University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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At registration the first meeting oj students and advisers occurs. Although things are likely to he in a state oj confusion, schedules eventually manage to he arranged to give us our required subjects and maybe a few of the electives we want. At the advisers' table is Mr. John D. Phillips, physics department. Seminar classes, and other small groups offer ideal teaching programs. At Pitt we have a few, are getting more. Here a student in a summer recreation class {for pleasure rather than credit), gets some pointers in fly -tying from Professor Edwin L. Peterson, of the English department, an expert f isherman. Before and after class some of the best teaching is done, as this student is finding out. Dr. John R. Bickley, modern languages department, answers a student's questions before class in one of the Nationality Rooms, where the surroundings are more pleasant than the bricks we got used to a few years ago. •5

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Some pursue knowledge with oscilloscopes, others with books, with anything the search demands. The communication of knowledge itself must be studied, and taught. Pitt's School of Education has a faculty engaged in creating faculties, as is Professor John IV. Harbaugh, engaged in research in the Sixth Floor Reference Library. Preparation for classes occupies more of a student's and a teacher's time than do the lecture hours themselves. A moment's relaxation, perhaps with a cigaret, and then back to the books. The picture is of Professor Harold M. Baker, mechanical engineering department, but it could be any student, any night. Counselling, advising, as well as teaching, are part of the faculty's duties. Dr. Dorothy Miller is adviser to many Education students, but here she is fulfilling another academic obligation—grading test papers, a measure of our progress.

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u The community of scholars is still a fact, even today. At Pitt are the headquarters of several scholarly associations, officers of which are on our faculty. Dr. Arthur M. Young, head of the classics department, picks up his mail in the University post office, can expect to find letters from other scholars. 16 Individual instruction, of course, is a must in varsity competition, and the venerable coach of basketball. Dr. H. C. Carlson, is quick to demonstrate a few of thefiner points of foul shooting. The doctor s scholarship usually rubs off on some of his honor-student players. IVe don't meet the faculty only in the classroom. Their paths and ours cross throughout Pitt life. Tuck Shops,cafeteria,libraries, and Commons Room, are common meeting grounds. Dr. J. Warren Nyslrom, head of the geography department enjoys afternoon tea with students.