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Stratton PrizeFinalists Namei

Abramowitz, Dangel, DobriPorter, Purcell, And

Willcox Compete

Names of the winners of the senafinal competitions for the Stratt(Prize awards, hell on M~ay 2, 6, 8 ai9, were announced todaEy by tlJudges.

The winning candidiates, who wiread their paper,, in the final comp,tition on Class Daly morning, anWilliam Abramowitz, Course V, '3speaking on "Radium Poisonin gPhoenix Dangel, Course VII, '35, c

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Course XVI Will AddExperience ;n Plane

To Senior Subject

Plghts Will Corr elate DesigiAnd Flying Character

Of Airplanes

Seniors in Course XVI are now beig given flying experience as part o:hie regular work in aeronautical en.ineering under the direction of Pro.Lssor Otto C. Koppen.The flying is being done at the Easi

oston Airport by the Inter-City Ahines, Inc., and the training is planned) demonstrate the flying character-ties of the airplane entirely from thE~signer's point of view. While thEudents wfill have an opportunity tomdle the controls, no attempt will

made to teach them to fly.Each student will heave one and ailf hours of :flying time, and threeudents will be taken on each flight',ie demonstrations will be given bylots of the Inter-City Air Lines andill consist of landings and climbing,Ith observations on the relation be-

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tickets will be available for seats in .Nav ral Society Elects the balcony. Koegler, Schliemann,1kZ Z s e ~~The Alumni program will consist of *oErN ext Y rear's Officers a banquet and speaker, followed by a New A. E. S. Oficrst~r

Pops Concert. At present, the speak-Wells Is President; Engstronm er has not been chosen, but the com- Richard K. Koegler, '36, was elect-m nittee announced that it would be ed president and Julius B. Schliemann,New Vice-President some nationally prominent person. *36, vice-president of the Aeronautical

No Conflicting Program Engrineering Societal at a meeting ofArthur E. Wells, Jr., of East Inasmuch as no other Senior Week the organization held on Thursday,Oraange N. J., was elected president event has been scheduled for June 3, M lay 2 . Other officers c hosen includeI f the Naval Architecture Society at this invitation will in no way con- Stephen l DuPont, 'US, secretary; Wil-the Institute last night. Carl Eng- Vict 'with the previously announced lard R. Beye, '37, treasurer; Normanstro ngi of Somierville, was chosen as program. The speaker will begin at A. Copeland. '36, Johln J. Wallace, '38,vi ce-president, and Clarence A. Mayo, approximately 8 o'clock. and Donald'Davis, Harvard, '37, wereJr., M Lelrose, as secretary treasurer of The purpose of the Alumni Associ- elected to the Managing Board.the organization for the coming year. ation's invitation to the Senior Class The club's scheduled activities forA111 of the new officers are members i s to have the class become acquainted next year include building the lligh-Of fthe class of 1936 - *vith the activities of the group with performance sailplane designed byPiirst prize for the best paper pre- hc they will be united by Com- James Kendrick, '34, and Raymondsell ted before the society during the mencement. Through the arrangement Holland, '34; the conversion of theyearrw as awarded to Henry A. Scheel which has been made, the Seniors--Alfaro, Glider into a strut-braced mon-O f Passaic N. J., for a paper on "The although not taking an active part in oplane, and the inauguration of a more?&Stnet Ra'ce." F'rank C. Simonds of the proceedings-will have the oppor- elaborate system of training in prep-8omner ille won second prize for a ( Continu ted on Page 2) aration for the National Glider meetstreatise on "M barine Engineering." Alumni held each year at Elmira, New York.

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Track Team DefeatBrowvns 042t 0. +~7

Stanl Johnson '36, Wins Graduate CourseThree First Places; In Cit Plnnn

Score 15 Pints ll be OflferedJenkins Wins 880 And Mile;

Guerke Wins Twio Mile Run Course Inceludes Opportunities_ ~~~~~For Advanced Studies

Crack Track Team Undefeated And ResearchIn Dual Meets This

Spring Will Lead To Master's Degree

Technology's undefeated track team .Establishment of graduate courseskept its record clean on last Saturday in city planming leading to the degreeafternoon when it took over the Brown of master in city planning was an-University track team to the tune of nounced by Dean William Emerson of841/2 to 501.X2 at the Bears'home track. the school of architecture of the In-Stan Johnson, Tech's star hurdler and stitute last night. This is the secondbroad jumper was high scorer in thnis major development in the Institute'smeet, piling up a total of fifteen program in city planning since its in-points. He turned in wins in the 120 aug-uration in 1922. The present five-yard high hurdles, the 220 yard low year course which leads to the degreehurdles, and the running broad jump. of bachelor of architecture in cityStan equaled the Brown field -record planning was created three years ago.for the broad jump and for a time it The curriculum is based on recog-was thought that he had lowered the nition of the fact ',that solution of allInstitute record. planning problems, whether city, state f,

Jenkins Wins Two Events or regional, depends upon the proper lCaptain Mort Jenkins turned in two co-ordination of all fields involved, in-

brilliant wins-in the 880 yard run cluding, in addition to architecture i"and in the one mile run. Other wins and engineering, the economic, socio-were turned in by Henry Guerke in logical and governmental factors. r4the two mile run, Willard Crout in the The graduate course in city plan- tihammer throw, Jim Thomson in the ning not only offers advanced work in Vshot put, and George Ray in the high a field of paramount importance, but SIjump. Bill Crout and Tom Kinraide includes opportunities for research. E

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_ ~~~~~gree of bachelor of architecture inY C! * L * . * city planning, who may be expectedT. Smith is Appointedl to complete the advanced work in one

Member of American year, and to students of Technology. ~~~~~~~and other recognized schools of archi-C om lmittee at Geneva tecture who hold the degree of bach-elor of architecture and are prepared

Purpose Of Committee Is To Aid to complete the graduate work in two F1American Tourists years. Stuofents hldinbg the degree of

At Genevaence who are properly prepared maybe admitted to the graduate course on

Theodore Smith, instructor in the reomnainoItecmiteodepartment of English and History, gaut tdnso h colo in

S ha ben apoited ne f sx saffarchitecture. The entire course in city-t; mmbes o th Amricn Cmmiteeplanning is under the direction of g

;it, Geneva, Switzerland, for, the corm-otne nCg )fUsifg summer. He will sail early nextCiyPangTamonth for Geneva, where he will re- BoT main until September. Alumni Association Lii

AfMr. Smith is a member of the board *. toof directors of the'' Massachusetts Invites Allt Seniors ist~;+branch of the League of Nations As- ToAu liD yP p decs oiation, and foi- several years has Stu

taken an active interest in problems hai3of international education. Flee Tickets To Banquet And be

The American Committee has for CocrhWl eled its main purpose assisting the thou- In Main Lobby hsands of American tourists who an- Stunually visit the headquarters ofe the Members of the Senior Class and Th(League of Nations. Each year six their guests hav e been invited to be PE lteachers or workers in international present at the Alumni Day Program n

education in this country are chosen Monday, June 3 at Symphony Hall, ssit(Continued on Page 6) Walter H. Stockmayer, president of

Heavies OutroweYGroton as 150's

Defeat Harvare. Yearlings Also Cop Inter-Cla

Honors Over JuniorsAnd Sophomores

_Coxswains Win Over Manage.

