Taunton High School - Journal Yearbook (Taunton, MA)

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QE'-1 El 2500 f-'E EO' 'El IE-if '-'SIE H EDITORIAL Es WEE IE-' NEQ EW will ZEN MSU HE many new channels of foreign trade open to the United States since the war have brought foreign languages into the limelight. Never before has a speaking knowledge of the tongues of our for- eign brethren been so highly important as today: never before has an affirmative answer to Parlez-vous francais? or 5Hahlan ustedes espanol? been so essential, especially to American salesmen in other lands. It is lamentable that, at this time when linguistic skill is most needed, we should be, in comparison with other peoples, so far below par in language study. We have foreign languages in the high schools. What more do you want? , some one demurs. Yes, we do have foreign languages, but the students have not yet learned to master them. Indeed, Americans have the reputation of being poor linguists. In a great meas- ure this is due to the fact that Americans do not follow the European method of learning foreign languages,-the method that the French, the German, the Italian scholars employ. In the first place, in America, languages are more often taken up for mental discipline or for f'credits than for use in after life. In the second, even the best of our language students bear, only too often, a marked resemblance to that well-known prattler, the parrot. They learn the day's lesson, reel it off blithely in class, and leave it behind them as they depart at the end of the session. If, instead of aiming at a good mark, the pupil would try to master the tongue thoroughly, talk it wherever and whenever he has a chance, yes, and think in it, then, in a few years, he would begin to see results, then our foreign counsuls would not have to complain of our lingual short-comings, then our southern neighbors would not term us the tongue-tied gringos, -and just about that time would not Uncle Sam's foreign trade quicken apace? 8

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'IFAUNTGN HUGH SCHOOL ' JOURNAL STAFF 1923 Qfhikur-in-qliielf X ROBERT B. CHANDLER mmsinusss Qnauager SPENCER E. EATON Asfsuriaie Hfhilurs DORIS C. CAHOON DOROTHY KING GIOCONDO GAGLIARDI FRANK MARTIN Qahrls tmfflltllfd YVILLIAM H. SWIFT SPENCER E. EATON Allylclirs ARTHUR M. POND LOUISE E. AUSTIN mrlmling Zlnlwsf I RVING A. BROWN Assislmnk musinncss gaaxrngcr HELEN WILEY

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Teelmieal Fourse M. I. 'I'. CLASS OF 1921 w1i.I.ARo CARIJPQN ASBURY Norwich lfree Aeaclemy Class President '20 Football '20. Treasurer ol' Kappa fhi '20, Debating Team '20 '21. Cheer Book Com. Rho Iota Pi l-e Cerele Francais. Magna Cum Laucle. Ile from whose lips rliviue persuasion I Hows. LOUISE Ii. Al'S'I'IN County St. School College fourse Vlheaton Aeclile Classieilln Coneilium Capt. of Senior Girls' Basket Ball Team. I.e Cerele I rancais. A. A. I swiftly go anal play among them thereg Ancl gently make their rosy cheeks more lair. GLADYS PHILLIPS BABBI'I I' fohaimet Grammar Sehool C'ommereial Course A. A. Shy she was, aml I thought her Cold. 9