A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Washington University, for the Academic Year ...

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Seite 15 - ... no instruction either sectarian in religion or partisan in politics shall ever be allowed in any department of the university, and no sectarian or partisan test shall ever be allowed or exercised in the appointment of regents or in the election of professors, teachers, or other officers of the university, or in the admission of students thereto, or for any purpose whatever.
Seite 51 - The study of a tool involves an examination of its form and the theory of :its action, as well as its actual use at the bench or forge. After the hand-tools, pupils should become familiar with the typical machine tools which are chiefly employed in mechanical pursuits.
Seite 63 - One great object of the school is to foster a higher appreciation of the value and dignity of intelligent labor, and the worth and respectability of laboring men.
Seite 137 - When necessary, the pupils make notes and sketches, and questions are asked and answered, that all obscurities may be removed. The class then proceeds to the execution of the task, leaving the instructor to give additional help to such as need it. At a specified time that lesson ceases, the work is brought in, commented on, and marked.
Seite 63 - ... object of the school is to foster a higher appreciation of the value and dignity of intelligent labor, and the worth and respectability of laboring men. A boy who sees nothing in manual labor but mere brute force despises both the labor and laborer.
Seite 149 - The project consists of the actual construction of a machine. The finished machine must be accompanied by a full set of the working drawings according to which the machine is made. If it is not feasible to construct the patterns for castings of such machine, proper directions for their construction must accompany the drawings.
Seite 41 - The tool instruction, as at present contemplated, shall include carpentry, wood-turning, pattern-making, iron chipping and filing, forge work, brazing and soldering, the use of machine-shop tools, and such other instruction of a similar character as may be deemed advisable to add to the foregoing from time to time.
Seite 63 - In a manual training school, tool-work never descends into drudgery. The tasks are not long, nor are they unnecessarily repeated. In this school, whatever may be the social standing or importance of the fathers, the sons go together to the same work, and are tested physically as well as intellectually by the same standards.
Seite 142 - It is not assumed that every boy who enters this school is to be a mechanic. Some will find that they have no taste for manual arts, and will turn into other paths— law, medicine, or literature. Some who develop both natural skill and strong intellectual powers will push on through the Polytechnic School into the realms of professional life as engineers and scientists.
Seite 51 - Drawing, designed to educate the sense of form and proportion: to teach the eye to observe accurately,. and to train the hand to rapidly delineate the forms either of existing objects or of ideals in the mind. 2. Mechanical Drawing, including the use of instruments; geometric constructions; the...

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