Page Two ARMOUR TECH NEWS Tuesday, February 252, 1931 thinness “their hiatus Student Publication of the ARMOUR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CHICAGO, ILLENOES Published Weekly During the College Year ____._._.__ ti I’llEAlfié) association , w censor Newsrooms l SUBSCRIPTION RATES $2.00 Per Year Single Copies, 10 Cents Each MANAGING BOARD Editor-in-Chief ................. Wilbur I-I. Rudolf, ’32 Managing Editor. ............... Max J. Schinke, ’32 News Editor ....... .Edward W. Carlton, '32 Business Manager ................. James J. Casey, ’32 Faculty Adviser ....... .Professor Walter Hendricks ADVXSORY BOARD Advisory Editor .................. Fred B. Attwood, ’31 Alvin B. AuerbaCh, ’31 Advisory Associates .......... Arthur H. Jens, ’31 Frank W. Spalding, ’31 ‘” umromnt DEPARTMENT Feature Editor .......... . John R. Jackson, ’32 Fraternity Assistant... ..Harold Bodinson, ’33 Architectural Assistant. .Earl C. Kubicek, ’32 Art Assistant ..... . ...... Dave Chapman, ’32 ...... 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Born February 26, 1802. in spirit." Are We Narrow? Engineers and students of engineering are accused by educators and the public in general of being narrow in. their interests. They are said to know or care little about anything not directly connected with their particular field of work and, to a certain extent, to have a rather contemptuous attitude toward non- technical men and subjects. We, as students of engineering, should be interested in determining the accuracy of this sweeping charge. The chief reason for this attitude on the part of the uninformed laity is easily found in their own ignor— ance. The mental picture seen by the average man on the street when someone speaks of engineering is a rather hazy one, including an electrician wrapping black tape around wires, a surveyor in knee boots carrying a transit, and a man working with various oil~covered wheels and levers in the cab of a loco— motive. Anyone With such an inaccurate and distorted pic— ture of engineering could hardly be expected to know much about engineers. Therefore, we may safely omit the attitude of the general public from further con- _ be durned if you can take a bath in a lounging robe.” 5" o I it; , “Hallie glipsiiclt” l’ t Cleave to “The Slipsiick"; let the Slapstick fly where it may. a AAA AAA AA AA AA EVERY MAN TO HIS OWN Some are for Ireland, Others look to Mexico, But most of us look to Germany, For both our marks are low. =l< )1: >1: LET OFF EASY It was in Arkansas, near the Texas border, that a white man was taken before a colored justice of the peace, charged with stealing a mule and killing its owner. The opening conversation ran thus: “We’s got two kinds ob justice in dis yer co’t,” began the darky, “Texas law and Arkansas law. Which will you hab?" The prisoner mused a moment and then replied that he would prefer the Texas law. “Den I discharge yo’ fo’ stealin’ de mule but I decrees dat yo’ hang fo’ killin’ de man." “Wait," cried the prisoner, “I'll take the Arkansas law.” “Well, den, I is happy to let yo’ go wif a small fine fo’ killin’ de man, but yo' has to hang fo' stealin’ dc mule." * a: a She: “Where is your chivalry?" He: “1 turned it in for a Buick.” are CONTORTION ENGINEER Went up with Joe to see Doc. McNamara about a boil on Joe’s neck. Doc took a look at it and said, “Well, it’s only a small boil there on the back of your neck but you’ll have to keep your eye on it.” I: m m “How’s that boy of yours getting along at the barber college?” “Fine, they just elected him shear leader." “No, I mean scholastically.” “Well, do you see that guy over there whose face is all cut up and with his hair looking like he was in a fight? Well my son flunked his final examination on him.” —Wattsit Tuhyuh. 1% ii! ’ll “Dost thou know the difference between a lounging robe and a bath robe?” “Well——a——, you can lounge in a bath robe, but I’ll ~—’I‘he Co—ed. e 1:: u BEFORE THE AUTOPSY Willie: “Ma, if the baby was to eat tadpoles, it give him a big bass voice like a frog?” Mother: “Good gracious, no! They’d kill him." Willie: “Well, he ain’t dead yet." would ing. They took him about the old battlevship, Victory, Lord Nelson’s flagship. An English sailor escorted the American over the vessel, and coming to a raised bronze tablet on the deck he said, as he reverently removed his hat: that's not surprising. I nearly tripped on the wretched thing myself.” rights if he doesn‘t care what happens to his fenders. grave when you are gone?” they asked the man who had long suffered from stomach trouble. sia tablet would be as appropriate as any.” can hATTLE SCARRED An American tourist in England was out sight—see— ‘”Ere sir, the spot where Lord Nelson fell.” “Oh, it is?” replied the American blandly. “Well, —Dollar Bill. ll! Vt it In this free country every man can maintain his vi: K: at Appropriate “What sort of a tablet shall be erected over your “Well," said the cheerful patient, “I think a dyspep- wraps Ministers often make bad breaks. One officiating Humid Witter Haggard 3 BY J. R. JACKSON, JR. (A. Biographical. Sketch.) Born of American parents on June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety—six, in Impur, State of Assam, India, Professor Haggard was brought to America at the age of four. His parents settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, and it was there that he received his grammar and high school educa— tion, staying in Watertown until nineteen hundred and sixteen. In April of that year Professor Haggard went to Petrograd (now Leningrad), Russia, in order to assist his father in Y. M. C. A war prison work. Returning to America, he enrolled in the service and was stationed at Camp Mac- Clelland, Alabama, during a part of the summer and fall of nineteen hundred and eighteen. The next two years were spent studying at New York University, where Professor Haggard became a member of the Delta Phi Fra— ternity. His college work was then finished at Dennison