The Tech. VOL. X. EBOSTON, APRL 17, 1890. NO. 14. H E EG3H. Publshed on alternate Thursdays, durng the school year, by the students of the Massachusetts nsttute of Technology. BOARD OF EDTORS. HERBERT EMERSON HATHAWAY, 'g9, Edtor.'n. Chef. JOHN LANGDON BATCHELDER, JR., '90. HENRY MATSON WATE, 'go. ELSHA BROWN BRD, '9. THEODORE SPENCER, '9. ALLEN FRENCH, '92. HARRY NYE WLLAMS, 'z92. ALLEN FRENCH, Secretary. HARRY NYE WLLAMS, Busness Mranager. Subscrpton, $2.00 per year, n advance. Sngle copes, 15 cts. each. FRANK WOOD, PRNTER, 352 WASHNGTON STREET, BOSTON. v CARCELY seven weeks from to-day, n the natural order of events, we shall have reached the termnaton of ths year's work. Between that tme and now, how much remans to be done! From the Senor who s balancng hs account wth the nsttute, to the Freshman who s strvng to add to hs on the credt sde, there wll be no cessaton of effort untl the frst of June leaves the corrdors to the occupancy of the jantors. n the general flurry and rush of busness, there s one thng whch we trust wll not be neglected; that s, the prompt payment of your subscrpton to THE TECH, Vol. X., for whch the usual number of blls are beng sent out. THE TECH, even, does not escape a yearly settlement, and to facltate ths, and wn the eternal grattude of the Board of Edtors, make the tme between your recept of ther bll and ther recept of your money an nterval as short as may be. now that the tme has come when we may safely leave our overcoats at home, we can express ourselves somewhat warmly about a lack of convenences n the so called New Buldng. All wnter we have hung up our coats, hats, and umbrellas on lecture tables, other men's chars, wndow-slls, specmen cabnets, and so on down to the floor, untl our lecture rooms have taken on the appearance of an old-clothes store, and the patence of the lecturer has been taxed beyond ts lmt. We know that ths msuse of the rooms s dsorderly, but have we any alternatve? To check our garments at the cage s a waste of tme, and a temptaton to pneumona f we are oblged to go back and forth between the buldngs n cold or stormy weather; and the mschance of lost umbrellas and overshoes stll remans. Snce we are expected to attend lectures and rectatons n both buldngs, why should we not have a coat room n each? +E remark wth pleasure the change whch has been made n the conducton of the second-year course n Englsh Lterature. The old way, so much used n schools and colleges, s famlar to every one. Bound to a text-book, the class studes a catalogue of the lves, wrtngs, and styles of all the Englsh authors. Names and dates are hammered n for use n rectaton. But the new way follows a radcally dfferent track. The text-book s dscarded, and n ts place a syllabus, notng only the greater names of lterature, s used to map a course of lectures, whch gves the student the most promnent and useful facts n connecton wth them. Besdes these lectures a course n requred readng gves a personal acquantance. wth these authors.
