Page 4 TECHNOLOGY NEWS MARR‘JM ll, ill/ill m warm ’ll‘millfllhllOEdMi‘sW WWh Student Publication of the Hillill Nails ENSTITUTE 0F TECHNOLQGY 3300 Federal St. CHICAGO, ELLENOIS Published Weekly During the College Year By the Students of I. I. T. mmmman’rzo ron NATIOMAL ADVZN'IIEIMO an! National Advernemg Service, Inc. Celina Pkélisfiers Representative 430 MADISON EVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. ClllclIGB ' Boston: ‘ L05 AHEELKE ‘ S“! Filikficlsco “Entered as second class matter October 10, 1940, at the post office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3. 1879.” $2.00 Per Year Single Copies, 10 Cents Each M’MAGING BClARD ~ ................. TllflhlAS REUWN . JEANXEL “ROWE .l‘l‘l'l‘ltKClA ARES ...... WA 391%? Ell‘l’l‘l Hill'l‘fllbll‘i'llflll‘ll’ MANAGING lClll'fi‘UR .. ASSUUIA’PH MANAGING SPORTS EDITOR hi'i‘OR WEA'I‘UI HDSTOK . . . A HTH‘l‘K MINWF PM RI}SIN1§..S MANAGER . ..... PDBE RT F ,. K FACULTY AllVlEllill ...................... 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As; never before in the history of this civilization, the role of the engineer is" beginning to tune proportions of a gigantic nature. Already, thone who are involved in the study or instruction or this, the newest of professions, are commencing to feel the responsibility of the inheritance which ' ; theirs; . . . the problem of harnessing with an ex" . increasi- lng tempo the incompreheneible forces oi the uni- verse to the evolution of a truly constructive fiflCle‘i}? of man. We must now unhesitotingly lace the fact that the attempts of the leaders of the older genera- tion in bringing about such a society have met with disastrous failure. It must, therefore, c achieved by another generation, a generation dedicated per- haps to extreme selfsacrifice in devotion to the principle of tolerance and understanding, eeemiugly long-forgotten by their predecessors. The role of science in this difficult enterprise must be never-ceasing reduction of time, efiort, and coat in creating the necessities and luxuries basic to life on this planet. Childish criticsm of such a program has a machine age depriving men of em- ployment through labor saving devices cannot pre- vail in light of total increase of employment in almost every industry where labor saving devices have been introduced. The momentary displacement of men from jobs is harrowing, but eventual re» absorption into the new avenues of employment produced by these devices provides more than an even balance. A program of mere technical achievement for the future is, however, of itself certainly lnsufliv cient unless accompanied by inspired and construc- tive application. The profession of engineering in- volves both creation and application of scientific knowledge and it seems increasingly apparent that engineers will gradually absorb much of the re- sponsibility for the technique of operating the new order of things. By this, we mean no such thing as technocracy; an attempt to regiment anything of a creative nature is an actual affront to it and will have no long run result other than confusion. The world of Technology must rather extend its capacity to a genuine understanding of the social, economic, and philosophical problems that confront us every- where. And it must be an understanding of natural growth, arising from the masses of technical people everywhere. We feel that the coordination of sci- entific and the aforementioned practical cultural attributes in highly trained minds, magnified be» yond anything that exists today, constitutes a tie mendous step in the right direction. How is this to be accomplished? l‘i‘ormal technical education, to our minds. should play the largest part. Already in engineering circles there is a con- siderable movement for liberalizing engineering education. Massachusetts Tech, California Tech, and “'1‘ are typical colleges in the vanguard of this; movement. And as no other institution in the world, “T with the recent merger of Armour Institute of Technology, and Lewis Institute of Arts and Sciences, is now potentially equipped with magni- ficent resources for turning out individuals with just such scientifically and culmrally trained minds as are so sorely needed for the uncertain future. We suspect that the faculty of HT are well aware of this. If not. may we call their attention to it? This is a service we must render. There can be no greater contribution, in our way of thinking, to the development oil a for happier civilization . . . not just a dream, but actual fact. This article hau been, perhaps, of a too serious nature. But we have long felt the. necessity of set‘ ting down some concrete, constructive