The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-11
FOUR NEW COURSES ANNOUNCED BY "
Educational Classes Will lnaugurate Year Next
 Tuesday Evening

New educational classes starting next week at the YMCA evening school include: Business law, blue print reading, metallurgy and an- healing.
 The business law ccurse-open- ing next Tuesday at 7:30 o'clock with Attorney William M. Gager as the instructor-assumes that no person should think of carrying on business or engaging in g. busi- ness transaction without some knowledge of the rules and con ventions of bushes. Among the subjects 10 be covered are: Con- tracts, sales, insurance, guarantee negotiable instruments, agency partnership. corporations and property. It Is not the purpose ot this course to make lawyers of the students, but to teach them to dis cern the ways that lead from liti- gation and to enable them to con- duct their business dealings with an intelligent idea of their legal rights and obligations.
 Blue Print Reading
 This course is taught by J. Win fred Beecher, mechanical superin. tendent of the Bristol company The opening session-free to all who are interested-will be held next, Monday at 1880 p. m. This course consists of detailed explana- tion of the meaning of various lines. symbols and figures of pre- viously prepared drawings. Models of the parts drawn are used to dem. onstrate clearly what the drawing represents and as an aid in learn ing the meaning of various lines on the drawing. A part of the study period is used to actually repro duce the drawing in order that the student may become even more ia. miliar with the work of reading blue-prints. Sketching single view of the whole of the object is also taught so that the sketches can be drawn to scale in a precise and easily understandable manner
 Metallurgy
 Taught by John c: Bradley meallurgy with the American Bras: company since 1927 this course i: an essential factor in success ,ir Waterbury's brass. industries. In, vestigation and study of metals ha. resulted. in wealth of specia knowledge. This will be discussed and applied not only to our ever, day uses of metals, but also to un. usual ones. Lantern slides, Ques. tions and answers, experiments ant study will clarify such subjects a, hardness, atoms, crystals, alloys casting, tempering, soldering, ho, and cold working, etc. The expert Ia Sk ]. annealing wire, electro pla ting uring temperatures, making crys tals grow. etc.
 The free opening session of ths metallurgy course will be helc Thursday. Oct. IS at 7:30 D. m. Annealing Course
 A specialized course in metal. urgy will feature an intensive study of annealing-the openins session of whichewill be held Fri day, Oct. .19, at 7:30 p. m.
 This course will consider not onl, what happens to metals when the, are heated, but also methods oi annealing, the use of electricity, oil gas, salt baths, etc. It will coyel kinds of furnaces, materials of con struction. heating by convection radiation, and conduction. cost O. heating, combustion control, pyro, meters.
 No single text book will be used The eight session will be talks, dis cussions and experiments.
 Further 1, information about al educational classes may be secured by calling the YMCA.