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·vonaay ' and Tuesday at 5 o'clock in suiphuric acid. Because its nmanufac-Room 2-190. Anyone desiring to be- rurers believe that a decline in pricecome a member this school year must would not affect sales during timestry-out at that time. of depression, the prices of sulphuric

Applicants will be asked to read acid have remained remarkablystable,short passages from plays, in order while other chemicals, affected by im-that their voices and acting abilities proved production techniques and in-can be judged. Acting, however, is icreased uses, ha-e widely varyingnot the only factor that is concerned, market prices.since management of the plays has a ! hol;-inr lic .... mon t+ arm

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A. joint concert with the Conmbined cess in this is the best possible "good- teaching of the courses are Mr. JohnMusical Clubs will be presented 'oby ill advertising." i. Seltzer, Photographer for Bostonthe Boston Bouve School of Physicai But success is not something any University, for the beginners' course,Education at Bouve this evening at small group can conjure out of a and MIessrs. Arthur Hammond and8:00 P. M. bottle. It requires the co-oeraion f Franklin 1. Jordan, Associate EditorsSeveral members will be presented bottle rofessihe Soetien th of "American Photography" for theall the Professional Societies and theby the Glee Club, Orchestra, Octet, the advanced course.and Fouve Glee Club. The Glee Clubs 1'Mmake the Open H o use Comittee's The two courses will be conductedof both schools will sing several num- wr k ornthwhile as a series of eight weekly meetingsi vork -,worthwhile.bets together. I leach. the beginners' course to beginAn undertaking of this m-agnitudeM.A dance will be held after the pro- i Monday at 8 P. M. in Room 211, 84fram is concluded similar to the one Issues I'CoftimrIed ont pagvte 4)hleld last year with Douve. (Colttbed 0o2 par:r ) Photo Course

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Statistics Fiend Goes fOn RampageWith ArchiAtecture Building Figures

The old saw says that there are feet, it would take over 180,000 ofthree kinds of lies-lies, damned lies, them to fill the building. But largeand statistics. The Tech's reporter as this space is it is only ten timeshere takes over a group of statistics as large as the volume of concreteon the new Architecture building from in the building.the contractors, Stone and Webster, The floor area for the four floorswho are responsible only for the orig- and the basement together is 123,000inai figures. square feet, only about eight times

The new building on Massachusetts the area of the 100 by 150 foot mainAvenue will have 8,500 cubic yards of hall of the projected new gymnasium.concrete in it when completed. Poured The ground area of 29,000 square feetinto 12 ounce beer cans, this would represents a saving of much wear on

New T. E. N. General Manager

Tickets Almost All Sold OuAfter Foaur Days

Of Sale

R. V. Smith and P. B. M. FarwellAre Also Members of

Managing Board

Staff Announced at BanquetProf. A. A. Schaefer To SpealWilliams of Magazine 'ILndustry'

Speaks on PersonalityIn Publications

An almost complete sell-out was re-ported yesterday by the Dormitorydance committee for the eighth an-nual dinner-dance. This is after onlythree days of dorm sales and one dayof sales in the main lobby.

fill 18,250,000 of them.Assuming a height of 5 inches per

can, they would stretch some 1,440miles if laid end to end, which wouldreach well beyond Chicago if one endwere held in Boston. Only it has beensuggested that it might be better tokeep all of the beer cans in Boston.

the institute's lawn mowers.Thirty Carloads of Steel

The 430 tons of structural steel and615 tons of steel reinforcing bars rep-resent some thirty freight car loads,which are the only things connectedwith the building that it would bepractical to stretch end to end.

Since the Institute is built on filled

Will B. Janison, '39, was namedGeneral Manager of the new volumeof the Tech Engineering News lastWednesday night at the eighteenthannual banquet of T. E. N. in theHotel Myles Standish. At the sametime Robert V. Smith, '39, was namedEditor-in-Chief and Paul B. M. Far-

The original limit for the dance wasset at one hundred ninety couples, butbecause of the large demand the com-mittee was forced to raise the limit Will B. Jamison, '39to two hundred fifty. All tables onthe main floor are already taken andmost of those on the balcony. Theticket sales in the main lobby willcontinue for three or four more days.

Professor Albert A. Schaefer of thedepartment of Engineering and Busi-ness administration will speak afterthe dinner. In addition there will bethe added feature of a two-thirtyA. M. breakfast.

The music will be furnished by Har-rington's New Englanders, an orches-tra which is new to Technology, butis well known in New Hampshire.

The committee in charge of thedance is composed of John G. Burke,'38, chairman; L. Carle McEvoy, Jr.,'38; James B. Hess, '38; Frederick J.Kolb, '38; Franklin S. Atwater, '38;and Bernard W. Mehren. '38.

