Rensselaer High School - Chaos Yearbook (Rensselaer, IN)

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J. IRA COE NAOMI OREOO PEARL ETHEL O. DYER Che faculty c. M. SHARP RUIHLEY C. R. DEAN OLIVE O. WHITE CARL CLEAVER F. GRACE E. STOVER EDITH O. BURCHARD L. WAIVE MALLORY EASTHAM Surely ye arc the wise men and wisdom will die with you! PACK EIGHT

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Board of C ucatfon Gconce A. WILLIAMS OR. H. J. KANNAL 1‘rc.Ment Secretary OR. A. R. KRESLER Treasurer PAGE SEVEN Oh, venerable men! Yc are come down to us from a former generation.'

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Departments agricultural J. IRA COE, A. B. Indiana University. Purdue Summer School. In the construction of the new high school building half of the second floor has been devoted to the work of the biological subjects. It is called the agriculture department although zoology is being taught there in addition to straight agriculture work. Beginning with the school year, 1913-14, an agriculture course was planned for the high school to take the place of the agriculture class of the preceding year and at the same time agriculture work was introduced into the grades under the name of elementary science. The agriculture work of the Freshman year consists of a required preparatory class of agricultural botany: the Sophomore year, of a class of general agriculture: the Junior year, of chemistry, and the Senior year, of advanced agriculture (for boys). The Ag class of the Sophomore year is open to both girls and boys, but following the Ag course into the Junior year, the girls take household chemistry in preparation for the Senior Home Economics class, while the boys take general chemistry preparatory to the advanced Ag class. The agriculture course as planned aliovc has been realized this year only in part: the Sopliomorc and Senior Ag classes not being given. In the agricultural botany work much emphasis is being laid upon judging, storing and testing seed corn and other crop seeds. It is hoped that the custom will become estab- lished of testing seed corn for the farmers of the community each spring. The work of the zoology class is quite agricultural in nature; some of the Sophomore Ag work on poultry and dairying being given during the second semester. The poultry work is introduced from a zooligical standpoint thru the study of birds in general, and the dairying work introduced thru the study of mammals in general. Some of the features of the work are the building of a poultry house and park, the care and feeding of poultry, poultry judging, dairy cow judging and milk testing. The outlook of the agricultural department, and, Rensselaer being an agricultural community, insures excellent opportunities for the growth of this department in these schools. £t)cmt0trp C. M. SHARP, A. R. Wittenberg College. Chicago University Summer School. The chemistry department felt that it had entered upon a new era when it moved to the quarters now occupied. The conveniences now enjoyed namely, individual lockers, water at each desk, well lighted room for lal oratory work and improved apparatus, have proven themselves great time savers and conducive to a more scientific atmosphere. With the new conception of what a high school course in chemistry should be. we have endeavored to accomplish two objects: first, to impress the fundamental principles of the PAGE NINE Algebra, Latin. English, too. History, Science ever new.