Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn - Polywog Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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53 FRED WASHINGTON ATKINSON Prcsiclcnt cj the Polytcclznfic Ifrzstitute of Brooklyn Don't be a grind, he tells them all, As Frosh they enter every fall, But those who've tarried here a While, Wfork on, with reminiscent smile. Born in Reading, lVIass., 1865, A. B., Harvard Univer- sity, 1890, Ph.D., University of Leipzig, 1893, Head of Science Department, Westfield Massacliusetts High School, 1890-91, University of Berlin, 1891, University of Halle, 1899, Universities of Jena and Sorbonne, 1893-94, Principal, Springfield, lVIassachusetts, High School, 1894-1900, General Superintendent of Educa- tion, Philippine Islands, 1900-03, Superintendent of Schools, Newton, Mass., 1903-0-1, President, Poly- technic Institute of Brooklyn, from 1904, lVIen1ber, Board of Education, New York City, 1916-18, Author of The Philippine Islands.

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The greatest service rendered to the nation by the Institute was, probably, the establishment at Tech of a camp of the Students' Army Training Corps of the United States Army. This was preceded by the enlistment of twenty-four Tech men for a period of two months' training at the Officers' Training Vamp at Plattsburg. Of this number, nine were commissioned as lieutenants and were dispersed thruout the country as army instructors or for further training in other branches of the service. The remainder of this contingent returned to Tech and became 11011-COll1I111SS10l16d officers in the Training Corps. f llhis corps was organized on October 1, 1918, and was composed of regularly enrolled students whose training was in part that of the regular infantry units, and part of engineering studies, so as to fit them for further training at Officers' Training Camps. The commanding officer at Tech was Capt. Arnold J. Grant, and he was assisted by a staff of five lieutenants. The men were quartered i11 the various parts of the building that had been turned into barracks, and drilled on the levelled lXIurphy Park. The unit at Tech was disbanded with the rest of the army and before an opportunity was given it to show its merits. It may be stated in passing that such was the efficiency of the personnel of the unit at Tech that it was the first army unit in the country to be completely disbanded after the passing of the emergency. III Thruout the 1Vorld lvar tl1e Polytechnic Institute was one of the foremost i11 rendering aid to the government in its various war activities. She supplied 600 men for the ranks, and her faculty and laboratories were placed at the disposal of the Government. Thruout the war it maintained a civil organization to aid and comfort Tech boys in the service, and later was turned into an army camp to further the aims of the 1Var Department. Of the boys who left the Institute, many won commissions in the Army and Navy, and one Tech alumnus became a Colonel in the most famous regiment of Engineers, the Eleventh Engineers. Another who left Tech to join the colors was a lieutenant of Artillery in the Twenty-Sixth Division when he was killed in action. Two Tech men died in Naval Training Stations, and two other men, one who had been a lieutenant of Field Artillery and the other a sergeant in the Engineers met with violent deaths in the summer of 1919. A Tech student led the first detachment of Allied troops to reach the Rhine. The Polytechnic Institute well did her share in the Ivorld lvar, and has well earned the share of the glory that will be hers when the Full Tale is told.

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