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List of Freshmen Who. IAre Not Wearing Ties

Following is a list of some of thefreshmen who have shown such a lackof class spirit as to neglect to weartheir cardinal-and-gray ties:

William C. Adelson.John H. Arnold.Lawrence C. H. Berkwitz.Kenneth R. Bolles.Joseph R. Brennan.Wilbert 0. Bussenlius.Edmund G. Caine.Elliot F. Childs.Charles J. Cirame.John P. Glass.Raymond Jacques.Edward Jaramillo.Max Katz.John H. King.William W. Lappinl.John 13. Newsc;n.Carlton F. Nicholson.William H. Otis.Rodney R. Piper.George 0. Richardson.Thomas J. Slattery.James T. Snlow.John E. Spalding.Robert W. Vose.College transfers who are registered

as '31 are supposed to wear freshmanties, unless they have received specialPermission from the Rllles Commit-tee.

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FROSH UNIFORM TIESTO CHANGE IN COLOR

Black Replaces Cardinal andGray After April 23

All freshmen taking mlilitary Science

will wear black ties with the uiii-

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Friday in WalkerProgram Includes Presentation

of Specialty NumbersAnd Dancing

Technology's annual Pop Conccert will

be given by the (Combined Musical

Clubs of the Institute on Friday e-e-

ning, hIarclh 23, at S o'clock in the

Main Hall of Walker Memorial. This

Pop Concert, which is merely a l egu-

lar Mlhusical Club Concert given at pop-

ular pi-ices, so that eve yone may have

a chance to hear the Clubs, has ibe-

come a yearly affair.

Although the filst Pop Comcert was:

giveii mei ely with the intent of see-

ing how it would go over the success-i

of the firlst Pop Concelrt was so ap-palrent, that every year arousd thistime the Clubs hold one. Incidentallythis will be the last chance to hearthe Alusical Clubs around Boston be-for e the Spi ing Concert. Tle ticl,-ets ale a dollal and a half per couple Ior stag, thei e being no distinctionlmale betweeii the two. Tables may il)e researved in adlvane eat the MusicalClubs office. |

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Finance Committee

Appointments Mcade

At a recent meeting of theCorporation, two members ofthe Committee on Finance, W.Cameron Forbes ad A. FarwellBemis '93, resigned from thatcommittee. The Vacancies werefilled by the appointment of Ed-win S. Webster '88 and FrancisW. Fabyan '93.

All of these men are life mem-bers of the Corporation. M r.Forbes and Mr. Bemis are alsomembers of other committees ofthe Corporation.

sian and Bohemian Musicof Last Century

rrlac DISC P>Pf AD CaFRXC~lie. | will be issued during the firstq-jl3J 1 V Va OEANIE..aLL two weeks of April.

Conlforming w ith the policys of theRules Committee, the Cardinal and

I Gray tie will be regullar unifor m for{all freshmen tip to and including drillloll Monday, April 16th.! The policy of the Military Science| Department in making the Cardinlaiand Gray tie uniform during this pe-riod heas Steen a gr eat convenience tothe f;reshmzen. W~ithl the changes madein the uniform this ylear, it has beenpossible for a f reshmall to go to hislocker at 4 o'clock and chanc.e illtime for drill.

VARSITY TEAM TO}DEBATE FRESHMEN

Affirmative Side of Topic IsTaken b~y First Year Men

This Afternoon

Teelinlolog-y's Var sity and fl eslllan

teanis Nvi1ll h1old all inftormal debate ill

RoomI 2-190 this afternlloon at rourl

o'( loek. oill the sub1ject "Resolvedl,

that the Uiiited States shollld cease

to protect by- armed illtervrention. cap)-

ital inv~ested ill foreign1 counltries, e:;-

cept after fol mal declaration of Lvar. '

Tile Val'sitY' is taking the negativeside, whlile the fres]1mall will atteml tto pr ove that the statement is cor-r eet.

