Page Four ab/NJOUJC’S l By James chson Flying: instruction in land grant colleges as a means of building up a reserve of aviators for national emergencies was advocated in Miami. Florida recently before air officials of forty states. Speaking of lie detectors, :1 love detector has been devised by a Uni- versity of lawn. professor. He has developed an "emotion meter” which he cays measures the capacity of one’s mood for love by the perspiration in the palm of the hand. 0 A giant microscope, weighing narly a ton and built on a new slow- motion focusing principle, was described recently at Hartford University. The focusing is accomplished by remote control. “The great mass of American girls, from the girls at the department store to the most elite, (me much more beautiful than girls of foreign coun— trws." Dr. Earl H. Bell, University of Nclrraxka anthropologist, is a loyal son. ————-o———~ Coeds at Marquette University are now receiving instructions on the proper technique of gum chewing from the dean of women. ——0— Board and room for one month . . . $14. That is what it costs stu- dents living in co—operative houses at West Texas State Teachers Col- lege. Their succeos is causing of“. cials to consider expanding the sys- tem next year. ——0— A doctor in San Francisco has been sued for the cost of his cduca~ tion by his parents. They put things on a business basis when he attained manhood, mortgaged the home to keep him in school, and kept a strict account of every cent they spent on him. Football in ihc most dlangcroun sport but it is more dangerous ta drive a car 10 the stadium than it is to play in tho gum/e, according to a professor at Yalc University. __._0_. Coeds are going "soft,” it appears. The latest thing in winter nightwear for them is not ritzy satin and lace, but pajamas of outing flannel that have hoods and feet attached. Wool ly snuggle puppies give the girls something to cuddle up to on cold winter nights. —-—o——~—- Getulio Vargas Jr., son of Brazil’s new notionaliat dictator, is a student at Johns Hopkins university and isn’t worried about the political strife in his homeland. ——o~——- The December 4 issue of the Stan- ford daily paper marked the last is- sue until January 4 issue. The jour- nalists were forced to cease their activities in order to bringr up their scholastic averages. ”~0— Because Vassar girls ”tried to make Princeton the butt of a joke,” the Nassau Lonely Hearts Club closed its doors last week. The club went to its demise with this modest remark: “In the past few weeks American wom- anhood has literally prostrated itself at the gates of Princeton. _0_ Following the procedure of the League of Nations, representatives of eight colleges recently conducted a model League meeting at the Uni. versity of Wisconsin. 0—— According to Elmer '1'. Thompson of the International House at the University of Pennsylvania, more than half of the foreign students at- tending colleges in the United States are enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania. o——-— Three hundred blind dates and how to find them was a ticklish prob- lem at Stanford university recently, when students from Stevens college, Missouri, were entertained with a dinnciudance. The Stevens girls were making their annual tour. ___o.____. A new song, entitled “Married by the Moon,” will be introduced shortly over the major networks by some of the country‘s outstanding orchestra leaders. It was written by a song writing tea/m one of whose members is a. utudcnt "I Lebanon Valley Col- loge. —o Freshmen at the University 01' Vermont are on the average younger, heavier and taller than the freshman class of 10 years ago. —0— Brown university and Pembroke college believe in preparing their students for “Life After College.” Vital facts concerning marriage are treated in a series of lectures; spon- sored by the two schools. -—0~——- Five University of Kansas stu» dents, charged with having disfigured property on the Kansas State College campus in violation of an inter- school pact, are being tried before the Student Supreme Court. —0— Better automobile driving is the aim of an auto course to be given at Louisiana State University. ”.0”... In a recent poll conducted at the University of Chicago, 63 per cent of the students voted in favor of re— maining in the Big; Ten Conference. ARMOUR TECH NEWS Freshmen Tests—- (Continued from page three) who makes nearly a perfect score. The examination is made difficult in order that these geniuses