Northeastern University - Cauldron Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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CARL STEPHENS ELL A.B., M.S., ED.M., SC.D., LL.D., L.H.D. PRESIDENT OF NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY

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PleA ideat r MeHac e , ometime when you are in Washington you will see at the entrance to the National Archives Building on Pennsylvania Avenue two •j massive figures at each end of the stone terrace; one, an aged man representing The Past ; and one, a young woman, representing The Future. Below the latter figure is the inscription from Shakespeare What is Past is Prologue. You well know that this statement has proved to be true in the history of our civilization; it is true in our own lives, in the education which prepares us for the future; it is no less true in the growth of Northeastern University. It is a source of great joy to belong to a college which has a long history, which is filled with tradition. We admire these colleges but there is something challenging and inspiring in sharing the progress of a developing university as you and I do here at Northeastern. Our Huntington Avenue campus and buildings as conceived in 1934 are rapidly becoming a reality, and will form a complete unit when the new Classroom-Laboratory Building is occupied in the fall of 1956. Our programs have been enriched and refined, even in the five years since you entered college. Northeastern contin ues to gain stature in the community and in the nation. We have every reason to look forward to greater growth in physical assets, in educational prestige, in service to the young people who will enter its doors in the years to come. I have always liked the tone of the editorial which appeared in the Northeastern News in May of your freshman year. It closed with the words: We are students of a young school, one that is still growing. Here at N. U. we operate in the present with an eye to the future, not on tradition alone. This is your University. May you, the members of the Class of 1956, continue to gain in knowledge and skill after you leave Northeastern, and may the future be filled with hope and promise and challenge for each one of you. -oL A JL

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in Jfflemonam HENRY EDWARD RICHARDS Electrical Engineering April 12, 1896 -March 4, 1955 If we work marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon the immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity. — Daniel Webster AVROM AARON LEVE Psychology August 29, 1926 - February 19, 1956