Testimonials
for the Frick Electric Program Clock
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Read some fascinating
testimonials written by people in the late 1800's who used the
Frick Electric Program clock.
| Kansas
City, Mo., June 5, 1896
My
Dear Sir: |
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We have
had in the Central High School for three or four years the Automatic
Electric Program Clock manufactured at Waynesboro, Pa. It has proven
entirely satisfactory. Life would be a burden without it. It is now
doing service in fifty rooms. I recommend it to the school public as
a clock that will do everything claimed for it.
Very truly
yours,
John T. Buchanan, Principal
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Sedalia,
Mo., June 18, 1896
Dear
Sir: |
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Your
Electric Program Clock, with Automatic Signaling Apparatus, has been
in use in our High School building for eight months and gives
complete satisfaction. The eighteen gongs ring out the program with
unfailing regularity. We would not do without it for many times its
cost.
Very
truly,
C.V. Buchanan, Supt. City Schools
Mt.
Allison Ladies' College
Sackville, N. B.
April 28, 1896 |
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| Dear
Sir:
In
answer to your note of the 25th inst., I beg to say that we
have found the program clock you furnished us entirely
satisfactory. It has proved to be a good time keeper and has
accomplished all that you claim for it. It rings ten distinct
bells located in five different buildings scattered over the
college campus. In some of these half hours periods are marked
off and in others the full hour is given to suit the
requirements of the work. Thus the interchanging classes of
the five different departments of our educational system are
perfectly synchronized. We would not be without it for five
times its cost.
Yours
very truly,
B.C. Borden, Prest. |
The
Hill School
Pottstown,Pa., Feb. 12, 1897
To
Whom It May Concern:
I
am glad to bear testimony to the efficiency of the Automatic Program
Clock, furnished by Fred. Frick of Waynesboro, Pa., and to say that
I consider it so valuable as to be almost indispensable to the
modern school.
John
Meigs, Ph.D., Principal
Franklin
& Marshall College
Lancaster, Pa., Nov. 10, 1896
Dear
Sir:
It
affords me pleasure to say that the Program and Time System you have
furnished Franklin and Marshall college gives complete satisfaction.
The bells are rung in all the different rooms with promptness and
regularity. The system is not only a great convenience but also an
incentive to promptness and regularity to both teachers and
students.
Very
truly yours,
John
S. Stahr, President
Morgan
Park Academy, University of Chicago
Morgan Park, Ill., Nov. 13, 1896
Dear
Sir:
Your
Automatic Electric Program Clock has been in operation in this
school nearly a year. At present we have five buildings connected
with one clock. There has never been the slightest failure on the
part of the clock to do its duty and we should be entirely at a loss
without it now. No one factor contributes so strongly towards
punctuality and regularity in our work. It is of the greatest
advantage to have all signals rung at exactly the same time in all
the buildings with no chance of forgetfulness on the part of the
janitor. I find it also a great convenience when, on account of some
especial emergency, a change is made in the program to be able to go
to the Program Dial and in a moment put in the necessary pins, thus
relieving my mind of any further anxiety. The Clock cannot be too
highly commended.
Yours
very truly,
Charles
H. Thurber
Dean Morgan Park Academy
Adrian
College
Adrian, Mich., Dec. 30. 1895
We
have enjoyed the service of Frick's Automatic Electric Signal
Apparatus at our College during the past term, and are pleased to
testify to the efficiency and perfection of its work. It has never
failed to give us every signal in our six different programs, and
the accuracy of its time has proved a valuable factor in the
discipline of our institution. The apparatus has proved itself all
that Mr. Frick claims for it, and it is up to date as an application
of electricity and ingenuity.
W.H.
Howard, Sec.
(Prof. of Physics and Chem.)
I
can most cheerfully indorse the above recommendation in every
particular.
D.C. Thomas
Pres. Adrian College
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