Distributed at Technology, each stu-dent would have some 6,300 of thesecanis.

land, piles must be driven to give asufficiently firm foundation. Underthe new building there have beendriven 2,100 of these logs of wood,whose fellow trees might have goneto mnake the paper this is printed on.If they were the right kind of wood.

The 185,000 square feet of plaster-ing mean just that much more workfor the Institute's painters. And ifIndiana limestone comes from Indi-ana, then that state will be shortsome 45,000 cubic feet because of thisbuilding.

well, '39, Business Manager for Vol-ume XIX.

Toastmnaster for the evening wasHarry O. Saullders, '38, General Man-

Not Many Bricks in BuildingThere is not as much brick in the

building as concrete, the 670,000bricks used reaching only three-fifthsof the way to New York, making itnecessary to use the post road forthe rest of the way.

But in volume the building is im-mense, having 2,161,000 cubic feet of

ager of Volume XVIII, whno introducedMr. Roy F. Williams, the guestspeaker. Mr. Williams is GeneralManager of the Associated Industriesof Massachusetts and of the magazine"Industry." His talk was concernedwith how he built up the magazinewhich he now manages and how toinject personality into a magazine.

Remainder of New Board(Continzued on pctge 4)

T. E. N.

Ex-Governor Of MassachusettsAnd Former N.S.S.B.

Counsel Speak

The former Governor of Massachu-setts, Joseph B. Ely, and the formercounsel of the National Social Secu-rity Board. Thomas HT. Eliot, will bethe speakers at the Technology Open

space. Assuming each student archi-Iect to occupy a space of twelve cubic

Walker Library Gives ListOf Twelve Ski-ing Volumes

Forum in Eastman Hall on Tuesday,January 18.

The subject of the discussion willThe following books on ski-ing arein the Walker Library:

Modern Ski-ing, Alan HI. D'Egville;Sixty Centuries of Ski-ing, Charles M.Dudley; The Wonders of Ski-ing,Arnold Fanck; The Complete Book ofSki-ing. Fredrik Hallberg; Skis andSki-ing, Elon H. Jessup; The Com-plete Ski-Runner, Arnold H. M. Lunn;Ski-ing for Beginners, Arnold H. M.Lunn; High-Speed Ski-ing, PeterLunn; Ski Tracks, Charles Olton;Skiing, Ornulf P oul s e n; Skiing,Charles N. Proctor; Modern Ski Tech-nique, Otto Schniebs and J. W. MvIe-Crillis.

All these books have the classifi-cation number 796.93.

be: "What Are the Proper Limits ofFederal Regulation of Business?"Both men are particularly well quali-fied to discuss this timely question

Demonstration of PolarizationEffects to Be ShownSays Commodity P-ices Should

Decline Unless MoneyInflation Comes Final arrangements have been com-

pleted for the special performance ofGeneral Motors "Previews of Prog-ress" next Tuesday afternoon, Jan_-ary 18, -at 4 o'clock in Room 10-250.Tickets can be obtained gratis frommembers of the student S. A. E. andA. S. M. E., who are sponsoring theshowring. Nocolaas Ferreira, '39, andJames Maguire, '38, are handling thedistribution of tickets.

"Previews of Progress" is a stagepresentation of electrical phenomena.In addition to some twenty-five dem-onstrations whiclh will be made, recentadvancements with Polaroid will alsobe demonstrated.

The exposition, in its five months'tour of New England, has been shown

because of their'connections with thegovernrment in the past. Mr. Eliot willThat commodity prices, barring

monetary inflation, will tend to de- support the present administration inits policy of regulation of privatebusiness. Mr. Ely will denounce any

W1 XAL Program Director TellsPosition of Radio in

Education

cline in the future, was stated byProfessor Melvin Copeland of Hiar-vard at a meeting of the StudentChapter of the American Institute ofChemical Engineers last night in theNorth Hall of Walker Memorial.

Dr. Copeland, guest speaker of the

legislation which leads to the restric-tion of private enterprise.

This question of go-vernmental pol-"Educational Broadcasting in Amer-ica and England" was the subject ofa discussion by Dr. L. B. Andrews atthe Graduate House Dinner in WalkerMemorial Wednesday evening.

Dr. Andrews is program director ofthe World Wide Broadcasting Foun-dation operating over Boston's shortwave station W I XAL, and spent sixmonths of last year in England study- ing methods of the British Broadcast-ing Corp. He compared the highquality programs of the British sys-teon with the unfortunate state of af-fairs in American broadcasting, wherethe standards of educational and cul-tural service have constantly declined

icy should be especially interestingto the public at this time in view of

evening, dealt principally with trendsin chemical prices caused by economicfactors. Reviewing the trend in theprices of a number of important in-

! the President's last message to Con-gress. Other current issues of theday such as the Wages and Hours Billnow before Congress, and the TVA

dustrial chemicals, he pointed out the will undoubtedly play a prominentvarious economic factors involved, in-eluding the effect of the "vacuum

part in the debate. to nmore than a quarter of a millionpenple. Conceived by "Bo30ss" Ket-tering, Chief of the General MotorsResearch Laboratories. "Previews ofProgress" has been designed to bringAmerican industry and the contribu-tions of organized scientific researchcloser to the Amnerican people.

