Cooper Union College - Cable Yearbook (New York, NY)

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GANO DU N N Presidenf TH STEES Gano Dunn, PresidenT oT Cooper Union, is one ol: The besT known engineers in The counTry. He received his BS. aT C.C.N.Y. and his lvl.S. aT Columbia. For many years he has been aTTiliaTed wiTh The J. G. WhiTe Engineering CorporaTion. J. PierponT Morgan has been TrusTee OT Cooper Union since I9I2, Mr. Morgan received his AB. aT Harvard and has been Thrice honored wiTh an LL.D. Elihu RooT, Jr. has been TrusTee oT Cooper Union since l929. AT HamilTon Mr. RooT earned his Phi BeTa Kappa and has been honored wiTh an LL.B. aT Harvard. Percy R. Pyne, Jr. has been Treasurer oT Cooper Union since I925. He began his college career aT PrinceTon and received boTh his AB. and lvl.S. aT New College, Oxford, England. Barklie Henry became a TrusTee in I935. He also serves in This capaciTy Tor The ST. Georges School, NewporT, R. l., and Tor The Green Vale School oT Roslyn, L. I. Edward L. Rehm was elecTed SecreTary in i926 aTTer he had been assisTanT Secre- Tary Tor eighT years. His oTTice is really re- sponsible Tor lceeping The machinery oi The school running smooThly.

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Shori and solid You s+and in fhe shade Of +I-ue rumbling El'. In your rooms The answers To Hue mysieries Of space and fime. In your door Go Hue Curious Ouf come Hwe knowing. M.D.W. HEWITT B ILUI G W' i Q

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UIHEETUH T DR. EDWIN SHARPE BURDELL V ' ATTer one Tull year oT ouTsTanding adminisTraTion our direcTor may well look back upon his TirsT address which he made aT his lnsTallaTion. Cooper Union looks back upon a single Tounder. lTs mosT precious heriTage is The charTer which Tor sevenTy-nine years has susTained iTs amazing viTaliTy, and which in This groping world remains a classic declaraTion oT social iusTice. When arTisTs and engineers collaboraTe, Then The design engineers, mechanical and elecTrical, are quickened inTo an arTisTic consciousness. STudenTs' liTe here aT Cooper Union is relaTively unorganized. There is a limiTed parTicipaTion in sTudenT acTiviTies and aThleTics. l conclude by invoking eTernal vigilance in behalT oT The principle oT social iusTice proclaimed by PeTer Cooper eighTy years ago. Thus The sTudenT oT our insTiTuTion has come Tully To undersTand The issue which is so gloriously Cooper Union's and our DirecTor has Tallen in line wiTh The basic ideas and has become parT oT The school as The school has become parT oT him. The DirecTor brings a long and varied experience To his work aT Cooper Union. Born in Columbus, Ohio, over TorTy years ago, The son oT a banker, he received a liberal educaTion. ATTer his preliminary Training Dr. Burdell aTTended The Mass- achuseTTs lnsTiTuTe oT Technology. His work was inTerrupTed by The war during which he served as second lieuTenanT oT inTanTry. l-le conTinued his sTudies aT The GraduaTe School oT Business AdminisTraTion aT l-larvard. ln i929 he received his MA. from Ohio STaTe UniversiTy and Tive years laTer his Ph.D. Trom The same school. Dr. Burdell TaughT aT Tv1.I.T. in The DeparTmenT oT English and l-lisTory. He became inTeresTed in The problem oT urban dwellers and made exTensive sTudies in ciTy planning and housing, criminology and penology. ln I937 Dr. Burdell was chosen Dean oT The l'lumaniTies aT lvl.l.T. IT is Trom This laTTer posiTion ThaT Cooper Union received Dr. Burdell. From his one year oT service To The school The sTudenTs and TaculTy alike realise ThaT They can be proud oT Their new direcTor.