Page Four M_m(t”7‘/77JOU.5‘ES 4:. 3. By T. H. Walls and I“. .1. Illulr'meich t l A Harvard zooloirist risked his life to enter his burning home the other day. lie was after a set of corrected exam papers. Get that corrected part. At Syracuse university the (ireck letter houses turn landscape architects uilh ice statue~. Subjects are unlimited. Anything to keep the pledge busy. Students at Martha Berry college in Georgia may dance only Waltzes and quznlrillcs. have dates of only an hour and a half duration on Sunday, may not have radios in their rooms nor enter into competitive athletics with other schools. Ah me——-wild college life, etc. .lustiliable, murder # the professor who said that if he wasn't at his eight o'clock class he would be attending a teachers' meeting. The original 13; colonies might have used as a national anthem a recent favorite—w“A Little Bit Independent." Master of 555 tongues, Prof. Watson Kirk Connel] of Wesley College, Winnepea‘, says, “Basque is the most learning the language of physics. One of the professors at K. U. spent a whole morning lecturing to one of his class ‘ on the evils of cheating, with reference to cribbing in quizzes. The professor urged that the students keep the matter of quiz taking on a “friendly" basis, and as friend to friend don’t cheat. The students think this a good idea as long as the professor don’t forget their part of the “friendship" and pull “shot~g‘uns" on the fellow loving,r students. Here is a note of interest. to chem- icals from the Kentucky Kernel: “Water has been discovered to exist in many forms." 'I‘sk! 'l‘skl Michigan‘s Collector of Internal Revenue has tied up the University of Michigan’s football funds because he says they haven‘t paid $22,000 in taxes on general admissions. A permanent national youth pro. grain to replace NYA is provided for in a hill now before Congress. The peculiarities of New England speech are gradually being lost, say Harvard authorities. Even the Har. vard accent is no long-er sacred. Miami Univcrs claims the U. S.'s busiest man. lie is a junior car— rying ‘30 study hours a week and auditing: one course. To support him. self he works 50 hours a month on NYA, is an assistant in the physics department, grades papers for the math department, and works from seven to midnight every day in the office of a taxi company. ‘< (in the back of salary checks re~ ceivcd by the faculty at the Univer— sity of Illinois appear the following directions: “If endorsement is made by mark (X) it must be witnessed by two persons who can write. giving their place of residence." The Dartmouth, commenting" on the fact that West Point no longer will have girl dancing instructors for the cadets because the young ladies disturb the equilibrium of the boys, remarks that army people have an annoying habit of using technical terms for just about everything. —~ (A. C. P.) Rochester, Minniml‘wo Hundred Years in the White House" or “My Career as Three Presidents" was the subject of a lecture delivered to 79 University of Minnesota students during: their tour through the insane asylum at Rochester. The speaker, a well-dressed, pleasant-spoken Ne- gro, eagerly told the visitors his ex- periences as Monroe, Johnson, and Theodore Roosevelt. Stand up and cheer! A Columbia professor has just announced that spinach has been overly glorified as a vitamin source. Women make better lawyers than men. "according to every comparative measurement of those characteristicsi of lawyers studied by the human en-1 ditlicult language in the world." Try gineering laboratory of Stevens In— stitute. In the English classes, the time of the freshmen is spent in learning how to take notes in lectures on out— side reading books; this from our neighbor, Wright Junior College. A student at an eastern college received an “A” on a last minute composition, with a note to see the professor. The professor asked the student if he thought the paper was worth an “A”. The student modestly replied that he had only expected a “B”. To which the professor retorted that when he had written the theme l5 years ago he thought that it was worth an “A" and that he was glad to see it get its due recognition at last. Woman can keep a secret as well as men, but it takes more of them to do it. Soon after the brilliant Mardi Gras celebration. the students at Louisiana Tech held their fifth Mardi Gras ball. A chosen king and queen led the procession. The