University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Perhaps only in this country is such an intimate relationship possible between the teacher and his pupils. Rut after all, the life of one is scarcely to be distinguished from that of the other. The11 Owl was fortunate in meeting Dr. Raymond F. Brittain, of the history department, at home with his family. IVe all share a home life whose pattern varies little, city-wide, nation-wide. Two families are pictured on this page: here we meet Professor DeNux L. LeBlanc, geography department. Perhaps we still think of ourselves as children of the family, but tomorrow we too shall be heads of households—fathers and mothers. No less than the students, the faculty meet the problems peculiarly Pitt's, those of the metropolitan university, the urban school, the commuters' college. Dr. Kenneth F. fVertman, professor of bacteriologymakes the best of the daily annoyance of traffic, to and from home.

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The teacher-student relationship is one tradition carried down through the centuries intact from the medieval universities to those of today. Here Dr. fames Tze-Chien Liu, of the history department, preserves tradition, informally, with his students in the Tuck Shop. At Pitt, too, the faculty can never grow too far from the students. Crowded as we are in elevators, halls, thrust skyward in one great building, men and women, students and teachers, all are part of life at Pitt. The Owl camera has here caught Professor fames C. Craig, School of Education, in the elevator shuffle. IVith campus activities centered as they are in the Cathedral of Learning, men from the other buildings, State and Thaw and A-lumni, must perforce spend a good portion of their days walking. Faculty, students, all make the trek, as does Robert Bonn, Instructor in Civil Engineering, uphill to State.

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Too often, perhaps, are these great city universities thought of as gigantic trade schools. Only tee who daily fill halls and classrooms can know the satisfaction offered by the stimulating personalities, the erudition of many of our teachers. Representative of the ancient learning is Philosophy Professor Richard F. Hope. Pitt has had many great teachers. But, inevitably, each year we must lose a few of them. The Owl,” like all the student publications at Pitt, owed a great debt to the late Robert X. Graham, professor of journalism, here photographed against the Gothic stonework of the school he served so willingly. In ancient times, of course, philosophy circumscribed all knowledge. Today, knowledge has grown complex, one reason for large universities may be found in the number of studies necessary to pursue the manifold pathways of knowledge. But still philosophy, however, are the complex measurements of Engineer Robert IF. Jackson.