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DECEMBER 9,’ 1941
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By Mister X

Last week the writer promised
twu thingy-first, that he would
prove the importance of good man-
ners, and second, that he would
prove how bad the manners of the
average undergraduate in this in-
stitution are.

Good manners consist of a code
of acceptable behavior toward
your fellow men which has devel-
oped over a very long period of
time, it is very easy to determine
what are good and what are bad
manners—you don’t even need to
read a book to find out. Conduct
that is kind, helpful, and unob-
trusive (this is a good word and it
you don’t know its meaning you’d
better look it up), is identical with

the conduct of a person who is
well-mannered.

Why is such conduct important?
is it necessary that a “brilliant”
engineer conform to ordinary so-
cial usage? Probably not, in the
sense that he can make a record
of achievement without doing sow
after all, if a man is sufficiently
brilliant he will be accepted and
his bad manners will be passed
oil" as an eccentricity. But he will
go further if he is courteous and
wellemannered. If you’re not
really brilliant, but only average,
bad manners will constitute a dis
tinct handicap in your professional
life as well as in your social life.
In the really top positions of the
engineering profession, as in oth»
er walks of life, the ill-mannered
“beer” is the rare exception. It’s
a "dead cinch” that these men did
not learn their manners after they
got to the top. Their good man
ners were an essential part of
the personal assets which helped
them get to the top. It you think
you have not had any contact as
yet with the leaders in the field of:
engineering, you are wrong. Many
of the faculty members of this in
stitution are recognized leaders in
their respective fields. it you
doubt the truth of the importance
of good manners, observe the uni-
form good manners of your facub
ty-«and draw your own conclu»
SlOl’lS.

 

This is the oldest of the enchan-
ting young quartet. She affords an
interest for the graduate students
and recent grads. A good talker
and smooth dancer, whom every
IIT alumnus should know.

 

PHOTOGRAPHERS

All photographers interested
in working either on Technolo-
gy News or the 1942 Yearbook,
should see Tom Brown or Dan
Brown Friday at 4 p. m. in the
Technology News office.

 

WHAT A LIFE!

 

 

Story On Page ”xiv

stall Photo by Raiser

Helen Mamullo, Steve Mondah, itch Meyer, and Sylvia Welsh) pic-
tured in dress rehearsal for tomorrow evenin‘o presentation oi? “What a
Life." Steve, the irate school principal, disciplines errant “Henry Al-
drich” Meyer who in dcvotctily gazing at his “one and only" Sylvia.
Helen, secretary to the principal, stoicaliy gazes on.

 

QflthGlANS $9M”? on fiUEh’l’ifllh‘i
{W Wiltlibi'i‘flifi‘l’ ethos ATTENIDANM

“if a student wants to learn,
he’ll come to chase.” This was a
statement made by a sophomore
in Pennsylvania State college in
answer to the question:

"'90 you think students should

be required to attend classes

a minimum number of times.

or do you think class attend-

ance should be voluntary?”

While a great majority of col»
lege students favor voluntary
class attendance, the latest discov-
eries of the Student Opinion Sur-
vey of America poll indicate that
nearly as many would rather be
required to sit through lectures
and attend labs.

U. of C. an Example

President Robert M. Hutchins,
of the University of Chicago, a
strong advocate of the voluntary
attendance plan, claims that it
does work. Those of us who live in
and around Chicago and who have
seen the plan in action, can readi-
ly see its potentialities.

Some day in the near future,
maybe ill“ will establish such a
system. if so, won’t we have a
Utopia? On second thought, maybe
we won‘t. Perhaps we react favor—
ably to such a system because of
the direct stress made on the stu-
dent by the profs in regards to
class attendance.

