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

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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'

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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 I l of Music, and the Opera and Oratorio. The textbook is the ndw edition of Anne Shaw Faulkner s What We Hear in Music . A victrola and a valuable collection of records are used in connection with the course, which includes a music memory contest. Freshmen and Sophomores are required to take singing for two periods a week. A Girls' Glee Club and a Boys' Glee Club have been drganized. The dramatics of the school are furnished by the Junior and Sophomore classes. The Sophomore play was introduced a few years ago and has lbecome an annual event. Thejunior play is the greatest achievement along thq line of dramatics. l SOCIAL SCIENCE ECONOMICS. The course in Economics is offered as an elective to Juniors and Seniors. This course introduces the fundamental principles thait underlie business and determine the practices of the business world. The courselserves as an intro- duction to the college course which is to be pursued later. The laws and principles which are set forth are illustrated by references to every day experience. lVIany practical problems are discussed in the class room. The laws and principles are applied to present day activities. ' l SOCIOLOGY. Sociology, like Economics, is also offered as an!elective for Juniors and Seniors. This course takes up the study of society and its problems. The American problems of race, industry, crime, immigration, poverty, and charity are taken up. Special emphasis is made on suggestions for remedies and reforms. COMMUNITY CIVICS. The Community Civics course is a study of community life and problems. The pupil is first introduced to his community and its im- mediate problems. Then he takes up the framework of government and finally is given a general view of the broader questions of democracy. l The work is made interesting by lantern slide lectures, by field trips, and by the absignment of topics requiring original investigation. The general aim of the cotfrse is to train for good citizenship and to create a desire in the pupil to put ihto active practice what he has learned. , CIFTS T0 THE SCHOQL Two original oil paintings, nine by six feet, by Solimena Ccirca 17405, son- in-law of Tiepolo. Taken from the dismantled chapel of the Ristori Family in Montepuliciano, Tuscany. Purchased in Italy and presented to the Township High School by Mrs. Adele M. Blow of LaSalle, Illinois. Titles: Easter Sac- rifice and Sacrifice of Abraham . Eight original etchings and one original pen and ink drawing, presented to the school by Mrs. C. H. lN-latthiessen of New York City and LaSalle. Etchings: l Battery Place, New York City -XfVilliam Wlolcott. Brooklyn Bridge, New York City -VVilliam VVolcott. Park Avenue, New York City -VVilliam YVolcott. l Forty-Second Street, New York City -William Wolcottl CC if Ac 64 . Little Bay -Roland Clarke. l Dieppe, France -J. A. Brewer. Queen Anne's Gate, London -David Y. Cameron. Marbles -Eileen A. Soper. Original pen and ink drawing by Florence S. Schinn. I Rue St. Romain, Rouen -A. E. Howarth. J Durham Cathedral -A. F. Affleck. Segovia. Grim Spain -Ernest Roth. Royal Exchange, London -Percy Robinson. Q Eight Bells -VVinslow Homer. fAfter the famous paintlngj Washington Arch -B. J. O. Nordfeldt. , l Sevmtren mlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllii l DllilllllllIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllll' l I l