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the pupil the ability to express himself orally or in writing. In the first year the English is made practical by visits to shops, printing plants, foundries, offices, works of construction (bridges, buildings, etc.), and writing themes and giving oral description of same. Much attention is given to training the perception, noting objects and events happening about; reading aloud in classroom by student for practice in enunciation and understanding of content; spelling, writing, and punctuation practice; reading in classroom by teacher of the history of successful men and selected biographies with comments on same, such as Elbert Hubbard's Little Journeys, students taking notes and writing on same.

Collateral reading is required from books on trades, such as the following:

Young Folks' Library of Vocations. Boston Hall & Locke Co.
Vocation for Girls. Houghton & Mifflin Co.

Bulletins of Vocation Bureau of Boston.
Harper's Electricity Book for Boys. Adams.
Harper's Machinery Book for Boys. Adams.
Boys' Book of Inventions. Baker.

Boys' Second Book of Inventions. Baker.
History of the Telephone. Casson.

Romance of Industry and Invention. Cochrane.
Romance of Modern Electricity. Gibson.
Romance of Modern Manufacture. Gibson.

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Artist's Way of Working in the Various Handicrafts and Arts of Design. Two

vols. Sturgis.

Story of the Railroad. Warman.

Romance of Modern Engineering. Williams.
Romance of Modern Invention. Williams.

Williams.

Romance of Modern Mechanism. Williams.
Romance of Modern Steam Locomotion.
The Workers. Two vols. Wyckoff.

During the year Brook's English Composition is used. Pupils discuss current events, taking care that correct speech is used, with sentences complete and all slang eliminated. The books read in class during this year are Lady of the Lake, Treasure Island, and Ivanhoe. The textbooks used are those which have been found best adapted to the work and capable of serving as models.

Second year:

Textbook, Lord's Modern Business English, to page 156.

Letter writing: Business letter, general correspondence, sentence structure, correct use of words.

Shop reports on printed forms and corrections of same.

Three-minute talk Monday morning on work in shop by each boy.

Drill in spelling, variety of expression.

Short one-page themes descriptive of shop tools, etc.

Reading of mechanical journals, biographies of successful men.
Current events.

Third year:

Textbook, Lord's Modern Business English, continued.

Shop reports on printed forms, continued.

Weekly themes descriptive of shopwork, etc.

Writing of one or two longer essays on such topics as-
History of iron industry in America.

Manufactures of Fitchburg.

Railroads and their influence on Fitchburg.

The industries along the Nashua River in Fitchburg.
The new trunk-sewer system.

Flying machines.

History of transportation.

Rise, decline, and future possibilities of apprentice system.
Advantages of apprenticeship systems in America.

The steam engine.

Three-minute talks Monday on shopwork by each boy.

Five-minute or longer talk on information read in Daily Trade and Consular Reports.

Designing an advertisement relating to product of shop where employed. Study of Autobiography of Franklin, Webster's Bunker Hill address. Washington's Farewell Address, Lincoln's addresses.

Fourth year:

Textbook, Whooley's Handbook of Composition.

Oral themes, shop talks, and consular reports.
Editorials, advertisements.

One long theme on topics of interest connected with pupil's experience.
Descriptive themes.

Study of Burke's Conciliation; Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Twelfth
Night.

During the entire course each boy is required to read one book each week that he is engaged in shopwork, and to report on it the following week in school. The books read are from a selected list of fiction, including books by standard authors of the past century and of the present day. Shop reports are required each week on printed forms. These reports are corrected and discussed in class. A sample report is here given, the script giving the exact words used by the boy. The sketch is a refined reproduction of the one in the boy's report. As the boy's sketch was made with a pencil it could not be reproduced exactly; it has been engraved in conventional form.

FITCHBURG HIGH SCHOOL

INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT.

Report of Orswald Fischer for week of Sept. 25–30.
Employed by Bath Grinder Co. Trade, Machinist.
Kind of work (lathe, planer, chipping, blocking, grinding, etc.):
My whole week's time was spent on Bath
Grinder, grinding.

Description of work (size, shape, kind of metal, etc.):

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Ground surface of hardened tool steel washers of following sizes: (100) 11" x 1" st'd pump washers; (200) 2"x1" ball-bearing thrust washers; (90) hand wheel nuts; (50) cone pulley shafts 14" x 18.0015.

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Description of machine (rough sketch parts, etc.):

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Tools used, facts learned (speeds, feeds, time, etc.):

Learned more about magnetic shuck, dry grinding, surface speeds and cast iron grinding.

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CONTRACT BETWEEN THE BOY AND HIS EMPLOYER.

What is believed to be a strong feature of the industrial cooperative plan is the contract entered into by the boy and his employer upon the approval of the parents or guardian of the boy. It is proverbial that the modern boy is a very unstable individual; he tries this and that and is very loath to settle on one thing. In the cooperative plan the boy is given a trial period of two months in a shop at a trade, as has been previously stated. Before beginning this work he and his parents sign an agreement that he shall stick to the trade for the three years required for the completion of the cooperative course, provided that after the trial he is satisfied that he wants to learn the trade. The employer on his part agrees to teach the boy the various branches of the trade and to pay him a stipulated amount per hour for approximately 1,650 hours per year for three years. This arrangement is mutual; both the boy and the employer are bound by it to give each other a square deal. It is a business contract, and the boy, perhaps for the first time in his life, realizes that he is morally bound. Following is the agreement or contract submitted to the employer and to the boy who is to take up the machinist trade. The majority of boys in the course are following this trade. For those in other trades a similar contract is made, changing the work specified under section 2 from lathe work, planer work, etc., to the proper subjects in the other trades. The diploma given to the boy by the school board of Fitchburg upon his graduation bears the signature of an officer of the company in which he served his apprenticeship.

RULES AND CONDITIONS

Under Which Special Apprentices Taking the Four-Year Cooperative Industrial Course at the High School of Fitchburg are Received for Instruction at the Works of

First. The applicant for apprenticeship under this agreement must have satisfactorily met requirements for entrance to this course at the high school.

Second. The apprentice is to work for us continuously, well and faithfully, under such rules and regulations as may prevail at the works of the above company, for the term of approximately 4,950 hours, commencing with the acceptance of this agreement, in such capacity and on such work as specified below.

LATHE WORK.

PLANER WORK.

DRILLING.

BENCH AND FLOOR WORK.

AND SUCH OTHER MACHINE WORK, ACCORDING TO THE CAPABILITY OF THE APPRENTICE, AS PERTAINS TO OUR BRANCH OF MANUFACTURING.

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