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

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Caesar’s wars, Roman banquets, Christmas carols in Latin—and conjugations! MISS BELLE COULTER guided us through Latin translations and struggles in Latin declensions. When we won our battles as well as Caesar's, we were glad we had a background for entering the field of nursing or medicine, or the tools for a better understanding of our own language. Post war Germany will be a challenge to our generation. MR. CHESTER EDDY gave us a good start in learning the language of this a ae country which is being bombed into surrender ——— to the allies as we are preparing for graduation. Page 14

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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.

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We shall forget our confusion over der, die, and das and the subjunctive mode when we find ourselves helping to shape the Germany of to- morrow. To keep alive our Good Neighbor Policy, the study of Spanish is valuable. MRS. GLADYS ISAAC teaches the language of Mexico, Chili, and Brazil, now more important to us than the accent of old Spain. Some day we shall travel by plane or on our new synthetic tires to introduce oureslves to our Latin American friends; then we shall appreciate even more our lessons in Spanish.