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Echool boomers
Free iviovles In
times Eaturdoys

Bringing the romance of science
and engineering to the living screen,
Armour Tech will inaugurate, on
April First, a series of movies to he
held each Saturday afternoon at two
o’clock in the student union auditor-
ium. Films will last from an hour to
an hour and a half.

Complete cooperation from several
large industrial firms has allowed
three or four films to be secured for
each program. The main purpose of
these movies is to permit high school
seniors to become better acquainted
with the Institute. For this reason
programs have been sent to all of the
Chicago high schools. However, any
who are interested are welcome to
attend.

Subjects Cover Many Fields

Promising an interesting variety of
topics, the programs for April have
already been made out. On scbedule
for April First are four pictures—
“Wonderworld of Chemistry," depict-
ing' the daily phenomena of the test
tube; “Gems of the Rockies," a
panorama of the national mountain
highways; “We Drivers," vita] data
on safe driving; and the “Fourth
Kingdom."

On April Eighth will appear a pic:
turo on automobile engines entitled
“Where Mileage Begins”; “Where
Champions Meet," a fishing,r picture;
and an Underwriters Lab films show-
ing the various tests and experiments
performed to reduce fire hazards.
“Chilled (‘ar Wheels,” a new type of
railroad car on which the rims are
frozen will be one of the films
presented on April Fifteenth. The
other two shown on that date will be
“Safety's Champion," featuring Ab
Jenkin . one of the world's ace racing;'
and “Algonquin Waters”,
a fishing picture.

On April Twenty-second Armour
will run “Flow," a film dealing with
valves to control liquids; “Safeguard
im: the Specchways," methods of
testing telephone lines; and “Diesel—
thc Modern Power,” new develop-
ments: in Diesel engineering. Climax-
incr the April programs will be four
interesting; films on the Twenty-ninth.

 

 

They are “Science Save the Surfaeeffl
the story of paints and varnishes; .

lContinIch on page six)

 

Cystic Features
Photo Section

During the first week of June, this
year‘s Cycle will be distributed. Sevv
eral di iculties have prevented the
presentation of the annual at the
usual “ninth—Junior Week. One of
the problems was that of obtaining
individual pictures of the members
of fraternities. Another was the in
definiteness of the name of this year’s
Cycle. The alternate name suggest»
ed was the Techhawk. These prob-
lems have held up the printing of
many of the manuscripts, and also the
final settlements of cover contracts,
etc.

Innovations this year will be an
enlargened snapshot section, and lots
of two-color effects. Daniel Jacob-
son has worked hard to increase the
number of pictures and also to re»
duce the quantity of manuscripts.

The pictures of the classes are ar-
ranged with that of the class officers
first, followed by a picture of an
event which was typical of the class
during the past year. This will be.
followed by the pictures of the body
of the class.

Group sports photographs have
been taken from an unusual angle,
giving unaccustomed depth to them.
The portions devoted to the publica-
tions contain photographic reductions
of recent copies. These features
count for the fact that the Cycle will
be the largest issue so far published.

The staff has been welcoming sug-
gestions made by the students, and
any person with a definite and well
thought out plan for possible int-
provement will find a ready audi-
ence. The office of the staff is lo-
cated in the rear part of the alumni
offices.

 

 

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football
shot put
lhe l6
leer 6%
toss and

log the

Elmer Hackney. Kansas Slate

on his: third throw. better-

3 feet 5% inches.

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Walter Mehl. Wiscons
sin's captain and Big
Ten to i | e champion,
comes home first in the
university two mi|e re~
lay. Mehl also was via--
unions in the open
mile.

star. ridicules the
record by throwing
pound weight 5i
inches on his first
5! ice! 9% inches

former record by

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lid Thistlefhwnire, North—
woslorn's star pole vauloar,
who set .1 new Armour
Relay mark in his specialty.
His l3 loot INA inches
surpassed Padwav's record
by 1% inches.

