Oroville Union High School - Nugget Yearbook (Oroville, CA)

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The Junior College Course was first introdoced into the Oroville Union High School during the school term of 191S 1919. The course of study included History, Botany, Ad vanced English and a Secretarical Course. At the beginnning of the following school term the Sec retarical Course was included in the regular course of study. (All subjects that had been given during the previous year were neglected.) Junior College work was again taken up at the beginning of the second semester of the 1910-1921 school term. Only two subjects were given. These being Advanced English and Chemistry. Seven students were enrolled in the English class. The work proved to be very instructive. Those subjects taken up were: Public Speaking. Debating, Sentence Structure and also a general review of English. The Advanced Chemistry Class consisted of nine members. They took up that branch of Chemistry which deals with the Analysis of substances. Thoug the wfork seemed difficult at first it proved more interestng as the experimenting progressed. The same credit is given for subjects taken in the Junior College Course at the High School, as would be given for any secondary course at a University. A student must have at least fifteen units for completed work before being allowed to take up Jun'or Colllege work. It is to be hoped that the Junor College Course will continue to be an important factor ni the course of study at the Oroville Union High School.

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Although the Commercial Senior Class of this year is very small, consisting of only six graduates, they have had thorough training under Miss Beik. The Bookkeeping class is unusually large this year, and is well equipped with the installment of a new Burroughs adding machine and calculator, which adds, subtracts, multiplies and divides. This machine is of great advantage to pupils who wish to take advanced bookkeeping. The typing classes are large, due to the fact, of in.com- Lucile Ware Edith Bates ing Freshman at the mid-year. Thhere are no first year shorthand students this year, but they will start their courre of shorthand next year. This is a result of the new ruling that has recently been made compelling Commercial students to take a three year course instead of two, as before. In place of the first year shorthand, there is a course in office practise, which includes penmanship, typing and spelling. Loin Enclicott Lilian King

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BOOK MONSTERS It was a cold, pray winter day, and Elsie was feeling just about as gloomy as the day. Miss Hanson had given such a hard assignment for tomorrow, the writing of a short story. Miss Hanson required this of every member of the clas3. And to think of Elsie Whitcome writing a story! It was impossible. Oh! would this old semester ever come to an end? How Elsie longed for summer, so there would be another long vacation without thoughts of story writing and books of literature. As she i nd Margie Boyles walked home from school that afternoon she asked Margie if she could write a story. “Well, I don’t know how good it will be,” said Margie, “but I am going to put into story form how I spent my vacation on the Lake last summer.” “I just can’t write a story,” said Elsie, “and I don’t know what I’ll do tomorrow when Miss Hanson calls for them.” Well, I’ll leave you here, Elsie, as I’m going to meet Mother at this corner and we are to go shoping.” “Good-by Margie, hope you are able to get the stor written. 1 know 1 can t. “Good-by, Elsie, hope you will have some success. See you tomorrow.” The two girls parted and Elsie thought and thought about the story as she walked on alone. That night after dinner she sat down to write a story if she could, but she could not. She couldn’t make a plot. She could’nt originate characters; so she retired that evening without her story writen. As she retired she still thought of the story and she wondered what Miss Hanson would say. Suddenly she found herself running—running as fast as she could! There was a horrible red book charing her; a great thick, red book with the words, “How to Write Short Stories” across its face. The faster Elsie ran, the faster the book monster would run. Over hills and across meadows, ran Elsie. She climbed over fences and jumped ditches, but. whenever rhe looked