182 8THEM T'CH. The beneft of ths change s apparent. We leave behnd the cut-and-dred part of lterature. The advantage s evdent of droppng from consderaton those thrd-rate authors whose busness s but to mtate and copy. Greater tme s gven to the consderaton of the more famous; and n ths connecton s dscussed ther nfluence upon contemporaneous hstory, and ts effect upon them,-a lght upon ther wrtngs too often neglected. And, also, the good derved from the acquantance wth the wrtngs of these authors should not be underrated. Not mere extracts are used, but the larger works, but be t enough to say that the Englsh Lterature Class ths year has taken hold of ts work wth more nterest and vgor than has any prevous class. We need not further enter nto the detals of ths system, or uphold ts merts; after almost a whole year's tral t declares tself successful. But that the change comes from our present nstructor n second-year Englsh Lterature, we wsh to mpress upon our readers, n gvng honor where honor s due. We thank hm for ths mprovement, and n dong t thus publcly we hope to secure to hm the credt whch s hs of rght, but whch future changes n the admnstraton of the board of Englsh nstructon mght dvert nto mproper channels. F a person of an antquaran turn of mnd should look over the fles of THE TECH for the past 3-ear or so, he would fnd sundry przes offered for a song whch could be adopted as dstnctvely belongng to the nsttute. These offers were varous and frequent; they were repeated many tmes, untl they became so classcal as to be tabooed, stll no result followed, and so the subject was dropped. Ths was long ago, but as yet no song has appeared to startle the crowd that centres around that part of the Hub known as Boyls- ton Street. So far no one has been unfathful to the goddess of scence long enough to permt of the successful woong of the muse. But there s no reason for the contnuaton of ths state of affars. Sprng s at hand,- some are ncorrgble grnds, some are occuped wth baseball and runnng, yet the great majorty have some lesure; and s there no one of these wth wt enough to wrte verses? t seems not; t s unfortunate; but t only adds one more fact to the mass of evdence that goes to prove the onesdedness of nsttute lfe. Years ago the agtaton for a lunch room was begun; now we have one n successful operaton. Ths leads us to hope that future generatons of Tech. men wll some day have a song worthy of themselves and the nsttute. Perhaps ths expectaton s too sangune, yet at tmes t even seems possble that ths generaton may lve to see t fulflled. Our hopes may be realzed to-morrow f some energetc man can be found who wll for a few moments stop chasng phantom honors and elusve baseballs, and devote hs energes to the pursut of the muse. on Saturday mornngs n the mdst of the confuson that prevals n our combnaton armory and gymnasum, where the clang of arms s heard, mngled wth the roll of the drum and the bugle's blast, and the Freshmen dsport themselves n accordance wth the Artcles of War, we are glad to notce the presence of a farer element. The graceful unform of our battalon has become the cynosure of the South End, and the gallant bearng of ts wearers has won them admraton of a tender sort. Graced by the smles of lovely woman, the manual of arms becomes a drudgery dvne, and dress parade a pleasure and a pastme. Salute the day that has dawned when far women and brave men, and all thngs martal and poetc shall make our barracks ther headquarters, wth general admraton as the offcer of the day. E b
"thr[e n TE Oh.18 183 VERY student at the nsttute s nterested n ts welfare, and nearly every one takes prde n the work that t s dong, and enjoys talkng proudly of the excellent educaton obtaned by studyng here four years. All the mportant facts concernng the condton of the nsttute, together wth much nterestng nformaton about ts students, both past and present, are to be found n the report annually made by the Presdent to the Corporaton. t seems strange that a copy of ths report s not allowed to every undergraduate. We are permtted to take catalogues ad lbtum, and why a copy of the Presdent's report should be a prze only to be obtaned by chance or mpudence, s a queston whch the student mnd cannot answer. One catalogue s almost exactly lke another, except when the prnter s changed, as was the case ths year, whle every annual report s new and contans statstcs that are of nterest to every one. As matters now are, however. the men who have good luck, or the other valuable qualty mentoned, are-the only ones who obtan copes, the majorty are left to long n van. O those who have struggled for the advancement of athletcs n the nsttute, and to all those who are n the least nterested n the dongs of the Tech. athletc world, t s gratfyng to see so many men workng for ther respectve teams. The canddates for the Freshman nne have now been cut down to about twenty men. Nnety-two now has about ffteen men n the feld. Asde from these damond athletes, there are some twenty men who are workng for the sprng games, and from the present outlook t s safe to assume that some of our track records wll be lowered. Never before n the hstory of the nsttute has the gymnasum been so lvely at ths season of the year. Let the good work go on, and we wll soon have records that we can menton above a whsper and not be afrad some one wll hear us. l - _- MASS. NSTTUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Aprl, 1 89o. nasmuch as death has vsted our class, and taken from our mdst an esteemed classmate and frend, George Mathewson Starkweather, RESOLVED,-That we, the Class of Nnetythree, express our great sorrow, and extend to the famly so deeply greved our heartfelt sympathy. RESOLVED,-That a copy of these resolutons be sent to the bereaved famly, and publshed n THE TECH. A. BLAKELEY SMTH ) HENRY A. MORSS, For the Class. CHARLES TANTOR, ) (OMMUNGAT ONS. The Edtors do no! hold themselves responsble for ofnzons exyressed by cor resfondents. EDTOR OF THE TECH:- At the Harvard Medcal School examnaton papers are numbered, corrected, and marked by nstructors who are entrely gnorant as to the wrters; are marked wth a per cent, and ths mark gven to the student at a proper tme. Snce at Tech. standng s almost entrely dependent upon examnatons, would t not be farer to abolsh the "personal equaton" from the system of mnarkng? By ths, no nsnuaton of ntentonal unfarness by the examners s ntended, but we all, nstructors and students, know that personalty makes a dfference, conscous or otherwse, whch s unjust, f not unfar, and cannot but result n btter feelng. And t would be gratfyng, or, at least, consolng, to have a less vague system of marks. These changes are to be recommended f only because they would do away wth much frcton and unpleasant feelng, but they appear to have also ntrnsc value. Cannot we then lhave a unform and defnte system of markng and marks? We respectfully offer the suggeston to the Faculty. la ADA, '9.
