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Student Publication of the
ARMOUR lNSTlTUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Published Weekly During the College Year

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MANAGING BOARD

 

 

.............. John Hommes, ’29
....Fred B. Farrell, ’29
Russell E. Johnson, ’29
Faculty Adviser ...................... Rofessor Walter Hendricks

Editor—in~Chief .

  

 

NEWS DEPARTMENT

News Editor David T. Smith, ’30

 
 
 
  
     
 

Assistant F. B. Attwood, ’31
Fraternities . ................ (Open)
Copy ........... A. B. Auerbach, ’31

Reporters-“E. W. Carlson, ’32 L. Freundt, ’29; F, W.
McCloska, ‘29; H. P. Richter, ’32; Fred Rasmussen,

‘30; Vernon A. Sturm, '80; Wm. Edmonds, ’32,

SPORTS DEPARTMENT

Sports Editor .............................. C. Stempkowski, ”‘2
Assistants—J. P. Edstrund, Jr, '29; W. Parudzinski, ’30.
V. Taylor, ’ 2. .. ____*_
EDKTORHAL DEPARTMENT
....A1 Auerbach, ’31
John G. Attwood, ’29
...J. M. Jacobson, ’29
Inquiring Reportei J. Ashenhurst, ’32
Editorial Writers .................. (Open)

MAKE UP DEPARTMENT
Make-11p Editor J. Ehrmeyer, ’29
Assistants~-M L. Illmgan, 31 O R. Steinert, 3]; E. J
Wiltrukis, 32.

BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Advertising Manager Stanley A. Beutty, ’30

 

 

 

   
  
   

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Assistant ............... "...M 0. Nelson, '30
Circulation Manage John W. Gamble, ’29
Assistant ....... . .......... . ...John E. Barman, '29
Vol. ll. JANUARY 24, 1929 No. 16

 

[Wore About the “Houoraries’”

The article in this column last week entitled “Honorw
aries or cliques“ was followed by a heated, but muffled
discussion, which seemed to indicate that everyone was
interested but no one dared voice their opinion on the
matter. The only action taken was in the form of a
letter which we print in the “Letter-Box” of this issue.

if the letter above mention represents the opinion of
the society,which society is supposed to represent the best
minds in its department, it simply bears out the truth of
the assertions made last week. We have only to ask if
the author’s flat denial of our charges zipplpies equally
to the deplorable state of affairs which existed in his
very society a year ago, and if he can offer any guaran—
tee that the some favoritism will not again crop up next
year.

The facts regarding last week’s article are incontro~
vertible. These facts were presented not merely because
they happened to be the private opinions of the editor,
as the author of the letter would imply, but because they
are the basis of a condition which has been a subject of
common discussion and criticism among students, and
faculty as well.

The injustice of the present situation is that while
those who hold the keys receive their rightful honor,
those who are refused the keys, however deserving they
may be, are looked upon as unworthy by everyone not
fully acquainted with the true facts.

Now, if we may not look with any hope for a correc-
tion of this state of affairs on the part of the honoraries

 

ARMOUR TE

 

Clone-o to “film Slipslick”; lot
the Slapstick fly whom it may.

 

“Willi?“ Stillh‘illlt‘li” .2: E
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’34?

THE WA”. 0}? THE COLLEGE MAN
I.
A macaroon
A cup of tea
An afternoon
Is all that she
Will out. . . .
She's in society.
II ‘

But let me take
This maiden fair
To some cafe
And, then and there,
She’ll eat the whole
Blamed bill of fare.

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in the Limelight
Tramp (knocking on the farmhouse door):
dying from exposure.
Lady: Are you a tramp or a member of the Sanitary
Board?

Lady, I'm

m a a

“Is that you, dear," said the young husband over the
phone. “I just called up to say that I won’t be home to
dinner tonight, as I am detained at the office.”

“You poor dear,” answered the wife sympathetically.
“I don‘t wonder. I can’t see how you can manage to get
anything done with all that orchestra playing in your
ofl‘ice." Click.

:< a 1‘:

Prof. Leigh: Do you know why they have the screen
door on the lunch room in the winter time?
Class: We‘ll bite, why?
Prof, Leigh: To keep the snow flies out.
‘ «Freddie.

in Pk o

BREAMHNG THE NEWS GENTLY
Son: Say, dad, remember the story you told me about
the time you were thrown out of college?
Dad: Why, yes
Son: Isn’t it funny how history repeats itself?
——Froddie.

m vi 1»

A certain sophomore should be awarded the prizc for
the most useful contribution to suffering humanity. He
has discovered that by wearing colored glasses, ostensibly
to protect his eyes from the glare, that he can doze in
class without the professor seeing that his eyes are closed.

w w, x;

Seniors, Pic-use Nate
Bride: Aren't you the same man I gave some biscuits,
to last week'.7
Tramp: No,
again.

mum, and me doctor says I never will be
vF.B.A.
u it it

The hell rang. Slowly he rose to his feet and shook his
clenched fist toward the clear January sky. The sun
shone brightly, and the snow lay sparkling in the fore~
ground. All the world lay a sordid, broken bubble at his
feet. All seemed shrouded in darkness; there was no ray
of hope. There was no justice. For the first time this
semester he had come to class prepared, and the pro~
fessor was sick.

Fl ill V
Relativity
Soph: Waddya get on the calc. quiz?
Nether:

Zero, but that’s nothin‘ to me.
a r.

Mc’l‘avish (this is n Scotch story, you know) ivent into
an antique shop to purchase a pair of antlers that had

 

theinseIVcS, in order to honor those who have honored
themselves and A. I. T., and will continue to honor A. l.
T. with their scholastic attainments, we should suggest
that the Institute g'ive some award, by a fling recogniion
of that achievement which is the goal of all educational
institutions of character, namely, scholarship.

Therefore, in the absence of any honor thus shown, or
shown only in particular cases, to remove the stigma
placed on one by a rejection to membership in an hour
orary fraternity, and to show justice to those who have
been thus refused, we should suggest that A. I. T. attach
to its degree some measure of the students ranking, which
in the case of a superior student, would be equivalent to
the degree with “Summa cum laude” as awarded by many
institutions.

Bong? [Wind Them Finals

Y‘ call ’em quizzes until the end of the semester rolls
around. Then y’ call ’em finals. There really ain’t a bit
of difference between the two. Oh, of course. you get
one or two more questions and twice as much time on a
final as you do on :1 quiz, if y’ want to call that a difl‘er»
ence.

The only reason you fellows are scared of the finals is
that the profs have got you blotted into thinkin’ they’re
gonna spring a stiff set of questions thzit‘ll floor you right
oil‘ the bat unless you're a super—A student. Don‘t bc~
lieve it, gang. Take it from me, a grad that’s been
through a lot of finals in my day, they’re pie!

If it’s a final in Strength, or Structural, or Concrete,
all y‘ gotta know is that 8 equals Mc/l, and if it’s Me~
chanics, just remember that summation Y equals summa—
tion X. And it you think you‘re stuck in Physics, why

struck his fancy.
The haggling; went on, but Mac was unsatisfied and
voiced his complaint:
"ll/Ion, Inon, are they no‘ awfu’ dear?
“Of course they’re off a deer,” roared the dealer, “did
you think they came of? a rabbit?"
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Reservation Gonolp
Indian: Let you and me go on the Warpath.
Chief: Not a chance; it just been paved.
-—F.B.A.
a m m
Just goes to show that it may be a path to an Indian
but it's a highway to a civil.
» a 1.
Amusing Dialogue Between a Very Tight Man and the
Ambitious Boatbleck
Shine yer shoes, sir‘.>
No, snapped the man.
Shine ’em so you can see your {are in ’cm’.’
No! I tell you!
Coward, hissed the boothlack.
as

Doctor Scherg‘er speaks quite frequently out of school
and so, one day, he was pleased to have a student come
up to him and say, “Say, Doctor, i want to tellyou how
much I enjoyed your lecture last night. I certainly did."
The doctor was pleased, but as the affair was at a private
club, he was curious as to how the chap had gotten in.
“Oh,” says he, “I was calling on my girl; her parents
went to hear you."

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flverheurd in "Wsolworih’u
Fioorwulker: “What did that Scot who just left \vuint'i
Solesgirl: He wanted to know where the shoe depart—

 

just put down that what 3" started with is the some as
what 37’ got left, except fer the losses. In other lingo,
just know the fuxi-damirentuls and yet all set. With
one exception. If it's 11 final in History or Civ. or in
Poly Sci~ or Economics, why just write 'till the ole book
is full, and then you'll get an A. But be sure that you
write so that it’s hard to rend. 'cause then you’ll always
get the benefit of the doubt.
"Spirit of ‘76.

ment was.
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The gyroplnne, the new airplane. is said in go right _

up and come straight clown. That’s old stuff; we've sl-
wnys, avoided airplanes for just that reason.
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Here’s Wishing you the best of luck w and you’ll need
more than luck next week.
l M Aucrhzmh.

 

 

on news
Essie: Reviews

By JOEL M. JACOBSON, ’29

Balm; St. Vincent Milky/“Poem“

Edna St. Vincent Millay, one of
the best known of the modern poets,
was born at Rocklnnd, Mo, in 1892.
Her early years were spent in this
and other New England towns. where
her talents were soon recognized by
a small circle of friends, one of whom
became sufficiently interested to send
her through college. Since her grad"
nation from Vassar college in 1917
she has lived in that section of New
York which has become famous as
Greenwich Village. Her first real
recognition as 3 potatoes of note. came
with the publication of “Renascence”
in 1912. Written when she was only
19, it is still considered her best
work and it is in this, her first poem,
that Miss Millay has shown her real
talent, that of putting into Words that
awe of the grandeur of nature which
mos of us have felt but found diifi‘
cult to express. This is clearly evi-
dent in a inter poem, “God‘s World”:

“0 World, 1 cannot hold thee close
enough!
Thy winds, thy wide gray skies!
Thy mists that roll and rise!
Thy woods, this autumn day, that
ache and sag
And all but cry with colorl
gaunt crag
To crushl To lift the loan of that
black bluff!
World, world, 1 cannot hold thee
close enough!”

That

Miss Millay has many sides and
though she can be thus loftily spirit—
ual and imaginative she can also be

bitterly ironical.
life :

“My candle burns at both ends;
Ii: will not last the night;
But oh, my foes, and oh, my friends
it makes a lovely light!”

Louis Unterineyer, poet and critic,
thinks of this poem and others like it
that “Miss Millay seems to have ex.
changed her birthright for a mass of
cleverness." Miss Millay, however,
no matter how “cynical and ignoble"
Mr. Untermeyer may term her verses
has here expressed her whole Epi-
curean philosophy, about which the
editor of the Poetry magazine says;
“wilful, moody, loving and forget
ting, a creature of quick and keen
emotions, she has followed her own
way and sung her own songs.”
Millmy puts all her life, her emotion,

her passion, her very being into her
She has no regard for her

poems.
own feelings and less regard for ours.
There is no poem of hers that one
can read without sensing that here

is Miss Millay herself, speaking of

her own emotion and from the depths
of her heart whether the poem car~
ries the “sophisticated smirk" of “A
Few Figs from Thistles," or the “con~

centrated ecstacy" of “A God's iii,
World." Louis Unterineyer places 3:3 l“
Edna St. Vincent Milluy with Elinor €52; fizz;

l.Vylie, Jenn Starr Untermeyer, Wil-
liam Rose Benet, and a few others,
in a group he names the “lyricists.”
Were I writing the criticism i would
place her alone and call her the
“Emotionalist.” Both her life and
her work would fully hear me out.

i: suspensions mi

To the Letterbox:
In his editorial on “Honoraries,”

J. H. in the general denunciation in—

cludes severe l finternities of which
he is not 11 member and with which
tote lly unncquuinted Among
15 Em Kappa Nu, represented
13 A. l. T. by Delta Chapter.

    

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, Delta Chapter wholly sud flatly de‘

miss any of the accusatory charges
mode and sincerely invites anyone at
the institute, student or faculty
member. to show publicly or private
ly that election. of members is made
on any b except that of merit.

if the editor has sny debate with
luu Bate over the fuiiuie 01‘ some oi
s, and ._ fliers to ‘mshe”
adult)“ and desires to use
as a mouthpiece, that is
er no circumstances.

 

   
 
 
    
     
  

    

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Biography)

By T. J. LEARDI, ’29
Howard M. Raymond, Pres—
ident of Armour institute of Tech-
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in the engineering department at
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£39., whom he stayed at your. other
“hick, feeling the need 0'5“ still hint or
learning, he returned to the El?
sity of Michigan: §or fifififitgi‘l‘iiifisws
work in Physics and Electfisoi 17%le
peering during: the yams Idifit’ififi. Elie
wes then appointed Director of t’
Menus! Training School. at Sr? 131. .
ing. Mich , but resigned to accept at
position as instructor in physics as:
Minoan in 1895.

Since then, his rise at the institute
hue been rapid, HE was gives: in:

  
    

 

 

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physl s in 1898, Eriszcipnl of Armour
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dents as “Doc," was born on a farm
in Grass Luke, Mich, receiving his
grammar school education in a little
red schoolhouse, without which no
description of a rural community is
After the completion of
his grammar schooling, he went to
the village high school, from which
he graduated in 188$. He took port
in several of the school activities, bo~
ing' a member of the baseball team,

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for the Promotéon of Business
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