The San Francisco call., 1899-05-15
W|LMERD|NG
PREPARE TO
OPEN ITS DOORS
Temporary Structure
Being Put UP.
TO COOPERATE WITH LICK
REGULATIONS CONCERNING AD-
MISSION OF PUPILS.
Fundamental Principles Will Not
Suffer at the Expense of Me-
chanical Training and
Education.

On the second day of October the Will
merding School of Industrial Arts, un-
der the administration of the Regents OF
the University of California, will be ready
to receive pupils.
The school will occupy a block of land,
200 by 400 feet, at the corner of Sixteenth
and Utah streets, directly opposite the
California School of Mechanical Arts, and
it is intended to have the two institutions
supplement each other and cooperate as
far as possible. An exchange of classes
between the two institutions may also
prove feasible.
The building, a new two-story brick
structure, 60 by 100 feet, will be substan-
tial and convenient, although but tempo
rary in design. 1t is the intention of the
management to have the students of the
school, in the near future, plan, erect,
finish and fully equip a permanent build
ing of brick and stone-a model OF archt-
tectural design, usefulness and conVen-
ience.
The number of weeks the school will be
open in year and the length OF term
have not been decided upon.
The curriculum of the WilmerdlnS
Schooi includes a long list of building
cabinet work, brick
laying, plastering, plumbing, stonecut-
ting and architectural drawing, a distinct
benefit to the Lick School, which hereto
fore has been compelled to extend its et-
forts over a very wide field of instruction
in order to meet the average needs oil
large clientage, drawn from nearly every
county of the State and representing all
classes of the community. 1t will be the
policy of the Lick School to expand along
the line of the machine trades-pattern-
making, matchmaking, forgework, mold
ing, machine shop practice, electrlcal
construction, etc, leaving the field OF the
building trades to the Wilmerding School.
The school will be free of charge for tut
md he girl
of this State who has completed the
eighth grade of the grammar scnools,
upon the following conditions: 4,a
Applicants Will be admitted upon salts
factory recommendation from their for
mer teachers, principals, or school super
intendent. Up to June l OF eaeh year
cants. Applications received after June
l are not acted upon until July 10, ana II
the number of such applications exceeds
the number of places remaining, then
competitive examinations will be held for
those whose applications were nled later
than June l. This examination will be
will be judged by his ability TO express
himself clearly and correctly by means of
simple English sentences; by MS KNOW,
edge of the processes of arithmetic, and
by his acquaintance with the leading
facts of United States history and de-
scriptive geography.
of the next school year, July 81. 1899, will
be limited to rs boys and 80 girls;
Applicants admitted to the Scnool VIII
be assigned work on the day of their ad-
mission in all departments in the five
months manual training or preliminary
course which all students must take as a
needful preparation for the work in their
chosen trade
A large part of the day will be given to
shop work and the essentials of a purely
mechanical education, not neglecting,
however, the general training In English,
history, geography, arithmetic, geometry
physics, art and other fundamentals that
are Important in the education of first
class mechanic.
A tried and thorough system will be fol-
lowed in all departments based on peda-
gogical and mechanical principles.
It will take three years to complete a
any one of the trades.
The school will not attempt any more
theoretical instruction than is necessary
and practical for the carrying out OF the