Central High School - Brecky Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Foreword There is a city in Egypt, a metropolis of over a million people, which in its antiquity and hugeness of size is at once an outpost of a new civilization and the center of an old. But out of this old city have come emperors and Pharoahs. men and leaders of men, among a people who shaped and moulded the future of their world and ruled over much of it at one timeg a people producing a band of seamen who piloted their galley through the Gates of Hercules and halfway down the coast of Africa centuries before the Christian era! So we like to think sometimes of Engineering: with a glorious present and future, but with a past immense almost beyond comprehension. lt was not far from that city at the head of the Nile Delta and in a time not remote from its founding that the life story of engineering began. Southward along the river are found the mighty Pyramids and Sphinx, huge obelisks quarried in single shafts of stone. statues sixty feet high hewn on the face of cliffs. and crypts and temples cut within. Passing down through the sweep of years we see the traces of the great Babylonian towers and arches of brick, and then-Greece! Here was a people who built the most beautiful structures in the history of time, a people so skilled in engineering that they constructed curves to counteract optical illusions that would have made a straight line appear as bent! Then came the Romans with their roads, their aqueducts. their own temples, their Forum. their Colosseum. unique in its grandeur and immensity. Afterward. in the Middle Ages, there began to arise the massive towers and battlements of those splendid old feudal castles. Later, when the cities were appearing. we know of the Gothic cathedrals, with reinforcing abutments that there might be the heavy roofs and the beautiful stained glass windows, with gargoyles outside that there might be a more whole-souled religious atmosphere inside. Such has been the past of Engineering. It is a life story as old as the history of mankind and fully as varied and absorbing. Through it all has run. like a connecting and unifying force. the spirit of classic beauty. In its works have been embodied the soul, the dreams, the ideal of the aesthetic gropings of the nations of the earth. Up to the present it has meant in a large measure the medium through which loveliness was grasped and held for its own sake. Then in the last hundred years a fundamental change spread over the globe. The great Industrial Age had its birth and beginning. The factory overshadowed the temple. Engi- neering was called to the task of building up the commercial system of a planet. VVars burst forth and smoldered out. leaving each time a larger proportion of an already distorted world drooping and diseased in heart, apparently seeking ugliness as it might a false god. Now, however, we stand in the dawn of a new period. A stupendous drama among the clouds becomes apparent as the light grows clearer. Shadows recede. The great science, which for thousands of years has formed in beauty the Hner things of its peoples. is making another conquest. The every-day. the matter-of-fact, the common and useful are becoming lovely, too. No one can deny the charm of a skyscraper and its grandeur. A much- traveled bridge which cannot be constructed of classic marble may nevertheless be breath- taking in its grace. Tunnels, canals, dams. ships, and even factories. are growing less and less hideous. Symmetry is not at all an impossible luxury. And the less material things are rising more slender and more spiritual. Gothic cathedrals are going up once more, and monuments are graceful again. lt is our world which Engineering is building, our inheritance from the past, and the fulfillment of our dreams for the future. lt is rather as a personal tribute. then. than as a mere expression of gratitude that we of the Class of 1929 offer our book. The Brcrky, in dedication to Engineering and the man who is a leader of Engineers as well as of his fellow- men. Herbert Hoover. DAXVID SACHS, Editor-izz-Cliicf. RAY MILLER, Assoriafc Editor. 4

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To all the hope-the eager confidence- That challenges a mountain or a sea: To inspiration, which must always be Child of a creed of simple elements: And to the vision, running far ahead, Piercing the misty future with its light, Illumining each hollow and each height Along the course whereon our feet shall tread 5 And to the patience that can toil for years To see a dream take shape and be fulfilled: To steadfastness of purpose which can build A work to take its place among the spheres, And to the love of beauty, which appears In sky-saluting peak or lowly nook, Haze-veiled or sharply cut-to these this hook Is dedicated-to our Engineers. -Ray Miller 3

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