TheVOL. X. BOSTON, FEIBRUARY 26, 1891. NO. 10.

HE 6ME~GH.Published on alternate Thursdays, during the college year, by the

students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

BOARD OF EDITORS.FREDERICK HOPPIN HOWLAND, '92, Editor-in-Chief.

HERBERT EMERSON HATHAWAY, '9 I .

THEODORE SPENCER, '9i .FREDERICK TITCOMB SNYDER, 'gI.

ALLEN FRENCH, '92.ALBERT FARhWELL BEMIS, '93.

ALLEN FRENCH, Secretary.

HARRY NYE WILLIAMS, '92, Business Mfanager.CI-IANNING McGREGORY WELLS, '92, Ass't Business Manager.

Subscription, $2.00 per year, in advance. Single copies, 15 cts. each.

FRANK WOOD, PRINTER, 352 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON.

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CAREFUL observer

' G'__. -' watching the menhere during the firstfew days after vaca-tion, would have car-ried away one definiteimpressi on,,-thatTech. men have anabnormal amount ofinquisitiveness.

On all sides, form-_ t. . ing part of every

greeting, was hearda repeated endeavor by each man to ascer-tain what records his classmates had madein each study of the preceding term.

Exhibited in one form or another, eachfellow showed a most positive interest in thestanding of the other men in his class.

And yet, despite these facts and appear-ances, such an observer would have beenwrong. It was not mere inquisitiveness thatled each man to pry into other men's records.They were simply trying to find out what theirown might mean. Furnished by the secretary

with a report weighed by some unknown andvarying standard, they were endeavoring toobtain definite values for their individual rec-ords by comparison with the only availablestandard, the average work of the class towhich each belonged.

In certain sections of the Senior Class itwas found advantageous to actually obtain anarithmetical mean of the marks given in eachsubject, in order that each man might knowwhat he personally had done.

That such a state of affairs is not only in-convenient and unsatisfactory, but capable ofreal injustice, is well realized by the men, fewof whom feel that the marks given representthe work accomplished. The mere fact thatrecords are given out shows that they are in-tended for the information of persons outsidethe government of the Institute, primarily forthe student and his parents. To serve thepurpose for which they are issued, they mustbe intelligible; that is, they must be capableof ready reference to some clearly understoodstandard. And what is that standard at theInstitute? Nowhere in the catalogue, in thePresident's report, on any of the numerousbulletin boards, or in any report issued indi-vidually to the men, is to be found any state-ment as to whether we are ranked on theamount we know of a subject as taught at theInstitute, or as known to mankind; whether acredit in a difficult engineering subject andone in an easier English course is given forthe same absolute amount of application, orfor the same proportionate knowledge of eachsubject; and yet, by each of these differentstandards, marks were given on the work oflast term.

If"passed" and "failed" were the only ranksgiven, there would be no ground for confu-sion; but as long as a graded system of mark-

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ing is used, simple justice to the men and tothe Institute would require that these marksbe given a definite meaning by a statement ofthe standard by which they are made, andwhich would not only be stated but used bythe instructors in making up the records.

In the broad curriculum of the Institute,where the subjects studied vary through sucha wide range in difficulty, in the time and ap-plication necessary with each, the only equit-able ranking system will be the one in whicha man's proportionate knowledge of the subjectas taught at the Institute forms the standardof his mark. This is supposed to be the basisof the present marking system. A slight in-vestigation will show that the actual marksdiverge widely from this ideal basis.

N-INETY-THREE has elected its "Tech-nique" Board in good season, and it is

to be hoped that the Editors will begin workwithout delay.

Eighty-seven, in issuing the first "Tech-nique," gave us a model that, in some re-spects, has not been equaled since.

Referring to the last " Technique," in theeditorials and reading matter, as distinguishedfrom simple statistics, Ninety-two failed toapproach Eighty-seven's standard, and, in thisline, there is ample room for improvement forNinety-three.

To be truly interesting, "Technique"should abound, not only in statistics, but inbright bits of poetry and spicy articles, re-flecting all the incidents of Institute life, sothat each student who reads it may findsomewhere an echo to his own feelings andimpressions.

This life of ours is full of experiences thatwould amuse and interest all if placed beforeus in.ll a pleasant and agreeable form, andheretofore there has been too little effort toanalyze and record them.

The class histories might be made fivetimes as witty and original, and verses and

" squibs " with some point to them scatteredthrough the book would increase its attract-iveness tenfold. Interview the Co-eds; theirideas on various matters would be exceedinglyinteresting. In short, let our "Technique"reflect everything that is connected with ourcollege life, and let it be a product of the besttalent that the Institute contains. If that ideais followed out, our " Annual" may be madeto rank with the best productions of ourcolleges.

Encourage the other classes to assist you,in order that you may have as much as pos-sible from which to choose, and be assured ofTHE TECH'S best wishes for a grand success,

these suggestions being offered in all goodwill.

The Senior Dinner Committee, wishing toascertain the number of men who intend to bepresent at the dinner, have provided them-selves with subscription blanks. A canvassof the students is to be made, the subscribersto pay one dollar at the time of subscription,and the remaining two at any time before thedinner. Let us hope the scheme will induceall to decide to attend the dinner.

PRIVATE THEATRICALS.

You wvere a haughty beauty, Polly(That was in the play);

I was the lover melancholy(That was in the play);

And when your fan and you receded,And all nmy passion lay unheeded,If still with tender words I pleaded,

That was in the play!

I met my rival at the gateway(That was in the play);

And so we fought a duel straightway(That was in the play);

But when Jack hurt my arm unduly,And you rushed over, softened newly,And kissed me, Polly ! truly, truly,

Was that in the play?

-Louise Imogen Guiney.

