North High School - Polaris Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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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

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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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L'rrwi Row thorn, u ttu,n. Nagel, Street Lowca Row— Matt, Lethe. Math fen Mathematics THE mathematics department offers four years of work consisting of one year of general mathematics, one year of plane geometry, one year of advanced algebra, one semester of solid geometry, and one semester of trigonometry. It is thus possible for a student to acquire a complete college preparatory training in mathematics. The department owns a number of slide rules, an excellent transit, a sextant. steel tape, and other equipment which any of the teachers may use for class work. The students learn to make measurements a n d solve problems which might arise in engineering or building construction. The technical department offers a special course in geometry which gives preparation for advanced work in various kinds of engi- neering: civil, mechanical, electrical, and other similar courses. In the illustration below, one of the technical classes is shown in an actual out-of-door measurement problem. Since the course in general mathematics is required for college entrance, it is offered here for those students who did not complete it in junior high school. Miss Marti and Miss Thompson teach this subject. The classes in regular plane geometry are handled by Miss Weston, Mrs. Nagel, Mr. Street, Miss Marti, and Miss Hart; the technical classes in plane geometry by Mr. Brom and Miss Mad-igan. Mr. l eslie and Miss Hart teach higher algebra and trigonometry. Mr. Street has the solid geometry. —Mabel R. Hart, Chairman. Sinctccn