Page Two ARMOUR TECH NEWS Tuesday, january lb, I934 Amour Tech News Student Publication of the ARMOUR iNSTlTUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Published Weekly During the College Year «y‘all 50.0%». \ film“ an? Member Whose“ 52.00 Per Year Single Copies, 10 Cents Each MANAGING BOARD Editor-imChief .............. Norman E. Colburn, Jr. Managing Editor . . .l-Iarold W. A. Davidson Sports Editor ........ ..Raymond A. Fleissner Business Manager .................. Clarence Clarkson Walter Hendricks Faculty Advisers .............. William W. Colvert Eldon C. Grafton EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT News Editor ............................. E. N. Searl Copy Editor . . . E G. Avery Rewrite . . . .. E O. Meucham Associate Editors .................... L. J. Beckman, R. L. Ellis and 0. P. Freilinger. Columnist ............................. J. A. Bacci Reporters .............................. C. R. Bristol, F. D. Cotterman, J. B. Davis, P. A. D’Arco, J. J. Doudera, A. J. Dreis, C. L. DuSell, S. L. Ender, E. W. Engstrom, F. L. Fraizer, J. Galandak, H. A. Gseraerts, G. F. Graham, A. Highman, C. E. Hillman, M. Holland, J. F. Humiston, B. W. Johnson, R. R. Johnson, L. F. Kacel, R. S. Kercher, R. Knabe, .W. F. Ktaemcr, V. J. Kropf, J. Land, J. Laskiewicz, F. Leason, H. Levin, N. McGuone, J. K. Morrison, H. S. Nachman, D. J. Neal, A. J. Raga", M. B. Stevens, D. Suhr, D. C. Timberlake, L. P. Werlein, and G. Zwisslcr. scours DEPARTMENT Associate Editor. R. D. Armsbury Reporters .......................... W. B. Ahern, M. Holland, J. 0. Larson, E. F. Mezcra, O. Tomei. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Circulation Managers . .. J. E. Schreiner E. A. Svobodu Advertising Manager ..................... R. J. White Asst. Advertising Manager. .. ........... R. H. Hedin Business Assistants .......... J. R. Ader, E. F. Dudley, G. E. Myers, J. 'I‘. Paslawski, E. Simeh, I“. A. Wertzler. Vol. Xli. JANUARY 16, 1933 A Time Problem F Now that most of the students are not making out their programs one can hear every place “How do they expect us to do all that work?” But the administration does seem to expect it. The bulletin states that the average student must study about 25 "hours per week (which we feel is a low estimate) in preparation for his classes with an average of 30 hours per week actually spent in class. These 30 hours of class interspersed with a few tree hours fill up a good five day week. And then there are the other 25 hours of study to keep a student from enjoying his spare time. If a student spends about 8 hours a day at school, 8 hours for sleep, 21/2 hours for eating and 21/2 hours for transportation, there is left only a scant 3 hours for homework. And if he were to do this on each of the five school nights there would still be 10 hours of labor for the weekend. Of course, this is only the bulletin’s idea of the quantity of work that must be done. And the bulletin says that the above program is that of an average student. Our idea of an exceptional student is not one that could do his Work in less time than estimated but one that would follow the bulletin’s program. No. 14 The principle result of too heavy a Result schedule is to cause, not a nervous, but ‘a moral breakdown. Most of the men do only a small part of their own work and copy or get assistance for the remainder. Even the best men work in pairs, theoretically giving each other mutual help, but actually each one does the half in which he is more interested. Some professors try to prevent this by varying the figures in a problem for each student, but a few do the neces- sary research and the rest just follow the pro- cedure and substitute their own figures. The final result of this method of “getting the Work in” is that the good men are not damaged materially in their subjects because even by copy~ ing they can pick up enough knowledge of a problem to understand its nature and to be able lo do a similar one without assistance. The aver- age and less—than—average students, however, llI‘e going to learn a little of those subjects they like and will have only a superficial and non— lasting knowledge of the others. One immediate suggestion for im— provement is that some way be found to force each student to do all his own work. But with such a provision preference is given to the plugger or grind and not to the perhaps brilliant student who feels that there should be something in life (especially college life) besides slaving 24 hours a day. A much better way would be to cut down the number of hours of detailed work, especially of homework, and then to absolutely force every Cure “l c v-w l “the hilpstick” Cleave to "The Slipsticlt": let the Slapstick fly where it may. é wwc-dw‘w meV w‘“ l . lam». M. -MMWM “mum” To school again,———not with the “back to the old grind" idea but with fresh ideas which incorporate all the prin- ciples of The New Deal. (This is a humor? column). 