West High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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The association has undertaken to establish a wireless station at West High to communicate with the Greenly station at Hennepin Court. Apparatus for this purpose has been secured and the aerial will be erected on the school building at an early date. OFFICERS OF THE ENGINEERS' CLUB President—Noyes Bright Vice-President—Earl Tumy Secretary—Matthew Crawford Treasurer—Deane Carpenter Librarian—Arnett Leslie Director—John H. Cook Chemistry. nPHE elementary principles and the facts of chemistry are so close-ly associated with the experiences of every-day life, and find such important applications in the useful arts that no one at the present day can be regarded as educated who is ignorant of them. Chemistry furnishes a person with many facts of useful information, broadens his outlook and brings him in touch with one of the great forces of modern thought and civilization. In order that this training should Sixteen CH EM ISTRY LABORATORY

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PHYSICS LABORATORY Engineer’s Club. TUI . Engineer's Club has been established as an adjunct to the physics department of the West High School. Like other organizations of the school, it is still in its infancy through no fault of its own. but from the natural force of circumstances, most of its achievements lie in the future. It is not as yet prepared to point with pride to great accomplishments, but must, of necessity, make a statement of the things that it hopes to do. Probably the aims and purposes of the club can be best expressed by quoting a few paragraphs from its constitution: Article II. The object of this organization shall be: First. To make a careful study of the practical application of the principles of physics. Second. To create a library of scientific literature. Third. To establish a scientific lecture course at West High School. Thus far several lectures have been given before the club—one by Prof. Ozias on the value of a careful study of the principles of physics; one bv Mr. Walter Milner on special systems of ignition for automobiles. and one by Mr. Harold Greenly with a practical demonstration of wireless telegraph. Fifteen

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WOOD-TURNING ROOM be gained by “first-hand” contact with things the laboratory was established. Every student should be so taught to sec with his own eyes and to feel with his own hands within the narrow boundaries of the school laboratory, that when lie emerges into the greater laboratory of nature he may see more fully and clearly. Therefore we have our laboratories in every school building. Better laboratories today are in the towns of our plains and mountains than Bunsen or Liebig ever worked in. Thanks to the efforts of the past generation, chemistry is taught everywhere in universities and high schools. The chemistry department at West High Sch(x l is the best equipped and the most complete of any in the Twin Cities. The laboratory is a well-lighted, steam-heated, cement-floored and spacious room on the ground floor, and can easily accommodate thirty-two students. Miss Caplin, the teacher in charge of the department, is one of the best teachers of chemistry in the Northwest. In addition to the excellent laboratory is a dark room for the storing of chemicals and also a fine recitation room, used for lectures and demonstrations. It will be worth any one's time and effort to visit the chemistry department of West High. Seventeen