North High School - Polaris Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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 Physical Education E7 ROM the standpoint of physical cdu-cation, the most marked deficiency in the average high school youth is a lack of co-ordination. He is awkward and unable to time his actions to make the most of his strength when using his muscles. Work on apparatus in the gymnasium is given as a means of correcting this fault. Progress is generally rapid, except where even a reasonable amount of strength is lacking. In this case an attempt is made to build up arm and shoulder strength. To move the class as a unit, marching exercises are given; but this type of work is not overemphasized. In the fall and spring when the weather allows, all work is done outside. Then track and field events are encouraged along with use of footballs. —M. T. Kennedy. 'File girls' physical education department has used for several years the system of dividing classes into “A and “B” groups. The Advanced “A” and “B” classes are made up of juniors and seniors while the Elementary “A's“ and “BY are sophomores. Outstanding girls from the “A classes are formed into a special class where they receive more advanced work. Those who are medically excused report to the gym every day for a period of rest. All first semester sophomore girls take a series of food lectures besides their regular periods of gym. Developing and experimenting with silhouette posture pictures of the girls also aids in judging and r e m e d y i 11 g their needs more quickly. —Beatrice Berthold. Ttctnti Onr

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Stcennit, Harm, Janet, SUM Home Economics THE present course in home economics offers two years of training in each of the two subjects generally known as cooking and sewing. The domestic art or sewing course consist of clothing construction together with the courses in design, textiles, and management, which form the real background for the clothing work. The first and second terms in sewing deal with fundamental principles of construction, selection of fabrics and the care, and cost of clothing and household textiles. In design, the emphasis is placed upon a study of line and color. In the third and fourth terms the art work is carried into the fields of dress design and home furnishing, and the construction work into advanced dressmaking and management problems. A girl may elect two or four terms of foods work. During the first term, the emphasis is placed upon food preparation, the object being to develop skill and to establish a general knowledge of standard products. Science work on the care and preservation of foods is carried along with the cooking lessons. The second term is devoted to meal planning and serving together with the necessary work in physiology and dietetics upon which an understanding of meal planning depends. The third and fourth terms arc devoted to more advanced work in food composition, preparation and serving; and the various phases of home management. A unit course, one semester, in cookery is offered to seniors who have no previous training in foods. -Emma. F. Siehl, Chairman. Ttecnty

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I rpi» Kom Brum, Fitter, ZU lie nan, Breckheiner Lowrc How— Sloteall, Thorpe, Pontll, MaJigan, Ming nit Technical Course THE technical course is planned to meet the needs of the pupils. While preparing part of the students to enter college, those not intending to go farther with their school education are not left without help for future occupations. The course is so planned that any one may get the basic elements of many of the vocations. The subjects taught are closely correlated. The work in English treats of discussions of mechanical subjects. The mathematics deals with the practical problems. Part of the work formerly taught in drawing is now regular part of mathematics. Drawing is correlated with gas engine work by using the gas engine as the basis of drawing materials. The teachers are grouped as follows: Mr. Stowell and Mr. Jacobi teach architec- tural drawing; Mr. Fetzer, machine drawing; Mr. Zitlleman, automobile work; Mr. Kingwalt. machine shop and forge; Mr. Breckhcimcr, wood shop; Mr. Brom and Miss Madigan, mathematics; Mrs. Powell, Miss Thorpe, and Miss Horsch, English. I’he technical course aims to help the pupils apply the knowledge acquired in school to actual problems which arise in their life and to express their thoughts, clearly and concisely, both in talking and writing. Students must have sufficient training along certain lines to be able to do something well so they can make a place for themselves in the civic world and have an insight into the possibilities and principles of industrial I i fc. —Orin A. Kingwalt, Chairman. Twenty-Tiro