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Annual report of the director of the school of mechanic arts of the Franklin Institute for the season 1911–1912

✍ Scribed by Wm.H. Thorne

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1912
Tongue
English
Weight
128 KB
Volume
173
Category
Article
ISSN
0016-0032

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✦ Synopsis

The School of Mechanic Arts has shown, this season, a marked advance in every directlon--in the number of students enrolled, in the regularity o{ their attendance, in the seriousness of their work, in the appreciation of the opportunities presented to them, and in the results they have accomplished.

The total number of students registered this year was 292. Of these I6~q were enrolled in the Department of Drawing, 68 in the Department of Mathematics, 34 in the Department of Mechanics, and 22 in the School of Naval Architecture. The number of students registered last year was 232.

The schedule adopted in i9o9 having been fouud to, meet the requirements of the students to an extent only limited by the present capacity of the school buildings, the work was again carried out on the lines then laid down. That a continuance of the plan being followed is fully justified is shown in the results obtained this year.

The success of the season has been due to the co-operation of my assodates in the faculty: Messrs. XV, nI.

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