r: :,-11 ap' j: r o 1 ' '; ;,! - : \ ', : J, J ',,, ": r T."! j. '- ' ' 1 %f:,1 1 '5 ' r l 1!. P g ; 4 1 3 1 3 ;! :.' 1 'j j. 184 THE TECOH. The Sege of Berln. [From the French of A. Daudet.] E were walkng up the avenue of the Champs Elysees wth Doctor V, recallng the hstory of the sege n the walls and pavements shattered by shot and shell, when just before reachng the Place de l'etole the doctor stopped, and showng me one of the large mansons so pretentously grouped about the Arc de Tromphe,- "Do you see," he sad, "the four closed wndows over that balcony? n the early part of the terrble month of August, 870, so full of storm and dsaster, was called to that house by a case of apoplexy. My patent was Colonel Jouve, a curasser of the Frst Empre, an old man, carred away wth the love of glory and patrotsm, who at the breakng out of the war had taken lodgngs on the Champs Elysees n a balcony apartment. Can you magne why? To be present at the trumphal return of our solders. Poor old man! the news of Wssembourg reached hm as he was gettng up from table. On readng the name of Napoleon at the bottom of that bulletn of defeat, he fell speechless. " found the old solder stretched upon the floor of hs room, hs face lfeless and bloody, as f he had been struck down by some heavy weapon. As he lay there he seemed mmense, and must have been a very tall man. Regular features, fne teeth, and an abundance of curlng whte har made hs eghty years seem no more than sxty. Hs granddaughter was on her knees besde hm cryng. She resembled hm so closely that, to see them sde by sde, they seemed lke two rare Greek cons struck from the same de; one, however, ancent, dull, and worn, the other clear and shnng, wth all the lustre and clearness of a new mprnt. "The gref of ths chld touched me. She was daughter as well as granddaughter of a solder, for her father was on the staff of General MacMahon, and the sght of the tall old man lyng before her called up n her ~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~ mnd another vson not less terrble. reassured her the best could, although at heart had lttle hope. We had to do wth a heavy stroke, from whch at eghty years there was lttle chance of recovery. For three days the sufferer remaned n the same state of paralyss and stupor. n ths nterval the news of Reschoffen reached Pars. You remember n -what a strange manner. Untl evenng everybody beleved n a great vctory,- twenty thousand Prussans klled, the prnce royal prsoner. By some mracle, some magnetc current, do not know what, an echo of the natonal rejocng aroused our helpless nvald; when approached hs bed that evenng he was a dfferent man. Hs eyes were qute clear, hs tongue not so mute. He was able to smle, and stammered twce, 'Vctory! Vctory!' "'Yes, Colonel, a great vctory.' "And as gave hm the detals of the success of MacMahon, saw hs features relax and hs face lght up. When went out the chld was standng before the door watng for me. She was pale and sobbng. " 'He s saved,' told her, takng her hands n mne. "The poor chld had hardly courage to reply. The truth about Reschoffen had just become known,-macmahon n flght and a whole army destroyed. We looked at each other n consternaton. She was concerned at the thought of her father. trembled for her grandfather. t was certan that he could not survve a second shock. "',Hs joy must be mantaned, the llusons whch have revved hm must be preserved, t wll be necessary to deceve hm,--' "' wll deceve hm, then,'sad the brave grl, wpng away her tears, and wth a beamng face she went nto her grandfather's room. 1"t was a dffcult task that she had undertaken, but for the frst few days she managed t easly. The nvald was weak-headed, and let hmself be deceved lke a chld; but wth returnng health hs deas became more clear. 4 g ; -,
