The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-22
THE COGSWELL COLLEGE,
Ii Will Resume Its Polytechnic
Training Courses Next
Month.
NEW TRUSTEES AND FACULTY
L. A. Buchanan, Formerly OF Leland
Stanford University. the
Principal.

The Cogswell Polytechnic College, which
has been closed for several years owing to
litigation, the details of which have ap-
peared in the newspapers. will reopen on
July % with new faculty and new board
of trustees.
Principal l.. A. Buchanan is at the col
lege every weekday from 10 A. NJ. to 2 P. NJ
to enroll pupils who apply for admis-
sion. Already more than forty have en-
rolled, and it is expected the number will
reach $50. The eligible students arc those
of the eighth and ninth grades and grad
yates from the grammar schools. There
is no tuition charge, but pupils must pay
for materials consumed.
The object of the college, which is sup
ported by endowment, is to educate pupils
mentally and manually. The desire is to
make it more than an ordinary manual
training school, and to so instruct the
pupils that when they shall have COM
pleted their terms they will be able to
earn a livelihood by some industrial
branch, besides possessing broad and
general education.
The term will begin with the Junior and
middle classes. The middle class candi-
dates are those who have had a year s
training in the high schools.
The course of study will be English and
history, mathematics and science, in the
academic studies. The industrial branches
will include shorthand, typewriting, dress
making and millinery work. The art
course includes clay-modeling, freehand
drawing, woodcarving and sculpture.
There will also be shopwork, including
woodworking, blacksmithing. foundry and
machine-shop practice and mechanical
drawing, architectural and machine de-
sign.
There will be special course open to
students who have had preliminary train
ing elsewhere and do not desire the regular
course. 1t will include shorthand type
writing and millinery. The students APP
plying for these special courses must be at
least II years of age.
The professors and teachers have been
selected with the exception of the in
structors in science and mechanical draw
ing and iron working, whose names will be
announced later.
L. A. Buchanan, the principal of the
college, is by early training pattern
maker and machinist. He has for five
years taught mechanical engineering in
universities. For three years he was an
instructor at Stanford and for one year he
taught sciences in the Lick School,
w. B. Clark will have the chair of math-
ematics. The English and history classes
will be conducted by Miss Nav Cogswell. a
niece of DIR. Cogswell, and graduate of the
State Normal School. Miss Nellie Gal
lagher, shorthand-writer and typewriter,
will have charge of those classes. Miss Ada
Brown, graduate of Pratt Institute, Brook
Ign, will conduct the sewing and cooking
classes. r. Herring will instruct the work
ers in wood. Milo ]. Griffith, of the ROYAL
Academy of London, has been selected as
the instructor in clay modelling and sculp-
ture, and will be at the head of the art
classes.
The trustees are: DR.. H. D. Cogswell
and his wife; Robert Ewing, contractor and
builder; Oscar Lewis, contractor; Thomas
knight, Abner Doble and J. H. Culver.