ARMOUR TECH NEWS Page Three Tuesday; April 3,1930 This column is making its debut today to the students of Armour as the official news of the archi— tectural department. We hope that it will be of interest to both the architects and the engineers. It will be necessary to have an ap~ propriate name andvthereiore we ask the readers to suggest some— thing that will fit the subject. Re— peating the announcement of Tues— day, March 25th, any news should be turned in to H. P. Richter, ’32 or E. C. Kubicek. ‘32, before Thursday of each week. The second set of drawings of the exhibition sponsored by the Asso~ ciation of Collegiate Schools of Architecture was at the Burnham Library of the Art Institute during the week of March 24th. Armour Institute was represented in this exhibit by a Class A project, An Employment Agency, by Harold R. Lutz; a Class B Archaeology project, A Greek Temple, by F. Polite; and a Class 13 project, A Fire House, by Everett Goldenberg. The other schools represented in this exhibition were: Massachusetts Institute of, Technology, University of Michigan, Carnegie Tech, Uni— versity of Southern California, Uni— versity of California, Ohio State University, Princeton University, University of Illinois and Kansas State Agricultural College. We were very sorry to hear that Professor Dean had to undergo an operation for appendicitis recently. We hope, however, for a speedy re- covery and his return to his classes. The Beaux-Arts Institute of De« sign held an exhibition of drawing done by the various schools enrolled in their system at the Art Institute. Citrilsvll/lalse TWO Trips Jr. Archie Travel Once The sophomore civils and junior architects made an inspection trip on Friday, March 28, to the Ameri- can plant of the American Bridge Company at , Forty-second Street and Princeton Avenue. They were conducted through the plant and shown the entire process of the assembling and fab— ricating of trusses and other struc- tural members. Yesterday the senior and junior civils made a trip to the Movara plant of the McClintick-Marshall Construction Company at Eighty— third Street and Stewart Avenue. This plant is, with the exception of the American Bridge Company’s Gary plant, the largest and most modern plant in the Mid-west. Through the influence of Mr. Reed the Burnham Library hadon exhibition for one week commenc— ing April 2nd, the designs entered for the Vincennes Memorial in a nation wide competition. The George Rogers Clark Sesquicenten- nial Committee, which was estab- lished by Congress, is to erect at or near the site of Fort Sackville, in Vincennes, Indiana, a permanent memorial in honor of George Rogers Clark and his associates in the War of the American Revolution. Because of this exhibition the group of bridge photographs by Mr. Charles Whitney scheduled for this time will be postponed for one week, Wanted: A man who can pole vault. Signed: D. J. Paul, track captain. If you wish to apply. see Paul now and he will sign you up. Ventilation experts have decided that a dog’s lungs are the seat of his pants. Teach flatware, Statistic Tolls Professor V. B. Teach of the de- partment of mathematics deliv— ered the lectures for the week of March 23 to Professor Freeman’s evening class in Engineering Eco— nomics. He spoke on Statistical "" “ ‘ ‘ the ' topic classification for discussion: The Organization of Statistical Data and Graphic Presentation, Frequency Distributions and Aver- ages, Index Numbers, Analyses of Time Series, Correlation, Estimat- ing and Sampling. In discussing averages he pointed out that the representation of a frequency distribution by an aver— age, a single typical figure, is only justified if there is a tendency of large masses of the data to cluster about a central figure, from which the values of all observed cases de— part with some degree of regulari— ty and smoothness. Engineers who make successive grades of 20, 30, 100 in Calculus can take heart from now on as Prof. Teach will surely realize that a mark of 50 does not indicate their true knowledge of the subject. The index numbers of production and prices used so much at the present time were shown to be of little value unless one understands the method used in their calcula— tion. It is interesting to note that Bradstreet’s and Don’s indices which are obtained as the result of laborious computation could be determined by only a few factors, and are useful only in indicating the trend of these few. Professor Teach believes that the application of mathematical statis- tics to economics, business and '1 finance, engineering and - biomet- rics has just begun. t“ Ill .iuuulli.... ChicagolSmres STA'rE AT J ACKSON (NEAR MONROE) 118 SOUTH MICHIGAN DELIGHTFULLY CONSERV- ATIVE AND ENTIRELY CORRECT FOR SPRING. HONOURED sv COLLEGE MEN'OF ENGLAND AND THE UNiTED STATES. Sophomore (lets Award Rifle {flak Holds , From Fire Protects . a Easiness Meeting The Fire Protects held their air- nual smoker Thursday night, April 3, at the Delta Tau Delta house. 5* Each year at this smoker, Salam— ander presents a handbook on Fire Protection Engineering to the sophomore who has the highest scho" “ average for his freshman year. Walter M. Trouten was the winner of the prize for this year. The speakers for the evening were W. H. Townley, J. V. Parker, J. B. Finnegan, Smoky Rogers and R. E. ‘Vernor. After an hour or two of gambling, during which time Mr. Townley managed to col- lcct more money than anyone else, a few talks and much smoke, the ice cream and cookies were wel- comed and disposed of. The Rifle Club held a business meeting last Wednesday, April 2, in the physics lecture room at 12:45. The drive which the Rifle Club has been making to put target shooting on the same basis as other sports is progressing steadily. To date a range in Chapin Hall has been ob— tained and set up, the club is a financial success and the rifle team is getting better as is shown by the average score of 86 which was turned in against Crane. The money obtained from the dues is to be used in buying an— other club rifle and in improving the range. After the above busiv- ness was concluded, president H. E. Steir, ’30, announced that an elec- tion of officers will take place about the first part of May. An announcement was also made concerning the match with the Hyde Park Y. M. C. A. to be held Saturday evening April 5. Program Dedicated to Chemical Engineer The weekly radio salute oi? the Westinghouse Electric and Manu- facturing Company for tonight, April 8, is to be dedicated to the chemical engineer. This program, broadcast over KYW locally at 9:00 P. M, is part of a series designed to acquaint the general public with the scientific and engineering ad— vances taking place in the various industries and professions. lilinois ’i‘runit Co. When in need of a brief case always look for a reliable place. Our prices are always the lowest. Expert re- pairs on luggage. 12 years at same location 8 W. Cor. 32nd dz State St. stand in line and juggle a tray for your meal when we some delicious food at reason” able prices? hflhwmtt when” mmt‘t‘mtllithblh Went worth at 31st . 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