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Dies in Charleston 8.
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2'7, honor grad—

John W. Urban, ’
uate in chemical engineering, winner
of the. first prize in the 1926 Essay
Contest of the American Chemical
Society, and president of his senior
class, (lied Aug. Z in Charleston, W.
Va., as a result of burns received a
week before in an explosion of the
Carbide and Carbon Chemical Co.’s
unit at which he was employed. He
”would have been 23 years old tomor-
row.

 

Was Assistant Foreman

Urban Was assistant foreman at
the plant. At the time of the acci—
dent, about 6:30 P. M. on July 27, it
is supposed that he and a helper were
looking for a leak in a “condenser.
Vapors, from liquids more volatile
than gasoline, escaping through the
leak, rolled in a cloud down to the
furnaces, a distance of about fifty
feet, where they were ignited. The
flames, traveling back with explosive
rapidity, enveloped Urban, and at the
same time blew the head off the com

liquids and gases, and aggravating
the intensity of the fire. Although
already in flames, Urban did not
leave his post until he had turned off
the inlet vapor line to the condenser.
Then running through the masses of
flame to the outside, he rolled on the
ground to extinguish his clothing.
After first-aid treatment at the plant,
he was rushed to the hospital, where
it was said he had an even chance of
recovering. He lived almost a week,
and appeared on the verge of recov-
ery, when toxic poisoning developed,
and he died a few hours later. There
were no others injured in the acci-
dent.
Buried in La Grange

‘ The body was brought to La
Grange, to the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Urban, 321 South
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Yo fingin Next Monday

Registration for Armour Tech
Evening School will take plcae Fri-
day evening, September 21. First
semester classes will begin Monday,
September 24, and will continue
through Saturday, January 19, 1929.
The second semester of Evening-
School will begin January 21 and
continue through May 4.

Bulletins describing the courses of
instruction at the evening school can
be obtained in the office of the Deans.
Many of the regular day school
courses are taught, and also several
special courses. Robert V. Perry,
Professor of Machine Design, is Di—
rector of Evening Classes.

A. l. T., Monday, September 17, 1928 Sub.

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JOHN WILLIAM URBAN

 

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Three instructors

Added To Faculty

 

faculty list this semester, and two
new assistant librarians have been
employed by the Institute. Mr. Her-
bert Ensz, B. 8., has been added to
the Civil Engineering Department
faculty as Instructor of Civil Engi-
nearing.

Mr. H. W. Haggard, B. S., will be
an instructor in the Department of
Mathematics. He obtained his degree
at the Denison University, where he
was also a member of the Delta Phi
fraternity.

Mr. F. T. Foerster is to assume
charge of the Forge Shop, where he
will succeed the late Mr. J. P. Ken-
nedy. Mr. Foerster was formerly
engaged in research work for the
Western Electric Company.

Miss Dorothy Cornwell, one of the
new assistant librarians, comes here
from Chisholm, Minnesota, where
she was in charge of the library at
the Senior High School.

Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, the other
assistant to Miss Steele, was former-
ly the librarian of the Public Library
at Chegiron, Nebraska.

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(Continued on page 3, column 1)

 

SCEWL CALENDAR

Monday, Sept. 717:
Freshman Registration.
Tuesday, Sept. 18:
Upper-class Registration.
Freshmen Assembly, 10:10 am.
Wednesday, Sept. 29:
Instruction Begins.
Friday, Sept. 21:
Evening School Registration.
Monday, Sept. 24:
Evening Classes begin.

 

 

 

Programs New tune-n
sing finder New
tredilwllour System

The new semester~hour credit sys-
tem announced last spring goes into
effect with the opening of this new
term. Under this system a semester-
hour will mean one-third of the total
time spent on a particular subiect,
both in the classroom and in prepar~
ation. Thus, a student credited with
a semester—hour in a certain subject
will have spent one hour a week in
the classroom and two hours a week
in preparation, or two hours a week
in the classroom and one hour in
preparation throughout one semes—
ter.

For example, the requirements in
“Calculus ‘llf‘are'ldur hours “per“ week
in the classroom and eight hours
preparation. This totals twelve hours,
which, divided by three, reduces to
four semester-hours. General Liter-
ature requires but one hour per week
in the classroom and no preparation,
and is, in consequence, equivalent to
one-third of a semester-hour. Each
of the present courses at Armour is
arranged to total about 140 semester—
hours over a period of four years.

The new system represents a large
amount of work on the part. of the
Deans and has been decided upon
after a careful analysis of the prob-
lems of both the instructor and the
student. The abilities and limita—
tions of the “average” student have
been duly taken into consideration in
determining the amount of time re—
quired to prepare a subject adequate-
ly. The instructor, with the tabular
View of courses before him, can see
at a. glance the amount of work re-
quired of the students in each course
and make his assignments accord»
ingl'y. The student also is enabled

“check up” on an instructor and

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DlRECTlGNS Til lNQCbllNG FRESHMEN

 

Freshmen will register as follows:

l. Fill out enrollment cards in: the Ellynamo Labor-e.-
lst floor, Main building

22. Enroll in the office oi: the Deans.

3. ?ay toes in the Library.

Ll. Enroll with instructors echo will be in. the Library
and who will assist in making out program cards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Two hundred and sixty freshmen
are being admitted to Armour insti~
tute today. That number represents
about the very limit which space in
our buildings will allow the registrar
to take in. Approximately another
250 applicants have been refused atl‘
mittance simply because of the lack.
of room.

Freshmen entering Armom' Tech
come from all parts of the country,
and frequently represent many for-
eign countries as well. Last year,
out of a total enrollment at the he
stitute of 855 students, twenty-four
states and eleven foreign countries
were represented.

An innovation is introduced this
year in the freshman program. All
their shop, laboratory, and drawing
courses will be given in the morning,
instead of in the afternoon as here-
tofore. The lecture and recitation
classes will be held in the afternoon.

While realizing that this plan is
not quite as satisfactory or pleasant
to the students or to the faculty, the
office was compelled to make the re-
adjustment because of the shortage
of classroom space. Under this ar—
rangement, the demand for class-
rooms iu the morning: will be some-
what lessened.

Armani“ Foch discus is
New to Appear Weekly

The second issue of Volume 2 of
the ARMOUR TECH NEW S will ep-
pear next week Thursday, and there—
after an issue will appear weekly, the
regular day of publication to be.
Thursday, and the regular size of the
paper to be five columns Wide by
about 18 inches deep. Decision to
place the NEWS on a weekly basis
came from the staff at the end of
last semester, after five issues of the
new publication had sue cessr‘uily up-
peered at biweekly intervals. Not
only that there was sufficient news
around the school to warrant weekly
publication, but also that more. fre—
quent appearance of the school news.-
psper was necessary to produce
proper continuity and completeness
of the news items, were the reasons
advanced by the stall” in moi-sing the
decision.

Positions for several reporters and
ass} islant editors sre still available
on the croonintioii. and men from
all classes, the Freshmen and Sophoa
more in particular. are imited to
make their bids for the recent posts.
Men who have had previous
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