Washington High School - Washingtonian Yearbook (Washington, IN)

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ELLA MAY LYONS French FRANCES CULBERSTON Latin FOREIGN LANGUAGES Aside from its cultur rl x rlue the recent den rnds The school otfers r tour vear course in Latin made upon the students of French his mad of the French language especrallx desirable The arm of this course is to prepare the pupils to read French easrlx to understand srnrple French when spoken and to speak and write rt w ith some degree of fluency To accomplish this emphasis is put upon pronunciation con- versation oral and written compositions read- ings w hich emphasize French life and Various selections from French Literature. G 1 lxllfrrr ledge ln the first rear in addition to the Work rn elementry S fy 6? ati' '-, 7 ,gg - - .mf grammar stress is lard upon l atrn phrases rn dailw use and a studv of English derivation During the second vear four hooks of 1 aesar are translated and a studv rs made of Roman life and Customs which rs continued rn the third year along with the translation of four Orations of Cicero. One lesson per week is done in Latin composition. The fourth year course consists of the four books of Virgil s Aeneid along with a discussion of Roman Mythology and its prevalency in the Litera- ture of ancient and modern times.

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VANE R RUTHERFORD Mathematics ll IVAN S GLIDEWELI.. Mathematics IVIATHEIVIATICS The courses offered under this depaitment alt com lhm courses in Geometix hate one great aim in xleu prlsed of Alge bra llane Geometix and Solid Geometrv 'lhe n imelx that of teaching the student to reason both lnduc Algebra courses are divided into grades 9B 9A and 11B tlvelx and deductiwelx bv oft repeated applications of syn while the Plane Geometix is divided into tuo sections 10B and 10A The Solid Geometiv coui se is a one semester course In Algebra courses we attempt to teach the student to think numerically in terms of literal or abstract quantities and therefore show him how to apply this method of think- ing to the solution of practical problems. Great stress is placed upon uniformity of method principles and Algebraic rules. 447 7:1 9 Xl -fflfijkx 'QQ 47 ' - n.w.H, thetic and analvtic proofs The exercise of this much needed faculty of reasoning IS stim ulated bv placing much stress on the solution of original exercises while the practical and real problems keep up the student s interest and show the practical applications vx hich can be made of the theorems of plane and solid Geometry. Each student w ho completes the course in Geometry should have a very good conception of the space relations of the world in which he lives.

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LULA BERGDOLL Hlstory A O FULKERSON U S Hlstory I-IISTOFQY But llttle more than a dozen years ago hlstorv was glven scant conslderatlon ln maklng out the course of study for the W3Sh1Hgt0H hlgh chool Only General Hlstory was offered as an elect1ve No especlal preparatlon was requlred of the hlstory teacher Today the hlstory course IS qulte a b1t more preten tlous A year s work ln Early European hlstory a year s Work IH Modern European hlstory and a year s work IH Un1ted States hlstory and CIVICS are now offered Un1ted States hlstory and CIVICS are requlred and are glven ln the senlor year Mr 88 Fulkerson teaches these subjects At this wrltlng there are one hundred and elghteen enrolled ln the European h1 tory classes These courses are Lula Bergdoll IS teacher About once a week a perlod IS glven to the study of current events Th1s study keeps the student lnformed about the blq thlngs taklng place IH the world and connects the past wlth the present Hlstory thus studled IS not a mass of Isolated events but a closely related and connected whole QD DWH ,fw f If qw Q f I V ' ' S . ' ' ' elective. They are growing more popular each term. Miss , . . y . I . 1 9 c . . . . Uh . . . . . 0 W Q . t -,