Vol. VI No. 15

Armour Institute of Techntgilogy, Chicago, Illinois

 

 

FililAl. EXAMS re
START SATURBAT;
liillliSi'l TEESEAY

Schedule Conflicts Must
Be Reported to
thee

TWO HOURS LONG

The final examinations for the
first semester 1930-1931 begin Sat-
urday at 8:30 o’clock. The usual
procedure will be followed this
year. Each examination will be
two hours in length, starting at
8:30, 10:30, 1:10 and 3:10, thus di-
viding the day into four two hour
periods.

The office has done its best to
see that there are no conflicting
examinations. In case a student
finds that he has two examinations
scheduled for the same period he
should report that fact to the
Dean’s office at once.

Monday Hard Day

Examinations will be written in
the Gymnasium, Room D Mission,
5th floor drafting room, Electrical
Lecture Room, Room A Machinery
Hall, Room 0 Mission, Room B M15?
sion, and the Drafting Room in the
Mission Building. There are no
examinations scheduled for Satur-
day afternoon; nor are there any
for the three to five o‘clock period
on Tuesday. Monday has the
heaviest schedule of examinations,
having a complete list from 8:30
to 5:00.

The complete schedule will be
found on page 3.

Sophomore fifties
fleece Mattie!

At the sophomore class meeting
last Monday, Jan. 19, Dean Palmer
presented statistics, comparing the
financial status of the present
sophomores to that of the other
classes during the last few years.
The report showed that the class
has less than seventy dollars in its
treasury.

This may result in a repetition
of the ill fate of the senior class,
for the office will not guarantee the
expenses of a dance. The money
will have to be in the hands of the
social committee, before any def»
nite arrangements may be made.

 

Advance Payment Necessary

It will be possible to have a
dance only if enough of the sopho-
mores, and other students, will be
willing to pay in advance.

The class is to hold another
meeting in the near future, and it
is planned to find out how many
would agree to advance the usual
cost of two dollars and a half. It
will depend, therefore, on the spirit
and loyalty of the sophomores,
themselves, as to whether there
will be a sophomore dance this
year.

Prof. Roesch Speaks
to S.A.E. (Summation

 

“Temperature Effects Upon Anti-
Knock Ratings" was the title of a
paper presented at the meeting of
the Society of Automotive Engi-
neers by Professor Daniel Roesch
of the Institute on Wednesday,
January 21, at Detroit, Mich.

His research work was conducted
in the Automotive Laboratory here
on the campus and covers many inv
teresting phases of this type of
fuel.

Charles M. Larson, ’13, represent—
ing the Sinclair Refining Company,
spoke on the subject, “Clarifying
Transmission and Rear Axle Lubri-
cants.”

C. E. Fitzsirnmons, '24, of the Un—
derwriters Laboratories, and G. C.
Olson, ’29, who is managing editor
of “Motive Power” magazine, were
among those present at the De—
troit caucus.

General Electric
interviews Men

 

Three representatives of the Gen-
eral Electric Company visited the
Institute last Tuesday, January 20,
to interview the graduating seniors
in electrical engineering.

Every year the General Electric
has a number of positions available
for graduating college men. These
jobs are given on the basis of
scholarship, personality and school
activities. It was for the purpose
of determining the individual mer~
its of the senior electricals in the
above three departments that they
were interviewed last Tuesday.

Send Armour Grads

The task of interview was alotted
to three “G. E." men and were:
E. M. Pinkerton, ’09; M. B. Tracy,
'28. and L. J. Ericsson, ’28. All of
these men are graduates of Armour
and now occupy positions of impor-
tance in the General Electric Com-
pany. Pinkerton is manager of the
Minneapolis branch, Tracy is in
the industrial service department
at Schenectady, N. Y., and Erlw—
son is an industrial heating expert
at Chicago.

Talk to Juniors
Before seeing the seniors, the
three talked to the junior class in
electricity at 11:30 A M. at Profes-
sor Moreton's invitation. Pinkerton
was introduced as being one or the
members of Professor Moreton’s
first class at the Institute in 1909.
He told of his experiences while at
Armour and of the General Elec-

tric work at Minneapolis.

How to Succeed

Tracy was the next to speak. He
told of four points, which if fol-
lowed, would assure one of success
in the General Electric Company.
They are: 1, a willingness to work;
2; the ability to meet~pcople’,~3, a
desire for study, and 4, a knowl-
edge of knowing how to study. The
knack of telling a person that he
is wrong and still make him like
it is, it was said, an invaluable
quality in the business world.

