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Vol. XLVIII-No. 75 CAMBRIDGE, MASS., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1928 Price Five Cents

MEMORIAL TO MRS. Engineers ,meet FINAL PLANS FORI Electrical Department -A.. 11'ELLEN H. RICHARDS Does Practical Work University Club SPORTS NIGHT ON

jjA At last the Electrical Engin- Jn Hockey Gameteering Department has, applied FRIDAY A,'�-_, NOUNCED

Bas-Relief Presented by James its knowledge to a very practical With Harvard Game Less ThanP. Monroe in Behalf i)url)ose in the lights that it has Two Weeks Off, Team Does

-of Alumni had installed. over 'the bulletin Intensive Training 3 0 L A N 0 S T 0 1�01E E'7'boards. Will S!ipzak on 1--lag

The lights which first appeared to stum--nts, T-_67!For the first time- this season the'MANY FRIENDS PRESENT it, A"!.M. 1. T. hockey teani will scriniii-iagc

!"o ,` " _: L k - `improvement in the efficiency of S. 1, ', T, G FE A'fl %'; ,At one of the most impre3sive ser- the bulletin boards as dispensing 'with outside opponents when they S-4, UIroin t�e Coast Ari'ller-v 0)�-i),meet the University Club at the nev,-points for information, and the (;f the �'-nited Staies ii1l'.Vc S ever h-ld at the institute a Ba--,

lights themselves are quite orna- Boston Arena today at 6 o'clock. As, a lecture on "The Evolutionit is the team's first scrimnia-e, 110 Ifa -relief of Mrs. Ellen H. Richards Iniental. or the U. S. Flag" to ih-t. .-, v -, 1 o n Sh. or'73, the first wornan graduate of Tech- predictions can be inade excep-t �roiii 1

n-jogy, was unveiled "n Room 10-259 the fact that the team has been show- students in Rooni 10-250 at 1it, nday. Many of Mrs. Richards' ing u .p very well in practice. The 1 o'clock today. All sections of,

strength of the University Club team ipupils, and ccllEa-ues )lifitary Science, excet)t nicinjwrs MA '7y GlIalclassmates Varsity Quintet Z-.1, E NTF'1`,:--,EDivere present to honor this woman who of Company "A" actually firinythrougacut the world as ishould succeed in giving the Varsity, on the range will attend..s famed W ill M eet Boston of I'Mal ror ',he A.nnUal Si)ortsan authority on saniary chemistry ia real battle. Ni,-dit -,() in Walker Gyt'll (11an,.l lious-h-ld economics. University N ext The Varsity's first ganie will bei- li;�-IIL are rapidly nearing

played Saturday, with B. U. as the' C0111j)�e�;oll. The teanis fliat fire toilusband Unveils Bas-Relief opponent. Inasmuch as the team has be re�pro--ented are baske'tball, hox-

1 Ph osph h o r u s.1,1r. James Phinmy Monroe '82, Will Have to Improve Greatly been late getting started this year, i1i), ifnL-ijig,. gyni and %vrestling.. E"whI and as the Harvard game is near at of" theme teams Nvill be given aboutRichards' counsellor in com- n Order to Defeat

hand, coming on December 16, Appear Tomorrow W -latemunity work for human conservation, 11 y minutes to display its prowess.B.U. Saturday practice for the Varsity only is in X 7 Due to the faet that the Varsitypresented the memorial, a bronze order for this week. Coach Ste-%vartj and freshnian basheLball teams have

Bashim, InAMas Number,vac,,u2, th�! wcrk (,f J�Iiss is having the team practice every, gainers scheduled for Saturday nightPaff. Following the presentation. Scrininiage, and lots of it, is on morning that is available this weeki they will have to curtail their ex-Ri.hards the Varsity basketball team's sche-Iso as to "et the team in shape for' hibitions to IV minutes, but theProie-sor Emeritus Robert i i e'68. husband of Mrs. Richards, un- dule for the remainder of the week. I Saturday's':' (came. About thirty or: Lively Humor and Keen Satire ;1

