CHICKASAW COUNTY
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NASHUA HIGH SCHOOL - 1904
Course of Study, Textbooks, Teachers


Four subjects a year necessary to graduate. Studies in all capitals must be taken in order to graduate.

Ninth Grade

Ist semester: ENGLISH (Classics and Composition), ALGEBRA, PHYSIOLOGY, Latin, Elocution
2nd semester: ENGLISH (Classics and Composition), ALGEBRA, PHYSIOLOGY, Latin, Vocal Music

Tenth Grade

Ist semester: ENGLISH (Classics and Composition), ALGEBRA, Gen. History, Physical Culture*, Caesar, Commercial Arith.
2nd semester: ENGLISH (Classics and Composition), BOTANY, Gen. History, Physical Culture*, Caesar and Bookkeeping
*Physical Culture will be offered to both boys and girls, but no credit will be given

Eleventh Grade

Ist semester: ENGLISH (American Lit. and Compositon), GEOMETRY, PHYSICS, Latin, German and English History
2nd semester: ENGLISH (American Lit. and Compositon), GEOMETRY, Economics, Latin, German, and U. S. History

Twelfth Grade

Ist semester: ENGLISH (English Lit. and Compositon), PHYSICS, Review Orthography, Latin, German, Solid Geom.
2nd semester: ENGLISH (Grammar), PHYSICS, Latin, German, Review Arith., Review Geog.

List of Textbooks Used in High School

English--Lockwood and Emerson's Composition and Rhetoric; Painter's American Literature; Brook's Literature Primer; Classics (furnished by school)
Latin: Bennett's Latin Foundations; Bennett's Latin Grammar; Kelsey's Caesar; Kelsey's Cicero; Virgil
German: Hempl's Easiest German Reading; Brandt's German Reader; Joynes Meisner German Grammar; Schiller's Jungfrau
Mathematics: Goodyear's Progressive Commercial Arithmetic; Modern Illustrative Book Keeping; Wells' Essentials of Algebra; Wells' Essentials of Geometry
Science: Blaisdell's Physiology; Gilbert and Brigham's Physical Geog.; Hoadley's Physics
History,Civics, etc: McLaughlin's U.S. History; Myers' General History; Montogmery's English History; Chandler's Civics, Iowa and the Nation; Laughlin's Economics
Elocution: Blood and Riley's Psychological Development of Expression.
Vocal Music: Fullerton's "Choice Songs"

High School Teachers

E. C. Hill, Superintendent; Flora L. Anderson, Principal; Florence M. Chaffee, First Assistant; Florence Magowan, Second Assistant; Lela McElhinney, Special Teacher

Grade School Teachers

Jennie Mosher, Eighth; Zoe Britton, Seventh; Corlin A. Noble, Sixth; Claudia Smith, Fourth and Fifth; Addie Maltby, Second and Third; Bertha Getsch, Primary and First; Mame Blaser, Ward

Many Thanks To Volunteer Sheryl McClure


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