Tuesday, March 4, 1930

ARMOUR TECH NEWS

Page Three

 

Engineers” Horror

’ fifteen EVE. E. @ooley

The Washington Award, founded
by John Watson Alvord, given “for
pro—eminent service in advancing
human progress," has been pre~
sented this year to Mortimer Elwyn
Cooley, D. Eng. This is one of the
three honors in which all four of
the major engineering societies of
the United States participate. The
Western Society of Engineers ad—
ministers the award. The presenta—
tion of the award was held at a
banquet in the Grand Ball Room
of the Palmer House last Monday,
February 24.

Dean‘Cooley, as he is affection-
ately known by the thousands of
engineers he has helped, is emi»
nently qualified for the award,
which seeks to recognize merit, re-
gardless of previous honors. He
built the foundation, broad and
strong, on which were based a
thousand notable engineering ca-
reers. The Committee making the
award commended Dr. Cooley for
his “vision and constructive leader—
ship in the education of the engi-
neers."

Born of sturdy American pioneer
stock. and with only a meager edu~
cation, he gained appointment to
the U. S. Naval Academy in 1874
and in 1881 was ordered to the Uni-a
versity of Michigan to teach steam
engineering. After four years there
he was given the honorary degree
of Mechanical Engineering and an
invitation to resign his naval com—
mission and accept the chair of
Mechanical Engineering at the
University. He did so and has been
there ever since. He was a pioneer
in the establishment of engineering
laboratories to provide students
with a practical knowledge of ma-
terials and processes in engineer—
ing. His vision and constructive
leadership have done much to
shape the course of engineering
education in America.

A representative from each of
the tour societies delivered greet-
ings from their members. Dean
Palmer, who had been invited to
attend, was pleasantly surprised to
find that the representative from
the American Institute of Mining
and Metallurgical Engineers was
an old friend of his, Mr. Kelly,
whom he had not seen since he
taught school in Northern Michi—
gan 31 years ago. Mr. Kelly is a
past president of the American In-
stitute of Mining and Metallurgical
Engineers and is known by his
friends as the “Dean of Mining En—
gineers."

The principal address of the eve-
ning was delivered by Dr. Howard
McClenahan, secretary of the
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia,
Pa, which has been' a great pro-
moter of invention, research, and
scientific education for the last
one-hundred years. His theme was
based on the contributions of engi-
neers to the advancement of civil—
ization, which proved an eye opener
to many engineers who had not
appreciated the far-reaching ef-
fects of their own works.

The recipients of the award in
past years are: 1919, Hon. Herbert
C. Hoover; 1922, Robert "W. Hunt;
1923, Dr. Arthur N. Talbot; 1925,
Jonas Waldo Smith; 1926, John
Watson Alvord; 1927, Dr. Orville
Wright; 1928, Dr. Michael Pupin;
1929, Elm Joseph Arnold.

 

 

Mr. Robert B. Harper, ’03, has
been made a Vice—President in
charge of research and testing at
a meeting of the Board of Direc-
tors of the People’s Gas Light and
Coke Company. Mr. George F.
Mitchell, who had been Vice-Presl—
dent was made President. He was
graduated from the Armour Scien-
tific Academy.

 

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Ypsilanti teachers overcame an
11-point lead to win from Tech
31w26, in the last basketball game
of the season, played at the
Armory, last Thursday afternoon.
The Krafltmen were leading 21-10
at the half but in the final period
were unable to find the hoop to
maintain their advantage.

The first half opened when Rut—
kowski made a free throw and Ott
sank a field goal for Tech’s first
points. Armour outplayed and out-
maneuvered the visitors through—
out the first half; field goals and
free throws alike were sunk with
unusual accuracy.

A large number of baskets were
made as the result of fine team-
work and accurate passing. Ypsi—
lanti started their scoring toward
the end of the half. making three
baskets in succession.

The second half was another
story. Armour managed to main-
tain their lead for the first ten
minutes, then a sudden spurt by
the visitors brought them on more
even terms. The Krafltmcn were
unable to stop Michigan S‘tates’
offensive, therefore four field goals
in succession gave the visitors the
‘Iead. With three minutes left to
play the Teachers stalled and, al-
though Armour iought hard, they
were unable to overcome the five—
point lead. Final score: Armour 26,
Ypsilanti 31.

 

 

 

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An English company is about to
produce talkies in six languages.
Added to his many other accom-
plishmcnm, it looks as though the
talkie-actor of the future must be
a linguist as well.

