South Division High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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CARDINAL ANNUAL WIiAT'S YOUR ANSWER? COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT LICK! click! clickety click! to the strains of aggressive phonograph records. Sounds like London bridge is falling down, but in reality it is a class of typists learning rhythm. In 'another room, pencils are poised to capture, with queer little hooks and curves, dictation, as it falls from the lips of the teacher. But shorthand and typing alone do not comprise the Commercial Course. Scores of freshmen are battling with spelling and arithmetic, and elsewhere sopho- mores are keeping elaborate journals and ledgers of fictitious records for fic- titious firms. Up on the second floor, under Mr. Book's direction, girls are en- gaged in learning how to operate com- plicated mechanisms known as comp- tometers, adding machines, multigraphs. Yonder, seniors are demonstrating vacuum cleaners and pressure cookers, or trying to sell to each other cosmetics, dresses, and encyclopedias. Finally, seniors are studying commer- cial law, for they are learning that no matter what one does, in private or com- mercial life, his actions must be gov- erned by the laws of his city, state, and country. In an age like ours, wherein speed and efficiency predominate, it becomes al- most necessary for every one who would keep up with the times to cultivate those qualities which the Commercial Course seeks to develop in its earnest followers, directness, accuracy, and thoroughness. Only when a student has fully learned to serve his fellow men with these de- sirable and basic qualities can he hope to be a successful business man.

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CARDINAL ANNUAL WAY BACK WHEN HISTORY DEPARTMENT HIRTY years ago there were only two or three classes a day in the History Department, today there are thirty classes a day. Medieval and mod- ern history and civics are taught in this department, but there are more civics and American history classes than any other kinds. However, every semester, the in- terest in European history grows greater. During the last three years, the His- tory Department has doubled, for previ- ous to that time there were only three history teachers. Now there are six. Of these six, Mr. Schardt is the only one who was graduated from South. The history library at South is differ- ent from that of other schools, for most schools have only one history book of each type in the library, while South has sets of history books. Our History De- partment purchases new maps and globes, so that we may have the advan- tage of up-to-date material. The many historical pictures in the building are a help to those who take history. There seems to be a tradition at South that all football and track coaches must belong to the History Department, for all of the coaches except two have been history teachers. Of these two, one was from the Commercial Department, and the other, from the English. History, as taught at South, is very in- teresting, because dates are not stressed. Events are grouped by periods rather than by definite dates. This blissful arrangement lets the mind of the student dwell primarily on the full significance of the event and not on a mere mean- ingless date.

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CARDINAL ANNUAL LET'S BE DOMESTIC HGUSEHQLD ARTS H, if only those domestic scientists wouldn't let delicious odors of baking bread, pies, fudge, an' every- thing escape into the corridors! They just don't mix well with Amo, amas, amat . . or The square of the hypot- enuse of a right-angled triangle . . Fourth hour with lunch in the dim dis- tance is hard enough, without the tanta- lizing smells of viands to distract us. Driven to despair by our own incom- petence, we approach Mabel to inquire what we ought to serve at our next din- ner party. She wrinkles her pretty brow for a moment, and then recites, f'Why not begin with fruit cup, celery and olives, of course, followed by rolled roast, gravy, and mashed potatoes, but- tered carrots, cabbage and green pepper salad, and grape gelatin with bananas ? We gasp our gratitude and wonder why we weren't wise enough to enroll in the Domestic Science Course. In Miss Congdon's room we find Alice standing over a piece of cardinal crepe, with shears poised above the material. Awe-stricken we ask, Wl1at's it going to be ? A Russian blouse, stupid, she re- plies and slashes into the stuff. We sigh with envy as Sue cuts the last thread, shakes out the folds of her latest creation, and, holding it up, looks at it critically with, The flare is all right this time, Miss Congdon! Sadly we look at our dowdy selves and think, these do- mestic scientists! Despite the criticisms about a lack of domesticity among modern youth, critics must admit that South is teaching girls the fine arts of cooking and sewing.