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Deceived.HAT hapless silence which invariablyfalls upon two persons, one of whom has

offered to the other a heart and hand whichhave been immediately refused, had existedfor some painful minutes, when Miss Elbridgesaid, with more vehemence than courtesy,,'Well, why don't you go?"

"Go?" repeated Mr. Winsted, vacantly."Yes, go,'" went on Miss Elbridge; "you

irritate me excessively." But, observing theyoung man's pain, which even the habitualvacuity of his expression could not hide, sheadded more kindly, " I suppose I'm nervous."

"Nervous?" repeated her companion yetmore vacantly. Seemingly he was on theverge of asking the word's meaning,-actuallyanalyzing the emotions in her tone.

"Yes, yes; nervous." And with a flare ofwords: "Why are you so placid, so colorless,so, so-? Are you never moved? Have youno emotion? Do you expect me to love ashell?"

No sooner had Miss Elbridge thus coherentlyand dispassionately put the case than sherepented of it in her heart, for she and Mr.Winsted had been very good friends in anirresponsible sort of a way. But before shecould smooth her roughness, Mr. Winstedhad murmured helplessly, "I really don'tknow," and had faded quite away, accordingto her desire. And yet, far from experiencingany relief from his removal, she was utterlymiserable,-like a cat with no rat to worry,-and fatuitously began to question herself:"What will he think of me ? I was so brutal,-actually brutal, and a woman; nwhile he isamiable; sometimes-yes, he is always con-siderate, as far as his knowledge goes. Whatwill he think? Absurd; just as though heever thought!"

As the Socialists, Communists, or whateverthey like to hear themselves called, are alwNay slooking through their matted hair for an up-rising of the poor man in his strength; as thedramatic critics are peering about through

their eyeglasses for the informing playwrightof the future,-so the young lady of society,through her life-mask, watches for the hero,-the hero in the degraded age, always expected,but who nevertheless never comes. Theadoration of a lesser than the hero is toher ludicrous; so she accepts it, regard-less of the fact that to a small man thepetty may be grandly serious. There-fore, when Mr. Winsted had quietly andabruptly informed Miss Elbridge that heloved her desperately, she had been startledand displeased; but had failed to observe theexistence of a fallacy, in that she had notbeen merely amused, as she should havebeen in accordance with her point of view.In fact, she was so displeased that she wasdisturbed. Her conscience -an inheritancefrom a Puritan ancestor took Mr. Winsted'spart, and tormented her insulted complacencyuntil she could endure the elemental strife nolonger, and, ordering her carriage, drove toreceive comfort at the hands of her friendMiss Jackson.

Miss Jackson, of the age when everywoman is her own c/aaperon, had rooms inthe West End, in a little foreign-looking street,lighted at night by great lamps suspendedfrom brackets above the doors of the houses.Miss Jackson was not in society,-that is, notin the self-conscious, Pharisaically exclusivesociety; but she furnished a weekly letter fora newspaper of a far Western city, and wrotecharming personal notes of that society, which,as thus portrayed, the Western city ridiculedand envied. Not only did Miss Jackson dothis, but, being of a versatile mind, she criti-cised art in all its branches for a people and atime that, being unable to produce anythinggood, liked to be flattered upon their culture,and to be turned out for to the left. There-fore, Miss Jackson knew something about thetheatres and art collections of her city. More-over, being always busy, she was neverbored; and thus was virtue its own reward.On that particular day she had proceeded in

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her weekly letter as far as "It is rumored,"when Miss Elbridge's sudden entrance putan end to imaginative construction for thetime.

"0 Henrietta !" cried the visitor, droppinginto a chair; "I am so disturbed."

"'What's the matter now ?" inquired her friendbrusquely, wiping her pen on the sleeve of ahouse jacket which she always wore whilewriting.

"Henrietta," remonstrated the visitor, "youspeak as though you'd often seen me dis-turbed, when you know I never allow myselfto be disturbed."

"Well, well, Florence, you needn't tell meunless you like."

"Why, Henrietta, of course I want to tellyou. That's what I've come for. Do youknow, that great, idiotic Ralph Winsted pro-posed to me?"

"I thought he was a very intelligent man,"interrupted the penny-a-liner, drawing off herhouse jacket.

' 'Intelligent !""I thought he knew enough not to expose

his ignorance; but of course, as he's proposedto you, I'm wrong."

"0 Henrietta, you aren't sympathetic at all.The idea of his doing such a thing-to me!He irritated me so that I was rude, and drovehim out of the house, and called him names

"Through the window?""No, no; before he went out. I was very

rough, but he is so-so-such a ninny; and-what shall I do, Henrietta?"

"I don't know," answered Miss Jackson, asshe arranged her hat before the mirror.There were gray hairs on her head, so shemay have understood Miss Elbridge's mentalstate better than that young woman herself."Unless," she added, "you insert an adver-tisement in the papers to the effect that, ifRalph Winsted will return to his love, all willbe forgiven and no questions asked. But, inthe meanwhile, I am going out. You'd better

walk with me; we'll look in at the shop win-dows, and forget our woes."'

" It's so very muddy," sighed Miss Elbridge,luxuriously. "I've got my carriage here;we'll go in that."

"No; I want my exercise. Come,-comealong; send the carriage away; you're grow-ing lazy."

In spite of a beautifully enameled blue sky,the streets were very muddy, as Mr. Winstedlearned to his disgust when, discarded by MissElbridge, he sought comfort in roaming.Although his features were placid and his hairlight, yet his mind was chaotically black.Absent-mindedly he entered his club. Froma dark corner a very young man, who seemedto have been sitting there to let the moldgather upon him till his freshness and re-proach should be blotted out, sprang up andgreeted the erring lover.

Ah ! so glad to see a human being !"

' I am not human," said Mr. Winsted,stalking away. He began to walk about thegardens, but they did not seem to deserve halfthe praise that had been given them. Thenhe lost himself in a crooked street, on whosecrossings women were floundering aboutdistractedly under the noses of rearinghorses.