 

 

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Among the 35,000 volumes in the
Armour Institute Library there are
many rare and valuable books.
Some of these have been obtained
during the years of the World War
through the efforts of Dean Pal:
met. '

The Dean is a great lover of
books and knows the worth of the
rare volumes. Consequently, when
the opportunity presented itself
during the war, he purchased a
number of rare books for the li—
brary. The great world conflict
had thrown many English and Ger»
man library collections on the
market, and the Dean, who receives
foreign book catalogs, was thus
able to buy at a low price.

One of the constituents of the
Armour library is a book known as
the Blercns de Haan Integral Ta-
bles. In it is contained the most
complete table of integrals yet
compiled. The compilation of the
tables occupied most of Bierens de
Haan’s life, and the author became
famous in the mathematical world
because of it.

French is the language in which
the text is written although de
Haan was a native of Holland. The
list of integrals was published in
two volumes during the 1850’s. The
contents of the first volume con~
sisted of integral derivations dis»
covered by de Haan, while the sec—
ond volume, which Armour has,
presented the table of integrals.
One of the features of do Haan’s
book is the methodical way in
which he has classified the integ«
rals. Any function which one may
care to integrate can easily be
found by the system employed.

As far as is known, there are but
two of the tables in Chicago. Ar—
mour has one and thc"other is at
the University of Chicago. This
fact illustrates the scarcity of the
book which Armour is so fortunate
to possess.

 

 

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META XI

Last Saturday, 'March 1, formal
initiation was held for the nine
men who have just finished a week
of probation. Those initiated were:
G. R. Bolton, R. W. Carlstrom, W.
D. Jackson, ’1‘. Leavitt, W. R. Mul—
roney, C. A. Nelson, J. R. Pechman,
J. T. Sorenson, and “W. W. Taylor.
Don Cleghorn of Omega chapter
at Washington State College, Pull-
man, Washington, was a visitor at
the chapter here last week.

mEL’l‘A TAU DELTA
The Annual Deli; Prom. given
each year by the three Chicago
Chapters, Armour, Northwestern,
and Chicago, will be held in the
Bai Taberin of the Sherman Hotel
on March 7th, 1930.
T. R. Schuelor brings back good
reports from the Western Division
Conference, which convened at
Lawrence, Kansas February 28 and
March 1.

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Probation period over, the formal
initiation was held at the house
Sunday, March 2, at 2:30 o’clock,
with a banquet following at the
Illinois Women's Athletic Club. The
following men were initiated: Bow
dinson, Bergland, Duiour, Kenner,
and Obcrbeok.

WWPA DELTA TAU
Plans for initiation, which will be
held March 15 or 16, are being
completed, while those for a spring
dance are just being started.

 

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SHGMA. KAPPA DELTA
An Alumni smoker was held at
the Chapter house last Wednesday,
February 26.

It has been noted that several
professors are wearing relieved ex~
pressions after discovering that the
suspicious looking characters in
their classes were not members of
the House of David, but simply s.
K. D. pledges on probation. The
following men are again worrying
about school work: Joseph Kennc~
dy, Charles Jens, Diamond Dicky,

Paul Drebes, Bradlord Larson,
Fran]: Strassenberg, and Robert
Krause.

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Sigma Epsilon of Sigma Alpha
Mu announces the pledging oi
Morten Silfen, C.E., ’33.

Nicholas Longworth, speaker of
the house of representatives, is in
possession otthe revolver used by
the notorious bandit, Jesse James.

ALUMNI NEWS

Mr. William Robert Wilson, ‘66,
has recently been made Vice~Prcsl~
dent, General Manager, and direc—
tor cl Rec Motor Corporation of
Lansing, Michigan. In the past he
has held the following positions:
President of Maxwell Chalmers
Auto Company; Vice-President of
Irving Trust Company of New
York: Receiver for Murray Bed
Corporation; President of Copeland
Products Company; President of
the Allied Motors Incorporated;
and Chairman of the Board of
Great Lakes Aircraft. He has also
held an executive position with
Dodge Brothers and been connec—
ted with the Studebaker Corp. and
the Westinghouse Elec. Mfg. Co:

Dean Palmer spoke on "The For;
cuts, the College, and the Student?"
last Thursday afternoon at a meet:
ing of the Chicago Council of Se-
nior and Junior High Schools:

 

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industry discovers new uses for this fire»
stru meat of convenient communications

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