j '4 He had to be kept nformed of the movements of the armes, and be told the contents of the mltary despatches. t was sad enough to see the chld porng day and nght over the map of Germany, markng t wth lttle flags, compellng herself to' unte everythng n a glorous campagn,-bazane at Berln, Frossard at Bavara, MacMahon on the Baltc. She asked my advce about t all, and aded her whenever could, but t was the grandfather hmself who was of the most servce n the magnary nvason. He had conquered Germany so many tmes under the Frst Empre that he knew all the moves beforehand. 'Ths s where they wll go next; ths s what they wll do now.' And as hs predctons were always fulflled they never faled to make hm good-natured. "Unfortunately, t was n van that we took ctes and won battles; we were never quck enough for hm. He was nsatable, ths old solder. Each tme that vsted hm learned of a new feat of arms. "'Doctor, d we have taken Mayence,' hs granddaughter sad to me one day wth a tearful smle, and heard through the door a cheerful voce that cred,- " 'Forward! forward! n a week we wll enter Berln.' " At ths moment the Prussans were not more than a week dstant from Pars. We asked each other at frst f t would not be better to take hm nto the country; but as soon as he should go outsde he would learn the state of affars, and he was stll too feeble, too enervated by hs great shock to learn the truth, so that we decded to reman. "The frst day of the nvestment called upon them, much agtated, remember, by the btterness we felt at seeng the gates of Pars shut, fghtng gong on under the walls, and the suburbs become fronters. found the old man proud and jublant. "'Good,' he sad to me; 'the sege commences to-day.' TH`E TECH;. 1858 " looked at hm stupefed 'What, Colonel, do you know t?' "Hs granddaughter turned toward me. 'Why, yes, doctor. t s the great news. The sege of Berln has begun.' "She sad t wth a peaceful and composed ar, threadng her needle at the same tme. How should he suspect anythng? The cannon of the forts he could not hear. Unhappy Pars, dark and dstracted, he could not see. What he perceved from hs bed was a part of the Arc de Tromphe, and about hm n hs room, well calculated to keep up hs deluson, were all the souvenrs of the Frst Empre; portrats of marshals; engravngs of battles; the Kng of Rome as an nfant; heavy, awkward consoles, ornamented wth brass trophes, loaded wth mperal relcs, medals, and bronzes; a rock from St. Helena under glass; mnatures representng a brght-eyed lady n a yellow ball dress, wth leg-of-mutton sleeves; and everythng, the consoles, marshals, Kng of Rome, lades n yellow, had the unbendng fgure, the awkward style, the heavy elegance, whch was the grace of 8o6. Gallant colonel! t was ths atmosphere of vctory and conquest, more than all we could tell hm, that made hm beleve so nnocently n the sege of Berln. '"From ths tme on our mltary operatons were very much smplfed. To take Berln was only a matter of patence. From tme to tme, as the old man became dssatsfed, we read hm a letter from hs son, an magnary one, of course, as no one could enter Pars, and snce Sedan, the ade-de-camp of Mac- Mahon, had been sent to a German fortress. You can magne the despar of the poor chld, wth no news of her father, knowng that he was a prsoner, and perhaps sck and n want, yet oblged to speak for hm n cheerful letters such as a solder would wrte whle advancng n a conquered country. Sometmes her wll faled her; then we remaned wthout news, and the old man was troubled, and could not sleep. Then there would be a letter from
