Riverside High School - Mercury Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Miss Healy Miss Lewandowski Miss Keller MIS- Steiner Miss lUHeC111 FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT The value of foreign language study ought to be self-evident in our fast-moving world. Daily the short wave of the radio brings, in foreign language, direct information from all parts of the globe. Spanish speaking Mexico touches our border, one or two days' travel, or two or three more by water, puts us into personal contact with people whose native tongue is foreign to us. International commerce and politics, as well as progress in the world's science, art, and culture, call-more than ever -for men and women who understand the language and the psychology of other nationsg and the psychology of a nation is no- where better revealed than in its idiom. Those who some day wish to enter diplomatic or consular service, to en- gage in foreign trade, or to attain higher degrees in the art and sciences cannot afford to neglect the study of modern foreign languages in high school, for at high school age the vocal organs are still pliable and the ear still keen in distinguishing fine differences of pronunciation. The ability to understand a foreign language is also a valuable asset in most professions. Lawyers, especially patent lawyers, doctors, concert sing- ers, radio announcers, travelers, mer- chants, salespeople, and others have an added advantage when able to understand a foreign language. But above these utilitarian aspects there is the satisfaction that comes from having acquired a key to broader understand- ings and outlooks on life. Riverside offers courses in French, German, Polish, Spanish, and Latin. While Latin does not put stress on its utility-value, it is well to remember that it still expresses the thoughts, dreams, hopes, and deeds of the illustrious men who lived two thousand years ago. lt is still a broad, beaten highway along which count- less feet have passed in the course of nineteen centuries. The highway, however, has now been paved with modern text-books and meth- ods which facilitate the approach to the im- mortal Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil. Mr, Lean Mr. Pleister 1' 'Aww'