rwo i. at lilo in: Several weeks ago, Technology News pub— lished a letter in the “Campus Comments” column asking why courses in public speaking were not ofiered at lllinois Tech. On page four of this issue, Dr. Walter Henricks, Chairman of the Language, Literature, and Philosophy department answers the question According to Dr. Hendricks, a course of speech is not oliered at the present time because, during the war “it was not possible for the institute to set up the kind of program that its standards requiret .” it is also stated that for “creditable” work in speech, elaborate equip-— ment an specially trained instructors are re— quired. According to the bulletin of lllinois Tech, two advanced courses in English will be offered. if the demand warrants it. These courses are English 209, fundamentals of speech, and Eng- lish 210, public Speaking. Descriptions of the can be found in any edition of the courses bulletin. We don’t believe that elaborate equip— ment is required to carry out the aims of these courses. In our opinion, the best way to learn public speaking is to speak in public. Naturally some training is required, but practice produces the best speakers. Courses in adult education are offered by various schools and institutions in Chicago, and many of these contain classes in public speaking. Most of these consist of speak— ing before small groups. it is our opinion that if a person can learn to speak correct English, can organize his thoughts, and can express himself before a small group, he can speak effectively before any group. Special equipment is fine, if it is avaib ethic. Specially trained instructors are fine, if they can be obtained. But what logic lies behind the decision to offer no class in public speaking until the best equipment and best instructors are available? It sounds like the old story that ‘llT’s first football team must be able to beat Notre Dame. At the present time, there are men in the language, literature and philosophy depart— ment who know correct speech when they hear it. These same men, since they are instructors or profesors, should be able to point out errors of speech and tell how to correct them. English 101 and 102 are supposed to teach the funda— metals of organizing one’s thoughts. The abil~ ity to think while facing a group will come only through practice, no matter how good the acoustics and ventilation of the room are. The use of the Armour Sound Recorder definitely would aid in the correction of speech defects uncovered in any speech course offered. What has the language, literature and philoso— phy department done toward obtaining such machines from the Research Foundation? And it is indeed too bad, that Hitler didn’t study Shakepesare. But it would have been better if the people who had read Shakespeare: had been able to rouse a rabble. {in Allvdmcrimn‘flollegiate Newspaper Member. 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Chi)“.L I’lnistnt anzld Born Ken Holst TVPXSTS ‘3: ch Firth KilN liEi’fiRTE L John Anderson lone Co hn. loms Frakcs, Louis her, Jory Filedmnn Sol Coldsteln Robert Guthrie Henry Einwry ill/.1“. balk ‘1‘) J. Knsmar June lyons Jaims Mu why George OBrien, 1._ J. Pndnvic R. J f‘nlkom Paul Sample S. A Shnhccn. Par Vedel. ‘ . Helen Irene Barry, .lulie Salish. Editors Emelitusih’lilton linrkerl, Hurry Burl:th Illusion Glson Alan Grant. dim Emp. Adviser ........ Financial Adi ll'l‘ News Bureau RT limitless Gilli: [hints till? The Wash: l a toga ropsl ii to drum it ,, W on inter, @oniroiions by doc Cotter The word active, if it could be adequately expanded might describe Robert S. Czero'pski this week 5 Man of The Week. His capacity was iecognized .t Weber lligh School in Chi-r cago Where Bob was valedictorian, president of his class, and prom chairman. He also was the winner of two competitive scliolm‘v ships, one to Loyola and the other to the Illinois institute of Technol- ogy. C 2 c r o p s k i came to ill in 19le when he be« ll gan his studies in Chemical lin— ‘ gineering on the, L e w i s campus. Here he began his active school ‘life by becoming ( affiliated with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the professional chemical fin» ternity, Alpha Chi Sigma. Bob is president of Alpha Sigma Phi, Beta Omega Nu, and Alpha Chi Sigma. Many consider it a full time job to keep up their scholastic work at UT, but Bob manages to be active in seven different organiza- l’nlisb Club, Alpha lllino i 3 Tech Vets, Sigma Phi. and Beta Omega Nu, the social life of Czci‘opski is more detailed than his academic interests. He is also