Louisiana Polytechnic Institute - Lagniappe Yearbook (Ruston, LA)

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plane, solid and analytic geometry, trigonometry, physiology, freehand drawing, botany, zoology, geology, physics, chemistry and vocal music. The Music Course includes the pianoforte, band and stringed instruments, and voice. Also, all of the complete courses in the academic subjects required in the Industrial Art Course, with courses in theory, harmony, and musical history. Special (elective) Teaching Courses are offered during the Senior Year (in the different courses) to those wishing to teach the industrials, etc. Other practical courses (industrial and academic) will be added as are found necessary to meet the demands of an up-to-date industrial school. The faculty consists of twenty-eight men and women of mature scholarship, experience and teaching ability. Outside of the class room they are persons fitted to be the natural leaders of students in all the normal activities of young life. Graduates of our best colleges, universities and industrial schools unite to form the present efficient faculty of L. I. I. (See pages 14 and 15.) The best test of the worth of any school is the character of its alumni. L. I. I. points with pride to the 216 young men and women who have graduated. The graduates are not merely financially successful, but are leading lives of help¬ fulness and service in private and public positions, in educational circles, in the church, and in the business world, affording substantial proof that our aim “to make the thinker a worker and the worker a thinker” is being realized. The good work of the school is attested by the constantly increasing demand for its graduates from the industrial and commercial interests of the state. Twelve years of the history of the school have demonstrated its usefulness as a positive factor for good in the lives of over four thousand young men and young women. The school is the oldest and most completely equipped of the state’s industrial schools, democratic and tolerant in spirit—worth counts for more than wealth—and its doors a re open to worthy young men and women from every part of the state. Since industrial training is not a feature in our public schools, the Louisiana Industrial Institute offers special advantages to those young people of the state who wish to continue their education beyond what is offered in the public schools in their community. 10

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% All white boys and girls of the state are eligible to admission, provided the boys are sixteen and the girls fifteen years of age, and prepared to begin the work of one of the courses. There are five distinct courses of study, and their scope is wide. All are planned to meet a definite need. All the courses combine good general education, good technical education, and good education in the rights and duties of citizen¬ ship to the end that a graduate in any one of the courses is equipped for “self- support and the means of progressive efficiency and responsibility.” Briefly the courses are as follows: The Mechanical Course includes exercises in carpentry, general con¬ struction work, joinery, wood-turning, pattern-making, forging, foundry, machine work, firing boilers, tending engine, electrical engineering, mechanical and free¬ hand drawing, and the making of iron and steel tools. Also, complete and related courses in grammar, composition, rhetoric, literature, arithmetic, algebra, plane, solid and analytic geometry, trigonometry, calculus, U. S. and general history, ethics, civics, physics, chemistry, physiology, vocal music, machine design, elec¬ tricity, hydraulics, material of construction, kinematics of machinery, graphic statics and applied mechanics. The Business Course includes work in bookkeeping, stenography and type¬ writing, telegraphy and typewriting, and printing. Also, complete and related courses in grammar, composition, rhetoric, literature, arithmetic, algebra, plane, solid and analytic geometry, trigonometry, U. S. History, civics, general history, English history, ethics, sociology, political economy, physics, chemistry, phy¬ siology, zoology, geology, botany, freehand drawing, commercial arithmetic, English usage, commerce, commercial law, constitutional history, and vocal music. The Domestic Science Course includes practical and scientific work in sewing, millinery, dressmaking, embroidery, basketry, weaving and cooking. Also, complete and related courses in food analysis, household economy, vegetable botany, bacteriology, grammar, composition, rhetoric, literature, arithmetic, algebra, plane, solid and analytic geometry, trigonometry, U. S. history, civics, constitutional history, general history, English history, ethics, sociology, political economy, physiology, geology, botany, zoology, chemistry, physics, freehand drawing, chemistry of foods, and vocal music. The Industrial Art Course ofifers work in freehand drawing, composition, designing, historical ornament, metal work, tooled leather work, water color and pastel or oil. Also all of the complete and related courses in grammar, rhetoric, composition, literature, Latin, U. S. history, general history, English history, constitutional history, sociology, political economy, ethics, arithmetic, algebra, 9

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