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The High School Departments j8T a system of schools (he size of LaPortc’s it is practically impossible to keep a clearly defined separation of the departments in High School work. Even if it were possible from a financial standpoint and practical from the point of class attendance it is still questionable if the genera] welfare and interests of the whole school could be so well cared for under a scheme when the departments were isolated and the workers in one department have no vital or necessary interest in the workers of another department. The fact that a teacher acts as head in one department and as a»i»:an: in another gives the teacher a double view-point of the school work and compels a social and co-operative spirit frequently wanting in the faculties of higher schools. Par-'y by necessity and partly bv plan the high school is so arranged, with, one exception, that each teacher serves as responsible head in some one line of work and as assistant in another, thus giving a double bond of unity and a greater harmony of action. The names of those who have served as departmental teachers in the city high schools will be found on pages 11 J and I t 4 Many of those who have served here as high school teachers have gone on in their professional careers to positions of influence and prominence in tate and national educational affairs. The attendance in the high school during the past decade has more •sn doubled, while the teaching corps ha remained practically the same in number. To keep pace with the educational progress of the country at large, course» have been modified and extended so that the work of the various iepartmen- -and.' accredited with that of the best schools in the nation. The La Porte City High School offer to its students four years’ work in each of the following lines: English, Science, Commercial Bran.he», l-atin. Art — Pictorial, Decorative, or Technical—and .Music, and offers three year courses in German, Mathematics and History. Teachers specially qualified by- scholarship and experience for each of these lines of work have been secured. Ample equipments in the way of laboratories and libraries arc provided, and opportunities equal to the best are offered to all wishing to do high school work. Entrance to the I-a Porte High School may be had upon examination and assignment by the Superintendent, or without examination on pres- entation of certificate of attendance in other high schools of good standing, upon evidence of satisfactory completion of work from the eighth grades of the City Schools, or on diploma from the Country Schools of Indtana. Advanced standing and credit will be given for work done in the Township High Schools of LaPorte County on presentation of certified copy of pupil’» record on entering the IjPortc High School. To meet the different tendencies and ambitions of students the six years’ work offered has been divided into three lines of four years each, named by the leading subject and entitling those completing any one of these lines to a diploma of Graduation. These courses are the Latin, Scientific and Commercial. The Latin Course admits to Literary or Scientific Courses of the leading Colleges and Universities of the Central States without examination. The Scientific Course admits to the College Scientific without examinations. The Commercial Course gives no Col- lege entrance without examinations. Those contemplating this course, however, have recently been admitted on all work done here, conditioned in University of Michigan in Iumguagc. In case students do not wish to take all the prescribed work of any course, a diploma may be earned by successfully completing elective work for not less than thirty credits, the minimum for which diplomas arc granted. This diploma docs not entitle holder to college entrance without examination. 16
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Each recitation period per week, if work be continued througn one- half year, entitle.' the person successfully completing requirements of same to one-fifth credit. The subjects prescribed in the various courses will be found in the exhibit of work given below. Four years arc regularly required for completing any regular course and a minimum ot thirty-two credits is required tor graduation from regular courses. Substitution in subjects in stated courses may be made with the consent of the Principal and Superintendent, but substitutions invalidating the college entrance or State Commission requirements will forfeit right to any but the Thirty Credit or Special Course Diploma. The daily program and courses arc so arranged that pupils so desiring it may with the consent of the Principal and .Superintendent do more than the regular amount of work, and thus shorten the time re- quired for graduation, or by wise selection may be able to complete all required work for graduation in more than one course during four years. The privilege of extra work will be forfeited, however, should the regu- lar work fail to be satisfactory. A credit represents one recitation five times per week for one-half year. Regular work requires so recitations of 4; minutes each per week, exclusive of music and general exercises. The various courses of the schcols are made up frem work selected from the nine departments. The English department is the last one organized, and was estab- lished a a separate department in 1897, with Miss Katharine Crane as teacher. Miss Crane still holds the literature work, while the composition work i in charge of Miss Karolir.c Klager. The course includes the reading of a college requirement list of classics in English and American Literature, together with a grammatical and rhetorical study of these works and a four years’ course in English Composition. It is the intention, as soon as practicable, to add to the work of this department one year’s work in the history of literature. This can be done by re-arranging the literature work in grades seven to eleven inclusive, without requiring any additional hours on part of the students. The Latin department was one of the first established in the schools, and i' now in charge of Mr. C. O. Nelson. The work of the Department calls for the following: First Year:—General principles of Grammar, laying stress upon con- jugation, declension and syntax. About fifty pages of easy Latin arc translated. Second Year:—Translation of four books of Casar’s Gallic War; the study of more complex forms of Latin prose, indirect discourse and the study of Roman warfare. Third Year—Translation of six orations of Cicero; study of prose composition; study of Reman life and oratory. Fourth Year:—Translation of nine books of Virgil’s Acneid; Geo- graphy of the Ancient World; essays on subjects suggested by the text; i ,000 to 2,500 lines of Ovid. The German department is in charge of Miss Karolinc Klager, and the course is arranged as follows: First Year:— Conversational exercises and reading. Latt.r par: of the year. Grammar. Second Year:—Grammar: Translations .'rum English into German; German into English. Reading easy German; prose and poetry. Third Year:—Continue Grammar. Write shor: German compo- sitions and translations. Harris’ Prose Composition. Read and discuss German classics: WjH-am Tell, The Song of the Be!!, Schiller; Mina von Barnhclm, Lessing; Short Poems; Goethe, c:c. Graduates of this department have entered the Junior German Classes in Ann Arbor, by examination. In the department of Mathematics, in charge of Principal F. L. Sims, the work is as follows: First Year:--Algebra, through quadratics. Second Yea:: -Plane Geometry. Third Year: -Solid Geometry; Lines and planes in span; Polyhedrons; Cylinders and Cones; the Sphere. Fourth Yea: : Second Semester, Higher Algebra, in charge o: Superintendent Wo. i; Radicals, (Quadratics, Ratio, Proportion, Progressions, Imaginary (Quantities, L ga- rtthms. Binominal Theorem. Throughout the course special attention is given to practical appli- cations of the work, much supplementary work and original demon- strations being required.
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