Drexel University - Spartan Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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TH€ 1952 SPRRTRn STAFF GEORGE C. KREWSON Editor WILLIAM D. ROEGER, JR. Assistant Editor RICHARD BLUMBERG Executive Co-ordinator WILLIAM GOLDBLATT Art Editor NORMAN M. ABEL Advertisins Manager EDWARD W. ANDERSON Circulation Manager WALTER L. SCHOEN Specialty Sales Manager GERALD C. HILL Business Manager Associate Editors DORIS SCHWENDNER PAUL S. EARLEY ROBERT KINKLE ROBERT E. STEEL GEORGE S. BAILEY JAMES V. PORTER EDWARD W. ANDERSEN WALTER L. SCHOEN WILLIAM GOLDBLATT

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FOREWORD In this, the year 1952, we have chosen for the theme of our yearbook three words, Knowledge Is Power. Perhaps the apparent simplicity of the phrase is conducive to a passing over of the thought without its due and proper respect being paid. However, the endeavor of man through the ages to elevate himself is basic in its thought. Knowledge in itself is not of extreme importance, but rather it is in its intelligent and capable application and administration that its benefits can be realized. The realization may be called power. Applying the in- tangibles called knowledge to a particular work has long been the bridge between success and mediocrity, ful- fillment and frustration and the key to a useful, important role in life. There is no doubt that there has been a frightful de- cline in the desire of the individual to do a job for its resultant satisfaction and its ultimate contribution to the welfare of the nation, community and family. This atti- tude may stem from the era that is upon us, an era that has created a world wide rot of individual responsibility and an ever increasing dependence on a government to provide some kind of security. Thus the power gained through knowledge may be the power to fight off this deterioration of the values that our forefathers regarded as sacred in the American way of life. Today, education stands as the lone citadel for the preservation of the free enterprise system under whose benefits we have grown mighty. That this is the mightiest and wealthiest nation ever known can not be argued, but that we are capable of keeping that heritage and building upon these foundations even greater contributions than our predecessors is a task that the world is watching with dubious eyes. We accept this challenge not because of any glory involved, but rather because of absolute, dire necessity. Knowledge being power lends to us the proficiency of Finding better ways of surmounting technical problems, lends to us the logic of preventing the blinding of our faults and shortcomings, and exists as the medium through which we must retain our strength, prosperity, and freedom.

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JAMES CREESE PR SID nT, DR6X€L inSTITUTe OF T CHnOLOGY To the Graduatins Class of 1952 The theme of your yearbook is a three-hundred-year old proverb accredited to Sir Francis Bacon, Knowledge Is Power. We can find the same thought in many older adages. But Bacon actually had in mind the kinds of knowledge that have constituted your studies here. He was the first seriously to conceive of an over-all reform of society by the planned application of science to production. Sir Francis had unconventional ideas about knowledge. Learned men of the universities in his day and statesmen of Elizabeth ' s court in such high positions as he held, were not commonly expected to be much interested in the arts of manufacture. Sir Francis, however, made a com- prehensive plan for a new order of society to be a- chieved by those arts. By an organized and intelligent progress in science and invention, he believed that the conditions of human life could be vastly improved and that even our habits of thought could be changed for the better. So he anticipated the technology of our day. In view of the modern achievements of industrial science, his saying that knowledge is power seems only a statement of literal truth. Manufacturing and commerce have been transformed by industrial science. Our economy has become de- pendent on the consistent conduct of organized research. During no other period of history has such a wealth of scientific knowledge been disclosed as in the present century. This is an age in which the power of technology has become plain. No company, no community, and no country can afford now to neglect the search for new knowledge. Nor can any individual. At Drexel ' s sixtieth anniversary convocation this year, there were many striking comments on the wide expansion of industry in our own neighborhood. One well-informed speaker estimated that as much as two billion dollars will be spent soon in the Delaware River area for new plants and new industries. There should be no lack of opportunity here for men who know how to use technical knowledge, when and where to use it, and why. I heartily congratulate you on the successful com- pletion of a long, severe course of study. You believe confidently that your studies here will help you to make the most of your professional opportunities. So do we. Perhaps I need not remind you that your education, how- ever, does not stop now. Your diploma is an invitation to further study. The range of your studies may be steadily broadened: on the job, in the classroom, where advanced certificates and academic degrees are to be earned, in your reading, and in the daily contacts with persons and affairs. You may progress, if you choose, into new technical fields and into adjacent areas of science, eco- nomics, history, and philosophy. That is the right course of an educated man who acquires a true sense of the power of knowledge. James Creese, President