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re entation HE purpose mf all yearhooks is to preserve the fleeting memories which make up school day recollections. I In preparing this volume W' the POLY CRACKER, the editors ,have,lnaturally, kept this thought foremost in their minds. To this end, they have endeavored to present the events and happenings 4 the Senioryear q'the Class mf 1940 in a manner strikingly dnferent than the style followed in previous years. For the divider pages, a unique plan was devised. Instead of presenting the History of the School in the style gf previous years- that of devoting one page to this article-the scheme relating the devel- opment qfthe POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE under itsfve builders, along with drawings qi these men, was ehosen. QE s Q?
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is N April 9.4, 1883, Mr. Joshua Plaskett submitted, before , 5 the Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore City, a resolution irequesting, and stating the definite need for, ' 8 the establishment of a BALTIMORE MANUAL TRAINING ScHooL for furthering the education of the pupils of the Baltimore public schools in manual training. Seeing the possibilities of such a school and respecting the untir- ing efforts of Mr. Plaskett in his determination to establish the school, Mr. John B. Wentz, the Chairman of the Board of School Commis- sioners, directed the Board to establish a school of manual training through the power invested in him by an ordinance approved by the City Council and signed by Mayor William Pinkney White. It was not long before Mr. Plaskett was to see his ambitions ful- iilled, for on March 3, 1884, the doors of the then unpretentious BALTIMORE MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL were thrown open. The ini- tial enrollment was sixty students, and the course of study was for a period of three years. The BALTIMORE MANUAL TRAINING SCI-IooL, the first manual training school of its class incorporated into the regular public school system of any city in the United States, owes its inception to the man pictured here, Mr. Joshua Plaskett. 43.3, ,fyf hip
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