Rochester Institute of Technology - Techmila / Ramikin Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION FACULTY CLASSES FEATURES ORGANIZATIONS ATHLETICS FRATERNITIES SATIRE

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GOOD MORNING, AMERICA Facts stay fastened; facts are phantom. An old one-horse plow is a fact. A new farm tractor is a fact. Facts stay fastened; facts fly with bird wings. Blood and sweat are facts, and The commands of imagination, the looks back and ahead, The spirals, pivots, land places, fadeaways, The signal lights and dark stars of civilizations. Now the head of a man, his eyes are facts. He sees in his head, as in looking glasses, A cathedral, ship, bridge, railroad—a skyscraper— And the pi ans are drawn, the blueprints Fixed, The design and the line, the shape written clear. So fact moves from fact to fact, weaves, intersects. Then come more, then come blood and sweat. Then come pain and death, lifting and groaning, And a crying out loud, between paydays. Then the last ghost on the job walks. The job stands up, and joined stresses of facts. The cathedral, ship, bridge, railroad—the skyscraper— Speaks a living hello to the open sky, Stretches forth as an acknowledgement: The big job is done. By God, we made it!' Facts stay fastened; facts fly with phantom bird wings. —Carl Sandburg.

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CO-OPERATIVE COURSES The underlying motive of all progress is, first of all, a spirit of adventure. But this spirit must be supplemented by determination and perseverance toward a definite goal. Because those who have guided Mechanics Institute have possessed such traits as these, the School has been successful in its pioneer wort in the Reid of co-operative education. Since the Institute was founded over forty years ago, its aim has always been to maintain for its students the best possible methods of instruction. Therefore, it is with pride that we point to our co-operative system, the newest type of education. Gradually, the realization came that the technical experience received in the laboratories and class- room was not alone adequate for students who must later face the practical problems of large industrial concerns in the city. The advantage of some method of giving the students the opportunity to work in the well-equipped concerns of the city while at the same time allowing them to follow a schedule in school, seemed unquestionable. In 1923, Mechanics Institute launched upon the adventure and accordingly revised its Engineering