Ericsson, in his talk, emphasized
the fairness of the company for
whom he is working, the difference
between school and commercial
work, and his engineering experi—
ences.

Later in the day the seniors in
the department of electrical engi-
neering were given an interview
which involved the above princi—
ples.

Paper to Refund All
Extra. Subscriptions

 

There are a few students who
have subscribed to the News for the
whole of the school year. These
students, of course, will not be re-
quired to pay the additional dollar
of the student activity fee to sup—
port the paper. A list of such stu—
dents is being prepared by the
editors of the News and will be pre-
sented to the deans. The exact
course of procedure has not yet
been decided upon; the student ac-
tivity fee may be reduced one dol-
lar for those who have subscribed
for the coming semester, or their
money may be refunded later.

Rifle Team Has Postal
Meet With Lane Tech

Shooting on their respective
ranges last Friday, the rifle teams
of Armour and Lane Tech, engaged
in what is known as a “postal
meet.” Because the results of the
Lane team are not available at the
time of writing, the name of the
winner cannot be announced here.

Judging from their past experi—
ence in this phase of ballistics and
the number of bull’s eyes scored
Friday, it is believed the Armour
team has a chance to win the meet.

This meet has given the Armour
team an opportunity to see what
they could accomplish in the com—
ing Tribune meet, which they con-

 

template entering.

 

NO ISSUE NEXT WEEK

There will be no issue of. the
News on Tuesday, February
third. The next issue will come
out February tenth.

 

 

 

CYCLE DEAD LINE
SET FOR FEB. 20;
MONEYMUSTBE IN

A letter has been sent to all the

 

fraternities, clubs, societies and or~ ,

ganizatlons on the campus regard—
ing the policies of the Cycle for
the year 1930-31.

The dead line for all publication
material, has been set for February
20, 1931. Material which is not paid
for by the dead line will not be in—
sorted.

A six page allowance will be made
for each class at a $75.00 rate. A
class picture, list of class officers,
snapshots of activities, gloss prints
of officers and a write up will con—
stitute the class section.

Social fraternities will be al—
lowed four pages for which they
will be charged $35.00 with the re-
quirement that all necessary cut
are to be furnished by the iraterni
ties. The staff desires a group pic

ture, membership list, chapter roll,
date of founding and a writeup.
Honorarics have been alloted two
pages each. The charge is $20.00.

All new cuts of keys, pledge but—
tons and so form, if desired, must

be made at the expense of the or
ganization.

Two pages will be allowed en~
gineering societies at a charge of
$20.00. The societies must furnish
a group picture, list of officers and

a writeup of the society.

The clubs are limited to one page
at the rate of $15.00. Each club is
to provide a list of officers, a write-

up of the club and a group picture.

It is urgent that the members of
each organization familiarize them-
selves with the requirements in
order that no delay in the publica—
tion of the Cycle will occur.
Promptness in writing and return-
ing the articles to the Cycle office
is strenuously urged.

Fire Protects Hear
Railroad Man Speak

 

The last meeting of the Fire Pro—
tection Engineering Society was
held Friday, January 23, at 9:30
o’clock. Mr. Howe, ,. ‘ in the

Link. liresident

oi Tau held. Pi

Tau Beta Pi, honorary engineer—
ing fraternity, elected C. T. Link,
ME, ’31, president at a meeting
held in their rooms last Wednes-

 

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other officers elected at this time
were:

Vice~Pres., R. M. Krausc, ’31.
Cor. Secty., S. M. Lind, ’32.

Rec. Secty, I. B. Lehman, '31.
Cataloger, J. O. Cavanagh, ’32.
Professor J. C. Peebles was re—
elected to the office of treasurer of

the chapter.

Other business transacted at the

meeting was a short report on the

National Convention by F. B. Att»
wood, ’31, and the passing of an

amendment to the constitution
making officers hold office for a
year rather than only one semester.

ASLMJE. Addressed by

Eitandard Dill Chemist

Mr. L. H. Truett, a representative
s of the Standard Oil Company, ad—
dressed the members of the Ar-
mour Branch of the A.S.M.E., at. a
meeting which was held Thursday,
January 22.

The speaker had been scheduled
to give an illustrated lecture on the
refining and other processes in the
manufacture of gasoline, but due
_ to the failure of the projector he
was unable to deliver it. He did,
however, make an extemporaneous
talk on the economic conditions of
the oil industry.

