The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-09-13
NEW COURSES
ARE POPULAR
MANY Pupils Take Up Study Of
Manual Training and DOM
estic Science


nounced that we would this week
nrint an outline of the new courses
in the high school this year, the idea
in 50 doing being to let the public
know something of the details of
the new work that the superinten-
dent and school board have been
planning for the last two years. The
enrolment in these new courses
have considerably exceeded expec-
tations and crowd the departments
Of manual training and domestic
science to the limit of their capaci-
". In the former course there are
work benches for twenty-four pupils
while the second day of school
showed twenty six high school and
forty.one grade boys taking that
work. In domestic science there
are cooking benches for the size of
class usually handled in one divi-
sion in this subject, sixteen pupils,
and the second day of school gave an
enrolment of nineteen girls in the
frst-year class in high school, eleven
in the advanced high school class,
ami fifty-seven grade pupils. This
large enrolment indicates that the
new courses are already justifying
their introduction. In the work in
horticulture and agriculture there
are sixteen enrolled for the fresh
man course and about half that
number for the advanced work. AS
the work with the grade pupils in
this course does not commence until
the second semester there is no en-
rollment of the grade pupils at pres
ent.
The first year course in manual
training has for it's aim the training
Of pupils so that they shall acquire
mechanical skill gradually through
constantly making objects that are
serviceable. In the first semester
will be taught the use and care of
bench tools and such supplies as
sandpaper, glue, oils, paints, etc.,
sluing, planning thin pieces, cham
fering, making joints, setting hinges.
use Of the guage, finishing wood
with wax, oil, shellac, and French
polish; mechanical drawing two
times week. The second semes-
ter's work includes the use of the
framing square, group work. hopper,
inter, mortise, ternon joints, the
making of a miter box. thin gluing.
thread cutting and vanishing,
the construction of a panel, the
making of various objects such as
footstool, stands, tables, hook
rocks, desks, etc.; and mechanical
drawing.
Work in domestic science for the
hrst year high school class consists
OF cooking three days per week and
sewing two days, each recitation
covering double period. The cook
ing includes first, brief review of
physiology in which the plan of di-
gestlon is emphasized; second, the
classification of foods into carbohy-
orates, and polysaccha roids, with
tne various subdivisions of each dis
accharides, monosaccharides, the pro
teins, their classification, compost
''on, properties, tests, foods con-
salnlng protein, meats, milk and
milk products. eggs. fats. kinds of
Iats, suettlard, butter, oils, lessons
~ trying and pastries; the relation
q food to health, composition, di.
.eestlbllity, cost, planning of a we'll
oalanced meal. The sewing in
Guides use of machine, simple and
tancy stitches, apron by hand, un-
oerclothes, etc. For the benefit of
'aose pupils that cannot enroll in
tue hrst year high class in domestic
science there will be offered this
year an advanced course consisting
VI one semester's sewing and one
'emester's cooking, the work being