Sharon High School - Mirror Yearbook (Sharon, PA)

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uV' s wsT • - • O JD • $ O - • Mathematics Department 0 The average High School student probably does not fully appreciate the • o importance and necessity of mathematics as a factor of world progress. To him it is a subject that is dull and uninteresting and he studies it only to meet the re- o V § quirements of his course. To his imaginative sense only the spectacular things of life appeal. Aviation, progress in electricity, and new designs in machinery are all matters of far greater importance to him. Yet, if he were to study these A things with a little greater care and interest he would find that they are all di- A 0 rectly the results of mathematical progress. The designing of the engine that pulled Lindbergh across the ocean was based on mathematics. That floating palace, the Leviathan, would never have been built were it not for the mathematical genius of a few men who spent years in trying to bring about a revolution 6 • from the old, weary modes of sea travel. The Twentieth Century locomotives, the fast motor coaches that link together nearly all the cities in the country, our • modern home appliances, and practically everything else that we have today are results of a slow, steady growth of mathematics that has taken place over many • centuries. The history of mathematics dates back to the earliest ages of civilization. Written records have been found in Egypt which show that the people of that country, as early as the latter part of the third millenium B. C. had a wide knowledge of the subject. The Babylonians later, and the Greeks about the year 600 B.C. also made extensive use of mathematics, especially of arithmetic and geometry. The Romans, while contributing little to mathematics itself, never- theless were instrumental in developing the science of surveying. • During the past term there has been nothing special to mark the season for • the Mathematics Department. Each class has carried out practically the same • schedule every day throughout the year, and, owing to the fact that no calls have arisen, there have been no mathematics clubs or other social activities of the A 0 mathematics classes. V Among the seven hundred and twenty-five mathematics students in Sharon t W High School, eighty-one have taken Arithmetic; three hundred and forty-five Algebra I; one hundred and sixty. Plane Geometry; eighty-two, Solid Geometry; and fifty-eight, Algebra II. k A Irene Williamson—Ohio State University, A.B., M.A.—Plane Geometry. Solid Geometry, 0 V Algebra II. David L. Mink—Bucknell University, B.S.—Plane Geometry. • I. J. Laws—Carthage College, A.B.—Geometry, Algebra II. Beulah Cousins—Geneva College, A.B.—Algebra I. F.lla Boyce—State College—Algebra I. Margaret Hyde—Thiel College—Arithmetic. • M LYILE • -• O 3$) O • ’

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0 a 1 0 O CD • O Special Departments The standard of a school is determined not by the scholastic record it maintains alone, but it is also determined by the opportunities it gives the students for the proper physical development and for cultural education in the domestic and fine arts. Sharon High is very fortunate in having numerous special departments and capable directors. The following articles have been written by the various members of the special departments in order to present to the readers the true aims of each department. PHYSICAL EDUCATION The aim of boys’ physical education is to give the boys a general idea of the types of exercise needed to bring out those muscles which our daily life fails to exercise properly. In order to accomplish this, this department in the absence of any modern equipment has used free hand drills and different types of games. In the fall the periods begin with calesthenics, with the latter part of the period devoted to games of the active type. In the winter months the periods are given over entirely to basketball, teaching fundamentals, rules, and team play. Each class is organized into teams forming a total of over 100 teams which engage in a Round Robin tournament. During the early spring, the classes are devoted to mat work and tumbling, and later in the spring games are played. This program seems to give as near the results we wish to accomplish, as can be attained with the limited time and limited equipment. R. B. McCandless, Nebraska Wesleyan, A.B. The program of the Girls’ Physical Education Department is similar to that of the boys’. Much time is devoted to games, both of the organized and unorganized types. During the year the girls play field ball, basketball, and baseball, all of which teach self-sacrifice, courage, and fair play. Time is devoted to folk dancing, which creates a sense of rhythm, and promotes grace and litheness in the body carriage of the student. A gymnasium Activities period was established for those who wanted to participate in extra-curricular athletic events which included basketball, baseball and other gymnasium activities. Agnes M. Funn, Sargent University. HEALTH DEPARTMENT Sharon is very fortunate in having one of the finest health rooms in the state. Here routine medical inspection is carried on by Dr. H. G. Lafferty. The duties of the School Nurse are to assist the doctor in medical inspection, take care of records and the follow-up work, trying to have all the defects corrected. One grade school is visited daily where individual or class room inspections are made. The School Nurse endeavors in every way to bring about cooperation between the school and the home. Florence Math ay, Harriet Hospital Training School, R.N. 0 0 f % 0 • O $5 • O •