Sox fra the Varsity has not lo~st asillglfw deb~ate this year, WNvinnlill thesix drebates they have llad, while thefreshmen hav e llad but one deb~ate,wsith Dartmouwthl freshmnel, oll Fridiaynlighlt. whlen a jud;-lt~ess deflate w-asheld ola the -alov e sulbject, ill *-%hiclthe andiellce joxilled. The deblate thulsrmade niore hiter estin,- for tile com-ments from the audience brought forthseveral poillts not iised by either side,and added to the spil'it of' the meet-ing. In all probability the Varsityteam will hold a similar debate be-fore the season endls.

On Friday night the Varsity teamwill hlold a debate wiithl the strongClark Univreisity onl the same topic.that they hlave usedl all year. Shouldthe Institute team win this debate,they wvill have a clear r ecoird for theyear, for- it,-is doubtful wvhetller therewill be anlother debate for thlen, ull-less it is possibly with the University-of Vermont team. T he men Echo willspeak in the Clarks debvate lvill be all-nlounced oll Friday.

:New York String Quartette IsIFeatured by Whiting

In Program

Least night saw the presenltationl ofthe fifth and last of the fine programsof chamber music that halve been pre-sented at the Institute during the pastseason by Mr. Arthur Whiting. Theaudience that gathered in Room 10-250to hear the last of the programsseenmed to enjoy the program immense-Iv and from the way the finish weasapplauded the folks seemed to expressr egret at the close of the series.

Ill his final program Mr. Whitingwnas ably assisted bly the New Yor kString Quartet, a well knownl and ap-preciated group of ellsemble artists.Following his introductory talk, Mr.Whiting presented the play ers whloproceedled with the first !.art of thep)rogram, a (quartet lby Smetana, one ofthe Bohemiwaf compIosers or the middlellnineteenth century.

After the sllort breakv in tile p~r()raimMr. W\hiting made ca further evxplanac-tions on the movement of the secondeselection. The second~ wvas fromt theNvorlk of the Bohemnian, Dvorak. Inthis selection TIIr. Whiiting m~ade Uis) thefifth of the quintet bay his eassistallee,wlliCh the first selection didl not havte,tit tlde pianoforte.

LMORGAN GIVES TALKTO CORPORATION XV

M.S.St. Jolll M~organl, vice-prei

[-'denlt of the State Str eet Trllst Com-palls, will address Corpor ationl XV oftits r egular mollthly dinner meetingwh vlich will be held tomorrow eveningat G o'clock in the WValker Grill.

Mr. Morgan has clhosenl for a topic" The Organization of a Busilless Eii-|;terprise." It is expected that MI.| Morgan will devote the largest part ofhis talk to relating his personal ex-t perienlces in business and he will p~rob)-[, ably tell something of the ivorkinlgs[¢of a bank.

Students interested ill CorporationXV are invited to attend trie alleet-ing. The tickets will cost 75 c~ents.[,Members are requested --- to procaretheir tickets at their earliest' pos-tsible convenience as a large attend-Lzance is expected. Tickets may be se-tcured from any of the officers of the[ Corporation.

Membership blanks and pins of theSociety of Industrial E~ngineer s ilave

-1benn received f rom the national head-^:quarters at Chicago. Those who be-

lon01g to the society and who have Ilotsecured them, call obtain theml at themeeting.

Several specialty nunmlelrs will lbe Doctor Arthur D. Little 'S5, Presi-feat re(I ont the ploglrai?, among dent of the Arlthur D. Little Co., ofw Eich Anill lbe a saxophone quintette, IBoston, will deliver the last of theanm a piano duet by Edwalrd J. Mar-llockr '29 and George Q. Voiglit '29. |year's Ald'red Lectures ill Room IO-

'ol lowing the concert which will end i950 at 3 o'clock on Friday af ternoon.at albout 9: 45, the Tecltonlians w-ill |He has chosen "Chemical In(lustry"

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at one o'clock. Tickets may lie o)- taiiiied fronm members of the Musical IClubes ol at the Musical Cluls office.I|

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After receiving lIes degree fromCour se V at the Institute, Dr. Littlebecame chemist, and later superin-tendent, at a paaper company in RhodeIslanid. This comnpanr Eras the firstin the United States to use the sul-pite pl-occss for lvcod pulp il themanufactui e of paper.

