Cornell University - Cornellian Yearbook (Ithaca, NY)

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Come the cool days of Fall—come the warm days of Spring—you will find the various types of engineers lounging in front of the ivy covered buildings on the upper end of the campus. It should be noted, however, that engineering is expanding—down to Kimball-Thurston and Olin, and up to Nuclear Physics. The engineer is hidden in his own little world of countless re|M rts, labs, and prelims. He does find time, in spite of five years of millions of class hours a term, to make an occasional trip to the Ivy Room after his afternoon lab, where he might gulp down some black coffee and eye a co-ed. As he walks by the “centers of culture in the Quad, he may take comfort in the fact that when and if he graduates he is assured in his vocation, a source of triumph in the continual haggling with his Arts school colleagues. I lie college ot' 1] li I E1] III li lll'illl soli) 111 (I II c. IHlllisItM'

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Nowhere is one more conscious of the coeducational aspect of Cornell than in the time-honored haven of the Arts School—Goldwin Smith Hall. It is here that the freshman is first introduced to Pom• mer and Sale, to the origins of contemporary civilization, and to the many new experiences that will stimulate and develop his intellectual awareness throughout his four years in the Arts College. The main quadrangle, the Arts student's especial home, has come a long way from the days when Morrill Hall stood starkly alone, surrounded by fifteen foot drainage ditches. Today, its well kept lawn is encompassed by Goldwin Smith, Stinison, Boardman, the Main Library, McGraw, White, that same Morrill Hall and some engineering buildings off to the north. In spring, the ever somber statues of Ezra and Andrew watch over lethargic students, playful dogs, and the | opular professor who disdained tin sultry classroom. The flippant regard for tin Arts student’s occasional pause in the Ivy Hoorn for a cup of coffee and a crossword puzzle shows a lack of perspective. The graduating student may claim a truly liberal education; he has received a wealth of heterogeneous ideas, and an understanding of his fellowman. dean |ianl in. o'learv 25

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III!1 school of I' II K 11 I I' 1 li nuumu Chemical Engineering became an integral part of the University back in 1931, and since then has grown very rapidly. It now includes a full curriculum in Metallurgical Engineering. The five-year undergraduate program, which was soon adopted by all of the other engineering schools, began with the Chemical Engineering School. Although he is required to take 189 credit hours, more than any of the other prospective engineers, and must maintain a 75 cumulative average, the Chem E should feel that he is well rewarded in the form of Olin Hall. This brick home of the Chem E’s is the ultramodern nucleus of the engineering campus-to-be. and houses the I nit Op Lab, the pride of many an engineer. I’ml li. rliiilies, dim Ini' 27