2‘9 k! >l1 If you take somebody’s life It’s a sin. If you love somebody’s wife It’s a sin. If you drink or smoke or chew Or take what’s not your due With heaven you are through For it’s a sin. If you play around with dice It’s :1 sin. If you don’t treat others nice It’s a sin. If this sort of life seems dry And you feel you’d rather die Suicide you cannot try For it’s a sin. 3 i ’14 People who do not, believe in uniting should who a lesson from the banana. which gets skinned as 300'». as it leaves the bunch. 4r 5* 1' An Elcmcm‘rm“WOMAN" Occurrence:--Can be found where man exists. found in the free state. Physical properties:—-All sizes and colors. Always in " ‘ ' " ‘ "face of face seldom unprotected «very bitter if not used correctly. Chemical properties:——Extremely active. Possesses a great affinity for gold, silver, platinum, and precious stones of all kinds. Violent reaction if left alone by man r—great ability to absorb all kinds of expensive food—~ sometimes yields to pressure—~fresh variety has great magnetic properties—highly explosive, and very likely to be dangerous in inexperienced hands—some turn green when placed next to better appearing samples—ages very rapidly in nascent state. Seldom i: 13’ #1 An Engineer’s Vest Pocket Dictionary Fuel: A very dumb person. Friction: Story book stuff. Grate: A packing box. Lacquer: A little something in the bottom of a glass. Log: That part of you that goes down to your foot. Lattice: Something to put the may- onnaise on. Microhm: A germ. Orifice: Where you go to get val« entincs. Pier: An amber liquid which tastes good with pretzels. Pump: To hit something. Putty: Not hard to look at. Series: Not to be taken lightly. Worm: Not cold. lb W 1‘1 Gludly, The Croce-Eyed Bear Papa gave to little Johnny, A funny Teddy Bear. it was not new, but slightly used, And showed some signs of wear. .. merit. m- This Teddy had a big black nose, it had a smiling mouth; But one poor eye looked to the nozth, The other pointed south. Johnny named his new pet “Gladly”, He’d heard that name somewhere, The minister at church had said, “Gladly the cross I’d hear.” D. S. D. it * 5h I got a purpose which is high I shuns the flowing bowl, I hits my books while you guys dance. i’m pure. I got a soul. I got La noble duty here I got a urge to know I got ambition, and, besides, Cheez, guy, I got no dough. Nebraska Blue Print. 16 th I: So long, see you at the Junior Prom. J. A. B. student to do the required work by himself. Sec— ondly, private enterprise and research should be encouraged, particularly Where it leads the stu— dent to go out and meet practicing engineers and business men. in this second suggestion there is incorporated the fact that a student does best that thing which he enjoys doing. Time and op— portunities for social contacts should also be provided. By this means an engineering graduate would have a firm foundation of engineering knowl— edge, would have some practical knowledge of the business and social world, and would have a. clear understanding of where he is going and what goal he wants to attain. . l SIDELINES (Continued from page J) as indicative of war. The United States desires peaceful activities. If we were to adopt the offensive, the boys in Flanders would all shout, “No." If we were compelled to adopt the defensive, those same boys would say, “You’re right.” AFTER ALL, some of the argu- ment results because Japan was not satisfied with the naval treaty, de- signed to prevent war by promoting peace. It would be quite ridiculous for a nation to go to war because a treaty was not satisfactory enough to prevent a war. The nations have striven for so many types of treaties that they only have one good alter— native in reserve—forget it. cruise. Caucuses An examination at the University of Mieuimippi asked for the principal parts of any Latin verb. Upon one paper was written: “Slippeo, slipore, fulli, hummus.” The returned paper hurl those words: “Falio, failere. lluncto, suspendum." The president of the University of Southern California says that a col- lege freshman has only about one— hal‘l’ the vocabulary of the common laborer. “Swell,” he says, “is used to describe 4,972 situations.” Harvard’s baseball team is start— ing the New Your right with formal practice having begun this month. Dr. Frederick 1?qu Rogers, deem of Boston University’s department 0/" health, declared that the beautiful chums girl is almost certain to be intelligent; that catch phrases lilac “Beautiful but dumb” are merely superstitions and that in the long run good things tend to go together. He's telling Inn. Students in the optometry depart- ment at Ohio State University were , about to get one of their first real opportunities at practical optics. A victim was selected by the faculty and the students were to examine the puticnt’s eyes to determine what kind of glasses were needed, if any. The optometrists-lobe were anxi- ous to do a good job. They hus- tled about in good order. Finally the individual tests were completed and the students retired, each one to sub- mit his conclusions as to the tests. The results were varied. Some sug- gested glasses, others declared the sight perfect, but all were strong in their convictions. Not one otudent discovered that one eye of the patient was of glass. ____. Adm News a Well, the Chrictmus holidays me one? and everyone is brie/c hard at war/5,? although. some