California Institute of Technology Cal Tech - Big T Yearbook (Pasadena, CA)

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FAC U LTY Education is not found in books alone, indeed. to know books simply is to confess oneself uneducated. lt is for this principle,--the principle that thinking and doing are the crowning glories of knowing-that Throop Institute stands. It stands to bear out in concrete form, the fact that ideas are only effective when they find expression in results, making for the betterment of mankind. ' - It is, perhaps, for this very reason that many people misinterpret the mission of Throop Institute and sometimes misjudge our work. They assume that in a polytechnic school the. study of books is ignored: that science and mathematics and manual training are taught to the exclusion'of the literary side of education. Such an idea is entirely erroneous. InThroop Institute, even more than in the traditional school, the necessity for a rational training in the literary humanities is seen, and emphasis is accord- ingly placed upon such book and literary studies as to produce the broadest girls and boys, the most complete men and women. As I have had occasion to say elsewhere, the child or the man who is not at hom3e with books 3 who does not make friends with the best in literature: who does not read and from his reading draw inspiration and enthusiasm, and power for good, such an individual has been cheatefl of the best that the school should give. It is frequently remarked that the graduates of an institution make the school. The fiber of the student body, the character of those who instruct, the spirit of the Institution, the equipment of the various depart- ments, these all play a part in shaping and moulding the school. The library is one of the most important elements to be considered. Not a collection of leaves between covers simply, but a working library,--vol- umes containing the very best thought of the very best men and women, men and women who are authorities in the various fields that make for culture and in the several departments of education and research. Never since the founding of the school has the Throop library taken such a forward step as during the past few months. While all are interested in the movement, it is largely through the efforts of the librarian, Professor B. F. Stacey, head of the Depart- ment of History and Economics, that the great work has been made possible. Cataloguing, re-arranging, systematizing, have wrought many changes for the better, and through his personal solicitations, friends of the school have been led to see where they could greatly assist the student body, and to that end have subscribed nearly or quite 31,000 to the library fund. Additional subscriptions are expected to follow, so the amount may far exceed the figures given. Those who have already signified a desire to assist in the great work are: Mrs. Eldridge M. Fow- ler, Mr. O. S. A. Sprague, Mrs. C. A. Sharpe, Mrs. C. F. Dillingham, Mrs. E. G. Slade, Mr. C. W. Smith, Dr. Arno Baker, Miss Susan B. Stickney, Mr. W. A. Scripps, Mrs. Martha T. Vaughn, Mr. W. C. Leisti- kow, Mr. Byron Lisk. Several hundred volumes will be selected and purchased during the summer, and the school will open in September with remarkably good library facilities. A, H, C,

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