the description of Aeneas voyage to Italy and of the land of Italy as they first saw it — vivid pictures painted on our minds that will never fade with time. Having completed our course for the year in Latin, we decided to give a Latin Play called “A Roman Wedding”, the play was presented in Latin with Roman costumes and scenery. Invitations, A la Roman, were sent to friends and schoolmates who appreciated and enjoyed this presentation of Roman Life. Ralph and Llorence starred as the bride and groom, Hosea as Cicero, Evelyn as Mrs. Cicero, Lolita as matron of honor, Vera and John as the parents of Ralph. This year we organized our club — Sodalitas Romana. The fourth year the Seniors and Juniors combined and began reading Cicero’s orations and letters. Cicero was one of the world ' s greatest orators and we enjoyed translating the orations and observing the skillful and clever way in which Cicero “put it over the other fellow”. We were glad to have the honor as a club of presenting two classical pictures for our classroom. A man who does not understand Latin is like one who walks through a beautiful region in a fog; his horizon is a very few steps away from him and the outline of everything becomes indistinct or wholly lost. But the horizon of the Latin scholar extends far and wide through the centuries of Antiquity; the Middle Ages and Modern Life. The class as a whole has gained a knowledge that will be indispensable to them. We see Cicero, Caesar, and Virgil not in a dim and wavering light, but in a clear, vivid outline, as only those who have studied Latin can. We have had our knowledge of English increased and als o that pleasure of de- ciphering Latin phrases, that those who have not studied Latin are incapable of doing. Twenty-eight 0 = V A r rJ A V