still need (m- other vacation to recuperate from the last one . . . . Santa, Claus was pretty good this year, especially to IRION, EKRO’I’H, 11ml MARBERG who received a. sco- oml mention apiece from him on their “CITY PLANS." TERP, MAR- TOR/lNO, KOSSUTH and SEA— BE'RG didn’t have as large stock'- ln/Is hum] Christmas Eve as the others, thereby only receiving mon- tlons. Although BARTLETT didn‘t receive one of the better grades he had one of the best and most 7m— usmtl renderings cvc’r turned in for a jmlgmenl. It seems Kuhn has completely re- covered from his recent illness of not being able to sit down, and get himself as well as Forsyth and Sum- ner something new to worry about. Just ask the boys for complete de- tails. . . . I’m sure they’re more than willing to let you in on the secret?! At last our basketball tourney has been completed with the sophs the winners—~although we still say the fresh can beat you, sophs. Bet you’re afraid to play them The highest award in the form 0/ a. first mention was given to Kvupil in a recent judgment of a clay mod— elling problem. Home you noticed how he’s “clicking." Goodby . . . good-by—-this is for my two readers—one didn’t return from the vacation as yet. Here's hoping he will be back by next week.‘ SNOOPING SAM. E Fraternity Notes l THETA Xi The officers for the coming somes~ tor were installed at chapter meet ing on January 8. They are: Presidentw-P. V. Smith. Treasul'er——Lee Willis. Steward—C. M. Christensen. House Manager—«R. S. Kercher. Secretary—E. O. Norris. Corresponding; Secretary -— Earl Kreft. At the present Milt Collick, E.E., ’33 and Dean Riesen from the Uni- versity of Michigan are staying at the house. PHI Pl PHI The New Year’s Party which was held at the Chapter House was a huge success and the New Year was given a loud reception by the merry crowd. Brother Anderson, who left school at the beginning of this semester due to illness, will be back next semes~ ter. Pledge Wally Budvitis emerged victor in the Annual Pool Tourna~ ment as was expected. Wonder why so many Brothers went to the De Paul game? it‘i-il KAPPA SlGMA Pledge Brother Adam Hefner has just returned home from the Jackson Park hospital where he had an up" pendicitis operation during the holi- days. We are glad to hear that he is rapidly improving and will be back in school again in a short time. We are pleased to announce the finding: of our lost mascot, our Bel- gian police dog, Pal, by Brother Marow. Although the pup was in bud condition when found, he is gaining his strength rapidly and will soon be back to his normal weight, 90 pounds. A New Year‘s Eve party was held at the house and was very well at tended, especially by the Brothers from the Illinois and Purdue chap- ters who were in the city for the holidays. ill. P. E. S. Addressed by Meyer on Forms Mr. T. Meyer of the Insurance Company of North America was the speaker at the meeting of the Fire Protection Engineering Society last Friday. The subject of his talk was, “Multiple Location Forms." He first explained the. purpose of ‘establishing the Interstate Under- writers Bourd, which had a direct bearing on the whole of his talk. The I. U. B. was established for the purpose of preventing the loss of business due to cut~rate practices of all companies. It was also estab— lished to aid the company and its clients in accounting for the fluctu— ation of property values, namely rolling stock. The connection between this Board and the State Inspection Bureau is namely, that all multiple location forms issued in the State of Illinois by companies within the State are sent to the State Bureau, whereas forms issued outside the state where‘ in the company is located, interstate forms are sent to the I. U. B., New York City, New York. The numerous forms are essen- tially the same, except that the dif- ferent Boards have jurisdiction over the business. Such action is of course required only by those companies supporting the I. U. B. and State Bureaus. TRIANGLE With the Snowball now but a memory the house is once more in order for the coming semester. With the finals looming in the distance activities will be taking a back seat for a few days. However as is usu- ally the custom, plans for an inter- semoster dance are under way. With our ping: pong table up now we have been practicing and are ready for some competition. Among- our recent visitors at the house was Don Fetterman, ’31, who at present is working for a radio company. ”the manly art at scllwdeiehsc W .. . . new oppfie’d l0 delep/loue cable Western Electric, manufacturing unit of the Bell System, now makes a tape armored telephone cable ready to meet all comers. When laid directly ' in the ground, this cable defends itself against moisture, grit, corrosion and other enemies. Besides the usual lead sheath, the tiny copper wires in the cable are guarded by Seven layers of paper, jute and steel taps—all saturated or covered with asphalt compound. in pioneering and producing improved appa— ratus, Western Electric contributes to the year ’round reliability of your Bell Telephone. BELL filiblhfih’l ...l WHY NOT TAKE A TRIP HOME BY TELEPHONE? 5.; —TONIGH‘T AT HALF-PAST EEGHT l