plan, as we hope this is. Realiiilng the possibility of flaws in an argument for which there has been too little time to View in retrospect, we will be more than glad to accept opinions and interested criticism from students and faculty. lihfifihllmd lilllldhlmlh‘l‘lfllri {This la the second of a series: of articles; (.lescriblng the work of the Armour Reemrch Foundation. The firm article dealing with the Experimental Engin— eering Division, appeared last. week.) One cold winter day recently the gates of Ogden li‘iold swung open to admit a loaded van. The van drove to the center of the field, discharged a load of prefabricated house corridor. and departed. Three more trucks followed Emil. A bit of hammering, and there in the snow stood two small houses where secondhaec ought to be. Soon smoke began to curl from one houne and continued to curl for days. Then one morning the houcca dlunppearcd and peo‘ plc Shook their heath; and sold the whole thing was; just imagined. The little house»; were part of an investigation conducted by the t mired ”Engineering Division of the Armour Research Foundation to determine how wvll aviation gamlihe could be stored in a certain type of drum proposed for use in tropical areas. One house, thoroughly intimated, contained 220 gallons: of high octane immune in drums, together with several thermometers. premurc gauges, steam radiators and a itparlcprooi air circulating, fan. The other contained a coalfirei; cam boiler to heat the radialom. The drums were subjected to artifically ionlrolled hot and cold weather as well as labora- tory-made tropical value. Although these weather conditions could have beer: produced easily in the Research Ftllll'ldilllmll‘s big constanMcmpcraluro room, the handling ol ouch quantities of high-test gadoline had to he rloi‘ie outside and away from buildings. The Chemical Engineering Division conducta re- search in the indus, 13 applications of chemistry, development and improvement of processes and t-quipmcnl, and the handling and storage of mater- ials. Foodg; and fuels t-ouelitute a l'air portion of the work at present. Headed by Dr. Francis W. Godwin, the stall inc utlfl‘m‘ Dr. Martin ll. Heercn, Dr. Stanley, M. Wal Mr ground Moculeski and Mr. Lew W. Winboldl a. well as Mr. E. S. Cieslak of the Lewis biology department who correlates botanical investigatlom with certain food process- ing developments. From time to time the work of this division takes home of its staff members to distant mills, plants, coal mines: and field imsiallations. The major part of the studies, however, are conducted in four lab- oratories, three of which are in the main Research Building. The oldest of these, located on the first floor, is also the oldest Research Foundation lab- oral!» y. Constructed in the modern style of chemi- cal laboratories it servea‘ as the center of the analy~ tical and “beakecand—test-tube” operations inevit— ably associated with chemical engineering problems. Here are located calcrimetric apparatus, balances, ovcnS, furnaces, colloid mill and similar items. Here, also, are several automatic machines for accelerated corrosion studies, one of which carries samples re- peatedly through an 87-minute weather cycle in» volving rain, wind, immersion and sun. Below this is a basement laboratory largely used for handling and processing solid fuels and equipped with both laboratory and semi-plant scale apparatus for sampling, crushing, pulverizing, drying, screening and treating coal and coke. One special unit deter~ mines the dustiness of fuels while another runs a scale-model aluminum truck body continuously over a mechanical “rough highway” to indicate the efv iects of transporting loads of solid fuels. QUOTE & uuoudrr: Controversy? in regard to the question asked, “What is the controversy splitting the student body of the Illinois Institute of Technology?” 1 reply in kind. Is Lewis a part of HT? Accord» ing to an article “String" Quartet to Serenade Guests” which ap- peared in Technology News, Vol- ume 27, Number 2, dated Feb- ruary 25, 1941, the junior class at Armour seems to regard the mer- ger as a rumor. The Armour sec- tion of the junior class feels that it must canvas the U. of 0., Mun- delein. and Lucy Flower High School for a queen for the junior formal. As a student at Lewis, I have a faint recollection of seeing a girl or two on the campua. May- be i was just dreaming, however. Then too, I seem to remember a rumor to the effect that there are some girls in the junior class at Lewis. But again l may be wrong. Maybe the Kappa, Lamb. do, and Sigma sororities are julst a figment of my imagination. At least the Armour boya might have come .over and let