Manual High School - Thunderbolt Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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. . , . V , , , . , , ll lon Iinnu' l,11ll11 lilll fun Iwflllhu lnflwslvnlrl lullylllslv LANGUAGE A LANGUAGE room fairly breathes a foreign atmosphere with its many colorful fiags, maps, and charts. Students struggle with their Cuentos Contados, Romulus et Remus, and Petits Contes de France. However, their struggles will be rewarded, for with the study of many languages, the customs and geography of distant lands are learned and a line basis for international understanding and good will is formed. Along the wall, well filled book cases and loaded tables evidence added cultural wealth. Blackboards are covered with Latin, French, or Spanish sentences, derivations, or conjugations. Pupils furiously thumb vocabularies and rustle papers to prepare a lesson that should have been studied the night before. One rule of learning is prac- tice and the murmur of voices repeating vocabulary words, phrases, or cor- recting pronunciations floats through the doors. Alert expressions and hushed silence pervades much of the time, for the teachers, having traveled exten- sively, share with students their personal experiences, lending a realistic touch to the romantic posters on the bulletin board. Books are pushed aside in the last few minutes of a class period and a discussion about an enjoyable Roman banquet is started by the Latin students. We smell savory sausages and frying fish. Hard boiled eggs were hard boiled eggs to Romans. Fruit, olives, and cake were enjoyed then as now. Latin a dead language? Why students grow hungry listening to the menu of a feast of two thousand years ago! Sixln-1-11 llolll ul Ihr ,lnl1'ri1'1l.x' Np1'1ll.' NlNlHlNlI

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1'rf'r'ixi0n !'o1n1ts Hera' INDUSTRIAL ARTS THE penetrating odor of hot glue greets us as we enter the hub-bub of a busy woodwork class. Here, tables, radio cabinets, cedar chests, and many other pieces of furniture are taking form. A group of boys pour over blue prints. A lathe whines shrilly as a table leg is fashioned. Leaving the Wood- work class our steps are directed toward the machine shop. A variety of noises issue from the machine shop. The slap of big belts, the hacking of saws, and the shriek of power drills rips into the halls. The rumble of heavy drive shafts drowns all other thoughts and we watch the precision with which young craftsmen manipulate the powerful machines. A few boys work on automobile motors, real overhaul jobs come forth here. In another room we notice evidences of the draftsman's art, high stools, bookkeeping tables, T squares, India ink, hard pencils, and angles of every degree that are essential in the drawing of plates. Mechanical drawing calls for accuracy. A printing class industriously bends over type cases in a little room at the end of a long hall. A printing press rolls as a mounting stack of newly printed programs takes form. The smell of fresh printer's ink fills the air. With the ringing of the bell all machines groan to a stop and halls are filled with shouting boys who were a few minutes ago, concentrating heavily amidst the roar of machines. I- f .lrfislry In lVoorI

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MQW , f W i?f2S3f? Fifi? , lf . , ,, , ,zz 5 M-Www Na ,M ,Nw .wsfwv MW, ,M . - it f5Ei?12wH'FfP .fsfazciaiztwif i ' ii.: rr Wu:fZi?:?fQff, A ' W , ,, ,..A , .. 7, , X X. , Z ,Inst II lfvu' NI'!'UlI!l-X to .-lrld .HI l n11r t'nI1lm11.w.' MATHEMATICS THROUGH the open door of a mathematics room there is an all pervading silence broken only by the scratching of pencils, heavy breathing, or the restless shuffle of feet. Bright morning sunshine filters through drawn shades to fall upon puzzled faces, wrinkled brows, and worried looks. Triangles, cir- cles, rectangles and squares appear on the blackboard, to be solved by many different theorems of geometry. A distorted triangle gives evidence of trig- onometry. The poor little triangle is the most mistreated of all rectalenior figures, side A is torn from side D, B equals C, and angle 1 equals 2, but the triangle doesn't mind, its all in a day's work. Long rows of alphabetized figures standing for unknowns greet us in an- other room. Students involved in deep thought labor desperately toward the conclusion and the proof of algebraic equations. Shortcuts, shortcuts, and more shortcuts, The idea of the practical math class is to save time, energy and more time, to also have absolute accuracy, these are the words of the instructor as she goes on to explain the many ad- vantages that have been found in this system. Tired bending heads, drooping shoulders, show the intellectual strain of trying to figure those many strings of dancing figures. In another part of the room someone is groaning, 'Tm three cents off-Oh, why won't these books balancell' What? Commercial Arithmetic class, of course. be-xvlxh-N1 I.oul.'.s Ninlplw! You .lliylfl Bw Nnrprixw1I.'