White River High School - TKopechuck Yearbook (Buckley, WA)

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ZOOLOGY We began the interesting study of Zoology in September with fifteen in the class and Mr. Easton as instructor. We had only six weeks of school when our laboratory was destroyed with the school house. This lessened the interest in the study, as laboratory work brought us in touch with actual things. Pupils dropped out at different times leaving about ten in the class. The class continued the study until February. Zoology is an instructive study as it gives us a knowledge of the more detailed facts of life and living from the lowest of one called Protozoa to the highly complex Metozoa. Zoology is an inspiring study. It fills us with a desire to better understand the problem of animal life, and with a love for everything alive. Anyone who has faithfully pursued the study of this great science cannot help but be more in harmony with the world as well as possess an added store of practical knowledge and more aesthetic ideas. .9 .Q PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY We started to take Physical Geography soon after Christmas. There were ten in our class when it started, but now there are only four and some- times five. Physical Geography treats of the earth, the air around it, and the things upon it. It treats at one time of the tiny rivulet by the wayside, at another of the gigantic forces which raise up mountains or depress the land beneath the sea. People don't realize the importance of earthly forces. Take rivers for example. Starting as small brooks, they grow larger and larger, cutting away banks and surrounding country. Great hills are worn down and the land be- comes a level peneplain for men to plant and till their crops. Or for another example take volcanoes. The eruption of a volcano is due to ejection of the melted rock from beneath the surface of the earth. It bursts out in the form of lava, which fills up the valleys and sometimes makes level ground of a hilly country, as is the case in Eastern Washington where now there are large fields of growing crops while years ago it was very mountain- ous. Volcanoes change the course of a river here or make a lake there. Another example of earthly forces are earthquakes, which are often very destructive. During one night an earthquake may shake down a city and bury all the people in the ruins, while the topography of the earth may be changed greatly. There are changes being made upon the earth all of the time. Every particle of dust, sand or stone owes its position and condition to the tides, winds, streams, rains or other forces. Islands are being raised up here or sunken there. People who don't study Physical Geography do not know the cause of many things they see, such as valleys, mountains, etc. They do not know that for millions of years Nature has been at work making things as they are. But people who study these changes understand life and know what to be thankful for.

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ATHLETICS