danc- ing: lasted from 7:30 p. in. (man, what night hawks) until 11:30 p. m. The Purdue Exponent sends MH llIt’ following riou‘: A cdllcge poprr is u grcul invention." The college gets all the fame; The prinlcr gets all the money And the stall gets all 1hr blame. The University of Vermont pre- sents a book on etiquette to every male student. Of course we students of Armour are perfect gentlemen. Dr. llixon Ryan Fox of Union col» lege, in speaking on the passing of the religious collegian, said, “The professor or the student who is not» ably pious is an exception, somewhat embarrassed by a prevalent sus- picion of enfeeblcd intellect.” There aren’t any Monday classes at Western College. Hold on a min— ute. You can’t go there! It’s a school for women only. Neckties in class are absolutely taboo at Stanford University. The “Daily Kansan” reports from a local tavern that a fellow asked a co-ed if she wanted a Pale, To which she replied, “No, I can’t drink that much." i t i According to the Industrial (Tol- leean of South Dakota State (Tol- lege, the extreme cold forced the eolleee to close for two weeks. They i didn‘t have enough coal and because i of the lance drifts. they couldn‘t get i more. The first few nights were fine ‘ eveiyone attended the local dance lhall and celebrated. The effect wore ! oil however and before the first week was up the students had gone home or actually did some studying. To make up for this lost time final exams and all college activities were called oil by the board. ARMOUR TECH NEWS llfillzysics Lecture fines Amory Whom Professor Dreams Terrific Dream By R. il’eissmmi “Today, gentlemen, we take up the subject of heat and radiation. Our first experiment will show that heat can not be ilansmittcd through a non-conductor. I have here a pretzel, with the salt removed by a process of electrolytic conduction. It is essential that we remove the salt, as, unless we do this, the pret» zel molecules wili get thirsty and leave the field of action to get a drink of water, thus introducing an error in our experiment. Kenneth, will you get the pretzel? Now, class, observe carefully the action of the knot in the center. As we place it in the focus of this electric heater, the mono-atomic reaction causes an adiabatic eutectic point which makes the pretzel molecules sleepy. This induces yawning and stretching in~ side the pretzel, and causes the knot to untie itself. Now watch carefully. llmmm! Well, I see that it doesn’t work eactly as it should. The real. son for its failure is that the super~ induced highconsupertistiolated high frequency slow oscillating hydrostatic electric vibrations pro- mote a state of semi-inactivity oi" the molecules, but under the proper conditions the knot will untie itself in the manner which I have cribed.” des» Tell Me Later “In our next experiment we have a copper tube, one end of which is placed in a vat of liquid air, while the other end is in a calorimeter. What's that, Kenneth? Tell me about it later, I’m busy now! Now to continue, observe that we have three valves, located at different points on the tube. New I press the first valve down and the music goes down and around; da. do whoooa whoa ho, and it comes out BIESEL Papal/fl RlTlf BRA WS INTEREST TO HIS lNl/ENTOR Editor’s note: The followtuy was falcon from “Diesel, the Modern I‘owcr," published by the rcscurch department of the General Motors (.‘oi'pmut'iom The police, the newspapers, and the public have long ago ceased to be in- terested in the fate of Dr. Diesel, who mysteriously disappeared in the fall of 1913. The present dramatic performances of the large Diesel en- gine, which is playing such an im— portant part in railroad, marine and power plant development, makes the story back of the early work on this engine again of interest. Studied Under you Linda Rudolph Diesel was born in 1858 of German parents living: in Paris. He went to school in Paris until the war of 1870 between Germany and France forced his family to move to England. When he was old enough, he went to the Munich Technical College, where he graduated as an engineer when he was twenty-one. While attending college, he had as his professor in thermodynamics the famous von Linde, the first man to liquefy air. Listening to yon Linde's description of the low efficiency of the steam engine, he determined to develop a better engine. After provv in},r mathematically that such an en, mine was practical, he built the first kengrine in 1892 and was almost killed ‘when he tried to start it. l’iut bv , 1897 he had constructed the first suc- icessful Diesel engine and immediate-I i. y attracted world—wide attention. l l Called to England Before War 1 Unlike many inventors, Dr. Diesel ‘gained a fortune from his engin Everywhere he went, he was honored and acclaimed. In the spring of 1912! he visited the United States and‘ gave a paper on the Diesel engine-l before the American Society ofi Mechanical Engineers. Among otheil lthings, he said, “The Diesel engineL thus doubled the resources of man! kind as regards power production.