Centralia High School - Skookum Wa Wa Yearbook (Centralia, WA)

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THE LABORATORY The laboratory, situated on the ground floor of the High School building, is used for classes in Physical Geography, Botany, Physiology, Zoology and Physics. The lack of space and equipment prevents the study of Chemistry. During the first part of the year, the classes were greatly handicapped for lack of equipment. The Seniors were obliged to discontinue their experimental work in Physics for some time. Toward the middle of the term, however, the School Board ordered new equipment which cost in the neighborhood of four hundred dollars and greatly enriched the resources and enabled the students to continue their work about the first of April. The installation of the new equipment necessitated piping in gas and water. This, together with the new desks and lockers added another one hundred dollars' expense. The room contains also two cabinets and several long tables. Room 115 is used in connection with the laboratory for the work in Science. In this room are the storage battery cells which regulate the entire clock system of the building and is under the supervision of the Science instructor. By installing this equipment, a greater advance has been made this year than that of any one time in the Science Department. M. C., '13. m l THE LABORATORY

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l - WORKSHOP stands, cedar chests, tool racks, and numberless other things. Some of these the boys have paid for and took home, where they will be of use as well as orna- mental. As this is our flrst year of manual training, our equipment is by no means com- plete, However, we hope, within the next few years, to include in the course such branches as lathe work, sheet metal work, casting, machine work, etc. Al- though this will necessitate a larger equipment, we will be able to make most of the smaller tools. thereby gaining a knowledge of the forge, and methods of tem- perlng. In the drafting department we will enlarge to the problems of forms and sheet metal work. and also take up the working out of plans for tools, machines, build- ings, etc. The department of manual training, however, is not so much for the training of expert mechanics, as for the growth and development of the constructive fac- ulties of the students. And even though we never attain to the highest grade of workmanship, I am sure that what knowledge of tools we do acquire, will not be amlss in our years of after life and will increase our appreciation of the simpler and better things of life. L. H. R., '14,

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