It was but very little later that Miss Elbridge,stepping with her friend out of a store wherethey had been pricing something that theydid not want, and had not the least 'intentionof buying, beheld Mr. Winsted crossing thestreet with an old woman, conspicuous by avery large hat, and the affectation of a veryyouthful manner.

"0 Henrietta, look !" cried Miss Elbridge."Who is that horrid old woman with Mr.Winsted ? "

"' Old !" she said, turning away. "That'sa ballet-girl at the ' Diamond."'

"A ballet-girl! The horrid man! Howhe has deceived me,-and I thought he wasso upright! I'll never, never forgive him,Henrietta."

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So it happened that from that day Miss El-bridge refused to recognize Mr. Winsted whenshe saw him.

But, far from accepting his defeat, Mr. Win-sted, with a determination seemingly foreignto him, resolved to continue the chase whilethere was a chase to continue; and as a pre-liminary he called for advice upon Mrs. Rich-ards, a motherly woman, much interested inthe concerns of young men, and ready ofcounsel. Mrs. Richards was at home to Mr.Winsted, and received him with a gracious,indulgent smile. HI-e explained matters, per-haps a little abruptly,-but then he was nodiplomatist,-by saying:-

"Mrs. Richards, I've come to ask youradvice, you know."

"You've been long away, but you comenow that you need me," replied the matron,playfully and sententiously chiding.

"Ah-I know-yes; I've been so worried.You see, Miss Elbridge-no, I proposed toMiss Elbridge, you know, and I called her-no, she called me a ninny, and I won't speakto her any more,- I mean she won't speak tome any more."

Now there could be no love affair in her setand Mrs. Richards in ignorance of it-suchwas her observation. Therefore, what Mr.Winsted left vague she was able to supply forherself in a great measure.

"But I don't quite understand why sheshould cut you for such a thing. Isn't theresomething else, something you're not tellingme?" she urged, curiously.

"No, no indeed. It does seem absurd Imean odd, you know. I'd ask her, but Ican't; she won't let me come near her."

Mrs. Richards' eyes were lighted with joyin the anticipation of using for another thatfinesse which she was too old to employ for her-self, as she replied: "Don't worry. Come to-morrow afternoon, and you shall see her alone."

Mr. Winsted lookedincredulous. "No, notanother word," she went on. "You come to-morrow,-now go."

When on the next day Mr. Winsted rang thebell at Mrs.' Richards' door, he was usheredmysteriously into a narrow, closet-like room ofwhose existence he had theretofore beenignorant. Mrs. Richards appeared to himafter an intolerably long interval, as he reck-oned it. She did not wait to greet him, butfluttering into the room pushed him towards acurtain, and whispered, "Now go right in, andbe bold."

Mr. Winsted entered precipitately, butalthough he had determined to be bold, hefound such a course impossible when he stoodbefore Miss Elbridge, over whose face passeda subtle change as she turned and saw him.

"Mr. Winsted ! " she exclaimed in a voicethat chilled him. He shifted his positionuneasily, and unwittingly brought himselfbetween her and the door.

"Mr. Winsted," she began again, " howdare you intrude upon me like this? But Imight have expected it of you. Now let mego ;" and, springing to her feet, she walkedtowards him. As she advanced he retreated,until he stood with his back set firmly againstthe door.

" Mr. Winsted, will you let me go out?"she asked, tremulously; but Mr. Winsted con-tinued to stand against the door without reply-ing. She turned her back upon him. " Thisis rude-worse than rude; it is abominable; itis"- and she sank helplessly upon the sofa.

" Now,," thought Mr. Winsted at the door,my time is come; she must needs hear me

now. I'll speak to her." But, try as hewould, no sound came from his lips.

"Mrs. Richards planned this," declaredMiss Elbridge, on the sofa. " It was cruel toallure me here for this. I shall never forgiveher and you-you, too; and I used to like youso mullch."

"I musz speak," thought Mr. Winsted atthe door, but he could form no syllable.

" Oh! please, please Mr. Winsted, let mego ;" and Miss Elbridge, firom conflictingemotions, began at last to weep softly.

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"If I let you go, will you come right back ?"asked Mr. Winsted, finding words at last.

" Absurd! never, never, never!" sobbedMiss Elbridge.

Mr. Winsted's fright departed utterly. Afterall, this young girl in tears was not veryformidable, he told himself; and crossing theroom, sat beside her. The only notice thatshe took of his presence was to draw herskirts more closely about her from contactwith him.

' Florence," he said. She shivered, butmade no response.

s"Florence," he went on, "why haven'tyou spoken to me lately?"

"You're a bad, bad man !" she burst out.'You've cruelly deceived me; you've broken

my heart.""What do you mean, Florence?" he asked,

anxiously."Don't call me Floren6e,- and you know

perfectly well what I mean;" and the sobsbegan again, but were muffled immediatelyby the handkerchief.

'"I do not; tell me, Florence," the brutewent on.

6"I thought you were so-so good, youknow, and I saw you-with a-a-ballet-girl-O Ralph, how could you?"

,"I couldn't, and didn't, and you mustn't callme Ralph."

"I didn't mean to; I saw you with her thatafternoon that I sent you away,-a horrid oldwoman, with a big hat, and Henrietta Jack-son said that she was a ballet-girl."

" Oh!" said Mr. Winsted, laughing; " shewasn't in her teens, anyway. But, Florence,I didn't know what she was; I was just help-ing her across the street."

"Really?" asked Miss Elbridge, lookingup from her handkerchief. "I'm so glad-I mean, of course, it's nothing to me at all,"with a sudden assumption of dignity, whichhad no effect upon certain manifestations oftenderness which Mr. Winsted was making;so she found it necessary to say, "Let me go."

