Mondovi High School - Mirror Yearbook (Mondovi, WI)

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The Chemistry Class Performing an Experiment.

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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

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develop the reasoning powers of the student and thoroughly implant the previous work in the student’s mind. This will also ai.l those hoys who expect to enter college for the purpose of taking such courses as agriculture and civil engineering. The last six weeks will be entirely spent in a thorough study of electricity and the most important electrical machines, su h as the telephone, the telegraph, electric motors, etc. After discussing the principles of these machines in class and in the laboratory, we shall visit the telegraph station, power-house, etc. We believe that we have boys who are capable of becoming good electricians or engineers. We know that we cannot make boys efficient in any business or profession during the high school age, but we do believe that we can aid them in choosing a life work and establishing an ideal while very young. This will prevent loss of time and loss of money, and will develop capable business men and good citizens. Music. C. Floyd Hester, Director. MUSIC IN MONDOVI. There are probably few high schools in the country anywhere which surpass Mondovi High School in respect to the percentage of their students musically inclined and taking part in some musical activity. In Mondovi this interest is shown, not only in the high school department, but in the grades as well. The Juvenile Band is made up of students from practically every one of the eight grades, and each of the four high school classes. Some have been playing for two or three years and have become quite proficient, while others have just purchased an instrument and are learning the first principles of music. New recruits are cordially invited to join and attend the rehearsals on Tuesdays and Thursdays at seven o’clock in the evening. The Senior Band has played on the street occasionally ; for a heme campaign rally address by Honorable W. L. Houser, held just before election; and at the various athletic events of the High School. Three of the band boys had the pleasure of hunting deer in the northern Wisconsin woods and also of wearily seeking their lodging quarters when the compass seemed deceptive. The orchestra has not been in working order long but it has already gathered together a force of players that will doubtless make it a very valuable asset of the musical department. On various occasions it has co-operated with the agricultural department in holding public meetings in the high school building and in the country. The Boy’s Quartet emerged from under cover early last fall to find that the Girls’ Quartet was already organized and making excellent harmony. Each of these quartets has the advantage of retaining part of its membership from last year. Both quartets have been active in supplying music for programs at home and abroad.