Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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APPLIED DESIGN SENIOR. WILLIAM H. KING, Jr.; Age, 25; Pittsburgh. Preparatory and High Schools, Washington, D. C.; with Marsh and Peter, Architects, Washington, D. C., and MacClure and Spahr, Architects, Pittsburgh; Class Secretary, ’10; “Thistle” Board, ’08; Glee Club, Assistant Manager, ’o8-’o9, Manager, ’og-’io; Pittsburgh Chapter American Institute of Architects, winner of Travelling Scholarship, ’08; Loggist for “Paris Prize” offered by the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects of New York. “Well, now I’ll tell you----” A man of many troubles, and our one and only.

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HENRY K. McGOODWIN, B. S., Associate Professor of Architecture, Acting Dean of the School of Applied Design.

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APPLIED DESIGN DAY. HISTORY. Many interesting and entirely unusual events have taken place in the School of Applied Design since the publication of the “Thistle” for the year 1909. A new course of study has been added, and many more students enrolled. By the consistently good work of all the departments, and especially that of the Architects, the reputation and prestige of the School has been spread broadcast over the United States. The Beaux-Arts Society competitions, practically unknown in Pittsburgh until Carnegie Tech began to make the best showing as a competitor, have furnished the means of bringing the most of this about. Were the work of the School of Applied Design purely a local affair, judged by the faculty and made the subject of the accompanying limited criticism, any name for good work would be as local as the jury that judged it. The converse is true, and in the Society of Beaux-Arts we find the means of constant competition with practically all of the large Architectural Schools and Ateliers in the country. Then, good work is very good work. The only chance afforded the Departments of Interior Decoration and Illustration to display any of their work to the interested public was when a limited and selected amount of it was placed on exhibition with architectural problems in the exhibition given in the Institute Galleries by the Pittsburgh Architectural Club. We hope they will be accorded an opportunity in the near future of matching up their work with that done elsewhere. Affairs gay and festive, have by no means been slighted. The annual Patrons’ Dinner given by the night men in honor of Mr. Henry Hornbostel, Dean, was held at Donegal Inn. This gathering is the one big affair of the year. One of its features is the