treasurer of the 4A Class. Bob’s attitude is not one of static contentment. Though satisfied with the instructors in his department he believes that the chemical engineer inf: curriculum should more with quntely cover the field of chemical engineering. He is also of the opini- ion thut this department has an unnecessary number of courses in other branches of engineering. AL though Bob is pleased with the social program for this semester he hopes for an increased student activity fee. This increase says Bob should be used as a means to offer aid to campus organizations. Upon graduation, which according to Bob is 81 days oil, he will prob— ably go to night school to earn his m 0 Y Q lions. With membership in the MS degree. :1 , a i) {n acuity . outs l’rolcssur ll’hil Huntly, Director of the Department of Civil Engineering and Chairman of the Department of Mechanics. The Director of the Inatitnfc's Department of Civil li‘iwinccring and Chaiwnan of the Department of Illechtmics, 1’7 ofossor I’Izil Hui/lily, is one of the most popular gyrofcs: 078 (m the. campus Professor lluntly is a graduate of the llnivcrsily oi" ,‘li'kausas where he received his BS in (TE in 1910. Besides gaining recognition as an out- :standing scholar Phil Huntly made his mark on the atheltic field as a star football player as well. lilo played on several champion Arkansas i‘oolhall teams as i a first stringer. , After gladuotion [Illllllgl stayed on. at ‘ Arkansas [7. fm two man news as an inshucto: in CE and as assistant football coach. Professor Himtly later held positions; with. various Amid-western construction and. designing (:(mmanim, but, 6” as he found leaching and research. more to his liking he acmnc i0 Armour Institute as on ME instructor in September of 1911;. He soon. worked himself up through positions as assistant professor of ME in 1016, assaciwtc professor 1.922, and was appointed a full professor in 7.9.”? Between, 193/, and 1.938 he served as the director of the Mechanical Engineering Department. He was appointed to be director of the Civil Engineering Department in 1.038. Besides taking care of his responsibilities in the CE departments l’ro- lessor Homily manages to find time to do a, considerable amount of research work, serving as project adviser in the solid mechanics section oi the Alli“. in this capacity he does a considerable amount of research for Varlfllln industrial firms. lie is prominent in the American Society for Metals having helped organize it; he serves as; an authority on the Concrete Committee for American Standards and is also active in the Chicago Association oi Commerce. Professor Huntly is also on active member in, such organizations as ASME, ASCE and SPEE. He is on honorary member of Tau Berri Pi, Chi Epsilon, Pi Tau Sigma, and Tau Omega. He is also rm honorary memlm~ of Sigma, Chi, and Triangle social fraternities. But Professor Huntly is no! just interested in engineering and 7"csearch alone. He is at very promincm citizcn in. the. village of Rivcrsidc where he lives. He has served 071 the Village Board for Hm last clown, years and was president of the board for four of those years. He denotes his lcisurw hours to gardening am] golf. especially devoted to farming. He owns several truck farm and cotton fields in Texas and Arkansas where he spends as many (15: twelve hours (I day working during the, summer months. Pr'ol'sssor l/(l llr’ l5: Cleave to the filipsticlc-«let the Slapstick Foil Millers ll Mo}; After extensive research, l have uncovered the three most famous characters in recent history. They are: Phineas Fern ortin. the world’s most active peeking; torn; Kilroy, who goes places, but never does anything except write on lavatory walls; and Schultz, whose death almost he- came a national legal holiday. mm;— good resort for tl'§'~" Proloundly disgusted, the boy cut her short. “Get in mom, .. .y- 4a,, . .. ., . I hear .ms L “i H get in. "Sis am: your room, this men who have asthma. “Yes, the girls here are so dumb they cant tell it from pasmon." is the elevator.“ will—— "l‘iin you owe me u room mur— _ “i tell you that i “out lime . “l pm, ii“. 3.0,, 1, room. this room,“ ill-0195934 ”W “M lzimlain, but you \\lll have to [:llx’v lady to lite helhboy. who was \oui' my“ limb.“ conducting ilk?» ”3 3m“! l‘ifill‘a ‘ l1) : ”Hoes this has also a: to pay my good money for :i 7335, Sires .. plainly with 2: namely little fold rip: ”yo, “Md, me and get in‘ lied in it. i you think iimi (,3? 