Pasadena High School - Campus Yearbook (Pasadena, CA)

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Roscoe Lewis Ashley, Noted Text Book Writer, Twenty-five years ago,-on April 11, 1898, to he exact-Roscoe L. Ashley came to Pasadena High School as a teacher of English and mathematics. At that time, there were only nine mem- bers of the faculty and only three hun- dred students on the roll. Two years later he became head of the Social Science Department, and until 1909' was the only teacher in that depart- ment. Mr. Ashley started writing history and civics text-hooks when in the course of his early teach- ing he found that some of the most important features in the way of comment and explana- tion were omitted. Mr. Ashley says, NMy first work was experimental, hut not exactly an ex- periment, if 1 may put it that way.N In 1902 he received his tirst royalty check of 528.00 for The Ameri- can Federal Statef' This hook is still in use after HISTORIAN OBSERVES 25th ANNIVERSARY High School faculty, he has written twenty volumes, including: Wfhe American Government, 1903: ss Government and the Citizen, 1904: American History,i' 1907, 1914, 1919: sn American Colonial History, 19111 The Feudal Agef, 1913quAncient Civil- ization, 1915: u1V1edieval Civilizationf, 1916: HEarly European History, 1916: Modern European Civilization, 1918, uThe War and America, 1918: 'bMod- ern Europe, Citizenship, as nineteen years. This is an exceptional record, for the life of the average hook is about six years. The New Civics, puh- lished in 1917, was used hy the United States government in training the sol- diers on the Rhine in the essentials of civics. This same volume is used as a text-hook in all the Manila high schools. During Mr. Ashleyis twenty-tive year term as a member of the Pasadena L1 ROSCOE LEWIS ASHLEY 1921: The Practice of 1922. Mr. Ashley con- tributed to the Cyclope- dia of American Govern- ment, and is the author of many articles on his- tory, civics, and prola- lems of an educational nature. When asked if he no- ticed any difference he- tween the high school pupil of twenty-five years ago and the pupil of today, Mr. Ashley said, HAS would natur- ally he expected, the group with which we had to deal then was more selected. But neverthe- less 1 can safely say that 1 consider the modern high school student just as good, if not better, than the student of twenty or twenty-five years ago. uwhen the school self-government was first heard of, it was bitterly op- posed hy most of the teachers, hut 1 for one think the plan of responsibility upon the young person always makes for better leaders in the future.

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