University of Missouri College of Engineering - Shamrock Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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w THE SHAMRQCK . 4 l That there is a great deal of truth in such charges we will not attempt to deny. The education we receive here may be forming us all to the same mold, and it may be true that we are having the vital sap of individualism carefully baked out of usg we will not attempt to argue the question here. But it would be well for the kickers to consider that for those among us who are weak in special talents, all the coaxing and nursing in the world will not so increase the vitality of our individual natures as to prevent them from being thoroughly dried out and wasted in the pitiless fire of industrial activity in after life. On the other hand the impress of the hidebound curricular mold will not crush out individuality wlhere it it strong, any more than the corking up of good wine for many years will impair the flavor. A man who has it in him we contend cannot have it ressed baked worn throttled broken or J J P 5 J P 1 J boiled, out of him by any process whatever. Individualism is a striving for individuality-an effort to bring out in each man those useful traits which mark him as a man. If, then, a man has that type of mind which fits him to be an engineer, and he goes to a school where there is a large gathering of men of similar characteristics, it is not to be expected that he will come out a Browning, or a Disraeli, or a Lincoln, or a Caesar. VVhen one of our own number achieves distinction we are too prone to discount the value of his work and to overlook its significance, merely because our nearness distorts the perspective we get of it. It is, perhaps, for this reason that many of us are not even aware that one of our professors has completed a piece of work which does credit to him and to the school of Engineering. VVe present this article in order that the satisfactory completion of such a piece of work shall not go unrecog- nized by those for whose benefit it was undertaken. The McMillan Publishing Co. expects to have ready for distribution in the late spring a text book entitled Principles of Transmission in Telephony by Professor M. P. VVeinbach. This book had its inception in a set of notes written by Professor VVeinbach for his students in Telephone Engineering. In its final form it represents an effort to place before advanced students in Electrical Engineering a complete Page fifiy-lffve Zh- if

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- THE SHAMROCK - EDITORIALS Owing to some neglect, or on account of indifference, the Shamrocklwas not included in the list of school publications submitted to the retail Merchants Associa- tion, when they were to decide what student publications they would advertise in. The fault of this neglect may be partly laid to members of the Shamrock staff 3 but regardless of whose fault it was, the fact remains that the Shamrock should by all means be included in this list of student publications. The Shamrock is published at a 'time of year when the adds will be brought before at least one-half of the student body before the close of school. This does notmean that one-half of the students buy the Shamrock. It does mean, however, that enough engineers ha.ve copies that at least 1500 other wide awake students in the University will have an opportunity to look the book over, regardless of whether they are students in the Engineering school or not. Last year there was some talk of not approving the Shamrock, but we were finally given a trial. This year the merchants were forbidden to advertise in the Shamrock. We feel that we are gaining headway with our cause, however, since we were able to obtain all of the forbidden addsg some of these- were even from members of the Association. We heartily hope that the merchants will think just a little deeper than the pecuniary gain of advertising, and in the near future will decide to place the Sham- rock on this approved list where it rightfully belongs. I The criticism is too often justly made of our modern educational institutions that they do not allow sufficient latitude to the play of individual aptitudes and to the growth of special talents. Our Engineering School for instance might be lik- ened to.a vast waffle iron into- which is poured' an endless stream of supernascent dough, full of the most highly diversified but more or less latent capabilities and talents, and out of which is dumlped at regular annual intervals fresh batches of human impressions from the same old mold. Page Jiffy-fvuf 'H1 1 1 l H1 ll i 41' .- Z

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15- 'TiHE'SHI-XNIRQCK Q 7 ' theoretical discussion of electric transmission with special emphasis on problems met with in telephonic transmission. The book is not a compilation of available informa- tion on the subject, but is a rigorous and in many cases original analysis of tele- phonic transmission problems. Those of us wvho aim to make a career of Telephone Engineering feel that a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental laws gov- erning electric transmission of speech, is of greater benefit than a descriptive study of exchange equipment, the details of which can be easily mastered in practice. Professor lVeinbach's book is edited by Professor D. C. Jackson of the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology and our own Dr. E. R.. Hedrick, editors of the McMillan Scientific Seriesf, Dr. Hedrick is head of the Department of Mathe- matics of the University of Missouri. All Engineers at the University of Missouri feel a personal interest in contri- butions to science by men whose names are always associated with the name of the University, for such successful endeavor tends to give our Engineering School a high rank among the technical institutions of the country. We are gladito mention that several others of our Professors have text books in process of preparation. Lately there has been a controversy between members of the Staff as to Whether the alumni notes should be included in the Shamrock or not. This has extended to the alumni to some exitent so, as you may notice, the alunmi notes were not included in this year's book. However, this does not mean that we are severing relations with our alumni, but it does mean that we think that the alumni section as it has been is not adequate to keep the alumnus in touch with each other. Q Members of the Staff' have been compiling for several years a list of Old Knights and this year a new division was added to the Staf to better carry on this Work. . It is our aim to publish an engineering alumni paper and send one to every former engineering student. The first paper will probably consist of a few editorials and a directory of all the Old Knights. We will not look further ahead than the first publication but we believe that you will all agree as to the advantage of such a publication. - X Page fifty-.tix