Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1912-04-19
/. PRACTICAL COURSE
AT STATE COLLEGE
Manua Training Course Includes
Wood and Metal Working and
Mechanical Drawing


tical nature. This idea has changed
until today we believe that education
Is not only preparation for life,
hut we believe that education is life.
And in keeping with this changed
ideal of what education is we find
that on every hand the attempt is
school course of study as many prac-
teal, everyday kinds of work as pos
sible. A good many people believe
that manual training means only
wood working, but this is not true.
AS the Industrial side of education
is taught in the Elementary Depart
ment at w. S. c. it consists of free
hand and mechanical drawing, wood
work, forge work and bench work.
Free Hand Drawing
In teaching free hand drawing Pro-
lessor F. o. Kreager says that THE
idea is to teach people to see." This
does not mean that all people are
blind, but it does mean that the old
Bible sentence which says Some peo-
pie have eyes and see not, is literally
true. To prove this one has only to
observe the drawings which are made
by the different people who are taxi
ing this kind of work. It is believed
that before person can carry out the
making of an object he or she must
first get a definite clear-cut idea of
what the thing is to look like We
have always had people who were
able to make chairs, desks, dress pat
terms, knives, chicken houses, etc, if
someone else made the plans for
them. Now We are primarily inter-
ested in teaching boys and girls how
to work out the whole piece of con-
struction clear from the idea to the
finished product. Free hand drawing
is not only to teach how to draw the
idea upon paper, but also it has for
two of its primary purposes, to teach
the right proportions and then how
to ornament the piece after it has
been designed. 1t is an acknowl-
edged fact that beauty is a thing for
eign to most of the architecture in
the United States. It is in recogni-
ton of the need for people who can
design chair, with the proper curve
to the back or make a dress pattern
which looks sane after it is made up,
that American educators are offering
courses in free hand drawing.
Mechanical Drawing
After the individual can go and
look at room or a house or a dress
and make free hand sketch of it as
1t actually appears and then add or
subtract parts from 1t until it is well
proportioned and artistic, then 1t be-
comes necessary for him or her to
be able to make working plans of that
piece of work. This is accomplished
by means of mechanical drawing,
where the student learns to draw
house plans to scale and from those
plans make blueprints; where girls
learn to design and construct dress
patterns and other useful articles of
domestic use.
Wood Work, Bench Work and Forge
Work
After tho ctudopt hoe Iaarno5 botu
to make the drawings for his or her
Idea, then it is time carry that idea
into execution. In the wood working
snop at W. S. G. may be seen car
load of furniture in the making at ell
most any time during the school
year Under the able direction of
Professor S. c. Roberts some very
fine results in wood work are being
secured. About one hundred stu
dents are taking wood work and the
results which are being arrived at by
them are amazing. One lady has
made chicken house all by herself
she cut the rafters alone and did all
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the instructor if she knew how to
cut rafters she replied, 81 know a
little about it, When the height OF
The gable is half the width of tie
building, then it is half pitch, etc. ;
me Instructor decided that she knew
rafters, and she did.
Many other pieces of furniture
such as magazine racks, bookcases
tootstools, work tables, lamp stands
Settees, rocking chairs. dining chairs
and library tables are made in great
numbers.
These pieces of furniture are fin
ished off in good shape. They looi
better than lots of the furniture
made in factories and are more dur
able than most of it, because mos
OF the pieces are made from oak ant
Ilf. 1t is estimated that in the State