North High School - Polaris Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Science Urrm Row CahUnrler, Sanies, Davit, Hutton, Smart I.ouru How—Putnam, Duello, Drum THE subjects studied in the science departments of North High are biology, botany, chemistry, and physics. The body of knowledge in any of these sciences is so extensive that a high school course necessarily merely serves as an introduction to the sciences. How plants contribute to the solution of our food, clothing, and housing problems, and to the beauty of our surroundings, are topics that lend interest to botany. l i Some of the biology classes this term, an interesting topic has been parasites, those plants and a n i m a I s that long ago forsook the hard but respectable job of providing their own living, and have, like some people. developed a perfect technique in the art of getting their living from some other more indepen- dent animal, plant, or person. The nature of heat, its measurements, its sources, its control, its conversion into other forms of energy by means of engines, dynamos, ete. has long occupied the minds of the students of physics. The picture below shows a class who have paused for a breath in their headlong pursuit of truth in chemistry. They may have been making soap, matches, or laughing gas. Miss llolmbcrg, Miss Quello, Mr. Cah-lander, and Miss Drum teach biology; Miss Foss handles the classes in botany; Mr. Huston, Mr. Santee, and Mr. Smart instruct in physics; while Miss Putnam and Mr. Davis teach chemistry. The subjects are handled in both classroom and laboratory periods. —Pkri.ky A. Davis, Chairman. Seventeen

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Own How -l.undrrn, Fart'ih, Valin, Hall, .4munition l W m Kow it,inn, T iompion, Apt!, Bmgett Language THE language department embraces in its interests the land of the midnight sun, the fertile fields of France and Germany, the sunny plains and valleys of Spain, and “Rome Eternal.” Miss Mann, Miss Burgess, and Miss Thompson teach Latin: Miss Amundson and Mr. Galin, French; Miss Konig and Miss Holtz, German; Mrs. Hall and Miss Apel, Spanish; Miss Lundeen, Swedish: and Miss Farseth, Norse. Mastery of any language requires a thorough knowledge of the fundamental principles underlying it; hence in the first year, grammar must he emphasized and the student must wrestle with forms and their uses. Interest is added, even in grammar, by a combination of both the direct and the academic method, shown by the use of charts in the insert below, which is employed by all the branches of the department. Newspapers, magazines, and maps, drawn on the board are kept so that the routes and places may be marked as the class comes to them in their reading. Models of camps, weapons, dress, armor, stories of the lives of great men and women offer incentives to class work. Pictures, games, songs, dramatics, exhibits, banquets, and various activities are promoted and sponsored by the different language clubs. All add interest and bring a wider knowledge ami better appreciation of the life, history, and culture of the nation, whose language the student has elected to learn and its gift to the progress of the world becomes an inspiration for further study. —Ida V. Mann, Chairman. Sixteen

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Urrw Ki vr —Bettmann, Smith. UiUrr. Bimtn, PotU'd. 7 -C— Ix wi:h Row—Rjorklund, Ltrschcn, Simi, Crau ord. Huebntr Commercial Department THE department of commerce of North High School, organized in 1901, has just completed twenty-five years of active service. The course now offers intensive instruction in shorthand, typewriting, bookkeeping, accounting, office procedure, business composition, and machine operating, which includes practice in the use of the Ediphone, Underwood billing machine, mimeograph, mimeoscope, comptometer, Monroe calculator, Burroughs adding machine, and the multigraph. The standards adopted by the department have been dictated, mainly, by the demands of Minneapolis business firms, and the instructors have labored incessantly to develop a product in direct conformity with those standards. When a student elects commercial training, he is classified according to his general ability and joins a group in which he can achieve the best results and make the most rapid progress. When he becomes more proficient than the other members of his group, he is given an opportunity to enter a more advanced class. A. M. Lerschen. K. S. Smith. A. Brown, R. E. Sims, and R. A. Crawford are responsible for the instruction in shorthand and typing; G. H. Pollard, F. A. Miller, E. W. Westmann, and M. M. Bjorklund in accounting and bookkeeping; B. B. Pierce and M. Shannon in business composition; and E. M. Huebner in office procedure and machine operating. Below is a picture of a class transcribing from shorthand notes. — Robert A. Crawford. Chairman. Eiyhttcn