A Proposed Industrial Arts Program for Harry P. Harding High School of Charlotte, North Carolina

(From Introduction) In September 1949, the writer became a member of the staff at Harry P. Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, as Instructor in Industrial Arts. In conference with administrators, it was revealed that they were interested in further development of Industrial Arts Education in the school. Without any implied criticisms or previous efforts, it is felt that the expansion of present offerings is in order. School authorities are favorable toward a study of the situation which might cast more light on the present services being offered and might point to the possibilities of enlarged services. In any event it is believed that the results of such a study would receive careful consideration at the hands of local administrators and with this thought in mind the problem has been attacked

Letter from Anne W. Cheney to John Muir, 1881 May 31.

May 31, 1881.My dear Mr. Muir:I see by the San Fran. papers that you are going or have gone to the North Pole, but I am going to write you all the same, and some time you will find this note waiting for you.Of course we were surprised to hear of your marriage, and think as old friends, you might have told us of it before. And even now man-like you have only told us of the fact, and of your happiness in your baby. Can you not give us one word of the who, how, and when? We follow you in the magazines from time to time, and in the papers, but a letter from yourself, is worth all of those things together. I can imagine now how happy you are among the ice fields, but fancy there were a few regrets (a new sensation, I fancy) for those you have been obliged to leave at home. Your wife is too indulgent, I should say, if she consents to your wild life, or perhaps she shares in your enthusiasms, and forgets the dangers. Do not let your studies, or your new ties crowd out your old friends.Your letters are more to us than you can imagine, and Uncle John looks forward to their coming with as much pleasure as we do.I hope we shall be fortunate enough to be in California next winter, but we shall go out by the Southern Pacific and winter in Santa Barbara or thereabout, going to San Fran. in April or May and coming home by the Union Pacific. We shall miss you in our journeyings, for we are not the mountaineers we used to be, and cannot go where we would most wish to.Then your teachings were of a most perfect kind, and nature seemed nearer, and more beautiful under your instructions.Those Yosemite days will never return, and it is a delight to recall them, and remember their perfection, without one cloud to darken the picture for a moment.Your next letter will be an icy one, I fancy, and if it should come to us during our torrid weather it will be doubly welcome. All join in kindest regards and best wishes for a successful summer.Our best wishes to Hrs. Muir,--we shall hope some day to see you all.Yours sincerely,Anne W. Chene

Letter from Anne W. Cheney to John Muir, 1873 Apr 9.

New York City Wednesday Apr. 9th 1873My dear Mr Muir. Out of all the noise & bustle of this busy world I write to you longing for the rest & quiet of your [underlined: Valley], which now seems farther away than ever, for I have given up all idea of returning to Cala for the present. My sister is quite miserable, having injured her lip in some way & is, or has been lame, but although notfrom you soon that the book has been given to the public, that I may get it & in reading it imagine myself once more nearer the Giver of all Good - I had a nice letter from Mrs. Moore not long ago at most the first one she had written since her illness, but Charlie Stoddard I have not heard from for a long time probably because I allowed such a long time to lapse between his last letter & the answer. I return to my home in the country in about two weeks, to get it ready to receive the wanderers, but we may be back in Cala. again before we are aware of it, as father I fear will not be able to 00657 weather & water will permit - I had fully expected to be of their party this summer, but that is now out of the question - how I regret it you can im- agin from the amount of enjoyment I experienced while there last summer, but I do not despair of visiting there once more for I love the mountain & river gods with the heart of a child of nature al- though I have been brought up in the midst of luxury, & the civilization you dislike so much - I have thought of you this winter as busy with your writing, & shall hope to hearwell she is much better than she was in the winter, all thoughts of leaving her must necessarily be banished for a time, & Father & rob return to us in June some- time, or as soon as my uncles return from the Yo Semite- I judge from that, that Father & Rob will not go with them, but they may change their minds before the time comes to go - at any rate I hope you will meet my two uncles John & Frank who will probably go into the Valley as soon as New York City,Wednesday, Apr. 9th, 1873.My dear Mr. Muir:Out of all the noise and bustle of this busy world I write to you, longing for the rest and quiet of your Valley, which now seems farther away then ever, for I have given up all idea of returning to California for the present. My sister is quite miserable, having injured her hip in some way, and is, or has been lame, but although not well she is much better than she was in the Winter. All thoughts of leaving her must necessarily be banished for a time, and Father and Rob return to us in June sometime, or as soon as my uncle\u27s return from the Yosemite. I judge from that, that Father and Rob will not go with them, but they may change their minds before the time comes to go - at any rate l hope you will meet my two uncles John and Frank, who will probably go into the Valley as soon as weather and water will permit. I had fully expected to be of their party this summer, but that is now out of the question - how I regret it you can imagine from the amount of enjoyment I experienced while there last summer, but I do not despair of visiting there once more, for I love the mountain and river gods with the heart of a child of nature, although I have been brought up in the midst of luxury and the civilization you dislike so much.I have thought of you this inter as busy with your writing, and shall hope to hear from you soon that the book has been given to the public, that I may get it and in reading it imagine myself once more nearer the Giver of all Good. I had a nice letter from Mrs, Moore not long ago at most, the first one she had written since her illness, but Charlie Stoddard I have not heard from for a long time, probably because I allowed such a long time to elapse between his last letter and the answer.I return to my home in the country in about two weeks, to get it ready to receive the wanderers, but we may be back in California again before we are aware of it, as father, I fear, will not be able to spend his winters in so cold a climate as this. Harry, who has been at the Yale Scientific School all winter, has joined Prof. Marsh\u27s surveying party to spend the coming summer on the plains.The mood for writing does not possess me this winter. I hardly know myself in my. letters any more. I need the fresh clear air and sky of the country, which I will have in a short time, and then I hope I may answer your next letter in a more interesting manner.With kindest regards,Truly your friend,Anne W. Chene

Letter from Anne W. Cheney to John Muir, 1874 Augl 9.

