. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . E 35 These apprentices are divided intofive groups of about twenty each, andselected from the different trades in suchproportions as to interfere as httle aspossible with the operation of the group attends for two hour periodstwice a week, the school hours boingfrom 9 to 11 a. m. and from 1 to 3 p. m. There are now twent3^-four appren-tices from Riverside shops, and these aredivided into three groups, each groupattentling the school from 7 to 9 oclocktwo mornings a week. illustrated by the instruction cards repro-duced herewith on the next tw
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . E 35 These apprentices are divided intofive groups of about twenty each, andselected from the different trades in suchproportions as to interfere as httle aspossible with the operation of the group attends for two hour periodstwice a week, the school hours boingfrom 9 to 11 a. m. and from 1 to 3 p. m. There are now twent3^-four appren-tices from Riverside shops, and these aredivided into three groups, each groupattentling the school from 7 to 9 oclocktwo mornings a week. illustrated by the instruction cards repro-duced herewith on the next two pages. On the opposite page sample finest ionsas given in the apprentice course on mathe-matics will be seen. The questions shownhav(^ been selected at random from onlyfour of the many sets of papers includedin this course. But they are sufficientto show how simple are the problems inthe beginning of the course and how,these mastered, the student is graduallytaught to handle the more intricate also show the practical and pro-. APPREXTICKS LKAHXING THE THEORETICAL SIDE OF THEIR TRADE—KNOWLEDGETHAT WILL BE OF IMMENSE VALUE TO THEM IN THEIR LIFE WORK With the removal of the school to itspresent quarters, J. E. Cromwell, whohad formerlv been in charge of the schoolin the WestBranch Y. M. C. A. building,was selected as instructor and placed infull charge. Mt. Cromwell and his associates foundit necessary to develop gradually thecourse of instructions in mechanicaldrawing and shop mathematics, therebeing no text books or other literaturesuitable for the instruction of api)ren-tices which met the requirements and wasMvaila])le for the use of the school. The ch;nnct(M- of the woik done is gressive character of their applicaUon toshop and railroad problems. In addition to the instruction cards,the appientices make sketches frommodels and various parts of locomotives,cars and machiner} with which theycome in daily contact in their shop woik,and from these, sketches are subs
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