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Volume XL II Number 12
Feb. 26, 1952
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Part Time Jobs Masque Play Available to For Formal Fraternity Support Tech Students Asketl for This Year's Dean Swan Receives Many Requests From Neighborhood Homes Feel like sewin~-up those holes in your pockets ? ~ooki ng for a little financial backing for the cominA formals ? Here's your chance to hear that jingle in your pockets. How do you go about makin~ these millions? \Veil, you won't make II for tune, but Dean Swan or the Public Relations Offrce can guarantee you a dollar-an-hour return for do· ing any or a variety of odd tasks in the vicini ty of Tech's campus. Don't start moaning about lack of time or sore backs and weak muscles. Jusl convert n few of your "Ftooftng-orr·· sessions into moncy-makinj.:( time and you'll be buyinA your girl fl dozen orchids for her next formal corsage.
Major Production At a recent C.'<ecutive meetinA or the ~1asque the play for the major production or this year was chosen. " Orticcr 666" n melodramatic farce in three acts was selected. :\1r. E. W. Hollows, faculty advisor to the club, has donated his service..~ as director. lt has been prc>viously :uh•erlised that ~ l arch 22, 1952 is the tentntive da te for the play. This was dorw lo Ste if there would be :my reaction rrom the student body. The 1radi· · 1 1 trona date. uniur Prom \\'erkl·nd. r I was OUtlC to be unsuitable to many s tudents. Frateruity parties and oth· er f\tnclions on the Saturday night I weekend have been slowly o r t1at . ' d rncrcasmg uring the past three 'h years. 1 c ·''ta.sque has dunc everything to di ~courage this, but with Iiiii<' effect. The result has bern that the cluh has hecn tnking a l u~~ which it can no longer continue
Don't be mis~uided by the term odd-work. A large portion of thr job!! available do nol invoh·e any physical exerlion worthy of note. to do. These jobs include raking leave~. .'\t lust Thursday's mectin!( 1\Jr. tendin~ furnaces, p u l tin~ up storm Hollr>ws, director, gave his opinion windows, baby sittin~ •. etc: Tlu!~e in favor of holding the pluy m1 ffJr arc.?. few steady part -~•m.e JObs St•.ll mal weekend, This year lltc Junior avatlable: but the maJonty or thts Prom is being held quite early in type of JOb has been frllrd. I regard to previous ye:trs. Beach purDean Swau receives calls from ties, picnics, and other planned rune· local residen ts a lmost daily request - tions may be impractical at thi~ ing students for odd jobs. The Puh- time and thus leave Saturday night lie Relations Office is nooded with available for the Masque. We must job opportunities but where nre the ulsn consider our fttithful play-gorrs, students? Perhaps times havr of which there is a fair number changed. Possibly the ratio of rich every year, who look to the Saturday uncles per student has increased or nigbt play as a perfect eveninft of mnybc the school isn't (harginJZ enjoyment. enough for tuition and school sup· Various students were asked about port. Regardless. Dean Swan notes the idea of not presenting the play that in the past years there have on formal weekend and it was surten students after each job-call he prising to sec how many were dis· received, but that this year the situ- appointed in the cha nge of date. Hut ation i exactly in reverse. where arc these people when the day finally arrives? This has been the Well, that's the scoop. Here's same problem the Masl1ue has faced your chance for an easy source of yea r after year. The students and in~ome a round campus. Get on the fraternities pledge support in Februulue chip bandwagon anrl hurry ary, but it f<Lils to materialize on down to the Public Relations Office l'rom weekend. to Ret your choice of the linancial Taking nil the!'e facts inlo conpickings! sicleration lhe ~ ! usque has decided to ''stick ilS neck out " once more and hoJX'. The Phty will be held on Saturduy night of the J unior Prom Weekend. Pir t ures of your clas~mates, :\Jembers or the Masque must put your girls and your life at T ech n considerable amount of lime and can be put into a ' photo album energy into this production. The and forgotten. 'hould they be? stage cr~w is now in the process of or course not! \\'hy have a completing a new set which will be photo album if no one will see used in this play. Everything is be· it? . h:~re your pictures w.ith ing done to make this one or the others by publishing them in ~J asque·s best performances. tht> Pr ddlcr . Drop any snap· There is nothing more discourag!>hoL'i in the Peddler box in inji( than playing llefore an empty Boynton so everyone can enjoy bouse. We are asking for your sup· them. port now and on April 26. You won't regret it.
Attention!