Freshman oarsmen made a cle,Id sweep of all competition on the watthis past week-end as they copp4

honors in the Richards Cup regattin, and also outrowed Groton and Ha

vaid in dual races. The heavies ma(a comparatively easy race ofagainst Groton at Groton as they be,the prepsters by three leng-ths ovi

i-the mile distance in 'the time of'On inte and 5 seconds.fond Tesecond heavy boat fulfilled t1.;he pre-race expectations by winning OVE.il the Sophomores and Juniors in t1.

interclass regatta last Friday aftei?e-no on the Charles River to earn th,e: Richlards Cup. The first year men fir35, ished one length in front of the Sop]I'"; omores, M rhile the Juniors trailedi

elas place. The Seniors had enteredboat containing 2 Varsity men, 2 Ja~vees, and 2 150 pounders, so was di,qualified.

Repeating their victory of a wee'ago, the freshman 150's defeated th,Harvard yearlings by one length o~vethe Henley distance in 7 minutes 2'

:S4-5 seconds. These two7 frosh victorie!marked the first wins of any Teel

ncrew this year.Tile coxswains continued their swa3

over the managers in the preliminaryrace on Friday afternoon although thElcatter showed more power and lea'

ftheir rivals most of the way. It waEclaimed that Bill Haines who was call-

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d Technology Graduatee Picked For Harvarde Society of Fellows

Ivar Getting, '33 Was Gym StarBefore Winnin- Rhodes

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iIvar A. Getting, '33, former Tech-nology gym star and Rhlodes scholar

,in 1933, has been appointed to the So-ciety of Fellows at Harvard Univers-ity for his outstanding work at Ox-ford during the past two years, wasannounced yesterday.

Getting -was a graduate of CourseVIII, was captain of the gym team inhis Senior year, a wearer of the T. anda member of the Combinled MusicalClubs.

Getting is one of five men to be ap-pointed this year to the Harvard So-ciety of Fellows which provides anopportunity for three years of inde-pendent research and study at Har-vard with an annual stipend of $1,250.

The appointment of these fivee menbrings the total number of JuniorFellows to eighteen. Six were appoint-ed in 1933, the first year of the So-nr+" _

last year. Many fields of study andmany universities are representedamong the eighteen. The men live andeat in the Houses at Harvard withoutcharge and have the privileges of anyinstruction given in the Universityand the use of any library or labora-

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The following announcemenconcern Seniors and Graduation

The notices regarding reconmendations for degrees will Imailed to the term address (candidates, unless the Secretarof the Faculty is notified otheiwise before May 27.

There will be four tickets fceach member of the graduatinclass. These may be obtained bcalling at the Information OffivRoom 10-100, today and throughout the week.

Announcements for the graduation exercises will he available iiRoom 10-100 art the same timE

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Burton Was First Instituteass Dean And Leader Of Students

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man Fnrlservices for Dr. Alfred E.ter Burton, first Dean of the Institute)ed and a pioneer in the development of;ta, student control over undergraduatear- activities, will be held this morningtde at 11 Io'clock from the Union Churchit in Waban. Dr. Burton died last Satur-

mat day at the home of his daughter, Mrs.7er George Demetrios, in Gloucester, from

5 a heart attack.Among the ushers at the funeral

he will be four men representing Tech-,er nology. They are Treasurer Horacehe S. Ford, Walter Humphreys, Secre-,r- tary of the Corporation, Dean Haroldhe E. Lobdell, and Professor Henry G.n- Pearson.h- From 1902 until his retirement inin 1922, Dean Burton supervised anda (Continued on Page 8)

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LkTheses For Sigma Xie]: Awards Are Due Thisok hursday, or Sooner,h

Submissions Must Be ReceivedLy By The Committee To

7e Be Consideredld

sTheses for the Sigma Xi Prizes must1-be in to the Departmental represenlta-

e tives by Thursday in order to be con-sidered.

The Sigma Xi Committee represent-atives are:Aeronautical Enlgineering - Profes-

sor J. S. Newell, Room 33-314.Biology and Public Health-Professor

B. E. Proctor, Room 10-483.SChemical Engineering-Professor H.

C. Hottel, Room 2-130.r Chemistry-Professor M. S. S. Sher-

rill, Room 4-463.Civil and Sanitary Engineering-Pro-

fessor C. M. Spofford, Room 1-238.Electrical Engineering-Professor J.rC. Balsbaugh, Room 4-211A.

.Geology-Professor W. II. Newhouse,.Room 4-348.

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LPlan Moonlight SailEOn "S' S. Steel Pier"'

Event To Be Held ImmediatelyAfter Final Exams

The annual moonlight sail of theCommuters' 5.15 ~Club will be held onthe S. S. Steel Pier on Wednesdayevening, Mlay 29th, the evening of thelast exam and also the eve of MemorialDay-. The boat has been chartered ex-clusively for the occasion.

As thi evn iksalyvrywattended a limit has been set on thenumber of tickets to be sold. Thisnumber will not exceed 200. There-fore in order to assure passage on theboat it -will be necessary to purchasethe tickets beforehand. Trhe price ofthe tickets is $2.00. An additional

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Rocket Flight, Architecture Al-so Featured In Last

Issue Of Term

Reverend Father Julius A. Nieuw-land - the inventor of Duprene, thesynthetic rubber - has written anarticle on his work for the June issueof the Tech Engineering News, to beon sale Thursday, May 16.

This discovery resulted in FatherNieuwland being awarded the goldmedal of the American Institute. Thearticle recently appearing in TimeMagazine has made his work assumea popular interest nearly equal to thatshown in scientific circles.

Rocket Flight

G. Edward Pendray, President ofthe American Rocket Society, has con-tributed an article on the basic theoryand recent achievements in the devel-opment of rocket flight. Pendray isalso Science Editor of the LiteraryDigest, and until recently held a sim-ilar position on the New York HeraldTribune.

Through his contact with experi-menters all over the world, Pendrayhas been able to keep in touch withthe very latest developments. In addi-tion, he has had much practical ex-perience of his own in the line ofrocket flight.

Architecture e

William Lescaze, the Swiss archi-tect, famous for his work in designingthe new Columbia Broadcasting

Studios, has written a description ofhis own house in New York City. Hishome is somewhat of an architectural

novelty, and is unique in many ways.Four extra pages have been added

to this, the last issue of Tech Engin-

eering News, and it will contain morefeatures than any previous issue thisterm. The issue, the board announced,is a fitting climax to the others ofthis year.

On Sale ThursdayCopies will go on sale in the Main

Lobby Thursday, May 16. Profuselyillustrated, the issue is said to repre-sent an up-to-date digest of scientificwork.

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TemptationWhat with Daylight Saving, and

pigeons on the grass, and woinen-on-the-front-steps-of-Walker at -night, weare having it constantly impressed onour consciousness that summer is verymuch here, and thereby a reduction inthe aforementioned consciousness isevident to profs and whatnot. Yes sir,there's nothing like a little day dream-ing to help pass a lecture period awayquickly. Not that it really does muchgood. Because there's always anotherone sooner or later. And these profes-sors who waken one by causing a pieceof chalk to follow a more or less para-bolic path terminating at the tip ofone's nose should be ducked under ashower of little red ants with threeinch javelins.