'tesy of the Chicago Sunday Tribune)

 

All". to be Most
At Second Annual"
Power Conference

Design of? Small Plants
To be Discussed

 

Chicago‘s. famous Palmer House
will be the Site of the second annual
Midwest Power Conference sponsored
by Armour Institute of Technology on
April 5, ii, and 7. Last year’s con»
ference dIrcctor, Dean Grinter, will
head the conference uuain this year.
Cooperating with Armour Institute
will be seven other colleges in this
vicinity. These are: Iowa State. (Iolv
loge, Purdue University, University
of Illinois, Iowa State University,
Michigan State College, and the
University of W‘consin.

Twenty-five topics covering various
pha‘es of potwr engineering will be
disc seed at the conference in an efv
fort to make the program as complete
in its scope as possible. Steam, diesel,
electric, and hydraulic power will be
the principle topics discussed, and
special papers will he presented on
them. The results obtained by L. W.
Wallace of Crane Co. in laboratory
researches will form the basis for a
discussion of new spheres of indusr
trial and commercial applications and
methods.

To Tour Research Lab

The A.S.M.E. and A.I.E.E. will
cooperate with the Conference in two
special luncheons Wednesday and
Thursday of the Conference week. On
Friday an inspection trip of the
Armour Institute, Research Lab—
oratories will be made. This will be
followed by a visit and luncheon in
the Crane Co. plant.

Mr. F. Elwell of the Buick Motor
Division of General Motors Co. and
Mr. G. A. Gai’fert of Sargent & Lundy
Co. will present a paper on the design
and application of small power plants.
Discussion will follow this paper. The
social aspects of diesel power will be
presented by Mr. L. H. Morrison,
editor of “Diesel Power,” and the
technical aspects of diesel power will
be covered by Mr. C. G. A. Rosen of
the Caterpillar Tractor Co.

(Cnntimmd on page six)

 

  

Armour Alumnus
Wins More Award

 

l Bruce A. Young, ME. ’13, has
i been awarded a Carnegie Hero Med-
1a]. He is one of two Chicagoans
3who have received this award for
risking their lives to save others from
drowning. The medal is awarded to
those who perform outstanding feats
of heroism at the risk of their own
lives.

While passing through Douglas
Park on March 5, 1938, Mr. Young
saw two small boys break through
thin ice on the lagoon. They were
about 90 feet from shore and in
about 10 feet of water. He had to
swim through an open channel to
rescue the boys, Sidney Richer and
Ezra Aranoff, ages 8 to II respec-
tively. After diving for one of the
boys, he held them both with one
hand and swam to shallow water.

Mr. Young is now Assistant Super-
intendent and Chief Engineer at the
printing plant of R. R. Donnelley and
Sons of Chicago. He is a member of
Delta Tau Delta.

New Lab Acquired
tor Sewage Study

 

Armour Institute has acquired a
new laboratory to be used by students
of the day and evening classes en-
gaged in the study of sewerage treat—
ment and water purification. Included
in the equipment of the laboratory is
an “iron filter” capable of purifyingr
enough water for a town of from 600
to 800 people. This system is also
used for removing the dissolved
oxygen from the water.

Attending the evening classes are
engineers who represent some of the
largest industrial plants of the city.
It is the purpose of these classes to
train the men so that they will be able
to treat the pointed water in such a
manner that if it enters the lake it
will not affect the drinking water.

Dr. Mohlan, Chief Sanitary Chem-
ist of Chicago, is the instructor of
this course. He is also the editor of
the journal entitled "Sewerage
l Work.”

 

"iaraaphi gives

Talk on Earth
Measure iii/uric

 

“Earth—pressure Theories" was the
title of a lecture given before the
graduate division by Dr. Karl Von

’l‘eI'zag‘hi last Tuesday evening,
March 14, in (Thapin Hall. Some of
the more prominent men of cursi-

neeriniz were in attendance as well
all members of llr. I’l-ck's ad-
vaced soil—mechanics cla s.

as

 

According: to Dr. Terzaghi there
are two fundamental earth pressure
theoric wthe empirical theory and
the sci ntiiic theory. The empirical
theory concerns retainintr walls,
foundations, and embankments and
was developed by Coulomb in 1780.
Coulomb was an army engineer at
the time and most of his data was
developed primarily from his field
obsowations.

