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

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X , Twenty THE LATIN DEPARTMENT Hyde Park offers four years work in the Latin language and litera- ture. It aims to give foundation for the modern languages, ever-increas- ing knowledge of English grammar, and ability to understa-nd the exact meaning of English words derived from the Latin This is gained ln the first and second years by mastering the elements of the language and by reading yarious stories and selected portions of Caesar s Gallic War The third year emphasizes politics through Cicero s orations Vergil s Aeneid in the fourth year gives the pupll an historical and cultural background and unusual literary appreciation of this epic THE SPANISH DEPARTMENT The Spanish department offers college entrance credit helps English by translation and broadening vocabulary and offers a generous con tribution to cultural value In view of the fact that a large portion of the inhabitants of America have Spanish as their language a knowledge of Spanish favors both social and business interests for people of the United States in Hispanic America Spanish teachers hope to send better equipped tourists pilots salesman perhaps ambassadors, to Latin America This does not seem at all improbable since even now many graduates are earning their daily bread with Spanish learned 1n school THE GERMAN DEPARTMENT The German department has grown frona liliputiin s1Le during the XVorld War to seytnteen classes of all years and semesters While it s an object of the teachers to give their students a reading knoyyledge of German appreciation for the literature of the Germans and a general attitude of understanding and friendliness to foreign nations they are also earnestly interested in building up Hntr characters in the young people of our school The teachers feel that they haye an unusually good type of ladies and gentlemen and therefore find the yy ork enjoy able to themselyes and profitable to the pupils During the first year nh pupils art taught grammar and their second year German literature

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THE FRENCH DEPARTMENT In common mth the other forelgn languages French 1S offered throughout the entnre hlgh school course Those jumors electmg thus lmguagt may lceompllsh tvvo years work ln three semesters thereb fulhllmg 1 two setr language requlrement The mam objectn es of the course are to teach comprehenslon of the oral and written language to encourage pup1ls to express themselves nn French and to gam a sym pathetxc understandmg and appreclatxon of French hfe and hterature To thls end the pup1ls are encouraged by thelr teachers to read vudely In the department are twenty seven classes and approxnmately 976 pup1ls ,L rw? THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT It has been sald The all lmportant objectlve of all educatron IS the development of a vsell rounded llfe and not the least valuable contr1bu t1on to th1s purpose 1S gxven by the muslc department The :um of the music department IS not to develop master muslcxans but to gnc the ordmary person the ab1l1ty for apprecxatnon Through group muslc 1ct1v1ty such as Glee Club A Cappella Chorus Orchestra, or Band apprec1at1on of good mus1c IS taught Even m regular mus1c classes pup1ls acqu1re the hab1t of group part1c1pat1on 1n musxc sufhcmently to enable them to appreclate much of the best musxc Uh-.9 I Turnly Ol!! 4 9 'K c. Q 1 K T my - -4 h ef ' 4 K n Y' Q ' gje I . K , , y , , . W- ' , , , ' , V 'rf f' t t t ' s , C K . I . . . . . . . . , . . , Y - J . , . V . Y. V. 4 I 4 g Q ' S 5 I ! I I 5 v . 1 i E . 5 1 4 Q 4 T s 5 1 W . Lfekfi t?Q,f1?r 'f?WT'.F .'Nt:'fF'5 ff 5 T . ,, . . . , . 1 ' , X 7 - sa ' - , - ' 7 . Y . . . . . ' 3 ' 9 9 ' 7 . . . . . . . . . Y 5 . . ' . . ' r l s