Rushville High School - Holcad Yearbook (Rushville, IN)

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GUIDING HANDS Courses Early in life we learned the old adage, “‘ The course of true love never did run smooth,” and after our four-year struggle with so-called high School courses, we have come to the conclusion that the course of true love is not the only rough one. When we wandered into high school as freshmen, we were informed that we must elect a course. If we were not too frightened to ask, “What do you mean —a course? ” the kind gen- tleman whom we learned to know as our principal explained that the Rushville high school offers for the edification of its students six distinct courses of study, any one of which, if faithfully pursued to the letter for a period of four years, entitles the pursuer to a coveted piece of paper commonly known as a diploma. Bit by bit he disclosed to us the advantages and requirements of each. First we were introduced to that course known as academic or college preparatory, and the suggestion was made that if we had a vision of college and a mind set on following some profession, that was the place for us. It was further impressed upon our minds that because of its well- rounded curriculum and its efficient corps of teachers, the Rushville high school enjoys membership in the North Central Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges. If we did not wax enthusiastic over that talk, we were told of a course known as the general course which required no foreign language. Other than that, we found no vital difference between it and the college pre- paratory. Failing to arouse any enthusiasm here, Mr. Principal went on to explain that the school also offers a commercial course, and opened for us a vista of active participation in the business world where real money can be made because of one’s ability to write on a typewriter or draw funny curves which say things in shorthand. Especially appealing to the farm boys was the course known as voca- tional agriculture where everything from testing seed corn to the proper way to call hogs is emphasized. Several girls were attracted to the course known as vocational home economics where they have learned all the mysteries of food preparation, making of clothing and how to satisfy one’s desires on an ever-so-limited budget. Last but by no means least of these courses was that in industrial arts wherein a mere piece of wood is made to become an end table or some other important article. Each of us, as he goes from Rushville high school, has followed some prescribed course, and whether he has been a good, bad or indifferent student as far as marks are concerned, no one can really measure the worth of the courses to the individual. So we see that the three R’s of our grandparents’ day have been more and more expanded as the school authorities have sought to make school what it should be, a workshop wherein the young are prepared to take their place in the world. [8 ]