Vol. XLV No. 66 CAMBRIDGE, MASS., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1925 Five Cents

Tech Men Ditched ByFord Wiho~ut Injury

I n trying to avoid hitting ayoung lady, a Ford containingfour Technology students took asharp turn and threw all the oc-cupants out on Tremont StreetSunday afternoon.

A. J. De Napol i '27 was the own-er and driver, the other occu-pants being J. T. Henry '27, H.J. Ryan '26, and J,. E. Ryan '28.The car turned over on the men,but according to eye witnesses,no impression was made on anyof them. One of the men in thecar at the time insisted that thepeople who came to their rescueshould first take care of his trav-elling bag before he was freed.No information was available asto the contents of the highlytreasured bag.

Physics InstructorWounded By Bullet

Another case of "Didn't knowthe gun was loaded" occurerdMonday in the first year Physicslaboratory, when L. H. Young,instructor in the Physics Depart-ment, received a bullet woundin his arm. The accident wasthe result of an attempt to re-pair a loaded weapon.

Two instructors were repair-ing one of the rifles used to de-termine the velocity of a bullet.The, barrel dropped to the floorand when M r. Young picked itup, it exploded, the projectilepassing completely through hisarm below the elbow. He wasimmediately rushed to the doc-tor.

According to the medical de-partment, the wound was per-fectly clean, but several nerveswere shattered. The disabilityis expected to last about sevendays, after which time Mr.Young will be able to resume hiswork.

As a result of the accident itwas announced yesterday after-noon that the experiment hasbeen abolished from the fresh-man physics lab requirements,and all guns have been removedfrom the laboratory.

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Arrangements for the Christmasconcert of the Combined MusicalClubs to be held Friday at W~hitneyHall are completed. A special musi-cal program will be presented, in-cluding three specialty acts, and danc-ing will be held from the completionof the program until 2 o'clock.

The program will be given in thefollowing Order: Banjo Club, GleeClub, 'Banjo Duet, Mandolin ClubBanjo Club, Trombone Solo, Glee Club,Mandolin Club ,Glee Club Quartette.Te'chton~ians and the Sftein Song.

D. A. Shepard '26 and RaymondMancha '26 axe scheduled to appeartogether in their well knowvn banjoduet. The trombone so1o will be renl-de~red by A. R. Keith '28, and the quar-te-tte is composed of four members ofthe Glee Club, 'F. A. T~has '28, F. W.Shreiner '26, E. V. Fasce '26, and R.W. Harris '28.

It is expected that dancing will be-":.-i at tell o'clock. Music will be fur-nished by the Techtonlans, led by M.

M. FiTeman '26. The Red Room, ad-joining the main hall, will be utilized'for dancing in order that crowded con-ditions may be prevented and so thatdanci-ng may begin immediately afterthe presentations.

RADIO SOCIETY NOWMAKING POWER UNIT

H. R. Dyson '27 Talks on 1 XMAt Last Friday's Meeting

Last Friday the Radio Society helda meeting in room I-330 which was'well attended by members and thleirfl iends. E. R. Dyson '27, who is atpresent the station manager of thinRadio's Society installation which isknown on the air as 1XM, gave thetalk of the evening. He disclslseslquite thoroughly the present m-akeupof the station and mentioned hisplans for the installation of new ap-pa~ratus.

The Society at present is trying outtwo new German tubes as oscillatorsin the transmitter. One of them isa. 2.0 waitt tube, and the other one is,of 500 watt output capacity. Difficultyhas been -experienced thus far in hav-ing a source of power for these largetubes which is ad-equate to run thenrat their proper rating and yet be flexi-ble enough to accommodate experi-mentation., Dyson and the Vice-Presi-dentf of the Society, W. A. Snyder,have for the past month been develop-ing a pourer panel-which would saitis-fy theses conditions. This. panel isnowO almost complete.

SENIOR ENDOWMENTCHAIRMAN RESIGNS

E. F. Knight '26, who was appointedchairman of the, Senior EndowmentICommittee -on December 7, has re-signed his position due to the factthat he ha~s too much other work.His place will be taken by E. B. Has-kell '2 6. Tshe committee will meet at anearly date -to investigate the feasibili-ty ed endowmenlt inlsurance for themembers of Ithe Senior Class.

A complete report is to be made ata future meeting of the class and.both'the, -adwmtages and disadvariatagges of 'thl plnaVIIV-9 presented,-as iel asth facts regarding the costto each mem~ber of the class.

The clr-se of the Fall C~ompe-tition for play es on the staff ofTHE TECH marks the openingof a new competition wh ichwill end in January. During thisshort period there is an oppor-tunity for new men to make po-sitions in the various depart-ments. There are unusualchances for alert and interestedmen in the Sports Departmentand in the several divisions ofthe Business Department. Menwho have-had experience are ingreat demand; unexperiencedmen have an excellent opportu-nity to get on the "inside" ofthe 'newspaper game. Those in-terested in writing should cometo room 3, Walker; -those -inter-ested in Business w vork,: -ro~om302.

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ANNOUNCE FINALCHOICE OF SHOWCAST AND CHORUS

Five Men in Cast and SeveralIn Chorus Were ill Last

Year's Show

,ORCHESTRA NUMBERS 15

-Winning Designs for the ShowPoster and Score Cover

Are Selected

Final cuts of cast, chorus, and bal-let have been announced by the'Tech Show management. In thesethree departments 27 men havebeen retained. There are fifteenin the orchestra, the final cuts'having been published previously.

