Rensselaer High School - Chaos Yearbook (Rensselaer, IN)

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Come on Sister. PACK SEVENTEEN Mentor Class 1914 $aul ®rfgorp jHtllrr, “ clourljt’ PRESIDENT THESIS— Hitter Medicine. Sweet Cure ’ President Lincoln Society. Ambitious. Flatterer. Dignified. No man can be wise on an empty stomach.” Paul Miller.

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YYc now have courses going in the following subjects: Commercial Geography, Modem Business Spelling, Bookkeeping, Gregg Shorthand and Touch Typewriting. As the course progresses, we expect to add a course in Commercial Law, Penmanship and Political Economy. In Bookkeeping we are using the revised course of Miner's Bookkeeping for the first year’s work, with rite expectation of adding a course in Actual Business for the additional semester’s work. Our equipment is very incomplete, as we have not, as yet, any adequate equipment in the way of special desks and office fixtures. But we have been very fortunate in the securing of several of the most modern makes of typewriters. We have one or more of the latest models of each of these makes: L. C. Smith, Remington, Monarch. Smith Premier and Underwood. We expect, by next year, to have the matter of desks and office fixtures properly arranged for. €nsltsl) OLIVE G. WHITE. A. B. Albion College. PEARL A. RUII1LEY, A. B„ Assistant. Western College. English is to be recognized as a rather intangible subject. depending upon rite individuality of the teachers and of the students. Therefore, the various courses of this department arc not restricted to any fixed outlines, but arc flexible and in actual practice are changed to meet the ability and power of appreciation of each class. There is, however, a general outline and a general aim. 'Hie purpose throughout is: To train the mind to clear thinking; to develop self-expression. and to cultivate a taste for really good literature. The first two years arc given largely to a study of Thomas ami Howe's Composition and Rhetoric. This involves a study of composition, both from a technical and an artistic standpoint and includes written work of various kinds. The principles acquired from this study arc applied in written and oral composition. The further development of oral composition has included delating and the organization of debate teams. Several classics are read during these years. Extensive rather than intensive reading is the purj osc in this work. These classics are studied sufficiently to give the student a clear understanding of the author ami his purpose; a working knowledge of Hie classics itself, and an appreciation of hs true meaning and literary value. The work of the Junior year consists principally of the study of the history of English literature. The Moody. Lovett and Boynton text is the one now in use. The oral and written composition work and study of classics begun in the Freshman year is continued throughout the Junior year also. The first semester of Senior English is devoted to a study of American literature ami the course is in other respects the same as the Junior course. This year the Seniors have chosen to have a second semester of English and elected this to be a course in Shakcsjicarc. They have read and partially dramatized Hamlet.....I'welfth Night and Romeo and Juliet. As a practical conclusion for their high school course in English some attempt is to be made along the lines of vocational guidance. PACK 8IXTRBN Many corpse lay dying here and there.”—Marie Hamilton in Virgil.

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Mentor Distort) MOTTO—Nulli Secundi FLOWER:—Dark Red Rose COLORS:-Light Blue and Maroon (£1.108 £ flucr0 PAUL MILLER MARJORIE LOUGHRIDGE LURA HALLECK EDWARD HONAN FERNE E. TILTON Seniors! The fourth and last step in Rensselaer High School wc have at last gained, that for which we have been working so hard, the ceasing of hostilities, che battling against the N. P.’s (the favorite monogram of the faculty) and the struggle and effort to get an A, even if wc are dubbed “teacher's pet. and sometimes wc have to be satisfied with a little A—. the minus accidentally (?) added by the nervous twitch of our teacher's pen. But as wc look back, and think of the good times we have had. the notes written, and the whispering behind books, we k not care for the disreputable red marks that go down in the teacher’s grade book, or the pretty little C‘s and D's that show up so plainly on our report cards. Wc think of the time when wc were freshmen, in the zoology class, how comfortable the tables looked, with two on each side, and what “circuses” wc had. regardless of how many times we were bawled out or sent to the office.” Wc were freshmen then: little insignificant, know-nothing Freshmen, the target of all the jokes, and the laughing-stock of the whole school. Thick-headed, too. you know, especially when it came to learning the conjugation of a verb or the declension of a noun. But Oh! Wc were proud of ourselves, for then wc were Freshmen, in the first year of high school: and we were . . Prendent Vice-Prwident . . Secretary . . . Treasurer . . . Historian going to have a class party just like all the others did. Wc had it too, and were served with baked beans for refreshments. And if some of the boys did not get their hair cut it was l ecause they had relieved themselves of a quarter and had it cut the day before. But wc were just little then, and didn’t know the ways of the world. We couldn't understand what was meant when the speakers told us wc would some day have to tight the stern battles of life ’ No doubt wc pictured ourselves as old scarred veterans, with knapsack and musket, marching to the fray to the tune of Bola Bola. If this actually had been the case wc would have, without hesitation, “left those fellows so far behind they wouldn’t wanta fight ( ?) us any more.” But all this training ami search for knowledge only made us soft heads,” or so-called Sophomores, just like wc had been only a little more so. It was then that we began to have the idea that the college (St. Joseph's, you know) ought to be. without delay, made a part of the High School, and we were firm in our convictions. Wc were reading Caesar, and were very much interested in that chapter in which. Caesar, having came to the Rhone, proposed to Bridget (wondering how he proposed). Maybe that inspired us ami made us dream dreams and sec visions. At any rate the halls began to be employed very regularly by certain persons. Many girls arc 'capacious'. —Carl Eigelsbach. PAGE EIGHTEEN