Momence High School - Monesse Yearbook (Momence, IL)

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Oer Njongence J locf) IBchule ‘©eut-cher pClub. When a person has so far mastered a foreign language as to be able to speak it, he has accomplished a great deal. It is much easier to learn to read than to speak, but the purpose of the German club is to enable its members to speak fluently in the German tongue. The question may arise as to whether this can be accomplished at a social function. The members of the club have found it to be a very pleas¬ ant means of gaining information. It gives all an equal chance to exhibit their talent in conversing in German. Oftentimes remarkable idiomatic constructions are verbally expressed by the different members, bjit these are readily corrected and all profit, at the expense of some one member. A business meeting is always held some time during the evening, in which no one is allowed to speak except in German. This rule is conform- ed to, as much as possible, during the entire evening. The constitution is as follows: Der name des Vereins soli sein DER MOMENCE HOCH SCHULE DEUTCHER KLUB. ZWECK; Der Zweck des Vereins ist den Gliedern behilflich zu sein die Deutsche Sprache zu bemeistern. Die Englishe Sprache soil verboten sein, wahrend den Versamm- lungen. Beamten; Die Beamten des Vereins sollen sein ein Prasident, Vice-Prasident, Secretar und Correspondierrender-Secretar. Diese sollen bei Ballot erwahlt werden alle Acht Wocben. Ein Program Committee bestehend aus drei Gliedern soil von dem Prasidenten ernant werden. Diese sollen acht Wochen dienen. Pflicht des Committees: Es soli die Pflicht des Program-Committees sein das Program vorzu- bereiten fur die nachste Versammlung sogleich nach ihrer Ernenung. Gliederzahl;

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SENIOR YEAR BOOK. 21 break the custom and do away with it. Euripides was more practical than Aeschylus who aimed at the somber and made things appear worse, and more tragical than they realty were. Sophocles’ works were more light and airy, more of a recreation, more on the operatic style. Immediately after Euripides appeared Aristophenes, about four hun¬ dred twenty B. C. the great comedy writer. He was also a patriot and a philosopher. He satirizes the classical dramas, parodies their effects and pokes fun at them in general. He was a good musician and might have gone on in the steps of his predecessors, had he chosen. The fourth period, or period of the theorists and philosophers, lasted for about three hundred years, or until three hundred A. D. The chief representatives of this period were Socrates, Pythagoras, Euclid, Plato, Aristoxenus and Aristotle. Socrates made words the images of exact concepts and set in opera¬ tion an age of scientific classification and intellectual development into which music could not enter, considering the form so poor on the tonal side as it then was, and ever remained. The earliest musical theorist was Pythagoras. He learned much of his theory, philosophy and musical science of the priests in Egypt. His influence upon music was of a sentimental character. He was probably the first to introduce among the Greeks the theory of the music of the spheres. This he probably got from the Assyrians. Pythagoras united the various modes into one scale and organized Greek music and placed it upon a scientific basis. He organized a brother¬ hood in southern Italy which taught that music was the great means of education and the guide to all the virtues. Then followed Plato and Aristotle, the philosophers. The latter was the father of scientific classification and orderly knowledge. Aristotle raised the question why they did not sing in fourths and fifths, as well as octaves. Plato was particular that only noble harmonies should be allowed in his state. He wanted one warlike, to be uttered in time of danger, the other for time of peace and freedom of action. Aristoxenus was a disciple of Aristotle and to him we are indebted for the first really musical work which has come to us. He made a scientific treatise upon the art, and united into a harmonious whole the best of the elements of his predecessors. These best things the world has never lost, but by a process of evolu¬ tion and selection has grafted upon them the newer and better elements which go to make up the best of the music of the present day.

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SENIOR YEAR BOOK. 23 Der Lehrer und die Glieder der deutschen Klassen des ersten und zweiten Jahres sollen zu diesem Verein gehoren. Pflichten der Glieder; Es soil die Pflicht der Glieder sein williglich und nach ihren Ver- mogen alle Aufgaben die ihnen aufertragen werden zu erfullen. Zeit der Zusammenkunft; Die Versammlungen des Vereins sollen am Dienstag Abend jeder ab- wechselnden Woche gehalten werden. Die Zeit mag durch eine zwei-drittel Stimmen mehrheit verandert werden. Der Prasident soli die Versammlung’ eroffnen in seiner Abwesenheit der Vice-Prasident punklich um halb-acht uhr. Die Versammlungen sollen gehalten werden in den Heimaten der Glieder. Ordnung; Niemand soil lachen anders als in der deutchen Weise. Amendement; Diese Constitution mag verandert werden wenn zv ei drittel der An- wesenden dafur stimmen.