Those rettained in the cast are E. G.Dromilow '26 who takes the part of"Alex Chandler," E. W. Eddy '26, as"Will Frost," R. B. Go~ble '28 as "Bar-bara Frost," C. W. Harris '28 as "Her-man," Rt. D. Jon-es '28 as "Molly Cluet-Archer," N. M. Millair '28 as "WildaPetten," W. F. McColrmack '26 as "Mrs.Chandler' and Richard W~hiting '26 as"James Cluet-Archer."

Whiting and Jlones were leadingman and leading lady respectively inlast year's show, "The Ducihess ofDroadway." B3romilow, Millair, Jonesand McCormack also had parts in lastyear's cast.

Ment comprising the chorus are H.L. Burgess '28, H. C. Fowler' 27, A.T. Gifford '27, H. D. Hibbard '27 andRl. S. Hatch '27, B. T. Humphreyville'26, L. A. Jones '29, Benjamin Miller,'29, C:. E. Richheimer '28, and J. P.Waxnler '26.

The Pony 'Ballet consists of G. J.Ackerman '28, W. E. Edwards '26, L.A. Faster '27, C. F. Holdredge '29,L. S. Randall '26, T. B. Taylor '28, C.R. Washbllrn '26, J. M. White '28, andJ. S. Yates '27.

Pictures of all departments will betaken at 9 o',clock Sunday at Rogersbuilding.

Winners of the Poster competitionhave also been announced by the man-agement. Z. M. Sourian '27 made theposter that will be used on the pro-gram, and H. B. Huntoon '26 designedthe poster that will be used as scorecover..

NEXT FRESHMAN TALKBY PROFESSOR ROGERS

Subject To Be "Christmas andThe Works of Dickens"

Prodessor R. E. Rogers of the De-p3artmaent cot Englsh will give thisweek's freshman lecture on the sub-ject of "Christmas and Charles Dick-ens" in room 10-250 at 4 o'clock to-morrotw afternoon.

Propfessor Rogers declines to an-nounce the exact nature of his talktomorrow saying that an advancestory would "1slpofl the effect of thelecture" which he prelfers to keep asa surprise. All that has been anonunc-ed concerning the lecture is that itwill consist largely of appropriatereadings froma Charles iDickens' works.

Be~cause of the general interest oftomorrow's lecture attendance willnot be restricted to first year men.Membe~rs of the other classes as wellas the in~structing staff are inititedto be pre-sent but preference of seatswill be given the firstt year men forwhom this series of lectures wras pri-marily intended.

ENGINEERING NEWSWILL HOLD ANNUALBANQUET THURSDAYPresident S. W. Stratton and

I. W. Litchfield '85 AreAmong Speakers

TO ANNOUNCE ELECTIONS

Gathering at Alden Park Manor to-morrow evening at 6 o'clock the mem-bers of the Tech Engineering Newswill hold their sixth annual banqueta~t which elections to the staff will beannounced.

Speakers who have accepted an in-vitation to address the gathering in-clude President S. W. Stratton, I: W.Litchfield '85, and Leroy D. Peavy '98.C. A. Harrison '26, General Managerof T. E. N., will act as Toastmaster.

Was Editor of Technplogy ReviewMr. Litchfield has chosen as the sub-

ject of his address, "Predecessors ofT. Eg. N. and Their Difficulties," andas treasurer c! the first volume ofTHE TECH and later association withalumni affairs has secured much ex-perience with Institute publications.He was also editor of the 1917 Tech-nology Review and is a former Sec-retary-treasurer of the Alumni Asso-c~iation. In connection with his Alumniwarork Mr. Liitchfield did a great dealof -organization work in the Alumni of-fice and had charge of the 1917 Tech-alology reunion when the present build-illgS were dedicated. At present Mr.Litchfield is president of the Litchl-field Linoplate Company.

One of the other speakers, LeroyD. Peavy '98, has been president ofthe Babson Statistical Organization ofWellesley since the recent retirementof Mr. Babson. This organization isrecognized as the greatest companyof its type in the world. The subjectsof his address and that of PresidentStratton have not yet been announced.

NEW PICTURES ADDEDTO THE CIVIL GROUP

Several new pictures have beenadded recently to the Civil Eng1ine-ering collection in the halls and sta-ir-ways of building 1..Most of the new pictures a-re on thesecond floor, among wnrich are pic-ures of various stages olf construc-

tion of: the Alabama Power Company'shydroelectric development connectedwith the Mitchell Dam oil CoosaRiver in Alabama. Several picturesof the California Companys' Big-3pourer development on San JaukineRiver in California may be seen nearby. In contrast to these aresome pictures of hlydro-electric srta-ti ons in Norway. The nota~ble thinga",out the-se latter stations is theirunique architecture and their rich in-terior decorations.

Pictures taken in Switzerland byProfessor -C. M. Spofford '93 aremounted on the stairway above. Inthis group are pictures of the Jungfrauand of the tunnels and embankmentsof the Jung-fr~au Railway, and the Weg-'elrnal~p Railway.

ALUMNI CLUB MEETSIN SHAWSHEEN MANOR

Technology Ctlub of the M~err imacValley will hold its regular monthlymeeting tomorrow evening at Shaw-she-en Manor in Shawsheen Village.The guest of the evening is H. S.Ford, Bursar, who wvill talk on pres-ent conditions at Technology.

This Clumb Jis composed of Alu~mnifrom the towns along the MerrimacRiver, iprinetpally Lawvlence and Low-ell. Dinners are held regularly oncea on~t+h.

TWO DEBATES TO BEHELD IN FEBRUARY

Arrangements have been made fortwo debates to be held during themonth of February, one between theTechnology de-hating -team and TuftsCollege, and the other between thefreshman team and Laconia HighSchool.

The subject of the deibaete withTufts hnas not as yet been decided.The last debate, which was with Bos-ton College, was on the World Courtquestion. Thiss same subject will bedebated by the freshman te-am andLaconia High School. The exact,time of ;bo~th derbates is as yet un-certain, but will be announced at a,later date'.

D. My. F'uller of the Engli~sh and,History department is coach oif theTechnology team, and D. C. Metzger'27 is the teaml manager.

HOCKEY TEAM TOOPPOSE HARVARD

SKATERS TONIGHT

Arena Is Scene of Third GameFor Institute Hockey

Aggregation

CRIMSON SEXTET STRONG

Coach Stewart Will PresentRevamped Lineup For

Clash Tonight

Technology will play its third gameof the season when it meets the strongHarvard hockey team at the Arenathis evening. The Crimson outfit israted as a strong contender for the"Big Three" championship althoughthey halve not yet played a game thisyear. The veterans left on the teamfrom last season are lightning fastand should provide the Institute de-fense with some busy moments.

Coach Bill Stewart has brought theEngineer team along in rapid styleand they should be in fine form totackle the University sextet tonight.The passing that featured their offen-sive play against the Boston CollegePRagles has improved even more, andthe forward line is much less erratic.Nock, who displayed some real goodqualities in last. we-ek's battle willprobably get in -the game as one of thewings. This lad began the seasonvery slowly and as a result has notbeen started regularly before, but hisclever shots haare now attracted theattention of all.

Engineer Lineup ChangedStewart has entirely changed the

lineup of the team compared with theone that started the Boston Collegeand Boston University gamps-- Thereason for this shakeup was due to the-showing of the players in -the differ-ent positions last week. Before thega~me with the Eagles, the Coachpromised that he would shift the menall over the ice to determine wherethey played the best. The way thathe has made over the team, however,is a surprise to all.

Startin~g in the new positions,Brooks will take Bill Berkeley's posi-tion at right defense and will pair upwith Deke Crandall. These two wereworked together in the third period oflast week's game and showed up veirywell. Bee keley and Otto Weissnerwill start as the wings .This arrange-ment may or may 'not succeed. It Itis not a success it will be because Bill

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PROF. SPOFFORD TOADDRESS THE CIVILS

Subject-- "~Earthquake EffectsOn Foundations'

Professor C. MT. Spofford '93, Headsof the Civil Engineering Departmenta l the Institute will be the principalspeaker at a meeting of the Civil En-gineering society, to be held in NorthHall, Walker, to~morrow night.

Profe~ssor Spofford will speak oil"The Effects of Earthquakes onFoundations."1 The talk whill sbe il-lustrated, by lantern slides showingthIe results of earthquakes in differentsparts of the world. Earthquake pre-diction and other phases o f themenace will be discussed.

The Head o-f the Department ofCivil Engineering is a member of ithefirm of Pay, Spofford, and Thorndilke.consulting engineers of Boston, andhas been studying the earthquake pro-blem for a number of years in variousparts of the world. In 1910, Profes-sor Spofford with Professor A. T. Jag-ger, took an expedition to Costa Ricaand to the surrounding country tostudey tile earthquake question.

This subject of e~arthquake. is re-veiving much attention today. Theinterest is so great that the BostonChamber of Commerce has recentlyappointed a committee to study thequestion in Boston and vicinity.

CALENDARWednesday, December 16

3: 00-Eo. E. Society Trip to Simplex:Wire and Cable Co. Meet in MainLobby.

7:00-Mechanica~l Engineering SocietySmoker, North Hall.

Thursday, December 174:00-Freshma-n Lecture by Professor

Rogers in Room 10-250. Open to allstudents.

6:45-Reading by M. Pa. Copithorne,Walker library.

7:30--Civil Engineering Society Meeting,North Hall, Walker.

CHRISTMAS PARTYPLGANS COMPLETED

STUDENTS OF B. U.VISIT INSTITUTE'

Over 500 Men Attend TwoHour Illustrated Lecture

On The R. 0. T. C.t

Room 10-250 was filled to caiacityyesterday afternoon by a crowd ofover 500- students from Bost on. Iniver-sity. These men were members ofthe R. O. T. C. unit at the University,and came to -the Insltitute to hear anillustrated two hour lecture by Col-onel Drollinger onl the R. O. T. C.sumnmer camnps.

Tile lecture was arranged by Col-onel F. W. Phisterer, head of the Mili-tary &fience Department at the In-sti~tu~te, anld was given ill conjuncltionlwi~th several reels of film taken atR. O. T. C. camps. Thle films wereused for the purpose or showing ac-tual conditions which 1 he adlvan~cedstudlents imeet. It portrayed the dlif-ferent units oaf a ba~tallion in a, shamnbattle and showed how the infantry,artillery, cavalry, machine gunners,and signal corps advance together ontheir objective u-nder the direction ofthe commanding officers.

'The men ea-me from Boston Univer-sity in infantry fornmdlon paradingdiown one side of the Great Caturt,four abrest, and more than 100 rankslong. They carried with them threelarge banners displaying their schoolcolors.

M. E. SOCIETY HOLDSITS SMOKER TONIGHT

Mr. E. S. iStack, consultinhg engine-er, wvill -be the speaker at a smoker ofthe Mechani~cal Engineering Society,to be held this evening in Northl Hall,W~alker, at 7 o'clock. The talk willconsist chiefly of "Hot Water andBoiler S~torles," and will be more of:all entertaining rather than instruc-tive nat ure.

The speaker is an expert on hotwater heaters and has had consider-atble experience in making reports ofbo-iler investigations for the state.This smoker is the first one to beheld by the society this year, and allupperclas~smen in Course II are in-vilted to attend. Those who are notnow members of the society will begiven anl opportunity to sign up atthis -time.

Movies on "Wrought Iron PipeManufacturing"l will be shlown un-der the auspices of the society onFriday afternoon in room 10-25a0 a t4 o'clock. All students are invited.

COPITHORNE GIVESHIS THIRD READING

The th-ird series of readings by Mr.M. R. Copithorne in honor of WilliamEastman Jr., '17, will be given to-morr-ow evening in the library -of Walk-er Memorial at X,; ,45 o'clock.

In addition to a reading fromThackeray the program will includea Chris tmas story and a sheaf ofChristmas verse. The next readingafter tomorro~w's will be held on Jan-uaray 7.

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Vsectionls, each under a sepal ate instructor, those in authority

should provide some means of paralleling the instruction for

each group. This requirement is especially essential where some of

the instructorls have had relatively little experience in teaching the'

subject and where all groups are brought together at regular interl

vals for quizzing. When one section has the subject presented to

them in a manner different from that favored b~y the author of the

quiz, the students in that section feel that they are being treated

Because of the large number taking the course in Electrical En-

gineering, the Junior class in that subject is taught in several sec-

tions under separate instructors. Theree is not enough agreement

amngon the members of the staff teaching the subject as to how the

subject matter of each lecture is to be presented. Each instructor

follows his own method with the result that one will often teach the

subject from an entirely different viewpoint than that of the others.

There have been cases, (isolatedc to be sure, but still important)

where instructors disagreed on the definitions of terms used in the

subject, resulting in unnecessary confusion in the quizzes. Much of

the work, until now, has been highly theoretical with an extremely

lage number' of popportlnitiCs for7 disagreement, yet it would seem

that the instructors could agree among themselves, thus saving the

students unders them the burden of worrying whether or not their

instructor agreed with the instructor who prepared the quiz.

It is in I1o spirit of presumptuous criticism of its teaching meth-

ods in general, that we call this matter to the attention to the De-!

partmenlt of Electrical Enlgineering. Rather, we feel that coopera-I

tion between the instructors in the department -would make for bet-!

ter instrlletion on the part of the staff and a better understanding on

the part of' the students taking, its courses.

MILITARY TRAINING AS AN AID TO PEACE

And PF COUJRSE war is its own condemnation; it is certainly barb-

tJ sIarous and d(>structive; no one denies that the world would be

cl better pzlace to live in if there were no wa!.r and siar could

never b~e. People wh~o let emotions run away avith their thoughts

condemn military training in colleg~es on absurdly ClrlonCous gro0unds.

The objection seems to be that such training produces in the student,

not approval of wvar, but rather a kind of passive acceptance of war

as a necessary corollary of existence.

America is the richest country in the world in money, land, and

resources. There is not another nation that is so fortulnately situated

as wve are; and there are few other nations that would not profit if

they defeated us in war. It is unfortunate, to be sulre, that perfect

harmony and freedom from envye does not exist among the nations,

but until it does exist-and wve hope that sonleday 'the time zvill

come -it is our duty to make sure that we ar- seethe from the evell-

tuality of attack. The surest weav to arouse the dread god, M)ars, i

to render ourselves the easy prey of other nations. Collere mlilitar".

training is the best and most eff ective warty of building up a, reserve

of officers capable of instructing men and leading them if the noe

should occulr. We are eager to do our part toward making war in-lI

po~ssible, but until international wlays of thinking change, a defense-

less Americca wou0lld be an irresistable temptation.

AN AGE OF CYNICISM

N ARTICLE in a current magazine has eriticized Boston

I politics, plays, churches, in fact, all Boston life. It has label-

ledl all the periodicals published in Boston as organs of yellow

joulrnalism. It has said that Boston is inappreciative of good plays.'

We are led to believe that the pastors of Boston churches preach sole-

ly on necking and drink. This adverse opinion would seem to show

that Boston was the only city suffering from today's standards;

such is not the ease.

The opinions of a certain class of the writers of today are grossly

biased by the ideas which flourished in the Augoustan~ Age. They

jud--e all surroundings with a, cynicism found only in the works of

SllCl satiric writers as Swift and Pope. It is remarkable how few

lecarnedl mein have realized howe futile it is to bring about reform with

destructive criticism unless some measures a-re taken to relieve the

situation. A city of some few thousand souls must have a few good

points or it would cease'to be.

~~~Emphasizing, in Walk-Overs, style

~~leader ship with quality and fit

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I adanylh haslen farcialso comed base onr

Ivrs the reportedceat mofe thre Brits

ti-veed by May Ed-iss who is always at

her best in the unusual character

Spoc-fy, one of the three soldiers

playted by Alan Mowbray, has been

shlshalelsbfc so calla remember nnoth-

ing, and has a passion for stealing.

He finally steals his own child and

his wife's jewels. One of the unusual

features is a stage detective who does

not make a fool of himself in spite

of the many opportunities.

The w hole play is full of amusing

situations which are made all the

more amusing byr good acting. The

on1]y dra.-%vback wlas that the speech

was so strongly Cockney that at times

it weas rather difficult to understand.

The play- is one of the best mode-rn

English comedies that have been seen

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CASTLE SQUARE: "Abie's Irish Rose."

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CaLONIAL: "Lady Be Good."l-To quote

one of -our contemporaries. "And the

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MAJESTIC: "Greenwich Village Follies."

-On their "dog-to-,vn" tour en route

to NN ex York.N EW PARK: "Stronger Than Love."-

We shall tell you about it in the next

issue,

SHUBtERT: "The Student Prince."-

Song~s, acting, humor-all of the high-

est order.TR EMONT: "Louie the 14th."1-Leon Er-

rol is, of course, good, and that is

WILBUR: "Old English."--A play well

worth at least one visit, if only to

admire Georige Arliss.

At thle Ida~ho-Oregon game Earold,

Lloyd furnished the Oregon cheering

section with megaphones. The mnega-

-phpeues Ve're the gakudy colors of the

school and with 6,000 of them in se

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"They shall not pass ought to be agood motto for the basketball Samduring the season on the court.

Aftear Puschin's win in the breaststroke at the interclass swimmingmeet there is a chance after all thatthere might be something in the oldadage, "What's in a name."

Speaking of names, what a clean-cut moniker Soap Bridges of the swim-ming team has got. Little wonder thathe takes to the water sport kindly.

Who owns this "form" that all ofthe athletic teams are running sotrue to?

Os Hedlund will have to keep aneagle eye on Captain Leness of thetrack team or some fine day he willbe minus a track house. According topress reports of last Saturday's -han-dicap meet, Big George ate up theboards on the track.

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THE TECH photographer spent thebetter part of the week end lookingfor this ACTION person that a certainathletic team stripped for the other

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Dec. 16-M. I. T. vs. Harvard aftt Arena,8:15.

Janl. 9-M. I. T. vs. Mass. Ag. (lolllege at Amherst.

BasketballDec. 18-M. I. T. vs. Tuats College at

Tufts.Dec. 19-M. I. T. vs. Brown at Home.Jan. 9-M. I. T. vs. Lowell Textle at

Hom~e.Wrestling

D~ec. 19-M. I. T. vs. Noritheasternl at Homne.

SwimmingJan. 9-M. I. T. vs. Boston 'Univer-

sity at Bost-on Y. M. C. A.

WRESTLING COACHIS ENTHUSIASTIC

Expresses Himself As BeingMuch Impressed With

Team Showing

Under the tutelage of Jack Albright,the Institute grapplers are fast round-ing into f orm for the opening meetwith Northeastern which is scheduledfor next Saturday. Monday night theHangar imarts were very much in useby the wrestling candidates and CoachAlbright was kept busy giving indi-vidual instruction and correcting lit-tle faults.

Expressing himself for the first timesince taking over the wrestling team,Coach Albright said, "I am very muchimpressed with the showing of theboys thus far and I am sure that weare going to have a formidable out-fit." He added, "We have a fine bunchof fellows out and they a-re learningquickly and it will not take long toput them into shape for the firstmatches. Although we are a littleshort of heavyweights, I believe wehave a few light-heavies who shouldbe able to take care of heavyweightopponents."

The strength of the team has beenaugmented by the announcement thatBurke will be back in school at thebeginning of next term. Burke wasa mainstay on the team last winter inthe unlimited class. He is working outregularly in the Hangar so that hewill be in shape and ready to go atthe start of the new term.

FENCERS MAY GETEUROPEAN COACH

Plans On Foot To Obtain TheServices Of Belgian

Foilsman

Freshman WrestlingSchedule

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demands correct ingredients.

WVihen we speak glowingly of

our perfectly made dinner coats

-their fit, cut, materials and

workmanship-our statementsneed not be taken with the

proverbial grain of salt! Our

evening clothes are as right as

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Same way with our black or

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Every facility for banquets and partiesSpecial Orchestra and Dancing

till 1 A. M.40 Booths-Special after-theatre menus

If present plans for a fencing coachdo not fall through, the foils menwill have a mentor about the first ofJanuary, in time to whip the team inshape for the first meet which comesthe 10th of February. Manager Wil-son of the fencing team reported lastnight that he had dispatched a letterto Cyrille Baeck, a Belgian fencer,who had been recommended to himby Grasson, the present Yale coach.