The scientific theory was devel«
oped by Rankine in 1850 to get rid
of an inconsistency in Coulomb’s
work. Coulomb, it is said, did not
take into account the fundamental
equilibrium equation that the sum-
mation of moments about any point
are equal to zero. Rankine also de-
veloped a mathematical treatise on
the same subject.

During later years a number of
simplifications were made. The work
of Professor Karmin generalized
Rankine’s theory. From a. study of
these data Dr. Terzaxrhi made two
important conclusions~one, that
Coulomb‘s theory for active earth
pressures was only correct for pram
tical engineering- purpose.- two, that

modification was necessary for
passive earth pressures.

 

Dr. Terzag‘hi is consulting~ engineer
for the Chicago subway. He was a
guest of the graduate school and,
with the aid of the aforementioned
theories, lectured at length about the
design of high retaining walls, loca-
tion of tunnels in hillsides, and the
design of bulkheads. Dr. Terzaghi,
who is now with M. I. ’I‘.. recently
made the headlines in the daily pa~
pei‘s for his soil testing work in loop

 

area.

Wednesday. March 22. “’39

hour Records Bro

I‘iackncy, “detaches Shot
that Mark

Record breakers have had their
nights but seldom have they enjoyed
such disregard for limits as they did
last Saturay evening at the Eleventh
Annual Armour Tech Relays. In all,
four records were broken while a
fifth mark had two names added to
its list of holders.

The first mark to hit the sidelines
was the shotput which went asunder
before the, spectators had had time to

be seated. llere Elmer Hackney,
football star from Kansas State
University, threw the 16 pound

weight 51 feet 6%, inches on his first
effort in the qualifying round. This
feat not only broke the former record
of 48 feet 4 inches but was itself bet-
ter-ed when Hackney tried a third
time. Fifty-one feet, nine and one-
quarter inches were traversed before
the weight hit the ground for what
was the longest toss made by any
athlete in competition this year. It
also hettered by 7/8 of an inch the
Big: Ten indoor record set last week
by Watson of Michigan.

Kauffmnn, Shelton Tic Record

While Hackney was smashinpr the
shot put record, two sprinters were
busily engaged in an effort to lower
the minimum time for the 70-yard
dash. In his semi-final hont, Kauiii-
man, Wiscnsin’s star sprinter, planted
his name alongside that of Grieve of
Illinois, Johnson of Illinois State Nor-

(Cominucd on page three)

Wfidfl proposal

Formation of the. much discussed
Armour branch of the Western So-
ciety of Engineers has taken a con-
cretc form, following a meeting held
last week in the Student Union. Two
representatives from each Armour
engineering- society formed a com-
mittee to discuss .he problems which
have harassed the organization in its
early attempts to organize.

Revising- ol' the bylaws occupied
the major portion of the meeting,
for this raised much controversy in
Various departments. Each section
of the by-laws was taken up scpa~
rntcly and restated to the satisfac
tion of all.

One of the important objections
concerned the. article providing for
unlimited assessments on members
of the society. This article
changed to provide for an annual
payment of $2.50 per organization.
The fee will qualify all members of
each society to full membership in
the Armour Branch of Western So-
ciety of Engineers. Freshman stu-
dents are excluded from formal mem»
bership in the branch.

A board of managers composed of
two members from each of the com-
ponent organizations will govern the
society and elect from its body a
staff of officers to preside over the
affairs brought before the society.
Representatives will be elected by

war;

. secret ballot within each group. They

are to be seniors and will be elected
during- the first few weeks of the
second semester in the Institute’s
program.

barriers To eel- gecond
Chance To luv iewelry

by.
jewelry is available at prices rang-
ing from $5.00 to $13.75 for the:
rings, and $4.00 to $6.25 for keys.
Well made, the pieces are of ten“
karat gold and may be obtained in;
Onyx, ruby, spinelle, sardoynx. nndi
other finishes. Only half the pay—,
ment is required when making an
order, the rest being due by the time
delivery is made, thirty days later.