Dramashop will hold its last reg-u-lar trv-outs for new miembers nextoIr_-4-. -.___ ___ I m_ _a j . j

market" on such heavy chemicals as Ten Cents Offered For BackCopies Of Oct. 18 The Tech

Ten cents will be paid forcopies of Volume 57, No. 36 ofThe Tech. The date of this issueis October 18, 1937. Any onewishing to turn in such copies,do so at the Business Office ofThe Tech, room 301, Walker

since the advent of commercialism.Non-conimercial stations in this

country, such as W 1 XAL and severalconnected with state universities, heconcluded, are attempting to fill inthis gap by providing programs ofdefinite educational value and widecultural breadth.

WYesssllJ.N>llg 111o5 o6LaLes11C11n Lna CoI:I- VWi'liam R. Willard, '39, was electedpresident of Alpha Phi Omega, hon-orary scouting fraternity, Wednesdayat the annual election. Norman Scott,'40, was chosen vice-president; Rich-ard Babish, '40, secretary; RobertGould, '40, treasurer; Howard Schwsei-bert, '40, historian; and John Knox,'40, alumni secretary.

A second bull session dinner will beheld in the Main Hall of Walker,Tuesday, January 18, at 5:30. Themeeting is open to students interested

large part in their success. Thosewho are accepted will become mem-bers shortly after the try-outs.

The Spring play is being consideredby a committee investigating variousplays in which the club has shown aninterest. As soon as it is decidedupon, the casting conmmittee, RobertMT. Pastene, '39, chairman, WoodsonW. Baldwin, '39, Marian L. Harper, G,George Moore, '39, and I. Budd Ven-able, '39, will probably hold try-outsso that the cast can be selected be-

(Conltinuecl on page 4)A. I. Ch. E.

Memorial.

PEN HOUSE I.S ONE OF THOSEthings that's just around the

corner in the new term. Even thoughthe day itself is April 30, plans shouldget going early next month.

One Course For Beginners, OneFor Advanced Students

Elvery dormitory man using an elec-tric razor after February 1st willhave to install a condenser at theelectric outlet with the razor, accord-ing to a recent rule of the dormitorycommittee.

The rule, passed after considerableresearch by a special committee, isdesigned to protect dormitory radiosfrom undesirable static, and will beenforced by the chairman of eachfloor.

Agendas Sophomore honorary so-ciety, initiated the idea after success-fully petitioning dormitory residents.A committee for research on con-densers for electric razors then foundthat a condenser of capitance .1 to .5microfarad, costing fren 15 to 25cents, would successfully eliminatethe nuisance if attached at the source.TIle rule is to go into effect directlyafter this term ends.

ITwo courses in photography, onefor beginners and one for ndvanced

This day, when the Institute goesout of its way to explain to thirtythousand people just why it shouldexist anyhow, is more important thanany other factor in making Technol-ogy a flesh and blood creation. Sunc-

fore vacation. ...... ...... in the group. The club will hold astudents are being offered by the t ..- . __ __ * e . _. I amping trip during the mid-term va-I, -!3oston Y. M. C. A. starting nextweek. Both courses are to be givenas a series of eight weekly neetings.Among those participating in the

cation.

Mr. Frank E. H. Johnson, of theBuick Company, was the guest speakerat a dinner of the Society of Automo-tive Enrineers, last Tuesday eveningin Valker. Johnson, a noted authorityon automobiles, spoke on the newBuick transmission and spring sus-pension.

MIodels of both the transmlission andthe rear coil springs were used byta'r. Johnson in his talk.

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Dormitory DanceComamittee Raises

Attendance Limit

Jamison SelectedGeneral Manager

Of T.E.N. Board

Business PoliciesSubject Of Talk

Prof. CopelandTalks To A.I.Ch.E.

Electrical PhenomenaIn Special Show Here

Doctor L.. B AndrewsTalks to Graduates on

Modern Use of Radio

Dramwashop TryoutsSet For Next Week

Applicants Read Short PassagesI To Determine Ability

WI. R. Wibllard ChosenIScQWouting Society Head

IPhotography CoursesDorm Men to InstallCondensers On Razors

IfflulEff Offered By Y.M.C.A.

