Case Western Reserve University - Lux / Differential Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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51149933111 NHHQDN f' Dorm, Deon, Deon , Deon , WILLIAM D. TRAUTMAN Aolelhert College Over a hundred years of solid liberal arts education, training for all lielcls of activity open to educated men-f-and what field is closed-is a record which arouses pride in our in- stitution. But pride is good only when matched with per- formance and performance means responsibility. The cloud of witnesses of whom we are conscious make demands that we ofthe uresent day must meet. Doing the best we can with what we Iave is not enough. Can we do better? is the question we must ask ourselves. Not until we can answer Better and better can we feel that we are really carrying on the noble tradition of Adelbert College in Western Reserve University. CHAI1I,1ss W. HUNT School of Eclucnrion Teaching in periods of social confusion is more interesting and more rewarding than in normal times. While the con- ditions of work are adversely affected, teachers are for the present relatively fortunate in the stability of the profession. The respect of the public for teaching was never so high. Hi her standards of preparation and performance add to their sel -respect. There Is, too, an unusual chance for helping children. Some need food and clothing. All especially need the normal life of the school as an emotiona outlet. The obligation upon teachers to interpret life, difficult as this may be, presents itself now as a great challenge to preserve the ideals of youth and in fact to save an orderly and worthy life for us all. DI1. TORALD SOLLMANN School of Mcclicirfe These unquiet and uncertain days weigh us in the balance. By old standards, the times and prospects may seem not mere- ly bad, but desperate. New times, perhaps new standards, may mean momentous changes where construction and de- struction will contend. When ends and ways and means are all obscure, it is not always easy to keep the active mind on studies in the school. And yet, that is the obvious way in which the student best can serve himself and others, for so he best prepares himself to take that part, to do that work, by which he may be useful to the world, be it new or be it old, when his own time for service comes. FRANCIS R. BACON School of Architecture The revolution through which we are passing is having its effect upon architecture. We are thinking neither of majestic government buildings nor of commercial enterprises on an extravagant scale, We are thinking of better living and work- ing conditions for the avera e and the under-privileged resident of American cities an towns, In other words, the services of the architect are no longer the prerogative of the merchant prince but of the people as a whole. Architecture is becoming humanized and, if you like, technocratic. The vast expense in labor and material, ordinarily entering into the building industry, will be effectively used for in- creasing human welfare only when it is directed by men of technical training, imagination, and sympathetic under- standing of all the factors involved. Our School is cooperating with other agencies in fostering the idea of good community planning, elimination of un- wholesome living conditions, creation of new housing with recreation facilities, all in proper relation to the commercial, industrial, and agricultural life of the community. To this task the architects of today and tomorrow are dedicated. WYIESTIEIRN IRIESIEIRBVIE U N II VIE HK S I rllf' Y

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114933341 NTIIHICCDN SIDNEY S. WILSON HIOFC- WWIESTIEIRN TRIESIEIRWIE U N II VIE IRR S I T Y 5 WINFRED GEORGE LEUTN ER Western Reserve University, now that it is more than a century old, may appear to have grown intoa tem complcx institution. lt includes thirteen schools and colleges either directly operated by the University or afhliated with it, as are Adelbert College, the Cleveland School of Architecture and Cleveland College. In reality, howexcr, this xerv com plexity we regard as a source of strength, hee tuse each collcgc retains its own identityg its faculty is responsible solelx for the interests of that college and its students The students and faculty of each college are not lost in the mass hut function as well-knit independent groups in cooperatixe rel tttons mth all other groups of the University. Two buildings in a pathless orchard made the campus of 1884 and I was one of the fewer than a hundred students Todav as an ofiicer, I rejoice in the growth I have seen, our increased acreage, our line structures, our daily population of more than live thousand. Attendance costs are higher, much higher but the opportunities and quality of instruction haue risen ftr The lighter side of university life changes the least students i play the same pranks, enjoy the same pleasures they did in 1884,--'pleasures that in 1933 still seem delightful to me llut I observe one outstanding difference, the ohlective of the student today is not scholarship alone, but definite training for leadership and success.

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X X llf9?334l.N Deon, LYON Dean, HIHIKDN ' FRANK M. CASTO School of Dentistry On the invitation of the School of Medicine, the School of Dentistry was organized in 1892. The Faculty consisted of fourteen members and there were twenty-one students. For four years it had its home in the building of the School of Medicine. The school is now located in the University group at 2165 Adelbert Road. Since the school became an integral part of the University it has made steady progress. In 1923 it was graded among the first class schools of the country by the Dental Educational Council of America. Today it belongs in the group of eleven leading schools that require two years of pre-dental work, and four years Of professional study. At the end of the second year, students whose grades are above the average may receive the degree of Bachelor of Science under certain conditions. On completion of the four-year course the degree conferred is Doctor of Dental Surgery. N. RICHARDSON A.r.ri.rronr Deem, Aelelbert College Assistant Dean Richardson, Adelbert College. Dear Sir: The article you so graciously contributed will find a home at the start of the Feature Section. It will be impos- sible to run it opposite your picture because it would take up too much room. So would you dash off an article of appro- priate len th to be used opposite your picture? Thank you. David E. Thomas, Editor, ihon. . Dear Dave: I cannot seem to find another arrow handy. But all interested persons now know where my original one fell, and they may turn to the Feature Section. Best regards. Lyon N. Richardson. ROLAND C. TRAVIS A.r.rl.rmnt Deem, Aelelberl College We all want success, but many of us fail-seemingly with everything in our favor. Some of us succeed even against great odds. Why the paradox? We cannot always control the circumstances around usg but we can control our attitudes toward them. In the words of Rebecca R. Williams: One ship drives east, another drives west, While the self-same breezes blowg 'Tis the set of the sail, and not the gale That bids them where to go. Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate, As we journey along through lifeg 'Tis the set of the soul that decides the goal, And not the calm or the strife. WALTER T. DUNMORE School of Lou' Each department is so nearly a separate entity in our Uni- versity that I welcome this opportunity cordially to greet all of the daughters and sons of Reserve. We can take a real satisfaction in the knowledge that high standards of scholar- ship have always been given emphasis at Reserve. In these years of rapid transition one may be sure that the oppor- tunities for development of the individual offered at Reserve are something to be embraced with the certainty that thorough training will better equip for anything which the future may have in store for us. g YXYIESTIEIIRN' IRIESIFJIRWIE L EIU if NIVERSITY