Marysville High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Marysville, KS)

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MARYSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL 67 AMERICAN HISTORY. The American History text used this year is 'lJames and San- ford. The library contains about thirty volumes, which are used for reference work and to supplement the text. Some source work has been done on the Constitution and the Ordinance of 1787. The period of Colonization in America is discussed fully. The Civil War and Reconstruction period is taken up and dis- cussed and the leading issues of the times dealt with. Current events are taken up once a week and discussed, in order to show the relationship of similar events in past and pres- ent history. The present war is not studied, only in connection with current events. Thomas, as a rule, then has a monopoly on Time, The other students of the class wonder if they cannot get Congress to pass a law prohibiting the Time Monopoly. Languages ENGLISH. English is'one of the most practical subjects and is thoroughly cultivated in our high school. The value of a true understanding of English in every walk of life cannot be over-estimated. The Junior class has studied the History of English Litera- ture, which shows the remarkable progress made by our men of letters. The members of the class have made the acquaintance of the authors of English literature. Macbeth was read in class the first semester, and the Iliad outside of school. Every mem- ber of the class realizes the fitness of the name to the classic, Pal- grave's Golden Treasure. It was indeed a pleasure to study those beautiful lyrics and ballads. The Autocrat', in Holmes' famous book most assuredly had great conversational powers, at least, that is the decision of our Junior English class. The Sophomore class studied their Rhetoric along with The Idylls of the King, The Merchant of Venice, Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner and Snowbound. It is, of course, evident that they enjoyed them, because that is the most important char- acteristic of the Sophomores. The Freshmen have learned the A, B, C's of English, in pre- paration for higher work. An aid to this was Tom Brown's School Days. ' Mention must be made to some of the future writers of Eng- lish Literature. Sylves Andrews is now our budding young poet, Blanche Yaussi, our blossoming poetessf' Lucile Whan, essayistg Rex Brumbaugh, noted writer of diaries, Gene Peters

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66 MARYSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL Mathematics Mathematics, one of the oldest studies in the World, being as old as civilization itself, is taught today in every modern school. It is a subject that not only trains the mind to reason accurately and quickly, but also fits the student for practical life. M. H. S. offers an extensive course in this branch of study. Every student is required to take two years of mathematicsg one year of algebra and one of plane geometry. Many students, how- ever, take as many as three or four years, taking advanced al- gebra, solid geometry fhalf year coursej, or commercial arithme- tic as supplementary courses. The latter is in the business course. The texts used are, Marsh's Elementary and Advanced Alge- bra, Ford and Ammermann's Plane and Solid Geometry and Van Toole's Commercial Arithmetic. History ANCIENT HISTORY. The text used in ancient history covers the period from 5000 B. C. up to the modern age. Besides the text book, special refer- ences are assigned out-of source books found in the library. Recitations are usually oral, but tests, over the Work covered, are given often enough to prevent the student resting in blissful calm for any length of time. This is probably best, as it stimu- lates us to greater eforts toward a retentive memory of class work. MODERN HISTORY. Modern history, according to the ideas of Robinson and Beard, covers that period of time from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the present day. The unification of the European countries is now being studied. This makes the stu- dents feel that they are coming to more recent times. Some cannot see why France persists in taking up so much time with her Revolutions and her Napoleon Bonapartes, but all this must come along with Industrial Revolutions and the Old Regime in Europe. In order to have a change from the Rise of European Pow- ers, once a week current events are discussed. Any one coming into the room at this time would be favored with a lively debate. Subject, Present War, and Preparedness Debaters: Harley, Rex, Bruno and Sylves. With these fiery debates and a test sprinkled .in .once and a while, the Modern History class fares very Well.

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68 MARYSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL and Arthur Mohrbacher, writers of vivid description, Earl Graves, deep prose writer. The Freshmen are anxiously awaiting the dawning of their literary careers. Everybody joins in Wishing them success. GERMAN. Nine students of M. H. S. eagerly scan the pages of Spanhofs Elementarbuch der Deutschen Sprache, each day to learn the declensions, conjugations and idioms of the German language. Two of these are full-fledged Germansg that is, they could talk and understand from the Very first, while the rest of them only listened with Wonder and admiration. Masculine tables, feminine blackboards, and neuter girls, in the beginning were wont to cause us trouble, but practice has taught us to associate properly 'tfler's, die's and das's. One could easily tell that We understood German by the busi- nesslike clatter of nine Deutsche books when the signal, Bitte, machen sie die Bucher aufi' CPlease, open your booksl, is given, and the audible groan which escapes our lips at that oft-used phrase, Lernen sie auswendig' C'Learn by heart j. Altho our class is small this year, we're trying to bring about such an increase in vocabulary that all who come in contact with us will marvel and help us make two rousing big German classes next year. LATIN. Our beginning Latin class, altho composed mostly of Fresh- men, is acquiring an extensive Latin vocabulary. This course gives the beginner a sound foundation for future work in Latin. Caesar forms a sufficient outlet for the superfluous energies of sixteen Sophomores. The Freshmen may indeed be thankful to aesar. The Cicero class, a jolly quartet of Junior girls, is far above the average. During the year the class has read six oiationsg the four against Catiline, Manlian Law, and the Poet A rchias. But outside of class! Our Latin does not end in the class room. We have.a Wide-awake Latin club called the Senatus. Its monthly meetings are instructive as Well as entertaining. - Physics In the Physics department, the work is pursued separately by the boys and girls. This is done so as to familiarize the girls with the domestic branch of physics and only terms found in the house- hold are used. In the boys' work, the mechanical and technical