-relef. The memorial a7re turning out at , second teams will put on a scrininiap�e.Neil-d the bas Saturday night the team meets Bos-Inioie men each: Characterize December For the remainder of the tinie al-ivas accepted in bch-Af of the Cori)- !practice session, many of whom are; iton University in the first real test o I 1 lotted thein.(,ntion by Professor Samuel C. Pres- - f sure to give some of the Varsity; Issue of Voo Doc) icott"94, head of the Lepartment, of their power. Accordi _g to Coach I nien a fight for their respective posi- Boxin_- Teanis Announces CardBijl(gy at the Insttate and folmer McCarthy, the team will have to do'dons. Although Coach Stewart is, Captain John Bolanos and Ronald

N7oo Doo" appears to us ag-ain to- Jameson will furnish the feature1,,upil and ally i-a ploneer wolk in much better than they did in the at present devoting all his time to'p-blic he-ilth' of Mrs. Richards. 'New Bedford game. developing the Varsity team, the: niorrow in a Christmas issue. Its boxing bout of the evening. Both

of these men have been doing goodS-veral hundred people .were pres- Basket shooting was none too good freshinen appear to have a -,wealth of cover by Benjainin Sinith '1330 por-ent at the services, in---lud'n_-, many in last Saturday's contest, and as a material this year and should with a' trays a snow man and his lady lover Ifr ends and classmates of Mrs. Rich- I result the men have spent a good deal little coaching develop into a fast!: a typical settin1g. Wayne A. handicapped slightly with a sore eye-irdIs and woman graduates of the I of their time trying to make their outfit. There are several good gaines, nice a cold. Svensson and Horton

.j thereInstitute. The co-e.Jls who are nowishots morea accurate. Brig Allen, on their schedule this year. the I Soverns `30 has a full page of winter I will put on another bout whileattendin�,, Techml, gy acted as ush- Dave Motter, and Captain Brockle- schedule on the whole being� the best Sports" of various variety duly lab- will be a third fight to finish up theers. It is intended to place the bronze, man were leading scorers in the New that a f reshnian team has had in I cled. boxers period. Orlenian will be oneplacque in one of the chemical labora- 1 Bedford game, but they missed a several years. The issue .opens with a yule tide I of the contestants in the final bout,tories. I large number of their shots. story of inerrie Englande whose er- but his opponent has not as yet been

Professor Augustus Gill '84, an as- Motter Looks Good rant nonsense is pleasing. Among announced.sociate of 'Mrs. Richards in the ch-2mi-; Dave Motter has been doing very, BALANCING MACHINE the other literary masterpieces that As the gym team will have, fullcal Department of the Institute, was � good work in scrimmage, and he bids! the issue boasts is a compendiun-1 ofluse of their apparatus, their exbibi-TESTS BEING MADE:of the the credos espoused by the typical tion will be one of the features ofC-a rinan c xrcises. Mr. i fair to become one of the team's bestlViliam F. Nickeison '76, vice-pre�i-lshots. However, he still needs to Technology student. For the well i the evening. Among the men whodent of the Gillette Safetv Razor Co-,,� polish up his shots and lie will have I Application to Rotating Members I d , ,d man there is an enlio-litening jare expected to perform are: Captainand a fellow student of Mrs. Richards, 1 to spend much there perfecting his and inf orinative little article on De- i FIarold I- airchild, Aliller Moore. DaveAlice Blcod '03, her o m!r pu - il and I f orin. Studied -' M Thesis Work ceinber fashions. Wells, N'o'rman Dolloff, Wes Reynolds,(iisciple in home economics, and Pro- I While Saturday's game will be the 1 Amonp: the lanientations of Ezekiel; Knapp, and Couper.fe sor Ruth Whe lei-, Chah-man Cf ; second of the season for the Varsity, .which appear are, none more poig- Fencers Plan LiveIv Conteststhe Committee on Eugenics at Vassar' hein-, nant than the cry of one disheartened Neither the fencing nor the boxing(Continued on Page 3) of rotating i'llembers are - Ull-;College, in their addresses all emplia-1 citing G,1,-,triver after knowledge who bewails teanis have as yet announced theirszed the good q-alities or ths fi. st� dertaken by Charles M. P I the niental an-Imish suffered as a Stu-tried Professor Earle Buckingham on, -schedules for the evening, but theivonian graduate. Li newly installed niachine in the base- dent at the hands of the calculus inaiiagers of both of the teanis

