Rawlins High School - Roundup Yearbook (Rawlins, WY)

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CARL L. LAHRMAN, B. S. Colorado Agricultural College Science and Mathematical Department The courses offered in mathematics and science in the Rawlins High School are exceptionally strong. The work is thorough, practical, and in every way equal to that of other accredited high schools. Algebra [. is made compulsory for first year students. Plane Geometry is also compulsory for second year students. All higher mathematics are optional. Solid Geometry, a half year subject, is alternated with Trigonometry, taught in connection with practical surveying. To complete the half year of Solid Geometry, Advanced Algebra is offered with the Commercial Department. Commercial Arithmetic and speed practice is taught in the Commercial Department. Fully as thorough a course is offered in the Science Department, in which one year of Science, Chemistry or Physics, is compulsory. General Science is taught every year and is optional. Chemistry and Physics are taught alternately. This offers an excellent opportunity for a student to study every subject given in connection with the Science and Mathematical Departments. Examinations are very thorough and are the same as those given in other accredited high schools, since questions which are considered practical and to the point are often taken from teacher’s magazines.

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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.

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GROVER C. BALDWIN Ferris Institute, Big Rapids, Mich. Commercial Department The course offered by the Commercial Department of the Rawlins High School represents the most practical business practice of the day. The course in bookkeeping has been prepared by teachers and accountants, and they have successfully introduced business work into the school room. The student makes out invoices, receives money, makes out bank deposits, discounts, commercial paper and records all forms of transactions in firms, which are used in all up-to-date commercial establishments. Business correspondence and spelling are part of the bookkeeping course. The first few months of the shorthand class, are spent in mastering the principals of Gregg Shorthand. After the first few lessons, practical dictation is started, and the rate gradually increased until the student is able to write at the highest speed necessary for business positions. Penmanship is a required subject for all the commercial students, and the system used combines speed, legibility and ease. Commercial arithmetic and rapid calculation occupy a prominent place in the course.