In the lecture he clearly stressed
the fact that the one important
need of the industry was a means
of controlling overproduction. This
factor is detrimental to the finan—
cial status of the several oil com—

panics, and may be blamed as the
cause of the periodical variations

in gasoline and other fuel oil prices.
The storage of fuel products ex—
ceeds by far the cost of produc~
tion, and the price of the com—
modity is thus affected.

Mr. Truett plans to return this
week and give the scheduled lec—
ture, “The Making of Gasoline.”
The date will be announced later.

Those desiring to enroll in the
evening school may do so Thursday
and Friday evenings, January 29
and 30. Enrollment is made in the
dean’s office with Robert V. Perry,
director of evening classes.

 

fire protection department of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Railroad, was the speaker.

The fire protection department
in connection with a railroad is a
comparatively new idea, the de-
partment being only one year old.
However, the results shown by a
year’s labor justify the continuance
and expansion of this branch of
the railroad.

An interesting incident recited
by Mr. Howe was the burning of a
water tank. It is accidents like
this and the burning of bridges,
etc., which makes the department
necessary. Bridges are being pro-
tected by dry pipe lines which have.
openings every one hundred feet,
with fifty feet of hose connected
to each opening.

Probably the most interesting
fact, from the fire protects point of
view, was the installation of two
lengths of fifty foot, one and one~
half inch hose on each locomotive.
These hose are capable of putting
out in four minutes, a fire of two
boxcars which have been soaked
with flammables and burned for
ten minutes.

President Wilde closed the meet—
ing with a plea for applications for
the F. P. E, s. shingles.

TRUSS CLUB HNITHATES

The Truss Club recently initiated
the following men;

VJ. C. Hoffman, M. E., ’33; B. W.
Job, E. E, ’83; T. P. Ladzinski, C. E.,
‘82; 0. Lane, E. E., ‘32; C. F. Lewis,
M. 3., ’33, and A. Tibbits, M. E., ’31.

H. A. Raschke, E. E., ’34, has been
pledged.

 

 

 

Calendar
Wednesday, Jan. 28

9:30 A. M._—Registration for the
second semester be—

gins.

7:30 P. M.——Registration for Eve—

ning classes begins.
Thursday, .lian. 29

9:30 A.M.——«Registration for the
second semester con»-
tinues.

7:30 P. M.—Registration for Eve-
ning classes contin-
ues.

Saturday, Jan. 31

8:30 A. M.-12:20 P. M.——Beginning

of final examinations.
Monday, Feb. 2

8:30 A. BIL—5:00 P. M.—Second day

of final examinations.
Tuesday, Feb. 3

8:30 A. M.-3:00 P. BIL—Last day of

final examinations.
Saturday, Feb. 7

2:30 P. M.——-Interclass track meet

at Bartlett Gymnasi—

um of the University
of Chicago.

8:00 P. M. —Swimming: Armour

vs. Illinois Wesleyan

at Bloomington.

8:00 P. M.—Armour vs. Western
State Normal in
Basketball at Kala—
mazoo.

Monday, Feb. 9

8:30 A. M.——Regular registration

day for the second

semester.

3:00 P. M.—Armour vs. St. Mary’s

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ribbons and Medals Awarded to individual

Winners

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Event:

FREE ADMlSSlON FOR ARMOUR STUDENTS

EEQWEAMW
Register Early

 

Letters were mailed last week to
all students of the Institute, re-
garding the new registration plan
to be adopted for the coming so-
mester.

Student registration under this
new system will take place on
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday,
January 28th, 29th and 30th and on
Monday and Tuesday, February
2nd and 3rd between 9:30 A. M. and
1:00 P. M.

Formerly the registration was
completed in one day. The advan—
tage of the new system is that it
will relieve pressure in the office
and save time.

By presenting a tentative pro—
gram and receipt to the instructors,
enrollment in classes may also be
completed on these days.

Students are urged by the office
of the deans to take advantage of
this plan by registering on one of
the above dates.

Automotive End
Gets New Motors

 

been obtained by the automotive
laboratory for the purpose of study.
The first is a new Buda motor,
which will be tested by Gene Da~
vidson for its efficiency with vari-
ous types of fuels, and the second
is a new Chrysler Eight which will
be subjected to tests for power and
efficiency by Fred Borrowdalc and
Harold Fox.