College, Gran— ville, Ohio, in nineteen hundred and twenty-two. While at Granville, Professor Haggard became a member of the Dennison Chapter of the American Commons Club, which is a non- fraternity organization, having chapters in a number of the mid- western colleges and universities. The professor’s next move was to Memphis, Tennessee. where he taught mathematics and science in one of the city high schools. After remaining there a year, he Went to Peking, China, and taught the some subjects in the Peking Ameriu can School there. After being in China for a year, he came to seattle, Washington. and again became engaged in . Editor’s Note: The Tech News, from More to time in the future, wtll. prim biographies of faculty Toolbars and officers of the Insti— [71/ Va. Y. M. C. A. work. Poor health, de- manding a warmer climate, forced the professor to go to Marshall. Texas. It so happened that while in» structing trimmi- in “ Hot: and science at Bishop College, Marshall, Professor Haggard met a young lady who was teaching French and Spanish there. On May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, Professor Haggard and Miss Anne Van Koert were married. They now have one child, a boy, named Harold Wallace, who was born October twenty-six, nine~ teen hundred and twenty—nine. Leaving Marshall. Professor and Mrs. Haggard came to Chicago in the summer of nineteen hundred and twenty—seven. Once here, the professor took the summer gradu- ate work in mathematics at the University of Chicago, and then fall of that year. An aerial survey of Porto Rico will be undertaken in December by United States naval aviators at the request of Governor Theodore Roosevelt. Twenty new radio telegraph sta- tions are to be established at iso~ lated points in the Philippine islands where the people have no means of communication. started teaching at Armour in the "' ALPHA Gill! SEGMA ELEBGES Last Thursday noon Alpha Chi Sigma, professional chemical en- gineering fraternity, pledged five men. A list of the pledges is given below: . C). J. Spawn, ’32. . H. Helmick, ’33. 5. Johannisson, ’33. 3. E. Winegar, ’33. A. M. Ream, ’33. '3: “(KEY AT CONVENTION Professor Libby of the depart— ment of refrigeration engineering attended a convention of the Na— tional Association of Practical Re» frigerating Engineers at the Uni- versity of Illinois, February'- 20 and 21. Addresses were made by many leading men in the field of refrig- eration. The members made a tour of inspection of the labratories of the university. Mexico exports more than 6,000,— 000 bunches of bananas yearly. Enlargement Your“, Mathematics filflfi‘ dd awash For COACHING and review work in ALGEBRA, GEOMETRY, ADVANCED ALGEBRA Extremely Low Cost G. F. BOSTRGM G328 Sangumon Phone Normal 64531 THE humanitarian fivflfillflwtfiflfifi 311st Street and Mitch. A Dining and Dancing from 3 P. M. to Midnight No Cover Charge ve. @‘tfi WWW hi ifia . .. . 7%), M. “WWW lit at a funeral was praising the departed and concluded with these words. “Friends, all that remains here is the shell; the nut is gone.” ——Pop. sideration. The educators, however, being people of considerable striking a balance information and intelligence, present a more serious case. Furthermore, they are better acquainted with engineering students than with engineers—«a fact that points their accusation more truly in our direction. They deplore the grammar of engineering students in general, and despair of their lack of interest in litera— ture, art, and drama. We can take some steps toward determining the justice of this attitude toward engineers and engineer— ing students by examining the conditions to be found at Armour. If interest in our more liberal courses can be con— sidered an indication, we can hardly deny that, as a group, we are narrow. In the courses in history, literature, and allied subjects, the interest is meager and the attendance poor. The work is done, for the most part, with the minimum output of energy. If the demand for books on liberal subjects can be looked upon as another test, again we fail. An examination of the dates of withdrawal of such books from the school library will show that many of them have been unused for several years, if indeed they have been used at all. We engineering students are inclined to answer this charge with the statement that the same accusation may be directed toward other professional men such we thought it was pretty good. sittin‘ on a lily pad. Two of them took a noshun’ to jump off: How manyrwere left?” evasion. airs: lilGl-lER MATHEMATICS 1 An old timer asked us this one the other day, and “Three frogs wuz Answer—~“Thrce! Because they only took a noshunl” H's * 2: “Where’s your wife?” “She’s at a prize fight." “Where at?” “0h, 9. bridge party.” a .t With this we end another side—splitting t?) piece of literatoor for young and old. (Too old to read it and too young to appreciate it.) —Phi1 J . however, this is not truly an answer but merely an That evasive attitude on our part is in itself an admission of the truth of the statement. In view of the conditions just cited, we hardly can reach any conclusion but that, as a group, we are guilty of narrowness. as doctors and lawyers, To any fair—minded judge. W. H. R. tor a Mfihilflhhfidd industry come are such diverse items as a few cents for a local telephone call, or thirty dollars and upward for a call to a city across the Atlantic. The men responsible for this phase of the telephone business have worked out scientific methods of control—but their effort to refine old practices and devise new ones goes on. 2‘sz fipfioffilflffi? is: Ewe .’ “On a large scale” describes account- ing in the Bell System, whose properties cost more than $4,000,000,000. 0n the outgo side arc, for example, four or five hundred million dollars annually for new construction; vast sums for keeping telephone equipment in good order; a payroll running into hundreds of millions a year. Under in— BEML. SYSTEM?" lN'l‘ER-»{‘DNN15C’E‘1NG 5; A NATION—“VIBE SYSTEM OF