Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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of accurate work under Professor Hancock’s tutelage. He had a unique way of making us “ guarantee ” our result against his result or any other that was most disconcerting to the individual so unfortunate as to be wholly wrong, yet valuable as a thing toward accurate thought and work. Professor Hancock was an ardent believer in “ Tech Spirit.” Several times he put aside Mechanics for a little straight talk on the need and the value of a proper attitude toward one’s school, both while an undergraduate and a graduate. His advice was for each man to do something active for Tech—athletics, music, newspaper work, something —-and to do it with all his might and to keep it up when he was an Alumnus. He had no use for the cynic, the fault finder or the “ dead one ” in a student body, but ever urged the support of Tech activities and the boom of the Institute to the four corners of the earth. May we, the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Twelve, the last class to receive this good and wise counsel from such a staunch Tech supporter, strive to live up to his teaching, and now and forever “ fight for Tech’s fair fame.” 8