Lowell Technological Institute - Pickout Yearbook (Lowell, MA)

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ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY

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PRESIDENTS MESSAGE The crowning achievement of the educational program of the Lowell Technological Institute is to send forth each graduate with full confidence in his professional competence, real awareness and appreciation of his role in industry and society, and above all, an enthusiastic willingness to assume those responsibilities and duties of leadership which are his right, privilege, and heritage as an educated and enlightened product of the American system of free, private enterprise. As a nation we must recognize that intellectual ability is our only salvation. Like many teaching establishments, this Institute was founded more than sixty years ago as a technical school to meet an urgent need for technicians in a specific field. It has gradually been transformed into a real uni- versity by the expansion of its instructional pro- gram, the original research it has undertaken (and sponsored research at L.T.I, dates back to the exact turn of the century — certainly an innovation in the world of education at that time), and its growing concern for the maintenance of a high intellectual level. The success of modern industry is a product of two factors: knowledge of what to do and the will to do it, a happy combination brought about by the technologist and the business man. Diversity and competition have long been the strength of American industry, and these same two qualities are the hallmarks of technological education, whose declared goal is to prepare students both academic- ally and personally for leadership, to enable them to understand the relationship of their own field of competence to the world at large. Higher education, in particular, Dr. Nathan M. Pusey of Harvard has said, must help each student to find himself as an individual and realize his own capabilities, then, paradoxically, to lose himself in interests, causes, and ideas larger and more enduring than he. This country ' s past has depended for leadership on men with a higher education. Our future also will depend on the quality of our higher education, for as the world continues rapidly to change, our intellectual leadership must be counted on to main- tain our system against totalitarianism, to develop a broader democracy and a widei international understanding. A society geared, like ours, to technology is compelled, in order to remain viable, continually to lift the levels of human welfare. Greater purchas- ing power, more leisure, expanded relish for the end products of factories, communications, and enter- tainment are the very conditions of its survival. It draws its vitality from free men with an ever larger stake in the society, as totalitarians who would combine technology with slavery soon learn to their distress. So it devolves upon men and women with higher education to solve the varied problems of business, finance, science, family, com- munity, state, nation, and international relations, of every phase of our life. It is the mission of the colleges and universities, therefore, to attempt to nurture those attitudes, values, and habits of mind which enable the individual better to cope with life, to create a better world, to find joyful satisfaction and contented fullness in living with responsibility. But education, far from nurturing pride, must encourage humility to be worthy of the name. For humility — a true perspective upon one ' s capabilities and one ' s weaknesses — is the mark of the educated man. As parting counsel from your Alma Mater, I would urge each of you to map out a lifelong pro- gram to read widely, to discuss soundly, to consider carefully issues both local and national, with special effort in the direction of international problems. Have confidence in your opinions, hold to your val- ues, but recognize that your tree of knowledge can always bear more fruit. If, as you stand on the threshold of graduation, members of the Class of 1959, you feel today that you have only begun to appreciate the scope of knowledge and to discern mighty gaps in your own wisdom, I can congratulate you wholeheartedly, for Alma Mater will have achieved her goal. She will have presented you with the challenge to learn and with the accompanying concept that learning must be a lifelong process. Take with you into your lives the best wishes of your college for happiness and worthiness as use- ful citizens. SfylUsJk Jyt

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