Twco years later he resignied his po-sition to go into general practice as aconsultilg chemist in Boston, andsinrce then has been exclusively aconsultinlg, chemist and chemical en-gineer, first as junior partners il Grif-fin andl Little, later as senior partnerof Little and Walker, and still later|as president of the corporation whichbears his name. At present, tle A.D. Little Co. is the biggest firm of in-dependent industrial research chem-ists in the world.

Dr. Little is a life member of thecorporation of the Institute, and hewas President of the Alumni Associa-tion from 1921-1922. He is also thefounder of the Institute's School ofCheniical Engineering Practice. Course

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BULL SESSIONS ARESTILL GOING STRONG

"Companionate Marriage" was thesubject discussed at the third bull-ses-sion held il Room 10-340 yesterdayafternoon at 4 o'clock. The discussionof the stbject was ,a continuation of

the one started last week. Severalstudents who had previously been

|askedl to present both sides of thequestion (lid so and the discussion wasthrow-n open for the whole meeting.Many important qllestions dealing withcompanionate marriage, such as birthcontrol, morals and~l sex were broughtup and debated upon.I When the bull-session had1 lasted an

hour and the subject had been thor-oughly presented and discussed a votewas taken to see how many were infavor of "Companioaate Marriage" andhow many were opposed to it. Out of128 ho voted, to students were opposedto it and 13 were ill favor of it.

| AVI ATION RESERVEOPENED TO JUNIORS

I J.uiors who ale physically qualified1 and are Amei ican citizens, will be giv-en an opportuntit to joiii the Nlav-alReserve Aviation Unit. There will

|be a course ill flight training whichwill b~e gi-heu at Squanturn rival|Trainiingi statioii to those who quall-ify.

Upon thre satisiactory completion ofthe two training periods, a few ofthe studlents Mvil bee allowedl to remaillwith the Navy for a period of frome lne to three years.

In ordtler to take the flightt trainingunder the Atoll Reserve, it w·ill benecessary for the stntenllts to attenda class il Aviation Training. Thisclass +X-ill lbe organized as soon as pos-sible so that cei tain Naval subjectscan be t-iveii lplior to June 30th.

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PRINCETON AND DARTMOUTHLEADING GYM CONTENDERS

IMusical Clubs toGive Pop

CHICAGO TEAM IS.DARK HORSE ENTRY

IN BIG GYM MEETTechnology, Army, and Navy

Chances of Placing MenSeem to Be Equal

SADLER PROBABLE STAR

Princeton and Dartmouth aree prob-

albly the strongest. teams entered in theEastern Intercollegiate GymnasticTournament w hich will lbe held inWalker Gym. oII Satuidtllay. Princeton

has lbeen illlefeattedc this year and

holls tle Eastern League champion-ship). The (3-reen Ihns been defeated

only· ly the Tigers allfl this was by aver'y' S1l1l11 Illmal'ginl. Bot13 of these

te ms have men NN-lio won events inlast year's Illtercollegiates enteredaglain this year.

Sacller of Dartmouth, last year's III-tercollegiate chalml>ioo oil the parallels,will lbe enteredl this yerar in the all-around l ehlanli)ionshli) as %vell as thepaiallels fld the horizonttlis, which

,Iie his twvo Ibest e-ents. lIe has beenclosely pl'ursued byt Stew-rt, his team-ina~te on tIe I)arallels, IId at times itlooks as it' thle title miglht jio to Stew-art tlhis 3-ear as he has defelted Sadlerin sev-eral nmeets. Sadler is almost as'goodl 011 the horizcontals as lie is o11 tllepalrallels and1 lie shornlt] Oace in both

of tlese events.