W1;hether or not '3aeck will acceptthe offer which was made to him ispet known as yet, but present indica-tions are that the beginning of nextterm will see tle Belgian putting thefencers through their daily exercises.Baeck will be a valuable man for theTech team as he is considered one ofthe best coaches in his native country.He wa~s the coach of Grasson, who isnow the Yale mentor.

Levis Enters N. Y. MeetAlthough the team has been prac-

ticing thus far this season withoutthe services of a professional coach,they are showing progress particularlythe freshmen. Last Saturday the Var-sity went over to the Harvard fenc-ing quarters where they had a littlepractice encounter with the crimsonmen.

Next week Joe Levis, last year'scaptain, is planning to participate inthe Junior Nationals which are to beheld at New York. Levis ought tomake a good showing in these matchesas the Cardinal and Gray captain hasfew equals in intercollegiate ranks.Last year he came through a winnerin the majority of his matches andwon second place in the Eastern in-tercollegiates which were held, at theclose of the fencing season.

Capt. Sam Cole of the Varsity out-fit and star epee wielder has beenpracticing faithfully all fall for hispet event, so that when the time forcompetition rolls around he will be inrare form.

good Form at Yale-Style at Wisconsin!

A difference of opinion may existbetween Yale and Wisconsin as tothe relative ability of their footballteams but not on the. proper foot.wear for wet, snowy days.

Smart and trim, Zippers take thePhi Beta Kappa at New Haven andpremier honors at Madison, and forthat matter, art all colleges.

Co-ed and classman r Feshman,sophomore, junior or senior-yourwardrobe should include the smartAd stylish Zipper.

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The Librarian of "the Yale libraryrecently issued a statement whichshowed that the collections of Yale'slibrary have doubled every twentyyears since the University was found-ed in 1701. More volumes have beenadded in the last 25 years than in thetwo preceding centuries. The resulthas been that the library has over-flowed its limits into seven other-buildings, recitation halls and dormi-,tories.

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OCIKEY TEAIM EETS.CRIMSON AT^ ARENA

Harvard Will be Minus ServiceOf Several Regulars

(Continued from Page 1),does not work as well with the teamin his new position. The sextet is al-most built around him, and to"ight'sbattle will tell whether or not theteam needs him more on the defensethan offense. Johnny Deignan willplay at the net while Randall will beat center ice.

Harvard will put a strong team onthe ice even if Izzy Zarakov and ClemCoady do not begin the game. 'Thesetwo have not yet got over the effectsof a strenuous football season. Grossand Hamlen, two very fast men willbe the starting Crimson forwards.Clark, who shone on tne defense lastyear, will team up on the defense withPratt. Scott will oppose Randall atcenter ice. The star of the Crimsonaggregation is Cummings the sensa-tional goalie and captain who rankedsecond among the collegiate hockeyteams of the East last year. He shouldbe a great aid to his team and prom-ises to be a hindrance to all Tech-nology players who have the desireof caging the disk.

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in the four Position matches shotlast week. Technology Varsity RifteTeam won fromr the Gettysburg Col-leg~e team, 1814 to 1798, and lost tothne 'University of Pennsylvania, 1834to 1814. During the week ending De-dember 5 the team also split twoprone matches, winning from the NewY'ork Military Academy 497 to 468, andlosing to the University of Ciincinnatti500 to 497.

Individual scores for the four posi-tion match are: Harbeckr '28, 368;Wengen '28, 366; Clahane '28, 364; El-liot '28, 360; Olken '28, 356. These--cores were used for both matches.In the prone matches, the individualscoring was: Keyes '28, 100; Elliot'2S, 100; Harbeck '28, 99; Russell 128,m): Wengen '28, 99.

VI-A BANQUET ISAT LYNTN TONIGHT

Reception To N\ew Students

By The Genertal Electric

Company

A receprtion to new students willbe given by the management of theLynn General Electric Company inthe commpany's dining room this eve-ing. All students in the General El--eotric option are invited to be pres-ent.

W. G. Mitchell, Assistanrt Managerof the Lynn works, will be the firstspeaker orf the eveninlg and will givean Address and, Wel10ome to 1925.stud~ent Engineers annd Co-operativeSltudents. Following this will be atalk by L. E. Underrwood, Engineerin the Mootor D~epartmenlt, en~titled"The View of an Old Student on theValue of the General Electric Train-ing Courses."

There will be several other shorttalks includcingg "Pert Relmarks andWrise (Cracks," by Professorr W. H.

Tirmbie, "A Feiw Early Experiencesin the El Elecctrical Fields," by Pro-ressor Elihu Thomson, "'A Few Hou-dlini Tricks,"' by Professor Buck:W~Teaver, "Stepping Stones to Suc-cess," by Proifesso~r D. -C. Jacklson, anda humorous siketch ealtitled "TesltingInstruction,"' by Dr. S. A. Moss.

This recerption affords the studentsan opp~ortuniity to mneeit the offilcialsolf the comrpany informally. A~rrange-nients are being ~made to provideautomobile transportation for those

iAadents who desire it. All men whoare going should signify their inten-tions to Professor Ricker at once.

According to t~he reports of the PostOffice af the city af Columnbus, Ohio,:wvo and a half tons of mail are re-ceived each week -by the students ofOhio University. Surely, the-re shouldbe some explaination for the abnormal

of New York Iecently voted againstCompulsory military training and sub-mnitted a signed petition to the col-lelge authorities asking them to doaway with the compulsory clause. An-swering the torrent of abuse from mril-itary sources that followed this action,President Mezes, laughed it off as aboyish prank, saying, "The boys areacting the way boys usually act ..are trying to avoid taking a course-that reqluires two hours a week ofinconvenient attendance." The Occl-dent, a literary magazine in the Uni-versity of California, has been sup-pressed because it criticized the col-jlege policy of' Gigantism, oplposedco~mpulsory military t~raining, and, di-rectlly, because of the publicaation of