me know if theee bleary old eyes are deceiv- ing me. in conclusion, may I ask if John Butlcus, Charles Ball, Jack Thor~ ton, John Peterson, the Steam Shoveler, and other Armour stu- dents have been dating a lot of mil-ages. ALL HAIL MIRAGES! Signed, A. Wolf. The (Lo-ops Lament. We are the CO-Opfil of Illinois Tech Our eyes are all baggy, our brains; are a wreck. We wear horn rimmed glasses, Our shoulders are broke, if you were a co-op, you‘d see it’s no joke. Before we enrolled we were happy and Spry, But now we lose weight like ice in July. Our friends hardly know us, we’re zaicli and we’re pale, When the prof asks a question, our brains ring ‘no sale”. We never have dates, or we’d work for a year On the homework which piles up like dirt does down here. So we plead with you readers, don’t laugh at our plight, As we sleep in the classrooms and study all night. Philip Conway, Walter Moe Clo—Authors (coo-coo Co-ops) Paging Mr. Ripley Believe it or not, the students at Lewis are the healthiest collegiate group in the Middle West. You don’t believe it? Well, the “Proof of the pudding is in the eating,” as the old adage goes. It seems that Lewis Institute is the only college in the city of Chicago that does not offer to its Students some form of free clinical advice in re- gard to medical problems, and is the only school that does not have an MD. on its staff. Why must we students at Lewis be deprived of the opportunity of getting medical care? Why are we relegated into the background on such an important issue? Is it necessary for some catas~ trophe to strike Lewis before a doctor is assigned to the school, or doesn’t “A stitch in time save nine", mean anything? Surely the ‘Wlilosc Fault? Dear Mr. Editor: After much deliberation and discussion with a representative group of intelligent Armour stu— dents, l have come to the con- clusion that the detestable that motion and “I don’t care” attitude of some students is seemingly not altogether the fault of the student body. Of course, some students are incorrigible, but in general, I think a program of extended demonstrations would be ex“ tremely beneficial to the average student. Inasmuch as abstract ideas are very difficult for most ordinary people to understand, a complement in the form of demon strations seems highly desirable. How often do I hear: “Open your book to page 144 and look at figure 32”. Then follows: a lengthy explanation of how the steam engine indicator works. This little gadget weighs less than one pound and can easily be car» rlcd to class. Why not let the students see the actual instrument when we have so many available? Why not have a class meeting down in the laboratory in the morning, when the equipment is not. being used, and why not are plain those engines right then. and there, instead of drawing distorted pictures on the blackboard which can only be deciphered by a gen- ius, or a surrealist: who is well acquainted with the nubject? Technical movies and the. pre- sentation of lanternolldeu are de- eirablc in that same sense. Also, I believe that in very many subjects taught in this. school, the instruction is very dry, partly because only theory is discussed. Some professors in- troduce the historical. background connected with the subject mat- ter, or they give humorous anal- ogies which will help to make it “stick”. Naturally every profes» sor has his own philoaophy of teaching, and it would not be. right. for a student to tell his professor how to teach. However, in many departments the head of the do pa rtment selects the textbook. This book may be good for one type of teacher and utterly ineufficlcnt and too limited for another. So, limiting the teacher in this same sense, I feel justified in making this weak effort to induce some of our profeesom not to adhere to the theory too rigidly all the time. A little anecdote or the historical development of a formula should be an excellent antidote for sleepi- ness on the part of the students. In conclusion, may I restate that it is my belief that the demonstrative material should be increased considerably and that the faculty should be more inclin- ed to discuss such historical de~ velopments as we are not likely to find in our texts. Herman Tachau. Students at Lewis are entitled to that much consideration as far as preventative medicine is con- cerned. Since this is the year 1941 and not 1790, and medical clinics are here to stay, will the administra» tion see the light and see fit to in- stall at Lewis a medical room where Lewis students may go for medical advice and treatment? Or is it going to be necessary to wait for Gabriel to blow his horn and then Utopia will have arrived? 8. l8. (Cohen.