32 THE CLASSICUM THE HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT Nelle Mealiff The Home Economics Department offers courses in Clothing, Foods, Family Relationships, Home Management and Child Care. The work in this department includes a study of textiles; budgeting; choosing clothing for service, occasion, and personality; dressmaking; personal hygiene; social relations; selection of foods; marketing; proper methods of preparation and serving of inexpensive balanced menus; invalid cookery; menus for special occasions; proper care and training of the young child; home planning and funishing and care of the home. Our aim is to devlop capable, attractive, beauty-loving Home Makers. The Home Economics course meets the requirements of hospitals for nursing. SCIENCE Willis Smith The Science Department offers a broad field of subjects to the students entering the Senior High School. Although most of them have completed the required two years of elementary science work, they can find among the sciences offered here one or more that will carry them to new and broader horizons of thought and activity. Primarily the sciences explain in detail the commonplace happenings of the students' every-day-life. It has been said that art teaches one how to do, and science teaches one why one does. Even an elementary knowledge of the sciences explains in a clear, simple way the events that the student ex-periences or observes in a school day. The explanation of why and how street cars and automobiles run or the mechanism of walking is found in the science of PHYSICS. The school building is heated as a result of coal or gas burning—explained in CHEMISTRY. A meal and a night's rest result in a refreshed and energetic feeling—PHYSI-OLOGY explains this. A week-end picnic trip to the mountains reveals a vast display of beautiful and varied plant forms. One asks, "Do they live and breathe as I do?" "What should I call this one?" "How do the green plants make the food of the world?" The science of BOTANY explains this. Animal life, from the despised spider to the domestic pets, constantly allures one. The science which treats of animals is ZOOLOGY. The mountains themselves, with their canyons and streams and the display of ancient life known as fossils, fascinates one. A course in GEOLOGY will answer the questions regarding such things. Surely some of these natural science courses—physics, chemistry, physi¬ology, botany, zoology, or geology—will fan to a flame the spark of interest that any high school student may have. These high school science credits will help one meet colloge entrance requirements, while the things learned will be found useful and practical to those who do not expect to continue into college courses.