However, to get back to the flowersand the grass, and the breezes and thebirds flying over our heads and sing-ing (fooled you didn't we), we cangive thanks at last that we have agood reason for not studying evenings.Of course we wouldn't study anyhow,but after all, it is so much more pleas-ant to have a reason for doing whatyou want to.Correction

A benevolent and learned youngman down in North Carolina has beenkind enough to inform us of an addi-tion to the list of local slang which wepresented in the Open House issue.He informs us, that we failed to men-tion a Banjo Constant, and what isworse, to distinguish between a BanjoConstant and a Bugger Factor. Thelatter it seems, is to be added or sub-tracted, while the former is a multi-plication constant. Well, we conducteda more or less intensive survey of theInstitute. And not a student could wefind who had ever heard of a BanjoConstant. One freshman remarked thatwe probably meant a Jones constant,which is a provincialism of the NavalAcademy. The Banjo Constant musthave been the property of only a fewstudents when the Carolinian was atTech some two or three years ago, asotherwise it would have been handeddown from Senior to Junior to Sopho-more to freshman. But it evidentlydied without issue. Sic transit gloriamundi!Practical Jokes

Among the pests frequenting Walk-er at present is the freshman who in-veigled an upperclassman into givinghim an explosive, T. N. Tish compoundwhich detonates on being rubbed ortouched. The unsuspecting news writ-er is apt to find his typewriter ex-ploding under his fingers, (not actual-ly but darn near it), the floor is cov-ered with it, and the night watchmanno doubt engages in a bit of privateoratory when the locks start poppingaway at him. Reminding us of the im-pudent young men who have smeareda lampblack mixture so liberallyaround the fixtures of Monroe that theresidents are almost afraid to sit downany more.Miscellaneous

Of course the picture of the con-clusion of the drama option playwould have to be ruined . . . but theaudience enjoyed it very much . . .noticed the dorm night watchman ex-plaining to a young lady why she

could not go into the dorms . afreshman was so enthused at the Pops

Concert that he called up Wellesleyduring intermission to make a date

for the following Saturday. . . Loung-

er bemoans the sad fate which pre-v-ented the photog from getting a

flash bulb at 2:30 A. M. a couple ofnights ago when he came upon the

young man and his lady.

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tunity of enjoying the speaker and thePops Concert following.

Pops ConcertAlthough lack of time will prevent

the concert from being full length, thecommittee has estimated that themusical program will encompassabout two-thirds of the regular num-ber of selections.

Each Senior may bring one guest.Distribution of tickets has not as yetbeen decided upon, and announcementof the details will be made later.

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There is a considerable amount ofdiscussion these days concerning themerits of a liberal arts education.There are many who claim that theday of specialization has come andthat the vague training of the liberalarts college must be modified in somemeasure.

Perhaps the modification will comeby way of introducing more practicalcourses. Two most valuable courseswhich could be very well added to theliberal arts curriculum are typewrit-ing and shorthand. No matter whatkind of vocation is pursued upon grad-uation here are two subjects whichwill be practical and useful. More-over they have great value in collegework itself. A good percentage ofstudents do work in which a type-

writer is absolutely essential. Ever!student does work which could he ac-

complished much better by to ping.Likewise shorthand proves useful in

many ways.

But the great advantage comes inthe use of typing and shorthand inwork following graduation. A -lance'

at the application blanks of many con·cerns reveals that the man or woman

with a knowledge of the above is at

an obvious advantage over the fellow

applicant who lacks these accolllpiishb

ments other things being equal.

By introducing such courses there

will be no danger of turning Colbyinto a business college or of causingformer famous educators to turn over

in their graves. What is needed ismore practical courses which wvill givea graduate a better chance to nieeTothers on more advantageous term4,Nothing would be sacrificed by ""aof the liberal arts conception of training the mind and much gained in offer,ing these two courses which are ofsuch value both in college and after

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could we start the morning at the office or inthe street car if we were obliged to initiateconversation with "Well, it looks as if wemight get a little rain next month?"

Another thing: our weather gives us indi-viduality. Sad indeed if visitors from otherlatitudes were narrowed down to criticising usfor our streets alone. London has fogs andatmosphere. Boston has crooked streets andweather. If our friends don't like them theycan go back where they came from.

TO THE DEAN(With the usual to Mr. Kipling)

Editor's Note: The Tech herewith reprints a parodywritten by Professor Robert E. Rogers appearing inthe July, 1921 issue of the Technology Review. Wefeel it a tribute to Dean Alfred Burton, who was heldin great affection by students ever since he came toTechnology in 1882.

If you can hold your job when all about youAre running in loose circles, round the Stute,

If you can -show them they can't do withoutyou

And you are not the onle they ought to shoot,If you can calm the Registrar and Bursar,

The Corporation and Alumni too,And when it looks like things could not be

worser.Prove quietly that two and one mnake two.

If you can teach Geodesy and Mapping,And nail down every stream and mountain

range,If you can catch the equinoxes napping,

And snap them with a sextant ere theychange,

If you can chart the Polar geographiesAnd meteorologistics, like as not,

If you can deal with occult mathematics,Distinguishing the whichness from the

what,

If you can make surveys of East MachiasAnd topographify the summer camp,

Yet keep the youthful Civics prime and piou~sAnd well protected from the sumnmer vamp,

If you can take a trip to f~ar-off MalayTo shoot the sun and hit it, what is more,

If you can lend a hand to Frank KanalyWhen freshmen in the Gym are getting sore,

If you can stand a banquet in the WalkerAn average ofe six evenings in the week,

If you can prove yourself a constant talkerAnd yet say something every time you

speak,If you can eat the Walker menu nightly

No matter if creamed chicken often palls,And when the ice cream's done its worest, rise

lightlyAnd lift your voice through these historic

halls,

If you can keep the Faculty in orderAnd stand between the students and

Vote 10,If you can calm the Faculty marauder

Wcho wants to kill a stuldent now and then,If you can quiet a parent in his rages,

Because his oldest hopeful got the -ate,If you can tell a Junior that the wages

Of Sin is Prob. - and get him to stay straight,

If you can -ind some fellow sick and lonelyIn rotten lodgings where nobody caries,

And somehow, make him feel he is the onlyStudent that Humphrey mentions in his

prayers,If you can keep on talking dormitories,

Till someday we may have them, thanks toyou!

If you can tell the other deans your storiesOf all that student government can do,

If you can be a gentleman and scholar,And never lose your temper or your tact,

If you can let the others raise a holler,And hold-your own ideas, and plan, and act,

If you can give a score of years to raisingAn edifice that stands four-square and clean,

Beyond our criticism and our praising-Why then, your boys will know that you're

SOME DEAN.PR. E. Ro-ers.

(Read at the Senior Dinner, June 7, 1921)

Thene and NtowMonkeys can speak quite well if tney wvant to; the

chief difficulty is that they are far too clever for ourslowe brains.-Dr. Axel Munthe.