SECOND DORM DANCE talent of Building 5. This now ap- fiend�;. And few can fail to have their promise sonie interesting entertain-synipathies stirred by the sad tale of

TAKES PLACE FRIDAY paratus, a Carwen 01sen Static-ch-iia-, 6 nian who has tried to niake ,is ment. The fenceis are planning toinic balancinp: machine, was acquired!t an exhibition with the sabers,BOSTON S WATER I - Contribution to the Chvistinaslglvelast fall, and was put in readiness for: little 1which promises to be Very interest-

Collegian Ramblers Will Play At testings in the latter part of Oct-!, sl)""t, but to whoin the results have .: been so unjust that lie ]ITT,, becoine ing.SUPPLY DISCUSSED I Social Function ober. of: cynical about the ,NIiole business.

Mr. Perkins is- a graduate ICarnbrid cr a : As it whole the Christmas issue.o" Coge, England. zind i,,;, inakin I "Voo D oo" is full of spatial, uncil A wards

Mr. Frank E. Winsor Delivers Follo-whig the custom of previous study of the be'havior of the machine ' in�� ,�-ityears, there will be a forinal Dorm in its various applications for his, . . should provide diversion and f or 111.111 -

Lecture on Proposed -I til-c-s!)me !four in Ptooni ID-250. The i "'T" 7'0 ff'orthenDance in North Hall of Walker 1 thesis. The niachine ii� used to teMel-norial this Friday night, from such next is scheduled for Jani.1.11i'll

New System the balance of rotati-n_- niewbers,.,:"O to 2 o'clock. The tickets for ,is crankshafts, both vdien t ie. ts an SophomoreL'Ilis dance have been on sale for the ,N-hen in motion. It Nvill handle nieni-

i1ir. Frank E. 11, cipast two -weeks at $2.50 per couple, 'hers up to a maximuni of four hurt-, Football and '321 Cross�,,')eaker at the meetin- of the Faculty; the number of couples behig limited dred pounds in wei_-l t. I P 1-1 is. ALPHA CHI SIGMA Country Teanis

� to seventy-five. Alusic will be sup-, state,('lub lie trac er p(-,ill);1ity that the 1Id in the 1,aculty Dining�, is)Iied by. the Collegian Ramblers who I machine may be aimed --flso fo-,- test,; of ELECTS MEMBERS!

POoni at Walker last Monday at'' have perfonued at a number of Dorm I irni)act in bearino-s nnd the like. Clarence E. Worthen '2(, captn,,I)C' -1 of th(! A'ar,,ity Cross- Countr -1

110on. The subject of his lec�ture was I Dances of last year as well as at the I Th n aclnne is, I') 1,0 nlad(, ready: Annoum-enient has been inside I -- %, Te- in"Tile Boston Illetropolitan - I - i this fall was the only member of theWa t e r dance held last October. Refresh- for re-ular ciass in balanc- 1 the election (it' new inembers to the

ments consisting of ice cream and m who -,vas awarded a strai-lit,SYswm," and the proposed extension ing- which Nvill be sliortl.-,-, all(I it tea I

sis pro Technology chapter of- Alpha Chi 'IT" by the Advisoi-y Council w,14 the system, Mr. V%'insor being the cake will be served during the course will ,Is( I)c, I'm. tile , _Iof the evening. ](Miles. Si�gma. iiat ional honorary chemical Athletics at its meeting last ni-lit.

