Rawlins High School - Roundup Yearbook (Rawlins, WY)

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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.

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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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Home Economics “Domestic Science,” “Domestic Art,” “Household Arts,” “Home Economics” and “Domestic Economy” are the terms generally applied to school departments where all the activities of the home are carried on. The two latter terms are widely used at present and really seem to be more inclusive than others. Home economics stands for the ideal home life of today, unhampered by traditions of the past, the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life, and for a simplicity in material surroundings which will free the spirit for the more important and permanent interests of the home and the society. This is the first year of such a department in the Rawlins High School. The students, faculty and community may well be proud of the splendid equipment found in this department. Modern, convenient and well arranged in every possible way it has proved a great incentive in the work of both students and teacher. Th courses offers in plain sewing, dressmaking and cooking aim to be practical as well as theoretical—teaching both the “how” and “why” of our household activities. In addition to the laboratory work, courses tend to impress the value of systematic management of the home and income, making the woman a more intelligent spender and consumer.