Page Two 5, “t l ”l tli . lllfil t Student Publication of the ARMOUR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Published Weekly During the College Year til SUBSCRIPTION RATES $2.00 Per Year Single Copies, 10 Cents Each ‘\ MANAGING 130mm Editor-in-Chiel‘ ................. Wilbur H. Rudolf, '32 Managing Editor ................. Max J. Schinkc, ’32 News Editor ...... . . .Edward W. Carlton, '32 Business Manager ................ James J. Casey, ’32 Faculty Adviser ........... Professor Walter Hendricks ADVISORY BOARD Advisory Editor ................ Fred B. Attwood, ’31 . ' Alvin B. Au‘erbach, ’31 Advrsory Assocmtes ......... \Arthur H. Jens, is] l Frank w. Spalding, '31 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Feature Editor ................ J. R. Jackson, Jr., Y32 Fraternity Assistant ...I-I‘arold Bodinson, ’33 Architectural Assistant ........... W. W. Davies, ’33 Art Assistant .................. Dave Chapman, '32 Reviews ....................... Morton Fagen, ’32 Columnist ..................... George Bonvallet, ’32 Assistant News Editor .......... Orville T. Barnett, ’33 SPORTS DEPARTMENT Sports Editor ..................... H. P. Richter, ‘32 Associate Editor ................. C. Stempkowski, ’33 Reporters E. G. Avery, '34 N. E. Colburn, ’34 H. L. Gibson, ’34 W. Krol, ’34 D. F. Landwer, ’34 J. P. McGuan, ’34 V. Rimsha, ’34 .l. A. Schcycr, ’34 R. G. Kellner, ’31 J. B. Dirkers, ’32 F. A. Ustryski, ’32 L. G. Wilkie, ’32 A. Weston, ’32 J. W. Juvinall, ’33 S. T. Leavitt, '32 R. J. Mulroney, ’33 R. F. RyChlik, ’33 BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Advertising Manager-slid. A. Collick, ’32—4H. Monger, ‘33 Assistants R. E. Nelson, ’33 W. L. Bengston, '32 Circulation Manager ................. J. S. McCall, ’32 Assistants J. Ar Bacci, 134' « J. F. Bonnell, ’34 'l‘. C. Peavey, ’34 C. T. Scaberg, ’34 MARCH 24, 193] E. H. Chun, ’32 R. Dufour, ’33 F. W. Pain/e, ’33 C. B. Sommers, ’33 Vol. VII No. 7 “Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like un- ‘ conscious beauty, without any intention to please." —Isaac Mayer Wise. Born March 31, 1819. Causes of Failure At the beginning of each semester, most of us make mental resolutions that we are going to work with such earnestness that we may dismiss all fear of failure from our minds. But before the end of the term, some usually find that their resolutions have suffered degenera- tion to some extent, though the original intentions were genuinely sincere. Everyone begins on an equal basis, and with the same opportunities. In the first recitation, the difference be— tween students becomes apparent. One type pays the strictest attention, absorbing every word. The other wastes his time, dreaming of outside events. When it comes to homework, the latter is neglectful or copies. The classwork is dull and uninteresting, due to lack of preparation. Because of the increased difficulty of fol— lowing assignments he fails to make the proper effort to master them. Add slightly irregular attendance and he has all the qualifications for a flunk notice. It seems a small thing to come to school and borrow a classmate’s homework to copy. Yet it does great harm to the person who continues to do it. Homework 'is given so that the work being studied is impressed on our minds. In copying another’s homework, each step is not worked out in thought. Consequently, when exams“..- tions come the student is lost. He ma cram but for him to pass the tests is an injustice as well as a miracle. The student who backs up his good classwork by dili- gent home study finds the examinations simple and passes easily. Marks are based on three things: classwork, homework, and examinations. Make them perfect and the grade received will correspond. Procrastination is another danger that awaits stu- dents in laboratories, shops, and drawing classes, where reports or plates are due at regular It is necessary to write up the experiment as they are per- formed rather than letting them pile up to be done at the last possible minute with the sacrifice of sleep or at the expense of other subjects. intervals. By completing the work while the experiment is still‘ fresh in our minds, complete and good reports can be prepared with the minimum expenditure of time. Most of this semester is yet before; impressions are in the making. We must continue our watchful vigil throughout the year if our resolutions are to be pro meted from the ravages of negligence. M. .l. S. i l l l l l i ' l . ARMOUR TECH NEWS l 5 a o 99 l i willie Slipstick l ; Cleave to “The