Emmerich Manual High School - Ivian Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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MIND AND HAND. 11 FREEHAND DRAWING ROOM. A VISIT TO THE INDIANAPOLIS INDUS- TRIAL TRAINING SCHOOL. I II AD heard much of the Industrial Training School to be built at Indi- anapolis, but was totally unprepared to see so large, well equipped, and successful an institution. One is quite justified in being envious of the boy and girl of school age when he compares the advantages now offered in every good High School with those of the very best two or three decades ago. In the Industrial Training School of In- dianapolis there is found the combination of a regular High School with the oppor- tunity for training the hauds and eyes in a way commonly called practical. I be- lieve an intellectual education to be in every way as practical as any other educa- tion, but it is quite common to hear cook- ing, sewing, wood and iron working called practical as distinguished from the more exclusively intellectual studies. All who have interested themselves in studying the question know that industrial studies have perhaps as strong an influence on the intellectual life as studies which do not exercise the hand and eye. The laboratory and laboratory methods have revolutionized education. The useful- ness of the laboratory for students, first discovered and employed in physics, chem- istry, botany, etc., has been extended to history, language and literature and to the study of the affairs of every day life. Manual training has been tried in many places and in as many ways. In one town, not in Indiana, a number of pupils go away from the high school several times a week to the manual training school, which is several blocks distant. The

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LO MIND AND HAND. THE COOKING CLASS AS SEEN BY A BOY. ©N entering the Cooking Class I heard the steady click-click of the spoons, and, not wishing to be behind the time, I asked, What ' s being made? The an- swer was Sal mon Sal- ad. Let ' s see; I suppose that means salmon in it, doesn ' t it? Yes, and a great many more things. This time the recipe was so long that it had to be written on the black- board, as no average person could remem- ber it. The articles to be mixed were, as near as I could get them, salmon lettuce leaf (just one), boiled dressing (I didn ' t know what that was composed of), a little mustard, some salt, and just a little speck of cayenne pepper (several reasons why no more cay- enne was used). All these things were mixed and put in a neat little dish with olive oil or butter. Cooking being com- pleted, the young cooks proceeded to wash dishes (for they must keep everything clean), which they do as well as a veteran Biddy. Dishes washed, they sit down to enjoy (?) their cooking. One young lady wishing to try olive oil came to Miss Vail, with her mouth puck- ered up, as if she had run afoul of a green persimmon. Personally I would prefer work in the forge room to attempting the preparation of the concoctions I saw there. L. L. L. A GIRL ' S VISITTO THE FORGING ROOM. O, the blacksmith ' s a fine, sturdy fellow ; Hard his hand, but his heart ' s true and mellow. §TURDY in truth he must be, and hard must be his hand, judging from some of the vigorous strokes I saw wielded when, pursuant to a request of one of the editors, I visited the forge room to relate what I saw. Some very strange and interesting things met my eyes. The first that seemed un- usually queer was that of starting the fire. I had noticed that clear liquid was poured over the coals, and wisely, as I thought, asked if it was coal oil. But, with a smile, the teacher kindly told me, to my aston- ishment, that it was water. Water? Why, I thought water extinguished tire; but again I was told it helped to support com- bustion better. The lesson was making a hook out ot five-eighths square iron. They made a piece of iron square, then, when it was heated, pounded one corner flat. With what heavy strokes they did wield that sledge ! At each stroke showers of sparks flew in eveiw direction, and kept me on the alert to avoid them, although I was told they were harmless. Then with the sledge and a device I can not name they made a hole through the iron, thrust it into the coals again, brought it out and put it on the round end of the anvil and shaped it better. The next step w r as to bend it. This was done by catching it in a square hole in the anvil and bending it over. Now it was completed, and what had been a piece of insignificant-looking iron was now a strong, well- shaped hook. But the work was not all done by the brawny arms of the scholars. A huge piece of machinery, a steam hammer so- called, dues its share also. It seemed to me a monster standing there with its mouth opening and closing, ready to crush anything within its reach. This huge piece of mechanism is used as a stronger sledge, and I was told it is sensitive to the slightest touch of the lever. But, though I was interested, I could not stay always and watch them, so with the din of hammer and anvils in my ear I left the apartment thinking, after all, forg- ing work was not at all disagreeable. L. R.

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VI MIND AND HAND. classes in the high school are thus disor- ganized and both schools suffer from the system. In the Indianapolis school, all under one root , no time is lost and the courses and classes are so arranged that a high school course, including industrial training, or without it, may he taken. The advantages of the arrangement here are manifest at once to a visitor. The cooking and sew- ing departments are real laboratories, where the practical results of each pupil ' s work are reached by scientific steps. The shops for wood working and iron working, rooms for mechanical and for free-hand drawing, are in charge of competent and experienced teachers, and the interest of the pupils and teachers is so great that outsiders catch the spirit at once. My own impression, after a visit of two days, is that here in the Industrial Training School of Indianapolis is established the proper relation between an industrial and a sec- ondary school. A visitor is apt to speak most of the things that lie can see, of laboratories and machines ami equipments, but one should not overlook the fact that this school has a corps of strong teachers in history, mathematics, languages and literatures, who conduct a complete high school course. The competence of the teachers in all departments is evident. Manual training here is not a fad, but is so com- bined with other training as to put in practice the best educational theories of the present day. Georue Emory Fellows, University of Chicago. FORGE ROOM