"Will you return if I do ? " and in persuadingher to do so, Mr. Winsted found little diffi-culty, considering how very distasteful hispresence must have been to her.

List of letters and communications remain-ing uncalled for at the "cage":-

Anderson, G. W. Johnston, M. L.Annandale, W. E. Kales, W. R.Armistead, F. N. Laws, W. F.Armstrong, H. Leerning, W.Bailey, R. Leiper, G. W.Barnard, H. 0. Locke, J. C.Beattie, R. H. Maki, H.Beecher, Miss A. H. Maunesmann, R.Beddall, A. R. Mansfield, A. N.Berry, H. McNear, Miss M. J.Bissell, R. W. Mead, P. W.Beale, E. E. Meserve, R. E.Bonesteele, F. P. Meyer, G. J.Breed, S. A. Miller, Miss L.Brown. Mitchell, G. E.Burnham, C. M. Mott-Smith, 1H. M.Campbell. Nichols, G. A.Capen, B. Newman, F. E.Chapin, G. E. Paraschos, N. T.Chase, H. M. Parker, E. M.Cheney, N. Parrish, J. T.Codman, J. S. Patterson, Wv. E.Conant, R. W. Peck, W. F.Covell, E. C. Pratt, C. B.Crane, J., Jr. Randall, E. B.Cutler, W. W. Resor, W. S.Cutter, L. T. Robertson, A..R.Daggett, W. C. Rogers, H. L.Davis, F. I. Ross, D. W.Dean, A. W. Sayward, W. H., Jr.De Bullet, J. C. E. Schneider, E. E.Dorr, F. H. Sears, C. M.Duncan, R. J. Shurtleff, A. A.Eaton, E. L. Smith, A. C.Ensworth, IS. 1-1. Sperry, A.Fairfield, E. J. Sutton, S.Fitts, F. W. Thalheimer, W. C.Fitz, C. F. Tidd, A. W.Gilbert, P. F. Vorce, W. H.Gilmnore, F. C. Warner, G. M.Gorham, M. Warner, M.Hawkins, WV. R. WVason, L. C.Hazelton, I. B. Weed, ff. T.Heywood, C. D. Weis, S. W.Holmes, F. C. Wheildon, W. M.Howe, J. W. White, H. C.Hubbard, C. B. Whiting, WV. S.Hunt, W. F. Wilder, P. -H.Iglesias, E. T. Young, J. M.Johnson,-C. H.

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The Editors do not hold themselves reslonsible for opiln-

ions expressed by correspondents.

To THE EDITOR OF THE TECH:-

Since the appearance of the article in the lastissue of THE TECHI concerning a post office, theopinion of the President and Corporation on thissubject has been obtained. President Walker andMr. Wigglesworth for the Corporation, to whomthe matter was referred, both heartily favor theplan. Inasmuch as there is comparatively littlemail sent here at present, it is uncertain if therewould be a need for the five hundred and fortyboxes specified in the plan submitted. They thinkit best to put in about one hundred and twenty-fivelock boxes at first; and if the demand for themjustifies putting in more, that will be done after-wards. It is proposed to remove the grating onthe north side of the cage, and on the top of thewoodwork place the nest. There is room fortwenty-six boxes horizontally, and five rows willmake a total of one hundred and thirty; abovethese, netting will be placed, as at present. Ifeach box were free, every student would be entitledto one. In order to limit the use to those whoreally wish them, it is proposed to charge a smallannual rental, and to use the money so obtained(above the expense of maintenance, which wouldbe slight) to aid some needy and deserving studentthrough his course.

In addition to the brief description given before,I will add that the inside dimensions of each boxare: width, three and one-quarter inches; height,five inches; and depth, ten inches. This gives abox larger than the United States standard. Thedoors present a very handsome appearance withtheir bronze fronts, which are warranted not to rustor change color. They are provided with Sargentand Greenleaf locks containing six tumblers; tenthousand changes can be had. The locks arewarranted not to break, or get out of order, or rust,or with ordinary use wear out for twenty-fiveyears; while the keys are not interchangeable. Iwrite this to bring the matter before a larger num-ber than would be possible otherwise; meetingsare often poorly attended, and I wish all, and es-pecially the Seniors, to understand the plan, then

to act upon it. I feel almost sure that '9I, as awhole, will adopt this scheme. They need notstop on account of expense, which will be slightper caiita, as can be fully explained in a classmeeting.

L. C. WASON, '91.

The Columbia College cricket team is aremarkably strong one, and will probably giveHarvard and the University of Penn. some in-teresting games.

There are forty-nine candidates for the Har-vard freshman nine.

The petition of the Japanese student, S.Okeda, to be allowed to substitute Chinese andJapanese for Latin and Greek in the entrancerequirements for Harvard, has been granted.This will undoubtedly attract a large numberof Japanese students to Cambridge.

Francis B. Lee, University of Pennsylvania'90, is assisting Professor Felix E. Schellingin compiling a history of the fraternities of theUniversity of Pennsylvania.

The Harvard eight have begun rowing onthe Charles river, with positions as .follows:Bow, Watriss, '92; No. 2, Powers, '93; No.3, Rantoul, '92; No. 4, Vail, '93; No. 5,Shaw, '94; No. 6, Lyman, M. S.; No. 7,Kelton, '93; stroke, Captain Perkins; cox-swain, C. F. Adams, L. S. Mr. Adams isacting as coach.

A New York Alumni Association of Phillips-Andover is being formed. Over three hun-dred names have already been subscribed.

The announcement has just been made thatMr. Morris K. Jesup, of New York City, hasgiven $5I,ooo000 in government bonds to theYale Divinity School. The gift is made inmemory of his father, who graduated fromYale in ISI4, and is to be called for him theCharles Jesup Fund. No stipulations accom-pany the gift, and the interest on the sum willbe used according to the discretion of theFaculty.

