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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

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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).

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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.

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People who do not, believe in uniting should who a
lesson from the banana. which gets skinned as 300'». as it
leaves the bunch.

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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.
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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.

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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?

 

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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.

 

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.. . . 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

 

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