The San Francisco call., 1896-08-06
THE POLYTECHNIC HIGH.
1t Is a Unique, Useful and Popu.
lar School for Boys
and Girls.
Progress of Its Manual Training De-
partment-This Years Big
Enrolment.

The Polytechnic High School is as
unique as it is useful. In no other public
school in the department can students get
the benefit of manual training and COM
mercial courses. The aim of the Polytech-
mic is to prepare its graduates for active
life. Every Wednesday afternoon it is
visited by class of primary and gram
mar school principals, who take off their
coats, roll up their sleeves and receive me-
chanlcal instruction in the shops so they
may be enabled to teach the principles of
manual training intelligently to their own
pupils.
The commercial course comprises Eng
lish, commercial geography and United
States history. There is a debating soci-
ETY. in the first year and good-government
clubs are feature of the second and third
years. Bookkeeping, shorthand and type
writing are practically taught, also Span
ish. Great stress is laid upon rapid addi-
ton, algebra and practical geometry.
History is taught philosophically. Stu
dents acquire deftness in shorthand and
typewriting and useful knowledge OF the
laws of the City and State.
In the Misunderstanding course students
take science, physics or chemistry instead
of history, and German is substituted for
Spanish. Mathematics is more advanced I;
solid and spherical geometry and trigo-
nometry, with its applications, being
added to the plane geometry, algebra and
business arithmetic of the com mercial
course. In physics the boys and girls
study the theory of mechanics in the
drawing rooms and the practical applica-
ton in the shops. Carpentry is studied
IN the first year and the work of the
blacksmith shop and the machine shop is
begun in the second year.
Half of the time is given to manual
training. " The laboratories and shops, To-
Gated in the brick annex, are well equipped
with all the requisite apparatus, tools and
machinery. The cost of maintaining this
most useful department does not exceed,
including the salaries of f. A. Gardner
and Miss Van Week, who teaches the girls
clay modelling and wood carving, $500 a
year. Some 200 boys and girls are now
taking the manual training course, which
is rapidly growing in popularity. Princi-
pal Walter N. Bush says that additional
assistants will soon be needed in the shops.
The commercial department of the school
is not so extensively patronized as it,used
to De for the reason that the demand for
stenographers and typewriters in less than
it was in former years.
The new term opens with an enrolment
of 500 students-250 boys and $50 girls.
The juniors NUMBER 275, the middles LIE
and the seniors 50 With the following
able faculty the Polytechnic easily re-
ia ms its place on the accredited list of the
University of California:
Walter n. Bush A. B., principal.
c. H. Ham, A. NJ, head of English depart
ment.
R. Il. Webster. A. NJ, head of mathematical
department..
c. L. Turner, teacher of mathematics.
C. H. Murphy, head of history and political
science department.
F. A. Gardner, B. s.. head of manual training
department.
Mrs E. P. Bradley, teacher of free-hand
drawing.
A. H. Cooke, A. g., teacher of science.
Mrs. n. T. Conway, teacher of stenography.
Miss Bessie T. Durkee, assistant in bookkeep
| ing.
Pedro Espina, teacher OF penmanship.
Miss X. c. Fay, first assistant In book
Miss Ida F. Gsrbarino, teacher of type.
| writing.
Mrs s. W. MCPHERSON, assistant in history.
Miss Florence Prag, B. L., assistant in Eng.
| lish.
Miss II. E. Rademaker, second assistant in
| bookkeeping.
Miss Leila Richards, teacher of stenography
| Miss NJ. G. Salcido, teacher of Spanish.
Miss NJ. Van Week, M. l. A. teacher of clay
modelling and wood-carving.
Miss Lille M White, assistant in bookkeep
|