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

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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

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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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JUNE. 1925 35 A Class in Electricity WHY I LIKE ELECTRICITY Perhaps the essential reason why the boys like electricity is that there are many applications for its use and these applications are unfamiliar to the boys and even to a great many grownups. We study electricity only as it moves, that is. flows and does work. The purpose oi this study is to become familiar with the laws governing the effects and use of it rather than its nature. We do not know what it is, but we learn many things that it will do. Electricity in motion, lights lamps, drives motors retires metrls. raises to a high temperature all sorts of electrical heating devices energizes the telephone and telegraph. operates clocks and rings our doo:-bellr. M'gneiism in electricity makes possible many of the above. However, na g: etlsm is best approached from the experiment side, for only by such means will the magnetic and electrical forces become real to us. The essential nature of the propercy called magnetism is unknown. By magnetism is thus meant the ability a body has of attracting iron with a force which is neither gravitation nor due to mechanical action of ordinary matter, and which will tend to set the body in a north and south direction. It might be said that this is the Electrical Age in which we live, and yet what holds for the future, no man can say. But what is known is. that Electricity controls more trades, directs more men. offers moce opportunities than any other power which has yet come to the hand of man. Frederick Payne. DO YOU KNOW THAT— Linoleum wrs inverted sixty-five years ago? Two red-haired people seldom marry, as there seems to be an antipathy between people of opposite sexes with ' auburn'’ locks?