Page Four ARMOUR TECH NEWS Monday, September i9, I938 fir. @loienhurgeri dock at Armour Returns tram Princeton, NJ. Aster Year Away Armour‘s department of mathema. 'tics has been especially favored by the return of Dr. Rufus Oldenburger to the staff. Dr. Oldenburger, who came to Armour in 1934 and was, made assistant professor of mathe- matics in 1936, has been on a year’s leave of absence. When Dr. Oldenburger left Armour he went to the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, where he conducted intensive research on his “Theory of Polynomials," While at Princeton he published sev- eral papers on this theory. During the year he gave many lectures at Princeton and presented several pap- ers to the American Mathematical Society. Visits Europe At the end of the academic year at Princeton, Dr. Oldenburger went abroad. He spent the summer in France with the exception of a month's vacation during which time he visited southern France, Italy and Switzerland. When asked about the European situation, Dr. Oldenburger said he was hardly aware of it until he read the American newspapers on the way home. With regard to the peo- ple themselves Dr. Oldenburger said “The Europeans expect war, and since they expect it they do not wor- ry about it. They will worry about it when it comes.” Comparing the newspapers of the various countries Dr. Oldenburgerl noticed that the German newspapers} contain more propaganda than do the; papers of the other countries. The papers in Italy are fairly accurate on most accounts but they never re-l port any insurgent losses and theyi are always quick to give full accounts l of Loyalist losses. Cordell Hull’s, speech was printed verbatim in sev-f era] Italian newspapers, but the para- 1 graph on totalitarianism was omitted. ”Italy seems to be making a definite bid for American friendship," con— tinued Professor Oldenburger. Research Work in Paris In Paris where Dr. Oldenburger continued his research, he was re‘ ceived by Professors Frechet, Well, and Chevally with whom he was con— tinually associated. Dr. Oldenburgor found that although there is little mathematical activity in France to- day compared to that found in the United States, it is of a very high calibre. During his stay in Paris Dr. Oldenburger spoke at the Institute Poincare which is part of the Sor- bonnc University. While in New York after his re- turn from France Dr. Oldenburgcr presented a paper at the semicentem nial meetings of the American Math~ ematical Society. At one of the meet- ings, R. L. Moore, president of the organization, said: “Although Amer- ican Mathematics is rapidly ap- proaching a golden age of productiv- ity it has not yet reached the great. ness of the golden age of France and Germany of the last century." Dr. Oldenburger insists he is glad to be back at Armour. With regard to the rapid strides to the front that Armour has made during- the past year, Dr. Oldenburger said: “Ar- mour Institute is definitely in the class of the best engineering schools in the country.” SCHOLARSHWS— (Continued from page one) graduating seniors of June, 1938 made application for and took the competitive examination. Two hun— dred and forty»nine of these applied for the regular freshman scholarship and took the written examination at the Institute in Chicago on Saturday morning, May 21, from 9 until 12 o’clock. At the same time, fifteen stu— dents were taking the examination in various points throughout the United States under the supervision of the principal of the candidate’s high school. In addition to these two hundred and sixty—four candidates who had applied for the regular one year freshman scholarship, an additional fifty-four were taking the examinau tion for the annual fire protection engineering: four year scholarship. The fire protection engineering: schol- arship for a period of four years isl offered by a group of Insurance Com-l panics and awarded by a committee; of which Mr. R. M. Beckwith of thel Western Actuarial Bureau is chair—i , man. ' REMODELING— (Continued from page one) Building;p through the front entrance. By entering the front entrance and descending a few stairs the student will find himself in a spacious lobby from which the Dining Hall, either of the two smaller dining rooms or the Book Store are readily accessible. The lobby also connects by direct passage- way to the new entrance to the Mis— sion Building from Federal Street and to the east tower on the other side of the building. A Check Room will serve the students from this cen- tral lobby. The Men’s Toilet is also located on the groom floor. Two tel- ephone booths are conveniently lo- cated near the lobby. The old en~ trance to the ground floor from the south side of the building is being abolished. From the ground floor lobby the students can reach the second floor lobby by the winding stairs which will be completely modernized. The arrangement of the rooms on this floor is practically the same except for the larger auditorium which may be more properly called the Student Hall. The former class room area underneath the balcony is now a part of the Student Hall which becomes a much larger rectangular room. A single floor level prevails throulrhout the student hall area. Only slight changes will be made in the stage. The balcony will remain the same ex— cept for painting. All walls in the, Student Hall will he completely rc- decoraterf. There will be no perma» nent seats in the Student Hall; chairs will be moved into place when neces- sary. The hall as well as the entire building will be heated by a new heating system and completely re. lighted. A unique feature of the il- lumination in the Student Hall will be an indirectly lighted plaque hanging: from the ceiling to spill light by re— flection to all parts of the balcony. Diffused lighting will also light the floor area underneath the plaque. The area underneath the balcony will have indirect illumination. Under each pair of lights there will be a 4 foot by 12 foot table with 10 or 12 chairs to a table. There will be five of these tables on each side of the room. The .tablcs can be used for studying: pur- poses. ltooms A and B in Mission Build- ing are being converted into Student Meeting 'Rooms. All blackboards have been removed. The ceilings and walls will be painted, a new linoleum floor laid, and draperies hung on all win~ dows. The rooms are not being con- sidered for use as class rooms. Meet- ings will be scheduled in these rooms for any student group that will make the proper arrangements for their use with student appointed officers/A student office equipped with telephone service will serve as the student ad ministration office, The office just off the foyer connects the Student Hall with the lobby to the winding stairs. 