amounts iii‘ttid WWW tiN Silhdihigitih @ii M‘tilfilhgg httliiififi thfltttbifihhtigm fiig Ten Dbficiai Declares Newspapers Tend to Over-emphasize Earl Features COLLEGE. ATHLETlCfi HEALTHY BY .l‘CDlllN J. SCHOWER (Special to Armour Tech News) For many years past the daily newspapers, starting early in De- cember, feature articles pertaining to the overemphasis of athletics and the subsidizing of athletes. About this time every year there is little live sporting news. Base- ball and football are memories; basketball and other winter sports have not reached their stride as yet. News is absolutely essential to fill ”yawning" sporting pages, so year after year, December has wit- nessed an annual attack on inter- collegiate athletics by someone, and in the absence of real news, undue prominence is given the attack. Too often the facts are based on unre- liable information or they are stretched and the taint of profes- sionalism is whispered. Often the facts are true, but distorted to fit the occasion. Many have heard or the athlete who went to see if the gymnasium door was locked every night at ten-thirty. For this he received $100 a month also" his room and board. Stories concerning piano-movers, blacksmiths and lumbcrjacks who play football are welllmown. all sorts of accusations about star athletes never attending class, or never passing an examination. How often, if ever, have these actually occurred to your knowledge? Athletic situations too often are dealt with emotionally instead of rationally. When an individual is caught cheating in the examina— tion of a class in calculus, the course is not dropped from the cur- riculum. When an American com— mits murder, robs a bank, or perpetrates some foul crime, we do not disown our flag or kill all Amer~ icons. Ii law breakers were not punished and crime was the law of the land and no efl’ort was made to stop wrong doing, we might con- sider leaving: the country or some other country might consider kill- ing off all Americans. True, here and there some athlete has been prevailed upon to go to some particqu university by the offer of money, scholarship, or (Continued on page .9) Metallurgy is Topic At A. {3. S. Meeting The next regular meeting of the American Chemical Society will be held this Friday evening at 7:30 in the club room of the City Club. The feature of the evening will be a talk presented by Dr. H. W. Gillett, Director of the Battelle Memorial Institute at Columbus, on ‘Metallurgical Research from the Chemical Point of View.” Dr. Gillett is well known in these circles, having been manager of the research department of the Alum— inum Castings Company, and also chief chemist of the Metallurgy department of the Government Bureau of Standards before accept~ ing the directorship oi the Battellc Institute. He was graduated from Cornell University with the degrees of A. B. and B. S. Dr. Gillett has made extensive re- searches on the electric furnace consisting of nonferrous alloys, zir- conium steel, phosphor copper, and also on miscellaneous problems in the general field of physical meta1~ ur gy. All students of chemistry who are interested in this type of work are invited to attend the meeting. Emmmay :haveheard . BtlibiiS’l’flitlt lib’i‘ti. Ciihdbti BY Willow Wit WWW/Mi. use New Location Will Help to increase Attendance BEDS N®W 0N SALE The locale of the Junior Informal dance, which is to be held January 24, has been changed to the Black— stone Hotel, according to B. G. Mic- Laughlin, chairman of the Junior social committee. The change was made because the room at the Blackstone will better accommo~ date the number of couples expect- ed to attend than the Illinois Woman's Athletic Club, the first choice of the committee. Harold Leonard and His Opera Club Orchestra will furnish the music. McLaughlin has had the bids printed and theyeanwbe se- cured from members of the social committees of all the classes. All members of all the classes are in— vited to attend. Any one student who wishes to obtain a free bid to the dance may do so by selling ten bids. Any mem- ber of the Junior social committee will furnish bids to men who wish to take up this proposition. ”The members of this committee are: McLaughlin Robin . Tlmmermans James . Miran. space Stage fighting" to fie Tails ctAn‘iEE. “Stage Lighting in the Chicago Civic Opera,” will be the topic of the speaker who will address the members of the Armour Branch of A. I. E. E., in a meeting, next Fri- day, December 20. It will be held at 10:30, in the Physics Lecture Room. H. K. N. Puts Pledges Through Initiation Eta Kappa Nu, national honorary electrical fraternity, held its infor- mal initiation last Thursday night in the rooms of Chapin Hall. The pledges who participated in the ai- fair were: William Drigot, ’31 Walter L. Filmer, ‘30 E. W. F. Hanks, ’30 Rudolph Patzeit, ’31 Carlton E. Rudeiins, ’30 Herbert Stier, ’30. The formal initiation will be to— morrow night. Armour Grad Speaks to members of WSfiL The Armour Student Branch of the Western Society of Engineers held a meeting at 9:30 yesterday in Room B, Mission. Mr. Henry R. Matthei, ’03, of the Chicago bridge designing division, spoke on “Chl- eago’s Water Supply." VACATHON According to announce~ ment from the office of the President, the institute will be oificially