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

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20 MIND AND HAND. TURNING. w OOD-TURNING occupies the sec- ond half-year of the work in the technical department. The shop equip- ment for this course consists of twenty-five lathes, w ith as many benches, and a set of turner ' s tools for each pupil, besides a band-saw, jig-saw, universal trimmer and drill-press, which are for the shop in gen- arranged progressively. In the latter part of the term, however, some useful articles are made. Each pupil is required to make what is commonly known as a spool-box. It is an exercise in built-up work, and con- sists of twenty-five pieces, usually of two different kinds of wood. Besides this, each draws an original design, from which he makes a project. These are usually fancy vases, powder-boxes, match-safes or the like. It has been customary on our • WOOD TURNING. eral. Tools may also be obtained from the tool-room by any pupil on depositing his check. The work in turning consists chiefly of learning to use the tools and make the several different cuts, of which all turning, however complicated, is but a combination. The exercises are ten in number, and are annual visitors ' day for the turning classes to make small pine goblets as favors. The course gives a practical knowledge of small turning and a great deal of valu- able training. It is the first experience the pupil has in using a power outside his own body, and so opens up an entirely new field to him.

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Jeetppieal Department. : Si M -• : « ■■-::: © »© S8»g © S fKl ! §e a a !i gi THE OBJECT OF THE TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT. 7j LTHOUGH our school is now three X jL and a half years old, very many peo- ple, even of this city, do not understand the object of the technical department. The question, Does a boy learn a trade at the Industrial Training School? is ex- ceedingly common. Upon its being an- swered in the negative, the next question is, What is the use of it all, then? Are you not wasting much valuable time? In answer to this, let us ask another cpiestion : Could any one expect a pupil graduating from a common high school to immediately enter upon the profession of a lawyer, doctor, or clergyman ? Cer- tainly not. Yet no one would condemn the high school for that reason. It is there that the student gets that stock of general knowledge which he will use daily through- out his life, which prepares him for the col- lege or law school, and which is essential to the highest success in any line of work whatever. It is what the parent rec- ognizes, in sending the child to the high school, as the foundation upon which the knowledge of a special trade or profession must rest. It is evident, then, that the wider and deeper this foundation the bet- ter, and it is just here that the industrial school has the advantage over the com- mon high school. The field of information and experience which it opens before the pupil is vastly superior, inasmuch as it gives an extensive knowledge of mechanics and technics over and above the regular high school course. It is plainly, then, as unfair to expect a pupil to enter a trade on leaving the In- dustrial Training School as it is to expecl the high school pupil to enter a profession immediately upon graduating. The ab- surdity of expecting a graduate to know a trade will be evident when it is known that, on the whole, the boy spends on]}- about fifteen days, of ten hours each, in bench work. Could any one become a carpenter in that time? In some depart- ments the time given amounts to twenty or twenty-five days; but in none does it- exceed thirty. It is, however, a matter of fact, learned from experience, that more may be learned during this time of fifteen days than in a factory or workshop during six months. Thus the system puts within ready grasp of the learner an immense store of knowl- edge which could not otherwise be ob- tained without ruinous loss of time. Will R. Ballard.

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MIND AND HAND. 21 MACHINE FITTING. WHEN visitors enter the door of the machine fitting room, a rapid glance at the surroundings tells them that there is something interesting within. So they investigate farther and find many belts moving, wheels turning, and some blue jacketed young men adjusting their machine or fitting a piece of work in it. not so complete as those in the college shops, but it is of the latest improved pat- tern, and serves well for the amount and character of work done. Tbe outfit con- sists of seven large engine lathes, one planer, one shaper. and a number one and one-half universal milling machines, a speed drill, a drill press, one tool grinder, two coarse emorys, and also a tool room which contains tools for general use. MACHINE FITTING It is possible that these people have thought, previous to their visit, that it was not a hard task to work with and shape a a piece of wood into a definite form ; but now they are inquisitive to know the pro- cess of shaping a piece of rough iron or steel. This work is accomplished by the boys in this department through the aid of vari- ous machines. Our equipment is probably (4) The work is divided into two parts, re- quiring one year for completion. During the first half-year pieces of work are taken up which involve most of the principals necessary in making machine parts. The first work given to the class is a cast iron cylinder, to be cut to a certain length and diameter. The centers of the ends are first drilled and the piece placed between the centers of the lathe and revolved with the