Lowell Technological Institute - Pickout Yearbook (Lowell, MA)

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f PRESIDENT ' S MESSAGE V To the Class of 1953: In dedicating your yearbook to our Research Foundation, you have given added recognition to the importance of scientific investigation and study in every phase of our lives. In the short time the Foundation has been in operation it has established itself as a vital agency in research and develop- ment. In its excellent staff and expanding facilities, there is every promise of ever-greater contributions to scientific knowledge and industrial achieve- ment. We speak casually of our time as The Age of Science , and we are too prone to take for granted the countless wonders which surround us. Research, invention, and development have accelerated to a point where we are now impatient until each new discovery is perfected for our use and enjoyment. Science brings us an almost unbroken flow of new things for our greater well-being, comfort, and convenience. It is also placing in our hands new weapons which in their future refinement may in our time hold over mankind the threat of total destruction. It should be our daily pledge to devote our knowledge and our energies to the cause of improving the lot of all people by the discovery and develop- ment of those things which will make life better, fuller, and happier. Modern research and modern industry, in which each of us has a part and for which we all have some responsibility, must go forward together to build, to create as horizons widen, and to this crusade each of us must be dedicated, if our civilization is to endure and improve. There is no alternative. tw GL £1l 15