Bedford High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Bedford, IN)

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MANUAL TRAINING ROOM

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d The H-emR-es-H Al YNIVAL TRAI N r? MR. E. F. BURTON The school year of 1915-10, is the second year for Manual Training in the Bedford High School. With the present equipment, all the work is given in one year and it is purely an elective subject. The course consists of two parts, bench work and mechanical drawing. The subject is self-contained and requires no outside study. A period of eighty minutes is spent in the work room each day. Three days of the week are spent at bench work, and the other two days at mechanical drawings. The bench work consists of an elementary course in joinery, then some practical cabinet making. In the mechanical drawing work, the first semester is devoted to the elements of mechanical drawing, lettering, and the use of instruments, and the second to ticket making and practical drawing. The purpose of the Manual Training work is to develop the machanical ingeniut.v of the boys and give them some practical training for future work. 27

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Miss Mii.dred Wkrnink The High School curriculum offers the student a year of study in Art and a possibility of advanced study in advanced classes. The work is arranged to give the pupils as great an appreciation of beauty as is possible in a short course and surely to lay a foundation for a wider and more intensive study of those phases of life and surroundings which will make for the more beautiful and harmonious. Indeed we hojie to acquire such a certain basis of understanding of what is fine in color, line, and form, that we may be able to use our knowledge with a certainty of refinement as well as good judgment. In this subject, as in others, the aim is also for greater individuality, keener observation and a deejier interest in the splendid accomplishments of the work. During the fall term, plant forms are studied in color and pencil. Mere a basis for an appreciation of nature is laid: its beauty of line, growth and color enjoyed to a greater extent. From the general study we advance to a detailed study of the plant form and then to the development of well balanced unit of design with the llower or plant form as a basis. These conditional units are then applied in surface patterns and borders which form also a basis for extensive study in color and color harmonies. A nroblem in stenciling or wood-block and cut leather conclude the work in design and rinds directly a practical application of the same. A part of each term is s|wnt in the study of beauty in form, and of light and dark effects through the medium of pencil, charcoal, and water-color. In connection with this work is found opportunity for an application of the principles of design and arrangement in the planning of local advertisement which would include also study of still life aid lettering. We lind more certainly each year the value of the art work in relation to the other school subjects, and most particularly in the English department. For here very surejy may the subject be vivified and enlarged thru the means of illustration work which in itself include thought and care in design and color as well. 29