The 1900s - Growth

During the "naughts," the Cincinnatian was expanding and evolving, each year introducing new selections, new designs and bindings, and more content. A yearbook was not produced in 1906, but the graduates of 1906 were included in the 1907 book. In the 1907 book we see the emergence of a new system of education developed here at UC that we now know as cooperative education. Academics were given much attention with the complete listings of faculty of each college at the front of the books. Perhaps the most interesting features in these early books are found in the back of the book. Here you will find poems, narratives, editorials and other amusements written by students. In each book this section is called something different; in 1905 it is called "Foolish Flings and Frapped Fumbles," in 1909 "Ye Merrie Jester," and in 1907 simply "Stuff."

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Co-operative Engineers - Historical Statement
A new system of engineering education, devised by the University of Cincinnati, was inaugurated at the opening of the scholastic year 1906-07, with the co-operation of about thirty-five of the largest mechanical and electrical manufacturing companies in Cincinnati and vicinity. Practical technical knowledge is obtained in the factories and the theory of engineering at the University; thus, the education of the head and the hand progress together.

Each one of the co-operating firms permits two, to in some cases as many as twelve, of their student apprentices to pursue a six-year engineering course at the University, during alternate weeks. The apprentices from each plant work in pairs, each man alternating with his fellow apprentice at the factory and at the University. In other words, one student apprentice works at the shop for one week while the other pursues his engineering studies; for the following week they exchange places, and so on during the eight months and a half that the University is in session. During the remainder of the year all student apprentices are employed constantly at the plants, a short vacation being arranged, however, at the beginning and at the end of the summer. Under this arrangement it will be seen that no machine at the plant is ever idle, and consequently there is no loss to be borne by the employer.

THE NEW PLAN IS SUCCESSFUL. Although the details of this new plan were only completed in June, 1906, more than thirty young men enrolled before the opening of the session in September. The manufacturers are outspoken in the opinion that the co-operative students are the best apprentices they have ever had, while the instructors at the University unanimously declare that the young men composing the class are of exceptional ability and evidently “cut out” for engineers.

Found on page 144 of the 1907 book

Glee Club 1908