('119ineer in charm of this work. f rate rn i t Leon S. Thorsen11 y. Eight graduate,,, have Tm-o other men,

detailed description was given, been cho-sen, lmo of' ,vhoni have not, 2:j,0, 111(1 h -1 CS '29 had

(f the Pkms which have been inadel Whifinw ts Cnmn-oifions frnm as yet been pledged. Those who have ;been recommended, but the Tecom-rresen -L -mally accepted election 'IleI1(1ati(I1 voted down because,f(l, supplementing the existin water ah ady foisul)ply of Boston.' Mr. Winsor quoted: : AN`ebter E. Fisher G, Carl J. ti-le p(ol� shov.-ing of all the teammaiiv statistics relating to the con- '"Id M asters at Year's First Concert;;Franz '20, AN'illiam P. G. Hall '31,, it, both ilitercollegi-ates, this in "ace

I , Robert D. '.,\1cCarron ',,'O. Arthur E. of the fact that Thorsen was the best-sumption of Nvater in this area ati +ille present time. He also gave warn-, G. aml Alan �Y. Vint `30. half ormer o n the teani, having,,ing of tile il Alpha Chi Si-nia will hold Its finished f1l.,

-necessity for a suppler �t ill the Holy Cross andGives Talk on Appreciation o �11i- Whiting in tile -�cioctions. The I -S (_1 I 11 Hampshire ineets. Worthen'sIC111tary system, and also the need: Music and Exnlains cond concert, ill fllis settle,, Avill be ;re ular Chapter mectin- in the West Newf prompt action in getting things iven in Room 10-2- 'O oil TuesdziviLounge of Walker '_Xlemorial this a-,vard ,was based on the mei-its Of hisI- - 'Tanuary 15, at 8:15 )'clock. evening 0 "t is expected that services ai captain.Selections at 7:'10.Project under way. He stated that 1

tbe present consumption is equal to Illr. Whitney llla,�., hord ithe tivo othel ill have The following, men ,vere awardedI come to a decision by that embers ofthe supply, and in addition is in lie prog-l-mil 'Ir. thne, and !the "cTc" as ill' the A.arsity

�adinp- hiter eters of modern played the harpsichord a Fifteenth'Rising every year. In view of the the 1( I that their liames will be -winounced CI-Oss Country Team: Clarence E.gpre i in a Iater issue of THE TECH. Wort'hen '29. Leon S. Thorsen '30,fact 'that the con-1pletion of this worl%, , music. pilclsented Ili,; first recital for century instrument in older. toWill take three or four years, he I the year at the Institute, in Room Charles DeFazio '29, Richard L.�'Lated that no time must be lost in 10-250 at 8:15 o'clock last eveninp): of the composer. At present there ice S. Herbert ':-10,

I er "11, Valid Johil J.Wilipleting the now worl�- before an audience of 13'00 students, are verv few of flicso instrument.,; Richard K. BaIt701 I ING PICTURES TO '!A,faculty, nwinbers and friends. The in the 1 broilp:ht mov

presentation consisted of Selections the instrument, a Foi-erminer oc the BE SHOWN ON FRIDAYof Handel, Canipra, Haydn, Scarkitti, ))iano, from Nem- York for last night's

Roto Discontinued land Raineau. Several old French sel- concert. CALENDARections were also --iven. Ili the last three 111r. ANThiting I Aloving pictures describing a visit

fill,. Whiting gave a brief talk con- has given a series of several concert,,; i to the plant of the Cadillac Motor,From now until after Cliristma'-;, -will b Develvaller 4;Corning each selection or groups of at the Instittite. The program,, Of �Car Co in Detroit, Michigan,

I it) - I it 4 1 i III t(lie regular Wednesday Rotogra. sc shown to the stu(lents of the In-, Com Ill I t Ielections . He explained then general 1; these, are so designe(I as to illustrate ! Oillili�� I'mmi.N'tire Section of um TECH will theme of vach piece. tellin!_,� soniethin�,: :i Certain phases and trends of musical .stitute ill IZ00111 5-3:30 on Friday It-) M \',be discontinued. It is expected of its history an(I the causes for its fhou-ht, and its development since afternoon front to 4 o'clock. The 1 Q

