The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-11

branches which underlie and relate to the
mechanic arts. 1t provides courses of
study for the discipline and furnishing OF
the mind. as well as technical and pro-
iessional occupations and studies. Its
aims are to give substantial aud practi-
cal education to young men and young
women. 1t teaches the sciences, and ap-
plies them to the various industries of
farm, shop and home. 1t covers such
course in the English Ian
reasonable skill and accuracy in
speaking and writing the mother tongue.
taste for reading and knowledge of the
use OF books as instruments. 1t includes
good course of mathematics, surveying
ana mensuration. field practice with chain.
compass and all the instruments necessary
ior practical surveying. Itcovers the out
lines OF general history and the history of
our own country. including the United
otates constitution, business methods,
forms, laws ana ethics. Chemistry and
physics; shop practice in wood and met
ais, and the mechanics of farm machinery,
with special stress laid upon laboratory
work, all are made prominent means of
teaching the mental faculties to quick
observation and accurate Judgment.
Careful study of the plants, miner
AIS and animals themselves serve to
illustrate and fix the daily Rotations in
botany, mineralogy, zoology and entom-
ology 1t covers extended courses of in
struction in mechanical and civil engineer
ing. The college will also teach useful
manual occupations, including pharmacy,
printing, biography, photography, taxi
denny and plumbing, for the benefit of
those who may desire to make any one of
them his special trade.
The curriculum is so arranged that sew
eral different courses, each complete in
itself, are offered. Those who pursue the
agricultural course are required to take
lessons In agriculture and horticulture,
enforced by actual experiments, show
ing the application of science A
variety of studies are offered, and
those who desire to do so can
make a selection of subjects. In all it's
departments the college trains in the ele-
ments OF the arts and endeavors to impart
such skill as will make the hands the
ready instruments of thoughtful brains.
1t trains the hand, the eye, the mind and
the heart. 1t aims to give such general
information and discipline of mind and
character as will help to make intelligent
and useful men and women, and to keep
Its students in sympathy with the callings
Of the people.
A higher obligation rests upon it to train
up true manhood and womanhood than
to train up farmer or to train up
mechanical or civ engineer. 1t must not
be forgotten, moreover, that 1t is the duty
OF the college, also, to train for citizenship.
The training of the shops. laboratories,
gardens and farm is part of a general
education which leads to usefulness and
at the same time insures a means of liv-
ing to all who make good use of the
opportunity. Such training preserves
habits of industry and manual exertion
and cultivates taste for home and rural
life. The industrials taught, or the SUBJ
jects by means of which theory is put
into practice, will require the time of at
least an hour a day. These subjects, for
young men, include carpentry. cabinet
making, work in metals, printing. teleg-
raphy, stenography and typewrit-
ing, vocal music, farming, care and
management of stock, gardening,
fruit growing and tree planting, military
drill, laboratory work, land surveying, irri-
cation, road building, etc. The industrials
for the young women lie in the direction
of the home-making arts and accomplish
ments-such as instrumental and vocal
music, drawing, painting, sewing, dress
fitting, cooking and serving food, house
hold economy and sanitation, care of the
sick, rural architecture, landscape garden
ing, Horticulture, typewritlng and stem
ography, biography and printing. In
short, the educational work of the in
dustrial side of the college consists of
science rith practice.