186 186 TT 1-H. Germany that she would read to hm gayly, restranng her tears n hs presence. The Colonel lstened very attentvely, smled wth a knowng ar, approved and crtcsed, or explaned to us the passages whch were a lttle confused. But he was at hs best n the responses that he sent hs son. 'Do not forget that you are a Frenchman ; be generous to the poor people; do not make the nvason too severe;' and recommendatons wthout end, admrable lectures on respect for the propretes, the polteness due to lades, a true code of honor for the practce of conquerors. He mxed n them, also, general poltcal consderatons, wth the condtons of peace to mpose on the vanqushed. On ths subject he was not exactng. "'The, ndemnty of war, and nothng more. What s the use of takng provnces? Do they expect to make France out of Germany?' "He dctated n a loud voce, and one felt so much candor n hs words, and such a patrotc sprt, that t was mpossble to hear them wthout beng moved. "All ths whle the sege was advancng, but not that of Berln. t was a tme of great cold, of epdemcs, and of famne. But, thanks to our care, our efforts, and the unwearyng tenderness that ncreased around hm, the serenty of the old man was not for a moment dsturbed. To the last moment he was able to have whte bread and fresh meat. He was the only one to have them, however, and you cannot magne anythng more nno- 1111 n p- rnon.: cently selfsh than hs lunches. The grandfather n bed, brght and smlng, a napkn under hs chn; near hm hs granddaughter, somewhat worn by prvaton, steadyng hs hands, gvng hm a drnk, helpng hm to all the good thngs whch she dened herself. When he was anmated by the repast, n the comfort of hs warm room, the wntry wnd outsde and the snow beatng aganst the wndows recalled to the old curasser hs campagns n the north, and he told us for the hundredth tme of the fatal retreat from Russa, where they had nothng to eat but frozen bread and horse-flesh. "'Thnk of t, my chld; we ate horseflesh!' " thnk she must have understood t. For two months she had eaten nothng else. "From day to day, n measure as convalescence approached, our task wth the nvald became more dffcult. The dullness of hs senses, whch had aded us so well, began to dsappear. Several tmes the terrfc frng at the Porte Mallot had startled hm, and we were oblged to nvent another vctory of Bazane under the walls of Berln, and salutes n honor of t at Les nvaldes. One day when hs bed had been moved to the wndow, he saw the Natonal Guards formng upon the street. " 'What are those troops dong there?' he demanded; and we heard hm grumble between hs teeth, 'Bad form; bad form!' "t was so ndeed, but we understood better than before that we must be cautous; but we could not be cautous enough. "One evenng when called, the granddaughter came to me much dsturbed. "' To-morrow they wll enter,' she sad. "Could her grandfather's room have been open? Snce then, n thnkng t over, remember that he had that evenng an extraordnary look. t s possble that he overheard us. But we spoke of the Prussans, he of the French, whose trumphal entry he had so long awated,-macmahon rdng down the avenue amd flowers and trumpets, hs son at the marshal's sde, and he hmself upon the balcony n full unform as at Lutzen, salutng the torn flags and the eagles black wth powder. "Poor Colonel Jouve! Wthout doubt he magned that we wshed to prevent hs sharng n the trumph of our solders, to spare hm too much exctement; therefore he spoke to no one. But the next mornng, at the same tme that the Prussan battalons entered slowly on the long road from the Porte Mallot to the Tuleres, the wndow opened gently and the ce e L r ' f
THE TEOCH8 187 Colonel appeared on the balcony, wth hs helmet, hs long sabre, all hs glorous old curasser's unform. There he was, standng behnd the ralng, astonshed at fndng the streets so stll and so empty, the blnds of the houses closed, Pars gloomy as a pest-house; strange flags-whte wth red crosses-on every hand, and no one to meet the solders. For a moment he thought he had been deceved. No; behnd the Arc de Tromphe there was a confused uproar; a black lne advanced n the ncreasng lght; then lttle by lttle the spears on the helmets shone, the drums began to beat, and under the Arc de l'etole, kept tme to by the heavy tread of the ranks, by the nose of the sabres, sounded Schubert's trumphal march.," Then n the mournful slence a frghtful cry re-echoed, ' To arms! to arms! the Prussans!' and the uhlans of the van-guard could