])(,Hills: composed. t-he (',arlieq period. All students orlpictures are being presented by theithat it will start again im- Dev,Miss Flora Collins, soprano, and the Society of Automotive Engineers and1114--diately after the Holiday.,;. Institute niombers, of the Corp- DIU11"I :111d

Ailr. Geor-e Barrere, one of tbe lead- oration the Facult.v, and friends are, �is the second series of films O' that title :,II(! Nw-th H.W.in- flutist.,4 in the country, assisted invitec! to zjtt(�11(1 type to be shown.

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we balked; we still do--both at sup-plying 'our own logic to go with sim-ple facts such as Darrow uttered, andat changing' our attitude after theconstruance of our words as containedin the accompanying letter. The

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To the Editor of THE TECH:

So, Darrow, has come and gone--n~thing ra ofle? Perhaps. Yet Nve dareuo hope that he awakened in some of

hLis audience dormant interests inI ei-minulogy. That; he dealt -with thisr~at'lle thann with death versus im.-nioi-tahtts or some similar subject con-cerning -,whichh one man-s guess is as

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I II's Own O'niurIS Pllbislieu l in -theCOLLGE: n th I~itedStats isa bsines enerprse;iti0ieenlni Forumn column. That once'hadA COLEGEin te UntedStats isa buines enerprse; t i eenour f undest hope, nearly dis-

usually has -i plentiful supply of funds, administered Solely: carded eventually throulgh sheer des-by a board of trustees chosen for their business experience and i i'air.

prestige; wher~eeas a European college is ruled by its faculty-by.j~'.W~c" onsou toetathose w~ho know what is essential, for the purpose of education land research; not for prosperity and r·enow-n. The situation isobi\·ious; are w\e the bet~ter· for ft?

HEN',a Europe-an college estabishes a laboratory, it first finds IS~ l~ Ea man capable of its supervision; then it secures the space;,

tlhe 1est follo,,Ns without further trouble. Wh'Zen an American in-stitution establishes a labolratory, it erects a -new building, and i WIRES AND CABLES

Str·ange to say there has been foundanion- our several readers one w'hoopploses our· views sufficiently to have

Ij-NN the averao-e, approximately tien per c nt a fcl reworthy of their title. Europe gives heed to that ten per cent

sponsoring· theml, and furthering their effolrts, givring not a tinkrer'sdam for the: other ninety. Amlericazn methods are directly oD-posite; here the ninety alre helped, encouraged, and forced on the;;tudents--it is essential to the American socia~l system of educa-tion. Wle matriculat~e en. masse principally for that assistancewh-~ich t-he fact of graduation i nill lend to future success, andsecondarily for the knowsledge. A European student studies w~itlia certazin professor. depending on where the p~rofessor happensto be teaching, entirely for the superior training that mail cap.prov·ide. Wie of the United States and of M.I.T. ol-aduate fr-oman institution; ivse take the formulated knowl~ed-e ablon- with therest of the flock, wTith little regard as to who Ya adminise hdose. And we leave lon- been satisfied. Shall we continue so?

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A Record, of Official NewsContinuous Organ of theNews Service Undergraduate-for 47 years. of B~T~P aM. L T.

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W-IENV of us wlill not admiit tihat as a technical institution M.I.T.

is \Nvithout parallel throuo-hout the Unitedi States'. WFe hearenvious 1·emarksc froml students of schools in every part of thecountitr\y; students either to whom Technology standards wouldbe a nightmare, or to whom the opportunity to come to Cambr~idgefor g-Taduate study would seem a Godsend. W~rhat greater proofis ne'ede~d? Furthermore mi-ht it not be said that few if anycolle-es in the whole world surpass us? Indeed M.I.T. is gr1eat.Whats~ superb, self-imposed distinction! But who amon-w us wouldnot snatch at the chance to study abroad--in Germany in parti-cular? Why? Because we have a sneaking suspicion beneathour outward swagger that Europe can give us somethin'g sadlylackin- here.

