Palmer High School - Terror Trail Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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Automobile Anxtomy . . . I Art in Wood . . . I Pensive Woodworker At Very Fcisy Ease . . . I Feminine Tonsil Exposure Grivity Defiers . I Geological Lethargy . . . I Mass Spring Fever itterbugs 7 No speech class! Learning by Doing-Progressive Education ITU Doing's believing -that's the modern motto. So we do more than just draw an enlarged clam, which seems convincing enough to us: we take one apart and see how it works. In geology we have to fall down a cliff before we realize how it is shaped, and in chemistry we have to be semi-asphyxiated by its fumes to know how strong nitric acid is, and the same way with auto and metals. Of course music, gym, cooking, typing, printing, and art are of necessity of this pattern. ITU The purpose of all this? Well, it's been found that the largest part of our students have to be appealed to through their most prominent senses. So this is education's latest theme-learning by doing.

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Knowledge Becomes Practical I No Columbus system here-40 words or more a minute are being clicked off these inky instruments by Miss Lee's in- dustrious tappers. Typing is the main- stay of our secretarial course, which in- cludes other dishes such as shorthand and bookkeeping. just turned out-for a raid on another unsuspecting cliff a herd of geology rock- wreckers are about to meet personally the rocks they have been studying about at home in the lab. They're also going to examine a few of Mother Natures features as well as look at what's on them. I That cute little brunette-shouldn't be hard for anyone, much less these artists in design to translate into pencil and paper. This is a special phase of art. ln the foreground other aspiring artists are hopefully snipping out silhouettes for UTerror Trail section heads. l At home-for the rock-testers in a setting of fossils, rock specimens, and as- sorted charts, such as the earth's lengthy birthday chart and a rain-fall map which hits the wet spots as well as the not so damp ones of our old United States. These stony enthusiasts are making and reading maps and identifying rocks and minerals for their laboratory credit. l Tarzans of the gym-that's how they get these muskles, girls. Of course, they do other things in here, too-exer- cises and various other skillful contor- tions as well as games, so it isn't quite all work and no play. As a matter of fact, to most all of the boys all of gym is just play. l Hungry torches gnaw on steel-re- pairing the framework of the school, forming a new fender for a car, making themselves useful in general. But they would be powerless without the metal worker of this class whose talent in metallurgy lends itself to anything from exquisite bracelets to wrecked bicycles,

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