Louisiana Polytechnic Institute - Lagniappe Yearbook (Ruston, LA)

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DEDICATION. To Her So Generous in Learning’s Garner, So Brave and Pleasing in Manner, So Dauntless, Kind, and True in Daily Toil, ' To Miss Helen Graham, Our Teacher, Companion and Friend We Dedicate This Sixth Volume of Lagniappe. 5

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GREETING. Victory after five years of struggle on learning’s battle-ground is a message within itself. Louder than thunder in summer’s first shower, sweeter and more glorious than the perfumed southern breeze in springtime was the glad news of triumph heralded to those who have so cheerfully labored under this burden of years till knowledge hoisted her flag. To give this history in full would be a story only too long, but to leave the scene without mention would be a task undone. It is, then, with a sense of loyalty and duty that we have compiled this little volume of events and present it with loving good will to those who care to know more of our school and those who wish to preserve it as a fond recollection of the illustrious past. We kindly ask, however, that the gentle reader expect nothing from a genius mind but merely honest efforts of the young. To those thoughtful men so interested in Louisiana’s posterity who made this institution possible, we grate- tully acknowledge our indebtedness and beg to offer our feeble services to the betterment of the state in return. To fathers and mothers interested in a refuge of imre and strenuous learning for their offspring, we heartily recommend this retreat. We leave only with a stronger desire to search the bookshelves of life tor their better muses. We carry with us happy memories of our comrades and triends, and a flood of best wishes for the toilers following our lead is the senti- ment left by the graduates of 1910. 4

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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