. Industrial Education Magazine . lementary course, corres-sponding to the seventh grade, thestudents are given several lines of shop-work in the year:—Woodwork, 10 weeks;elementary metalwork, 10 weeks; elec-trical work, 10 weeks; sheet-metal work,5 weeks; and plumbing fixture repair, 5weeks. In this course two hours daily are de-voted to shopwork and one to hours are given to academic sub-jects. In these three hours all the re-quired academic subjects are given. In the advanced course, correspondingto the eighth grade, each student devotesall his shop time to one branch or trade
. Industrial Education Magazine . lementary course, corres-sponding to the seventh grade, thestudents are given several lines of shop-work in the year:—Woodwork, 10 weeks;elementary metalwork, 10 weeks; elec-trical work, 10 weeks; sheet-metal work,5 weeks; and plumbing fixture repair, 5weeks. In this course two hours daily are de-voted to shopwork and one to hours are given to academic sub-jects. In these three hours all the re-quired academic subjects are given. In the advanced course, correspondingto the eighth grade, each student devotesall his shop time to one branch or tradeinstead of to several, as in the elementary course. There is a third course called the in-dustrial trade course which is for studentswho are fifteen years of age who havepassed thru one of the industrial infor-mation courses. This course, also, is oneyear in length. During that time twent)periods a week are allowed tor shopworkand five tor mechanical drawing. Twoacademic subjects, English and mathe- 110 MANUAL TRAINING MAGAZINE. Elemntary Machine Shop, Northwestern High School, Detroit, Mich. matics must be taken. Concerning thecourse the director, J. H. Trybom, says,This course is a trade course in the senseonly that it lays the foundation for afuture occupation of the student. Theactual skill needed to become a journey-man mechanic must be acquired in themanufacturing plant. The only claimmade for this course is that it will givesuccessful students a more rapid pro-motion in the shop as to wages and respon-sibility. Such industrial information and in-dustrial trade courses are given in eachof seven high schools in the city. Ivisited the Northeastern High School. Iwas interested in all the shops, butespecially so in the machine shop wherea successful effort has been made to in-stall a compatatively inexpensive yeteffective equipment. All the lathes butone (and there are eleven in the room)are 8 in. swing. The equipment alsoincludes 2 milling machines, 1 sensitivedrill, 1 too
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