Word: workshop
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...course in workshop training, especially adapted for students in Electrical Engineering, will be given in the Rindge Manual Training School during the year...
...become a well-established custom at Harvard to raise by general subscription large sums of money whenever they are required for the maintenance and welfare of some special department. So far this has been the case only with those departments whose workshop and laboratory is not the college library. Now it is the turn of those branches of learning-of philology, literature, philosophy, political economy, history, mathematics, and music-for the very existence of which the reading-room in Gore Hall is a necessity, to call upon Harvard's many and kind friends to come to the aid of their...
...telegraphs and telephones. In the fourth year the men will take a course in trigonometric series and two courses in theoretic electricity. Besides these, a thesis, will be required. But few new studies have been added to arrange this course in electrical engineering; they are solely courses in a workshop, and to make them practicable a small workshop has been fitted up. However, as quite a number of men have signified their intention of taking a course or two in the workshop, it will be necessary to build a large workshop very soon. The present workshop of the physical laboratory...
...University. This addition already makes our course in electricity superior to that pursued in many purely scientific schools. The present facilities, however, are inadequate for the purposes of the scientific faculty. It is firmly believed that many men would be glad to take a practical course in the workshop, especially as such a course would combine exercise with pleasure. In case this should prove true, as it undoubtedly would, the workshop and apparatus now in use would not accommodate the number of applicants for the course. There is excellent opportunity, therefore, for some friend of our University to found...
...know ministers who should be palace car conductors, poor lawyers who would have been good drummers or clerks, and medical men who are more dangerous to their patients than the diseases they treat, who were destined by nature for the farm or the factory. The world is a workshop full of misfits, and misfits are always cheap. It requires both faculty and courage, when you have discovered your mistake, to drop your tools and start again. But if the all the doctors, lawyers and ministers who can never get on in their professions would get out and find other fields...