Rochester High School - Rochord Yearbook (Rochester, MN)

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1 £ d I ra t t on 0 O the painstaking cultivation of per¬ sonality and character through education for the benefit of mankind, we dedicate this book. r Uuf tn

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THE AIMS OF ROCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL Rochester High School has counted in its student body for the school year 1927-28 approxi¬ mately thirteen hundred boys and girls. These students come to her from a variety of homes, possess¬ ing different backgrounds, abili¬ ties, and tendencies. Their prob¬ lems, needs, and interests are as varied as those of any group of young people in any high school in the middle west. Most of these boys and girls spend six school years in Rochester High School, studying, thinking, and playing under her direction. They use this time in this manner at the wishes and upon the firm recommendation of their parents and of the community and state. With developing maturity, they gain in understanding of the large purpose which the school has for all of them. Believing that the function of an educational institution is to contribute to the fitting of individuals for useful and satisfactory lives, and that this function must be accomplished first of all through the development of native abilities and aptitudes, those in charge of Rochester High School intend that every activity of the school shall adapt itself to the nature of the individual students as far as possible. The chief concern of every teacher is not her subject matter but her students. Rochester High School attempts to give her students the common academic background of knowledge and thought which should serve as a unifying influence and a basis for living in America. This achievement is realized as effectively as possible through the common academic branches of the curriculum which are required of every student. To that end the study of English, history, mathematics, science, and language is chieflv dedicated. For those students who expect to continue their academic education after graduation from high school, more advanced work in these subjects of a mind-training, cultural nature is offered. Students who wish to fit themselves to enter a useful and efficient life prepared for work of a specific kind imme¬ diately after high school are pro¬ vided for in the industrial depart¬ ment, where courses in commercial work, home economics, agriculture, printing, and mechanics attract many of them. CENTRAL SCHOOL For every boy and girl who comes to her doors, Rochester High School has the ideal of use¬ ful, free, capable, strong citizen¬ ship. To enable her students to realize this ideal in their present and future lives is her great task. Piigc Nine