Musical Clubs to GiveConcert With Bouve Buick Engineer Talks

At Meeting of S.A.E.

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Friday, January 14, 1938Page Two

the close of classes and the beginning of ex-aminations would permnit the student to re-view the term's .work leisurely and more

METROPOLITAN-After runningextensively on the stage, Trovarichcomes to the screen with ClaudetteColbert and Charles Boyer, Basil

Rathbone, and Anita Louise. On thestage is Rhythm on Parade, an origi-nal musical revue full of songs and

thoroughly instead of in the precipitousfashion now prevalent. True enough, somemen might waste the period in purposelessactivity. But the proportion of such menwould be small, we think, because most stu-dents now seem to feel that they have insuf-ficient time to review properly.

Managing BoardGeneral Manager ........ ............................ Richard G. Vilcens, Jr., '38Editor ......................................................................................... Robert E. Katz, '38Managing Editor ....... .............................. .Dudley A. Levick, Jr., '38Business Manager . .................................. ....ouglas G. Esperson. '38Aansociate Business Manager ....................................James C. Longwell, '38

Editorial Board

On Being PinnedOne thing we like about this job

is that eventually all the Interestingmail in the News Room finds its way

into our box. Which is by way ofHerbert K. Welss, '837

John R. Cook, '38dances.FPrederek J. Kolb, '38

IHarold James, '38 Other first class colleges have incorporatedreading periods into their calendars, and thecustom is not limited to liberal arts schoolsonly. V1re note that the trend is toward moreextended periods. Surely, if such classlessperiods were not practical, the colleges wouldeliminate them from their programs. It wouldbe interesting for Technology to introduce thesystem here, at least on an experimentalbasis. Surely we have nothing to lose, andmuch to gain.

PARAMOUNT AND FENWAY--Wells Fargo, with Joel McCrea and

Frances Dee and Bob Burns, is astory of gold rush and Pony Express.

Borrowing Trouble is about theJones Family and is mixed up withrobberies and weddings.

Associate BoardAssistant Editors introducing the following- mnissive,

originally addressed to the augustperson of The Editor himself. Itspeaks, to those whose reading earsare properly attuned, for itself.

Maurice A. Meyer, '39Ida Rovno, '39

Edwin I. Smith, Jr., '39Ralph S. Woollett '89

George Dadakis. '39Leonard Mantner, '39

Edward P. Bentley, '38Samuel L. Cohen, '39Andrew L. Fabens Jr., '39William A. Merritt, '39

B3usiness AssociatesDavid R. Bartlett, '39Walter N. Brown, Jr., '39

Staff AssistantsHarold H. Strauss, '38 "Dear Sir:

"It may interest you to note thata certain very blond and bfixom coedis the proud possessor of a certaincross-shaped fraternity pin--display-ing it in a prominent position on heranatomy. We of that fraternity whohang around the Institute insist, how-ever, that said pin was donated tosaid coed by one of our more cul-tured brethren at that noble institu-tion overlooking Lake Cayuga, notmentioning any names, of course.

"Well, it's a hell of a note, and weare sad, sad, sad-. if it were aDeke pin we could understand thesituation.

"Love and kisses,

Ruth A. Berman, '40 Irving S. Levine, 'John W. Blattenberger, '40 Newman Niepold '.Paul V. Bollerman, '40 Robert K. Prince, Jr.. 'aJohn G. Burr, Jr., 40 William R. Stern, NRobert K. Deutsch, '40 Leslie A. Sutton, 'William S. Kather, '40 Phelps A. Walker. 'Wylie C. Kirkpatrick, '40 Russell T. Werby, 'A

Paul W. Withetell, '40Special Photographer

Leon L. Baral. '38

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SCOLLAY AND MODERN-Stand-In shows science and mathematics vs.Hollywood starring Joan Blondell andHumphrey Bogart. Co-feature Thrillof a Lifetime is a musical with BenBlue, and the Yacht Club Boys;

UNIVERSITY-Through Saturday,Submarine D-1 with Pat O'Brien, andDangerously Yours, starring CesarRomero. Starting Sunday, Stand-In,with Leslie Howard and Joan Blon-dell, also John Beal and Sally Eilersin Danger 'Patrol.

REPERTORY AND SQUARE--One Way Passage with WilliamPowell and Kay Francis, Muss 'EmUp with Preston Foster, and Marga-ret Callahan run through Saturday.First of next week China Clipper withPat O'Brien and Beverly Roberts, alsoBette Davis and Leslie Howard inOf Human Bondage.

Skating RirnkEditor's Note: We were about to write an editorial

on the subject of a skating rink, when the followingletter reached us. Since it expresses practically thesame thoughts as we intended to write, and sinceexaminatiorns are so near, we wrote no editorial, andpr'int this letter instead. "Spike."

