Lansing Central High School - Oracle Yearbook (Lansing, MI)

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MATHEMATICS Taylor, Benson, Bell, Miller, Burnham. CONCERNING MATHEMATICS With the possible exception of English, mathematics is probably the most necessary and useful subject in our curriculum. It is also one of the most polygonical. We find it, in one form or another, almost every- where. The physicist must constantly use mathe- matics in his work. In fact, physics may be considered either as science or mathematics for college entrance. The language depart- ment linds itself con- nected with this sub- ject. A great many mathematical terms come directly from the Latin. Architecture is something else em- ploying this subject extensively. We find it used from the an- cient Greek temples to our own modern sky- scrapers. The engineer de- pends upon math almost entirely. All of our bridges, high- ways, and machines are constructed with its help. Meter in poetry is another form of mathe- matics. Thus we find it in the field of literature. Those in the business world must know something about arithmetic in order to keep their books and, in general, to carry on business. We employ this many-sided subject even in our recreation. All our gridirons and tennis courts are built to certain measurements. It seems, then, that mathematics can be concrete as well as theoretical, and that it may prove useful to know why x-l-y:z, and a-b:c. Catherine Farr. Page Twelve

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COMMERCIAL Top Row: Braidwood, McCaskey. First Row: McCurdy, Minshall, Bovee, Musselman, E. johnson, Strait. Below: Disenroth. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE The commercial department has two principal aims: to prepare pupils for work that will enable them to earn their own way and to train them to be good citizens. The course is organized in three principal sequences. The pupil may fit himself for bookkeeping and ac- counting work of the type used in our indus- tries, stores and banksg he may prepare for stenographic work by developing skill to write shorthand at one hundred words a min- ute, type at Efty words a minute, and trans- cribe from shorthand in good English: or he may prepare for gen- eral clerical or selling work by the study of business organization, salesmanship, advertis- ing, commercial law, business investments, and economics. H. A. Strait is head of the department. There are seven teach- ers in the department. All have specialized in commercial work in our colleges and uni- versities. The school is equipped with more than a hundred typewriters and six styles of calculating and posting machines mimeographs and Ediphone. The Commerce Club, under the leadership of Miss Edith johnson has a membership of over ninety pupils. The club attempts to relate the affairs of the school with those of business It IS sponsoring a shorthand and typewriting contest this semester Training in commerce is training for life. Page Thirteen