Paxon High School - Delphian Yearbook (Jacksonville, FL)

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Science Fingers are called phalanges: the eve is like a small accurate camera attached to our central nervous system: light and sound travel in waves similar to famil- iar ocean waves: plain salt is sodium chlorideg and in the rain a blind person has no sense of direction. These and many other revelations come through our study of the broad held of science. 'gz- To find different properties of chlorine, chemistrs students run a complicated experiment

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'Y-ws.. '1'v1nu-q.,- new I-Q-...nug- -as--q In-v--U, Whrle graphrng the set of all parrs of x and 3 such that s rs greater than rc + 1 Stewe Grogan and Kay Evans stop to check ther r work Mathematrcs X realwatlon of the lack of sufficrent mithematlcal hfickground ln the grad uatcs ot our nitrous hlgh schools IS brrngrng 'about 1 I'LXlSlOf1 of the math emltlts Currlculum lhls tear toplcs IH modern mfxthtnmtlcs wer e fldded to Pu ons tradrtloml course of studx 1n an effort to partmllx fulhll thls need The students found that the new work xx as LI'ltC!'f 1lllIDg hut required much deep thought 14 Strugglrng ruth her geometrx problem Lana johnson begms to realize the xalue of rigorous thrnltrng ang ' lawn an my ima.- :- H 1 ' f Y' V ' . A : . F L 4 c ' . . , . . ,. s 4 1- - L 4 . . . 1 s . 1 1. 4 r' , .- . - v c v 1 . j . L . 1

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it I ws K H---...M Taking 'idx antage of Mr Harriss make shift sound laboratory, these students listen to the translation of a story in Spanish Foreign Languages The languages, which are a major portion of the academic curriculum at Paxon, are considered the most usable for our local- ity. Spanish is the most popular because of our close relations with the Spanish- speaking countries: French and Latin are traditional college preparatory courses. Students beginning the study of foreign languages find it first interesting, then wor- risome, because they find it diflicult to grasp the many techniques necessary for speaking fluently. As they progress into their second year, the assignments become more understandable. and interest is re- newed. Breezing through the conjugation of Latin verbs, Pat Fain and Rhoda Asher lack space rather than knowl- edge.