Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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announcement of the winner of the Patron’s Prize which this time fell to Wm. F. Burkhart. The annual baseball game between the night and day students was played on this memorable occasion. At the first of the year came the good news that Dr. Schap-per had been chosen as a member of the Faculty. The first event of a social nature was the smoker given by the upper day classmen on November 8, that the Plebes might be started in the way they should go. Coach Snitjer, of the Football Team, gave a talk on the work ahead of the team, and later in the evening Mr. Hornbostel announced that he would give the Patron’s Prize this year provided that the students would get up a minstrel show within two weeks and realize something for the benefit of the football team. Arrangements for the revel of music and song were begun the next day with E. Morrow Sheppard as the main gizink. With the support and aid of all the students, rehearsals were conducted daily, and the construction of a practical stage in the upper draughting room commenced. For many hours gangs worked piling up tables for a foundation, laying boards for the floor, and erecting borrowed scenery to make the arrangements complete. Members of the A. J. Faculty materially aided by doing carpenter and electric work. The black face song and dance artists won the hearty applause of the large audience, and the Minstrel Show was a thing of the past. The first “Charette” was the week of October 25, and proved to be a humdinger. As usual everything was put off until the last minute and then rushed. Many little luncheon parties could be seen about the draughting rooms at 2 A. M., enjoying a repast by the light of candles. The year has meant much in every way. Let us hope to see the School of Applied Design quartered in its own building by the time THE THISTLE next appears.

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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

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