Oak Park and River Forest High School - Tabula Yearbook (Oak Park, IL)

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Rilra McGuane Grace lvlclnfire Dororhy Miller Ellen Muir Mabel Pomeroy Jess Wagus Alice Ward Irene Whaley salion, wilh emphasis on pronuncialrion and idioms, is slressed. Songs are sung, much +o Jrhe enioymenl of lhe sludenls. Greai works of foreign lirerarure are read in ad- vanced courses. ln Lalin, grammar and word derivalrives are emphasized. Afrer Jrhe firsl year Caesar, Virgil, Cicero, and Ovid are read. Whelher we slrudy languages Jro receive a liberal educalion or ro meer Jrhe language requiremenls for medicine or law, our lan- guage deparlmenl has everylhing lo suif our needs. Veni, vidi, vici. Das is'r es. 71

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al'lgll,a,g06 Through The sTudy oT Toreign languages we gain a vasT knowledge oT The world in which we live. NoT only are declensions and coniugaTions TaughT, buT also The characTer- isTics oT The people whose languages we sTudy. STudenTs are encouraged To do ouT- Florence Brubaker Helen Geller Lois Walker Farrand Baker Velma Ball Claire Bluzal BeaTrice Cohen Phyllis Durnin side research and reporT on Their Tindings. STudenTs also correspond wiTh young people oT oTher counTries and so learn each oTher's languages and backgrounds. ln The Modern Language classes conver- EI Senor speaks. The lady Trom France.

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V3 - 1 Reid STephens Morris Buslce F. F. Carson James ColleTTi L. l-l. FriTzemeier Russell Fuog R. T. HeclceTsweiler RoberTa l-linman Mary l-lope .Ma for? Many Topics, Trom The characTerisTics oT prehisToric man To The pracTicabiliTy oT The UniTed NaTions, are discussed in our hisTory classes. World problems--pasT, presenT and TuTure-are examined. STudenTs begin by invesTigaTing The ideas and culTures oT ancienT peoples. Then The problems oT The Dark Ages and oT The Renaissance are sTudied. NexT Modern l-lisTory gives a clear picTure oT The evenTs which have occurred up To The presenT. American l-lisTory, required oT everyone, shows The sTeps Through which IT s around here somewhere. !llusTraTed lecTure on The Middle Ages. -