Millikin University - Millidek Yearbook (Decatur, IL)

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efjool of Commerce anb Jf tnance ALBERT R. TAYLOR, Ph. D., President. Prof VV. W. Smith. WILLIAM WILBERFORCE SMITH, LL. D. Professor of Commerce ami Finance Lafayette College, A. B. 1880. LLD. 1905. Princeton Theological Semi- nary, 1881-1882. Instructor Lawrence- ville (N. J.) School, 1882-1885. Head- master, Englewood (N. J.) School for Boys, 1885- 1895. In business, New York and San Francisco, to 1904. Headmaster, Berkeley School. New- York City, 1904-1905. President, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, la., 1905-1908. WILLIAM C. STEVENSON, LL. B. Professor of Commerce and Finance. Kansas State Normal School, 1889 ; Chicago University, 1900; University of Virginia, 1901 ; Columbian University LL. B., 1902. instructor in Bookkeep- ing, Commercial Law and Methods, Kansas State Normal School, 1889-1900; Principal Department of Commerce. The Jacob Tome Institute. 1900-1904. ELMER A. RILEY, A. B. ATA- Assistant Professor of Commerce and Finance. A. B. Baker University, 1905; Graduate Student and Fellow, History and Political Economy, University of Chicago, 1905-1908. CALVERT W. DYER, A. B. K Z- Secretary and Instructor in Commerce and Finance. Cumberland University, A. B. 1900; Lockyear ' s Business College, Ind., 1902. HENRY C. STANLEY, A. B. Assistant Professor of Commerce and Finance. Fairfield College, 1887-1892, A. B .and Professor of Bookkeeping and Com- mercial Law; Northwestern University of Nebr., 1894-1896, M. S. ; Fairfield College, 1896, M. Acct. ; Peru State ' Normal, 1899-1900. State Certificate. First Semester. Never idle a moment but thrift and thoughtful of -others. ' - — Paul Welch. 25

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cJjool of engineering ALBERT R. TAYLOR, Ph. D., President. HE chief object of engineers is to keep things moving. The Wander- lust is so strong in the normal man that if organized means of travel were not available, and especially with round trip tickets, we might all become tramps, restlessly dodging weather and work. Again, since even the farmer 1 has learned to specialize in production, the scattering of the accumulations of individual specialists so that A may not starve while B freezes to death becomes a matter of prime importance. One object of engineering schools is to train men to make the distribution of people and things more uniform. The civil engineer prepares the way, the mechanical engineer, the tools anil machines, and the electrical engineer brings together trails and trains and furnishes the push, at 120,000 volts, if you please. Of course each man must know something of and participate in the work of the others. For this reason the electrical engineering student studies survey- ing, the embryonic mechanical engineer shines in D. C , and the civil engm- eer-to-be hardens his mental digt ' stion on (i ( li et of extracts from all the courses that do not conflict in dates. In common with other engineering schools the J. M. IT. college of engineer- ing aims to cover the essential ground in the above mentioned particulars for all three classes of engineers in both class work and laboratory practice. The civil engineer has work in designing roads and bridges and laboratory practice in testing materials. The mechanical engineer in pattern shop, foundry, forge and machine shops makes tools and machines, and in the mechanical laboratory operates and tests prime movers and their accessories. The electrical engineer in his laboratories tests and operates roups of machines, dynamos, motors, transformers .etc.. and from their thus determined properties plans his systems for the generation, transmission, distribution, and utilization of energv. The student masters all these items much better in school laboratories than in commercial shops, notwithstanding recently expressed opinions of self-styled practical men to the contrary. Some of the reasons are these: In the school the object of everything is the training of the pupil. In tin. ' factory the apprentice is an incident, toler- ated in so far as he is useful to the factory. In the school the various opera- tions are attacked analytically, slowly enough for perfect mastery, yet a new one taken up as soon as the last one is familiar. In the commercial shop the apprentice learns chiefly by imitation and by following a routine of more or less superficial directions with no attempt to analyze laws and reasons. The school thus furnishes a happy combination of deliberation and speed, mak- ing the question of the student ' s success depend entirely on his own efforts. There are various ways in which the engineering department realizes a kind and degree of cidture unapproached by other educational sidijects, such as in the coordination of physical and mental functions and in the materialization of mental concepts. Such things make engineering study valuable also for those who do not intend to take up engineering practice in after life. A man used not to be a ladies man to be a man. — Floyd Perry. n 21 It li 24

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Principal Manhato Commercial College 1901-1903. Illinois College of Law. 1907-1908. ALBERT T. MILLS, A. M. Professor of History and Political Science. ROBERT J. KELLOGG, Ph. D. Professor of Modern Languages. GRACE PATTEN CONANT, A. M. Professor of English Language and Literature. JOHN C. HESSLER, Ph. D. Professor of Chemistry. A little, tiny, pretty, witty charming darling she. — Helen Waggoner.