Louisiana Polytechnic Institute - Lagniappe Yearbook (Ruston, LA)

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in any one of the courses is equipped for “self-support and the means of progressive effi¬ ciency and responsibility.” Briefly the courses are as follows: The Mechanical Course includes exercises in carpentry, general construction work, joinery, wood-turning, pattern-making, forging, foundry, machine work, firing boilers, tending enoine, electrical engineering, mechanical and freehand drawing, and the making of iron and steel tools. Also, complete and related courses in grammar, composition, rhetoric, literature, vocal music, arithmetic, algebra, plane, solid and analytic geometry, trigonometry; calculus, United States and general history, ethics, civics, physics, chemistry, physiology, machine design, electricity, hydraulics, material of construction, kinematics of machinery, graphic statics, and applied mechanics. The Business Course includes work in bookkeeping, stenography and typewriting, tele¬ graphy and typewriting, and printing. Also, complete and related courses in grammar, composition, rhetoric, literature, arithmetic, algebra, plane, solid and analytic geometry, trigonometry, United States history, civics, general history, English history, ethics, sociology, political economy, physics, chemistry, physiology, 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, 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. United States history, civics, constitutional history, general history, English history, ethics, sociology, political economy, physiology, geology, botany, zoology, chemistry, physics, free¬ hand drawing, chemistry of cookery, and vocal music. The Industrial Art Course offers work in freehand drawing, composition, designing, historical ornament, metal work, tooled leather work, water color and pastel or oil. Also, complete and related courses in grammar, rhetoric, composition, literature, Latin, United States history, general history, English history, constitutional history, sociology, political economy, ethics, arithmetic, algebra, plane, solid and analytic geometry, trigonometry, physiology, freehand drawing, botany, vegetable botany, bacteriology, 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 7

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The Louisiana Industrial Institute. The school ... established ttodet authority Ac. 68 of ,l„ General Assemble ,89, The act provides for an tnstitttte -for the ednc.tion white children o, l.onisiatta h, the arts and sctence, a, which sttch children tttay ae,.,i,e a thorough academic and liter,,, tinea ton. together w„h the knowledge of kindergarten instruction, telegraph,. I ; ° f draWhlg ' Pai ting - a d engraving, in their .stria “■ 3 ° ' eC,ge ° f fancy practicaI ’ aild general needlework; also a knowledge of ■ beeping, and of agricultural and mechanical art, together with such other practical industries as from time to time may he suggested by experience, or such as will tend to promote t e genera, object of said institution, to-wit: fitting and ' preparing such e 1 re male and female, for the practical industries of the age.” ’ th T the SCh00l aims t0 train the ™ d through the hand to skilful participation in the work of the world, thus making more efficient members of society, the students are given through head, hand and heart, a clear vision of the larger meanings of life to the end t tat they may work with a mind in intelligent sympathy with their environment The complete courses m academic studies presented and related to the industrial courses give to 1m graduates of the school the increasing earning capacity and the preparation for social efficiency which all public education should provide. This school differs from the ordinary college in that it aims to give an education with nd pi,rpose withoiit —- - - - r This school goes further than manual training-abstracting the principles of trades and teaching them-.t teaches the processes of a given vocation from the first attack on fouiidat ' T , t0 ' aSt t0l ' CheS ° f the finished produ together with the theoretical foundations of the vocation. Hence it gives the worker a technical knowledge of the vocation and begins the development of skill in the practice of it This , , , , to teach not alone the fundamental processes of a vlti £ • js chief emphasis upon giving to its students such practice as mav bring them up to the practice TT ' “ rePr ° d Ce 35 as possil e conditions of actual p.act.ce. In stressing industrial education we do not abandon the discipline of the „ , nit appreciate that the real craftsman is more than his craft and th t • • ■ ’ fian the place he fi„s in the industrial life of his col 2LZ ,argC ' ' required with parallel industrial courses. ' cadent,c courses are .... ;l::: ' »sr s 8i,l! ot s “ ' - »—- -— There are five distinct courses of study, and their scope is wide 411 nr i . meet a definite need. All the courses combine good general education, gold teclmLd’educa 0 an 1 — .. ”0 «» • « citizens. 7 6

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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 facultv of L. I. I. The best test of the worth of any school is the character of its alumni. L. I. I. points with pride to the 246 young men and women who have graduated. The graduates are not merely financially successful, but are leading lives of helpfulness 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. The school is maintained by legislative provision and is sustained by taxation, and aims to return to the State an efficient citizenship, capable of participating in the feelings, thoughts and deeds of his fellows. Twelve years of the history of the school have demon¬ strated 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 are 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 Indus¬ trial 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. 1