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

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LOOKING AHEAD IN MANY RESPECTS THE PAST YEAR HAS BEEN DIFFICULT FOR US, THE STUDENTS OF ILLINOIS INSTITUTE. THE PHYSICAL SEPARATION OF OUR CAMPUSES, OUR LACK OF A STRONG COMMON DENOMINATOR, AND OUR SELF- INTEREST ALL IMPEDED THE UNIFICATION OF ARMOUR AND LEWIS INSTITUTES. OF THE ADMINISTRATION, FACULTY AND STUDENTS, WE, THE STUDENTS, SEEMED MOST INHIBITED AND MOST UNWILLING TO ADAPT OURSELVES TO A NEWER AND MORE COMPLEX ENVIRONMENT. BUT OUR YEAR HAS BEEN SHORT AND INSIGNIFICANT WHEN MEASURED IN TERMS OF THE FUTURE. A NEW REALITY, ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CAN BOAST OF THE YEARS AHEAD AS OTHERS BOAST OF A GLORIOUS PAST. OUR GREATEST HOPE FOR THE FUTURE IS THE REALIZATION OF A NEW CAMPUS, FOR THIS, WE FEEL, WILL PROVIDE THE PHYSICAL NECESSITIES FOR STU- DENT UNIFICATION AND FOR A PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION PLAN. YET, THIS ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH, AND WE FERVENTLY HOPE FOR THE PRESERVATION AND EXTENSION OF THE CULTURAL GAINS SO SORELY WON. MORE SPECIFICALLY, WE SHOULD LIKE TO SEE THE ABOLITION OF ARBITRARY GRADE SYSTEMS INVOLVING ENDLESS VA- RIETIES OF GOODNESS, BADNESS, AND INDIFFERENCE, THE DE-EMPHASIS OF HONORARY SOCIETIES WHICH SEEM TO SERVE BEST THOSE WHO NEED THEM LEAST, AND THE OPPORTUNITY, FOR THOSE WHO CAN MEET IT, TO ACHIEVE SOMETHING MORE THAN A SPOON-FED EDUCATION. WE THE CLASS OF '41, ARE THROUGH, BUT WE ARE INEXORABLY BRANDED BY OUR SCHOOL, AND THE SCHOOL BY US. LET US DO EACH OTHER PROUD AS IN OUR SEPARATE PATHS WE LOOK AND WALK AHEAD.

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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.

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BDARD DF TRUSTEES JAMES D. CUNNINGHAM -CHAIRMAN PRESIDENT VICE-PRESIDENT HENRY T. HEALD LINTON E. GRINTER ARMDUR DEAN LEWIS DEAN CHARLES A. TIBBALS CLARENCE L. CLARKE REGISTRAR REGISTRAR WILLIAM E. KELLY AGNESS KAUFMAN HEADS of DEPARTMENTS TREASURER BUSINESS MANAGER GEORGE S. ALLISON RAYMOND J. SPAETH EVENING DEAN GRADUATE DEAN HENRY P. DUTTON LINTON E. GRINTER REGISTRAR WILLIAM N. SETTERBERG I STUDEN