La Salle Peru Township High School - Ell Ess Pe Yearbook (La Salle, IL)

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ELL ESS PE Home Economics. The Home Economics department is lsituated in the south- ern part of the Manual Training Building. Here the arts of sewing and cooking are taught. This department has been partitioned off so as to separate the cooking from the sewing classes, and the rooms have been redecorated. On account of the large number of students in the work, a new teacher was employed to give her attention to the cooking classes alo11e. The cooking department is equipped with gas stoves, cupboards, and other utensils which are necessary for the work of the classes. THE MANUAL ARTS COTJRSES The lhfanual Arts Course in the LaSalle-Peru Township High School is de- signed to give life-enriching contact with many and various life-activities. The aim is not to train for a trade, but rather to supplement high school general edu- cation, by broadening the studentis outlook on life by developing sound appre- ciation of economic products, and by helping to lay the foundations for a voca- tional career. Even an attempt at trade-training would be impossible when the time spent in the shop per school year is but thirty eightl-hour days spread out over a period of ten months. . The mechanical drawing course is so constructed that all the principles of drafting may be learned by taking elementary drawing.3 Then come machine drawing and designing, furniture-design, and its relation to a good home, house- planning, ideal house arrangements, plumbing, heating, decorating and lighting. The architectural drawing offered includes a study of the Greek, Roman and Byzantine types,the designing and planning of a small building, mechanical per- spective, pen and ink shading and shadows. The first year of wood-work includes the study of tools, their care, sharpening, and tool-processes. In construction-work all important processes, order or pro- cedure, and finish, including scraping, sanding, staining, sh -llacing, and varnishing in their relation to diiferent kinds of wood, are taught he making of cement glass, brick, shellac, and varnish are studied also Art libre work is now one of the second year problems XX ood turning which trams the eye and hand in accuracy is another of the second year projects In advanced cabinet making some of Fzfiefn F. I . v :IUlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllIIIJ Dflllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll?

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ELL ESS PE l The Physics and Chemistry departments are well equipped. In the Physics laboratory is a large switchboard from which the electrical connections to the laboratory tables are controlled. Near the switchboard is a motor generator set and storage batteries that supply current for the bell system. The Agricultural department of the school occupies two rooms on the base- ment Hoor. They are supplied with equipment for the testing of milk, analysis of soils, inspection and testing of seeds, and the incubation and rearing of chickens. During the year trips are made to farms in the surrounding country and also to the Chicago stock show. Two years of hfiathematics are required in the school course. A year of Algebra and a year of Geometry must be taken. Other mathematics which are taught are Solid Geometry, Advanced Algebra, General hlathematics, and Arithmetic. VOCATIONAL ARTS Bookkeeping I and Il. The common principles underlying all systems of accounting, journalizing, and the double-entry system are here presented to the student. The course aims to give the student an understanding of the funda- ss forms Some of the main topics that are treated are partnership corporation accounts closing entries, income tax, reserxes, double entry as compared mth single entrv, classification of accounts and methods of designing sw stems of book- keeping records Tvpevw ritmg The course in tx pewritmg is required of all students in sten- ography Special emphasis is laid on touch ty ping At different times speed tests are given and certificates and medals are awarded to the students who are most proficient Shorthand I and II. The Gregg Diction Course of Shorthand is taught, which is based on the Gregg Speed Studies, including a review of the principles of the system dictation of letters and phrases and the translations of new matter. F ourire 1' mental principles of the subject and the ability to apply them to general busine H 1 7 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHII ' 5' llllllll l:3 DflllllllIlllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllll'

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ELL ESS PE the ideas formerly worked out in the furniture-design classes are built in wood with special attention paid to finishes. The Auto-hlechanics Course aims to acquaint the student with the use of the intricate parts of the automobile, and to teach him the repairing of minor parts, valve-grinding, engine-timing, and carbon-removing. The work in forging includes the building of fires, and the working up of simple projects in iron. Radio work is one of the newer studies in this department and as yet has not been organized into a definite course. The purpose is to get as many boys as possible interested in this wonderful avocation, to give them a fair understanding of the elementary principles of electricity as applied to radio, and to start as many as possible towards acquiring a receiving set for themselves. LIBERAL ARTS ENGLISH. Three years of English are required for graduation with a fourth year elective. The course covers work in grammar, rhetoric, composition, as well as in the classics of literature. Each class in English is given a list of books from which the students select one or more for collateral reading. HISTORY. The history rooms are equipped with large maps and pictures of various kinds for reference in the history work. The courses taught in this de- partment include Civil Government, United States, Ancient, hledieval and Rlodern, and Yliorld History. Lantern slide lectures bearing on historic relations are given in this course, and also moving pictures. LANGUAGES. A four-year course is offered in Latin and a two-year course in French. Lantern slide lectures are given throughout the year and postcards projected on the screen in the dark room. French newspapers are obtained for the French classes, and pictures of France are displayed on bulletin boards. FINE ARTS. The Art Department occupies a large room well supplied with artists' easels, casts, drawing boards, models, and other materials necessary for the work. In this department pottery, leather work, pen and ink drawing, charcoal drawing, Cartooning and poster work are taught. This department has also been supplied with many new pictures for the study of the history of art. Music AND DRXMATICS Four classes in Appreciation of Music, haue been organized The three classes in the Historv of Nlusic studs the following Learn mg to Listen The Orchestra, Dex elopment of Instrumental Xlusic, The History 91 x lfrn Y 7 ' . . . j . T . I - 1 - f 1 V' .' - ' fmIIIilmlIIIIumuunnllluiuuia OilllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllll'