Columbia University School of Engineering - Yearbook (New York, NY)

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The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER ALUMNI: For almost forty years Columbia Engineers have been introduced to the problems of surveying and railroad engineering by Professor Lovell's courses in Civil Engineering. With the news of his retirement, many alumni, some gray headed, will have their memories stirred to early days at Camp Columbia when the Prof taught us that surveying was real work and we worried him with impromptu parties of a more general nature. Always very earliest and intense, no student ever slept in Professor Lovell's classes. Generations of Columbia men recall his forceful ersonalit . Their an reciation of the Jart he has la 'ed in the makinff of the Columbia En-Tineer, toffether with their best wishes, I . ' . I b b B go with him on his retirement. EDMUND A. PRENTIS, Preszdeut, Columbia Enoineerinv' Schools Alumni Association. D D STUDENT BODY: , W'hen we came to Engineering School, we sat in our lirst course under the aegis of Professor Lovell. Through three semesters we continued under his guiding hand and with the tap of his ruler on our shoulders. Wie all remember vividly the flash of his eyes and our embarrassment when one of our numbers made an especially foolish remark. But no matter how he scolded, underneath his sternness he felt a deep affection for us and a great pride in our achievements. His text for railroad economics was Wlellington, published some fifty years ago. Of it he said, The figures may be antiquated, but the principles remain true forever. S0 the principles of Fighting for our rights, of straightforwardness, and of honesty, which Professor Lovell so well exemplilied, and which he taught us, will remain ours the rest of our lives. JULES G. SIMMONDS. MEMBERS OF 1934 CLASS SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - Your request for a word from me upon the occasion of your coming graduation from the Engineering School of Columbia University affords me the opportunity to express my appreciation of the honor and the great pleasure it gives me to review in brief the important values which you have in possession at the end of your course of study in this institution. CC011.1'i111zed on next pczgej CIVIL ENGINEERS AND FACULTY Lolzr, illafske, 1.l'1llfjllIllSA, IllllI0j?, Gould, Spatll, Torzclli, Siuacori, Di Lorcizzo, Firclier, ,lI1'11dli11, Osfe1'l7c1'g. Lomb, Gnlfufs. Lahti, I-Iascn, Zussolo, llIagill, D0ll0T'UlI, Qzzllly, ll7FI'l', Kash, mm Halle, SlIllIIl0lId3, Dailey, He.vlz'11, Singer, licyer, Vzls.9ila1'0.r, Tlglzc, Korfvlrl, Finch. Tl1irly-Il1rz'c'

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The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER Qnnnuneing the Retirement nt Beufessut ati IB. iiuhell ARL BRINK LOVELL was born at Marathon, N. Y., on May 2, 1869. After preparing at the Marathon Academy and the Casadilla School in Ithaca, Professor Lovell was graduated with a C. E. degree from Cornell Univer- sity in 1891. For the two years follow- ing upon his graduation, he became as- sistant engineer on location for the Mich- igan Central Railroad, and in 1893 went ' to Lafayette College as an instructor in civil engineering. He joined the faculty at his alma mater in 1896, and 1898 came to Columbia. Professor Lovell's first work at Columbia had to do with building up the instruction in surveying and railroad engineering. He rebuilt Camp Columbia and practically reorganized the summer work in surveying. But he also gave the instruction in masonry construction and for years carried a major share of the department's teaching burden. Later his active life included the oflice of advisory engineer and manager of the survey department for the Lawyers Title and Guaranty Co., N. Y. In connection with these duties he has been a leader' in raising city surveying in Greater New York from a trade to a profession. He has cleared up many important titles to real estate in Manhattan and has been recognized as an expert in the real estate and title insurance field. He became chairman of the Association of Department Heads of his company and was elected president of the Association of Citye Surveyors, Greater New York, and an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. A member of Tau Beta Pi and one of the charter members of the Columbia Chapter of Sigma Xi, Professor Lovell closes thirty-six years of service at Columbia with his retirement on July 1, 1934. DEAN JOSEPH XV. BARKER: After thirty-six years of service to the University, Professor Earl B. Lovell has requested retirement with its relief from the burden of duties. I-le has counselled his Department and our Faculty, he has advised his students, he has built Camp Columbia- he leaves his mark upon the School and the University. lille shall miss his sterling friend- ship and his guidance of affairs. He becomes one of the traditions of the School. FACULTY: A tall, athletic frame, topped by a bountiful crop of hair. Above a pointed beard and mustache. two piercing eyes. The housing of a human dynamo-you can almost hear the hum of the ever active mental machinery. In back of this, a nervous energy driving ever forward-never resting, yet ever ready. Kind and thoughtful friend, my teacher and colleague, 1 sat by your side and heard your idol, the lirst Rooseveltpthrow his hat in the ring back in 1912, But it is you, not Theodore, who shall ever remain to me the embodi- ment of the strenuous lifef' you, uncompromising advocate of truth and right as you see it, who, without let-up or release, plays the game of life with courage, force and honesty, hitting the line hardf' May you hnd well earned rest in your Sabine farm at Cortland. Praornssorz JAMES K. FINCH. Thirty-two

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The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER Your entrance into the School of Engineering in September, 1931, after havingspent three years or more in collegiate training, came at a time when the Countrv was face to face with problems dealing with a financial depression world wide. Many parents. already hachniade great sacrilice to.enable their sons and daughters to pursue collegiatelstudies. Morepxinanyltinies more severe. was to be the calls upon some of them for financial aid if you weregtol enter: the professional school and meet all the expenses incident to three years' additional study at this University. Your decision to carry on your educational program under -such circumstances required not only great courage but it showed exceed- ingly good judgment. These are values of first importance. Moreover, you made your decision and your choice of a school voluntarily. That act emphasizes your own power of initiative. This also is one of the great values of life and the step then taken by you has lead onward and upward to this coming commencement. During your course of study emphasis has been directed by the Instructors in this school to the fundamentals of Engineering Science. You have been taught how to interpret nature, to find the truth, to know HOXIV and XVHY, to read the observations of others with understanding, to verify or disprove by your own research the conclusions andfindings of other I116l1lS minds. Such are the processes of education. I-Iereafter you will supplement this knowledge by that to be gained more expensively in the school of experience. The laboratory, the library and the lield have served you as centers for this intensive study. A working knowledge of how to use these resources is a powerful and valuable attainment. This you have achieved. Ability to observe accurately, to think intelligently and to interpret correctly is indispensable to -a successful engineer. To know the scientific why and how was necessary for your advancement. To anticipate the need of and to formulate a plan for 'fdirecting the forces of nature to the greater benefit of man is evidence of vision and is the special function of the engineer. Let this be your aim. By their works ye shall know them shall apply with telling significance to all that the engineer does. A ' -:-. But you may ask, How is success to be measured? Ultimately by the degree of happiness that shall be attained through ability to render more efficient service and from a feeling or realization of one's own indispensability in or towards the achievement of some chosen objective. A true and upright character is the most honorable and priceless reward ever attainable. All your efforts must lead to a better understanding of the real purpose and the real meaning of life, above everything else, to a better knowledge of yourself and of your relation to your fellow man. Let each one approach his task with confidence that honest work well done will receive deserved recognition, with resolute self control, with earnestness and with enthusiasm. Be master of yourself, show interest in your work and loyalty to your associates. Xhlatch for opportunity to be of greater service and be prepared to accept more responsibility whenever the call comes. Let not disappointments discourage you. Out of such happenings character is developed. Be faithful, honest and generous in your estimate of the merit and ability of others. In the words of the great philosopher, Work today as if you would live forever: Live today as if you were to die tomorrow. fCU'l1ff1l1lEd 011 page 48D TESTING IUAGHINE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING LABORATORY Tllirty-fain'