0n the other side of the foyer there is being constructed a women’s rest room. The meeting rooms and the Student Hall can be reached by the tower stairs on either side of the building. The Student Lounge will be located in the former Civil Drafting Room on l the third floor. The room is being re- decorated, the wall: and ceilings will be repainted, and the windows will be draped. The floor will be of hard- ,wood and refinished. Sofas, occasional lchairs, lamps, in radio, card tables, occasional rugs will leave nothing [in L's. :1 mm , m... to 0.3 ’ l’uhllic fipeaklng Class Soon Mr. M. G. Christopherson, a mem- ber of the English department, will give a short course in Public Speak— ing: The course is offered as an elective to juniors and seniors. Students interested in this course should contact Mr. Christophersen so that a schedule can be arranged dur— ing this week. The time selected will depend upon the open periods of the upperclassmen interested in the course. The degre of student enthusiasm for the lounge indicates that this room may become the most popular of the building. There you have it! The Mission Building is now becoming a student 2 building for, of, and by the students. 1 luminary» (Continued from page two) ed in the latter part of this month. Miss Steele, the head librarian, said, in relation to the changes: “With the new stacks at our disposal, we expect to improve our service to the student body because of the con- venience of this new compact ar— rangement. It is also hoped that with the opening of new study rooms the library will be used for what it was originally intendedfithat is, chiefly as a reading and reference room." Books may be secured from the library upon presentation of the library card. All new students are urged to present their tuition receipts at the library desk as soon as pos- \ sible and secure their library cards.V 9" I 3 Law Dilated Upperciassmen by Larkin The social science department, with Dr. John D. Larkin, associate pro- fessor of political science, as instruc- tor, will offer this semester an elective in the Elements of Commercial Law. This course will stress contract essen— phasis tions. The concluding weeks of the semes- ter will be devoted, according to Dr. liarkin, to a brief consideration of forms of business organizations— partnerships, trusts, and corpora~ tions. This course will be open to juniors and seniors only. lit may be, elected either at 10:30 and 11:30, Tuesdays and Thursdays. upon engineering specifica- GREET FRESHMEN— (Continued from page one) the freshmen that, the Dean and in~ structors are their friends and that they should not hestitate to talk over matters with them if trouble devel- ops. Each freshman has a faculty and a student adviser that will assist him throughout his first year. Dr. McNamara talked about the importance of health. He also cm- phasized the fact that all freshmen must be vaccinnatcd against small pox a rule of the Institute, these certifi— cates to be submitted at the earlist possible time—a dead—line to be set later. Following- this general assembly the freshmen adjourned to various assigned rooms about the Institute, where they discussed school life at Armour Tech with their respective student advisers. tials and principles with some cm“ Ml , Over the summer. Snow White has i melted down to something but like the Flat Foot Floogie, but the song. “Ileigh ho, Heigh ho, Oll’ to Work We Go” is still your tune, my lads. Gander at your new sked—doodl-leew as we say back in our sand dunes. In the Same rural vein there grocer—- “the best piclcin’ is on the top branches,”~—and our new tree is very high with plenty of climbing room. Dawn to earth, again. we have . . . DANFORTH book from the best war/sing vacation one could have; playing an the liner Paris. (Cogimtc on his word ”plat. ' 9”) We (Joel him the glamour boy tic. Kliphawlt has gone faculty/i811 and raised a. mans- taohc to convince his Ulcer North Park students that he is THE pro- fessor. More power to him; may it grow handlebars, modern ones, all of stainless steel. Wouldn't he look polished? As we bid the Beaux Arts system goodbye don’t you think that the ap- proaching summer problem judgment ought to be in the nature of a lion voyage gift? I wonder if Otto Tee- [ran would agree? Gather ye Medals while ye may. Our new quarters for the juniors and seniors down in the art school should do just what the lads have been hopinpr for. Keeping the underclassmen upstairs has its points too. Advice 0 he freshmen Am: Read June Provine’s column in the Tribune to discover where you don‘t go to school. Enough! ART GUM. Chesterfield Time on Your Radio PAUL WHiTEMAm Every H’cdncsday Evening , .4” C. B. S. Stations PAUL DOUGLAS Daily Sports Program 51 Leading N. B. C. Stations to. every day who cigarette. “with filth " WWWMW, . . . and with more smelter/“s find in Chester- field’s refreshing wildness and bet- ter taste just What they want in a It takes good things to mate a good product. That’s why we use the best ingredients a cigarette can have wmz'l’d ripe tobaccos and pure cigarette paperwto mate Chester:- field the cigarette that srnoters say is milder and bettcrutasting. liltfifigil it. tor miiiious Copyrigh: i938. {morn \ Al‘xflm Tomaso Co.