Upper Darby High School - Oak Yearbook (Upper Darby, PA)

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Above: A gym do» looking o bit too plcosed about their work to be natural. Below: Mutt be o good story this young man is telling . . . Check ond double- check for this young lody ond her moth. . . . English offords practice in reading aloud to others . . Two young ladies put some French exercises on the board. or a General Course- 4 'J—J '-’ «I •« THIS general curriculum emphasizes the more prac- tical and useful knowledges ond skills. This particular course has been organized for the purpose of helping the practical minded boys and girls who have immediate needs which must be met, but who do not receive so much profit from the other curricula which are offered in the school. There are two di-

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paratory Course Pat Collins happy about her drawing. Registrar Holmes amidst his college cotalogs and schol- arships. Dick Clorkson explains how to cut a contoloupc in six equal ports. Jean Hurd selects something for book report. Mary Bcckcnstrotcr, much too comfortable, ot her Latin. Jane Tuppeny gives o pointer in history.

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Above: Music appreciation—listening to o Damrosch broadcast . . . Whot sholl I do? Perhaps this book may give me some help . . . History in the old doys was never like this ... A toot on the footer, and the music goes round ond round. Below: A biology class secs funny little things running about on o slide, and ottempt to capture them in a drawing. visions of this course: the Cultural and the Practical division There is only one difference between them and this lies in the amount of practical training, which is offered to the boys and girls in the shop and the home economics department. The course does not prepare students for college, but it does give them a brood, cultural training Cultural...