Philadelphia High School for Girls - Milestone Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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v-. ga r-in c:vmn..4 Q. P . 531' GQ, I Qx .Q , . Do we have lo maie 'lhe correclions in FRENCH? g , , 11, s 19 AN UAGE DEP HTME T Every language is a femple, in which flue soul of fhose who speak if is enshrined.-O. W. Holmes Whelher ihe books placed in our hands were French, German, Lalin, or Spanish, ihe resulls were frequenlly harrowing io our foreign lan- guage ieachers. who hoped 'thai lhrough ihe languages we would be molivoied 'ro explore ihe arf, adveniure, philosophy, and romance of FIRST ROW: Miss Margarel D. Leiper, Head ol Deparl- menl: Miss Bessie Bernslein, Miss Anna L. M. Carlin, Miss Ermalinda Cocci, Miss Marguerile P. Fisher, Dr. Rulh B. Hoffslen. . lhe peoples who developed ihem. If 'ihe volumes did noi compleiely iusiify expecfaiions as in- sfrumenis of siimuloiion, ihey did achieve a maior vicfory in convincing us 'thai lhere is no supreme language, and, lherefore, definiiely no masier race. SECOND ROW: Miss Adele Horlon, Miss Naomi John- son, Miss Reba Medlar, Dr. Elisabeih J. Norlon, Miss Nellie Wursier, Mrs. Naomi Zieber. NOT PICTURED: Dr. Jessie Glenn. Miss Marie S. Weehs. Y' g ,, Q, . x I XXX . , . I ' Q. , C. xg lr l YL.. 'O 5 1 'R' eg x vofoff S: sltaifin- YC l .4 f' XV' I -x 4 , u r,,4.. ui -. :LP 0' isdn 3 al

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,. 4 is i2 lb 'bg iz an 1 QQ c AA lm x 8 l Cs zouz-!0gff 'C15U' K L-qrrv-v'Cx. agp OMIOIJ x1'U lUJOP3 .,c,.Y ,, , 1-' f'c'57 Q And ihey lived happily ever offer, . we hopel E BLISH DEPAHTME T Thoughfs are a kind of menfal smoke, which require words fo iliuminaie fhem.-Tom Paine. To our successors, we bequeaih our aiiernpis io equal Maurice Evans in 'rhe inierpreiaiion oi' Hamlet This culminaiion ol our English siud- ies represenis, if noi ihe perieciing of Shalces- pearean aciresses, ai leasi' fhe zeniih of a period in which boih fhe fremendous wealih FlRST ROW: Mr. Jack Edeison, Head of Deparimenig Mrs. Selina E. Adams, Miss Mary Baylson, Mrs. Helen O. Brisiol, Miss E. Rufh Dean. '5 349 and 'rhe exquisiie possibiliiies of our language were revealed io us. ln addiiion 'ro increased sensiiiviiy io our mofher iongue, our ieachers fosiered ihe incep- iion oi concepis which readied us for our com- mencemeni Theme,-The frue builders. SECOND ROW: Miss Margarei E. Dungan, Dr. Clemenf E. Fousf, Dr. Rose Glaymen, Mrs. Harrie! Morgan, Miss Dorofhy Noe, Miss Margaref M. Sullivan. .gli I, C aa. :aux , gr A '95

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We X2 We draw flares-dimensional figures on a 'Iwo-dimensional blackboard. M THEMATICS DEP HTMENT There is no royal road fo geomefry. -Euclid. During fwo years, Mr. X and Mr. Y persisr- enfly demanded our allenfion, and whefher ac- companied by binomial lheory, or embellished by parabola and liyperbola, we endeavored fo solve fheir problems. The besf supporf of flneo- rems and corollaries. insfrumenied by profrac- FIRST ROW: Miss Elizabelli H. Wood, Head of Depari- meni: Miss E. Kofllryn Clarl, Miss Mary L. Consfablo, Mrs. Anna M. Grimsiey. lors and compasses, was required in solufions for flwose lriangle-dwellers,-A, B, and C. How- ever. noi even our efforis fo employ fhe sun 'lo defermine flue lweiqlwl of Cify Hall allered our convicfion fha? habifs of logical 'rliinlcing are en- couraged by our 'reachers of mafhemafics. SECOND ROW: Miss Clara A. Keliler, Miss Evelyn L. Owen, Miss Helen O. Slwollenberger, Miss Maris E. Willielmi 4 ' e p if ' 'F ,aw ni Q, ' - .vw ., - A ',,1 r- ' .Qa'.' '-ij f fr .. 2153 L yy ,y -we 'nf ,yes ' .J A 5 -4 4 r!i,:l4a,Qt J' 5 fl - .., , s' .' I r 3' , X l X lim if ei in il QXR