We havte let the idea of freedom under self-respect,go to seed in our colleges and are turning out toomany hlard-boiled, hard-hearted, hard-headed dumb-bells.-William Allen White.-

Decency varies according to time and place. to con-ditions and social strata.-Elmer Rice.

-Nowv that I havte nothing I am free and happy as Inever was before.-Grand Duke Alexander of Russia.

"A man, when he gets drunk, is led by a beardlesslad, knowing not where he steps, bavng his soulmoist."

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MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Managing BoardGeneral Manager .. .................................... E H. Koontz, '36Business Manager ......................................... Rlph D. Morrison, Jr., '37Managing Editor ........................................ E. Hittl, '36Editor ............................. Richard L. Odiorne, '36Associate Business Manager .................................... Benjamin B. Dayton, '36

Editorial Board'36137

Louis C. Young,Charles A. Blessing,

Milton B. Dobrin '36Jackson H. Cook '36

Associate Board1, Assistant Editors

Joseph A. Smedile, '37 Arthur M. York, '37Lawrence R. Steinhardt, '37 Richard G. Vincens, Jr., '37

7, Elmer C. Wirtz, '37 Robert E. Katz, '37Albert A. Woll, '37 Leonard A. Seder, '87

-'i Business AssociatesAflan I. Roshkind, '37 James G. Loder, '37Charles R. Kahn, Jr., '37 Walter T. Blake, '37

Staff AssistantsCharles W. Smith, '35, Francis H. Lessard, '36, F. J. Baggerman, '37,

H. B. Marsh, '37, W. B. Penn. '37, H. K. Weiss, '37, D. A. Werblin, '36,G. M. Levy, '37, L Sasalyn, '37.

Offices of The TechNews and Editorial-Room 8, Walker Memorial, Cambridge, Mass.

Telephone KIRkland 1882Business-Room 301, Walker

Telephone KIRkland 1881r-~· SUBSCRIPTION, $1.S0 Per Year

Published every Tuesday ard Friday during the College year,except during College vacation

Entered as Second Class Matter at the Boston Post OfficeMember Eastern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association

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OUR FIRST DEANGUIDE AND FRIEND

x 7ITH the passing away of Alfred E.VVBurton, Technology has lost its first

dean, a man who was beloved by the studentsand faculty members who came in contactwith him, a man who did much to formulatework at the Institute in its early stages andinfluence the character of student life and ac-tivities for forty years.

In Technology today, we may see many ofthe results of his work, in the form of stand-ards of excellence and traditions of truth, up-rightness, effort, and intelligence. To a fair-minded and capable guide and friend, we paysolemn tribute.

An article in the Tech Engineering Newsprior to his retirement in 1924 epitomizes hiscontribution to Technology: "He has seen laidthe foundation for a student control of theirown activities and college life. That foundationhas been square and straight and true. Maythe generations of students that the Dean didnot know, guided and encouraged by otherminds as he has guided and encouraged thestudents of today, finish the structure, classicin form, strong in column, in arch, and indome, as that foundation on which it is tostand."

IF THEY DON'T LIKE ITWEATHER OR NOT

rNE visitor to Boston has been creditedU with the remark that Boston has two sea-

sons: July and winter. Bean town has beenthe butt of such quips ever since Mark Twain'salmost classic weather forecast which he gaveat a dinner of the New England Society in NewYork some years ago.

His "tvpical" forecast for Boston and vicin-ity was as follows: Probably nor' east to sou'west winds, varying to the south'ard, west'ardand east'ard and points between; high and lowbarometer, sweeping round from place toplace; probably areas of rain, snow, hail, anddrought, succeeded or preceded by earthquakeswith'thunder and lightning."

One t}hing about Boston weather is that itis always doing something, always on themove. Mark Twain said that he had countedone hundred and twenty-six kinds of weatherin twenty-four hours. And a town that canboast a 98 degree change in temperature in oneday need not take back talk from any one.

Our forecasts always display the same qual-ity of certainty. The average Bostonian canpledict with assurance what the forecast willbe two weeks in advance. It is almost sure tobe: "clhange".You can count on Boston weath-er. YoLu can count on it to be different. Todayit snows a little; tomorrow it snows a littlemole; and the next day traffic is tied up. You'dheave to go far north to find snowstorms thelike of which we had during, first term finalexams last February. Thinlk of the fun we hadwriting about it in the newspapers and com-paring it with blizzards of yesteryear.

True Bostonians alre not the people who, inthe office of a tourist agency, place their fin-gers on the niap and say, "I want a ticket tothere," whllile they envision a sunny golfcourse (rated at any decrees Absolute) ad-jacent to a lpearly beach (wind velocity 3ni.p.h. off shore). They take their weatheras it comes. they have to. Weren't theybrought up on the "stern rigors of New Eng-land winters?"

And what's more, our friends from sunnierclimes needn't think we don't like it. It al-ways gives us something to talk about. How

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Weinert, Hunter, Ullman, AndStritter Are New Directors

For Next Year

New officers of the Chemical So-ciety were presented at the banquetheld last night in the North Hall ofWalker. Peter C. Weinert, '36, hasbeen chosen president for next year,it was announced.

Other OfficersAlice T. Hunter, '36, will be vice-

president; Albert J. Ullman, '36, waschosen secretary; and Edward E.Stritter, '36, is to be treasurer.

Jonathan B. Cobb, '37, is trip man-ager, with Francis D. Houghton, '37,assistant manager. Henry M. Borden,'36, will be chairman of membership.

Prof. Walter G. Whitman was theprincipal speaker, and although he de-clined to give a title to his talk, hediscussed the future of chemists andchemical engineers.

Useless ResearchProf. Warren K. Lewis and Walter

H. Stockmayer, '35, were chosen hon-orary members of the Society for thePromotion of Useless Research-Prof.Lewis for his unproductive labors intraining Chemical Engineers, andStockmayer for his discovery of thenew element, delerium.

In addition to the membership in thesociety, Prof. Lewis was awarded acorrugated cardboard certificate of en-rollment, while Stockmayer receiveda $1,000,000 fellowship for study inthe Margaret Cheney Room.

Delerium, the new element discov-ered by Stockmayer, has the property

various sub-committees.After his retirement, Dean Burton

made his home at 12 T Wharf, withhis sister, Mary A. J. Burton. He leftBoston Thursday to visit his daugh-ter, whose husband is a Gloucesterartist, and seemed in excellent healthat the time.

Bowdoin GraduateDean Burton was graduated from

Bowdoin College in 1878. While therehe was a roommate of Admiral Peary,of whom he was a life-long friendand, at times, co-worker. The dean re-turned to Bowdoin in 1913 to receivethe honorary degree of doctor of sci-ence.

He came to Technology in 1882 andfor two years served as an instructorin topographical engineering. He wasthen promoted to assistant professor,and became a full pri'oessout il iSv-

From 1906 until 1920 he had chargeof the drawing and physical trainingdepartments, besides performing hisduties as dean. Upon his retirement hebecame professor emeritus of topo-graphical engineering.