‘ and has made new and hitherto un. utilized products of nature available: for motor power.” He finished bv' saying, “And I must call to your; mind the fact that nowhere in the: world are the possibilities for this prime. mover as great as in thisl correct? This sailor claimed that Dr , ( country.” When he returned to Europe, he here. No Kenneth! Not now. Tell me later, I’m busy! Whatever it don’t bother me about; it until after class. As I was saying: before I was interrupted by Kenneth a mo— ment aeo, 1 press the first valve down, and the cold liquid air rushes in, causing the tube to contract by an infinitesimal amount. This con- traction squeezes a small quantity of heat out of the, tube, causing. the temperature to drop. The lowering of temperature produces a second contraction, which squeezes more heat out of the tube, causing the temperature to drop again. This process continues until the tube van- ishes. Now watch carefully—~l’lease Kenneth, don‘t interrupt! If you have anything to say, tell me later. Now, as l was saying, watch the tube carefully as I press the valve down. Hmmml That’s odd, it's ex~ panding- instead of contracting. Maybe I pressed the Wrong: valve down. Well, we‘ll have to let it go now, and go on to the next; experi- ment. If any of you care to, you can come up after class and see how this experiment works.“ is, Ninety-six Screens! “For our next experiments—I told you not to bother me now, Kenneth, —-for our next experiment we have this numbered dial with a spinning pointer. The pointer is connected to u spherou‘adio—vacum holometer through 11 set of e911 9. As we heat this joint of two wires. the thermoelectric force will be transformed into kinetic energy, large causing the pointer to spin. No. not now, Kenneth, tell me later. Now watch closely. What? It’s really working! Something; must have gone wrone’! Later, Kenneth. laterl It‘s still spinning. Now it’s slowing: down, due to cooling of the joint. I guess some one shut the radiators oil. There, it’s stopped! Number ninetyrsiXA—Screenoll ()h, pardon me. Don't bother me liens neth! What's that you said? To- day is Thursday? There‘s no class here now‘.’ (let me a glass of water, Kenneth, I feel faint! German Diesel engine manufactur- ers. In the fall of 1013, only a few months before the beginning of the Great War, he was called to Eng-- land to attend an important meeting of English manufacturers. On September 29, 1913, Dr. Diesel boarded the cross~channel steamer Dresden, at Antwerp, bound for Lon— don. It was a clear evening and the water was calm. He had many im- portant papers with him and was in good health and at the height of his success. Diesel engines were being used more and more. They had made the submarine possible. As far as. is known, he strolled around the deck in the early evening and then retired to his cabin. When the Dresden (locked the next morning Dr. Iliesel was missing with all his important documents, His bed had not been slept in and no one had seen him during the night; pass— engers and crew could give no in- formation. Conflicting Reports At first his disappearance was called suicide. It is said, however, that the next day his family received a telegram saying he was safe in London, signed with his name. A cheek~up showed the telegram had been sent from Geneva. Several weeks later a body was recovered which was partially identified as Dr, Dicscl’s by the gold—rimmed glasses which were found upon it. It is: almost a quarter of a century since the fall night of 1913 when Dr Diesel disappeared. Many stories have been printed but none can be verified. Was it suicide, as first re» ported, or did he accidently fall ofl’ the boat? Or did he deliberately run away, as the Munich newspaper said when it printed a story of his