Princeton Strong on RingsJacqlue Taylor of Princeton is last

Year s Intercollegiate elzolmpioon on theflinig rings al l he appaelentiy is outto cl1plic-te his record again this yearas he las lbeen giving some very goodexhibitio s. He is closely pursued byBob Snively, -who has won almost asmanly firsts in this event as Taylor has.Taylor, however, is by far tile faster^7a the rope climb and lie las von thisevent in nlearly every meet this yVear.His tine is about a second below that

I of his nearest cornpetitor and he seemsto hal-e the ?est chance of allyone tOtake tile r ope climb this year. BobSnively is pDetty strong on the paral-lels, but it is doubtful as to how muchchance he will have against Sadler orStewart of Dartmouth.

Chicago University is the dark horseof tle meet as very little is knownabout their strengtl as they have notcolmpeted against any of the Easternschools. rThey are known to have oneof the strongest gy m teams in theMIiddle Wtest, but wvhetler the Westernteams are better than those of the Eastremains to be seen. Tlley are knownto lave a good man on the side horseand he th eatens to challenge Fair-child's bid on that piece of apparatus.

Navy, Army and Penn Also EnteredNavy, Army, Penn and Bowdoin, as

wvell as AI. I. T. are tle other teams en-tered in the meet. The sailors haveentered fifteen men, but they have not-is good a team as gelerally iS the case.T'hey lost tleir first meet in elevenyears to Dartmouth last Saturday.Adamson, their captain, is their bestman and le does very good work onthe side horse, but it is doubtful if hecan beat out IIarold Fairchild of M. I.T. Army, Penn and 13owdoin possessmediocre teams and the best that canlbe expected from them is one or twoplaces at tle inost- Penn formerly hada very strollg team, but they have lostmost of their league meets this yearand it is iinlilelv that they will doanythinlg stacltling this Saturday.

CALENDARWednesday, March 21

6:nc0 -C'o:lpol- ltionl Si\V Wdkertilzg. "tilkew-

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Thursday, March 22

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Friday, March 238:00---fl>op ('olw), + t :tIld l)lla.Blkl,-r.

Saturday, March 24I(,jin A. Ar.-Ateeting Sof Intercollegiate

(,.-n League, F2c-ulty Dining

2:60r)-Intezreollegiattc (3'ly -I.Net. Wa';tlkcerG'ym.

1REST OF DRAMASHOPCAST IS SELECTED

Final Announcement CoversLacking Co-ed Parts

AllI parts have been chosen for theIb-amanshop's nest prodtuction. "At theSign nf the Greedy Pi-,.' After sev-eral wveeks of try--outs. Coacl Dean Ful-ler has finallI picked the followingstudents for thle various parts in theshow: Bomlastes, Alac(?ornack; Bal-lad Moiiger, H-Ialrdilg; Trencher, Betts;Squeak, Ogden: Whimp, WVolf, Blat,lieyser; Tivist, Horn; Student, Strat-ton; Sur-eon, Bridge: Syndic, Tarr;Jules, Parker; Yiank, Evans; First OldWoman, Ross; Second Old Nl'oman,Lovely; Apple Womana, May; First OldMan. Page; Second Old Man, Gralam;Tapster, Johnson: Watchman, Glowa;Bell Ringer, Edlund, and VegetableMan, Logan.

Rehearsals Aiill l)e leld at 7:30o'clock every Wednesday and Fridaynight from now until tire time, for pre-sentation, in Room 2-17S, and all mem-bers of the cast are I'equlested to attendevery rehearsal.

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What use the modern young ladymakes of her freedom furnishes thetheme for Miss Bentham's new novel,"Bright Avenues." It is indeed anovel of 192S as the publishers claim,but it is introduced in a period of newnovels of this year, and it does notpresent sufficient difference from itscontemporaries to be of great impor-tance. W\e do not hesitate to say thatthe book is somewhat above the aver-age of its class, but it is not sufficientlyso to achieve distinction.

