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

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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?

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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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JUNIOR LIFE S6 A Class in Sheet metal Sheet metal work is for boys. This shop is an interesting place in which to work. Here one learns in the first term, to make cooky cu.ters. biscuit cutters. match boxes, sugar scoops, funneis. drip-prns and lir. cups. In the second term, one makes a quart pan. a half pint .up, a w ste can and rectangular boxes. In the third term he makes an e.bow, a tee joint, a roo. flange and a tackle box. T hree kinds o.’ metal are used in this shop: black iron, tin plate and galvanized iron. Occasionally a little copper and brass is used. The best way. boys, to know about sheet metal work is to take this subject next term. You will like it and the more you learn about it the more you will enjoy it. Accuracy here is the key note of one’s success. Clarence Roessl. jokes NO DOUBT Young Lady (in drug store)—“Arc you a doctor?” Thomas (who jerks soda)— No madam. I'm a fizzician. THAT’S SWELL Tom— Wanny see sumpin’ swell?” Jim— What is it? Tom — Watch me blow up this balloon.” WARNING TO ALL MALES A sad looking woman of mature years appeared on the street pushing a baby car riage. in which was a fine, healthy infant howling lustily. A friend approached. Why. Mrs. Lufkins! she ejaculated What a darling baby! But you haven’t anv children. Whose is it? You’re wrong, my dear.” replied the sad- faced one. This is my husband. He went too far with the gland cure.” WE LL TELL THE WORLD Father— How is it. young man, that I find you kissing my daughter? How is it. young man? The Young Man— Great. Great! AN ERROR Preacher (at the reunion meeting)— I have only one regret—I miss so many of the old faces I used to shake hands with.” BRIGHT Dum (after overhear ng a remark)— In-venfo-; arc never taken serously. Bell- Never mv ’. even Edison made I’ght of his theories.”