ALDEN HYDRAULIC LAB HAS UNIQUE HISTORY Debating Club Achievements Commendable
N. W. Ayer Directory Pt·esented to News Bua·eau by Pi Delt
HumbleBeginnings Develop Into Lab of Higb Standing
The Alden Hydruulic Laboratory, Hc•I1•Iul iu Forwurcling The Tech Debating Club has been n purl of Tech which has been P ublicity Ahout Tef'h to very active in recent weeks, and esteemed many times in the past, Out of Town Po1•ers their future calendar is even more has had as colorful a beginning as crowded. H was announced that Pi Della the Institut e itself. Publicity, as of On January 7, Tcr h's t.eum of Hill Epsilon recrntly pre~cnt cd a copy of late, has been Riven to recent tests Rick nell and \V erncr NNrpcrt lost a the N.W. Ayers Directory to the at the lab, among which has been W.l'.l. Publicity Office. This direc· drbate on thr national tOpic with the $Cale model of the Cabinet tory is n cntalogue of all newspapers Clark University ; hut on Ft•bruary Goq~e Dam in Idaho. Also r(•cently J I Ul, Birkn('ll and Ed Knt martik and perlo(liculs published in the came the :~nnouncement of the apUniwd States, and is nn invaluabll' pointment of Prof. l ..eslie j . Hooper dcft>ntrd this .saml' Clark tram. In this conte~t . the Tech team defended aid to the office in in forming the as rtirector of the laboratory. publishers ur the hometown papers of tlte negntlve side tlt this same na'T'ethmen past and p1·esent of their A colorful pa~e 6f Techomma can tionnl topic. Tech trnveled to BtJston for the accomplishnwnts on and off the cam· be found in the OO):Iinning and deB.U . tournament on the weekend or pus. The News Ourcau hnd an old velopment of the Alden lab. Felluary 9, where they compiled a copy or the directory, but it wns ln the summer of 1893, Prof. record or three wins and three de· bccominA increasinRIY in:~dcquntc, us Oeorge l. Alden first conceived the feats. One of the defeats came at thr publishin~ business has chanKed idea for an hydraulics laboratory, tht> hands of Penn Slulc, the ultimate recently. and from this time unto his dt>alh in winners of the lourm·y. Cq ttlflC lin~o~ Steve Donahue, director of the 1926 it was his main interest. He for Terh were Tom Rothwell and News Bureau, received the book for presented a petition to Lhe trustees Bicknell. the office, :~nd expressed his appre· and approval was given. The execuOn March 30, lhere will be a clc· ciation for it. He said that the war tive board, in discussing means of bate before the RolMy Club between brought a great change to the pub· funds, suggested that the state be W.P.I. nnrl Holy CrCJss. The suh· llishing business, and that the new asked for a grant of $ 100,000 in jel l will bt' ·'Our l·' orcign P<tlicy In edition will slop the difficulties they view of the fact that M.I.T. and the Korea''. have been experiencing. Agricultural College, now Mass. The Tech team plans to compete Pi Delta Ep'lllon is a national State, were receiving such generous in the M.J .T . tourney, where thirty collegiate journalism frntcrnily, hav· grants. The money would be used, or forty schools will be represented. ing more than scvcuty chapters in in p;•rt, for the hydraulics lab, the Makin~ the t rip for Worcester wil collel(es throuRhout the country. Its remainder for other expansion plans. be Neupert, Kacrnarcik, Bicknell. roster includes many prominent peo· The act authorizing the expenditure ami Hank Strn~ote. Tech will also be pic, including a former president of passed both houses and was signed represented in the forthcoming New the United States. TL~ purposes are by the governor in 1894. England Tourament. to rcwnrd the mcmhcrs of the staffs Property on which the plant wa11 Our hats are off to thase men, who of the college publications for their have been doing a fllle jrJb in meet· service, to promote better publica· built, including a woolen mill, la rge ing all available teams ancl cornpil- lions, and to perform services for storage reservoir, and two smaller ing an excellent season's record. thll publication~ that they might not 1>0nds, \>elonged to Stephen Salisbe able to do themselves. In line bury, Jr., who gladly donated these With this, Pi Delt has plt-lns under- to the Institute. The first structure way to purchase a set of cut files was a frame building 90' x 40' built .:.; :.; for the use or both the THCII NEWS on the site of the old mill. Through and the Pf ddler. These files are the efforts of Charles H . Morgan, somethin~ that will prove very use· the 36-inch Venturi meter used at The Department nf Military Scithe Chicago World's Fair was se· ru t to the two staffs. ence has announced that code praccured. Other equipment, part of tire equipmen t h a ~ h~n installed in Every year, Pi Delta Epsilon which was a draft tube to a dynathe Department Headquarters at 18 sponsors an I nterfratcrnily Song· mometer invented by Prof. Allen, Boynton Street. This new gear con· fest. This is one of the high points and a weif<hing l~tnk built on a Fairsists of a TG keyer, a switchboard, in the social calendar. Each frater- banks scale which was on exhibition a nd a variable number uf pc>Sitions, nity is represented by an octet that at lhe Centennial of ' 76. The total each consisting of a hand kt:y aud sing~~ two selections which are judged cost was about $ 12,000. The first a pair of headphones. This equip· by prominent people in Lhe local student experiments were made in ment has been arranged so that the musical Freid. The fraternity being May or 1895. novice will have an opportunity of judged the winner is presented with practicing without disturuing the a trophy, which it keeps for a year. A new current-meter rating stamore adept men. The equipment is The Songfests held previously have tion was installed in 191 ·1. Tn 191S available to all Tech students who all mel with great approval by the a new load-head laboratory was are desirous of learning Morse Code students, and this year should be no built and fittingly named the Alden and is not limited to members of the exception. A few changes are being Hydraulic Laboratory. fn 1925 1 a ROTC unit. Use or these facilities contemplated which should make new and larger structure on the site can be acquired by making arrange- this year's the best yet. March I S or the old main building was con· ments with the Department oi Mili· is the date set for this year's Song- structcd. Tt was further enlarged in fest. 1936 and so up to the present. tary Science.
M.S. DEPARTMENT
ACQUffiES NEW CODE EQUIPMENT