Mondovi High School - Mirror Yearbook (Mondovi, WI)

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The next year the basket hall team was in its old time form, but owing to the school board prohibiting games with other schools, not much was aecom plished. However, a few games were played which showed that we had the “stuff,’’ holding Bushey Business College of Appleton to as close a score as any team in the state. At the tract meet at the Eau Claire in the spring, Loren Borst took the shot-put—40 feet. Edgar Farrington took second in the polo vault, second in the discus, and third in the shot-put. Borst went to Madison and took second in the shot-put—40 feet, 10 1-2 inches. Last year our stronghold was on the gridiron, having a team which showed itself to be equal to anything in the state. The basket ball team showed up remarkably well, but met a close defeat at the hands of Arcadia, whicl was the only obstacle in their way for the tournament. In track work, Loren Borst again starred, setting a record for the shot-put at Eau Claire, which we prophesy will stand for sometime—42 feet 8 inches. Taylor took first in the discus throw and second in the shot-put. Charles Werrell took third in the half mile run. This year our material is good, and with the backing of the student body, and good, hard work we hope to get to the tournament and win the honors in track. Science. Harry Lampman, Instructor. (The cut on the following page shows the girls’ chemistry class performing an experiment.) It is a well known fact that the advanced physics as given in the common required course of the average Wisconsin high school, has proved very unsatisfactory and impractical to the average woman who has finished high school. This course has also been a bore and a great obstacle to most girls in their senior year. For this reason we have divided the class in our school into a girls’ and a boys’ section. The girls are omitting the most technical work along the line of machines and the usual amount of applied mathematics has been reduced. We are substituting for those phases of the physics course and instead studying the common, simple machines of the household and the phenomena which have to do with both cooking and sanitation in the home. Since the domestic science course is the most popular course in our school, we believe that this adjustment will prove more helpful, interesting, and practical. This adds dignity to the position of the housekeeper, and the mothers and housewives of the coming generation will be more happy and efficient because of this kind of work. This correlates well with the work in the domestic science department, and somewhat lightens the burden of the teacher of that branch. The advanced physics class is composed of twenty senior boys. We expect to give a thorough review of elementary physics during the first semester. The last semester will be given over to a more thorough study along the line of the common machines in daily use upon the farm, and in the city. Much applied mathematics will be required in connection. This work in mathematics is to