_9_`;ECENTLY we discarded for the moment our customary pre-Ittensions anld talked. at leno-th with a graduate of foreign in-

stitutions, nowt in close t~ouch wvith Amterican schools andt Amer~ican,en-ineer-ing project~s. Wte qluestioned and compared: we strippedthe Instituf~e· of its qluestionable glamor to see what lay beneath;but Nv-e soug-ht p~rimlarily for t~he buasic differ-ences betwseen theEur~opean training and the Amer~ican. Our r·esults may be biased-- tlle opinions of but one man, howe~ver 'g-eat he may be. Yet,t~hey do contain much that is true-mlluch that may well be coal-sidered. Let us see blriefly the gist of that conversation:

A 111ERICANS learn facts; Eulropeans learn methods. What areethe m~ajority of our lectur~e courses but an accumulation of

facts--facts that are ill bookcs to nwhich -we all wrould have accessafter -raduation; facts that are crammed before qluizzes and for-gotten the next week? W'e ar~e told that we come to a technicalschool not to learn practical en-ineering, but to lear~n how to learnk\her i we strike actual pr·actice; wie are supposedly here for theoreti-cal traiiiin-; and we re;~eeive facts. Methods we remember, whiletheyv make the facts involved become a matter of course. C~ouldNv\e not stand mlore mlethod-lless unrelated fact?

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SOCC ER TEAMS HANDICAP MEETBoth freshman and Varsity soccer Tfs BE HEED rsr .

teams are to report at the basement T U HELD DEC.of the Romberg Infirmary on Fridayafternoon at 5 :30 o'clock in1 uniform

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SOCIETIESThe Combined Professional Socie-

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Mean9 For You?If going into business, will it:mean the beginning of a long ap-Frcnticeship period-the triaiancl error rnetnod-which pos.siL-ly may never lead to success?

Or will it mean a year spent inpreparation for business-fol-lowved by a steady rise to lead-ership?

)f you desire the latter. BabsonInstitute can serve you-andserve you well.

lls ~a'a {9Z t eaec~l g·lsklgPT o meet the deniand for special trailningfor men looklng forward to suciessiutlbuusncs, careers and cx cultl e leldershipis the purpose of Babson Instirtute. H lereyou would hc tnught the f;lndanmletalIla\xS of buliness and shown howXx toapply then etfcctively to actual busi-nesslife.,

Every college man who is anibit;nuc |succced In busilnes, bhouldi rea.d OuLrbooklet, "Training for Buis:itw:., Leader-ship". Itexplalns in d,_a1d1 the 'Ui'3cctsstudied, the uniit-c fc:tolrcso : oml workand how leadershlp i9 a hleeed. Takethis hone and uirsiu . !w Vith your par-ents duiing the Hiolidanys.

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Scenes of great activity about theboarld track in the rear of the Hangarmarked the beginning of the indoor'season Monday. Stricter traininglrules have gone into effect, and acompetition for places on the 1relayteams is now under way. Easy work-outs were assigned in order that themien might become accustomec to theboards.

The number of freshmen who take:advantage of the Institute track faci-lities iS very encouraging to those in'eharge of the sport. Coach Hedlundplans to run a comlpetition lasting,several days for themi alone. He hasspent a gr eat deal of tim-.e in pre-,

!paring for this new~ feature, wvhichiwxill be run on a decathlon system of'seoring-. This wvill serve as an in-'teresting means of providing experi-;enee fov thle freshmnens who have not,hadi lrevious competition.

