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

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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

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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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:- r l l l .Tv .L - THE SHAMROCK - illrrhnrirk 151111131111 Svpalhing Professor Frederick P. Spalding, chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering, at the University of Missouri, died suddenly at St. Luke's Hospital, St. Paul, Minnesota, Sept. 4, 1923, while on his way home with his family from a summer trip to the Pacific Coast and the Northwest. Professor Spalding was born April 7, 1857, at Wysox, Pennsyl- vania. He was graduated from the civil engineering department of Lehigh University in IXSO. For several years he was in the service of the Federal government as a civil engineer on river improvements in the South and West. He was an instructor for some time at Lehigh University, and from 1891 to 1898 he was an assistant professor at Cornell University. In 1900 Mr. Spalding was elected to the profes- sorship of civil engineering, at the University of Missouri, and was chairman of this department from the time of his first appointment until the time of his death. He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Educa- tion, and of the American Society of Testing Materials. During the time of his long service as a teacher he was the author of well known textbooks on the subjects of Hydraulic Cement, Roads and Pave- ments, and Masonry Structures. Professor Spalding was an effective worker in every capacity of engineering service which he undertook. His was a thoroughly disci- plined mind, well balanced, and possessed of a sound and unerring judgment. As a man, he was held always in the highest esteem by everyone who knew him. His thoughtful and kindly consideration for others won for him the affection of friends, students, and associates. He was never known to speak an unkind word of any man. The loss to the Engineering school in the death of Professor Spalding is ir1'e- parable. Page ffljl xefuen