N R Crozier Technical High School - Wolf Pack Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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For the girls, domestic economy is Offered. Here a girl is taught the correct way to keep house. She is taught the correct method of sweeping, how to sew, and, more important yet, how to cook. This department is provided with many sewing machines, stoves, and other necessary equip' ment. It is a popular study among the girls, , Another department N from which the girls and a few boys derive much pleasure is the art room. Here are found begin' ners, some with experif ence, and a few real artists. These pupils employ Hze techniquewin everything from painting flowers, people, or other objects, to doing artistic wood carving, or making SECTION OF THE TYPEWRITINO ROOM those Yeaf books Whlch are so dear tO the heart of the average school girl. Some fine art work has been done for the several school publications. A great many students are enrolled in the commercial courses, for the reason that all the work is practical. The Gregg system Of shorthand is taught and many students become expert in its use. The typewriting room contains many fine typewriters of the newest style. This equipment is as good as any in the city. There are three nonfacademic courses Offered in Bryan High which are parallel to some degree. The music department, although enrolling come paratively few students, Offers Hne training in voice culture. Physical training for girls develops the weaker Ones into strong, graceful girls. Many dances and exercises are taken up. The equipment includes dumb bells, lndian clubs, and other , gymnastic apparatus. The course which enrolls more pupils than any other is military training. Ninetyffive per cent of the boys take this study. Both tactics and drill are emphasized, and real beneht is derived in a physical way. The corps is equipped with rifles, gas masks, hand gre' nades, and other implef ments of war. Actual training for preparedness I is given. SECTION OF THE PHYSICS LABORATORY Page 1 lem ll

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THE MODERN HIGH SCHOOL RYAN Street High School has advanced by leaps and bounds in every manner since the first year of her existence. The building, equipf ment, faculty, student body, and even the school spirit have advanced to as high a pinnacle as it seems possible to mount. A great change for the better is noticeable even when comparing the school of I9l7fl8 with that of I9l8fl9. No one can realize how great an institution Bryan High is until one investigates and finds just what is here, and what is done here, The school building, located on Bryan Street, just east of Pearl Street, extending back to Live Oak Street, is a large edihce containing sixtyf Hve class rooms. This year there were thirteen hundred and fifteen pupils taught. The faculty is composed of fiftyfeight teachers. In the school, all regular High School courses are taught, in addition to several very valuable studies, include ing Portuguese, Auto Mechanics, Art, Milif tary Training and others which are not ordinarily found in high schools. As for efficiency and number of credits offered, the Dallas High Schools stand first in the State. There are two parallel courses given, manual training for boys, and domestic economy for girls, which are of real practical value to the students in after life. The manual training department gives instruction in wood work, forge work, machine work, and mechanical drawing. Every part of this work depends upon the great amount of expensive equipment which has been installedfall kinds of machinery, tools and instruments are to be ' found. Four years of manual training may be taken. The auto mechanf ics course, which gives instruction about gasof line engines. the detailed parts, and remedies for trouble, also comes under this head. A tractor and several other types of engines have been pref sented to the school. Many pupils obtain an understandingof gasoline - engines in this departf ment. SECTION OF MACHINE SHOP ONE OF THE AUTO MECHANICS CLASSES igo Ten

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There are two other courses, parallel in a way, which need a great deal of paraphernalia. These are physics and chemistry. Some very vale uable instruments are included in the equipment of both of these. Other laboratory courses are biology and Zoology. These also have good equipf ment. Bryan High still recognizes the regular academic courses. They are the basis of any school. Latin, covering a period of four years, is laying the foundation for research into the land of unbounded knowledge. Eng' lish, which may be taken four years, is preparing students to appreciate these acquisitions of knowledge after attained. History is divided into several classes. Practically every important branch of history is taught in the school. Mathematics, with its mental gymnastics, ranges from al' gebra and geometry to trigonometry. After a student has run the gauntlet of senior English, Latin, Mathematics and History, he or she is either fully exhausted or ready to meet the world. Several of the courses are newly instituted. One is American biography, which inspires the students to patriotism. Another is Business English. Still another is Commercial Adf vertising, which has already proven very popular. The school offers many advantages as far as modern languages are conf cerned. A threefyears course in French is very beneficial to a student. Gere man has been discontinued because no pupils wished to take it. Spanish, the most popular language among the students, is well taught in athreefyears course. A new study WPortuguese fhas been added to the curriculum. It is one of the coming great languages, and is used extensively in South America. But to break away from the curriculum and return to the school building. There is a large and beautiful assembly hall, seating nearly a thousand pupils, where all entertainments are held. There are many other particular features of the building which, together with the courses offered, make Bryan Street High School recognized as the best in Texas. But every student believes Bryan High to be the best school in the world. , P tge Twelve