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

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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

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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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1lQD334lflN'illHiQDN ' CHARLES C. ARBUTHNOT Profeuor of Economics If gratification of intellectual curiosity is an important pur- pose of a science, economics has abundant opportunity to serve this day and generation. Rapidly moving events in startling combinations jig-saw current expectations into puzzles that strain even the brain familiar with theory and practice. If one knows his economics, i. e., knows how men behave in the business of getting a living, his chances of adjusting him- self to the complexities of the world around him are greatly increased. He can avoid many of the pitfalls into which the ignorant stumble, and get a foot on the ladder that only the trained can climb. No knowledge is adequate for all emer- gencies, but there is a strong probability that disciplined intelligence will furnish required caution and guidance for necessary action. If one knows his economic world and is able to adjust him- self to it, there is a lively hope that he may be able to help make it a better world in which he and his fellows may live and work and play. The percenta e of well-intentioned social reformers' efforts that are wasted through ignorance of fun- damentals runs into figures of technocratie magnitude. HARRY W. MOUNTCASTLE Proferrar of Playtriar It is perhaps not generally known that Einstein's Theories of Relativity owe their existence to the celebrated experiment performed on the campus of Adelbert College in the year 1887. This experiment, known as The Ether-Drift Experiment, was performed by Professors A. A. Michelson and E. W. Morley in the basement room of the Main Building of Adelbert College now used as the University Book Store. The experi- ment proved that the ether, if it exists, was scarcely dragged along by the earth in its flight through space. Professor Michelson occupied the chair of Physics at Case School of Applied Science while Professor Morley held the correspond- ing position in Chemistry at Adelbert College. CLIN F. TOWER Profeiimr of Claemirnjy For the last six years we have had a very elhcient course of graduate study in chemistry leading to the degrees of M. A. and Ph. D. As it happens, most of the students working for these higher de rees are not graduates of Western Reserve, but come to us fiom other institutions. What we should like to see is more of our good undergraduates recognizing the opportunities here, and taking advantage of them. CI ARENCE P. BILL Praferror of C!tz.r.ric.r The Department of Classics aims to teach men not only to translate the literatures written in Greek and Latin but to read them with appreciation and enjoyment. These litera- tures are called the classics because they are enduring standards of what men can do in literary art, and because they have been the models for modern literature. English and other modern languages and literatures are therefore full of Greek and Latin influence, and a thorough understanding of them requires a knowledge of Greek and Latin. The same is true of Medieval history. The classics may therefore be pur- sued both for what they contribute to the understanding of later literature and history and for their own intrinsic merit. WESTERN IRIESHEIRWIE N II VIE JR S TI 'IF Y