Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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THE PHILOSOPHY OF CALC. For those who have never had the privilege of reciting to Prof. Stanton, we present the following : You ' ll find some nice little algebra in that problem. Unless ye become as little children ye cannot enter the Kingdom of Calculus. When you ' ve mastered a problem and go out into the open, doesn ' t the grass soem a little greener, and the sun a little brighter ? To a student who was hurrying through a problem so he wouldn ' t be questioned : When you ' re on thin ice, it ' s a pretty good plan to skate fast. Just before the roll call : ' I wonder how the battle has gone. To a student who was about to give up trying to solve a problem : Don ' t die on third base. After explaining some point at length : You want to pin that fast. Well, now, I wonder if Mr. is thinking analytically. Hold yourselves down to the finals. When they are over, you can go out and fling your hats over the Old Main ! An educated man is one who can do the things he ought to do in the time they ought be done, regardless of what his desires may be. To a student who is not using the principles of geometry : Mr. is like the man who comes to a brook with a plank on his shoulder. Instead of putting the plank across the brook, he throws it behind him, and jumps across. Explaining the theory of limits : If you start to walk to the Dining Hall, and go just half the distance ; then go half the remaining distance, etc., etc., you will finally reach a point where the distance between you and the doorway is infinitely small. But you can never step inside the Hall if you continue to halve the distance. Never- theless, when you reach this point, we have no fear that you will miss your dinner. In ' 99, after the Iowa game : Easy problems are like easy foot-ball games. These little games don ' t count for so much, but it means something to play a hard game with the team that tied Chicago. To a student who is apt to wander more or less during a demonstration : Be sure you get on the right train before starting for your destination. — 10 —

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Base ball and the old-fashioned foot ball were prevalent, however. He joined a base ball team known as The Champions. The nine won numerous victories and thus early set the pace which old I. S. C. has since maintained. As present day students can testify his interest in athletics is never wanting, and those who knew him in those earlier days well know that it is from a genuine hearty interest in manly sports. Seriously, in conclusion, this is the testimony from one who was most intimately associated with him in school life and office work : Edgar M. Stanton was the embodiment of those noble qualities of manhood which have made his maturer years such a benediction to the hosts of students who have gone from old I. S. C. He was never a shirk, but with bouyant hopefulness he did faithfully and well his every task. He worked his own problems, got his lessons well and played only when his duties were done. He was a faith- ful, conscientious student. It is but the simple truth when I say that he was one of the best beloved and most influential students of those early years, and his later honored career of wide useful- ness is no surprise to his friends and associates of the seventies. 0. H. C, ' 72. E. W. STANTON, Taken in ' 2

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A REVIEW AND AN OUTLOOK. By DEAN STANTON. The Bomb of ' 05 is fitted into the life of the College in one of the most encouraging periods of its history. Turn which way we will we find evidence of progress so marked as make even cold fig- ures inspirational. The total college enrollment in 1897, including short course students, was 542. It now approximates 1400 in the long courses and exceeds 1900 in all. During this same time the instructing force has increased from 54 to 95. This remarkable growth means that the College is no longer one of the smaller but one of the lar- ger institutions of learning. It means for it, added opportunity, a wider field of usefulness, more lives touched by its influence, more workers fitted for their tasks, more true hearts loving the institution and its traditions, and a larger constituency devoted to advancing its interests. For the future it means a larger, better and stronger College. The growth of the institution in these later years is strikingly exemplified in our department buildings. The unstinted and self- sacrificing efforts of more than thirty years secured for the College a building equipment of less than half a million dollars in value. The first six years of the present century will add three-fourths of a million to this building inventory. We can rejoice too that we have outgrown the low standard of cheap and temporary structures. Thanks to the indefatigable labors of that prince of leaders, Dr. Beardshear, and the wise generosity of the State, our later buildings are of a most substantial character. Ex- pert judges unanimously testify that the Engineering Hall is the finest building for its purpose to be found in this country. The new home of the Department of Farm Mechanics is fire-proof, com- modious and unequaled in its line, while the new Green-Houses and Judging Pavilion are models of convenience and utility. The Central Building, when completed, will probably rank among Iowa buildings second only to the State Capitol in architectural design and — )1 —