George Washington University - Cherry Tree Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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G. W. U. The 1911 Cherry Tree G. W. U. The College of Engineering and Mechanic Arts HE College of Engineer- ing and Mechanic Arts is the logical develop- ment of the old Corcoran Scien- tific School which was added to the University in 1884. Its growth has been in response to the growing need and demand for such an institution in this community. Its ideals are those of the best engineering schools ot the country. It aims to provide for the young men resident in the District of Columbia instruction in the standard engineering courses. At this time its curriculum includes work in civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering, leading to the specialized degrees of bachelor of science in these subjects. Graduates of these courses may take advanced technical work under the faculty of graduate studies and receive the degree of civil engineer, electrical engineer, and mechanical engineer, respectively. It aims to give, in connection with its technical courses, instruction in the subjects of general culture and learning, a knowledge of which should be a part of the equipment of the trained man in every walk of life. Its student body is drawn from the two constituencies that must be provided for by any institution of higher learning that aims to meet the needs of Washington. It has enrolled among its students constantly increasing number of young men who give their entire time to college work, and who take the full course in four years. It also provides classes at such hours as are available for study by those who, employed in the Government service or in some other occupation, are able to give but a part of their time to study, but who have the preparation, the aptitude, and the perseverance that makes it possible to engage in gainful occupation at the same time that they are taking college courses. Since all such persons must extend their work over more years than ate required by students giving their entire time to the work, it has been found possible to arrange schedules of classes without undue repetition of courses by giving a part of the technical courses in the afternoon, and so alternating the courses assigned to the rfternoon from year to year as to provide for the needs of the students and to give i hem the subjects in proper sequence. The work done by both of these classes of students is of the highest character, and the College is proud of its student body and its alumni.

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G. W. U. The 1911 Cherry Tree G. W. U. Post Graduate Students Hayner Haskell Gordon Ohio Candidate for the Ph. D. degree l t S. in EE.. 1908 : E. K.. 1909, George Washington University Instructor in Mechanical Engineering. George Wash- ington University since 190c Editor for Graduate Studies, I hi n)tu Chkkrv Tkkk John Owen Rankin District of Columbia Candidate for M. A. degree A B„ 1904. Tarkio College T. B. Symons Maryland Candidate for Ph. I). degree B S . tquj ; M S.. 1904, Maryland Agricultural College Professor Entomology and Zoology. Maryland Agri cultural College Entomologist to the Experiment Station and State En- tomologist since 1904 Fellow American Society for the Advancement of Science Active member American Association of Economic Entomologists Washington Entomological Society Geographic Society Secretary -Treasurer of the American Society of Official Horticultural Inspectors and the Maryland Horti- cultural Society Bertha Frances Wolfe Indiana Candidate for M. A. degree B. S. and A. B . Southern Indiana Normal College Member X. S. I). A. K College Woman’s Club Columbian Women Order of Eastern Star The Indiana Society 18

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I asa T was upon a bright, sunny day in September. 1907, that first we entered the doors of the old University with the distinct and heart-felt assurance that we were by far the brightest class that George Washington University had ever matriculated (we had now added that word to our youthful vocabularies and were already using it glibly and frequently). Were there not some Seniors in our history class? Was there not a graduate taking the same mathematics as ourselves? Was not a sedate, beglassed, gray-whiskered married man in our chemistry lecture course? Surely no class had ever been admitted to the University with such honors. These very facts were undoubtedly in full recognition of our phenomenal brilliancy and ability. By the time, however, that the Sophomore days had come the novelty had worn off. We no longer stood in awe of the dignified Seniors, but we were beginning to admire and respect them for the difficult road which they had traveled, and of which we our- selves were now obtaining a bird’s-eye view. We were becoming used to the gray- haired married man. the graduate, and the serious minister. We were no longer afraid to exchange notes and express differences of opinion with the professor upon the impressing and momentous subject of the weather. And then came the Junior year. Many of the brave and brilliant soldier students who had so bravely fought with those legions of books for the past two years had by this time sutcumed as they were wearily climbing the last heights to knowledge. We had left the pleasure seekers, the wanderers, and the dreamers behind and had welcomed into our midst those unfortunates who had failed to meet the requirements of the University for the preceding year. And now we have just completed our Senior year — the doorway to the future. For that we have nothing but eagerness and confidence. Some student with an innate desire for knowledge or a deep-rooted sense of pleasant associations may tell you that it is with regret that he closes the college chapter of his life; that it is with a sad heart that he leaves the old University. But make him think once more upon the situation. I fear that if the diploma now so near his grasp were withdrawn, if the degree, labored for during the past four or five years, as the case may be. were suddenly refused him, that same good student would feel a pang of disappointment go through his heart. He may not acknowledge it even to himself, but the feeling is there just the same. We have had our sorrows and our worries, we have had our pleasures and our joys, but we would not ore of us omit our college course if our lives could be lived over again. Now. we look back with a frown of worry upon our mistakes and our hardships, but when Father Time has passed his ray screen over the picture the high lights, which are the harsh ones, will disappear and we will look back over the worries at some future time — and smile. 20