The manual training school, comprising a full statement of its aims, methods, and results, with figured drawings of shop exercises in woods and metals . e been purpose of this chapter is to make suggestions of value,first, when a complete manual training school is to be providedfor; and, secondly, when only the shops and drawing rooms areto be added to an existing school. Altho the building of the St. Louis Manual Training Schoolwas erected partly in 1879 and partly in 1882, and there waslittle to guide us in arranging the details, the plan is an admir-able one in most respects. S
The manual training school, comprising a full statement of its aims, methods, and results, with figured drawings of shop exercises in woods and metals . e been purpose of this chapter is to make suggestions of value,first, when a complete manual training school is to be providedfor; and, secondly, when only the shops and drawing rooms areto be added to an existing school. Altho the building of the St. Louis Manual Training Schoolwas erected partly in 1879 and partly in 1882, and there waslittle to guide us in arranging the details, the plan is an admir-able one in most respects. Some of its deficiencies I shall 336 PLAN^ SHOP DISCIPLINE, TEACHERS, ETC. [Chap. XV. point out. Fig. 185 gives the plan of the third story. Withthe exception of one drawing division and one w^ood-workingdivision, all the work of the youngest class is done on this floor. The drawing room is fur-nished with twenty-four stands, andeach recitation room with twenty-four shelf-chairs. S is the wood-working room, withtwenty-four benches and twenty-four lathes, four of which are notshown. The scale of the engrav-ing is about twenty - one feet tothe Fig. 135. St. Louis Manual Training School.— Plan or Third Story. The physical shop and laboratory are full of apparatus andtools for making more physical apparatus. These two roomsare used by the several divisions of the second-year class. Chap. XV.] FLOOR PLANS. — SECOND FLOOR. 337 Fig, 136 gives the plan of the second story. The middleclass may have four divisions of twenty - two each. Theirwork takes them to all the floors. It will be observed that the wood-working room with lathes is directlyunder the drawing room and labo-ratory of the third story. Thisarrangement I criticise on the nextpage. The divisions which go to theforging-shop, which is shown in thenext cut, generally pass throughthe corner of the yard.
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