Rawlins High School - Roundup Yearbook (Rawlins, WY)

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ANNE M. HENRY, A. B. University of Denver English The Rawlins High School offers four years of English, and the course is designed to cultivate expression and literary appreciation. The work in expression is of two kinds: Oral and written. The theme subjects are for the most part, suggested by the classics read, and the students’ own experience. The purpose is, to cultivate correct, clear, forceful and vital expression of what the student knows and feels. In developing literary appreciation, the essential things are to give a general knowledge of the world’s literature and its literary men; to awaken and increase a love for good reading and to create in the student a sympathy with, and understanding of, his fellow men.

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FLORA H. KRUEGER, A. B. University of Wyoming, Principal; History “History is the science of the development of men in their activity of social beings.”—Benmeim. In the scheme of education, History takes practically first rank as a means for training the ethical judgment, and the ability to gather, weigh and judge the motives of men and institutions. The Rawlins High School offers two and a half years of history and a half year of civics. One year of history other than American is required. The contributions of the great nations of the past to the solution of current problems and the ideals of the present dominant people constitute the material for study. The growth toward democracy, the increase of personal freedom and the development of civic righteousness are emphasized in each course.

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Kathryn Gardner, A. B. Mt. Holyoke Latin Three classes have been pursuing the study of Latin this year. A daring group of I reshmen—interspersed with several Sophomores—have been boldly attacking the conjugations of “porto,” “moneo,” “duco” and audio,” and the intricacies of indirect discourse, and appear to be coming out in good health and with flying colors. Another group composed of Sophomores and Juniors spends five periods a week in following the great Julius’s victorious armies thru Gaul, and, in plucking up courage to address by name such awe-inspiring barbarians as Viridovix and Buduogna-tus—halting occasionally by the way to turn their thoughts to the subject of cases, tenses and moods, in the company of Collar and Daniell’s Latin composition. Four survivors of the wear and tear on the mental tissue caused by a two years’ study of Latin are dreading six of Cicero’s orations this year. Next year it will be Virgil, we suppose. Good luck to all our valiant ones who are pursuing the Latin course, and may you keep it up to the end. German The beginners class in German with the ancient stories and myths in Gluck Auf, the tales both grave and gay in Altes and Neues, and the descriptions of modern German institutions found in “Im Vaterland,” has been acquiring an ability to read and translate German readily. While perhaps less interesting, none the less important, are hours spent with Becker and Rhodes’ grammar, learning the principal parts of irregular verbs, and how to put sentences together with each word in its correct place. German is acquiring practice in reading, thru following the heroines of Immensee, Hoher als die Kerche, der Zerbrochene Krug, and Karl Heinrich to the “lived happy ever after —or the reverse. While Karl and Erichs trip to Germany, as related in Pope’s Composition, furnishes material for reviewing grammatical constructions and for writing German.