Worked With Geodetic SurveySoon after his graduation from

B3owdoin, Burton received engineeringexperience with the United StatesCoast and Geodetic Survey. When hejoined the Institute faculty, he organ-ized the Summer course in topograph-ical and geodetic surveying, and formany years took charge of the course.

He was a staunch supporter of Ad-miral Peary and aided in organizingsome of his expeditions into the Arc-tic. Dr. Burton did most of the pre-liminary work for the Greenland ex-pedition, which had as its purpose theremoval of the Cape York meteoriteto the United States, and then accom-panied Peary on the expedition, whichobtained much valuable scientific data.

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Broken Main Causes Cut-OffIn Grad House Water Supply

Early retiring graduate houseresidents went to sleep withoutbrushing their teeth last Satur-day night when the water mainconnecting the Cambridge linewith their house and Walker Me-morial broke under the Ames St.sidewalk at 10 o'clocR.

The main, which was severedin the identical place that itbroke last year, had to be turnedoff by the Cambridge Water De-partment for more than an hour.When repairmen were unable tofind Albert V. Smith, Superin-tendent of Buildings, Mr. Freder-ick Hartwell, Dorm Manager wascalled from his home and foundthe emergency valve which sup-plies these two buildings.

In 1900 Dr. Burton organized aTechnology expedition to Washington,Ga., to take observations of the totaleclipse of the sun. In 1901 he led asimilar expedition to the interior ofSumatra to observe another totaleclipse.

Appointed DeanOn his return from Sumatra, Pres.

Henry S. Pritchett, realizing thegrowth of the institute called for areadjustment of the faculty and staff,decided to make Dr. Burton dean.

During the war, Dean Burton serv-ed as supervisor of the free navalschools of the United States ShippingBoard.

He was a fellow of the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences, and ofthe American Geographical Society, amember of the American Society ofCivil Engineers, and the Astronomical'and Astrophysical Society of America.

Interested in News FoundationDr. Burton was advisory director

and director of scholarships of theBurroughs Newsboys Foundation.During the eight years of the founda-tLion's existence, Dr. Burton had beena weekly visitor, making his last callonly a few days before his death.

He was born in Portland, Me., andprepared for college at the Portlandschools.

Besides his sister and Mrs. Deme-trios, he leaves another daughter, Mrs.Francis Braillard of Plainfield, N. Y.;three sons, Felix A. Burton, of Wa-ban, Boston architect; Harold H. Bur-ton of East -Cleveland, O., and A. RossBurton of Carmel, Calif., and sixgrandchildren.

Health is a man's normal condition;he must do something foolish to loseit.-James J. Corbett.

of emitting curved light, which maybe used for lighting spiral staircases.The element was found in Walkersoup-being present in varying quant-ity depending on the day of the weekin which the analvsis is made.

The honorary members were pre-sented and inducted by Prof. HaroldC. Weber and Prof. Earl B. Millard.

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guided relations between the studentsand the Institute. The students cameto know and love him as a man of im-mense understanding of and sympathyfor the undergraduate point of view.He was the founder of the presentsystem of undergraduate government,with the Institute Committee and its

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Picture of NormandiePresented to Jackson

The first picture to arrive in Bostonof the world's largest steamer, theNorm andie, was presented to Mr.William Jackson by the French LineOffice of New York, and is now oninspection in Room 10-100.

The big ship arrives in New Yorkthe first week in June and will be openfor public inspection, as follows:

Tuesday, June 4, 10 A. M. to 5 P. M.Wednesday, June 5, 1 P. M. to 5

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Three Tennis M~atchesI~ , b. % 60y a;=,A C sov

Rumling iiglto a week-end slump, theTechnology tennis teams sufferedthree defeats last Friday and Satur-day. The varsity lost to Dartmouthon Friday, the match takinz place hereon the Lee Courts; the score was 8-1.On Saturday, the varsity was againdefeated, this time by Williams atWilliamstown, again by the score of8-1.

The freshman team, fresh from itsvictory over Tufts, journeyed to And-over Academy at Andover to beswamped, also to the tune of 8-1.

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Amo·~44n~ ng thepronunciainentos -- ofCommunism, perhaps that which hassunk most deeply into the public con-sciousness is a borrowed one. RobertOwen stated, "Religion is the opiateof the people," and this motto, sanc-tioned by the approval of Marx, iscarved on the tomb of Lenin. No ut-terance of Communism has been moreused by its opponents to bring'it intodisrepute, es-peci,0l1li amono the smn-porters of orthodox religion.

An opiate is merely an anodyne oranaesthetic, particularly one whichtends to be abused because of itshabit-forming properties. Few relig-ious people would care to deny thattheir religion possesses a definitetherapeutic value as a refuge fromcare and a solace from pain, or thatthe consciousness of salvation and thecertainty of an intellectual dogma anda moral code may give peace andkhopeto a soul tortured by uncertainty andthe necessity for numberless decis-ions.

Most honest and experienced clergy-men would admit the possibility ofabuse of this by adolescent souls fac-ed for the first time with the burdenof individual responsibility. No mon-astery is eager to accept a preponder-ance of novices who regard a Inonas-tic life merely as an escape fromn theirnormal problems, and have not some-thing positive to offer in the nature ofa vacation. No priest is unaware ofthe parishioner who enjoys the emo-tional experience of the confessionaland for want of real sins' inventsshadowy misdeeds. Parson, mninister,and rabbi are equally aware of likefor-ms of religious exhibitionism.

For reasons physiological as wellas social, adolescence is a period ofintense emotional and mental strain.There are those who do not survivethis period. Some commit suicide, butmany more commit a partial suicideby withdrawing from the complexworld of struggle and strife into asimpler world within themselves, sinkdeeper and deeper into a profoundapathy, and willingly let the com-munity assume the burden ,of theirsupport. Our madhouses are peopledwith these victims of what is knownas dementia praecox, and,,even in thebest of times, those afflicted withmilder grades of this disorder do muchto fill our tramps' jungles and flop-houses, or drift from job to job asmarginal employables. We do notmean for a moment to confuse theproblem of these people with the gen-eral problem of unemployment.

To many, adolescent religion comesas a life-preserver in this sea of in-sanity. They find in a fixed creed anda recognized set of responsibilitiessomething to which they may cling.Yet, a few of those who find in re-ligion an escape from madness carrythe same tendency to instability intotheir religious lives. They have beensaved by faith; therefore, whoeverquestions that faith threatens theirsanity. For them, it is truer to saythat religion is the search for salva-tion, than that salvation is the normalconsequence of their religious life.They are what Dr. Holmes calls re-ligious hypochondriacs, taking theirmoral temperatures a dozen times aday. They are consumed by a desirefor martyrdom and mortification ofthe flesh that amounts to a mentalmasochism. Above all, they are sel-fish with the selfishness of the bigotwho lusts after his own individual sal-vation, though the rest of the worldbe eternally damned. Such was SimeonStylites, filthy and ragged, indifferentto all about him, perched on his lonelypillar in an ecstasy of self-directedreligion. Such is the Malay fanatic,who runs amuck, slaying all abouthim, hoping to enter the Moslem para-dise when someone brings him dotn.To this selfsame class belong onegroup of the young radicals of ourcolleges.