a saLtirical article on the nativity thatoffende~d the good taste of Dean Bald-,win M. Woodl. The editor of the Trin-

ity paper was recently suspended fordiaring Ito criticise a cha~pel. talk inwhich his Dean advocated a Trinitytype as opposed to individualism. TheDartmouthl Report, the agitation for"honuors courses" and the insistenceupon personal determination In thecoursees of study to be ~pursue~d, in col-leges throughout the country, a-re notonly evidences of a deisire on the partof s~tudents to do their own thinkingbut actual indications that they intendto do it.

As is the case in religion, so in ed-im~ation. WNe have our liberals and ourfundamentalists. The liberal educa-

tors, sens'ing the spirit of the times,ar~e qluick to appreciate and Welcomethe "thinking" student and adopt theirmethods of teachinl-. The fundamen--talists still clin- to methods of "spooon-feeding" considered effleacious in theird~ay and a~ttempt to sappress individualt~hinkingo by substituting handmadeand pre-digested pedagogy.

But history has proven that the- f~un-damentalist must inevitably give wayto the liiberal.--The Springfield Stu-(lent.

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Fast Basketball Games on TapFriday Evening in

Medford Gym

Both the Varsity and freshmanquintets will meet worthly opponentswhen they invade the Tufts gymna-sium in Medford Friday evening, topair up with the Jumbo Varsity andfrosh hoopsters respectively.

This will be the third game of theseason for the Varsity and Coach Mc-Carthy will leave no obstacle un-turned in annexing this affair. Stungby the bitter defeat at the hands ofthe Big Green court aggregation atHanover last Saturday, Coach McCar-thy's men are going through theirpractice sessions with renewed vigorand from every outside appearance itis certain that the Engineers willcome out on the top side of thescore Friday evening.

The playing of Captain Forresterand Hinck were one of the features ofthe Technology -play last Saturdayand they are sure'to show the sametype of aggressiveness and spirit inthe tussle with the Jumboes Friday.Captain Forrester bore the brunt ofthe Engineer attack against Dart-mouth, while Hinck proved consider-able worry for the Green forwardsholding his man to no less than twobaskets. Estes Biehleand Myers alsoperformed creditably for the Engi-,neers, but the superior brand of play-shown by the Hanoverites was a lit--tle too great for the Cardinal andGray basket tossers.

As a preliminary to the Varsity tus-sle, the Cardinal and Gray frosh willmeet the Tufts first year men. Thisgame is creating quite a bit of interestin local basketball Circles, as bothquintets possess teams of champion-ship calibre. Working in connectionwith the Varsity under the tutelageof Coach McCarthy, the freshman ag-gregation is showing a great deal ofpromise. The frosh are giving theVarsity a, good run in the Scrimmagesdaily at the Hangar. The frosh showedall around ability in their game withNortheastern last Saturday and byvirtue of their 40-8 win are consideredfavorites, but the Tufts first year menalso boast of a court team strong in,every department of the game, underthe capacity of Fish Ellis, star of theMedford High five last season. Elliswas named all-scholastic forward inthe Tufts tournament last March. TheCardinal and Gray present a strongattack with plenty of scoring abilityin the Conti, Johnson, Brockelmancombination, whose work -was the de-ciding factur in last Saturday's wiD.At guards a strong duet is presentedin Dame and McClintock who havetaken for their motto, "They shall notpass."

Saturday in the Hangar, the Varsitywill meet the strong Brown Universityquintet.

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Construction will be started next be open to~ students in all. groups.July on the new Sterling Memorial But istuden11ts will live in the college inLibrary which will enable Yale to uwhich -they enroll aand will have allmake all of the collections available 'their student life in R.t

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The startling number of student con-Terences, assembhlies and conventionsthroughout the country on nationalsinternationa~l, and purely academicand studlents qluestions leads to thebelief that the American colle-e stu-dent, the target for satirical geniusesfor the past few ye~ars, may not afterall be as provincial as he has been~pahited. The picture of the averagecolleige student, "goose-stepping"throuzgh an accepted routine of foot-ball rallies, fraternity "blowouts," pre-,dige~stedl and mass-aLdmini'tered. e~d-necation, with College Humor as hisliterar~y guide and heavy "necking"as his chief social interest, may havebeeni a little over~done.

If nothing else, the college studentof today is at least thinking. This ismJanifest on all sides. In religion herefuses to have aritiquated theologicaldogmas forced upon him., He prefersto work out his own ideals and hasproce~eded in a latrge degree to throw,Iside hylpocritical standards a-nd livehis own life as lie thinks it may bestbe lived. Whereupon a large hue andcr~y is raised about the "pro~blem af-fol-dted by the youn~ger generation" be-cause lie r~efuses to conform with ideasand stalndards adhered to (perhaps notas closely as they wvould have us be-lie~ve) by a past generation.

But the significant thing about theyouth of today is the fact he Ts think-ing. -College presidents are findingthis an increasingly difficult proiblemto deal with. Students actually havecome to the brazen point where theyiiisis't upon having a say in what theyshall be taught. The rising dissatis-faction with present academic mneth-o~ds, based on the unprecedented no-ti-on that the students know more ofwhat they want than those appointedto teach th~em, is not only revolutio~n-ary, bat is viewed in many cases asactual insubordination.