Maybe she bought the pin in apawn shop, just to start the boysthinking, which God knows some ofthem probably should.

On Foo-ism

The Lounger thinks that this busi-ness of Foo-ism has been carried toofar by its misguided proponents, anddoes hereby and forthwith take hisstand against its abuse.

It may be that there's no foo likean old foo, and we're it, but any-way, a foo and his money are someparty. (Voice from the bleachers-

To the Editor:

In Tuesday's issue of The Tech, there was aneditorial commenting on the puddles of water, andcakes of ice which decorate the campus after everyrain, and frost. These puddles are of no value atpresent since they are scattered over the entire cam-pus. If, in some manner, these p-;,ddles could beconsolidatd and allowed to freeze, they would providean excellent ice skating rink for the use of thestudents. This is an especial need at the Institutesince there are very few and inadequate rinks inthe neighborhood of the Institute and these facilitiesare usually taxed to their capacity by the local popu-lation.

To leave the generalities, here at the Institute, wehave several places which might be transformed intoa skating rink practically without cost to the school.They might, for instance, throw up a low embank-ment around the football field and flood it, or per-haps, flood the tennis courts, or without any extraconstruction, the running track could be flooded andupon freezing would provide a fine, although smallrink. None of these projects would cost very much,and the last, in fact, would cost nothing. As neitherthe tennis courts or the field are used during weathersuitable for skating, no other activity at the schoolwould be inconvenienced by these changes.

From various unofficial inquiries nlade by meamong the student body, I have been convinced thatthe provision of a rink would meet with widespreadapproval on their part.

Martin S. Lindenberg, '39

AND R. O. T. C.

T WAS just a year ago that the Institutemade the first breach in its requirements

for compulsory military training. By actionof the Faculty, conscientiouis objectors arenow permitted to substitute other courses.

It is too early to evaluate the success ofthe plan, for it has been in operation onlythis term, and not enough men have madethe substitution to see whether the plan ispracticable. The question involved is whetherstudents will try to get out of taking theR. O. T. C. course merely on account of lazi-ness, or whether they are willing to take sub-stitute courses which, if taught seriously, willcertainly require more effort on the part ofthe student than the present M. S. courseshe must take.

However, looking at the larger question ofcompulsory against voluntary R. O. T. C., lastyear's faculty action is really an admissionthat the tirme-honored arguments about theimportance of R. O. T. C. training do nothave the validity claimed for them. If con-scientious objectors can be permitted to takealternative courses, why not others? Con-scientious objectors are not permitted to sub-stitute for other parts of the Institute cur-riculum. For instance, no Christian Scientistwould be permitted to leave out certaincourses given by the biology department be-cause they conflicted with his religious be-liefs. Apparently the faculty does not placeso much importance on the Military Sciencetraining.

Since the faculty action was limited to atwo-year trial period, the question will comeup again nex'-year. If enough men have beenpermitted to make the substitutions so thatsatisfactory courses are developed, it is notbeyond the realm of possibility that R. O. T. C.may be made voluntary. As President Comp-ton himself said in 1932, "If it can be shownthat some other courses of training or studycould be substituted for Military Trainingwhich wrould be more valuable to the studentand society than Military Training, then Ibelieve that the compulsory feature of Mili-tary Training should be abolished."

TREMONT - Till Saturday Cainand Mabel with Clark Gable andMarion Davies, also Rain with JoanCrawford and 'Walter Huston. Start-ing Sunday is William Powell andMyrna Loy in Manhattan Melodramaco-featured with Another Dawn star- ring Errol Flynn and Kay Francis.

EXETER-The Awful Truth with

attune - UU1II1 - ilU And y -"TDn-4Xi) ha- fon-lish !")I -"oi D UlC 100-ilia5v. )

T-rrn, Tli-m-na n-d (onr-r Crn-nf.- nlq

My Dear Miss Aldrich with Edna MayOliver and Walter Pidgeon, runthrough Saturday. Sunday bringsLife Begins with Love with JeanParker and Douglas Montgomery andStand-In with Leslie Howard and JoanBlondell.

As an expletive, of course, "foo!"has a definite and probably irreplace-able position in our language, al-though we fear that the excessive useto which it is currently subjected maywell result in its falling into an early(and, alas, a dark) oblivion. WTe sayalas because proper use of the wordmay result in such happy incidentsas the following.

It was an 8.50 Thermodynamicslecture by Professor Slater in Room6-120. The professor, having coveredthe front side of the blackboard, setthe handle that operates the liftmechanism, turning meanwhile to theclass to continue his discussion. Thefront board slowly, majestically, lift-ed itself, revealing the board behindit, and on that board, writ large,the symbols that spelled "FOO"!

