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

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Helle Howey Huber Kuville King The Commercial Department V X xx The Commercial department provides courses in bookkeeping, accounting. commercial law, economics. salesmanship, stenography, office practice, and other allied subjects. , It aims to offer the student enough general business information to enable him to meet the many situations that arise in the conduction of a business. The practice and the study of the subjects not only give the pupil a working knowledge of bookkeeping, accountancy. and stenography. but develop initiative, efficiency, reliability, and accuracy. The department sponsors a Commercial Club, founded in 1921, which is always one of the largest in ,membership and activities in the school. Every year there are district and state contests in typing, shorthand, and other commercial subjects. The Central Commercial department always places members in all events. Also under this department. the financial report is made to the Student Council, giving expenditures and receipts of plays, debates, musicals, lecture courses. and publications. s I TEACHERS N MR. DELONG, HEAD Miss Row Miss Snook Mrs. Swearingen G 7 I ,lu K at

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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

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Linnrll Mcllheron Mendenhall Neuman Nolan ' 3 Mathematics Department Not to create mathematicians but to instruct the students in such mathe- matics fundamental to their comprehension of further courses to be under- taken, is the aim of this department. The curriculum offers four semesters of algebra, three of geometry, one of trigonometry, and business arithmetic. This department also aims to develop habits of thought which are logical, orderly, exact. and analytical. Constant effort made on the part of the student for the acquisition of this important division of his mental equipment will. in future years, enable him not only to meet problems independently and to work correct solutions. but to apply the principle of solution to all situations. rg nn Y I TEACHERS MR. HEFFNER, HEAD Senior High Junior High Miss Andrews Miss Recd Mr. Clark Miss Mtllheron Miss Nolan Mr. Roost Miss Helle Miss Whitling Miss Watson A E4 ' x S W