University of Cincinnati - Cincinnatian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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THE CINCINNATIAN

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THE CINCINNATI AN H. SCHNEIDER. B. S . Sc Dean oj the College oj Engineer ' OXEY is not wealth. There was probably as much money in Russia as in .-Xmerica, but there was no wealth of free schools, free speech, good social systems, bathtubs, and soap. W ' hen a worker owns his own home, with a bathtub and hot water; when his children go to high school: when he can afford a flivver to go out in the country on Sunday; that worker will just grin at pink piffle. Schools and houses and bathtubs and flivvers cost money. They come from the excess of wealth above that needed for the sheer necessities of bare living. The greater this excess, the more schools and comforts and time to enjoy them. More wealth comes, the more we eliminate waste and devise better mechanisms to produce more at less cost. That is engineering. An archaic machine or an archaic social system is wasteful — wasteful of human hours and human opportunities. Education which does not put into men ' s minds the will and power to devise better machines, fairer labor systems and more clear-cut distinctions of right and wrong, is as wasteful as an archaic plow. Germicidal soap does not stir the moony-minded to ecstatic writhing, as lots of opiated philosophies do; but it is better engineering. 1924 Pagt Twenty-six

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T L. A. PECHSTEIN. Ph D an of the College of Educal lo ONE hundred words — scarcely enough to extend congratulations to the student body on its opportunit - to be an acti e unit in one of the great and forward-looking univer- sities of the world: wholly inadequate to describe in the least detail the extensive steps of reorganization taken during the year by the College of Education in order that the professional training program for teachers may become second to none; quite inadequate to express the interest of my colleagues and myself in such of you as desire to enter the teaching profession. LA S ji. cJJZtZI •ij:NrnFr ' ' 5tXitr- :r wp¥t f«»ct. te:-J Page Twsnty-eight