THIRD YEAR.

(Forty weeks.—Instruction, 11 hours per week; application, 22 hours per week.)

Bricklaying:

Continue practice in bricklaying.

Attention to speed, accuracy, and neatness of construction of piers, walls (solid, hollow, and veneered) of various thickness, arches, flues, mantels, pilasters, quoins, panels, corbels, and cornices.

Bonding, pointing.

Joining new walls to old walls.

Building in hangers for floor beams.

Openings for windows and doors.

Setting frames.

Construction of boiler settings, furnace linings, use of fire brick

and fire clay.

Construction and lining of stacks.

Repairs to ovens.
Paving.

Plastering:

Mixing lime mortar; proportions of lime and sand; judging sand for sharpness, purity, and grade; screening sand.

Mixing scratch and brown mortars.

Lathing with wood, metal lath, or plaster board.

Mixing and putting on finish.

Spreading plaster on different surfaces, lath, plaster board, brick,

and stone.

Proportioning and mixing cement mortar.

Making a sand finish.

Plaster for exterior of building.

Rough casting; proportions of cement, sand, and lime.

Splatter-dashing buildings and walls.

Protection of plaster from heat, cold, and wind.

FOURTH YEAR.

(Forty weeks.--Instruction, 11⁄2 hours per week; application, 22 hours per week.)

General review of work of previous years.

Exercises in interpretation of plans, specifications, and estimating material and labor for all kinds of mason work. Give special attention to the use of catalogues, tradesmen's handbooks, and trade journals.

Continue practice in repair and more difficult construction work in all lines of masonry. Require students to plan and execute work, acting as advanced foremen.

PAINTING.

FIRST YEAR.

(Forty weeks.-Instruction, 1 hours per week; application, 20 hours per week.)

Talks and exercises:

Tools and materials; names, cost, uses, and care.

Preparation of plaster, brick, and wood surfaces; patching, siz

ing, priming. Mixing colors.

Painting walls and ceilings; finishing surface, flat or glossy; stippling.

Removing old paint.

Puttying and sandpapering.

Painting woodwork, exterior and interior.

Stripe and two-color work.

Preparing ground for enamel; applying enamel, glossy, flat, and rubbed finish.

Whitewashing; preparation and application.

Kalsomining; preparing of plastered surface; preparation of size; sizing; preparing the kalsomine in various colors; stenciling.

Cutting and setting glass; puttying.

Ladders, scaffolding, and staging for interior or exterior work.
Roof painting.

SECOND YEAR.

(Forty weeks.- -Instruction, 11 hours per week; application, 20 hours per week.)

Hardwood finishing; filling with paste and liquid filler and shellac; staining in various colors; oiling and waxing floors.

Varnishing; glossy, flat, rubbed, and waxed finish on hardwoods; removing old varnish.

Graining, gilding, bronzing, stenciling, decorating.

Paper hanging: Preparation of walls and ceilings; method of hanging on side walls, ceilings, and wood partitions; making paste, cutting, trimming, pasting, hanging. Selection of paper, harmony of colors, grades, and costs.

Lettering and sign painting: Design of plain letters; proportion and style of letters, laying out and spacing; arrangement and grouping of letters; shading and blocking; lettering on cardboard, wood, metal, glass, cloth, canvas, muslin..

THIRD YEAR.

(Forty weeks.-Instruction, 11 hours per week; application, 221 hours per week.)

General review of work of previous years. Continue practice in painting, kalsomining, decorating, varnishing, and papering in the upkeep of the school plant and in new construction.

Practice in estimating materials and labor. Require students to plan and execute work, acting as advanced foremen.

Give special attention to the use of catalogues, color cards, handbooks, and trade journals.

PRINTING.

The school print shop should be conducted as nearly as possible in conformity with the methods employed in the best commercial plants of similar size, equipment, and capacity. The real object should be to train students who develop an aptitude and liking for the business to become competent workmen in the several departments of the printer's art.

FIRST YEAR.

(Forty weeks.-Instruction, 14 hours per week; application, 22 hours per week.)

Apprenticeship lectures covering first principles and fundamentals of the trade.

Care of machinery; care of press rollers; care of motors and belts; operating stitching machine; hand folding; compiling signatures; handling of paper; perforating; punching; padding; technical terms; taking proofs; care of type material; operation of mailer and mailing school publications; feeding platen presses; learning case; use of compositor's stick.

Locking up platen-press forms; care of ink; operation of job press; fountains; component parts of job press; different qualities of ink and their adaption to different stocks; register work; care of cuts; platen-press make-ready; experience in platen-press printing; simpler forms of binding; straight composition; correction of proofs and interpretation of marks; operation of cutting machine.

SECOND YEAR.

(Forty weeks.-Instruction, 11 hours per week; application, 22 hours per week.)

Experience in the more particular kinds of make-ready on platen presses; halftone make-ready; register and color work; care and feeding of press; use, care, and setting of rollers; point system; capitalization and punctuation; more complicated experience in hand composition; reading, marking, and correction of own proofs; in

struction in complicated lockups. Imposition of type pages; making up; laying out forms; locking cylinder forms; simpler forms of job composition; cutting stock; rudiments of color harmony; more difficult straight composition; tabulated and rule work; correction and care of mailing lists; simpler forms of make-ready on cylinder press; proper use of cylinder press fountain; inks and stocks best adapted for cylinder-press use; apprenticeship lectures.

THIRD YEAR.

(Forty weeks.-Instruction, 13 hours per week; application, 22 hours per week.)

General job composition; component parts of cylinder press; composition and imposition of the better kinds of book and halftone matter; the proper make-up of a printed book; typographical designing; color-form composition and press work; selection of suitable stock for the job in hand; color and halftone printing and fine make-ready, including the vignetted cut; use of reducing agents; lectures on special pressroom matters; two and three-color work on cylinder press; office economy; stock costs; study of typographia; intricate composition; use of primary colors in mixing inks; mixing of tints and body colors; planning and complete execution of jobs from rough copy; careful instruction in fine halftone printing-slipsheeting, ink, spot sheets, stock, pressroom trouble, etc.; special lectures.

FOURTH YEAR.

(Forty weeks.-Instruction, 1 hours per week; application, 221 hours per week.) Review of previous work and instruction; further work in practical commercial printing; special instruction in cylinder presswork; use of varnishes and driers; proof reading; study of mailing-list systems; printing office equipment; cost of stock and estimating on work; methods of binding; special individual instruction covering weak points; round-table discussion on selected topics, such as cut making, ink making, type making, paper making; advanced cylinder presswork; difficult composition; three and four color work; mixing and manipulation of inks and colors; overcoming pressroom troubles; printing cost systems; modern equipment; special lectures.

STUDENT RECORD CARDS.

For the purpose of ascertaining what a pupil has accomplished in the various prevocational and vocational subjects, record cards shall be kept by each vocational instructor. (See samples on following pages.)

Superintendents should adopt such plan as local conditions may make most convenient for the assembling of these student record cards in order that some one person may be held responsible for keeping a complete record of the standing, progress, and accomplishment of each student in every subject of the course taken.

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