Communism is perhaps much morethan a religion; religious attributes itmost certainly has. Communism,Nazism, Fascism all agree in possess-ing sacred books or personages whoseutterances it is blasphemy to question,in a ritual of activities which occupy

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ITwo-mile run-Won by Guerke, T.;second, Talbert, T.; third, Bates, T.Tim -10m. 6 1-5s.

220-yard dashm--Won by Spinney, B.;second, Nygaard, T.; third, McLellan,T. Time 23s.

220-yard low hurdles - Won byJohnson, T.; second, Bates, T.; third,Tyrrell, B. Time-26 1-5s.

880-yard run-Won by Jenkins, T.;'second, Cooper, T.; third, Pearce, B.Time 2m. 2s.

Hammer throw-Won by Crout, T.;145 ft. 1 in.; second, Kinraide, T., 138ft.; third, Cashman, B., 79 ft. 4% in.

Shotput-Wion by Thompson, T., 41ft. 4% in.; second, Barker, B., 40 ft.23/t4 in.; third, Hermann, T., 39 ft. 1 ill.

Discus throw-Woml by Barker, B.,121 ft. 3 in.; second, Thompson, T.,118 ft. 3 %/ in.; third, Hermann, T.,116 ft. 1 in.

Javelin throw-Won by Burgess, B.,185 ft. 9 in.; second, Brown, B., 188ft. 4 in.; third, Brown, T., 180 ft. IOin.

High jumpWon by Ray, T., 5 ft.11 in.; tie for second between Thomp-SOll, T., and McShane, B., 5 ft. 9 in.

Broad jump-Woin by Johnson, T.,23 ft. I in.; second, Brown, T., 20 ft.31/2 in.; third, Piggott, B., 20 ft. 3 in.

Pole vault-Won by McShane, B.,12 ft. 6 in.; second, Donnan, T., 12 ft.;third, tie between Love, B. and Le-blanc, T., 11 ft. 6 in.

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the mind and the time of their devot-ees, in an assurance of absolute justi-fication to their followers, and in aninvitation to martyrdom. For the pur-pose of the present discussion, we areindifferent as to whether tfieir dog-mas are true or false; we are chieflyconcerned with the manner in whichthey are received by their followers.

It is not, however, irrelevant to pointout that just because the Communistdoctrines have been better thought outthan those of Nazism or Fascism, andrepresent a much more real attemptto cope with the present situation ofthe world, their adherents are to befound in what is, on the whole, a moreactive intellectual group of the stu-dlwiL body of oux Briverad ezes. !-Sannthey constitute a more interesting andimportant problem. Students of todayhave been called the "lost generation."It is certainly no blessing to come tomaturity in a period of such doubtand turmoil. Our industrial system,to put it mildly, is not functioning sowell that it car, be set up as a modelfor the world to copy. Our changingpolitical system is far from any equi-librium. In a world where unemploy-ment is rife, the young student can-not look forward to his individual fut-ure with any confidence. War threat-ens from all sides, with an outcomethat may well be the end of civiliza-tion. In all this confusion, the youngman desires above everything to dothe right thing. Even harder than hisuncertain future is his uncertain duty.Is it any wonder that he welcomes afaith like Communism which dictateshis duty and predicts his future ?

We sincerely believe that Commun-ism as a faith has performed a ser-vice in supplying to many unsettledadolescent minds a creed and a pur-pose. Protest meetings, picketing,heckling, and like activities may seemantisocial to many of us who are notof the faith, but they frequently serveto divert the energies of youth fromchannels perhaps more dangerous. Un-fortunately, many youths rest contentin these activities and feel that inthem they have discharged their en-tire duty to society. They find satis-faction in a prescribed pattern of ac-tivity which releases thkem from thenecessity for thinking out social prob-lems for themselves and from the de-sire for self-development to a pointwhere they can accept with confidencethe normal responsibility of everydaylife. Many of them meet all accusationof individual lack of judgment or un-reliability with the assertion, spokenor tacit, that life under Communismwill be so different from life under thepresent regime, that all duties and re-sponsibiiities as now interpreted willbecome null and void and that thecategories of conduct holding beforeand after the revolution have nothingin common with each other.

Now this is very false and justifiesour assertion that many of theseyoung men take their communistic re-ligion as an opiate. Many of them talkof the revolution, but feel that thiscontingency is so remote that its prox-imity need have no effect upon theirpresent conduct. There is a radicalsong to the effect that the pie in thesky, when you die, is a lie. Theseyoung Communists regard the pie ofthe earth after the revolution as sodistant an article of food that its bak-ing can in no way concern them per-sonally.

The result is a mass of young agi-tators, hecklers, and picketers who aremuch more interested in the pleasuresand pains of immediate martyrdomthan in any real effectiveness in thetime when the revolution which theypredict may have arrived. They escapefrom the present into a future too re-'mote to make any real demands onthem, and are bound by the realitiesneither of this world nor of the next.They are a continual embarrassmentto their well-wishers. Their behaviorat meetings for social or political-pur-poses tends to convince those whowatch that whatever there may be inthe Communist theories, the Comnmun-ist personnel is totally unfit to assumeany go vernmental responsibility. Wedo not assert that the Communist per-sonnel as a whole is so unfit. We donot know, what resources of adminis-trative talent and ability may bedrawn from among workers withlwhom we have not had an adequateopportunity of direct contact.

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higher level of ability in such circlesthan most of us realize. We merelywish to state that in the universities,where the opportunities of trainingare greatest and where young men arebeing prepared for technical responsi-bilities of the greatest moment underany political regime, much of theradical movement is in the hands ofyoung men who, whatever their aca-demic standing, are totally devoid ofjudgment, responsibility, and the com-monest decency in dealing with thosewho have no quarrel wiht them andwho might stand ready to help themin some of the objects for which they'are agitating.

The remainder of this article willappear at an early date in The Tech.Watch for it.

Tvack Meet(Continued from Page 1)

provided one of the biggest upsets inthe afternoon, both men throwing thehammer further than they ever havebefore. Crout took first place with aheave of 145 feet 1 inch, while Kin-raide took second with 138 feet.

Final Dual MeetThis meet with Brown was the final

-lual meet of the -season. The nextcompetition scheduled for the trackteam is the out-door Interclass tweet,billed for this coming Saturday after-noon. The following week-end theteam goes up to Portland, Mlainle,where the New England Intercollegi-ates will be held. Saturday following,the IC4A meet will be held at HarvardStadium to finish the spring trackseason.

A summary of the Brown meet fol-lows:

120-yard high hurdles -Won byJohnson, T.; second, Tyrrell, B.; third,Faatz, T. Timbe-1 1-5s.

100-yard dash -Won by Spinney,B.; second, Nygaard, T.; third,Thompson, B. Time10 2-5s.

One mile run-Won by Jenkins, T.;second, Mayhew, B.; third, Chalmers,T. Time--4m. 41 1-as.

440-yard dash-Won by Pearce, B.; second, McLellan, T.; third, Widnall, B. Time 61 3-5s.

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(Chi Epsilon ElectsE. A. Kass President

The Technology chapter of Chi Ep-silon, national honorary civil engineer-ing fraternity with branches in elevenuniversities, elected new officers at adinner meeting of the chapter in theSilver Room at Walker last Wednes-day.