may be isolated from their fellow men. In order to make such a difficult ! examination fair to those taking it, the zero point, or point from which the scores are measured is taken, not at the maximum possible score, but at the mean score. This, in popular language, is the score which the average student makes. By this method not only is the score ob- tained independent of the difficulty of the examination, but it also env ables the exceptionally gifted stu- dent to “stretch" himself. Further— more each institution can determine its own zero point, and by so doing, ascertain how it compares with other institutions in the relative quality of students which it admits. One other constant besides the zero point needs to be determined and that is the unit in which the scores are to be measured. This unit, is usually taken to be some constant times the standard deviation. No ex- planation is made at this point of standard deviation since it is not easy to explain it adequately in a few simple words. However engi— neering students will meet this term when they come to courses in pre- cision of measurement, and of course it occurs continually in Mathematics 302, “The Mathematics of Statistics'. At Armour these scores, which are called derived scores, are so chosen that the mean is taken at 20 and the standard deviation at 4. The not re- sult of such a method of computing scores is that if the scores of all the students taking the examinations happen to form a normal probability curve for each examination, than all the curves for the live examinations will look exactly alike. Thus it is possible not only to compare one stu- dent with another on any examina- tion in terms of meaningful units, but it also is possible to compare the score which a student makes on one examination with the score which he makes on another. Any unusual di— vergence in scores can be inter- preted as an unusual strength or an unusual weakness either in some (Continued on page sir) THE STEAM SHOVEL But Jimmy “Fire Chief” Dunne claims that his shiny new Buick is a b-e-i ' 6. It's a beautiful bus all right, all right, but if we were buying a new c . . oh well! ’5 #1 Iii Student Resolutions for 1938-. B. W. SAMSON —— “To devote more time to my books." J. L. MASINW‘UI‘O use my hair.- tonic more regularly.” BILL O'BRlEN—"To bent Chi- cago next year and watch the blundes.” JACK O’CONNELL—“To pick up 0. little weight.” DICK VANDEKIEFTM"T0 give that nurse another chance." STAN HEALY—"To be social chairman of the next senior class." CLIFF CARSTENS ,_ "To get Heinlman in the Steam Shovel every week." HAL llElDMAN-“To gel: Cars- tons in the Steam Shovel wee’k." GEORGE PALKA—"To get Cars- tens and Heidman Shovel every week." GEORGE FROST—~"Noi to let the wimmon bother me." a: at It It. BUSH suggested that Prof. Marclon be given a bow of cigars for Christmas, just to sort of remember the bays when it comes time to make out the juice fliml. we every in the Steam It >1: Imagine A. ZAREM reading a book like “Pascal the. Prodigy"? He must have some ideas. . . . “UNCA JEH-WEI.” DANEK has a cloudy job for the mart fifty-two Friday nights. Jerry is working his way through school by taking cwrc of his brand now, ski/n11, late ’37 model niccc, “I wisht she wouldn't frown so when I diaper her,” stammers Uncle. “I don’t like the job either.” $1 0: During- the time and motion study class, which is a. model in informal- ity, PATLOGAN was lolling with his head on the sill of an open window, and, since it was very cold outside, Prof. Dutton asked him to sit else- where. “You’ll catch a cold." ”Oh, no! It’s all right, I’ve already got a cold.” Enlightened Unchinds Engineers Waste Lille; Quit Now, He Warns Since the Lard made the earth in six days, engineers although paid on the six-day basis, have continued to work seven days and nearly as many nights a week. An engineer can be identified by his trusting look, the re. signed expression on his i'ace, and a table of sines and consines carried near his heart. Through the ages, the engineer has continued to function, until now our technical schools yearly turn upward to 10,000 young hopefuls on the American public, each armed with a sliderule, two handbooks and a bad case of brain fatigue due to four years of unremitting toil. Some of these souls, after working incessant- ly as engineers, gain success by be coming advertising managers, at:- countants, salesmen, managing exec— utives. But, alas, some fail and be- come assistant