Brooklyn Technical High School - Blueprint Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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The Music Department Music is a universal language. It ' s a symphonic represeri the likes, dislikes, fears and joys of the age it was written in. The music of the Renaissance took bold new forms to exp people ' s feelings. The madrigal was born, which expressed the and gay feelings of the age. Operas and oratorios expressed people ' s feelings from the meekest to the strongest. The age is by people such as Palestrina and Scarlatti and a host of other m geniuses. The Music Department of Brooklyn Tech is also brimming over bold thinkers, fine musicians and talented instructors, such as its c man Mr. H. Garter, Mr. C. Troxell, and Miss M. Silverstone. By quainting our freshman with operas, symphonies and concertos, t Department stimulates an appreciation for good music. The Music Department also provides excellent opportunities fo students with instrumental or vocal talent in either the Glee Club the Dance Band, the Orchestra, or the concert band. 21

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The Srocial Studies Department The Renaissance, the rebirth of knowledge, was possible only after the rediscovery of classical civilization. Scholars of the Dark Ages largely disregarded the past, thereby limiting their cultural and scientific potential, but in the beginning of the fifteenth century, peo¬ ple began to realize what lay among ancient temples and manu¬ scripts. Soon, when the trickle of knowledge became a deluge, there emerged from this crossing of the classic with the medieval—the Renaissance. First the humanists, led by Petrarch and Erasmus, sought to elevate the downtrodden soul of man. Leonardo formulated plans for devices only recently put into practical use. Machiavelli, in The Prince, produced the first realistic discourse on relative government since Tacitus. In all aspects, the Renaissance elevated man ' s mind and spirit. Just as the Renaissance turned to Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome for inspiration, we find strength and purpose in the heritage of the past. Social studies is the subject that lays the groundwork for good citizenship in a democracy. Through such a study, we get to know our fellow man, in the past and in the present, next door and around the world. It is only through an understanding and a recog¬ nition of the achievements of the past that a civilization can expect a future of prosperity and development.

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Shops And as our hero is being fed into the mill, we find . . .” In the sixteenth century, a certain person named Leonardo da Vinci, among others, began writing about foundry practices. Aided by the printina press, he began telling everybody abo ut J of worker who was a patternmaker, mold-maker, blast furnace controller and machinist all in one. People like him probably told of the great advance¬ ments made in foundry, such as the concept t s and risers would aid in the pourii trnetals and the escape of gases. Up until the 1700 ' s, when the first actual complex machine, the steam engine, was invented, there was much call for a separate profession of machin¬ ing. The main function of machining in Renaissance days was polishing the castings. Likewise, since castings were not complex, pat¬ terns were not. Many times a pattern consisted of merely a strickle board, or template mounted on a pivot and used to clear out large pits, with loom and brick cores. Tech ' s excellent foundry, pattern-making, and ma¬ chining courses teach us the workings of this still very important industry.