9mm Hock heel-ore i do." inst ‘cuuse in: from the itsun- ;r g ‘ mac ~ by Bill Knowles Some time ago 1 happened to read a book about the history of the theatre. In the first few chapters it tried to explain why drama is known as the bastard art. It followed the development of the theatre from the noble Greek festivals of Dionysus through the sensual Roman Circus into its eclipse in the dark ages. From there the book went on to explain how the art of playing was revived in the form of chancel plays in the. churches and finally moved out into the secular world, again in the form of the morality play proces- sions. These plays, it seems, were performed on huge platforms mounted on wagons which were drawn from town to town. the performance taking place all the while. The morality plays, you see, were highly allegorical with the characters representing various vices and virtues. At the end of each scene when virtue had triumphed over vice the virtues retired through a blue door representing heaven, while the vices slinked off through an orange door representing hell. The bastard— ization of the art took place, so the book said, when thespectators began to be much more interested in the orange characters than in the blue ones. That: the orange characters are still the more popular ones must be the reason why “Follow the Girls” is enjoying such a long run. As all musicals, “Follow the Girls" does not: have a plot. Oh, there is some monkey business involving a Russian dancer and some spies and a boy and a girl and a bunch of guys who look like V~12 ensigns, and a hardboiled CPO. But that never interferes with the real purpose of the Show which is to expose as much feminine epidermis as the law will allow. Buster West, Frank Krieg, and Al Norman do some very clever comedy routines livened up by Buster and Al’s double‘jointed dancing. Miss Niesen in her less revealing “I Wanta Get Married” solo shows the stuff that made her the popular entertainer that she is. Maybe it’s my unsophisticated, backwoods, Ohio up— bringing: or maybe it’s something Sigmund Freud can explain; but whatever it is I feel that “Follow the lirls" is a waste of time, money, and energy. However, it' your more sophisticated and uninhibited taste runs to the orange colored characters may I suggest that instead of following the girls to the Shubert you walk the other may on State Street and see the really flesh- colored characters at the Rialto. You can buy quite a few beers with the savings. ill” Illlt ill“ lilE Mill With the breaking down of our old steam shovel, the school ordered two more brand new ones. But due to the material shortages, the manufacturer delivered two cranes instead, which are kept out on Ogden Field because of their size. Upon testing of the new equipment, the Digger submits the following report to Dr. Hudenbolzer, BHP. in Mil, for grading. The long arm reached far into the depths of Ro- bert Hardy’s life to discover that his lack of interest in the Illinois Tech coeds is due to the fact that he has a woman who is a combination between a girlfriend and a mother to him. Her age is 38. The Digger un‘ earthcd a rumor that her name is Minnie. it was at the Goblin Hop where the sorority girls were serving refreshments. The outstanding hostesses. coming in on their brooms were: Dave Hoffman, Fred Travis and Ed Zietz. From the way these three girls helped themselves behind the ia« hiss, one would think they had not eaten in sev- eral weeks. Richard Skulski has a system for keeping his morale When he’s disconcerted and feeling blue he calls on his girl friend. She makes a stab at his weak point above the knee and he tickles her. Then the fun he gins. The feature of it is that the next day Richard has the calculus homework solved and poor Stewart “The Brain" Schlessingei' wonders how he does it. Noise in the vicinity of 1051 . one morning last Alter buying" a car from a "friend" in Wiscon. sin, Hamid Scholin discovered that the model A liord was without wheels. Long: had Harold pound 0d the city‘s streets trying to final a set. Wham he finally succeeded in doing so liar-old look the car for a spin. The law caught up with him and in« formed him of a license requirement. Harold is non considering: selling the car as the student’s indicated a a hole beamed support in the new Studs» hului i zill'le last Walk With the lllk‘khéllllf’éilb‘ runnings the l‘lsi rats 0 1 the etiu'im‘ up. . Cl is inking up {boil Slile. .3 the Lilli in hand the Chill the lab Wlllt‘ll inc o d' lea llS U Sfi‘lllil‘ z. . lillIer‘ EXT-ll L Si‘l‘illlil‘ the doughnuts int aliamii i ‘2 ‘d 1.1. (muse. {he .‘ l:’\‘i ‘ _ l ' L ‘ Sl‘flM‘l l,\ “mu; mini-1‘ lime in the szil‘n snare. lg; .A “any {,4 W