Pratt Institute - Prattonia Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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1 ' K A I ' T O N I A CONCERNING PRATT Towering far above her neighbors, Shop and mart and hall, Stands the home of student-labors. Noblest of them all. At each meeting, gi e her greeting. Raise the proud salute. Hail to thee, our Alma Mater, Hail, Pratt Institute. In our hearts her precepts linger. Her example gleams, Shoeing with unerring finger, Guerdon of our dreams. At our meeting, for our greeting. Bring her noble fruit. Hail to thee, our Alm a -Mater, Hail, Pratt Institute. Round the world the chain extending, Each to other binds. All her honored name defending, Hearts and hands and minds. pRAlT INSTITLTE was founded to promote industrial education, - ' ■ to inculcate habits of industr ' and thrift, and to foster all that makes for right living. It offers to both men and women day and evening courses in a wide range of artistic, scientific, mechanical, and household subjects, [13]

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PRATTONIA Board of Trustees Frederic B. Pratt, President Charles Pratt, Secretary George D. Pratt, Fice-Presuient Harold I. Pratt, Treasurer Herbert L. Pratt Theodore Pratt John T. Pratt Richardson Pratt P ' rank L. Barbott, Jr. Associate Council Herbert Adams Henry C. Folcer, Jr. Frank L. Babboit Rev. Johm Humpstone Alfred C. Bedford Francis Jordan Er.vest B. Dane Francis L. Noble William A. White General F.aculty Frederic B. Pratt, Cltairman Charles Pratt, l ue-Cliairman Margaret A. Middleditch, Secretary Walter Scon Perry Frederic W. Howe Samuel S. Edmaxds Edward F. Stevens Josephine A. Rathbone George D. Bartlett C. Franklin Edminster Georgia Everest Mary B. Hyde Ernest W. ' atson Elizabeth C. Condtt Emma Holloway Marjorie Kinney Charles M. Allen Arthur L. Cook John P. Kottcamp Horace W. Marsh Allen Rogers Charles M. Burtis Business Manager Margaret A. Middleditch Registrar Sara H. Evans Secretary John H. Gordon Cashier General Robert G. Butler Purchasing Agent William Mantell Supt. of Buildings Emma L. Elmore Matron Joseph Foster Chief Engineer Dr. Glentworth R. Butler Consultant Dr. O. Paul Humpstone Consultant Dr. Walter A. Sherwood Consultant Dr. Joshua M. Van Cott Consultant Directors of Schools Fine and Applied Arts ------- Walter Scott Perry Household Science and Arts ------ Frederic W. Howe Science and Technology ------- Samuel S. Edmands Library Science --- - Edward F. Stevens [12 1

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P K A T T O N I A and conducts teacher training courses in art, and in art and manual training. The Institute was created and endowed by Charles Pratt, a practical and successful manufacturer who was deeply interested in education. Mr. Pratt was a self-trained man, and, in planning Pratt Institute, was guided almost entirely by his personal experience. He therefore made it a school where young men and women, circumstanced as he had been been, could have the chance that he had never had ; and, because he knew what they needed and why the average school had failed to give it, he planned with an insight and a foresight that have won both approval and admiration. The philosophy of education and life that Mr. Pratt had in 1887 when he founded Pratt Institute is as sound today as it was then. To him, education in its deepest sense meant experience. The development of re- sponsibility, initiative and character comes from doing things in a real way. The arts, the industries, and the home seemed to him to offer the best opportunities for true education, for their problems are real and concrete. While he never lost sight of the value of machinery in the industrial world, he put his especial emphasis on the value of the worker. To give training to workers, both men and women, and to make them intelligent, competent, and happy, was his purpose. To put into the average commonplaces of the shop and the workroom some of the inspiration of culture was his ambition. To do, in short, for the ambitious American man and woman some of the things which, by great effort and sacrifice, he had done for himself, was his reason for founding Pratt Institute. His philosophy of life may be best expressed by one of his sayings: Work is the essential part of life and nothing worth having comes without it. Everything costs something in effort or discipline or sacrifice. Health comes from habits of right living, and that means restraint; wealth comes from persistence and energ ' , and that means labor ; education comes from application and industry, and that means discipline; happiness comes from consideration of others, and that means imselfishness. [14]