Wausau High School - Wahiscan Yearbook (Wausau, WI)

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A. l . MINSXRI' BEN BERG HARRY JOHNSON ELIZABIETH RYAN bpsital f!EiJun:atiun, Science UR program of physical education aims to provide an opportunity for the individual to act in situations that are physically Wholesome. mentally stimulating and satisfying, and socially sound so as to develop desirable habits, attitudes and knowledge. The objectives we follow are to correct postural defects and encourage de- sire for habitual good posture: to teach health, to encourage leadership, fellow- ship, followership: to teach games the students will enjoy and get physical benefit from that which may carry over into future life: to play the game, whatever it may be, fair and square, to develop motor co-ordination, skill, control, self-discipline, and self-reliance, and provide adequate situations and organization. The high school course in science offers an opportunity for a prolitable excursion in science. In biology the principles of plant and animal life are learned, and the laws of health re-emphasized. The basic principles of chemistry and their applications in the home, industry, sanitation, agriculture: and the fundamental facts of mechanics, heat, light, sound, electricity are learned. Science study also means learning how scientists search for law and truth in nature, forever seeking facts and criticizing conclusions. Last, but not least, high school science should lead the pupil to read to appreciate the achievements of science and the lives of great scientists. DONILD DIDDAMS Cil..iXl'7YS SCIIILLING FIUISDA HFINRICH lfl,llABFTH YWFTZ Oflice Office yr, .5 'KI i 'ri'a,x ,J w r r K 'limi'-1 is l15l

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Bl ATRICF lIMMFRM.XN ERWIN LUEBCHOW JOHN RIORDAN ELIZABFTII TOWNSFND N. Nl. YAWORSKI iiaistnrp, Ztanme Cftunnmits, Zltt HE great need of our time is able leadership and intelligent support of that leadership. That the youth of Wausau may play well its part. the objec- tives of the history department are to teach respect for definite knowledge: to train in that line of thinking which develops faith in human institutions, and enters appreciatively into the interests and concerns of people in our land and other lands. The home economics courses have increased in popularity this year. Senior girls make up a large part of the enrollment. The second semester two boys took the foods course. The courses include not merely cooking and sewing but many other phases of homemaking and housekeeping. Special activities of the department this year have been group dinners, faculty teas, child nutrition groups, clothing exhibits, and visits to industries which supply home products. The need for art in the Wausau High School is becoming greater every day: an art created by our citizens, that shall provide plenty of spacious class rooms as a fitting background for the overabundant studies in life as expressed in our boys and girls: an art gallery where may hang fine reproductions of the works of the master painters: in short, a practical art that shall provide Wausau with a fine new high school, whose dignity will give the proper environment for our students. MARX' ANDERSON MILDRIED ROBINSON LUI'I.l.fX ROBINSON CLYDE EWIZRS IQLSIE PELTO 1.57 L-Silt! llll

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liDNA l'mURKllXlfl RUTH Al.BlilGllli FRANCES AR3lS'lRONG XVILMX llORRFl.l nglisb ACH student in the senior high school is expected to take six semesters of English. ln his sophomore year, the first semester is devoted to oral work. Besides the drill in parliamentary practice, he is trained to read poetry with careful interpretation, and to give expression to his own thoughts in a clear and Well-organized manner. In his second semester, there awaits him a review of grammar and the fundamentals of composition, as well as some fine stories in poem, story, and novel form. As a junior, he struggles with the fallacies in his own and other people's reasoning: he practices writing letters: he becomes acquainted with the various aspects of the newspaper: he reads both old and modern essays and tries his own hand at them: and last of all, he makes a study of American literature. The senior looks at English literature as a whole, makes a careful study of certain more diflicult writers, and tries always to see each as interpreter of his time and often of all time. In his last semester, the senior may choose between an advanced course in journalism or the opportunity to strengthen his foundation in composition, both oral and written, and to gain a wider knowledge of the modern writers whom he will wish to enjoy later in life. CfA'I'lll:RINlf JOHNS lllEl.IfN JoNFs AGNES l..XUT VIULFT VOHS firm