The objective of "he V7arsity ass-well as t};e fr eshmlen at present isto get into the best of physical condi-Ition before the competition starts|Thc first handicap mneet of the Nvintesr! season wvill be helcl on Sattlrdaxy,I Decem~ber 15. The usual events wvill|d(oubflessly be run, including the 60-yard1'( dash, 300-yar1d run, G00-yard|ir u, 1000-yard run, broad iumpllrhliogh jumrl, 'and shot put. After this!nicet the'e, wNill be no comlpetitive-L1u111ing uIntil the mlen halve retullledfromt the Christmas vacation, when,w-orl; wvill be devotedl to the relay

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Freshmen Have Good MenMany of the freshmen team mein-

| bers have seen quite a bit of service jon high school teams and they seem,to have a pretty good squad. Among!the men likely to see action arleRoss, former Winchester high ce-nter; IRash, a forward from Green Brier,'

!Military School; Weller, Westfield| high guard, Sears, at center; Stock- !

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NoOTRIING saps the natural sprillg(i-rolll -our stc-p lile colmliR ci o-w l

crack-crack-crack tle whole clst loml,on infic{,ibil 1 C-.rd iieels.That's thc real reason for tl I bigclian,,,? to idbor 1hecls. Rubber

cushion better, dccpcr, firmer. They1iavc tllat s"assx. St \c- IC Il they lastli ke a "college w-l k w- '

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"'Merry Xmas"with sane Gift

Evanston, Ill.Dec. 31, 1927

Larus & Bro. Co.Richmond, Va.Dear Sirs:

I happllen to be Nlest -Nith 2 ]lost ofvery fine friends, mostly "fhighbromvs"I -professors, seientists et . Gener-ally at Christmnas time thy s' -ow- theirremembrance and all that .-it, somnelittle gift-a hox of eigfars, fisii"r?tackle, a book;-all that sort of tiling.

Well, tllis C!- r istmans inany seernelto centre on t(rJ)(tco. Now, muark yoll,these fellonv~s haive no comn-llunic( ationlwitl each ot ier. They live in .vidl elyseparated p~arts of tlce country, so itwvas no "p)ut-up" ijo' e on ]-11 or anl~y-thing lilke tllat. 13ut ]fere r ane se; e-teen bso..es of to!)aetrco, ant- si:tc.en ofthem the fm;lkliar llue " L:lilg \\ ortl "The seventeenth Nvas a :ery flossywalnut, brass-trimmed Ibox, I)ut if II know tohacco, the eorntents avereEdgewort'n w1i-fi a lit.tle per iquue in it.

Just coincidenlce, perhaps. hut aqueer one. Am not an halitualsmokier of Edge-%North, so they veren'tcatering to any especial taste of minle.Looks like a consensus of opinion

Iamong the "bighbroxvs"-or qtuite abatch of 'em-that Eigewvorth is thestuff, the proper caper for a gift.

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lo-ic-why hear a speaker if he gives

one little of his own? Facts can be

found in any encyclopedia-but the

interpretation of those facts might

be expected from a man like him

-iWe received little profound interpre-

tation; rather facts set to caustic wit

Darrow himself took the first ster

toward the organization suggested ir

the post script; he contaminated nc

one-much to our disappointment

IMvayhap if he had, some of us might

have been really "annoyed ane

spurred." And Darrow is adept at

the Art of Ballyhoo.

The Editor

nau-ht but amusement by a more or

less superficial discussion of human

foibles at the expense of most every

civil institution, then their hearts' de-

' sires Nvere fulfilled. If they craved

ials wve did a more penetrating discus-

' sion-whether of crime or of an other

of Darrowv's hobbies-then we do net

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proud to feel that it plays an important part inftiis grecat hlcomle fstival. Surely the ri-,lit clotlc?

anri sl!mitzile -iftit imcrease the liappiless of bothlllOmnCe C(oIller a!iLt home kecepce.

Let The Store For Men Help You

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OFFICIAL -BULLETIN BIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH {

Sedgwick Biological Society meeting in the Emma Rogers Roomat 7:00 o'clock on Friday, December 7.

CIVIL ENGINEERINGMr. Kenneth C. Reynolds, Instructor in the Department of Civil

Engineering, will lecture in Room 1-150, today at 3 o'clock, on"Laws of Hydraulic Similitude as Applied to

Experiments with Models".

ECONOMICSThe following speaker will lecture before the class in Business

Manag~ement in Room 1-190:

The Open Forum

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