[3]& I hope to go with him, but our family affairs are so uncertain that I may be obliged to stay at home to take care of the children; however I look forward to a winter in Cal. as the only bright spot in the coming year, & shall be very much disappointed to be obliged to give it up. [illegible] more now, writing this we, as well as everything else – With kindest regards from all truly your friend Anna [illegible]. Cheney 00689 [1] Home Sunday Aug. 9th 1874My dear Mr. Muir. I have been on a trip to the sea, since I wrote you last, & I think it has done me a world of good. (but I ought to have staid longer). I hardly know if you are still in Oakland, but I shall venture to direct to you there, & you may get this in the course of time — You speak of coming east in a year or two, & we shall all be glad to see you here, but what a dearth of material you[Page 2]you will find, in com- parison to Cal. & what you have already studied & seen. I am sorry you did not speak to Mrs. Prof. Kellogg, but perhaps you will have another chance; her sister who lived with us last winter, is now with her in Oakland, & I should like so much to have you meet, she (Miss Brock- way I mean/ has heard us talk so much of you, that she is very anxious to see you, & I know you will find her a charm- ing person; do make an effort to see her, it will pay you – My health is better, & I hope by winter to be well as I ever can be; I suppose the fall I had in the spring has shaken the nervous system so much, that I shall never be a perfectly strong woman; it is hard to look forward to a life of half invalidism, but it must be accepted, & perhaps I shall find something to compensate by & by – Father says most decidedly that he will return to Cal. in the coming fall

Letter from Anne W. Cheney to John Muir, 1874 Mar 15.

[3]time the boy is having, just what he needs, there seems to me a very slight improvements in his last letters, his contact with the literary world, ought to do him good. Do you never feel weary of life? if not what is your receipt? perhaps after all a good sound body has more to do with it than anything else. Father sends regards, he has been nicely until the March winds began to blow, & has been housed for a week or more — With kindest regards, & hoping to hear from you soon, telling us all about yourself & your doings I remain truly your friend Anne W. Cheney ————— [1] Home Sunday Mar. 15th 1874My dear Mr. Muir, I hardly know where to address this letter, as your last to me was written in such distress of mind at leaving the Valley, & as I have not heard of your being in Oakland from any of my friends, am rather lost in 00680 [Page 2]wondering of your whereabouts – A faint whisper came from somewhere (whether magazine or newspaper I cannot tell) of your name in connection with book writing, but it was so faint that I cannot exactly recall it. We have been very quiet this winter, with the exception of a little trip to New York for a few days, & have amused ourselves talking over our good times in Cala. & looking forward to another visit there before long, per- haps next fall, but that is almost too far off to make plans for. I have devoted my whole winter in mending, & studying many things that had grown rusty, & to my horror, find I have taxed my little strength too far, was warned yesterday by a protracted fainting fit, that I am not as strong as the rest of the world which fact, I seem to forget when- ever I am very much interested in anything. I have not written you I believe since Charlie Stoddard made us a little visit – what a joll

Letter from Anne W. Cheney to John Muir, 1874 Jun 28.

New York [Lindsor?] Hotel Sunday June 2[?]the 1874My dear Mr. Muir. I have put my-self into a physician’s hands. I am dying of heat in consequence in this crowded city, can only write you a few words of thanks, for your last charming letter, & how glad I am on your account & [illegible] my own that you are going into the wilds,[Page 2]again, for of course we cannot look for as many of your di- lighted letters, as when you were in the city – so follow you in your articles in the Overland, & it makes us feel sometimes, as if we were in the Valley again – [illegible] too have begun our wanderings; after the doctor des[illegible] we we shall drift about in the summer from one cool place to another, going home, from time to time to take a fresh start Did I tell you that I had a letter from Charlie Stoddard, from Rome, quite cheerful & pleasant, only longing for us to be with him as he got rather lonely at times – I cannot write more, it is my right side that has been affected & my hand give out – With kindest regards from father who is here with me Believe me [illegible] your friend Anna [illegible]. Cheney 0068

Fitting theories of nuclear binding energies

In developing theories of nuclear binding energy such as density-functional theory, the effort required to make a fit can be daunting due to the large number of parameters that may be in the theory and the large number of nuclei in the mass table. For theories based on the Skyrme interaction, the effort can be reduced considerably by using the singular value decomposition to reduce the size of the parameter space. We find that the sensitive parameters define a space of dimension four or so, and within this space a linear refit is adequate for a number of Skyrme parameters sets from the literature. We do not find marked differences in the quality of the fit between the SLy4, the Bky4 and SkP parameter sets. The r.m.s. residual error in even-even nuclei is about 1.5 MeV, half the value of the liquid drop model. We also discuss an alternative norm for evaluating mass fits, the Chebyshev norm. It focuses attention on the cases with the largest discrepancies between theory and experiment. We show how it works with the liquid drop model and make some applications to models based on Skyrme energy functionals. The Chebyshev norm seems to be more sensitive to new experimental data than the root-mean-square norm. The method also has the advantage that candidate improvements to the theories can be assessed with computations on smaller sets of nuclei.Comment: 17 pages and 4 figures--version encorporates referee's comment

Good Limestone is Pure and Fine

You can\u27t judge the purity of the limestone you buy by simply looking at a sample. But here\u27s how you can