Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-06-30
Work at TIP.

To the Carthage Courier:
The students and teachers of the
Tennessee Polytechnic Institute are
having an excellent school. So many
counties are represented that each one
has its own chairman and secretary.
We are enjoying so many good things
in an educational way that we have
decided that our county papers would
be glad to inform the people at home
of few things that we have found
in the Tennessee Polytechnic Insti-
tute..
On arriving on the campus, we no
tice a tank which contains some 5000
gallons of crude oil which runs to a
55-horse power engine and furnishes
the fuel for it. This engine runs
dynamo which passes its power on to
a number of motors which turn all
the machinery of our machine shop.
1t is intensely interesting to step into
this shop and see a piece of rough
timber sawed, planed, morticed, and
polished into a nice piece of furniture.
And it is equally as interesting to see
a piece of iron or steel put into the
hands of the students and directed
through the different pieces of ma
chinery. They change this rough
material into wheels, bolts, taps,
screws, or any other pieces that they
may need.
Our interest is again aroused when
we step to the other side of the build
ing and see the men take the leather
and mend shoes of every description
and also see them making shoes that
would be credit to any house.
To the rear of the machine shop
we find building in which automo-
biles are torn down and put together,
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angle. Young men not only study the
different parts of these machines and
how to repair and put them together,
but they do more-they step into the
machine shop and make the most deli
cate parts of the automobile machin-
cry. 1t is an opportunity for our
young men of Tennessee to learn ma
chinery as they can learn it in but
few places.
Now, we leave the shop and look
across the road and see in erection
a model dairy barn which will be
plant for instruction as well as for
farm use. On the farm we see the ro-
tation of crops being put into opera
tion. Here we study these things in
the class room and also see them in
practical demonstration. We have for
observation crop rotations, small
fruit farm, and an excellent display
of farm animals. The students run the
incubators, look after the poultry,
plan balanced rations for the chickens,
hogs and cattle land go back home
knowing definitely the value of the
different feeds.
In the Domestic Science Depart
ment, the young ladies are busy plan
ming and working out the different
menus and studying the different val
ues of food, inorder that the table
may be run in the neatest, most eco
nomical and efficient manner. In the
Domestic Art Department, they are
planning clothing TO rthe entire fam
lily, studying plans for the houses, and
looking after all the comforts and
pleasures and how to have these in
the most economical way.
Those who are interested most in
the rural schools are studying not
only Agriculture, Manual Arts, and
the Home Science and Art, but are
taking courses in the teaching process
and studying the primary methods.
! They see in operation a model school
under the direction of Miss Hayes.
! They see exactly how a skilled teacher
takes a little child and starts it on
the road to learn, seeing how to meet