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Lucrative positions are once more at a pre-mium.

Most of the Seniors have begun work ontheir theses.

Many of the men stretched their vacationto a fortnight.

'Tuesday the mill engineers had an excur-sion to Lowell.

That suspended bulletin board was a mostwelcome innovation.

The number of men who have just discoveredthey are in the wrong course is quite large.

The number of men who have failed to re-turn is smaller than usual at this time of year.

The Senior Class in Steam Engineering re-ports that high marks do not go with an easyexamination.

The Faculty is considering the advisabilityof making Latin necessary for entrance to theInstitute.

Mr. Puffer has been giving a course oflectures on Electricity at the Wells MemorialInstitute.

Several large dynamos have been put in thedynamo room to be used in the thesis work ofthis year.

Many thanks to the authorities for filling upthe moat that existed in the approach to theNew Building.

Mrs. Charlotte B. Richardson has left theInstitute $30,00o as a fund for the departmentof Industrial Chemistry.

The Sophomores are pleased at having toprocure their "Differential" books at the cage,instead of at the usual place.

There is already some talk in regard toorganizing Sophomore baseball teams among

the different courses. A good method ofdeveloping talent, in so far as the regularteams are not interfered with.

A prominent feature of the Twentieth Cen-tury Club meetings is the large number ofinstructors who are present.

We notice one step in the right direction.A letter list is posted frequently in the officialbulletin board in Rogers corridor.

The Sophomores in Course VI. are havinga four weeks' course of lectures in PhysicalLaboratory before beginning actual work.

A. E. Fowle has resigned as BusinessManager of 93's "Technique," and H. V.Shaw has resigned from the Artistic Staff.

An accident to the dynamo in the engineer-ing building prevented the Senior Electricalsfrom running a combined engine and dynamotest last Friday.

Mr. Blodgett, of the signal department ofthe Boston and Albany Railroad, began hislectures last week on the application of elec-tricity to railroad signaling.

On March I 4 th, the Northwestern Univer-sity tug-of-war team will contend with ourteam in the Exeter Street Gym. An interest-ing contest is expected. To this event mayalso be added one or two more of interest.

We are all very much obliged to the fatherof our country for allowing us to celebrate onMonday, the 23d. It would have gonedirectly against our earnest desires, had webeen obliged to commemorate his birth thedaNy before.

The class of '94 met Wednesday, Februaryiith, in ii Rogers. The election of theSenior Dinner Committee resulted as follows:W. C. Peet, R. K. Sheppard, B. E. Holden,M. L. Johnston, R. C. Anderson. Aboutthirty-five men were reported as candidatesfor the baseball nine. F.elected manager of the team.

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' Technique" isannounced as follows: Editor in Chief, L.B. Dixon; Associate Editors, A. F. Bemis,H. L. Rice; Business Manager, A. E. Fowle;

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Assistant Business Manager, J. C. Boyd;Artistic, G. B.-Perkins, M. B. Biscoe, H. V.Shaw, F. WV. Hight; Athletics, J. C. Noblit;Societies, E. E. Blake; Statistics, F. W.Fabyan, H. A. Morss.

During the past year and a half F. H.Meserve, '92, has been superintending theconstruction of a building of his own design,in Great Falls, N. -H. The building is a G.A. R. Memorial Hall, and was completed ashort time ago.

When the Civil Engineering Society wasformed, it was arranged that second-year mencould not become regular members. A shorttime ago this policy was changed, and Sopho-mores are now members, in equal standing withJuniors and Seniors. Sophomores are earnest-ly invited to attend the meetings of the society.

The tabular view of the Junior Civils ismore satisfactory this term than it was last,both as regards the amount and the distribu-tion of the work. This fact, however, merelyurges the festive grind to renewed efforts; hespends all his spare hours in the drawingroom, and later in the term reaps his rewardin the. anxious faces of those unfortunates whohave been satisfied in doing the averageamount of work.

A '91 class meeting was held Saturdaynoon, February I4th, to elect a Class Day Com-mittee. The resignation of Cunningham fromthe Photograph Committee was accepted, andKoch was appointed in his place. It wasvoted to elect the Class Day Committee byballot, which was done on Tuesday, FebruaryI7th. Messrs. Bradlee, Garrison, Forbes,Viele, Blanchard, Oxford, Bryden, Aiken,Shattuck, Leeming ,, were elected.

The open indoor winter meeting of theAthletic Club will be held in Winslow's Rink,on March 7th. The events xvill consist chieflyof vaulting, jumping, and running. Besidesbeing open to Harvard and the Boston Ath-letic Association, invitations have been sentto the athletic clubs of a number of other col-leges, Amherst, Williams, Dartmouth, etc.

A petition is being circulated among theFreshmen in regard to next year's semi-annual drill. All those signing it agree notto disturb '95's semi-annual drill exhibition.It seems rather early in the day to take suchaction, but no doubt it is best while the ex-periences undergone at the last exhibition arestill fresh in the minds of the disturbedwarriors.

The directors of the Co-operative Societyheld a meeting last week. They are now atwork upon a new list of affiliated tradesmenwhich will be completed in plenty of time toaccompany the new tickets to be issued onApril ist. This is not an April fool, but afact.

Now that '91 has elected its Class Day Com-mittee, does it not bring tears to one's eyes tothink that its members may have used thatworthy ballot box for the last time?

The following men have been elected on theGlee Club: Ist tenor, E. P. Whitman, W. L.Bugbee, H. M. Wescott; 2d tenor, A. F.Hunt, G. A. Holmes; Ist bass, John Aiken,F. W. Fabyan, W. H. Vorce; 2d bass, W. C.Daggert, B. E. Fenner, I. B. Hazleton; di-rector, Sumner Coolidge; J. G. Melluish, ac-companist; W. H. Vorce, business manager.

