Bradford Durfee College of Technology - Alethea Yearbook (Fall River, MA)

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miie Textile Qfiennrh that will limit him to the work for which he thinks himself best suited. We have at this school courses in the following : General Cotton Manufacturing, Designing and Weaving, Chemistry and Dyeing, and Engineering. This does not mean that a student must take one of these courses. He may, if he cares to, specialize' in any one or two sub- jects of any course, this is an advantage as some students desire to become specialists in certain fields of the industry. From this brief description you may see that a man really has a fine start in the Textile world and the progress that he can make is entirely up to himself. Another great advantage that our students have, is that the school through our principal Mr. Nichols will try to place the student in some firm or mill that has an open- ing, so you can readily see that with all these opportunities a young man can make a great future for himself with the benefits derived from the Textile Schools. CHARLES M. HAX'MAN '26 BoYs 1 I took a piece of plastic clay And idly fashioned it one day g And as my fingers pressed it still It bent and yielded to my will. I came again when days were past The bit of clay was hard at last. My early impress still it bore, And I could change its form no more. You took a piece of liv-ing clay And gently formed it day by day, And moulded with your power and art A young boy's soft and yielding heart. You come again when years are gone, It is a man you look upon. Your early impress still he bore, And you can change him never more. -Y. M. C. A. News PAGE TEN

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miie Uexfile Qfiecurh Ulaxfile 7 hurafiuu As some of us already know, the Textile Industry of to-day, is one of the ranking fields of industry, and to begin to estimate the Value of this industry would be a task which would take up too much space and a like amount of time. However, there are a few facts which would interest the average person to the extent of giving them a fair idea of what the industry Cand education to itj means to this country. First and foremost, we can safely say that Fall River is the leading cotton manufacturing town in the country and to prove this fact, we have at present, one-ninth ofall the cotton spindles of the United States right here in Fall River, numbering some 4,000,000. This can give you a fair idea of the cotton cloth pro- duced in this city when the total spindles of the country are some 35,000,000 Now comes the problem, how are we to secure experienced men to handle this task of managing the industry without having to subject them to fifteen or twenty years of actual mill experience. The solution found was, Hrst to secure a number of schools in different cotton manufacturing sections of the country in which cotton manufacturing leads, and in these schools place men who have had enough practical experience to teach these younger nien the ins and outs of the industry. That, was quite a few years ago, and to-day we see the fruits of that effort. A student who is trained, to know cotton machinery, the effects different machines will produce, to know a loom and what can be made on it, how the product is bleached, dyed and finished, and in short a general knowledge of the textile industry from the breaker to the dyed and finished piece. By this. you can readily see that aTextile student of to-day has the same training that the average college student has in his field of work, and his course means the same to him as does the college students. In college the student, Cthat is the general studentj specializes in some certain subject such as engineering, so it is in the Textile school. The student takes up some course PAGE NINE

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Ulqe Textile QRe1:nrh The 'Glexiile eeurh THE STAFF EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Louis J. Boxser BUSINESS AND ADVERTISING MANAGER Charles M. Hayman ASSISTANT ADVERTISING MANAGER Samuel LoVit JOKES LITERARY Thomas A. McCann David L. Posnak CARTGONS William Masterson SPORTS CLASS HISTORS' Randolph MacBeath Thomas Graeia Walter Marston CLASS ACTIVITIES Earl B. Ellis PAGE ELEVEN