Cogswell Polytechnical College - Cogswell Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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THE cooswsms 99 iKvrPni fdmprnuvmenfa The laying out of the boys' athletic field and the girls' tennis and basketball courts is now rapidly nearing completion and the members of the Cogswell Student Body are eagerly looking forward to the time when they may invite other high school students to participate in the various athletic events already being scheduled to take place on the new grounds. The new athletic field has a frontage of two hundred and ninety-seven feet on Army street with a width of about one hundred and eighty feet, and the boys, anticipating the time when the field will be ready for use, have made a field plan including a baseball diamond and a one-quarter mile cinder path with provisions for other field sports. Plans for handball courts are being made but the location will depend upon the final arrangements of the field plan. A concrete retaining wall surmounted by an artistic seven-foot iron fence surrounds the grounds on the street boundaries. On the site extending 140 feet north of the new field it is planned to erect a new building to include the industrial and science departments for boys. In the basement of the new building will be the lockers, showers, etc., to accommodate the athletes. just opposite the boys' field on the newly acquired northeast corner of Fol- som and Army streets are the girls' outdoor recreation grounds, in which will be a basketball court and two tennis courts. The paving of the tennis courts has been considerably delayed by the heavy rains which caused the filled-in ground to become too soft for the heavy roller to be used in preparing the sub-base for the paving. . The girls themselves are planning to beautify their new grounds by border- ing the field with masses of bright flowers and evergreen shrubs.

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THE COGSWELL 101 Cll'.XRI.liS l-l'1ni3N, 'l5. The various shop departments at Cogsxvcll have all completed the term's work in readiness for the vacation. .Xs usual, the majority of the work has been very good. The routine of the shops is not changing very appreciably, so the students are the only changeable factor. '.l'herefore, the following may be familiar to many: MECHANICAL DRAWING. :Xll of Mr. llurldiard's mechanical drawing classes have completed their courses for the term. ,X lieu' classes have been added to the number already held. The I:X's are noxv making worlcing drawings from models, The II.-Ys are taking up advanced machine drawing, and are obtaining good results. The apprentice draughtsmcn are busy on various projects, Jacobsen, one of the best clraughtsmen this school has ever known. is now in the employ of the Moore K Scott Co. lle has given them such good results that they wish to keep him there, although he has not graduated as yet. On March 13 he had been there a month. and he is being paid a good salary for his efforts. Behnemann has designed several tixtures for the woodworking machines, as the circular saw and the planer. Henry Gerdau has designed a tivo-cycle gas engine. Lunsmann has been working on a four-cycle gas engine. A new sparking system for the lights in the Auditorium has been invented by Lindberg. This device was installed during the spring vacation and has been a decided success. Ruling is with the Cyclops Iron XVorlcs for a few weeks on trial, with the object of obtaining a permanent position if he proves himself thoroughly capable. The electric shop is now able to continue the building of various apparati, as a large quantity of supplies has been received. The electric sign and the sign speller, which are to be installed in the electric shop and which will spell Cogswell , are now nearing completion. The construction of motors, the building of transformers and other electrical machines will be resumed. A class is now beginning surveying. This class is one of the largest that has begun this study during the last few years. They will soon be able to go on the field and do practical work. These students will survey city lots, country property and railroad curves. The tinal work will be to measure Bernal Heights by two methods: first, by direct leveling and, second, by trian- gulation. Fremont O'Brien is working on some of the plans for this class. ARCHITECTURAL AND FREEHAND DRAWING. Mr. Crites' classes are making good progress in their various departments. This term will end the university and architectural drawing studies of many of the students.