Edwin A. Kass, '36, was electedpresident; Charles A. Betts, '36, vice-president; Robert E. Sawyer, '36, sec-retary; IBernard B. Gordon, '36, treas-urer; and Anton E. Hittl, '36, scribe.

"He who becomes rmaster of a cityaccustomed to freedom and does notdestroy it, may expect to be destroyedby it, for in rebellion it has been thewatchword of liberty and its ancientprivileges as a rallying point, whichneither time nor benefits will evercause it to forget."

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Three Frosh Crews WC~in Neek-end Races4.F

SPORTS COMMENT-|It was a big week-end for the freshmen crews, with three wins to their

credit. The second heavies started it off by leading the field in the RichardsCup competition, and the lightweights and varsity heavies kept up the goodwork by leading their rivals across the finish lines on Saturday. It is ratherunusual, but always welcome news, to hear of three Tech victories in onesport in such a short space of time.

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Despite the fact that the Cambridge Collegians have not beenvictorious in any of their baseball games to date, a perusal of the boxscores of their contests shows a steady improvement with everygame. After a very poor showing at Lowell, they found their hittingeyes at RE'arvard SOUL teii it ba dl y Isn tite iel. t -1 ua Lflast' 7- -iday the Collegians outhit their rivals, while making only threeerrors in the field. Over at Northeastern on Saturday, the hitting wasa bit weaker than usual, but the Collegian pitcher was accorded suchgood support that the Huskies scored only nine runs on eighteen hits.Yesterday against the Harvard junior varsity again, the Collegianswere not charged with any errors in the field.

By way of diversion Oscar Hedlund is going to conduct a race solely formanagers during the intramural track competition scheduled for next Satur-day. We think that unless some of the managerial material is allowed handi-caps the number that finishes will be less than that which started the race.Incidentally we would bet on Oscar if he were in the race.

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A large number of defaults have been recorded in the dorm base-ball league and in the dorm tennis tournament to date. The tennistourney is now in the third round, and the baseball competition is al-most finished. Bemis and Walcott are tied for the league leadership,each with one defeat charged to it. The game originally scheduledbetween these two teams was rained out, so the playoff listed fornext Friday morning will decide the championship. If Bemis wins itwill be the second title in a row to be annexed by that dorm. IfWalcott comes through with a victory, it will be its second title ofthe year, which coupled with second places in both the bowling andsoftball leagues, would mark the Walcott men as the all-around ath-letic leaders in the dorms this year.

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The annual Spring Interclass TrackMeet will be held next Saturday after-noon at two o'clock. This is the firstyear that the contest has been held asa regular meet. Heretofore the meetwas held on two successive afternoons.Due to the favorable arrangements anunusually large, turnout of track fansis expected.,'

This year there will be sixteen cupsgiven the winners of the eight run-ning events, the seven field events,and the Interfraternity relay race. Inaddition, fifteen silver, and fifteenbronze medals will be awarded to thesecond and third place winners in theregular events. The silver loving cups,donated by graduates of the Instituteand members of the administration,are beautiful trophies that stand overfifteen inches high.

The cups are set on bases of blackonyx and will have engraved thenames of the winner and the event.In addition, a gold replica of a BeaverMedal is placed on the center. Allwinners of these trophies retain per-manent possession of these trophies.

The Interfraternity race will un-doubtedly prove to be one of the high-lights. Four men teams representinga good portion of the fraternities hereat Technology will be entered. Theevent is a half mile race, each runnerrunning 220 yards. Last year the Betahouse won the I.F.C. trophy.

The most amusing race of the after-noon will without a doubt be the man-agers race. All managers of sportshere at the Institute are eligible toenter the 220 yard run. Signups forall events may be made any time thisweek at the track house.

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of the plane in respect to the horizon.Dual control ships will be used.

Various types of turns will be dem-onstrated to show the use of the rud-der and ailerons, and the students willhave an opportunity to observe thebehavior of the airplane in taking offand at cruising and gliding speeds.

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FraternityTourney

SquashThe interfraternity squash tourna-

ment, which has been in progress forquite some time is rapidly nearingcompletion. The managers expect thewinner to be decided within a week.

Sigma Alpha Mu will be one of thetwo teams in the final as they haveswept all upper-bracket competitionout of the way. In the lower half, PhiBeta Epsilon will meet Delta KappaEpsilon and the winner of this matchwill face Phi Beta Delta to determineSigma Alpha Mu's opponent in thefinals.

Members of Phi Beta Epsilon, oneof the fraternities still in the running,are managing the tournament.

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Ceavries OutrowPrton as 1 50's

Defeat Harvardarlings Axs Cop Inter-class

Honors Over JuniorsAnd Sophomores

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0 fthe launches to swamp the man-fe-rs; in case they took the lead. It

Wa hslaunch that motored around;emngers boat so that the washfalbtsilled the boat.Altefollowing crews read from

t hrough 8 to coxswain.Te boatings for the Richards CupTaewere as follows: Freshmen: Be-naJudkins, Wilson, Bartels, Dun-

Bap, Alder, Lamb, Combs, and Sargent.Sophomores: Wiggin, Bertgen, Toy,

Crocker, Naugle, Young, Kohl, Pierce,ilbert, Warburton.Juniors: Easton, Boulware, Hayes,Wllace, Kuryla, Kanters, Winslor,[Jhson, Hubbard.The freshmen 150's that defeated

Harvard are: Foote, Harvey, Preston,Piel, McKeag, Gundon, Ihmels Morri-son, Bianlcardi.

The freshman heavies: Hagerty,Montgomery, Hoke, Glacken, Church,Chapin, Weir, Draper, H~unt.

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Kenny Gets Three Hits And TwoWalks In Five Times

Up Saturday

Held in check by the Northeasternpitchers on Saturday, and not usingtheir safe blows to good advantageyesterday, the Cambridge Collegiansbaseball team was on the short end ofa 9-3 score at Northeastern and trail-ed 7-2 against the Harvard juniorvarsity in the second contest.

Ed Walsh twirled for the Collegiansagainst the Huskies and was touchedfor eighteen hits. Good fieldingg by therest of the team kept the Huskies'score down to nine runs. The North-eastern coach started his junior vars-ity, with Joe Chrusz, football captain-elect at the intown school, on themound. After five innings in whichthe substitutes crossed the plate sixtimes, the Husky varsity was sent into@the contest. Walsh showed up to bet-ter advantage against this second setI}of players, allowing them fewer hitsand runs.

Don Kenny, shortstop for the Col-legians, led his team at the bat, withgthree safe blows, including a three-bagger, and two walks in his five tripsto the plate. McNamara collected fourgsafe blows to lead the victors in thematter of hats.

Collegians Take Early LeadThe Tech players started off with a

G one run lead in their first turin at the4 bat, but this was soon erased when

the Northeastern outfit tallied three'!'time,4 in its half of the fi rst inning.

The Husky nine added ano.-her count-er in the second and three more in theB fourth. The varsity tallied once in theg sixth and again in the eig.ATh. Mean-lvhile the Collegians pushed across a-run in the fifth and their third score

i? in the ninth inling.

