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

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G. W, U. The 1913 Cherry Tree G. W. U. Post Graduate Fitzhuch Green, U. S. N. Harold Keats, 0 A X District of Columbia Candidate for A. M.; A IT, George Washington University, 1012: Pyramid, First Davis Prize, Gardiner Hubbard Prize, Daughters of the American Revolution Prize, 1912: First Uni- versity Scholarship: Editor of ihe Hatchet, 1912-13: Manager of Track, 1010-11: Varsity Track Team, 1900, ’10. Tl. 12: Wearer of the W : Class President.. 1909-10: Senior Orator, 1912: Assistant Manager Calcium Club; Girl and Page Chorus: Vice-President Enosinian, 1900; Captain Freshman Football Team, 100 K; Law School Honor Committee, 1915, John Joseph Lenney Virginia Joseph Addison Scott, Jr. 24

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G. W. U. The 1913 Cherry Tree G. W. U. The Department of Arts and Sciences S HE Department of Arts and Sciences is directly the development of the old Columbian College. Its administration is divided into five schools, the School of Graduate Studies, the Columbian College, the College of Engineering and Mechanic Arts, the College of the Political Sciences, and the Teachers College, Hitherto the President of the University has acted as Dean of the Department, but with the growth in the amount of business requiring his attention, it was this year found necessary to choose another member of the Faculty to act in this capacity. Accord- ingly, Dr. Howard Lincoln Hodgkins, Dean of the College of Engineering and Mechanic Arts, was chosen for the position, 1 he School of Graduate Studies, under the administration of Dean Charles F-dward M unroe, Ph.D., has supervision of courses in the University leading to the higher degrees. It confers in course the degrees of Master of Arts (A.M.), Master of Science (M.S.), Civil Engineer fC.E. ), Mechanical Engineer (M.E. ), Electrical Engineer (E.E. ), and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), The Columbian College, headed by Dean William Allen Wilbur, A.M., is the academic school, and is the representative of the old Columbian College, organized in 1821, In 1903 its name was changed to the College of Arts and Sciences, In 1912 it was again given the name of the Columbian College. It confers the undergraduate degrees of Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) and Bachelor of Science in Chemistry (B.S, m Chem.) . The College of Engineering and Mechanic Arts, headed by Dean Howard Lincoln Hodgkins, Ph, D. t offers the undergraduate engineering courses. In 1 884 this college was established in the university under the name of the Corcoran Scientific School, which was in 1 904 changed to the present name. It confers the undergraduate degrees of Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (B.S. in C.E.), in Mechanical Engineering, (B.S. in M.E.), Electrical Engineering (B.S. m E.E,), and in Architecture (B.S, in Arch.). At the end of the present session the College of Political Sciences will be discon- tinued as a separate administrative division, but most of the work will be continued under the administrative direction of Columbian College, After many vicissitudes in the way of a building which would at the same time be comfortably large and convenient to the central part of the city, the Department is now housed in a building which is irt every way suitable. It is to be hoped that this will form the nucleus for the establishment of a campus surrounded by all of the buildings of the University, 23

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LASSES may came and classes may go but the class of 1913 will be recorded in history as the ‘lucky class ' For has not 1913 made an enviable record during the four years of its life and does not that record as a criterion of future prowess bespeak great things? Beginning with our Freshman year when we beat the Sophs at football we have always been right there. And let it be remembered that we have excelled not only in the field of brawn but also in that of brain. We number among our members not only those who have attained distinction in football, basketball and track but we also lay claim to editors and business managers of student publications and presidents vice presidents secretaries and treasurers of numerous other student organizations. There is hardly a student activity in w r hich our class is not interested. In four years we have grown from boys and girls to men and women. We have had our share in the work and have tried faithfully to do it. We shall be meeting a far harder set of instructors out in the University of Life and there will be no make-up exams. Still we are ready to go. And now that we have attained the goal for which we have so long striven and are about to receive our long-coveted reward we feel that college days are all too short. But we know that we have formed many friendships friendships which will be lasting; and the memory of our college days will be a source of inspiration to us in the years to come when we are engaged in the more serious business of life for which we have been fitting ourselves. We have accomplished much during our brief sojourn at G. W. U and we feel that there never has been and never will be a class like 1913 — called by some The Hoodoo Class but more fitly known as The Class Who Do. 25