This whole idea, although ap-
proved by nearly half of the colle—
gians in higher learning institu-
tions, does not have the whole-
hearted approval of the students
as shown below:

Require minimum 41%
Voluntary . . , 48
Require only some

students, . . 11

(less than 1% failed to ex«
press an opinion)
interesting differences of opin-
ion are brought to the surface
when the ballots are cross-tabu~
lined by year in college. The “Wise
limit.” and the juniors seem to be
the most eager to have complete
freedom. in the senior year about
seven per cent of them seem to
lose their desire for freedom and
become more satisfied with re-
quired attendance.
Require Volun Some

Fresh. 46% 45% 9%
Sepia. 39 51 10
.1 colors: 39 51. 10
Sen. oth 82's; 44 44 12

if ll’l" stood alone there would
be a good 853% in favor of volun-
tary class attendance. Just think
what that would mean. If: you
didn't get that “damned" home-
work finished the night before,
you wouldn't have to go to class
the next or even the next day att-
er that. 0 my, what then?

 

Mflflfli‘ihlfl TALKS
All" hiCiiE. MEET

At the coming AIChE meet-
ing, Friday, December 12, Dr.
Hugh McDonald of the Armour
college chemistry department, will
be the speaker. He will speak on,
”The Value of Intermediate Inor-
ganic Chemistry” in order to give
sophomore and junior chemists
and chemical engineers an, idea
of the benefits of his elective. The
course, which carries two semes-
ter hours credit, treats mainly of
elements and compounds from the
standpoint of the periodic law.

With the same purpose in mind,
Dr. Bernstein, newest addition to
the faculty of the Armour chemis-
try department, will address the
AlChE, Friday, December 19,
on “The Value of Qualitative Or—
ganic Analysis."
tion, reactions, and identification
of organic compounds are studied
in this course in much the same
manner in which the properties
of inorganic compounds are treat-
ed in first year chemistry.

The classifica- '

ill" Faculty Members
Form AAUP Chapter

Last week, the formation of an
lilinois Institute chapter of the
American Association of Univer~
sity Professors, was announced by
Dr. S l. Hayakawa. On November
25, twenty members of the I.I.T.
faculty voted to form a chapter
and to petition thefnational organi.
zation for a charter. The officers
elected for the local chapter of
the association are: President,
Paul L. Copeland (Physics); vice-
president. D. Roy Mathews (His-
tory); treasurer, Floyd 0. Holmes
(Economics); and secretary, Sam-
uel I. Hayakawa (English). Since
the formation of the chapter, ten
new applications for membership
in the A.A.U.P. have been re-
ceived from faculty members.

The first business of the local
chapter will be the formation of a
committee headed by Professor C.
R. Glaves (Accounting), to report
on the possibility of a pension
plan for the faculty ot‘ Illinois
institute.

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Students interviewed
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“Various manufacturing con»
cerns have sent representatives
within the past few weeks, and
there are more to come.” This
was announced by Mrs. Constance
Carroll, of the Placement office.

W'cstinghousc Manufacturing

A representative of the Westing-
house Manufacturing Company
was here on December 2 and sev—
eral mid-year graduates were in-
terviewed. In January, Westing-
house will again send a represent—
ative for the purpose of interview--
ing June graduates.

Interviewers from the National
Tube Company, Lorraine, Ohio,
came on December 3rd and saw
juniors and sophomores regarding
summer employment.

Summer Jobs for Juniors

Last week interviews were held
by the Magnolia Petroleum Com-
pany of Dallas, Texas, and Friday,
representatives from the National
Starch Products, Inc, and Joseph
E. Seagram 8; Sons, were seeing
students. Du Pont will be here
on December 12th, and the Com-
monwealth Edison Company will
send a representative on Decem—
her .15. The Edison company is
interested in a few junior eleo
tricals and mechanicals. Students
are urged to heed the notice of
the office hours for the Placement
bureau.

Hillel Alumni "in Mold
Regional! Qanterence

Chicago’s alumni chapter of Eta
Kappa Nu will hold its Chicago
regional conference from, Friday
morning at 9:30 until Saturday aft—
ernoon at 2:30. Dr. J. E. llobson,
director of the electrical depart-
ment of IIT, will be the speaker
at a banquet Friday evening at '7.
Conference Interest. to Electricaln

This conference is of prime in-
terest to electrical engineering
students, and they are cordially in-
vited to attend. Registration of
students will be held at 9:30 Fri-
day morning at the Chicago Ligh‘o
ing institution in the Civic Opera
building. Numerous lectures and
tours are scheduled throughout
the day, including inspection of
the Merchandise Mart and the
new N.B.C. studios. On Saturday
the program continues.