Christine Merrick is a girl of today.She is no super-woman, but neitheris she too ordinary to be interesting.From the death of her mother, awhenshe is forced to earn her own liviing,her existence is cleverly recordedthrough the early part of her marriedlife. Hier occupations are varied, in-cluding periods as a stenographer. asa mannequin, as a social worker, andas a protegO of the idle rich. Thepeople that she meets are of variedtypes, and they are quite true to life.It is an interesting story that breaksaway somewhat from the all too com-

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that have passed since the time of thestory, neither the scenes nor the char-acters have the stiffness or the unnat-uralness which is apt to surround an-tiquity. Nero, despite the almostinhuman cruelty of the latter part ofhis life, does not seem out of place inhis surroundings. There is a sort ofgrandeur in the man who wishes to bea poet but lacks the necessary ability.He is too much of a politician to be agood poet, yet he is too much of anartist to be a ruler. In taking Nerofrom his youthful assumption ofpower to his early death, the author

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Love may come once or many timesto the fortunate, but when it finallydescends on the many spurning ones,beware the reaction. George Kellysucceeds in presenting and delineatingskilfully the characters in such an ar-rangement in this "Behold, the Bride-groom,"now at the Shubert.

The spurning one in this play is anexpert lounge lizardess, clever, charm-ingly bored, and dressed so that noneof the bodily contours are hiddenwhen she walks the walk of the youngsophisticate. But conditions are al-tered greatly by the end of the secondact, for the serpentine loungeress suc-cumbs to an evolution of thought, herpertness becoming morbidly philoso-phical. And all this because the stim-ulus of love evolves a queer response.

The lizardess, Antoinette Lyle,played by the capable Judithe Ander-son, is wealthy and untroubled by theways of life. She had seen and ex-perienced everything, or so shethought. And in the stratum of so-ciety into which she was born, onesuffered but little from youthful con-ditioning. When love came to her inthe form of handsome Spencer Train,acted by Richard Gordon, a transvalu-ation of life occurred following therealization that this man could neverlove her. The inevitable resulted,making the reborn "Tony" despise herold self, and pine away into a graveillness that knew no cure.

The play is undoubtedly w;ell-acted,Miss Anderson's performance beingparticularly commendable. But de-spite its excellent executiou "Behold,the Bridegroom," seems to lack thedepth and conversational deftness ofsome of the other present-day dramas.

ASSOCIATE BOARD

D. T. Houston '30 .......... Ne ws Editor

F. C. Crotty '30 .......... Features Editor

P. Keough '30 .............. Sports Editor

O. Smith '30 .................... T reasurerD. W. Diefendorf '30.Circulation Manager

EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTLiterary EditorH. T. Gerry '29Editorial Board

W. W. Hoppe '28 X. P. Morell '28F. L. McGuane '28 IC. L. Welcng '28

Staff PhotographersC. J. LeBel G. T. Lewenberg '30

L. J. O'Malley '28NEWS AND SPORTS

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W. J. Danziger '29Assistant Sports Editor

L. Verveer, Jr. '30Night Editors

M. Brimberg '29 F. C. Fahnestock '30C. Connable '30 G. H. Tamrinosian '28

R. T. Wise '28News WriterR. Davis '31

Sports Writers1 W. Harmon '30 S. C. Westerfeld '31

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ACUTE CREDITITIS

"EDUCATION suffers in America from a confusion of pur-poses" is the claim of Dean H. W. Holmes of the Harvard

graduate school of education. In his opinion we have altogeth-er paid too much attention to the spread of education ratherthan to making our system fit for the attainment of specificends. His diagnosis of the situation is an acute case of"credititis."

