Marysville High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Marysville, KS)

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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

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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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MARYSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL 69 terms, found in the factory, are applied. Both branches include the study of measurement, liquids, gases, heat-expansion and transmission, water-ice, steam and their relations, heat engines, magnetism, electricity, sound, light, color and lenses. The work taken up by the boys is slightly more advanced and includes non-parallel forces, elasticity and strength of materials, force and acceleration, energy and momentum. The laboratory is an important factor in making the study of physics inte1'esting and successful, and in M. H. S. the laboratory is moderately equipped with the best apparatus necessary for completing the experiments encountered in physics. The chief aim in studying this course is to present elementary physics in such a Way as to stimulate the pupil to do some thinking on his own account about the hows and whys of the physical world in which we live. THE MANUAL TRAINING CLASS. The Manual Training class of 1915-16 proved to be one of the best so far in the history of M. H. S. Mr. White, the instructor, has an enrollment of sixteen boys from the Freshman, Senior and Sophomore classes. The first semester was devoted entirely to mechanical drawing, which in- cluded cross-hatching, geometrical designing, orthograpliic, iso- metric, cabinet projections and joints. In all, about thirty plates were made during the time spent in the old building. The second semester was given to wood work, varnishing, painting, blue prints, etc. Many line pieces of furniture, work bench fixtures, etc., were made by the boys, which will be a sou- venir of the work that they accomplished. -ll AGRICULTURE. The study of agriculture, until recent years, was regarded worthy of a place in schools by a few of the highest teachers only, but todav nearly every one realizes the value of this study, which teaches farming scientifically. The M. H. S. agricultural class has taken up the studv of farm crops, weeds, fertilizers, agastology, soils, agronomv, landscape gardening, farm management, animal husbandry, horticulture, forestry and poultry. Lectures are given daily on the different subjects which are connected with the study of agriculture. Some time is spent in research work and a careful study is made of the annual reports sent out by the Kansas State Agricultural College. The agricultural class of the second semester consists of boys exclusively. Much time is spent on experiments and other labora- tory work.