Wilkinsburg High School - Annual Yearbook (Wilkinsburg, PA)

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COIVIMICRCIAL. Of great value to those students who will enter the business world upon graduation is the Commercial department. ln the large curriculum are six semesters of bookkeeping. including cost accounting and banking, two years of typewriting and two of shorthand. The last semesters of each of these are combined in transcription work. Another important subject is otfice practice. which furnishes a wor : x -o. f the various otiice ma- chines. Commerci aw, JI r eogr , economics, and salesmanship a 1 offer int r g u lls of stud to the commer- cial student. FORFZIG LAN U GE. . lt h Latin is not as Jopular as it was 1 any years ag 1, it I . , .uf t in school becaus it is the backgr und of th P9 'c a RY s f cl of our own Inglish. Furth r than that, t rel L in give. us a glimpse of that race i iici has co so c t our la s and custom. The four year course b gi . ' ru tl n in ffr mmar, follow d the next y ar by e e ts from Laesars Commentaries. Frr the clasfcal students wh c ntinue to the fourth ear, there a two sem 'ters of Cice os . ' ' ti l wr semesters sp nt in read g irffil s f ' ' . 1 o ih he tra slation are in ermit- 'A a plus belle f ,' ' . ruthfully is French called e most beautifu language' On account of i. beauty, its clarit and its precise e x . come known as e interna- tional lan age-the lan u of re ties and of dip macy. For these reason, more stud a F ench than an ' other modern language. Th first yea is ' en p with the ' dy of grammar and simple exerc. '. T1 f low' g year als with more ad- vanced grammar and - ff ' eral novels and a play. Third year French students read a book of short stories. a history of France, and George Sand's La Man' an Diablff. L l I X 1 I 1 f 1 h g e . . ' sp i s n V g ' ll id X tent rose exercises d so s i ipl e I ology. - e e il 1 in Because more people speak Spanish than any other language of the world except English, and because English and Spanish are closely united in the commerce of the western hemisphere, it indeed ranks among the important subjects taught in the high school, Although there are not enough students studying Spanish to offer a three year course, the four semesters given provide ample prepara-

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Foreign Languages Continued tion for college entrance. The first year is given over to a firm foundation in grammar principles. In the second year. after .1 review of grammar, Spanish students read Eyptzmz l'iz1tun'.mz and LII Hwnmmz Sim Suljnicio. v 1 l Now that G an has . - u cepted a necessary part of the science d music st d 's r - r e, it becom ' necessary for schools agai to offe repa H in this langua, . The hrst year prov' es work in nece.s ar and simple ading ex- ercises. lerman I I and ' . . f advanced gram mar prin- ciples a d a variety of r Q ing material to cquaint the stu nt with Germa customs a d o k ere, d i mpr 'e his vocabula V ant work- uilding abili . HISNORY. Amo g h important col ege pre aratory cour. es in high school is his ory ew things in our ecl cation are S im porta t to us as th st mr 1 w 's r' fre s and of the oun the o 'e in teachi ii x. ourses offer com plete s rvey of record l s or 1 e are ' e Egyptian e pire to the pre. ent day. In I - erican histor . etailed stud of the Constitu 'on is made. Td p u- . ...-.nh of these courses. a similar course is o ered for stude t o wl ot attend colleg . For ad Vanced work here is a cou s n - p oblems of dem racy INIJUSTRIAL. 'o the bmv 'ho 'ants to .rn a trade or to enter one of the great c ' ' 's ' ict. the courses in shop work are indispensable. The electric shop provides a firm foun- dation in the construction of electrical devices and their applica- tion. Equally advantageous work is offered in the automobile shop. Most popular, however, is the wood shop. Here, furniture design and art appreciation are studied. The main objectives are to culti- vate skill and to learn the proper use and care of tools. Cf datio of our natio . Tc nl g s ' tiis espect, theref re, is ct' 'ffl ir. 'le'1o. - - I ie mf 1? A Cmss IN 'I'R.ixNsm'R11f1'1oN