Sauk City High School - Sauk Log Yearbook (Sauk City, WI)

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(ft 8 I Debate in History Class Presidential Ballot Explained English Group in Dramatics Senior Shakespearian Theatre HISTORY AND CIVICS Our History Department aids the student by studying the past, to be an intellectual judge of the present, and to attempt to solve the difficult problems the future may present. The purpose of the Civics Department of our High School is to present to the students the principles of American Government, national, state and local, together with a comparison of the important governments of the world. LITERATURE “All literature from Job to Thomas Carlyle or Walt Whitman, is but an attempt to look upon the human state with such largeness of view as shall enable us to rise from the consideration of living to the Definition of Life.” Thus wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. Man can not be prepared for an outlook upon life until he has acquainted himself with the literary masterpieces. Page twenty-three

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Freshmen busy in the workshop A Sophomore making Furniture Wee housewives at work Freshmen Sewing Class at work MANUAL TRAINING Our Manual Training Department is to interest the students in constructing articles of benefit to the home. There is a great deal of competition among the boys in this department. Each boy endeavors to make his piece of work just a little better than the other boy’s. In general, this department compares with the Domestic Science Department in preparing the boys for the future. HOME ECONOMICS Home Economics is a subject that centers around the problems of the house and other institutions whose problems are of similar nature. It includes a study of food, shelter, and clothing viewed from the standpoint of hygiene, economics, and art, and a study of the relations of the members of the family to each other and to society, and to indicate education for the home. Page twenty-two

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Worl( in Biology Lab. Our Expert Typists. BIOLOGY A Geometry Demonstration All Busy at Dictation To omit all the sciences from your course of study is a regretable error. Therefore, learn to read the book of nature whose every page records thoughts of the Great Creator, written by Himself. MATHEMATICS The law of right proportions, of balance, the law of progress, the principle of long time finance, the law of cycles, are but a few of the sweeping aspects considered in the science of mathematics. COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT Our important commercial department includes bookkeeping, typing, and shorthand. It is a department of education which enables the student to go out into the world and earn a living without securing a further education. I age twenty-four