WASHINGTON ST. OLYMPIA-Starting Saturday, Stage Door withKatharine Hepburn and GingerRogers, and Adolphe Menjoun, alsoSubmarine D-1 co-features with PatO'Brien, George Brent, and WayneMorris.

To obtain clothing for charity do-nation the Federation of College Cath-olic Clubs has established a bundle ofold serviceable garments and forty-five cents as the admission price tothe dance which it is sponsoring to-night in Y1taTker ,Mernorial. The groupwill in turn give the clothes to theSt. Vincent dePaul Society for dis-tribution.

Technology's Catholic Club will actas hosts for the evening to the othermembers of the group. The dance willbe a stag affair, with guests invitedfrom all colleges in the Federation-including Simmons, Radcliffe, Welles-ley, Jackson, Emerson, and Teacher'sCollege.

Leon Mayer and his orchestra havebeen engaged to provide music fordancing from nine to one, and severalnovelty dances are planned for theevening.

John I. Herlihy, '39, is the delegatefrom Technology to the Federation.Other members of the cormmittee fromthe Institute who made arrangementsfor the affair are Welcome W. Bender,'38, Paul B. Black, '38, and StephenF. Sullivan, '39.

More Sven.ronOne thing we particularly like

about Professor Svenson is the wayhe can keep us awake in lectures.Ordinarily we would resent this, butin the case of Heat Engineering thisability of his is a decided asset.

He does it in two ways. In thefirst place he has a very loud voice.And to this he adds an occasionalmalapropism that is as the finaltouch conferred on a special dish bythe head chef (not of Walker). Re-cently, just as a case in point, hepointed to a v-9umber on his black-board and said, "This number, di-vided by infinity, is approximately

Nothing could be more asinine than a statementissued recently by School Committeeman Joseph Lee,Jr., who would strip Harvard of its leadership inAmerican education because, he says, it no longer fitsyoung men for the job of life. For one who is sotied up with education, his attitude is a bit unseemly.

Holder of a minor political office, Mr. Lee furtherstates that Harvard has put education in a "'straight-jacket," stultifying every effort of the schools to in-troduce courses designed to prepare students for themnodern world. In this connection, hlie mentions BostonUniversity and Boston College as doing a better jobthan their distinguished contemporary across theCharles.

To listen to Mr. Lee, one might think that Harvardshapes the curriculum and teaching methods in thegrades and institutions of higher learning. This, ofcourse, is not true. Harvard standards are sometimestoo rigid for high school graduates to meet. To con-form to these requirements, schools must retain theclassics, the so-called "dead languages, and manyother subjects which may not seem practical in thelight of present day trends. Still the colleges areoffering an almost unlimited amount of courses, ofevery kind and description, which, according to Presi-dent Robert M. Hutchins, of the University Chicago,is one of the chief faults of the Amnerican academicsystem. Maybe this has something to do with un--employment, an unfortunate condition Mr. Lee seemsto blame on Harvard.

Contemptuously, the School Committeeman also saidamong other things, "If our sons do not go to Har-vard, that's too bad. We shall educate them betterourselves."

Unmitigated nonsense! Even if he could bettereducate Boston youth, Harvard would still be at, ad-mirable ambition for every schoolboy. So is BostonUTniversity. Boston College, too. Each, in its ownway, serves the lofty purpose of education-truth.

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7TTTHI examinations only a week away, wereturn to our time-honored plea for a

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Friday, January 14, 1938 Page Three

Swimmers After First VictoryTo Mleet Powerful Foe

In Wesleyan

Too Many Freshman Runners;No Man in Two Events

Marksmen Score Year'sIn Norwich Contest

BestTeam Plays Bowdoin Here Today

And Then Meets ColbyHere TomorrowPaul Schneider Stars as Home

Qulint Wins First GameOf Year 36-34

With a fast, well balanced team, thefrosh trackmnen meet the RoxburyLatin School runners this afternoonat three o'clock.

The super abundance of Tech run-ners will probably necessitate runningthe events in heats. Because of thisexcess of good material, Oscar hasdecided not to enter any man in twoevents. The following men will beentered in the heats of the sevenevents: in the 45 yard low hurdles,Jester and Babcock; in the 50 yarddash, Sumner, Muller, Mengel andHensel; in the 300, Sumner, Muller,Meyers, Morrill, and Mengel; in tile600, Lyons, Little; Hayden, Quill, andMorrill; in the 1000, Bohr, Quill, Gott,Backer; in the shot put, Nagle, VanGreenby, Hooper, Berry, Meier.

Technology's rifle team travels downto New Haven tomorrow to engagethe Yale team in a three positionmatch. Seven men will make the trip,arriving in New Haven at noon, shoot-ing in the afternoon, and returningthat evening.

