Springfield High School - Capitoline Yearbook (Springfield, IL)

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TTI-IE, G AP rIllIi!Q.EllH tE11i!.... T 0 L I N E IN WHICH VVE ADVERTISE OURSELVES. NUMBER 1. The biology greenhouse is but one view of a very busy place. The laboratories are equipped with Water and gas, and cabinets for specimcnts. In the greenhouse the care of plants under Winter conditions is taught. There too, are a tank of turtles and thingsg and an incubator going full blast. The de- partment has this year been carrying on a campaign of extermination against the barberry, a Weed destructive to grain crops. NUMBER 2. The Auditorium stage is the largest one in the state outside of Chicago. It is about seventy-five feet by thirty-five feet, as wide as the Audi- torium grand opera stage in Chicago and as deep as the Cort Theatre stage. NUMBER 3. This is a scene from the housekeeping suite in the basement. Here We have a model apartment complete, reception hall, living-room, kitchen, din- ing-room and bath. Modern domesticity is the Watch-Word of this department. NUMBER 4. The clatter of keys in the typewriting room seldom ceases. Here are accomodations and equipment valued at 33,500 In addition, the bookkeeping desks in this same department make one think of bank presidents and million- aires. NUMBER 5. The print shop is busi- ness from the word gof, The depart- ment is under a union printer and does the printing for the Board of Education. ,Y H '1 1918 NUNIBER 6. This is the lecture room of the public speaking department. Under the guidance of Miss Wright this department gives promise of great devel- opment in the future. NUMBER 7. The Auditorium balcony presents a long beautiful curve running unbroken from side to side of the room. The total seating capacity of the assembly room is over sixteen hundred. NUMBER 8. This is the lecture room of the Physics department. The capacity is thirty pupils. Each table in the two laboratories is equipped with direct and alternating current, high and low voltage. NUMBER 9. In the old building the chemistry laboratory was a place of evil odor. In the new laboratory which is modern in its equipment, there is a motor driven fan which carries the fumes in the hoods to the outside of the build- ing. In connection with the laboratory is a fine lecture room. NUMBER 10. This is not a Ford fac- tory but the machine shops. Here the students learn to be mighty smiths. Beside other branches of Work in metal, automobile repairing is taught. NUBIBER 11. These are the Wood- shops with an equipment Worth about ftlS5,000, including circular saw, band saw, a planer, belt sander, joiner and lathes all motor-driven. This department has been making this year packing boxes for the Red Cross and game tables for the various cantonments over the country. Page twenty-one