closed. for the Christmas Holidays i? r o on Monday, December 23, 1929, to Sunday, January 5, 1930. All classes in both day and night school will be dismissed during that time. m Fast Bettie Tonight With Y College (lagers The Tech cagers will do battle with the Y College squad tonight at the Armory. The Drexel Avenue boys usually offer a light but fast set of cagers. Last season Armour beat them in a tough battle that ended in a 33-29 victory for A. I. T. Captain Simpson and Rossing scored 27 of the 33 points and since both these men are back in better condition, the contest tonight should produce plenty of action for the blood-thirsty tribe that popu— late the side lines. In Armour’s two previous games they downed the Alumni and were in turn conquered by the Univer- sity of Chicago squad. The prob- able lineup for tonight’s card will e' Simpson, R. F. Rossing, L. F. Robin, C. Bruni or Miran, R. G. Rutkowski or Rowley, L. G. Architect Gratis Place in Plan. Competition Fred E. Sloan, ’23, and Elmer A. Johnson, ’23, won an Honorable Mention and $100 prize in the re— cent Lehigh Airports Competition sponsored by the Lchigh Portland Cement Company. The competition was open to all architects and consisted of drawing the plans for an airport of a mod- ern city. There were 257 designs submit ted and $10,200 in prize money con- sisting of lst prize-$5,000; 2nd prize—$2,500; third prize, $1,000; fourth price, $500; and 12 Honor- able Mentions of $100 each. The December meeting of the American Institute of Architects held at the Art Institute last Tues— day evening was held in honor of the winners of the competition. Professor Wells of the Civil depart- ment was present at the meeting. Messrs. Sloan and Johnson are now practicing architects at 181 East Erie Street. Aurora-Amour—Club Meets December 211 The Aurora-Armour Club will hold its banquet and annual elec- tion of officers on December 21, 1929, at the Turtle Rock Inn, located six miles south of Aurora. The banquet was planned by a committee consisting of the follow- ing men: C. I. Carlson, ’19, H. W. Mullins, ’30 and Otto Staib, ’33. They were fortunate in obtaining Professor Finnegan’s consent to deliver an address at that time. The purpose of the club, which was organized last year, is to pre- sent engineering, as a profession to young men, and to offer a means for the students and alumni to get together. The membership of the club now numbers about thirty, all alumni and students living in or near Aurora being eligible. The present ofiicers of the club : are, President, C. I. Carlson, ‘18; Vice President, H. W. Mullins, so and Secretary and Treasurer, R. A. Winsor, ’08. The drawings which Mr. Jay Ed- win Peterson, ’26, submitted in the final competition for the 22nd Paris Prize are new on exhibition in the architectural drafting rooms of the Art institute. CM Epsilon Pledges to Entertain at W S. E. The Armour Branch 01’ the West— ern Society of Engineers will hold a smoker at the Delta Tau Delta house tomorrow, December 18, at 8:00 1?. M. The professors of the Civil Engineering Department will be present. The Chi Epsilon pledges will pro— vide most of the entertainment and bridge, smokes, and refreshments will take up the rest of the evening. CHER/MEALS PLAN 2 TREES 'l'fi lflifltl. llifiilfi’l‘liml. PLANYS To See Manutacturing oi“ Glass and Tile Products CGNDUCTED BY BENTLEY Tomorrow morning the members of the Junior chemical class will make an inspection trip through the plant of the Inland Glass Com— pany. The company makes a spe- cialty of manufacturing glass light- ing fixtures and other blown glass articles. This plant has a continu— ous tank furnace for the glass, and a batch process furnace. The glass after being: blown in the desired shape is annealed and then deco— rated. A gas~flred oven is used to bake the colors after being applied to the glass. This plant also makes the large glass tubing which is used 2.. making the visible—typo gasoline pumps Friday the same group will take a trip through the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company’s factory. This is the largest plant in the United states furnishing building material of this type. The main purpose of the trip is to inspect the clay driers, the batch kiln, and the continuous tunnel kiln, but a tour of the whole plant will be included. Professor Bentley is to accompany the class on both trips. Honor “A” Banquet Well Attended The banquet held for alumni wearers of the “A” last Tuesday night, December 10, at the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house, was at- tended by about fifty active and alumni members of the Honor “A” Society. Presentation of watch charms was made to the new mem- bers taken in this year, and several short talks were given by. alumni. John J. Schommer, with his ad- dress, kept the gathering tense with interest as he reviewed ath~ ietic affairs at Armour, prospects for the future, and then told the inside of the present rumpus over subsidizing of college athletes, There will be a meeting of the Inter-honorsiy Council today at 1 o’clock in the Tau Beta Pi moms. CALENBEAR Tuesday, Dec. 1’? Armour-Y College Basketball 5:00 P. M. at Armory Thursday, Dec. 19 Christmas Concert 10:31} A. M, Assembly Hall Friday, Ties. 20 A. I. E. E. Meeting, 18:80 