The teazn, consisting of Charles H.Maak, '38, Captain, John L. Ohlson,'39, Seymour E. Haymann, '39, Rob-ert Pratt, '39; Valentine deOlloqui,'40, Norman L. Davis, '40, and JeanL. Lewis, will shoot ten shots prone,ten kneeling, and ten standing. Ofthe seven scores turned in, the highfive- will count toward the team totalon the third of the New EnglandIntercollegiate League Matches.

High Scores Against NorwichU nofficial scoring of the targets in

the second of the League matches, amatch against Norwich College, showsthat the Beaver marksmen haveturned in the best team score of theyear, approximately 1360. This scoredoes not become official until word isreturned from the National -Rifle As-sociation in Washington.

Still looking for their, first win ofthe season after losing 57-18 toTrinity last week, the TechnologyMermen meet Wesleyan University atthe University Club tonight at 8o'clock. Wesleyan has a powerfulteam, but as the natators have com-peted in four previous meets, hope isheld for a good score.

With Red Williams, former Univer-sity of Miami swimmer, in the breast-stroke; and Harold Chestnut, backafter missing two meets because of aweak ankle, swimming the 220 freestyle; the Tech men should put up agood fight. Stu Paige, consistent pointwinner in the dive, out of the lastmeet with sinus trouble, may go inas a last starter. Dave Morganthalerin the breaststroke, who has been get-ting the practice he needed, looksready-to hit his stride tonight.

The lineup:Medley Relay-Brewster, Williams,

Gardner.222 Yd. Swim-Chestnut, Parker.50 Yd. Swim-Main, Bradner.Dives-Cook, and Paige or Pope.100 Yd. Swim-Schuler, Main.150 Back-Brewster, Morill.200 Breast- Williams, Morgan-

thaler.400 Yd. Relay-Gardner, Wheeler,

In an attempt to continue its rec-ord three-game winning streak, theBeaver hockey team meets Bowdointhis noon, Friday, and Colby to-morrow. Both contests will take placeat the Boston Arena.

Freshmen Play H, ere Tonight

From the shadows of defeat, a fight-ing Tech basketball team came backtwice to overcome leads piled up bya Clark University team, and went onto win in an extra period by a scoreof 36-34. The game was played lastWednseday night in the Hangar Gym.It was the first victory for the En-gineers.

Paul Schneider, Co-Captain of thehoopsters, was the putstanding manon the floor by scoring 15 points. TheClark team jumnped' to an early leadwhich they held to the end of the:first half when a spurt by Tech tiedthe score. In the second half, theClark team pulled away from theBeavers and at one time held a 12point lead. With six minutes to gothe hoopmen hit their stride; basketsby Schneider, Katz and Cramer bring-hig the teaxm within striking distance.Then, with two minutes to go, basketsby Schneider tied the score, but afew seconds later Clark again forgedahead and held this lead with thirtyseconds to go. With Clark in pos-session of the ball, things lookedblack, but Co-Captain HIerasimchuktook the ball away from a Clark manand Wright scored on a beautifulpivot shot.

Already this season, after droppingtheir first two games to Boston Uni-versity and Harvard, the Beavers de-feated Brown, Northeastern andArmy in consecutive engagements.There is every indication that winsare in order this weekend. NeitherColby nor Bowdoin are as strong asthe teams which Tech has succeededin taming ... and the engineers arestill as strong as ever. The stellargoal tending of Carnrick, which hasfeatured the successful Tech seasoncan be depended upon to serve as theTech spearhead.

for Tech was Co-Captain Paul Schnei-der who tossed fifteen points in forthe home quint.

Tonight in Tech gym the strongfreshman team will play host toBrighton Academy. A good game isexpected as the visitors have four

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12-2 P. M.-Tau Beta Pi Luncheon-North Hall.1 P.M.-Chem. Dept. Luncheon-Silver Room.4-6 P. M.--Wrestling Bout-Hangar Gym.6 P. M.--Am. Assoc. of Text. Engrs. Diimer-Fac. Din. Room.6:30 P.M.-Class of '28 Dinner-Silver Room.7:15 P. M.-Basketball-Hangar Gym.8 P. M.-Combined Musical Clubs Concert--Bouve.8 P. M.-2 A .M.-Catholic Club Dance-Main Hall.

Saturday, Jan. 153 P. M.-Dorn. Basketball-Hangar Gym.7-10 P. M.-Gym Team--Walker Gym.

Sunday, Jan. 1610-12 A. M.--Chi Rhi Basketball-Walker Gynm.10-12 A.M.-Sigma Xi Basketball-Hangar Gym.

Monday, Jan. 172:30 P. M.-Technology Dames Meeting-Emna Rogers Room.5-6 P. M.-Cercle Francais Meeting-East Lounge.7 P. M.--DorS. Basketball-Walker Gym.7-9 P. M.-Dorm. Basketball-Hangar Gym.

