The university in overalls; a plea for part-time study . At a logging camp in British Columbia, preparing to lioist the bull-block on a giant spar-tree. It takes three years to make a Machinery plays a growing part in all frontier labor. Novices cannotdo this work. (Facing page 25.) Frontier Labor 25 happens to be on railway construction, he is asked, Canyou plow the grade? Can youskinmules? Can youbuild a dump ? If the work is more advanced and steelis being laid he would be asked: Can you buck ties?line track? tamp ties? Another set of pointed ques-tions would be asked the colle
The university in overalls; a plea for part-time study . At a logging camp in British Columbia, preparing to lioist the bull-block on a giant spar-tree. It takes three years to make a Machinery plays a growing part in all frontier labor. Novices cannotdo this work. (Facing page 25.) Frontier Labor 25 happens to be on railway construction, he is asked, Canyou plow the grade? Can youskinmules? Can youbuild a dump ? If the work is more advanced and steelis being laid he would be asked: Can you buck ties?line track? tamp ties? Another set of pointed ques-tions would be asked the college man looking for work at afish camp, a mine, or a pulp mill. Involuntarily thequestion in the instructors mind arises: What prepara-tion have my years in the class-room given me for thepractical life on the frontier? How frequently does it occur that college-trained mengoing as instructors for the first time to a camp, find thatthe work they had lumped as unskilled has characteris-tics as special as are found in any other industry. Suchteachers usually have plenty of keen mental training andthe zest for work, but they find that they have much tolearn about the standards required of men i
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