Washington High School - Washingtonian Yearbook (Washington, IN)

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JANE A SCEARCE English ANNA WOOD Engllsh ENGLISH The purpose of the xl ork of thlg d6D1ltITlQI1t IS tu o fold flrst to help the student to obtain for hlmsell not only 1 knowledge of the science slde of English the plllltlples laws and usages of standald lfngllsh but to glxe lllln also sklll as possible ln the use of langu lge second N through the study of representative S6l6CtlOHS from the field of English and American Lltelatule to en able the student to develop pow Q1 and lnslght lll the lnterpretatlon and appleclatlon of good llthlwltlllt also to acquire a taste for and loxe of that VKl11Ll1 ls good IH the fleld of lltelatule In older to accompllsh thls purpose the department offcls four velrs work IH Lngllsh three of Whlch are requlred for graduatlon from hlgh school The time 19 almost evenly dIX1d6d between the study of the Junior Vear an attempt ls made to g1V9 the student 1 blrd s exe VIQW of the fleld of English Llter atule xx hlle IH the latter halt of the Senior year the HlStfJ1X of Amellcln Literature IS taught The de partmcnt also offers a course IH Public bpeaklng open to lll students W ho have had the necessary pre llH1lH21I'X tralnlng . . s ' 1 Q ' ' - 3 ' 1 - I ' . , , . y . ' .S . 'YE ,xl 'UZ , . F .Sy . - K a 'v 1 f C . , 4 s - A l K , K by much practice ln speaking and writing as much of Literature and of Composition. In the latter half . L . . K 2 i A y 1 I . I , .K . U x L x' K ' . . i . . , . A C H C A , X . . , . , . . , K ' 7 v ' . 'L - , Z L- Aw v L -

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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 -,

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W H CARNAHAN Physlcs The course IH Chemlstry comprlses a study of the com mon elements and thelr compounds the general laws of chemlcal actlon and the appl1cat1on of these to dallv hfe Blanchard and Wade s Foundatlons of Chem lstry IS used as the b3S1S of the year s work but numerous lllustratlons and problems are IH troduced from other books Three days are glven to recltatlons and two days tdouble perl ods J to Laboratory work The object of the course 1n General SCI ence IS to develop a usable fund of knowledge about common thlngs and helpful and trust worthy hablts of consldermg common exper1 SCIENCE L 2 ,fig Z ETHA VANARSDALE Chemlstry ences IH the field of SCIQHCQ Many experiments help to flX the prlnclples of the subject IU the mlnd of the student and to mculcate sclentlfic hablts of thoughts Physlcs IS of l1ttle value to the average hlgh school pupll unless he can apply the prm clples of the subject to every day llfe This has been the keynote of the year s work IH Physlcs to emphaslze the practlcal slde of the subJect and 1ts lntlmacv wxth the lndustrlal and home hfe The text used IS Black and Davls Prac t1calPhys1cs FIVE perlods per week are glven to recltatlon and two double perlods to Labora tory 9. 3' . . . - C5 - 2 , . - . ' . 5 KI, , . . . . K , . . . 1 , .- QW ! 3 1 1 ' . ' . . . . . .- WV? , J . ' ' . . , H- - ....1,- T do . , ' TT A as f 4 an -