Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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CARNEGIE TECH IE1 1 1 IE1 H. J. McCORKLE. In Charge, Bureau of Recommendation DONALD R. TAFT. Secretary and Acting Registrar “GREETINGS” TO THE THISTLE OF 07 and best wishes to the staff for a most successful publication. As I think of The Thistle I become reminiscent and recall very vividly the days when the students endeavored to initiate a program of “Four Little Thistles”—one for each school. But most happily this attempt met its richly deserved fate and the present representative all-school year-book is the result. It has rightly become one of the most important products of student activity as it preserves Tech history in definite form. Again, the spirit of the publica tion is excellent since the Junior Classes edit it in honor of the Seniors. “Bon Voyage” to The Thistle. H. J. McCorklk. C. O. HALL. Assistant Registrar A. N. HEYL. Cashier Seventeen

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mi mi imi 1917 THISTLE LIU UU E J THERE COMES A DAY Absence from Pittsburgh, on leave to do some work at Harvard, places me this year out of touch with the usual statistical information about Tech, which I annually contribute to The Thistle. For this, at the present moment, I am thankful. It gives me an opportunity to say a word on something that runs infinitely closer to my interest, in these days of a national crisis, than college statistics. It is College men—especially Carnegie men—and their duty in any eventuality which may arise—that is the vital question. Nothing has surprised me more, since coming East, than the eager attitude towards preparedness shown by such institutions as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard. Where one expected to find the conservative pacificist enthroned, the militant patriot is in the saddle. The day diplomatic relations were broken with Germany, President Maclaurin wired President Wilson that Rost on Tech was ready at. a moment’s notice to mobilize its students, laboratories, and technical staff for the nation’s service. At Harvard, openly inspired and substantially supported by its administration, a corps for the training of reserve officers has just been established. One thousand students were called for; twelve hundred responded. This morning’s paper has it that a war clause is to be put in leases for next year’s college rooms, and that within a few days members of the corps will appear in class-rooms wearing the regulation olive drab. Harvard is ready to transform itself into a military training camp, should the need arise. Yale has a large artillery unit, Dartmouth an aviation detachment, and Brown sends a memorial to Wilson endorsing his utterances. There may shortly come a day when all the Carnegie clansmen, graduate and undergraduate, must also face this problem. With great satisfaction I note that the issue has already been taken up editorially in the last “Tartan.” That is good, but it is not enough. The task is laid upon every one of you to individually give most earnest and intelligent thought to what your course of action will be, if pending events make stern measures obligatory. When it is evident beyond all doubt that peace with honor is no longer possible, and patience has ceased to be patriotism and has become pusillanimity—then there must be no hesitation. I pray that the day we dread may never come, but if it should, the sons of our Alma Mater must be ready with a will and with a way. Arthur W. Tarbell. Cambridge, March ( , 1017. Sixteen

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LU Ifi] Hi 1917 THISTLE LEJ LSj LZJ HENRY HORNBOSTEL Patron of the School of Applied Design MRS. BLANCHE K. WAPPAT Librarian of the School of Applied Design Eighteen