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Photo Course(Continued from page 1)

Exeter Street, and the advanced courseon Tuesday at 8 P. M. in the BostonY. M. C. A., 316 Huntington Avenue.Both courses are limited to 30 young

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iodity prices would probably declinein the future by explaining the effectof monetary inflation, he went on totell how the present unbalanced bud-get of the government leads to infla-tion. Dr. Copeland pointed out thedisastrous results that happened inGermany dur ng the post-war periodand are happening in France at thepresent time as a result of inflation.

Questioned by members of his au-dience at the conclusion of his talk,Dr. Copeland also pointed out the badeffect upon business confidence of theundistributed profits tax and othergovernment financial policies, boththose in effect and those possible.

Seven hundred and thirty-eightstudents had already turned in theirvotes in the Technique poll on pro-spective cover designs last night whenthe voting stopped. At that timesketch number five, showing a patternsuggested by the Institute seal to beplaced on an artificial leather cover,was far in the lead, having 234 votes,while its nearest competitor, numberfour, had only polled 159.

The six drawings on display in theMain Lobby are not finished cover de-signs, but rather sketches to show atheme upon which a cover design maybe built. Every ballot has a spacereserved for suggestions, and, accord-ing to members of the Technique staff,many excellent ones have been made.Many of the students have voted forsketch number five and suggested thatthe color scheme be changed fromblack and gold to red and grey.

men and women each; a fee of $3 ischarged non-m embers of theY. M. C. A., and members are charged$1.

The beginners course is planned toteach the fundamentals of picturetaking, opportunities being presentedto enable the student to use and be-come familiar with the various types

of cameras now in use, both miniatureand large. The course will also in-

A short business meeting was heldbefore the talk and refreshments wereserved at its conclusion.

clude work in developing and print-ing, and discussion of color photogra-phy, composition of pictures, por-traiture and lighting and enlargingand framing.

The advanced course is designed forphotographers who have had ground-ing in the fundamentals mentionedabove and presents the opportunity towNork with experienced photographersin order to develop the artistic qualityof the student's work and give specialemphasis to preparing prints for ex-hibition.

Infirmary ListC. Hawley Cartwright; Roland G.

Daudelin, '40; Henry Dunderdale;Harold James, '38; Robert L. Ortiz yCrab, '41; Joseph Shill, '40; SamuelW. Stewart, G.

Brooks HospitalRobert B. Gordon, G.

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.A TTENTO/ ! TECH STUDENTSBoston's Foremost Reliable Dnceing Scahool

15 Private Lessons $5.00deserves early preparation, and oncethe specter of mid-years is gone, it isnone too soon to think about OpenHouse.

The rest of the new board is asfollows: Jack H. Slocum, '40, Asso-ciate Editor; Norman L. Laschever,'40, Associate Editor; John G. Les-chen, '40, PManaging Editor; EugeneE. Crawford, '40, Art Editor; SamuelP. Card, Jr., '40, Advertising Man-ager; Gordon A. Fairbairn, '40,Treasurer; Eugene S. West, '40, Cir-culation Manager; Oliver H. Fulton,'40, Publicity Manager, and James S.Rumsey, '40, Personal Manager.

Among the guests at the banquetwere Mr. Horace S. Ford, Dean Har-old E. Lobdell, Dean Edwin S. Bur-dell, Prof. Frederick G. Fassett, Jr.,Mr. J. Rhyne Killian, Jr., and Mr.F. S. Buffington. I

* * * Undergrad NoticeThe deadline for substituting crew

for physical training is Tuesday atnoon in H. P. McCarthy's office, onthe third floor in Walker. New menmay sign up, for no experience isneeded.

E S S ONS IN PHENAGLINGJ might well be given by the Dor-

mitories after the way they handleda dual resignation of Dorm Commit-tee officers. Both the Chairman andthe Treasurer wished to resign inorder to enroll in next term's practiceschool!

Registration Material DueToday to Avoid $5.00 Fine

Registration material must bereturned to Room 3-107 before1 P. M. today to avoid the $5.00fine. Do not deposite envelopesin Institute ,ail boxes today ex-pecting them to be delivered inRoom 3-107 before 1 P. M. In-stead, deliver material directly toRoom 3-107.

Even the constitution didn't providefor such a possibility, and only statedthat the Treasurer should succeed theChairman. How the committee solvedthis is a long and involved tale.

First the treasurer resigned, andthe Secretary was elected Treasurer.Then a new Secretary was chosen.Now the stage is set for next weekwhen the Chairman will resign, andthe new Treasurer take over hischair. FinalIy a third Treasurer .r.lI

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