Illinois Institute of Technology - Integral / Lewis Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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DEDICATION FEW THINGS BESIDES FIRE START BY SPONTANEOUS COM- BUSTION, AND EVEN FIRE UNFANNED WILL SMOLDER AND DIE. ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DID NOT JUST HAPPEN , IT BECAME A FACT ONLY BY VIRTUE OF WORK AND DEVOTION. TYPIFYING THE MEN WHO MADE OUR SCHOOL POSSIBLE, LINTON E. GRINTER NOT ONLY HOPED BUT PLANNED, NOT ONLY WISHED BUT ACTED. DR. GRINTER, VICE-PRESIDENT OF ILLINOIS INSTITUTE, CAME TO ARMOUR INSTITUTE IN T929 AS PROFESSOR OF STRUCTURAL ENGI- NEERING. WITH HIS COMING, HIS ENERGIES AND HIS INTER- ESTS BECAME WHOLLY OURS, AND HIS ASSOCIATON WITH US HAS BEEN MORE THAN PLEASANT, IT HAS BEEN PRODUCTIVE. WE FEEL IT FITTING, THEREFORE, THAT THIS, THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE POLYGON BE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO HIM.

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LIONEL NAUM EDITOR DONALD CREGO BUSINESS MANAGER PROF. WALTER HENDRICKS FACULTY ADVISOR PUBLISHED BY THE CLASS OF 1941 ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

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WE, THE FOSTER CHILDREN OF ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, STILL OWE A DUTY. LEST THIS DEGENERATE INTO LAVENDER AND OLD LACE, WE SHALL REVIEW THE ARMOUR AND LEWIS OF OLD AS THEY WERE, NOT AS THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN OR SHOULD HAVE BEEN. ROSE COLORED GLASSES DIM THE PERCEPTION, AND THOUGH THE PICTURES ARE PRETTY, THEY LACK SUBSTANCE AND TRUTH. FOUR YEARS AGO, WE ENTERED OUR SCHOOLS - EAGER, PLIABLE, AND CURIOUS. ACCLIMATED BY PASSIVE RESISTANCE, THE PATH WAS EASY FOR SOME. WE STUDIED WHAT WE WERE TOLD, WHEN WE WERE TOLD, BUT NEVER WITHOUT BEING TOLD. WE PUR- SUED OUR DEGREE WITH A BLIND AND RELIGIOUS FANATICISM. OTHERS WHO STOPPED TO QUESTION THE WHYS AND WHEREFORES OF THE MERRY-GO-ROUND, MET WITH A SYMPATHETIC BUT SLIGHTLY DEAF EAR. WE FOUND OURSELVES STRAIGHT-JACKETED IN A ROUTINE CURRICULUM FROM WHICH THERE WAS NO ESCAPE. TRADITION WAS THE DICTATOR, AND TRADITION IS OFTEN BLIND TO NECESSITY AND REALITY. AND YET, THE LIBERAL SPIRIT IN EDUCATION WAS NOT BROKEN, IT WAS MERELY BENT. NEW MEN AND METHODS, AND NEW IDEAS HAVE GRAD- UALLY BEEN HEARD AND EVALUATED - OUR SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE FORSOOK THE COMPARATIVE SECURITY OF BEAUX ARTS COMPROMISE AND LOOKED AT THE FUTURE, OUR POLITICAL SCIENCE BECAME IN A MEASURE SO- CIAL, OUR LITERATURE DYNAMIC. IT SEEMS HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THESE CHANGES HAVE COME ABOUT LARGELY WITHIN OUR COLLEGE YEARS - HARD TO BELIEVE BUT NOT HARD TO TAKE. ARMOUR AND LEWIS ARE GONE, AND WE LOOK, WITHOUT REMORSE FOR THE OLD, TO THE FUTURE OF THE NEW ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY.