SUESCRHEE 'li‘lili 'l‘l'llE NEWS Vol. III. No. l. chill. couch“ M Millie"), 1 The date for the annual” dance has been set for Friday night, February 15, 1929, according to Bob Wilson, Chairman of the social coni— xnittee of the Sophomore Class. A contract has been signed with Low Diamond’s. Benson Oichestra to fur- nish the music for the occasion. The dance will be held in the Grand Ball- room of the La Sulle Hotel. , , This is the third of a series of five school dances held during; the school year. It has not yet been announced who have been selected as chapcrons. Wilson states that the bids will be on sale starting tomorrow, for the price of $2.50, and may be obtained from the members of the social commit toes of the class. A crowd of about 300 is expected. An intensive sales campaign will be made to sell at least 200 tickets during the eleven days left before the dance. The Sophomore Social Committee consists of the following men: R. N. Wilson, Chairman M. C. Larkin F. M. Pfeiifer J_ M. McAlear F. M. Jones. as ”Monotone” lectures ‘ hescmhly Next Week A talking movie program will be presented to the students in a. special assembly to be held at 10:30 Thurs- day, February 14. The Bell Tele— phone Laboratories are furnishing this picture under the auspices of the Armour Branch of the A. I. E. E The movie features a trip through the Bell Telephone Laboratories oi New York. During the program, one will be able to make a trip through this center. of electrical research, 1’ while the voice of Mr. L. S. O’Roark, i information manager of the Bell Telephone ‘Laboratories, introduces . ' you to the great men of the elec— trical World at work, who in turn pause to explain the latest wonders which they are in the process of cre- ating. Some of the things which my will discuss are the photo~elec— .. ic cell, the eye which has made pos- sible so many developments in sight recording and transmission and band pass filters, showing their action both visually and audibly. At the conclusion of this intimate view of one of the wonder spots of the world, at least from an engineer's viewpoint, a lighter reel of the pop- ular talking comedy type, will be shown. The equipment used is a special portable unit, built for demonstrat~ ing purposes. It is at present making a tour of the engineering schools of the country. Armour is very for» tunatc in securing the program, as the requests for its presentation for out-number the possible engage- ments. Many institutions were of necessity refused. As the showing at Armour is the only appearance in the Chicago dis trict, and being of such intense inter- est to all electrical students. the members of the Lewis Institute Branch of the A. I. E. E. have been invited to attend as the guests of the Armour Branch. Through the presence of this equipment it will be possible for cv— cry one to got a closc up View and an explanation of the operation of o. "telitinggwmovie machine such as is used in theater installations about the city. l‘hhl Plflliii iihfilill hallllflillll, llll Kill. llCR @lllilh lilOll Ticket Selling Campaign Begins This ill/cello ; Bola; Wills ..on, Chairman of @ul‘ht, "Wants Two 7 ' Hundred. Tickets Sold Before Event hEW DlAMOND’S RAN-ll) Willi. FURNISH MUSME .__.. #4....“ WORD RECEl‘l/ED FROM DR. MONEN Just before going to press, a. registered letter was rcoaivndi from Dr. Louis C. Marlin, retired Dean of students of Armour, in which he enclosed a “Greeting to the Students of A. l. T.” Uniform- naiely the latter came too late 20 be used in this issue, bull it will he published in its entirely in the next regular issue 01’ the NEWS, ap- pearing Feb. 21. Dr. hiu home town, Zurich, Switzer- land, is a regular subscriber to the ARMOUR TECH NEWS, and states that he follows the news of Ho old school with much interest. Thank you, Dean Monin, for Marlin, who now resides in .. 'Inter‘li‘raternity Council of the social New Rushing italics liar l’rnternitios Plans are under discussion by the iraternities to formulate a new ‘sys- -tem of rules regarding the rushing and pledging of freshmen. Dean Banner states that the present sys tem is not satisfactory either to the freshmen or the fraternities. The Dean of Men issupporting‘ the move- ment to change thefmjciimt rules, so as to give a feasible solution of the problem. P. E.Hcath, ’30, chairman of the committee which is working on the plans, announces that full dc— tails and information regarding the proposed changes will be made pub~l 11c shortly, if the new plan is adopted. The new system would not apply, however, until next fa11,even i The present system will apply to all rushing and pledging spring semester of 1929. The Inter-Fraternity Council is the governing body of the social frater~ nities, and is made up of repre- sentatives from the different houses. your line letter. HUGE Blisllllfll TO BE PRQDUCED All" ARMQRY hot” is the title of a new play given by the students of Armour Tech under the diiection of Coach Wiln liam C Kraft at the Armory tomor- row afternoon. The curtain will rise promptly at 4:30 p. m The Court The drama is divided into two acts, each act consisting oif two scenes. actors are as follow. Leading Man Ingenue .. Simpson Promp‘ter .Rossinc Comedian . Augustine Character Man .Goodheait Extras. Ott, Carlson, Rutkowski Director C. Kraft Stage Manag ‘al Johnson Property Mai H. W. Faulstitch The counterpart of the action will be taken by several players from the Y. M. C. A. College. The play,writ- ten jointly by students from both schools, will probably be performed under the supervision of Mr. Glick. The theme of the plot is the en— deavor of a young man to toss a spheroid through a hoop at one end of the stage. The opposing forces try to prevent this, and the struggle he spectators. will close the contest with either the forces of evil represented by Y. M C. A. College, in the ascendency, 01 the forces 01' good, represented by our heroes, in the lead. It has not been divulged whether the action of the play will he developed as a trace edy or 11 comedy. New Senior Committee To Seek Larger Holt A committee has been appointed by the Senior Class to investigate the possibility of obtaining a larger 111111 for the commencement cxercmcs in June than that available in the .\1 mour Mission. The committee will consist of the following}: men: E. A. Blumc, l“. Y. EL; J. (7. Bron/index, Ell; M. .l. Kittlcr, M11; J. M. .1221“ (7.13.; and 19111.2 Fares. RE. in the available for each graduate. the seniors desire to have more than this, and for this reason the above men were commi "mod to lliVCSil‘ gate the feasiiiility of tho plan. Blame is to be the chairman. “Five Students ’i-.1 Search oi: a Bas- l‘he characters represented and the than ensues furnishes the interest to The felling curtain past years only :1 few tickets were. ll’lusi oi" Henry Christiansen, ’29, is president of the Inter—Fraternity Council this year. Goo 11 Appointments Won 1%}! lure d reelection Two students at Armour Institute, both freshmen, have been the recipi. cuts of the much coveted state ap- pointments to West Point and An- napolis, respectively. H_ .1. Cameron, ’32, a graduate oi Greenbrier Military School, has re~ ccived his appointment to West Point thru a competitive physical and men» tal examination, held last March, by the State of Illinois. Owing to the fact that he is a graduate of an honor military school, Mr. Cameron is ex- empt from the rigorous entrance ex- aminations. He expects to enter West Point in July of this year. S Majewski, who received his dip— loma from the St. Stanislaus High School, is the second member of the freshman class to be so honored. Al- though Majewski had heretofore ex~ pressed his desire to enter Annapolis, he had not taken any steps in this regard. The appointment, then, to the Naval Academy at Annapolis from Congressman L. Kuntz who ob- tained it through an influential friend, came as 21 complete surprise to Majewski. He has not, however, been as fortunate as Cameron in es— caping the entrance examinations, be» cause he is scheduled for an examin- ation in mathematics and English on the 13'Uu of next month. Senior Ar chi. Milne fienuxdhrts Mention C. A lx'lopp, senior architect, re ceived :1 ‘111111 mention” in the first preliminary exercise [or the 22nd Paris Prize of the Society of Beaux» Mas Arihitects liis drawing vas among» the best twenty submitted by students of Universities and colleges all m oi, the United Still: 3"ch coin~ pctll'm's were chosen from this excre rise to ruivr the second pl'climinni‘y exercise. The first cv‘i' sc consisted of the drawing of an inter utionnl gale“ hoiwecn the United Slates and M mo. \\ ii 11 “as to bc drawn in tivolvu n y consecutive hours. 1 i \i’m'ii has been revolved from {he Des: Otlicc that Frank Outer. Lorin-.11 of buildinc's w: '1 confined to home lurinc illi‘ . that (lays bo-v cusr adopted duiing the present semester. 1 during; the 1 ch” 1111) i o :1: cause 111 ill miss. Electron: Sirwliiootcis he lost Armour, fill 2i Detroit, Mic ., Feb. 1 (Speciallm Detroit Y. M. C. A. defeated the Armour ’l‘cch basketball team in a hard-fought. game last night by the score of 30 to 21. The ouLstandinpy feature of the game was its roughn ‘s. All the De- troit men were over six feet. tall,and hence constantly had the jump on the Tech hoopthi'owers. Augustine starred for thc Armour quintet, playing a stellar game throughout, and winging four baa-1 hats for his teammates. Captain Manx also played in excellent form, having three baskets to his credit when the game ended. The game was close all the way rthrough, and it was only toward the last part of the second half that the score began 10 get so far out of mach of the engineer 3 it did. The Armour team was pleasantly surprised to find many of the alumni on the sidelines rooting for their aims: mater. The same tonight is to be with Michigan State Normal at Ypsilanti, Mich. This team is rated to be quite deadly, and will probably hand the Tech team a defeat, though the (1111‘ cage men threaten plenty of resist— since. former linearity More in Medical llcscarcli Dr. Henry Basconi Thomas, who was for twenty-five years connected with the Armour Institute of Tech- nology, first as Physical director and later as Medical Adviser, and who is now Professor of orthopedic surgery oi" the College of Medicine 01‘ the University of Illinois, has bum in charge of some remarkable pioneer— ing research work in his field, accord- ing to reports appearing recently in the daily newspapers. Restores Limbo to Cripples A most spectacular park of his work recently is a series of opera» lions now under way upon 11 five— year—old girl who was born Without :1 full complement of arms and legs. She has a beautiful {110.0 and body, but only a short stub for 21 right arm, and two stumps for legs. The oper— ations will fix the stumps for artifiv rial substitutes, and in this manner, give her not onlv arms, 111.11 lingers which 51w c1111 us ind logs on which to walk. according: 11» Professor Thomas. Dr. Thomas came 1‘.» Armour Tech in 1897 as director of Physical Edu» (Within 111 the SClt‘ililfiL‘ Academy. While cngngxmi in Lh -. work. he stud» mi medicine 111 his spare lime, and in l902 1H'eieii co (H115 degree of Doctor 01 Medicine, .ilicady holding n B. S. in 2903 he was made Med— ; (17 she students of Ar- nml cunsmucd in that capacity lll‘jl. 1.143;“ ital 111111112 until '2? Seniors Fished. To list Es. soils Sweaters John .. ' . I‘m“ manager of ihc Sen 1111' Basketball 10am. ouncvs c ilu' following men will recon 1' \1 . Stellar, .1011. 1111102: liiir-on, :iy. Foo. Dawson, and Bimix members of the do \1 1111 were lo mowers will. be burnt gold in ixnunioinls The . \a‘io new on 111v $141111 "0311. .111d Mii'lw :1 o by the we (spire-.11 .s. PROF. JUSEP} l B l‘iNNEGAN ‘AIV Elll’tfl’AN’ Gl’ V153 KRE. TEAMHNG FEATURE STQiil’ll’ In a whole—page feature article on titled “Science Vs. Flame,” the Chi cngo Evening American of Saturday Jan. 16, told the story of the train ing; received by the students in tin course of Fire Protection Engineer 111;: at Armour Institute of Techno] ogy, of which department Professo. Joseph B. Finnegan is head. The article, profusely illustrator with pictures of the testing “1th conducted by the students in theii laboratory period at Underwriters Laboratory, and containing also picture of Professor Finnegan (him scli’). told of the need for trainee engineers in the field of fire preven tion and m the development of fire— fighting apparatus. “How to prevent fires from start- inc; and how to stop them when they have started, are thL two important parts of the training of an engineer in this course." the article quoted Professor Finnegan as saying. “Part of the work is given at the institute and palm air. the Underwriicrs' Labo- ratories. S’udenis are taught to test every {11111 of apparatus ever used in fire prevention, including building lll:\i(‘l‘llll.~ and Various extinguishers.“ Thr- 111111-10 pointed out that With increase in complexity of living. brought about by the deveiupmcnts of modern fire~producing hazards have increased in on equal measure. and the grrcfiily en— larged 1‘10111‘ for work in 11115 line. I: is simply :1 case 01‘ science constantly 21’. Work in protect kind from the hazards of 111111: 01ng- 11115 produced. science. 110 are r l‘r lllfih sci- Evening}; Egnssos Jove sir rnoW Car society disagree ‘ lh'xisu‘ntmn £111 1 tar main :‘rliool held (111: 111;v thr- i\\1\\\':'el