Delta High School - Del Hi Yearbook (Delta, OH)

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1911-1912 The present years work of the Delta Public Schools began September 4. There being no new teachers in the High School, this years work seemed much like a continuation of 1910 and 1911 rather than a new year. Mr. G. W. Hoffman, superintendent, teacher of Mathematics and His. tory; Miss Viola Wilkins, principal, teacher of Latin and English; Miss Bertha Lecklider, teacher of German and English; Mr. C. C. Smith, teacher ol Mathematics and Science, have worked together in the H. S. for several years. More than half our High School, numbering one hundred and five pupils, come from the country districts; this fact emphasizes the demand for Agriculture which is acceptably taught by C. C. Smith. We are very glad to welcome these pupils along with the town students. The country pupils having had their chores to do from early childhood, have learned habits of industry that are made use of in their intellectual pursuits as well as in those more of the nature of manual labor. For a number of years our High School has been of first grade; for this reason its students can enter the majority of colleges with Freshman rank without examination. From the fact that but a very small per cent of students go to college, we have besides our College Preparatory Course, courses of a more practical nature, which enable students who from necessity must go through life without college training or who do so from choice, to enter some line of work fairly lucrative upon graduating. We realize that it is becoming more and more necessary for men and women to speak before the public; there is a way to do this as well as other things, but few people being so gifted that training can be dispensed with; as a means to this end four literary societies have been organized: Amphic- tyonic, Lesbian, Philomathean and Ciceronean. This work is as necessary as other work of the school and growth is the result. The school library, we believe, will compare favorably with those of other towns the size of Delta. During the past year one hundred volumes of history, used for reference, have been added by Superintendent Hoffman. Boys and girls never fear to be boys and girls and no one would desire them to do so; cares sit very lightly on the shoulders of 14 to 18. While this is true, yet the old idea that the teacher stood for discipline, and it was the avowed purpose of every boy and girl of spirit to thwart her in her efforts, is a thing of the past. This has. in part, come about from strengthening the course so that hard work is necessary to complete it, and perhaps still more because there is a realization that preparation is necessary for future life. There has been a revolt against the dead language standards of European universities. The whole tendency of modern education is toward the practical as far as is consistent with culture, we have attempted to form our standards in accordance with this modern tendency.

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High School Laboratory

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TO THE D. H. S. Old Delta High! you may proudly boast Of a grand and glorious name; And we, who love you far the most, Now laud and praise your fame. Thy spirit of wisdom, justice and truth A noble life inspires, And blends the ambitious hopes of youth With high and pure desires. Thus, through the ages may you live Unmarred be your fame; May each succeeding bright year give More honor to your name. After life’s battles and its strife, Our lives will be sublime; With laurels fair of well-spent life, We’ll deck thy hallowed shrine. Oh, D. H. S.! we will be true Though clouds may lower above; Through all the years we’ll stand by you With everlasting love. —Blanche Hull