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

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pre- ngineering Give me some men, said Peter Cooper in 1859, who are stout-hearted men and I will return fifty percent of them as fully qualihed engineers. VVhether or not the founder of our school ever uttered those words cannot be proven. Nevertheless, the freshmen engineers are strong believers in the authenticity of the quotation. The saga of the Freshman Class begins on September 17, 1947 when the 108 embryonic engineers entered the hallowed halls of Cooper to register for classes. However, a more interesting and certainly more pleasant side of the Freshman Class exhibited itself at Green Engineering Camp a week earlier when the freshmen were introduced to some ol the faculty as well as to one another. At camp it was discovered that as long as the fellows were well fed and well supplied with sporting equipment, they were a surprisingly amiable group of young men. However, under the conditions of severe mental and physical strain en- countered at Cooper Square, the group underwent a metamorphosis unparalleled in the evolution of man. Gone are the grinning laces seen at camp, gone are the carefree attitudes and in their place are physics books, slide rules and haunted looks. .