Seventy men who placed their
orders two weeks ago can expect
their rings or keys to arrive by Ess—
tel“.

 

Vol. XXIII.

hen, than "Tiled

No. 6

As Mlchipnn biennial Takes "idle

North Central Second;
Grinneil Third

Armour’s “Night of Stars" proved
to be truly a night of stars when four
old records were broken and one tied
in the eleventh annual running of
the Armour Tech Relays at the U.
of C. ficldhouse last Saturday be-
fore a large and spirited crowd. In
addition to the record breaking that
went forth at the meet, North Cen—
tral, the victor in last year’s games,
was prevented from retaining the
title by the albaround ability of the
Michigan State Normal. team, who
scored in every event with the ex-
ception of the 70 yard dash. The
three leading teams of the evening
were close all the way with the finals
events deciding the Winner. In win-
ning the team trophy Michigan Nor-
mal, who scored 21 points for a third
last year, scored 56 1/3 points,
Noth Central rated a second place
with 42 points, while Grinnell
showed a lot of strength to cop third
position with 37 points. Armour was
not able to repeat last year‘s per—
formance when they scored a fourth,
but were able to garner only 21/3
points.

Although no trophies were awarded
for team performances in the uni-
versity division, Marquette by unoffi-
cial count was high scorer of the eve-
ning: with 56%,, followed by Wiscon~
son, 50%; Kansas State, 32; Illinois,
251/5; Northwestern, 19%; Mich-
igan State, 1/1; Chicago, 111/2; and
Nebraska, 6.

Fenake in 4:123

In the special mile event Fenske
ran against Deckard of Indiana but
not able to better the time which was
established in the Tech Relays of last
year when he covered the distance
in 11:08.9. Last Saturday, paced by
his teammate Dick Cooper, Fenskc
led his opponent, Deckard, all the
way and broke the tape in 4212.5.
Another teammate of Fenske, Wal-
ter Mehl of Wisconsin, brought the
crowd to its feet on several occasions
by his great running. Mehl put on a
spectacular finish to win the one
mile open. After holding back for
most of the race, Mehl came up fast
in the final lap to pass Pedler, West—
ern State Teachers, and break the
tape. Running; as anchor man in the
university 2 mile relay and the uni—
versity sprint medley relay, he
showed his superiority by distancing

 

I (Continued on page three)

 

Second Dance

l Saturday Eve
‘ .._,_._.._.
1' Again Arniour’s seniors have se-
lected the Student Union as the site
i for their class dance, to be held next
Saturday night, March 25, at 9:30
p.m. in the main auditorium. Since
5 bids may be purchased for only one
ldollar, and many dancers are ex»
5‘ pccted a limitation has been placed
' on the number of couples attending.
T Only 250 bids are in the hands of the
l committee members, and when these
i are disposed of, no more can be had.
i The entire Student Union Will be
, available for students and their dates.
‘ Several additional waitresses will be

 

i on hand to handle the soda fountain

trade and the lounge, which is always

Seniors who have not yet ordered} well populated during any dance in
their rings or keys will have another} the Union, will he in shape to receive
chance to make a selection on ll’l‘dl'clli the. guests.

2’7 and 28 in the main building lob-l
A large variety of distinctive}

In starting this series of inexpem
sivcsdances, the seniors are attempt»
tine ti: Encourage more social 3ft
in the Student linioz. The price l‘
so reasonable that everyone can :Ifr
ford it, and those that remember the
old Mission building are practically
unable to resist the opportunity to
“Show off" their new social center.

The committee in charge of
{2111's. and from whom bids may be
purchased. are: G.
ch irmsn: Tom L‘ollieI.
Bi Chapman, Russ Kelsi.
culeski nnd Ed Mite ell.
get. it's NEXT Saturday night!

 

 

 

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