In the preparatory school everything is subordinated to ob-taining sufficient credits to enter college, and in consequencethe student arrives in college "prepared," but he has receivedhardly the beginnings of an education. Age for age our stud-ents are noticeably inferior to those in English and Continentaluniversities. Organization in education means more to us thananything else. Dean Holmes' conclusion from these facts isthat the outstanding problem is the unification of secondary edu-cation and college education without losing any of the featureswhich have proven advantageous in the past.

He has no definite plan, however, to offer, but "there mustbe cooperation with the colleges, and one college must take thelead in starting the new systemin." Probably a large majority ofTechnology students can remember back to their prep schooldays when preparation for College Boards were the chief andonly object of classroom work. The sole purpose of educationseemed to be the passing of those examinations, and probablymany a student who desired further enlightenment in some sub-je't was denied on the fact that it would'not be asked in theO4ams. _4~ teacher's success was gauged'by the pereentage ofhis students who "got by" the entrance examinations. Is itany wonder that students are as a general rule prepared rath-er han 'e'ducated ?

The chief difficulty with any plan to better the conditions liesin tie fact that parents send their children to -he school whichhas a good record for getting their pupils into college. As longas the colleges can find no satisfactory way of requiring theiraplicants to be able to do more than pass certain set examina-~iPs, there w.ill continue to be schools specializing in gettingtheir pupils "by." The fact that this is so little distinguishedin the popular mind from doing creditably will prevent anyappreciable' improvement in conditions.

a coldly analytical person with a hobbyfor studying people's motives-thecurious quirks of character which arerevealed by their unconscious selves.

The plot concerns the search for themurderer of Judge Robert Craigin.Bruce, the judge's brother, acceptsGalt's offer of assistance in the case;and then things begin to happen.

The author shows considerable skillin handling his plot, carefully balanc-ing his suspense, and ever changinghis pace, while never allowing thestory to lag. "The Portrait Invisible"is indeed a thrilling tale, and onewhich will hold the reader's interestto the last page. We recommend ithighly for an evening's entertainment.

F. M.

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THE BLOODY POET, by Desider Kos-toianyi. New York: Macy-Masius.$2.50.America is not the only country

wher e "private lives" of historic fig-ures are presented to the public innovel forIh. "The Bloody Poet," byDesider Kostolanyi, is a recent Hun-garian novel in which the tyrant ofRome, Nero, is made far more compre-thensible to the modern mind.

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Scotch Mist* overcoats of wet-proof Scotch cheviots in smart mix-tures, herringbones and overplaids-

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Spring felt hats.Even if the bir.ls shtould say "Chteep!

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mon sophistications of the present-daynovel.

Miss Bentham expresses herself well,and many expressions that she usescleverly linger with the reader. Hercharacters are well drawn and heranalysis of the present-day woman andher new freedom rings quite true. Asa first novel it shows considerablepromise for the author. H. T. G.

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highest individual score on the M. I.T. team in last year's William Ran-dolph Hearst trophy match, has notbeen very far behind the leaders thisseason, and should turn in a goodscore. The other two members of theteam who will represent M. I. T. areRichard Orleman '30, and Arthur LaCapria '29. Although this is Orle-man's first year with the Varsity hehas improved rapidly and has turnedin some good scores.

La Capria, manager of the team.showed some good ability when hefirst came out last year, and underthe skilful coaching of LieutenantMoore, has developed into a reliableand cool shot. Robert Loomis '29, willbe the alternate shot in the meet. Hehas shown some fine shooting thisyear, being beaten by only five pointsfor a position on the team.

This week the rifle team will alsofire the first stage of the National R.O. T. C. match. This will consist often shots prone and tell shots sitting.At the same time the first stage ofthe IVilliarn Randolph Hearst trophymatch will be fired. This will con-sist of only five shots prone.

With victories over Norwich, Bos-ton University, Dartmouth, W. P. I.,Williams, Amherst, John Hopkins, Al- abama, Massachusetts National Guards,R. P. I. Rifle Club, and the U. S. Ma-rines, the Beaver outfit enters themeets in a fine shape.