Slipstick"; let E the Slapstick fly where it may. POAME ’Twas a vicious night, that night it was, What a vicious night it was, The rain it howled and howled and howled, And the rain it howled and howled; And the wind it fell in torrential drops And the wind in torrential drops foil. The thunder it blazed in streaks of white And it blazed and it blazed in white streaks. The lightning bellowed and rumbled and roared, White the lightning bellowed and roared. And the two rode out in an open sedan, What a wonderful night for love. (0h yeahh!) -——~Joei ’At‘s fine, Joe, come again. Iii as: Howdy, folkscs, and thanxalot, Phil. We’ll try our best to put on your boots, continue the journey of the good ship ‘Slipstick," and see that all hands aboard are kept satisfied. With the long list of contributors printed last week we realize perfectly that we'll not have single bit of work to do ourself, (woe be unto us) but being as we are from Missouri, it will have to be proven. Mail all contributions postpaid to the Armour Tech News box in the Grand Foyer of the Main Building. ,_ I}; can We swore ofl‘ Scotch jokes but this’n’s too good. . "Well MavTuvish, how was your honeymoon?" “Oh fine, Niagara Falls is some place.” “How‘d the wife like it?” ‘v “Oh, I didn’t take her. She’d been there two years ago." _, * I'll =11 l hiiltcm the poet was blind. The school marm, wishing; to impress this point, asked her class if anyone could say what Milton’s great afilictlon was. ‘ , “Yes’m,” replied little Alcibiades, “he was a. poet." one. Chewing gum may not be a “fast mover" in like grocer’s slanguagc but it certainly has the igreutest “turnover.” is“... ~hw4- .. NATURALLY i Chief Petty Olficer: "The enemy are as thick as peas; lwhat shall we do?” l Higher up: “Shell them, you idiot, shell them." i i. SUSPICIOUS Beggar: “Won’t yousc give a poor man a nickel for a cup of coffee?” . Farmer: "Wall, I don’t- know, but let’s take a look at it.” * 1k - av «a » «r or»: rk w; i On the Senior Inspection Trips Up this A. M. at live bells (after three hrs. of 5168p). .Ate hurried breakfast, cup java, slab bacon. Plowed 2 ‘blocks thru 3 ft. sno and cot the dinky at 114 and lCottag-e Grove at ’1 hells. Got to 63rd and Cottage at '9 bells. Lotsa sno, el cudn’t get started, brakes slipped, got to loop at 10 bells, mebbe 10:15. Crossed bridge to take Metro c1 and slipped all the way down on other lside, knocked down 3. Ran like (deleted) to the other lend of platform to ketch Dug Pk. el. Was slower than lldeletcd) around loop. got out of loop 12 bells. Big ‘crowd on at Union Dcpoe, one farmer talked to condy for 20 min. about crops, pulled out 1:00. Gang warfare lat Halsted sta. held up train for 2 hrs, five killed, in- cluding twenty cops. Got to Cicero at 5 bells, six feet of sno. , Registered at Cicero Hotel at 6 bells. engaged room lfor tonite. Good thing I came out day before inspection ,trip thru W. E. Co. Will have to ditch all classes Wed. since I will be on my way back to Chi; therefore and hence I will do my homework, except I left my books home. Since I have ten cents in my wallet I will get a steak supper, take in a she, and go to a dance. —-Bloney. 1‘ a 3 Virgo. Bill Dickey. and we were doin’ a juice ex-( periment yestidday, Virgo being at the genny at one end of the lab while Bill was at the other at the power board terminals. We were ready to start when Virge yell-ed to Bill: . “Grab hold of two of them leadsll” l “Okay, I got ’em.” “Feel anything?” “Nope.” “All right, don't touch the other two, they’re 550 volt, 300 amp. leads." \ —Bill didn’t. as HOUSEHOLD HINT. for. aid evening gowns mowers! kogekher maize an excellent Pen-wiper. soc Since Virge didn’t get our juice yestidday there will lbe no last line this issue. Continued next week. i —The Bongineer. l l l I l l l l l l 1 l F mums Nara By Rockwell Kent Conjecture upon the vast, incomp- rehensible elements of nature often leads to poetry. A special kind of beauty seems to be revealed, and the impressions upon the human mind, when recorded, have become the most valuable heritages of all literature; the sun and the stars, river and sea, mountain and valley, have by their mystery inspired elo~ quence that has lived through the ages. In ”N by E" we find at work some thing akin to that inexplicable force. And so, what might simply be an ac- count of a voyage north by east to Greenland in a thirtyvfoot boat with a description of shipwreck and sub- sequent escape from death becomes, by virtue of inspiration, a ’vivid entrancing adventure; one com— pletely beautiful. A