Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-03-11
SCHOOL Of MINES
GOING AHEAD IN
MANUAL TRAINING
Report Of President Fayette A,
Jones Shows Remarkable
Progress Under Most ADJ
verse Circumstances.

/ SPECIAL CONSCIOUSNESS 70 MORNING JOURNAL
I Santa Fe, March 10.-That manual
ana industrial training proved a sue
cess the very first year that it was
| introduced at the school OF mines ~
Socorro is apporent from the follow.
4 ing report Of Presi lent Fayette a
Jonos To Miss Manette Myers, super.
vising Industrial education in New
Mexico, and 20 be embodied In her
forthcoming reI ort:
instruction in shop work at the
New Mexico School Of Mines was in
augurated the present term (1913-
I 1910, and SO far, results attained arr
most gratifying. Manual and indus
trial training In this institution most
! happily serves the schools Of both
academic and college alike
I'm the academic department, stu
dents are famillarized with the CON
struct!on and use of woodwork hand
ools together With the n ost approved
methods Of the economic use Of ma-
terial needed in construction work.
/ Constructive exercises begin with
simple elementary problems, gradu
| ally leading up to the more difficult
freshman work Of halved joints, NOR
[ 's'ng, tononing and dovetailing. The
academic department ia equipped with
Z tnches and fun seis OF hand tools
for executing the various exercises, II
s hoped that the school will be able
20 put in a wDCd-turnine lathe before
he opening Of the 1914-1915 term.
I'm the more advanced or college
work exercises are given IN forge
metal work. Processes Of annealing.
hardening ana welding Of steel and
iron are taught The designing and
making Of simple punching and cut
ling FOOLS are made a special feature
al The beginning of the freshman
work. a lathe and other equipment
necessary i'm the making Of various
parts Of machinery are expected to be
ad led i .he near future.
while room for the present term,
is ample 90 accommodate those who
have taken up shop work, it is now
conceded by those who are IN posi-
tiun 10 know, that larger quarters
must bc provided next term. Plans
are now being drawn for com
modious building 24N5O feet, which
will be ample for some time TO come
in which to carry on This important
branch ~ menual and mechan cal
training
For the benefit Of those not famil-
lar with the work done at tae Now
Mexico state school of mines, it SHOULD
be noted that this institution is an in
duairial school Of mining technology.
The institution is deliberately equipped
ana specially arranged for !tstrues,
and irnn ne iu both the apple and
experimental sciences Of mining and
fs allied branches II IS here liat
mental md manual training e. hand
in hnnd tnrcfihout the entire ollega
course. Thai which is not ,Cc1m-
pliahed with The hands IS completed
by the brain Thus a happy eouilih.
rlm Is struck between manual and
memu effort Moreover the "ohiCl
~ mines is a. institution for disc0v-
cry aud IUcarch, and many lctlvit.Cs
Of the school will shortly appear ma
ulie'u. hls rating the broad ssope
and character of It's field of operation
which VIII prove a most valuable age
sat IN tile development Of the NINE al
resources of the commonwealth