Two thousand ninety-two of the 3,-300 students in the College of the City d

The students at Dartmouth ceT-tainly follow their team with keen in-terest when it plays away from home.A niew device, the gridgraph, which is~a reproduction of the gridiron, hasbeen installedd in the gymnasium. Anelectric ~bulb, moving back and forthover the board, points out the posi-tion of ithe ball, while colored lightsindicate the players in action.

A Pacific coast athlete who wasputting up at one of the Seattle hotels-vas unable to secure a. bed longenjough to accommodate him. How-ever, this inconvenience was finally-remedied by placing two mattresseson the floor, 'upon which 'the seven-foot-two tackle rested peacefually.

Sessions of the thirty-ninth an-nual convenltion of the Association otColleges and Secondary Schools of theMiddle S~tates and 'Mary-land axe be-in~g held in the McMilla~n AcademicTheatfe, at Golumbia Unaiver~aity inNew York The .purpose of thesemeetings is to -obtain further revela-tions about -the mental processes ofcollege Students.

The most strikring revelation so farwas made by Miss Ellen Fitz Pendle-ton, president of Welleesley College.At a dinner at the Faculty clu~b, Co~l-umbia, she expressed regret that col-lege studlents could not be taught to.read and write properly.

"W~hen will our schools and col-

this I mean that, they are totally un-alble.to ~summar~ize in a few thoughtsor sentences what an author of abook has told ~them. Perhaps -thegreatest and most insistent challengethaat confronts us is how we can de-velop a greater intelectual. enthusi-asm among our young people in thecolleges."

In this respect, Mi~ss PendlIeton d-e-clare-dl that ~the Sophomores we're thew~orst, beding leas~t interested in acad-emic wo~rk and most difficult to handle.

-I tlo scholars for the first time in re-rent years.

Ait a meeting held aat Wabash Gol-lege bef~ore the Purdue football game,Dlr. Mackintoch, president of the col-lege aroused the general indignationof the undergraduate body by the an-nouncemenlt of lan order banning s~tu-dent ~owned au~tomrobiles. The officialannouncement resulted in an under-graduate vote planning for an unani-mous strike in case some violator ofthe rule ~sh~ould be expelled from thecollege. It was only througk the in-tercession of the football c~aptaiin, whotold his fellow Sjtudentsti that a strikewould seriously harm the chances ofthe college folotball team for -a -suc-cessful season, that the -students' edictwas repealed.

P~amona College in California -hasadtopte~d a, plann of g:rouping studentssimilar to that in use in Oxford and

Psychology tests will be given bythe College Entrance ExaminationBoard beginning next June. This willbe the firsL time that this board hasever offered tests of this nature. Theboard's decision to enlarge- its activi-ties by the inauguration of these tests,was largely influenced by the consid-eration that if it held these examina-tions for several years under safeguard, it would be able to determ~inein a very satisfactory way just howvaluable psychological tests really are.

At present almost one-fifth of thevolumes in the collection a-re in stor-age outside the Library building prop-er and each year 50,000 volumes areremoved to make room for the annualacquisition of 50,000 volumes.

Mr- Xpnzh. the Librarian.n inr mak-

INSTITUTE COMMITTEE

Trhere will be a regular meeting ofthe Institute Cammfttee tomorrow at5 o'clock in the Facul~ty Dining Room.1

DARTMOUTH CLUB

:Menii~bers of the Dartmouth ~Club,will meset in Grill Room for lunebiFri~day, at 12 o'clock.

TIME TABLES

'Time -tables have 1-jen se-cured fromn~forty railroads by the Information De-part~ment of the T. C. A. for distriibu-tiion before vacation.

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The ~members of the executive com-mitttee of the C. P. S. will meet atNolttman's Studio, Harvard Square,Friday ·morning at 8:20 instea~d oftoday.

A. E. S. MANAGING BOARD

There will be a meeting of the Man-aiging Board of the Aeronauti~cal Fn-I ineering -Society in room 3-312 at.4 o'clock tomorrow.

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STONE & WrEBSTERINCORPORATED

DESIGN steamn power stations, hy-dro-electric developments, trans-mission lines, city and Ilnterurbanr a I wa ys, gas and chemicalplants, industrial plants, ware-houses and buildings.

CONSTRUCT either from theirown designs or from designs ofother engineers or architects,

OPERATE public utility and In.dustrial companies.

REPORT on going concerns, pro.posed extensions and new proj.ects.

PINANCE Industrial and publicutility properties and conduct anInvestment banking business.

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for transportation home forthe yuletide vacation. Wehave all models at lowestprices in New England.

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UNDERGRADUATE~~~B~f FRESHMAN FOOTBALL

All melmbbers of the F'reshman Foot-ball 'Team. who borrowed equip~mentfrom Irving H. Sirall please returnsam~e to hockey desk in M. I. T. A. A.offi~ce in W~alkf-r

TEGH SHOW PICTURE

Piotures of the cast, chorus, or-chestra and management of TechShowv will be taken in the Commonsroom, Rogers building next Sundiayat 9.

TECHN\IQUE

Informal snapshots will be accepted(at the Information office or at theTechnique office in Walker during thenext two ~weeks. Any students maysubmit original pictures for this sec-tion of the year book.

The closing date for Senior Port-f~olio picture appointments is Saturd~ayDecem'ber 19. Those who have notsent in the Senior Portfolio Statis~ticlsheet should present then at the Tech-niqlue office at once.

AIR SERVICE EXAMS

All Sophomores who desire to en-ter the advanced Air -Servi~ce Coarseshould make an appointment for therequired physical examination ~beforethe Christmas vacation. Appoinat-ments can be arranged, in room 10-080.