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Technology's rifle team will enterthe National Rifle Association Inter-collegiates with a clear record. Themeet in this section of the countrywill be held at the CommonwealthArmory, Saturday, March 24th. TheNew England team making the high-est score will receive the New Eng-land Championship, while the teammaking the highest score throughoutthe country will receive the NationalChampionship. Silver medals will begiven to the team obtaining the high-est scores in the meet and bronzemedals to the second highest.

Robert M. Harbeck '28, who holdsthe National title as well as the NewEngland title has starred for M. I.T. all this season. His shooting thusfar this year is even better than itwas last year. In a shoulder toshoulder match, he defeated Lieuten-ant Wheeler U. S. M. C., an Inter-national Team shooter, by a score of187-184 out of a possible 200. Cap-tain Arthur R. Elliott '28, has placedsecond only to Harbeck in most of themeets. He has done some good shoot-ing this year and has a good chanceto finish among the leaders.

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i Oscar Hedlund, the head track coachiat M. I. T., announces that the outdoor

E track season will start with a rally at5 5 o'clock Monday afternoon in Room

- 10-250. Coach Hedlund wants all men:lwho have had any previous training intrack and field to drop around to thetrack house any afternoon after 3o'clock and get in touch with him. Thecoach wishes to emphasize, too,that hewould like to see all men interested intrack, regardless of whether they havehad previous experience. Some of the

i: Institute's finest runners never had aspiked shoe on in their life until theycame to M. I. T.

In order to give every man a chanceto show his ability, Oscar has arrangeda series of two handicap meets, besidesthe regular Varsity and freshmenschedules. In these handicap meetsaIn effort is made to put every man ona par with the other fellow. The han-dicap meets are on April 7 and 14,when on April 19 comes the SpringInterclass meet. The Varsity teammakes two trips this year, one to theUniversity of Maine and the other tothe Newr Englands at Providence. Thetfreshmen also have two trips, going toAndover and meeting the New Hamp-shire fresh at Durham.

YEARLING FENCERSLOSE BY 6-3 SCORE

Boston English High School defeatedthe M. I. T. yearling fencers by thescore of 6 to 3 in a match in WalkerGym last night. Koretsky, Krutterand Jimenez each scored two pointsfor English, while Hyman scored twoand Hamilton one for Technology.

In the feature bout Koretsky, theone-armed English High star, defeatedFHyman 5 to 3. Hamilton of the M. I.T. yearling team has had little experi-ence but he defeated his opponenteasily by the score of 5 to 2.

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The author has succeeded in makingan interesting story in spite of itsbloodiness. The characterizations aregood, but are not up to some of Er-

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skine's. It has lost little by transla- language. Although it is not a gre:.tion, for its phraseology and clarity. work of literature, it holds its own -are, such that one would not suspect it comparison with the majority of preof having been written in a foreign ent-day books. H. T. G.

A. 1, E. E. TRIP

There vill l)e an inspection trip oftOe Edison Lamp W'orks of the Gen-eval Electl ic Company Under theaitspices of the Technology branch ofthe A. I. E. E. Those wishing to at-tnedl tle trip will meet in the MainLobbly- at 2 o'clock tomorrow. The de-tails of the tl ip ale posted on theA. I. E. E. bulletinl board.

A meeting of the society sill le heldill Room 5-330 at 3 o'clock today. Mo-tion pictures from the Locke Insulator

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pAbout twenty battery men reportedat the Hangar Monday and yesterda3afternoons at the initial call for candi-dates for this year's Beaver team.Dutch Ayer, former Somerville Highcoach, and Bill Stewsart, Varsityhockey coach took charge of all thecandidates, the former instr'uctting thecatchers on some of the fine pointsof the game while the latter, tool;charge of the pitchers. AniongL thepromising candidates for the moundtlposition are Joe Farwell andi Brig A\i-len.

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