disap- pearance? The story said that Dr Diesel had been seen leaving» the ship, dressed as a member of the crew. He had gone to Canada. where he was hiding on a ranch. Or was the story given by a former member of a German submarine crew in 1917‘ Diesel had been pushed overboard be~ . cause he knew too much about the‘ , was again busy with the English and ‘ new submarines. t Tuesday, March l0, I936 t liAthllldSmtll’h WITH THIS ISSUE ol' the Armour Tech News, we inaugurate a new column, believing; that it will fill an literary expression. In it, from week outstanding need for an outlet of to week. we intend to include con- tributions of original short-short stories, poems, humor, book reviews, etc. as well as quotations from various other sources. in short, we wish to pre- sent in one department, a literary potpourri as interesting- and diversified as we can possibly make it. It has been said that the student 0 l" engineering: is uniquely indifferent concerning matters unrelated to technology. Because of our disbelief in we will appreciate it. v. .t it. POETRY AND SONG have ever been a dominating,r influence upon the morals and habits of the people. Who was it that sold “Lcl me write the songs of u, milieu, 11ml 1 care not ill/L!) writes their lows?" In former days it was the custom to pledge in verse, undying}, everlast— ine.‘ love. Examples are for too num- erous and well known to be here quoted. However. with the advent of a new type of love poetry, came also a new code of affection exhibiting" ephemeral qualities hitherto consid- ered unethical. Instead of the “Will you love me forever-“When my hair turned to gray—Jon Anderson my jo—Silvcr threads among: the. gold” obsession, modern youth is content only to ask. “Do you love me'.’”, dia— regarding, and sometimes even flaunt- ine the time element. Witness Edna St. Vincent Millay’s frank poem: “I shrill forget you dear, So nirllcc the meal. of this your It'lllr presently. my day, Your little mom/i, your li/fle half 1: new. Ere l forpcl, or die, 01' more (l’lllltif, And we ”re (lame forever; by and (17/ I shall forget you, as I said, [ml "new, If you onlrcrti me with. pom" low-limit lie I shall profcsl you will: my favorite new. I would. indeed that low ll'r’l"('llll1.{](‘l‘< lived, rind oat/1H ttw‘c Hal .vo lll'lf/ll' (is the” are, [inf so it in, («ml nature has l'tlilll‘l27(’ll 'I'o nlrrlm/le on wit/Ion! u ln‘culr Hum for l/I'lu'llir'r or not we find wlml we lll'l’ that statement, we give, you this column, made up of your own contribu- tions. Whether or notit will be continued depends entirely upon your reac— tions, and if you will take a moment oil‘ and let us hear a few opinions, seeking ls idle, biologically speaking.” we “PlDGlN ENGLISH, a corruption of English and Portugese tortured into Chinese idioms suited to the exigencies of the average Chinese to whom grammatical English is a phonetic and linguistic impossibility," has contributed to our supply of humor. An example is the earnest translation of Longfellow‘s “Excel- sior,” which we quote in part: “Tlml. [Lighter lime begin shoot-hop, One young man walker, no can stop» Malcee colo/ Mil/rec iccc! l-Ic cal/1] that flog wid chop so 'nicco,‘ ‘Topsido Gulch.” IV Ho to mac/Lee sully, one. piece ope Loolc see slta.1-po~—.~:o—allo some my, Ho tallwe larger, fall/ace allow], 'I'oo mite/Inc culle~nllo some gong—— ‘Topeido Gulch." m u: m Ola 1mm, lalltcc. No can wollccv‘. [limelu/ lain havoc-mildly darker, He!) got water, loo 111.1,“:le wide! Mus/rec] mus nmntohce go topside--~ ‘To side Gala/1.” MORAL loo ’Illtll'lll’t' lung/Ito! who! for sing? I link you no savvy what tingl’ S’posc you no Ii'long clcbcr inside, More lll'lf(’l‘ you go tool/rec topside. ‘Topsidc luluh.” =l= Ill You .1. WE WILL BE. PLEASE!) to pub- lish contributions of original or quoted short—short stories, poems. essays, book reviews, movie reviews, and other compositions which will be of interest to our readers. R. W. ENROLLMENT FOR SECDND SEMESTER 1935—4936 0" is” 'n i- i— i if g '2") a i a :2 :1 o “L. Mechanicals ........ l 30 42 52 5 130 Electricals ..... 37 36 27 7 108 Eiviis .............. 1 30 34 18 6 89 Chemicals . ...... 3 33 39 50 4 ‘ Ft; Protect. ........ 13 14 12 fl" # Architects .7 ........ 2 21 9 13 19 Science ............ 2 6 1 9 Engineering; and M» Science ......... 191 191 with? 78‘0” "”175" '"ZIUTWii—imisé" in Mechanical 38 students in ‘A’ Group, (Eb—operative Course neering. Engi