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No •. 17, 1948
\VORCESTER ·
POLYTECHNIC
INSTITUTE
Pi Delt Sing Saturday =--~~-
Peddler Skits To Higl1light A emhly
•Fraternities Vie For New
Trophy Singing Com petition, Dance, Highlight PDE Sougfest
Tau Bet,a Pi Will Anno unt•e Name of ('W 1 \lt'm bers Th i~
CQming Wednesday, Kovemb(•r 17, 1948 at II :00 A.M. the fourth Gl'nt•ral Assembly of the 10 -lS- 1949 Coll~c r enr will be held in Alden Auditorium. The members of th.e swfl M Ted t's Year Book , "The Jlt'tldlt•r". are gc,lng to present three cumedy skit$. a long with commerehls, in an effort to stimulate great· er salc_q of "The Pecidler" in the o;tud<>nl body. Al'ln at this time, Tau Beta Pi, national honorury e ngineerinK society, wiJl annouuce the names of nwn ~elected for membership at its fall eltttion. The program will begin with a tnlk by a faculty member. Following this and Tau Beta l'i pledging, the bnud will play a. few " mood" selt'ctlon~. after which the " program commercial" is to be presented. Them the Em-Cee will introduce the (;l{'e Club which will render a few of their more popular numbers. After this entertainment, " T he Peddlcr Players" will come on stage with the frrsl or two of three comedy sldu thry plan to present. The Octet will follow with a n umber, after which another faculty member will give a short talk. The program will wind up with the lnsl and possibly the most hu· morous of the three skits and a coneluding sales talk by a Peddler Sales Representative. This program was designed from stan to finish to give you both bumor and the inside information on the New Peddler. The cover of the book will be displayed, and the rC'duced price and other features a nnounced.
Coffee hop The Coffee Shop wishes to announce that it is now open from 8:.30 to I I :00 and from 2.00 to 5:00. The shop, as u~ua l. is located in the Sanford RilC'y Commons and i., manned by two girls. At pr~ent, the shop offers only mffec and doughnuts, but in tht future a line or frui t juice is t'<pected to be added. Don't ftJrget that the Student Chris· tl.Jn Association operates both lht coffee shop in the Com· mons and lbe Canteen in the rzym.
On Saturday, Nov. 20, thanks to !>ponsor~hip of J)i D elta Epsilon, then• will lle something new and pleasant added to the locnl field of lnterfr·llternity activity. An Inter· fraternit y Sing is going to l)e held, nnd will begin at 8:00 P.M. in the .'\!den Memorial Auditorium. Each fraternity will be represented in turn. The men particlpnlin~ from each fraternity will form a glee club of from eight to ten people. Each fraternity group will sing one or its frntemlty song" and one other song lht
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Dhows,· Be!!Dl '--' Shot•e Sc·)lOOI With the approach of winter the · ' · rn 1I season o r the ' aut teal Assoc1alion is coming to a close. The twelve ancl one half foot Dyer Dhows out on l ndian Lake will be hauled out this coming week. The last race of the seaM>n was nt the trinngular regatta held by the Coast Guard Academy on the Thames River in New London. Coast Guard with such Olympic material as Larry White were just too much for Tech helmsmen. However, Rhode Island State, the third team in the triangle presented an even match. At thc en d of the a fternoo.n when th e added ed t 1t t scores were up urn ou that WPI was ahead by five points. Rhode Island State, unsatisfied with thl~ result , ~nsisted on an addition~ race. A com was flipped to see If they would race again, and they did. By this time the wind had died and Oavr Flood, John Beckwith, and Walt Beckwith, all heavy wind S.'lil· ors, could not make their craft go. A~ a result Rhode Island make up the five points and one in addition to cop second placr honors leaving third to Tech. Althouflb lbe sailing season is (!rawing to a close the activities of the Nautical association continue on. The shore school is continuing in instructing its members on the fine art of yacht racing. The meetings rel(ularly held on Tuesday, will be held less often, however, in spite of this slowdown the Association is holding together and girding its loins for a big season which opens in the spring.
