Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-16


aud in trigonometry the solution of the
right triangle by natural signs and tan-
gents, and perhaps a little slide rule
practice.
1t is assumed that the boys will get
their real shop experience in your shops
but such standard tools as lathes, plan
ers, shapers, drll presses. millegs
grinders. etc, will be taken apart ami
discussed and demonstrations covering
a wide range Of their uses will be given
taking time to explain and discuss the
principles involved as well as to show
their many operations. In considering
such tools as the turret lathe, screw ma
chine and punch press. which are essen
TALLY tools of rapid production, classes
will be taken by previous arrangement
to the shops where that line of work
is best eAemplified and the work eN-
planned by the men in charge of the job,
after which in class room the features
of such visits will be discussed and Iii
sested Small tools, hardening, and tim
berins, speeds and feeds, speeding by
belt and by gears. spirals, taper.
threads, gauges. and a large range of
kindred subjects will be explained. dem
onstrated and discussed. This course
Will cover four years of two hours per
week, and through it the mathematics
and science will be definitely related To
the daily work of each boy
The science should cover, in physics,
the elementary mechanical principles.
with somewhat of heat and of electricity.
In chemistry. the elements of metalurgy
and the erystallization of iron and steel.
ease-hardening, etching, acid cleaning
eoloring etc. In hygiene, When. hos.
aud What to eat; when. how and where
to sleep; disease. eontasien. care of chill
dfen, habits and their effect ON health
and character.
Bookkeeping in simple form, stock ac-
counting and system, domestic account
ing and Investment.
Municipal government. duties of cit.-
zensllip. economies and conservation.
This course is merely a suggestive
group of studies. The real course must
be matter of development. subject 10
revision. qualitative and cumulative, az
experience suggests The essential de-
tails of an agreement are given in al
phabetieal list below.
A-No machinist employer in Hart
ford who subscribes 10 the regulations
of the school shall be dcbarfed from
sending one boy. After that. the mum
Der admitted from any shop shall be pro
rata a payroll, or as many as they may
desire up to that limit.
B-The instruction to be based upon 4
contemplated four years course, aha
shall continue for the present nine
months each year. corresponding to the
regular school terms.
C-The school sessions shall be eight
to L \, NJ. and one to i've Z. NJ, and
shall be divided into five periods each
and shall conform to the regular high
school periods, or at the discretion Of the
Instructor.
D-Glasses shall be subject 10 fire drill
and other inlexihle rules Of the school.
Pupils shall come under pay and b.
locked for tardiness or absence accord
ing to the custom or system of the shop
employing them; records Of same 10 be
transmitted each week by NAH.
F-Reports of grade or standing shall
be made by the school to tie employer
and To the parent or guardian OF each
pupil four times each year at regular in
tervals
G-Thee school shall classify all pupils
by certificate or examination into the
most efficient working groups, and trans
fer OF promote them as conditions and
progress suggest.
Hat the completion of the course
which shall be determined BY progress
aud not by months of attendance. the
school shall grant a suitable certificate.
lin the case Of indentured appren-
tees, it is assumed that the schools III
struction will be consideration in the
contract 1t is, therefore, the duty of
the school to receive such pupils only
upon approval of the contract, and to in
sist upon its fulfllment
Ut is understood that the high school
committee neither rclinquishes nor dele
gates its function as a board Of control,
but it is recommended that they shall
appoint an advisory committee of three
or five members, of which the director
Of the continuation course shall be chair
man ex-oflleio. to consider such matters
as may suggest themselves in the or
ganization and maintenance of the
course.
Kit shall BIZ the duty of the teachers
to visit the pupils at their work in the
shops at least twice each month. the bet
ter to understand their environment
their problems. their aptitude. and hence
the better to guide and instruct them
1.-The classes shall also visit from
time to time, by previous arrangement
eaPh of the shops cooperating, tor the
purpose of studying some phases of the
work which are under consideration IN
the class room.
Mr.. Holden of the high school is of tie
opinion that this course should run IL
months each year, and hopes, perhaps
another year. to SO arrange -Four in
structors will, as the work is now
planned, have more or less to do with
this course Names are omitted as the
proper committees have not yet sane
toned the course nor approved the Sc
lection, employment and assignment of
these teachers. Two of them are grad
uated mechanical engineers, each with
shop experience. another practical man
of eight years experience in jobbing
machine shop and a fourth a competent
craftsman and tool designer.
Courant.
MENTAL HYGIENE.