Both the Sophomore and Freshman base-ball candidates are only waiting for favorabledays in which.to appear upon the space be-tween the railroad tracks for practice. Thereis first-class material trving for positions onthe teams. '94 probably has the larger num-ber of aspirants. Those trying for '93's teamare mostly men of experience. There arescarcely any candidates who were droppedlast year.

At a meeting of the Class of '94 on the 2 4thinst., Hastings and H. A. Baldwin wereunanimously elected to serve as directors ofthe Co-operative Society.

The report that the recitations in Structureswith Professor Swain, form a most enjoyableportion of the work in Course I. is denied byinterested persons.

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The Faculty of Rutgers have decided tomake gymnasium work compulsory for thetwo lower classes.

Columbia, Dartmouth, and Williams havedispensed with commencement exercises.

Phillips-Exeter has raised over $700 for itsbaseball nine for the coming season.

St. Paul's School, Garden City, has -beenclosed, on account of scarlet fever.

The M. A. C. is now the largest club inNew York, having 2,500 members. TheN. Y. A. C. is second, with 2,300.

An art museum, to cost $I50,,oo000, is to beadded to Stamford University by Mrs. Stam-ford.

The trustees of the Chicago University havedecided to ask the citizens of Chicago for

5oo00,ooo more to expend for buildings.Boston University offers instruction in a

larger number of languages than any otherAmerican institution.

The Yale University library has received avaluable addition in a gift from Franklyn B.Dexter, Secretary of the Yale Corporation, ofhis collection of books and manuscripts relat-ing to early New England history.

The students at Exeter have raised $270 forthe purpose of hiring M. J. Kelly, the Bostonplayer, to coach the school nine.

The Yale Glee Club will hereafter devotetheir profits to establish a contingency fund of$3,ooo, fi'om which to pay running expenses.

The average age of the men entering theUniversity of Michigan this year was 1 7 yearsI-2 months; that of the women was I9 years5-9 months.

The annual Rugby football game betweenEngland and Ireland was won by the formerby a score of two goals and three touchdownsto nothing.

Fisk University has decided to erect a chapelin memory of the late Gen. Clinton B. Fisk,with the $25,00ooo left to that university by him.

Lectures in Volapiik are now delivered atYale, which is the first American college toadd the language to its curriculum.

The University of Pennsylvania will sendout a scientific exploring and dredging expe-dition to the Bahamas and the Caribbean Sea.

All of last year's nine at Yale have returnedto college except Stagg and McBride. Dal-zell will probably take Stagg's place, andthere are several candidates for first base.

The success of the past few years has in-duced the University of Vermont to try toraise $I,ooo to put a baseball nine in the fieldwith the other colleges.

Princeton College has received a gift of overthirty thousand pieces of pottery and porce-lain illustrating the history and progress ofart from the earliest Egyptian period down tothe present time.

The Harvard Peabody Museum of Archa-ology and Ethnology has received $30,0oo tofound a scholarship with.

The average Wellesley girl weighs one hun-dred and nineteen and a half pounds, and isa trifle over five feet two inches in height.

The University of Michigan is planning tosend its baseball team East next season to playthe eastern college nines.

The alumnae of Vassar College are endeav-oring to raise $40,000 with which to endow aprofessorship of astronomy at Vassar College.

At the next meeting of the IntercollegiateA. A. in New York, action will be taken asto the advisability of dropping the tug-of-warfrom the list of events.

The Canadian Football Association willsend a team to England this year. Arrange-ments are being made for games with the bestteams in Great Britain and Ireland.

The candidates for the Cornell Freshmancrew have been reduced to fourteen men,whose average weight is i62 pounds.

A successful expedition, sent out by Univer-sity of Pennsylvania, to investigate the floraand fauna of the West Indies and Florida, hasjust returned.

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Eton celebrates its ninth jubilee this year.The authorities are planning for an exhibitionof pictures and relics of all sorts connectedwith the school.

The position of art director at the World'sFair has been offered to Henry G. Marquand,Esq., President of the Board of Trustees ofthe Metropolitan Art Museum, New York.

An organized movement, at the head ofwhich is Mrs. President Harrison, is on footto secure a woman's medical branch to JohnsHopkins University.

There are eighty-three men in the SeniorClass at Exeter. It is the intention of forty toenter Harvard, twenty will go to Yale, six tothe Massachusetts Institute of Technology,two to Princeton, two to the Columbia LawSchool, and one each to Dartmouth, Williams,University of Pennsylvania Law School, andRensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

The first official report of the University ofChicago has just been issued. It is proposedto make its scope very wide, and eventually toinclude preparatory schools, colleges of liberalarts, sciences, literature, practical arts, post-graduate school, theological school, lasev school,medical school, and schools of engineering,pedagogy, fine arts, and music.

Charles Lenning, of Philadelphia, has left$700,000 to the University of Pennsylvania;$500,000 is to go to the Towne ScientificSchool, and the remaining $200,000 is to beused to found scholarships.

An Intercollegiate Football League will beformed by Bucknell, Haverford, Dickinson,Swarthmore, Pennsylvania State College, andFranklin and Marshall.

The Columbia tug-of-war team has accepteda challenge from Northwestern Universityfor a pull in the latter part of March.

The Princeton Faculty Athletic Committeeare considering the advisability of forbiddingstudents to take part in any outside athleticcontests during term time, except in the Inter-collegiate championship meeting, and in gameswith other colleges.

A meeting of the Intercollegiate RowingAssociation, composed of Cornell, Columbia,and Pennsylvania Universities, will be heldsome time this month. Bowdoin will proba-bly be admitted to the Association.

A letter from Amelia B. Edwards to anEastern journal states that the committee ofthe Egypt exploration fund have determinedto make an exhaustive archeological surveyof the country. The work includes measur-ing and making plans of the monuments, andcopying and photographing the inscriptions,sculptures, and wall paintings in the provinceof Minich.

