Humboldt High School - Nokomis Yearbook (Humboldt, IA)

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TYPING ROOM Students are taught to be keen- Witted and quick-fingered in Room 11, for the purpose of entering the field of business. HOME ECONOMICS The girls who take cooking are given expereince by serving hot lunches to those students who are attracted by the delicious aromas. FARM SHOP This course is made interesting for both town and country boys, but is especially helpful to those who plan to farm. PHYSICS LABORATORY Class periods are made interesting by experiments which are per- formed twice a week. The rest of the time is devoted to class recitations. STUDY HALL This pleasant study hall, seating 100 pupils, is Where the high school students spend their va- cant periods studying various subjects.

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C URRIC UL UM Our high school curriculum consists of twelve departments which operate skillfully and harmoniously under an efficient administration. English gives each student an intensive drill in grammar, composition, and spelling, an acquaintance with good literature, a bibliography of commendable authors and con- tinual practice in oral composition. Students registered in the general course are required to take English each year, though commercial and normal training students have less rigid English requirements. Senior English includes, besides literature, elementary journal- ism expressed in the editing of The Register. Likewise, the seniors, with the assistance of their sponsor, edit The Nokomisf' Our commercial department has grown unprecedentedlyg aside from the regular stu- dents scheduled in the business course, many others are carrying typing as a fifth subject. Eoipgercial students receive two years each of stenography and typing, and one year of 004 eepmg. Forensics include, besides the weekly assembly programs, declamation, extemporaneous speaking and oratory,-in all of which our contestants have for several years ranked extra- oiidinarily high in the state series and in the Big Six contests,-and the senior play. The p ay this year was Tiger Housef, Student-health is safeguarded by a capable, vigilant nurse, though engaged to be with us only two days each week, gives inestimable service in health examinations, in guarding against contagion and in doing intensive welfare work. In the home economics department, students learn planning and cooking well balanced meals, serving dinners and banquets and hot lunches upon occasions, canning seasonable fruits and vegetables, marketing through practice in local stores, sewing with especial at- tention to line and color, and interior decorating. The Latin department offers two classes: beginning-Latin for freshmen and Caesar for sophomores. At Christmas, the Latin students and faculty guests celebrated the '1Saturnalia by reproducing the Roman Yuletide festival. Our mathematics department, conducted with thoroughness, includes as required sub- jects, algebra for freshmen and plane geometry for sophomores, and as elective subjects for juniors and seniors, arithmetic, intermediate algebra, and solid geometry. The present schedule of our music department comprises the following organizations: three girls' glee clubs, two boys' glee clubs, a sextette, an octette, a mixed chorus, and an or- chestra. ljflae ppera, Joan of the Nancy Lee, which the department staged this spring, even exce e t me operettas of preceding years. Our normal training department trains prospective teachers with particular emphasis on pledaigogy, methods, and supervised practice-teaching in both our own system and' in rura sc loo s. Physical education involves floor work for all girls and boys not exempt because of some disability, boys' competitive football, basketball, baseball, and track, and girls, volleyball, basketball, and rhythm. The outstanding event of the girls' basketball season is an interclass tournament, the winners of which receive proper recognition. Our science department embraces the natural and social sciences. In the former,- biology, geography, general science, physiology, and physics,-laboratory courses are offered. In the latter,--psychology, Civics, economics, and history fArnerican, modern, and ancientj ,-courses are supplemented with collateral reading which is assiduously used. The vocational agriculture course comprises a year each of shop work, crops and animal husbandry. Students find lively interest through project work continuous during the year, trips to various fairs, judging contests, and well-informed lecturers who frequently speak to our classes. An obliging librarian presides over the books, newspapers, and magazines indispensable to the proper growth of a high school. To our readers and to those interested in our high school, in whose midst the work of the above departments is being conducted, this glimpse into the work of our faculty and of our student body-about 280 in number-is respectfully submitted. page eight