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<JUC P reparing One-Act Play For Comin!! AsscJnhJy '-'
CtLSting bas been complt'ted for the one-act play which is to be pre111 stnted student asse111 blby the Masque be the 0 1Sth Th Y on ecem r · e play is titled 8 anquo's Clrair, and was written by Rupert Croft-Cooke. The plot deals with 8 clever piece of trickery, which Is used to lrnl) a murderer into confession of his guilt. Headlining the _cast will be J ohn Cocker. B~b Perluns, Charles Allen, ~~~':r tl~hard, J Bob Heden~ad, 1 u atu, and ack 8 rogan. 051 of thest' men are newcomers to the Alden stage, but Jo~n C~~er will be remembered for hus sensrllve porlrayal of Father Daley In lnst year's production H Rl of 1'/rc Valiant, while enry chard appeared as the butler in T ire Ten lJWc Indians.
Correction l·or the past year the T£Cll .t'tws has been incMrectly vol· umed. The TECH NEws began puhlicati<~n in 1909, so that the pre~cnt volume should be VOL. XXXLX, not VOL. XU rr. A check of previous J~!\ues reveals that the error occurred durin~ the Wnr when the accelerated program was in effect . The changeover of Tt.C tl N~-:ws personnel was so frequent that in the process the T•.r u NEws was incorrectly volumed and Lhe error bas persisted. The Teetr Nxws staff is now making the correction. Time has been lost, but not quality and improvemcnt in the format of the paper.
A CE Meetm • g H.:aghr:tgI1t e d By
Ta lk' MOVIe •
Th<' ASCE student chapter or Worcester Tech held lheir first ........ --1ing on Monday evening, November J S. Mr. Oscar Horovitz, or Cambridge, Muss., speaker of the eve· ning, wus presented by Prof. Long· well1 f:u·ulty adviser of the chapter. Mr. Horovitz spoke on steel struc· lures, IUld supplemented his talk with movies. He has done work along this line in Filene's department store of Worcester, and in the structure of the Hght towers at Fenway Park, Hoston.
Sent·or Party ·
Bant·shes Blues The good old Yellow Barn became affectionately known as the am~r john as of November 10, the fatal eve of the senior beer brawl. Under a shower of beer and ftylng Uverwur t, the> prospective sheepskin can· dldates settled down to forget their cares and worries. They also forgot what day it was, where they were, and there are still a few pairs of sodden pants floating amund down there. Song groups were not long in forming, but most of those who ordinarily would have been prone to participate were prone, and therefore unable to pttrticipate. The foomin,r session of merry mirth, or malt, stnrted at l :00 P.M. Wednesday and enried in a purple smog. Things started to taper off as buddy dug buddy out from under the pile of Schlitz and staggered out to face a world of undulating terrain and weaving roads.
of its own choosing. A piano will be the only accompaniment allowed to lhe singing. Lots were drawn to d~ terminc the order o{ singing, and l.hat order is as follows: Alpha Epsilon Pi, T heta Chi, Phi Sigma Kappa, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Theta Kappa Phi, Sigma Alpha Epslloo, Alpha Tau Omega. The SJng wUl end around 10:00 P.M., after which there wm be dancing in the Sanford Riley Hall commons to the mua.lc of the Boyntonlan.s. The Interfraternity Slng iJ to become an annual affair, and a rotaUoc trophy will probably be presented yearly until It i.s retired. The tropby for this yenr is a cup, and It wiD be awarded permanently to the win· ning fraternity. The judglns wiD be done by Clifford F. Green OrpD1st and Director of Music at 'w .P.I.·, the Director of Music at Holy Crou Coll-e, and the Dir-tor of M"-'c ·c
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of the Worcester Public Schools. T ickets are 75; per person, $1.50 per couple, and wfU be 0 0 sale in lhe fraternity hoW!eS, at tbe bursar's office, and at lhe door. I t would be a good idea to get your tickets early, for all the fraternities and most of the non-fraterhity men will be there,
;::::==- --===.....::.=-=::::; P eddler Sales The annual Ptddlu sales drive is slated to begin today, November 17. Sales representatives In all divisions are now contacting students. Aided by a large subsidy from lhe Insti· tute, thi.s year's Peddler will be terrific- and a t a reasonable price.. This i.s the yearbook we've always wantedlet's all show our strong Interest and support.