Georgia Institute of Technology - Blueprint Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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4 4' FRATERNITIES FEATURES BEAUTIES SPONSORS ORGANIZATIONS ADMINISTRATION FACULTY GRADUATES CLASSES DEPARTMENTS MILITARY HONORS ATHLETICS INTRAMURALS

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ww 5 - NEW INSTITUTION came into being on july 1, 1948. For the most part it consisted of the same students, faculty buildings and courses that comprised the Georgia School of Technology. There were- however, notable improve- ments. You, and all of us, have watched the new Georgia Institute of Technology mushroom: in area, from -44 to 125 acres, in number of students, from 2,678 in 1959 to 6,000 in 1949, in the quality of instruction, as evidenced by the influx of prominent engineers and teachers on the faculty, in actual educational size, by the establishment of the Tech- nical Institute, in buildings, as shown by the construction of three huge dorms, a new textile engineering building, a chemical annex and two groups Of modern apartments, in progressive effort, by the raising of a fund for a student act. building and a host of minor building improvements. This progress is not just the inevitable result of a veteran crowded school, for with the issue of this yearbook the bulk of veterans is graduating-and the institution remains crowded and bust- ling. There is no doubt about it, the GIT truly building today for a better future tomorrow. gkrw ' .4-I A xx