Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-02

"Fine in Mathematics
On the way to the electrical depart
ment a little "Fluffy Ruffles" flashed
past us in the corridor on her way TO
the class in higher mathematics.
What can she have to say TO cal
culus!" one gasped.
"A fine mathematician" answered
her teacher, as the vision vanished pe-
| yond the swinging doors
YES" said the intelligent looking
young man seated at desk Whlch
! looked like a cross between a telephone
switchboard and bank president
desk, in a dim. mysterious corner OF
the electrical laboratory, we talKeu
to Magdalena bay tonight"
SO the queer hooking desk LIS a
wireless" station!
Night conditions are better than
day time ones for sending messages
for some dreadful technie reason TOO
deep for the mere lay mind to fathom'
which Mr.. Twining tried to explain
to us.
There are some twenty-one students
at present taking the electrical en-
gineering course, which comprises
| testing and construction of apparatus,
nearly all of the electrical apparatus
used In the school being in fact made
| by pupils.
Wireless Is Featured
1--WE are making a feature of the
wireless" said Mr. Twining, because
the phenomenon OF the wireless Is the
phenomenon of the alternating cur
rent.
1.-The equipment of our laboratory
and study is much better than that
| of the ordinary high school, Alto
gether about forty boys are taking
the evening course. Exceptional OPP
portunities are furnished here to OBJ
tain the elementary knowledge or
electricity both theoretical and prac-
tical, the practical being very strongly
emphasized. Students can get here
what they cannot get elsewhere in the
city.
"Most of the boys are engaged in
the most mechanical kind of day work,
wiring, etc, for the big corporations.
| They can come here and make them
| selves worth more-get better places.
| Any one who graduates can go out
and handle electrical apparatus with
out damaging it. They are taught to
| care for these delicate instruments
-" and Mr.. Twining lifted a fragile
glass implement with the deft.. light
touch the trained mechanic knows
| how to use-"and this Is important, as
such apparatus is very expensive.
zone boy who was with us got
good place with one of the leading
! electrical firms and has gone right
ahead. Other boys have taken wiring
jobs on their own initiative during the
summer and done their work with
credit and success.
"It is the plan of the department to
enlarge this plant, so as TO deal more
| fully with construction and testing, and
make a feature of operation-running
dynamos and motors. There will be
gas engine and steam engine, so that
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Commercial Department
"Dickens says to master shorthand is
equal to learning three languages" an
| nounced Mr.. Wagner, instructor in
shorthand and typewriting, as he ush-
| cred us into a crowded room.
A little girl, bright of eye, whose fin
gers were nimble at their task, glanced
up.
said her teacher, yet she has caught
up with her class. She works all day in
department store, but she wants to
be court reporter. l believe she will
succeed.
"A feature which l wish you would
emphasize" went on the instructor, "is
that we have dictation periods, from
S:15 to 9 on Monday, wednesday and
Friday evenings, to which anyone is
welcome, and of course the system of
Ont USES uOtS not indlltT. "A
| great many stenographers avail them
selves of this hour, but l believe 9TH
ers would do so If they knew about It,
"One of the most brilliant pupils is
teacher in the day schools. She learned
much faster than the ordinary student,
partly because of natural aptitude,
partly because of the trained mind
which is hers. In point of fact, our
students are sought before those of the
business colleges because of the thor
ough nature of the education and train
ing received here,
Embryo Bank Clerks Busy
One peeped into the bookkeeping de-
partment and found it filled with en-
bryo bank clerks and business manag
ers The whole commercial department
is, in fact, one of the most popular
features of the evening high school.
One notes that the members of the
English department are nearly all very
young. This argues the fascination
which these day-workers and night
students still feel in pursuing, scien-
tifcally, the picturesque adventures of
Richard Coeur de Lion and the classic
sorrows of Desdemona; and that older
people, sodden with WEAKNESS after
days work. either take up some tech
nical course, or stay away altogether.
my English class averages up with
ly. yet there are many foreigners
among them, and all work during the
day"
Up front a really handsome Japanese
youth was trying to translate his native
pothooks into terms Ineligible to the
western eye, and making good progress
too. And there was a dark-eyed Syrian,
with a pathetic ambition to become a
| newspaper man. How far he must
travel on the road to journalism is
measured by the faultiness of his pa
pers, which is great. He looked up,
the patience of ages-of generations of
the man with the hoe-in his pathetic
brown eyes and the lines of his thin
face. Oh they do not make patience
like 1t this side the Atlantic!
Chemistry Department
In the chemistry department one
viewed twenty-four heads bent over
twenty-four tasks, some smelly ones
connected with little saucepots over gas
burners. These students are an ex-
people, in view of their ambitions. Some
of them aim to become doctors, others
pharmacists and pure food inspectors
| One, a young man who works for a
water company, is making a special
scientific study of water
| A quiet little mouse of a girl sat at
one of the high chemical tables. She
| is the only girl student in the big
! laboratory.
"a stenographer in a wholesale drug
house." explained Mr.. Moore, "she says
when she writes letters about the