Bryant Junior High School - Junior Life Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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JUNE. IQ i JS A Cl.ass in Woodwork General training, industrial information, and training for recreation are the main purposes of wood work in the Bryant Junior High. We have one ol the best equipped shops in the city and appreciate this good fortune. The interest boys take in problems of the recreation type such as bird house. s:il boat. radio, airplane, kite and pushmobile has been observed time and time again. The combination and hobby features of these problems have a direct appeal to every boy. The waste basket, radio and sail boat are typical problems of second term or second ten weeks wood work. The ninth grade work is carried on on a semi-production plan, using production methods for a part of the work and individual methods for a part of the time. Problems such as jardinieres and ferneries which require the combination of art. metal and wood are typical of ninth grade bench work. The cedar chest is always a popular ninth grade problem. There are now twelve chests of various sizes under construction. At this stage of Junior High School industrial work, boys who select woo 1 work in the ninth grade usually take ten weeks of bench work and ten weeks or wood turning. Many articles may be made in wood turning, although lamps and car.dlestic! s seem to be the most popular. In the sail boat races sponsored by the Park Board in the summer of 1924. the boats taking first and se'ond prizes were both made by boys in Bryant’s wood work shop. Clinton Denison ANSWERS TO FINAL TEASER 1. Oregon 9. Missouri 15. Minnesota 2. Colorado 8. Mississippi 16. Ohio 3. Arizona 10. Wyoming 17. Louisiana 4. Dakota II. Wisconsin 18. Illinois ) , Kentucky 12. Alabama 19. South Carolina 6. Nevada 13. Pennsylvania 20. New York 7. Utah 14. Kansas

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32 JUNIOR LIFE for the cafeteria. Our cottage work is most interesting. We prepare and seive our own luncheons. When we first come into the cooking room, we don our aprons and caps, sit. and take any recipes or information Miss Hill or Miss Knowles has for us. Every Monday our account books are handed in and corrected. In this way we can keep track of our expenditures. Come on. girls, learn to be a good cook and prepare for the future! Marybhlle Christensen. A Class in Mechanical Drawing Mechanical drawing is one of the subjects taught at our school. It is needed especially by architects, draftsmen and engineers. However, most every man has occasion to use this subject at some time during his lite. Before a building, bridge, or piece of machinery can be built, it must be designed and drawn. Following the drawing, a blue print is made. The object is then built following the directions of the blue print reader, who interprets the blue print. This work is interesting to most boys. I consider it an ideal vocation. It brings a good salary and it also brings the boy into contact with intelligent men. Odd Rovick. DO YOU KNOW THAT— One of the books of etiquette printed in France in the fourteenth century advised the man of fashion to wash his hands every day and to wash his face almost as often ? Britain's love for meat is evidenced by the fact that no less than 1.997.807 tons of beef and mutton were consumed in that country in 1923. the highest total for the last six years? Many of Japan's quaint prints show the crab and fisherman on the beach? The king crabs, found mostly off Japanese islands, measure from three to five feet from tip to tip of their great claws.

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34 JUNIOR LIFE Among the many subjects taught in the Junior and Senior High Schools, there is none more educative than printing. Years ago. when your father or mother went to school, he or she did not have the opportunity to learn about printing, as we do now. This is the reason why so few of the people today know nothing or very little about printing. Often they, are attracted by the artistic arrangement of the pages of a book, or its beautiful gold-stamped cover, or by attractively displayed advertising circulars, yet they know very little about the work involved in this trade, such as the making of the engravings that print the pictures, how color printing is dore. or how type is set. The Bryant Junior High School offers th e opportunity .o ilc :uJe.iis to get a general understanding of the printing trade by having a completely furnished printshop. The printshop has all the equipment used by the small Job printing companies. Included in its outfitting are two presses, several type stands, containing about five hundred pounds of body tvpe. and eighty different styles of display type, imposing stone, wire stitcher, paper cutter, and many other things. The shop prints “The Bryant Times.' the official publication, and other jobs for our school. This work shows the pupil the difference between well arranged printing and careless work. It gives him a sense o' proportion and balance in des;gn work. It also gives him an opportunity to see whether he would like to follow this trade. Printing also helps the pupil to improve his punctuation and spelling. and thus all English work benefits by it. Russell Currier. DO YOU KNOW THAT— A new kind of cotton, known ?s targuis and immune to wilt, has come to the front in Peru? It is descended from a single plant which stood perfect in an infected field and the seed which produced other perfect plants true to type. Moreover, it is nearly perennial, having been cultivated to the fifth year and it yields about eight hundred pounds to the acre. A Class in Printing