Lincoln High School - Links Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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Spanish murals illustrate Mr. Rogers' explanation. Latin week provides a glimpse of every- day life in Rome. What Other People Speck Our world today has grown so small that the peoples of foreign nations seem closer than ever before. Current events tell us that there must be widespread understanding of all the world to bring about the assurance of peace. To try to reach this goal, in our language department the characteristics and the history of our World neighbors are com- bined With the study of vocabulary and gram- mar. Qs Latin is the root of several modern lan- guages, the beginner usually ventures into it first. Following Publius in his daily life, a Latin student often sees himself. More acl- vanced students take up Caesar and his i'Gal- lic Wars. Students Who study Cicero's pas- sionate speeches note that after many years We are still Wrestling with the same problems. We hear a great deal in these times about the good neighbor policy. To the south of us is that important section of the World Where Spanish is spoken. For this reason, Spanish is increasingly valuable and students, from the beginning, are taught to speak it. Short stories are read and later more adf Vanced Spanish literature. Lively and bright is the French language studied by many students. ln addition to con- versation training and presentation of short plays, famous stories and accounts of French history are read. Correspondence With French boys and girls is an important and interesting phase of the Work. Since German terms are often seen in the news, German students have listed and trans- lated these terms to make an interesting bit of research. ln contrast to the harsh War terms, fables and fairy tales are translated by the beginners. The more advanced are read- ing exciting detective stories. Roberta Collins collects duties as Leslie Metheny and Tom Noble cross the border in a French play.

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It's An Asset Plbility to use good English is essential in every line of work. Through its various classes, formal and informal, with subjects from crea- tive writing to interpretation of news in peri- odicals, the English department develops this ability and widens the students outlook. ln time of war this department's work is doubly important. Plmericans become familiar with the ideals and customs of our trans-Htlantic ally. ln Eng- lish literature classes by reading the works of British authors in the early days of the Em- pire students find it easier to understand her actions today. ln creative writing classes budding authors flower and fade as they write and criticize their own work. The ones interested in verse study meter and form. The art of argumentation and debate is the subject of other English classes. Qdvanced students enter competition with other schools. Questions of public interest are made the sub- ject of series of debates for which students amass a great deal of information. ln times when right of free speech is threat- ened or curtailed in other countries we find ourselves very grateful for it and for all the classes that help young men and women to understand the best in our literary heritage, to think clearly on diverse subjects, and to dis- cuss matters with their fellows without sur- veillance. H bit of action in English 20, f28l

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Interpreting Todoy's World By means of a map of the world Miss Ienkins shows interested students history in the making. Daily, pages in history are being written in bold words that the world will never forget. The best history lessons of today are made up of discussions about news heard over the air or read in the newspapers. To follow the re- ports, students must have a knowledge of locations and histories of the powers of the world. Mankind has followed the same cycle of war and peace for as long as history has been recorded. Hfter paralleling lives of great con- querors and the conquered, the lives of na- tions themselves, and the war tactics and his- tory of early Greeks and Bomans with inci- dents of the present world conflict, students can grasp a broader view of the war. They discover that the lives, thoughts, and reactions of these people were not so different from their own. Beginning with the first vague clues of writ- ten records, Greek and Roman history traces the lives of our ancient ancestors up to the Roman empire. Modern history examines man's struggle in the development of his po- litical, economic, and cultural civilization in Europe. Following the rapid rise and growth of our own nation, Plmerican history considers the laws and constitution and presents internal and foreign problems of this country. H greater understanding of all world prob- lems can be reached through analyzing hap- penings in the past in relation to ourselves and our world affairs today. This understand- ing is the goal of the social studies depart- ment. Bobbette Burke finds that comprehension of Mrs. Hyatt's fourth period class knuckles down the war is easy when pins on a map outline to a hard assignment. the situation. I' L