Wyomissing Area High School - Colophon Yearbook (Wyomissing, PA)

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MATHEMATICS Calculations play an ever-present part in modern lite. in varying ciegrees, they manifest themselves, from the every clay mathematics ot the piain citizen lo the eiahorate Calculations of the engineer. But figures must he understood or Charlatans, in this mass age, will use them to estaioiish taise- hoods. SCIENCE The core of life toriay iies in ma- terial progress. The age oici hattie to Control the torces of nature seems to he culminating in manss favor. How- ever, science cannot raise the stan- ciarci of living oniy: it must also assist in extending the mental horizon ot humanity. Falmfzjf E T X T T YV ., it ANNA M. BIEHL, SAMUEL I. HENRY C. V. FENCIL, W. N. MARTIN Twenty-three s

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f ' I 3,Q?3 'CQ' lfxlegt at Faculty If I .U R. T. MILFORD, R. G. Nlomzis E. H. BRININGER, L. R. NTEYERS, A. VV. RANK Twenty-two THE EULUPHUN UF 19111 . . Q ENGLISH Nlan, today, tives in groups. There- fore his faculty of self-expression is more important than ever before. This expression must he through both oral and written mediums. And, he must he able to react intelligently, if he would comprehend the past and properly interpret the present environ- ment. SOCIAL STUDIES In an inter-related world, one must ever know more about man,s relation- ship to man. The study of human he- havior, past and present, and the evaluation ot the proper usage of manas material progress toy his estab- lished institutions is the task ot the Social Sciences.

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W' NWN NS ,GHKWXQX X t S X X L Top: HAMILTON C. CROWELL. EDWIN HAAG Bottom: KATHRYN L. BRININGER Twenty-four Y LANGUAGES No single nation has a monopoly on the best thinking. Many lands have contriiouted to the sum total of human knowledge. He, who would he learned, therefore, will seek the tore of foreign minds. As a concomitant, he Witt also improve his ahiiity oi self expression. IJBRARY The Library is the core of any mori- ern educational institution. It is the heart which supplies the learner with the best retiective thought of humans, dead and living. and with the dis- coveries of rnan's prying mind. it con- tains the vital ingredients to nour- ish necessary learning.