I U itli F. die Lvnn twirling for thev fitst time yesterday, the Collegians

b *ve beaten for the second time thiss season by the Crimson junior varsity.

-Loll z as reached for nine safe blowsR but semeral of them were of the loop-

i! ins Texas League variety.Smiths Lead Hitters at Harvard

t Tho Collegians collected six safeN viinrter. ski'h Charley Smnitlh and Dick

SlSmith the leading hitters. The formerr made two singles, and -, hile the latter

5 hit safelv only once, the drive wasgood for four bases, scoring AbbottX who Wass on base at the time. Morgan'ssolidly-hit three-bagger was wasted" In the previous inning.

Play Wentworth SaturdayRed Ingalls twirled for the Crimson

team and helped his own cause alongvery substantially by tripling with

(Continued on Page 6)Baseball

Technology GolfersDrop Another Match

GolfTech's golf team fell back into its

losing ways yesterday afternoon asthey fell victims to the Amherstswingers by a 5-1 score. The matchwas played at the Orchards golfcourse in Amherst.

Herb Goodwin won the Beavers'lone point as he handed Cushman a3 and 2 defeat. Copeland, Simpson,and Prouty of Tech all sustained losseswhile both foursome low-ball matcheswere taken by the home team.

Interclass TrackMeet on Saturday

Lacrosse Team isBeaten by N.H.U.

Beavers Suffer Severe Defeat;Lose Semi-Final Game

15 to 3

The Technology Lacrosse Teamwhich had been definitely on the up-hill grade, suffered a severe setbackwhen defeated by New HampshireUniversity at Durham, N. H. last Sate-urday by a score of 15 to 3. The Beav-ers foughn Lheir hardiest game of tneseason but this was offset by the factthat New Hampshire has the strong-est and largest team they have met.

As usual Capt. Red Forster was thestar and high scorer of the game. TheTech boys played at a fast pace rightthrough the game but they could nothold out against the continual supplyof fresh recruits which New Hamp-shire poured into the game.

Under the patient guidance ofCoach 'Tommy" Tucker the Lacrosseplayers have developed considerableteamwork. The team's only drawbackis its lack of reserves to give the reg-ular players a chance to rest. I!enough new players turn out nextyear to form a substantial reserve, thecoach should be able to build a strongteam around this year's nucleus.

Tile final Lacrosse game of this sea-son will be with Brown on Wednes-day.

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two men on base and later crossingthe plate himself in Harvard's bigfifth inning, in which four scores weremarked up for the Crimson.

One more game remains on theschedule for the Collegians, that withWentworth next Saturday. To date theTech men have lost all five gamesplayed, but a win is expected Satur-day.

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city planning research and design,courses are offered in planning andhousing legislation and ill city plan-ning administration. These includediscussion of past and present legis-lation, powers and duties of local au-thorities, and other aspects of plan-ning, such as zoning laws, buildingcodes, and private deed restrictions.The course in administration coverssuch topics as the organization andadministration of planning projects instate, county or region, and methodsof securing appropriations for thepreparation and development of suchplans.

Two graduate research scholarshipsof $500 each, covering tuition in thegraduate year, are open to candidatesfor the degree of master of city plan-ning. Applicants must have receivedthe bachelor's degree in either archi-tecture or civil engineering, and havecompleted at least one year's practicalwork in the field of city planning orhousing. Applications for the gradu-ate scholarships must be made notlater than May 31.

UNDERGRADUATE NOTICE

Seniors who desire a photostat copyof their complete record at the Insti-Itaste should leave an order at theRecords Office, Room 3-106. Tllere isa charge of $.50 for the first photo-stat and $.25 for each additional copyordered at the same time. These willbe ready for delivery about the firstof July.

Wednesday, May 156:15-T. E. N. Dinner, Silver Room, Walker Memorial.6:30-Debating Society Meeting, West Lounge, Walker Memorial.6:30--M. I. T. Swimming Club Dinmer, Grill Room, Walker Memorial.7:00-Fabyan Room Dinner, Fabyan Room, Ware Basement.

Thursday, May 165:00--Institute Committee Meeting, East Lounge, Walker Memorial.5:00-Debating Society Meeting, West Lounge, Walker Memorial.6:30--Sigma Xi Dinner Meeting, North Hall, Walker Memorial.6:30-The Plant Engineers Club Dinner, Grill Room, Walker Memorial.6:30-Alpha Chi Sigma Dinner Meeting, Faculty Dining Room, Walker Me

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Mathematics-Professor G. Nutledge,Room 2-263.

Mechanical Engin eering-Professor J.H. Keenan, Room 3-266.

Mining and Metallurgy-Professor G,B. Waterhouse, Room 8-309.

Physics-Professor P. M. Morse,Room 6-303.

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Stratton Prizes(Continued from Page 1)

"New Tools in Biology"; Milton Dob-rin, Course VIII, '36, on "ModernAtomic Transmutation"; MalcolmPorter, Course III, '35, on "The Theoryof Floatation"; Richard D. Purcell,Course II, '35, on "Air Capacity andOutput in Internal Combustion En-gines of High Speed"; and ThomasWillcox, Course VI-A, '36, on "Proofof Cosmic Rays."

The winners were selected from atotal of eighteen contestants? no morethan three being from any one pro-fessional society. The speeches are re-stricted to fifteen minutes each.Judges in last week's competitionwere Professor B. A. Thresher, Pro-fessor Leonard M. Passano, and Mr.Howard R. Bartlett.

The finals will be held in Room 10-250 on Class Day, June 3. Threeprizes will be awarded, fifty, thirty,and twenty dollars.

Smith Appointment(Continued from Page 1)

to participate in the work during thesummer and to carry on research insome subject of world interest. Lastyear's committee, under the directionof Professor Manley O. Hudson ofHarvard University, prepared a re-port on the munitions industry for thearms inquiry committee of the UnitedStates Senate.

Moonlight Sail(Continued from Page 1)

charge will be made for those pur-chased at the boat.

Tickets may be bought from mem.bers of the dance committee, and willbe on sale in the main lobby duringthe latter part of this week and thesale will continue throughout theexam period.

Members of the dance committee in.elude: Richard.A. Denton, '36, chair.man of the committee, Hyman Bret, man, '37, Verne C. Frost, '37, JohriM. Gallagher, '37, Franeis D. Hough.ton, '37, Andre N. Laus, '37, MiltonLief, '37, Milton I. Wallace, '38, andG. Maurice Levy, '37.

| City Planning(Continued frnom Page 1)

Professor Frederick J. Adams.A feature of the course is the in-

clusion of lectures by experts in theprofessional fields of city planningand housing- These include Robert D.Kohn, former president of the Amer-ican Institute of Architects; GilmoreD, Cla.rke, consultant to the Park De-partments of New York City andWestehester County, N. Y.; MarjorieS. Cautley, landscape architect for theHillside Housing Project, New YorkCity; Joseph T. Woodruff, consultantto the Neivz En-land Regional Pla.n-ning Commission; Thomas Adams, as-sociate professor of city planning atHarvard University and consultant tothe Regional Plan ofe New York; andRussell V. Black, consultant to the

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