The death of the Hon. George Bancroft hasremoved the most distinguished alumnus ofHarvard University, and has made i818 Har-vard's oldest class that has a living graduate.The Rev. A. F. Farley, of Brooklyn, is nowthe senior alumnus, having graduated in 18i8,one year after Mr. Bancroft. Dr. Farley isover ninety years of age, and is a residentpastor emeritus of a Brooklyn UnitarianChurch.

As it may be interesting to note the dateswhen the principal colleges of the countrywere founded, we publish the list below:Harvard, I636; William and Mary, i693;Yale, I70I; Princeton, I746; University ofPennsylvania, I753 ; King's (Columbia),I754; Brown, I764; Rutgers, I756; Dart-mouth, I769; Dickenson, I783: Universityof Vermont, 179I; Williams, I793; Bowdoin,I794; Union, I79 : Hamilton, I812 ; Univer-sity of Virginia, ISI9; Trinity, I823; Am-herst, 1825; Lafayette, I826 ; Wesleyan, I83I;University of City of New York, i831 ; Ober-lin, IS33; University of Michigan, i837;Iowa, I847 ; Northwestern University, I85I;Tufts, I852; Franklin and M\narshall, I853;Massachusetts Institute of Technology, i86i ;Swathmore, I864; Cornell, i865; Lehigh,i866; College of City of New York, i866;Johns Hopkins, I867; Boston University,I869; University of Nebraska, I869; Syra-cuse University, I870.

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W. C. Johnson, the champion amateurIoo-yard swimmer of America, broke theworld's record for Ioo feet in the M. A. C.swimming tank, covering the distance in 20seconds.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons,which has been an adjunct of Columbia Col-lege, is now a department of the College, andcompletely under its control.

The new rules framed by the committee ofthe Amateur Athletic Union and L. A. W.contain the following reference to collegeathletics: "Undergraduate students trainingfor or competing at contests limited to col-legians may, however, receive from theircollege associations such expenses as are cus-tomary with them, and are sanctioned by theIntercollegiate Association." Other amateurathletes must, according to the new rules, paytheir own expenses.

In the Yale crew, Ives, who was to strokethe crew, has been ordered to cease rowingon account of heart trouble. Ferris cannotrow on account of rheumatism; Hartwell,who has rowed three years, refuses to row.Brewster and Simms will then be the onlyold men left in the boat.

The New York alumni of Harvard havepresented to last year's football team a magnif-icent silver cup, in appreciation of their vic-tory last fall. Upon its side is the inscription,"The Cumnock Cup; the gift of HarvardGraduates in New York. Springfield, Nov.22, 1890. Harvard, I2; Yale, 6." Besidesthis, each player has a cup of his own, CaptainCumnock having the largest and most elaborate.

The definition of an amateur under the rulesof the Amateur Athletic Union, is as follows:"An amateur athlete is one who has not en-tered in an open competition, or for either astake, public or admission money, or entrancefee, or under a fictitious name, or has notcompeted with or against a professional forany prize or where admission fee is charged,or who has not instructed, pursued, or assistedin the pursuit of athletic exercises as a means

of livelihood, or for gain or any emolument, orwhose membership of any athletic club of anykind was not brought about or does not con-tinue because of any mutual understanding,express or implied, whereby his becoming orcontinuing a member of such clubs would beof any pecuniary benefit to him whatever, di-rect or indirect.

The '9i Mechanicals and Electricals havechosen subjects for thesis work as follows:-

C. W. AIKEN and R. S. BALL: Efficiency Test of a Mt.Washington Locomotive.

J. H. BIRKs and F. W. FUGER: Deflection of ParallelRods

F. C. BLANCHARD and J. SWAN: Reciprocating Partsof Marine Engines.

H. L. BRAND and W. E. HOPTON: Test of a Fifty-tonLinde Ice Machine.

E. L. CHILDS: The Comparative Strengths of Bleachedand Unbleached Cotton Cloth.

F. C. MOORE and C. H. WOOD: The Friction of BoltThreads.

A. W. MOSELEY and F. H. RosE: Explosion of Gasesin a Closed Vessel.

F. E. NORTON and F. A. WILSON: The WVear of GearTeeth.

C. A. READ and W. C. RICHARDSO'N: A Test on Injec-tors.

C. M. TYLER: The Value of the Steam Jacket.F. A. COLE and H. I. COLE: The Strength of I Beams.L. G. FRENCH: The Flow of Steam.E. L. LIBBEY: The Pressure on Lathe and Planer Tools.H. G. BRADLEY and R. W. CONANT: Efficiency and

Ware Form of Current from Telephone Induction Coils.WV. H. BRAINERD and H. H. SYKES: Safe Carrying Ca-

pacity of Wires.C. GARRISON and M. WV. GREER: Variation of Stray

Power in Edison Dynamo with Variation of Load.W. MOSSMAN: Conductivity of Commercial Wires.G. H. K. OXFORD and W. 1. PALMER: Characteristic of

Edison Machine, and Variation of Potential around Com-mutator.

T. SPENCER and F. T. SNYDER: Commercial Test ofMalden Electric Light Station.

HI. P. SPAULDING and L. C. WVASON: Efficiency Test ofThomson-I-Iouston Alternater by Air Calorimeter Method.

G. H. SPOONER and G. M. WARNER: Characteristic ofWeston Dynamo in Engineering Building.

H. H. WVAITr and C. W. RICKER: To Discover theMethod of Vibration of Telephone Diaphrams.

F. S. VIELi and T. V. BOLAN: Efficiency of Trans-formers.

J. F. WHITE and H. H. ENSWORTH: Inverse Electro-motive Force of Electric Arc.

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The Athletic Meeting held in the Armoryof the First Regiment, on Saturday, FebruaryI4th, was in many respects a success. Thebreaking of the world's record in the runninghigh-jump by G. R. Fearing was a notableevent, and excited much interest. It was anoteworthy fact that in nearly every event thescratch men failed to get a place. SeveralTech. men made a creditable showing.

