University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Elmbr A. Holbrook Dean of the School of Engineering and Mines Honesty, loyalty, and courtesy—things change but these must remain. With them, you can go far. Without them, you may prosper but in what really matters you will fail. Power and position- arc these your ambition? You may attain them; we hope you will. But when you have them what will you do with them? We can teach you much about the principles and meaning of business, but how you use what you learn here is for you to decide. The Schools of Engineering and Mines have for more than fifty years developed men to enter the varied engineering professions. Our particular way of training students has been, not only to give them the engineering and professional fundamentals, but to include a broad educational training made possible by our close association with the College and the School of Business Administration of a great university. Thus our graduates have been successful, not only in professional engineering, but in executive positions, in varied lines of business and in promoting the well being of professional, civic and social groups. Most of all, if we can teach the student to understand the modern industrial world, give him an engineering point of view, and hope that he has gathered a common sense outlook on his life and professional development, then we have done our work with him. Charles S. Tippet; Dean of the School of Business Administration 21

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Deans of the Undergraduate Students Perhaps in this final message which you as Seniors receive from each of your deans, you will gain not only a broader concept of what you have been striving for during your life at the University, but an idea of what standards there are for you to set and maintain as an individual and as a graduate of an institute of higher learning. May you through these help to crystallize all the mass of details you have gained both in the classroom and in extra-curricular activities into a practical working basis for your philosophy of life in the years to come. Stanton D. Crawford Dean of the Colley In the College, the constant aim is to help the student find himself, and then develop in mental, moral, and spiritual qualities to the full measure of his individual capacity. This purpose is expressed in recent curricular changes, enabling the student to do more work of a broad cultural nature, and to pursue his studies on a level suited to his ability. As new facilities arc provided in the Cathedral of Learning, he will benefit from an improved program of counselling, from better conditions for both study and rccrcatory reading in the splendid new library, and from better acquaintance with fellow students and members of the faculty. The student, who, by the time he has reached his senior year has learned to think objectively and analytically, who is tolerant of other s view points and cautious about jumping at conclusions, has acquired an asset and a balance that will be invaluable to him forever after. Some acquire it in greater degree than others, but no one who is intelligent can live, work and play with his friends in the University without profiting by the maturing influences of the University environment. Life will require the best you have at all times, but for the able it will be filled with so much of interest that it can never be monotonous. You will soon be depending upon yourself instead of the faculty for guidance. Your mistakes will be costly. But character, education and balance will reduce errors of judgment to a minimum, and make continuous growth and development inevitable. 20

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This year marks the twenty-eighth anniversary of the founding of a division of the University of Pittsburgh devoted to the offering of university courses in the evenings. Approximately twenty-six hundred men and women have been pursuing studies this year in a wide variety of fields in the Downtown Division. It is really a small university unto itself, where those who arc employed during the day may do their work for a university degree, or may do special and graduate work in particular fields. It is something more than a place where classes meet—it is a university campus, with its social life, its organizations, and its spirit of youth —set down in the midst of the business life of the community. J. Lloyd Mahoney Director of the Downtown Division r It is probable that no college or training school for teachers ever turns out a completed product. At best it serves to short-circuit the long process bv which the hardworking teachers of the pretraining era became known as great teachers. Though we may repeat the popular dictum that great teachers arc born and not made, more serious reflection reveals that these people came into their own after a long period of development. Institutional teacher training is to be considered but the preliminary step, the preliminary time saver to becoming a great teacher. Charles E. Prall Dean of the School of Education 22