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

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E DEDICATE The staff of the 1942 CABLE found little difficulty in selecting the person to whom it should dedicate its efforts. There is no doubt that there will be complete agreement among the student body on our selection of Professor Walter Samuel Watson as the recipient of this symbol of our appreciation. As Director of Admissions and Student Relations, as Assistant Pro- fessor of Psychology, as counselor to the students of The Cooper Union, he has proved himself to be most discerning and competent. One need meet Professor Watson but once to understand the reasons for his being chosen to greet incoming freshmen. His friendly efficiency and kindness inspire trust in all who come in contact with him. Although a member of the faculty for- only three years, he has already caught the spirit of the institution whose guiding principles Peter Cooper and Abram S. Hewitt expressed in the thought, Help the people to help themselves. Furthermore, Professor Watson has contributed a great deal to the establishment of closer relations between the faculty and the students. Invaluable, for example, has been his supervision here of the National Youth Administration. With his keen psychological insight he has aided the students by providing tasks challenging to them and useful to the school. His own typical American boyhood accounts for his deep understand- ing of the problems of college youth. The qualities of good sportsmanship were instilled in him at an early age. Camp in the summer, the usual home chores and household duties of a Middle Western home, church on Sunday -all went into the molding of his multi-dimensional personality. At college he played in the band, acted in plays, and wrote for the college paper. Since graduation he has been at various times a science teacher, an athletic coach, toll traffic engineer, and physicist. At other times he has engaged in such disparate activities as conducting prayer meetings, registering the heat of the sun on the lofty peaks of the Andes for the Smithsonian Institution, and, recently, tractor-mowing sixty acres of hay. His studies of the psychology of religious beliefs are often quoted by authorities in attitude research. ' From this broad experience and diversified background he has drawn the qualities of character and mind which serve so usefully and sympathe- tically the needs of The Cooper Union. Therefore, we feel privileged to dedicate to Professor Watson this, our 1942 CABLE.

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