Lima Central High School - Annual Mirror Yearbook (Lima, OH)

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N . xv vi Clark Cntes DeLong DeGrief Drake History Department Advancement for the most part is gained in profiting by the past experi- ences of others. Our knowledge of these trials is acquired through the stm of history. By the never-ceasing efforts of historians and teachers we arc fur- nished with the complete trends of events from the beginning of time. Besides the regular courses of Ancient. Medieval, Modern, and American History, a course in Civics is offered. Collateral reading is required in the study of the Springiield Weekly Republican, The Literary Digest, The Scholastic, Loose-leaf Current Topics, and library reports. The study of current events correlates the historical with the present and thus, contact with the problems of both periods is presented to every history student in the school. V' 9 TEACHERS MR. ROMAKER, HEAD Senior High Junior High Miss Chivington Miss Fishbaugh Miss Neuman Mrs. Smith , Mrs. Pence , Mr. Overholser Mr. Steiner Mr. Rnrnsdall Miss Stolfus Mr. Stott Miss Swickard

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Andrews Brcese Burrell Cahill Chivingion English Department Dr. Charles W. Eliot declared: I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or a gentleman: namely, an accu- rate and refined use of the mother tongue. This great personage of Harvard College, in twentyreight Words. sounds the keynote of required knowledge. In order that this might be accomplished. Athe courses offered provide for the study of the mechanics of English in the first two years and an intensive study of literature and the classics in the last two. The series, Literature and Life, is found to be very interesting and satisfactory. A new feature was added in the forming of a course in public speaking. a subject which many schools of our size even make compulsory. The study has been found to be very valuable, and, as time goes on, very probably will be developed to a greater extent. I, YW: TEACHERS Miss MILROY HEAD Senior High Junior High Miss DcGrief Miss King Mrs. Brcesc Miss Stuart Miss Faris Miss Leete . Miss Kcvillc Miss Thomas Mrs. Rhonemus Miss Howey Miss Overman I

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Faris Fishbaugh Guthrey Hauenstein Hclfner Foreign Language Department As language is the key to thought. foreign languages are the keys to a treasure house of the World's thought, literature, art. and music. The learning of a language is the formation of a new mental habit. It does not involve logic or reasoning power. A very young child forms mental habits readily: therefore he can lcarn any, or many, languages with equal facility. The older he grows the more fixed become the mental habits formed, and the less readily he forms new ones. Concentration of all the faculties, then, becomes an essential. Habits are formed only by performances many times repeated. The purpose of the modern languages, French and Spanish, is to give to each student a good working knowledge of the language such as will enable him to understand and make himself understood. Each course offers two years of the study. the first taking care of the grammar and the second providing selection readings. With Latin. the mother of romance languages, a little different purpose arises. lt is to show the relationship between Latin and present-day tongues. Lineal descent is traced. showing how susceptible the languages are to influence. Freshman Latin. Caesar, Cicero, and Vergil arc offered. TEACHERS Miss GUTHISRY, HEAD Miss Deputy Miss Drake Miss Jones