The Board of Managers of the AmateurAthletic Union met at the B. A. A. club houseon February I 4 th, and admitted six clubs tomembership.

The L. A. W. Officers met in Washingtonon February I6th; they represented I8,II3wheelmen. The membership has been in-creased during the last year by 5,7Io; thereare at present 44I women members. TheConvention favored the creation by Congressof a national highway commission.

Representatives of Yale and Harvard met inNew London on February I4 th, to discuss theconditions which shall govern the race on theThames next June, if it is decided to rowover that course. The representatives of bothuniversities are of the opinion that if the racesare in future to be rowed on the Thames,the authorities of New London should dosomething to lighten the expenses of thecrews.

The Harvard Freshmllen Crew will take noaction on the Yale challenge until Columbiahas been heard from. If Columbia acceptsHarvard's challenge, a race between all threecrews will probably be arranged; otherwise,Yale and Harvard will race.

The following is.the order of events for thewinter athletic meetings at Harvard: Satur-day, March 2Ist-Putting the I6-pound shot;finals in heavy, middle, and light weightwrestling; heavy, middle, and light weightsparring; fence vault. Saturday, March 28th-- Semi-finals and finals in fencing and broad-swords; running high jump; ro-yard dash;feather and bantam weight sparring; horizon-tal bar. The preliminaries in wrestling andfencing will be decided before the meeting.The boxers and wrestlers will be classed asfollows: Heavy weights, over I6o; middleweights, between I6o and I4o; light weights,between I40 and I25; feather weights, be-tween I25 and 115; bantam weights, underII5·

The following committee has been appointedto represent Harvard at the IntercollegiateAthletic Association meeting in New York,February 28th: E. C. Moen, Lee, and Hunt.This meeting will be important, as some im-portant questions concerning the Mott Havenprogramme will be discussed.

At a meeting of the National Lawn TennisAssociation in New York, Saturday, an am-ateur was defined. Dr. James Dwight ofBoston was elected to the Executive Commit-tee. The Eastern championship will be heldon Staten Island, and the Western in Chicago.The championship of the United States willbe played for at Newport.

The Harvard Association is to be allowedto take part in the Intercollegiate Associationgames in New York, in May, I89I. Thismatter has been under discussion for sometime, as it is one of the rules that Harvardshould not compete in athletic games outsideof New England. It is thought that the com-mittee took this action at the solicitation of thegraduate advisory committee.

Candidates for the Princeton ball team havegone into active practice. There are abouttwenty in all. A number of the candidateswere members of last year's team.

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Long years ago in Moses' time,When people were troubled with woes,

They tore their hair, and in their griefThey savagely rent their clothes.

And so it is in college nowXWhen students are troubled with woes,

They tear no hair, but in their griefThey savagely rent their clothes.

- Williams Weekly.

A CONFESSION.

The engineer lay dying,Fast ebbed his life away;

The hero that had saved us all,

Had met his fate that day.

Tenderlv bending o'er him, ·'Was an aged, white-robed priest,

And he told to the wondering listener,

The story of the East;

And of Him who had died to save us,

Then he read the commandments all;But the dying man interrupted,

With a feeble, murmuring call:

"I never took any human life,Nor them other commandments which "-

Here he paused, "But I've often run overThe frogs at a railroad switch."

-Lafayette.

A GUILTY CONSCIENCE.

"II found you out last Sunday night," Miss Ethel said.

Miss Grace turned red,And grew confused. "You saw us then-I should say me,

How could you see?But Jack was merely helping- me to wind some braid

That I had made."Miss Ethel smiled. "No; you were out. I came to call."

'Oh, was that all?"-Brunonian.

REASON ENOUGH.

"I wonder how these letters here,Became so damp and wet."

"What are they, Jack?" "Oh, mostly billsI haven't paid as yet."

The answer's plain, I guess, old man,"Said Fred, with sudden wit,

Because there's so much due on them,Must be the cause of it."

-Yale Record.

GRACIOUS !

With trembling steps to the minister's door,At a nervously quickened pace,

Came the deacon's son, as many before,To earnestly pray for grace.

Well, the parson was pleased at the youth's desire,

And made ready the holy water;But the youth declared his aim was higher-

His Grace was the minister's daughter !-Unit.

R. S. V. P.

Now what in thunder could I say?It happened somewhat in this way:It Was the first call I had made,And yet she didn't seem afraidTo sit beside me in a nookAnd gaze upon a picture book.And so some impulse made me hasteTo slip my arm around her waist.She seemed to like it pretty well,Just how and why I couldn't tell.lBut soon she brushed aside a curlAnd said, " I'll bet no other girl,When first you called upon the miss,

Has ever acted just like this."I smiled, and tried to look quite gay,But what in thunder could I say?

-Brunonitan.

STILL TIHE SAME.

T pressed her to my throbbing heart,

I swore no power on earth should partOur lives; our love time should not kill.

With oft reiterated vowI said that as I loved her now,

When we grew old, I'd love her still.

The years have passed, and now my wife.

Whom once I loved as my own life,Has all according to her will.She rules. The accents of her voiceGive me no reason to rejoice.I sigh, " Oh how I'd love her still "

- Bowzvdoin Orient.

A CHOICE OF VORDS.

"A pleasant evening," said her beau,Still lingering at the gate;

(She wondered why he did not go)The hour was getting late.

"Misuse of terms," she sudden cried,And vanished from his sight,

While from the hallway's dark recess

Came, " I should say good-night."-Dartmouoth Lit.

CUT.

Though Csar was a wild young man,

And many frolics led,He stood well in society

Till Brutus cut him dead.-Brunonian.

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