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Página xxvii - Such letter ballot elections shall be credited to the previous annual meeting and dues will date from that time. 3. OFFICERS— There shall be a President, two Vice-Presidents, a Secretary and a Treasurer, each to hold office for one year, or until their successors have been elected and have qualified. The Officers shall be elected by ballot of the Society at the annual meeting. 4. COUNCIL— The Council of this Society shall consist of twenty-one elective members, one-third of whom shall retire...
Página 33 - This fact which is greatly to the credit of such schools, is frequently cited by shallow critics in disparagement of them ; on the other hand it has also gained for them the logical support of the artisan class, who at first were inclined to oppose them. Your committee are in substantial accord, therefore, in their belief in, and in their support of, the manual training schools as now organized and operated. They would like to see these multiply until every boy can have the opportunity of obtaining...
Página 54 - ... work. The school would be divided into two sections, and these would alternate in school and shop work. A sufficient number of expert machinists would be regularly employed to oversee the shop work of the boys and to impart the shop instruction, while the theoretical or school work would be given to both forenoon and afternoon sections by another set of technical instructors. In this way very nearly actual shop conditions could be introduced and the advantages of the old apprenticeship system...
Página 81 - ... The Institute was also conducting free courses for the trustee of the Lowell Institute, but these courses were not a part of the Institute of Technology. The first announcement of the school in the Institute Catalogue (1876) read as follows: "A series of shops having been provided for teaching the students in the department of Mechanical Engineering, the use of tools in wood and iron work by the class system, a two years...
Página 51 - He comes more or less worn out by his day's toil and he reaches home long after his usual retiring hour, practically exhausted. His mind cannot be alert with his body in a fagged-out condition and hence this class of instruction is at once a great hardship and, in comparison with day schools, it is of relatively little profit. Men who are engaged in any kind of actual manual labor through the day are greatly handicapped in their attendance upon such schools.
Página 45 - ... integral part of an educational course. Its intrinsic value is enough to introduce it at almost any cost ; its educational value, as a means of strengthening the judgment and disciplining the mind is of equal or greater value. The report still further says : " The graduates of any manual training school would serve very well for these positions of trust and supervision.
Página 33 - For boys who expect to follow any industrial or commercial vocation, and who have grown up with little manual culture, as is the case with most city boys, the manual training school offers real and permanent advantages. Here, the whole boy is sent to school and not merely his head, as Dr. Woodward has so tersely expressed it. "While these schools cannot be called industrial, since they fit for nothing in particular, they belong to the industrial class because the graduates from these schools are...
Página 82 - In response to the polite invitation of President Runkle, who had been informed of the inquiry of this Assembly in regard to industrial education, we spent a day with him for the purpose of receiving a full explanation of the plan and of having ocular demonstration of the results thus far achieved. The pupils, since the commencement of the lessons, had completed the course in
Página 39 - These are the men who, after some years of practice, can safely be entrusted to solve new problems both successfully and economically. They are the safe counselors and guides of the capitalist in all new mechanical ventures ; and they should be in constant demand by public officials, by boards of direction, and by individuals in all cases where large expenditures are to be made, or where important definite results are imperatively required. The scope and purpose of these schools are, however, well...
Página 32 - ... engineering courses. The arguments in favor of these schools are first, that they at present draw their students very largely from those who otherwise would leave school altogether at about the age of fourteen or earlier ; and second, that for a very large proportion of city boys this is at present the best kind of a school they can attend at this age, no matter what they expect to do subsequently. For boys who expect to follow any industrial or commercial vocation, and who have grown up report...

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