Other automotive laboratory ac-
tivities include work being done on
the detection of intensities of
noises under various frequencies.
The initial results have been ob—
tained and according to the pres—
ent indications, final results will be
available shortly. Sound rhythm
analysis is a new test and will
prove interesting to those familiar
with motors.

Air meters of the orifice type are
being attached to several engines
in the automotive laboratory. Here
an electric heating device meas-
ures the air to the engine as well
as adjusts the temperature to the
proper magnitude. A few are com—
plete but the others will be ready
for student experiments next se-
mester.

Pi Tau Sigma Holds
Election of (Embers

At a meeting held last Thursday
in the Tau Beta Pi rooms, Pi Tau
Sigma elected the following men to
hold office for the coming semes—
ter: President, R. M. Krause; Vice—
President, F. F. Strassenberg; Re-
cording Secretary, H. R. Davis;
Corresponding Secretary, A.
Cannon; Treasurer, R. H. Steven—
son; Cataloguer, H. L. Fox.

 

Freshman Class Smoker
Postponed to Next- Term

 

The smoker to be held this se—
mester by the Freshman Class has
been postponed to next term. Late—
ness of date, coupled with unfore-
seen difficulties, are the causes, it
is said, of the postponement.

The present Junior Class inaugu—
rated the idea of having s class
smoker when they were freshmen.
The precedent, however. has not

 

been followed.

 

The Fourth Annual Interclass
Track Championship will be held
on Saturday, February '7, at Bart-
lett gymnasium at 2:30 p. m.

The events will be: 50 yard dash,
220 yard dash, 50 yard low and
high hurdles, 440 yard run. 880
yard run, one mile run, two mile
run, high jump, shot put, pole
vault, and class relay, consisting of
four men each.

Medals Awarded Place Winners

Ribbons will be awarded for the
first three places in each event;
blue for first, red for second, and
white for third place. Points will
be scored as follows: first place,
three points; second place, two
points, and third place, one point.
The class team which has the

 

Two new gasoline engines have

nual Armour
Meet at Bartlett Gymnasium.

highest number of points at the
end of the meet is declared the
interclass champions of 1931.
Suitable medals will be awarded
to the men on the interclass cham—
pionship team. All students are
urged to come out and cheer their
respective teammates onto victory.
There are no admission charges to
any of the track meets.
To Compete in Three Events Only
No member of any class team
may enter more than three events
including the relay. All men should
report their entries to Captains

5 1?. M. next Friday.

The class of ’31 is favored to cop
the meet. Their teams have won
the championship for the past two
years.
to compete.

Seniors Favored to Win

The juniors and sophomores are
expected to give them plenty of
competition. The freshmen are, as
usual, the dark horses of the meet.

Twelve to fifteen men are prac-
ticing every day at the gym. New
men should only practice two to
three times a week in order not. to
become stale.

The following men have received
uniforms from Manager F. Munch:
Captains H. L. Fox and F. M.
James, A. H. Jens, D. J. Iverson,
E. E. Sademan, E. L. Cordes, C. J.
Jens, H. P. Richter, K. S. Hirsch,
G. J. Stockmann, J. Sorenson, 0.
Murphy, M. Venema, G. Nelson, C.
Cunningham, O. T. Barnett, S. T.
Leavitt, J. J. Gura, E. Curran, A. H.
Helmick, A. Hartanov, W. Holland,
A. Jungels, M. Berger, L. S. Ander-
son, 0. stall: and F. M. Alberti.
The following is the tentamve
schedule for the 1931 season:

Indoor
Saturday, February 7~Fourth
Annual Interclass Meet at Bartlett
Gymnasium.

Friday, February ill—Armour In—
formal Meet, including University
of Chicago's second team, Chicago
Normal, Y. M. C. A. College, Sears,
Roebuck Y. M. C. A., Armour and
Crane.

Saturday, February Zl—Loyola at
Loyola; Crane or Lake Forest may

N. also compete.

Saturday, February ZS—Bankers
Meet.

Saturday, March lat—«Illinois Re—
lays at Champaign, Illinois.
Saturday, March 2l—Thlrd An~
Indoor Invitation

Saturday. March- ES—Centrsl A.

A. U. Championship.

Out-door
Saturday, April é—Loyola at Loy

ola: Elmhursi; may enter.

Saturday, April lS—Crsne at 0:3»

den Field.

Saturday, April 25—Drske Relays
at Des Monies, Tow-e.
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