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

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s MIND AND HAND. magnificent provision that has been made in their new Industrial Training School for their mental and manual education. The complete equipment of the school for laboratory work, the departments of cook- ing, sewing, manual training, stenography and typewriting, in addition to the instruc- tion in the higher English branches, offer advantages equal to those presented in the very best institutions in the country. Edwin P. Seaver, Superintendent of Pub- lic Schools, at Boston : Your school was not in session when I visited it, therefore my opinion is limited. I can only say that I was very well pleased with what I saw, more especially with the Mechanic Arts Department. E. B. Cox, Superintendent of Public In- struction, Xenia, Ohio: The Training School of Indianapolis is a model institu- tion, in its plan, purpose, and equipment. I am a firm believer in training the mind anil hand alike, regardless of what the fu- ture may have in store. This education, dealiug with the concrete and material, rather than with the abstract and remote, is in keeping with the wonderful progress in the world about us. The fact that the capacity of your school is already taxed to its utmost, indicates its success. The whole atmosphere of the school is exhilarating. E. E. Booth, Principal of the Technical School, Cincinnati, 0. : The building is the most complete that I have ever seen ; in fact, I believe that it is the best in this country. Neither the hand nor the mind is neglected, and the work is so arranged as to make each help the other. Fortunate, indeed, is the young man or the young woman who can receive his secondary ed- ucation in such a school. Frank A. Hill, Secretary of the State Board of Education, Boston, Mass. : Un- fortunately, your school was not in session the day that I visited it. However, I went over the building carefully, and saw on every hand the signs of wise and generous provisions for varied industrial training and culture I was glad to note, in particu- lar, that the girls were not overlooked, as they too frequently are in industrial train- ing plans elsewhere. I am confident that a school that produces so favorable an im- pression in the absence of its pupils and teachers, can not but strengthen that im- pression when it is seen at work in all its departments. President Smart, Purdue University, La- fayette, Ind. : Those of your graduates who have come to Purdue are first-class men, and your equipment certainly equals that of any manual training school in the country. One of the tests of an institution is the view which the students take of it. So far as I am able to observe, your stu- dents are very enthusiastic. This is perhaps a minor evidence of success, but neverthe- less a very good one. In addition, I have reason to know that the greatest of care has been exercised in arranging the courses of study and in the selection of the faculty. Hon. John P. Irish, San Francisco, Cal. : The army of Caesar, in Gaul, was the wonder of the ancient world, because it was full of skilled handicraftsmen, who were ready for any required constructive work, from building a bridge to making a harness for a war horse. During our civil war, one advantage of the Union Army was derived from the fact that the North had developed handicrafts, and every commander had artizans amongst his enlisted men who could build cars, run locomotives, shoe horses or bridge streams. Within the last thirty years, however, this general knowledge of the skilled trades has declined, through certain limitations upon apprenticeship. With such decline finally comes a distinct loss of national force, and the country loses part of that of- fensive and defensive power, to be exerted in emergencies which affect the national life.

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MIND AND HAND. ENGINE AND ELECTRIC MOTOR. WHAT PROMINENT PEOPLE THINK OF THE INDUSTRIAL TRAINING SCHOOL. WILLIAM H. Maxwell, Superintend- ent of Public Schools at Brooklyn, jS Y. : u I saw no work which I did not approve. I saw a great deal of work that excited my admiration. The building is admirably planned for the purposes for which it is used. It is indeed a model for other cities to imitate. Hon. William E. Dodge, of New York : Among the pleasant and profitable inci- dents of my trip to Indianapolis, I shall always remember my visit to the Industrial Training School. I have had some knowl- edge of these schools in various sections of the country, and I know of no one more wisely equipped, more cheerful or appar- ently doing better work than the one in Indianapolis. It must be a large factor for good in your State. Horace S. Tarbell, Superintendent of Public Schools at Providence, R. I. : Having recently had the pleasure of a visit to your school, I was surprised at the evidence of prosperity which the building, its equipments, its pupils and teachers demonstrate. I believe that there is no better equipped institution for its purpose maintained by public school authorities in the United States. Mr. A. J. Lane, Super intendent of Pub- lic Schools, Chicago, 111. : [ congratulate the young people of Indianapolis on the

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MIND AND HAND. ' .» Industrial schools will avert the clanger, and will give also that personal indepen- dence so necessary to the highest citizen- ship. The Indianapolis Industrial Training School impressed me deeply as a means to independent manhood and a high safe- guard to the Republic. TH E DEBA TE. THE students of the I. T. S. are always more or less interested in questions of national importance, but for the few weeks directly preceding February 12, they were especially interested in the arbitration question. This extra enthusiasm was caused by the announcement of a debate between the Senates of the Indianapolis High School and our own institution. As the Senate of the High School issued the challenge, the choice of sides and the naming the place of meeting became our privilege. In a joint committee of the representatives of the two Senates, Febru- ary 12, the eighty-eighth anniversary of the birth of Lincoln was selected as the date, and the Trainiug School auditorium was named as place of meeting. After con- siderable difficulty, the following question was finally selected : ' • Resolved, That we are ready for the dismemberment of armies and submitting all international questions to a permanent board of arbitration ' The negative side was considered best and taken upon the grounds, that the world is not at the present time prepared for any such radical changes as the question involved. On the stated eveuing Ernest Talbert, Laurence B. Davis, George B. Langsdale and Claude M. Bowers, the representatives of the High School, were gathered around one table on the left-hand side of the plat- form, and on the other side were Horace Gwinn, Felix F. Ballard, Arthur Meng and Hans 0. Stechhan, the four selected to up- hold our laurels. All did well and were complimented by Superintendent Goss and the judges, upon the showing they made; but much to the surprise of many disinter- ested, as well as the close friends of the I. T. S., a decision was rendered unfavorable to our boys. Though a formal defeat was recorded against us, the result was not so humili- ating as might be supposed, because the power shown by the speakers representing our school, effectually hushed the rumor that this is strictly a mechanical institu- tion, and clearly demonstrated that the classical department is equal, in every way, to that of any other high school in the State. More than this, another link was forged in the chain that is finally to bind the two Indianapolis High Schools in good fellowship and cooperation. Howard Young. JUNE, ' 97. Around us is the sea of life, With waves of action dashing high ; And, as a craft in ship-yard building. We scent the salt that ' s passing by. Four years ago the keel was laid For Ninety-seven ' s ship ; And now she ' s ready to be launched, To make her trial trip. The sea is rough and dangerous, The current leads astray; But to the pilot Knowledge trust, He ' ll choose the safest way. Then let the storm its fiercest rage, We ' ll scud before the wind ; Unto the calm that follows trust, In it contentment rind. Whate ' er you do, be firm and brave, And to your purpose cling; Spread wide the canvas of your hope, And in a chorus sing: Who lacks an aim, ne ' er rinds success; Do battle for what ' s right; Hold always toward the port of truth, And seek the source of light. The anchor ' s weighed, the ship is off, Now rilling are the sails; And through the distance comes a voice, Success through life ' s stern gales. Hans O. Stechhan.