University of Kentucky - Kentuckian Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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S8 3 cJPie l deniuckian OJItp Intwraitg, nr “potter 01jop” ESS than thrcc-score years ago, among the many colleges west of the Alleghenies, University of Kentucky had its beginning. Nature could not have provided a better location than the heart of the Bluegrass, famous for its pasture lands and horses, its hospitality and friendship. The heavens sent the rain, the sun shone upon the earth, the birds sang, the flowers grew, Jupiter nodded, and Athena smiled; and ere the morning sun had far advanced the Potter’s Shop was started. Its path of progress has not been strewn with flowers, nor checks been kissed by every breeze. Assailed by storm and blast alike, it has stood the test. “The rains came, the waters descended, and the wind beat upon that house, but it fell not.” Its base was laid on firm ground. Jealous rivals have sought to hinder, but their thorns have brought forth roses dripping with dew. Their hindrances have been of little sig- nificance and consequence. The growth has been slow and steady, day by day a board was nailed and a plank was laid, until the shop was completed. The potter gave his life to the building of the shop and the forming of Kentucky’s shapeless clay. The pots turned out have been carrier afar, for Kentucky’s soil is conducive to the making of men. From her soil have come the Breckcnridgcs, the Clays, and Calhouns. The University of Kentucky has become the leading Potter Shop of Kentucky in standards of merit. The field is boundless from which to draw, and “State” always gets the best. It does not excel in numbers nor in wealth, but it puts on its outturned products a stamp of worth which bears them far and well among the children of men. Merit is its motto; and its aim is an open road and a fair fight for all. It gives every mass of clay a chance to help shape and mold himself. He is essentially instrumental in his own making, it matters not where he may be, but here he is given an unusual chance to show his initiative and originality. If an individual has been here for four years and has been marred in the making, it is the fault of the pot, and not the potter. Over every class- room door might well be put the lines: Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies. Though yet still young, State” has sent many able men into many lands. It always holds its own among rivals, often outclassing them on every hand, and bids fair to become the leading University of the South. In a few years we hope to sec it take a place of merit among the leading universities of the land, a “Potter Shop” of unusual rank, turning out vessels of purest clay, bearing nature’s noblest stamp, women among women, and men among men. (29) 38£ 1916 £ s'

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 8£=EEEE3 CzTPie 7 de nfuclcian a.--=38? The College of Law has advanced until it is accredited as a leading law school of the South. The course in court practice, handled by Dean W. T. Lafferty, is rated as perhaps the best in the United States. Its growth in the past few years has been very gratifying to its head and the University officials. The development of fundamental characteristics of successful engineers, such as strict obedience, application, personality, tenacity, and all the other fine traits of men like Steinmetz, Westinghousc, Carty, Edison—such is the one great purpose of the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. It consists of five departments— the departments of drawing, practical mechanics, mechanics of engineering, heat engineer- ing, and electrical engineering. The fact that only one degree, Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, is given from this college is significant. The young men studying for mechanical, electrical, commercial, or any other branch of dynamic engineering, receive the same training—a broad general course in the fundamentals of both mechanical and electrical engineering, as well as industrial and commercial principles. This policy has proven its soundness by the unqualified success of the Kentucky mechanical and electrical engineers in all branches of the profession and in all countries of the globe. This is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. When the Class of 1916 leave to take up work in the positions chosen from among the hundred opportunities available, more than four hundred graduates will be demonstrating to the world that the Kentucky-trained mechanical and electrical engineer faces the great problems of engineering with courage, ability and stamina equal to that of any graduate from America’s foremost technical universities. (28) 51Q16 .73sg $8$

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 tf7iQ rJ Lentuclcicin ? DEAN MILLER fflnUnjr nf Arts rntit 9rfettrp COME with me and I will lake you through the halls where men love art for art’s sake, and science for its own sake. We arc they who ponder. We love to sit in our high, lonely towers, where we may unsphere the spirit of Plato. No thought of gold corrupts our eager brains. Why cram your heads with something which you cannot sell? they taunt; ransack your brain and you cannot find one thing that you can commercialize.” Be it so. for we submit; our doom is fair. But we would rather let you have the gold if you will leave us our arts and sciences; if you will promise never to harass us more with taunts and stories of the poor cricket who. hungry and cold, went to the house of an ant for succor. 3.1916€ 38$