A. M. Physics Lecture Room Aime -Eagiewood Y Swlm~ Icing Meet has P. M, Eng1e~ wood Y. M. C. A. A. C. $ Meeting was P. M, Au: City Club moo. ".23. $39, to Jim. 5, 1936) hiidwinm Recess ilittiitdl“ arses Wfiihfi ans ilifih filth Tithhhdiit tilt may hWEdhhtim lit itfiii German Band is New Novelty Offered By Quintet; Protlaeme Directs Glee Club ASTE TC DERECT GPRCHESTRA The annual Christmas concert, culminating the activities of the musical clubs for the year 1929, will be presented in Assembly Hall of the Mission this Thursday morning, December 19, beginning at 10:80 o’clock. All classes will be excused for this event. The Orchestra and the Glee Club will present a two hour program of popular, semi—classical, and Doctor Scherger Popular Speaker Several public appearances in the last few days by Doctor George L. Scherger, Professor of History, have served to prove his wide—spread popularity as a speaker and lectu- rer. He addressed the entire Calu- met High School in assembly on Thursday morning, December 5, on “The Mission of Culture.” That same evening he appeared before a crowd of fifteen hundred parents and guests at the Hyde Park High School under the auspices of the Parent Teachers Association of Hyde Park High School. His sub- ject for the occasion was “You and Your World.” An especially inter- esting feature of the evening was that several Armour graduates were present being now proud fathers with children in high school. Monday night, December 9, Doc— tor Scherger spoke to an assemblage of all of the Methodist ministers of Chicago at the City Temple. His message was cemented upon quite favorably by the Chicago Daily Tribune. This Saturday night, December 21. Doctor Scherger speaks to the In- ternational Students’ Association of Chicago at a banquet to be held at the Atlantic Hotel, 313 South Clark St, at 8:30 P. M. His subject will be “International Conciliation." Prof; marmosets Presents Paper At the last meeting of the Ameri— can Physical Society, on November 29 at the University of Chicago and on November 89 at the Kent Thea— ter, Professor .l'. S. Thompson, in~ structor in physics, gave a paper on “The Motion of Positive Ions in Gases,” a subject on which he has worked during the lost eighteen months. The problem presented in this paper concerns the types of interaction which take place be— tween ions and gas molecules and has an important bearing upon the determinations of atomic radii. Pro— fessor Thompson, working at the Ryerson Physical Laboratory of the University of Chicago with Profes» sor A. J. Dempster of the Univer— sity. carried out experiments with ions of caesium and lithium at va- rious velocities traveling through known gas paths. By this process it was possible to observe any changes of velocity in the ions The American Physical Society has several thousand members and holds meetings about four times e year. It is the outstanding; society of physicists in America and it» cludes in its membership bot-h in— structors and research workers. Fhi borehole Upsilon, honors Plush»! 3 and Flash and Beaker are making: plans tor a joint initiation bandits? which is to be held Wednesday. January iii, i930. classical numbers. The Orchestra, 3. little symphony organization re' cently formed from members of the Band and the old Grohes‘ml, will be composed of about city pieces. Frank Aste, ’39, will wield the baton. The Glee Club will be under the direction of Dr. Dan- iel Protheroe, nationally known chorus leader and composer. Dr. Prot‘heroe is a veteran in service at Armour, having had charge of the glee club work here for many years. Three special numbers m‘E be presented besides those given by the two aforementioned organiza— tions. Emmett Higgins, ’3ii, mil play as a piano solo, “mainstream” by Franz Liszt. Following him will be an old German band composed of clarinet, trumpet, base, record- ing base, and french hem. They will attempt a number eafisd “Smitzel’s Band,” a. novelty piece in which music at its worst is played. Then another soloist, an artist new to Armour audiences, will make his appearance when Frank LeGrady, 31:, violinist, pre— sents ‘Meditationf from Thais. Following these special numbers the oreheslu'a and Glee Club will again appear. Among other pieces, the Glee Club will sing one of Dr. Pi'otheroe’s own compositions in this second appearance. A few words by Professor C. W. Leigh, faculty sponsor of the mo- sical dubs, will inaugurate the as— sembly. Much of the credit to be given the musical clubs for their fine work is due to Professor Lil for his until-lag efiorts and. shilfinl management. Freud Speaks at if. of i3. fiedioation Professor B.B.Freud of the C23 . — icai Engineering department at- tended the dedication sexes-romeo of the new George Herbert Jones Laboratory at the Universito of Chicago yesterday, and made a short address at. the morning ses- sion. Professor Reed is 9.31 alm— nus of the Midway Hoiveisit‘y, heirs; graduated with an 8.33. in Chene- ism: in 113—16. He received the cle~ gree of Doctor of Philoso- by m 192' The new labors .ton is to he to. 13 home of the graduate division oi: the department of chemistry at. the Universilar. it is a model {sh tory, and has all the conveniences. ssseniis i to modem research. 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