Hyde Park High School - Aitchpe Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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THE AITCHPE-1914 whiz Qturritulum EizglislzeThe English Department has directed its efforts to se- curing better articulation of the work done in eight semesters. Ae- COi'ding t0 Ruskin, education consists in ttleai'ning to admire what we once despisedW In the English classes we try to train boys and girls to like what is gOOd-in sentences, that they may write well; in books, that they may read well. Debutirng-Debating teaches a pupil to secure accurate informa- tion, to analyse and correlate this material; to bring his own judg- ment to bear upon the problem at issue, and to state his convictions s0 convincingly as to persuade others that he is correct. It is an indespensible corollary to the English course and bridges the gulf between written and oral composition. Oral Expressioa'z-aAn elective course of one to four semesters of oral expression aims to teach students to speak with correct enunci- ation, to cultivate pleasant speaking voices and to learn to use them effectively. For the tirst two semesters the readings are short selec- tions, prose and verse. The third and fourth semesters there is of- ferred a Choice of storytelling, oral reading of a play, 01' informal exteniporaneous speaking and declaniations. LuvtmeXVe offer the regular classical course: Caesar, Cicero and Virgil and as much Gri'eek ;s we have demand for. As one, Of the youngest of nations, living in a land without a long past7 we need a linguistic perspective longer than English affords and an acquain- tance with sentence building which is both accurate and complicated. To supply these 'arieus needs is the aim in the study of Greek and atin. GermaneLanguage makes its strongest appeal orally. In Ger- man we attempt to imitate the natural process of grasping phrases rather than words. From the beginning the pupil is trained to hear and to speak so that ultimately literature may impress him with its thought and its music and that at the end of three years he will read for his own pleasure. Fl'e'nchelt has always been our aim to make French a living language and to have pupils, in the very beginning, hear and use it. Translation has been superseded by practical questions and answers. Great stress is laid upon pi'ononnciation and rhythm. In the second and third years, we study modern French literature and, in the fourth year Collegiate French. There are three French teachers: Miss Jennie Shipman, Mademoiselle Favard and Monsieur Loeai'd. Histem eTo correlate today to the long course of human events that lies behind it, is the ultimate aim of history teaching. The greater the knowledge of the facts and influences of the past, the closer is that dependence seen to be. For that reason High School history teaching I4

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THE AITCHPE-1914 must aim at the acquiring of facts as a means towards that under standing and wisdom which is the crown of life. CivicseThe purpose of the study of Civics is to make intelligent citizens. To this end the structure of the federal, state and local gov- ernment is studied. Political EconomyeeThe course in Political Economy is designed to discuss: first, production and the distribution of the product among the factors of production; second, money and credit instruments, and, third, taxation. MathematicseThe department of Mathematics at Hyde Park Offers four yeaVs of work including Trigonometry and College Alge- bra. It aims not only to give the student a knowledge of the subject matter but to develop in him the power of independent thinking and of dealing with the new problems by original methods. Last year an honor society, the Pythogorean Society was formed to discuss topics in Mathematics. Pizrysies-the physics department has been organized for the pur- pose of getting our pupils in direct contact with the reason why things happen in the mechanical world. It is splendidly equipped to help us in the teaching and illustration of any and all courses in high school physics. Text book and laboratory work is required from all pupils, the laboratory work being done by the pupils alone. ChemistryeThe elementary course in inorganic chemistry covers the more important elements, non-nietalie and inetalie, and includes a short course in qualitative anaylsis. The time 110w required is seven periods per week, four in the lahratory and three in recitation and lecture. One semester, covering a study of simple organic compounds, food tests, qualitative and simple quantitativx, analysis is offered as ad 'aneed work. Eleetrivify Ten periods per week, eight laboratory and two reci- tations, are devoted to ad Vaneed electricity. The course covers a study of electrical measurements and theory, motor and dynamo test- ing, making? of electrical instruments and appliances including motor and dynamo construction, comparison of different electric lights as to efficiency, study of transformers and illeasui'einents of their ef- fieieney. AstronomyeThe Hyde Park astronomy wm'k aims: tU T0 eul- tivate the imagination and the reason with the minimum use of mem- Ory and higher mathematics; Oi T0 acquaint the pupils with the night sky; t3i T0 inspire an appreciation of the infinity and complexity of the universe, and wonder at the achievements of astronomers. The school has a 3-inch telescope and the equipment necessary for regular laboratory work. BotanyeThe course in botany seeks to create in the students an intelligent appreciation of the world of plants he meets in his every I5