Dr. Hobson was the recipient of
the Eta Kappa Nu award in i940
as the most outstanding young
electrical engineer. He will speak
on the social and cultural aspects
of an engineer’s life, enlarging on
his award address which was en-
titled “Engineers Are Isolation
ists.”

As the AIEE meeting was post—
poned until December 19 because
of the conference, nothing stands
in the way of the electricals at-
tending. Charge for the banquet
is one dollar for students.

Coop Office Otters
Prize For Essay

The coop office announces a
competition among all co-opera-
tive students to rthe best article
written concerning a phase of the
student’s work or experience at
his company. The material should
be concerned chiefly with a techni~
cal process or development which
the student has studied. The best
of the articles submitted, as selec-
ted by a committee from the Eng-
lish department, will be published
in the March issue of the Engineer
and Alumnus. This article should
be approximately 4,000 words at
length. All entries should be sub-
mitted to the co-op office on or
before January 10, 1942.

PAGE THREE
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LEWiS MEMOWM.
AWARE) FfllUNDi-"tl

At a special meeting; on Dec. 2,
the Lewis Chemical society ap-
proved the following announce
ment and recommended it for pub~
lication:

In memoriam to Joseph Demb,
one of the charter members of the
Lewis Chemical society who pass-
ed away on June 1, 1941, the soci-
ety announces the Joseph Demb
Memorial Award. The purpose ol‘.
this award shall be to further in»
tercst in chemistry among the un.
dergraduate students of the Illi-
nois Institute of Technology.
Method ot’ Award:

A. Basis of Award: the best paper,
in the opinion of the judges,
on any topic in theoretical or
applied chemistry. ‘

3. Judges: to he invited from the
faculty of Il'l‘ .

. Eligibility: any student of HT
who is carrying at least twelve
(12) hours of work in each
("all and Spring) semester of
the school year during which
the paper is submitted.

. Length of Paper: a minimum
of 1000 words and a maximum
of 10,000 words shall constitute
the approximate limits of said
papers.

. Submission of Papers: three
(3) legible, double—spaced, type~
written copies on standard
81/2”xli” paper shall be in the
hands of the secretary of the
Lewis Chemical society by 5
pm, on March 31. The name of
the entrant and any other iden~
lifying marks shall be on the
cover page only; that is, there
shall be no identifying marks
on the pages of the body of:
written material. All, papers
submitted become the property
of the Lewis Chemical society.

Awards:

First Prize: :1 $20 cash award.

Three (3) awards of honorable

mention.

Papers may be published at the

discretion of the society.

For further information, write
to the secretary of the Lewis
Chemical society, Illinois Insti-
tute of Technology.

Flour students, whose scholastic
standings met the requirements of
the society, were voted into mem-
bership at a previous meeting held
on Nov. 12; they are William
Brown, Edward Loucius, James
Sullivan, and Leonard Wezeman.

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it. ill. Booth, chic‘i metallur-
gist of Jackson Iron and Steel
Co. of Jackson, Ohio, will talk
on "The Making of, Silvery Pig
Iron," on lil‘riday, Dec. 12 at
it) in Room 305M.

at: >5:
Placement Office: Student Office
hours:

itl~li:30 Add.

34:30 RM.

Students Whose names ap-
pear on the board regarding in~
tcrvicws will be the only ox-
captions.

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The Senior .icwclry Commie
too will be prepared to take or-
dcrs for rings and keys begin-
ning Monday, December 8. Sec
.lim Harmach at any time or
members of the committee in
the lobby of the Student ”Union
at the hours scheduled on the
bulletin board. A deposit of five
dollars is required with each
order.

at a a
Language Examination in Ger-
man and French will take place:
German-«Dec. Iii—«~42 pm.

Chopin 30’?

French-«Doc. WM? pan. Chopin

307
Czuididntes should get in touch
with lie. F. K. Richter, Chopin
307, before inking the test.