Chief engineers, Chief Engineers, if complete failures, be- come Consulting Engineers. Our Government has had two form one engineers who gained fame by ceasing their chosen occupations and becoming Public Servants—George Washington and Herbert Hoov» er. An engineer with the tempera— ment of a Grand Opera star is an in- ventor and can be recognized 'by 1011;: hair and a flowing bow tie. There is only one engineer on rec- ord who has become rich. Hc re- cently died in Colorado and left a fortune of $50,000, which he amassed through unceasing‘ toil, superhuman perseverance, remarkable ingenuity and the death of an uncle who left him $49,999. Engineering is a good deal like golf. Those who are good drivers become managing; executives, tor those whose beat shots are brassies, the advertising profession offers a good opportunity in case of: a good lic. Those who approach well find salvation in salesmanship, and those good on the green become cashiers or investment brokers. THE DUF— FER REMAINS AN ENGINEER. Anonymous. Tuesday, January ll, B938 U or" Pitrshurgh to Centre Special (Grants Pittsburgh, Pa. - (ACP) —- The University of Pittsburgh is; “putting its house in~order." It has announced that it will cease giving special grants to football players. Jamos Hagan, director of athletics, said that future Pitt; athletics “should he conducted in accord with the best traditions of intercollegiate . . . prac- tice,” and that the university has set up an agency to “secure employment for students with athletic ability on the some basis such help is given to other students. . . .” After 1940, when present commit— ments expire, Pitt will reduce the schedule of its Panthers to eight games. These schedules will include none but major teams because, ac- cording to Hagan, “a football game is no longer a football game when teams as powerful as ours can run roughshod over teams of schools which under normal conditions do not attract an abundance of football ma- terial.” “If it (cessation of special grants) means weakening our team, then they will have to be weaker and there will be no criticism of our coaches as a result of defeats that may come out way,” Hagan said. Included in the rules of the new policy is one that no coach will be permitted to initiate a contract with any athlete or attend any game with the idea of ”scouting for athletes." Tom Watts Elected Pi Kama Archean oi” U. of 1. Chapter Tom Waits, formerly a member of tho Armour chapter 0'11 Pi Kappa Phi, was elected archon (president) of the Upsilon chapter of the fraternity at the University of Illinois last month. Watts and Orville Hampton started at Armour with the class of ’38 and were members of Pi Kappa Phi. After transferring to Illinois, both have been active in fraternity and campus activities. At present Hampton is a pledge to Mask and Bauble, the hon- orary society of the Illini Theater Guild. Watts has also worked with the players group and writes a column in the Daily Illini. hind miiliene or Americans ureter flamele day altar day-m making them the hmhififl§fi§hlhlidfii cigarette in harmonica. She w l. Ga. ..’ ,«Wfiw (Above) SCHOLAR- SHIP MAN James Dean, ’38. “The tough- est part of studying is sticking to it hour after hour,” he says. “I’ve learned that smoking MORE F05! GQSTLIER 1‘0th (Below) SALESGIRL Elsie Schumacher works in a department store. rush gets me worn out—— it’s me for a Camel, and I get a quick ‘lift.’ Prac- tically all of us girls in the store prefer Camels.” fiamelspends MELLMNS Camels are a matchless blend of finer— MORE EXPEN5WE roaacoos "Turkish and Doinestic AMOUS golfers like Gene Sarazen, Helen Hicks, Lawson Little, and Ralph Guldahl prefer Camels. They have found that costlier tobaccos do place Camels in a class apart. Listen to Ralph Guldahl, National Open Champion: "I’ve stuck to Camels for 10 years,” he says. “I smoke lots of Camels and they never jungle my nerves.” says: “When the my nerves." 530$! , . , (Above) S P O R T S WRITER Stuart Cam~ emu: “I;know many great athletes intimate- ly. It’s mighty impres- sive how the champions agree on smoking Cam- els. Camels don’t get on (Below) DRAFTSMAN B. T. lidiller: “I smoke oteadily — yet Camels never tire my taste. I often feel used up dur- ing long hours before the drawing board. I find Camels give me a ‘liit’ when I feel I need it." ' all» ..f‘~ v- r. WATCHMAKER I. C. Gorlcun says: “Camels? Say, every Camel I smoke seems to be tas- tier than the last: one.” litifi ”7%”an ii. idihl‘iill”