prose style, in itself as smoothly flowjing' as the swift-running sea as enhanced by the most arresting figures of speech to make exposition, description and narrative equally delightful. Outstanding. is the use 01' words to paint a picture; the most lofty and difficult employment to which they might be put, difficult because it requires a scientific exactness, lofty because in imagery the mind exults itself above the prosaic. How does it feel to be in a storm? Rock- well Kent tells of “feeling of wind and wet and cold, healing of lifting seas and steep descents, of rolling over as the wind gusts hit And how does it sound? He . y “. . . . of wind in the shrouds, of hard spray flung on drum~tlght can: you, of rushing; waters at the soup- pers, of the gale shearing a cor. invented sea.” C ““y. in “N by E" we are brought face to face with: impressive realism. Note for instance, in the following excerpt, the forceful vivid» ness with which the author describes the Labrador coast. See how he has detected the spirit 01’ magnitude and forbidding grandeur. “A brown land against the evening- sky, troeless and immensely bleak; and the bared out- cropping strata of the rock stood like a sea wall of coursed stone; of blocks so huge that. unconsciously concerning of mankind by their scale, we found ourselves immeasurably small.” Not a word wasted, each fit— ting aptly into place with ccmpact~ ness and solidity that marks clear thinking; keen insight. It is no won— der that we find such reading enjoy— ahly worth while and deserving of praise. Rockwell Kent is known the world over as an illustrator of extra ordinary ability. In “N by E" he in~ cludes a large number of expressive blackand-white drawings depicting various stages in his adventure, which like his writing, fairly breathes of life. One might, by studying these illustrations in their order of. appearance, get a quite av curate impression of the entire story, and complete one as well. Because “N by E” is a work of arresting beauty obtained with no sacrifice of realism or loss of inter- est, it should be classed as “one to 5 be read." ——Morton Fagen. Ill/Ian Registering for Future Chess Match A chess tournament will take place at the Institute in the near future. To date six men have signed up. All those who with to test their analyti- cal skill are requested to Sign up with Manuel Yzaguirre Ch E, ’31. Tuesday, March 24, E93l ARXNEWS Those lucky freshman! Because of the senior problem due in a week, the sophomore and junior problem in three weeks and the freshman dance, the initiation must be postponed till some time in the middle of April. There are a number of advantages to this, the most important being that there is more time for the committee to make proper preparations. An- other is that the weather will be more inviting in as much as the ma- jority of “exercises" take place in Grant Park and the loop. 21¢ 1% 'vl: For the past week or so, there have been three plates, which were done by Mr. Krehbiel on exhibition in the Armour Rooms of the Art In» stitute. Each plate is about six by eight. feet and is done in a modern art interpretation with brush and col- ored ch—alk. They were finished in about two hours, (that is, each one), and were done for ornamentation on the walls in the Cliff Dweller-’5 club at a recent stag. If you want to see modern art in all its glory just take a peek at these. 41 The former editor of this column, Earl Kubicek, was down at the Art Institute last Tuesday. Earl has been sick with a bad case of scarlet fever and is still convalescing. He though he feels better now, MOLLIDAV'S DELUXE 5950b RlfiPAIR COM-7; Ralph’s Barber Shop 117 E. 35th Street Prompt, Courteous Service No WAITING slit—strut N c; The lung: ll Fal'll'dk arm at the a muuuurt wuuam telephone operator ~ ~ ~ amok moguls How to extend the operator’s range five- fold? There's an example of the probv leins out up to a telephone engineer. This was part of a study in stepping up the speed of service to distant points. “Long Distance’ ’ used to relay your call to one 01' more other Operators. NO\V she berseli reaches the city you are Call— ing, 30 or 300 or 3000 miles away. chal lcn go. Result: in five- years the average time needed to complete a longmdismncc com: ucction has been. cut from 7 minutes to loss than 2 minutes. In this industry even long approved methods are never considered beyond improvement. For men oi the right aptitude.tliat viewpoint is a stimulating Blight. fiYSTEM A NATIONJR’IDE SYSTEM to 4 We a (@mtsb ‘ . OF INTER~CONNE 4N \ 4} TIN