Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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JOHN II. LEETK, A.8. Dean of the School of Applied Science

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Foreword EALIZING the importance of the work assigned to us, we have undertaken it gladly and have endeavored to bring forth such facts as may be of interest to the members of the School of Applied Science and their friends. If in years to come, what appears in this hook shall serve to bring back pleasant memories of college life and help to keep alive a true loyalty for our Alma Mater, its purpose is accomplished, and we shall feel w ell paid for what we have done to make this volume of The Thistle the “best yet.” We go forth to meet success, defeat, joy and sorrow. “In happiness, may this hook rejoice with us; in sorrow, help to recall that happiness which we once knew.”

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SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCE THE Day School of Applied Science was the first of the Carnegie Technical Schools to be opened to students. On the opening day, October 15, 1905, 122 students enrolled, of whom 60 were graduated last year. On November 20th of the same year the School opened its doors to night students and 148 young men enrolled in the various engineering courses, a large number of whom are still in attendance. 'Fhc School was quartered in the buildings designed for the School for Apprentices and Journeymen. These buildings were then not completely finished, but in such condition as to offer accommodations of a rather primitive order. The tales told by the charter members of the faculty and student body about the difficulties met and the obstacles overcome would make interesting reading. These conditions served, however, to knit together the faculty and students in the close lies to which those who followed after fall heir. The Department of Mechanical Engineering was the first to leave the shelter of the Trade School building. In 1907 Machinery Hall was completed and the instruction in Mechanical Engineering has since been given in that building. The Department of Machine Design was also quartered in Machinery Hall for one year. The corner stone of the new Science buildings, the permanent home of the Engineering School, was laid by the Class of 1908 during their Commencement Week. Throughout the present year the departments have been moving to their new quarters, and the close of the year will sec all departments settled in permanent quarters for the first time since the opening of the School. The new buildings are admirably adapted to their purposes, and will doubtless serve to increase the efficiency of the work and to strengthen the spirit and morale of the School. In addition to recitation rooms, spacious laboratories and drawing rooms, the buildings contain two lecture rooms with inclined floors, each seating 300, and two small lecture rooms, each accommodating 100 students. The latter are designed particularly for the use of the Chemistry, Electrical and Physics Departments, and are fully equipped for demonstration purposes. The number of students now enrolled in the School is 784. about equally divided between the Day and Night Classes. The growth has been steady throughout the four years in spite of considerable advances in the entrance requirements rendered necessary by changing conditions, flic territory from which the Night Classes must draw their students is necessarily limited to districts which are reasonably accessible, because of the fact that the students are without exception engaged in work during the day. The history of the School shows, however, many instances of students attracted to the Pittsburg district by the oppor- »5