West Lafayette High School - Scarlet and Gray Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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Soctal Studies All of us are acquainted with MR. CHESTER EDDY “MR JOSEPH MEGA RT and. Mik. HOWARD EVANS, who are our social studies instructors. Living in a time when we read | daily of history in the making, we find new significance in events printed in our history books. Rome became alive again with Mus- solini’s capture and with American soldiers on the Italian front. We can contrast the glory of ancient Greece with its starved children of to- day. We experienced anew the terror of the Huns. To our American history we can add the names of brave men and brave events, and we feel the urge to double our war effort to ‘“make democracy live’’. Page 12

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As sophomores we passed the science labora- tories with sidelong looks of awe, but as juniors we boldly entered the physics room to learn about heat, light, sound, gases, and such under MISS MARY BUSHONG. When we were sen- iors, the mysterious “‘smell’”’ that issued from the chem lab no longer filled us with terror, and we smiled wisely when questioned and replied, “Oh, that? Why that’s just some hydrogen sul- fide. ’ The study of chemistry and its by prod- ucts is especially important to us in these years of synthetic substitutions.

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With a national debt of three billion dollars and more in this our graduating year, with prices high and valued things not purchasable, the study of economics, as taught by Mr. Joseph McCarty, comes very close to our every day liv- ing. We know we shall have a large share in bringing the financia! conditions cf our country to normal peace time conditions. Our thinking has been directed through the study of civics to wartime legislation, and has given us an adequate blackground to make comprehensible the Dumbarton Oakes peace plan, the Yalta meeting, and other events with historical significance.