see above them on the balcony a tall old man throw up hs arms, totter, and fall stffly. Ths tme Colonel Jouve was dead. A SONG OF MARCH. Down the street rude March wnds blustered; Through bare boughs blew clouds of snow; Danty Mag, whose rnglets clustered O'er brght eyes that flashed below, Sped along, all unatteded, Whle my lonely way wended Where the pavements cer grow. Quck my heart beat, as sped her Rest her tny hand for ad On the ancent elm besde her. Swft stepped to her and sad, "Lean on me, sweet mad, forever, And 'twll be my fond endeavor Frm to stand through storm and shade." n a trce she looked up, smlng: "Prove thyself, dear sr," she cred; "Prove that thou.art not begulng; Walk just ths once by my sde. Should t seem that thou art able Now to walk wth footsteps stable, wll to thee my heart confde." Well, we both went down together, Pretty Margaret and. Now, through far and stormy weather, When we go down town to buy Frlls and feathers, furs and laces, let Mag select the places Where she walks,-and you know why! -Dartmnouth L. WD. V.. 6. DEPATrMENTUS. Electrcal Engneerng. THE professon for whch Course V. ams to prepare the student has practcally come nto exstence wthn the easy remembrance of the youngest pupl n the nsttute; and, moreover, every electrcal art now known, except the smpler forms of land and ocean telegraphy and electro-metallurgy, s hs junor n age. Multple telegraphy, electrc lghtng, the electrcal transmsson of power, telephony, electrc weldng,-all these arts are products of the last ffteen years. And wth the development of these there has necessarly grown up a new professon,-that of the electrcal engneer. There have been telegraph engneers ever snce the ntroducton of the telegraph, and electrcans as well, but doubt f the term " electrcal engneer " s even a dozen years old, and ts general recognton s stll more recent. An nterestng llustraton of ths s seen n the successve changes n name of the leadng Englsh socety devoted to the study of techncal electrcty, whch, founded n 187 as the "Socety of Telegraph Engneers," became n December, 88o, the s" Socety of Telegraph Engneers and of Electrcans." At that tme, although there were numerous suggestons as to ts new ttle, the term electrcal engneer does not seem to have been even mentoned. But n 889 t assumed as a name the "nsttuton of Electrcal Engneers," followng the example of the Amercan "nsttute of Electrcal Engneers," whch had been organzed about fve years prevously, n 884. The requrements of ths professon are especally vared, and n some respects severe, because of ts many-sdedness, although the other scentfc professons are becomng more and more to resemble t n ths partcular. To be properly ftted for t a man must frst of all be an engzneer,-a pont whch has been very strongly emphaszed wthn the past few
t _!!3;!v:: j te,!l,j., ):, x 4*.. R't!s.:,'' : u--.t t',:, l A}. h, ] ',, :': r }. 1 ; '..,,,,:!' 188 TE_; TFlCH.-, months by Sr Wm. Thomson. f he s called to any responsble poston, he s certan to have to deal wth machnery, and very lkely to desgn t. He should be practcally acquanted wth the strength of materals, and able to recognze the strong and weak ponts n constructons of wood or metal. He should be famlar wth the theory and practcal workng of the steam-engne and other prme movers, -a matter that s lkely to become more and more of vtal mportance wth the advancng applcatons of electrcty to ralway workng, and to the transmsson of power n general. He may at any tme be called upon to plan a buldng for specal purposes, perhaps wth dynamo-machnes n ts upper stores, and ndependently of hs archtect he should know what s needed for strength, safety, and convenence. He may have to desgn machnes for layng a cable, or be consulted as to the constructon of a system of subways for electrc wres, and, n fact, there s no branch of engneerng or mechancs of whch a knowledge may not be demanded of hm. An acquantance wth the fundamental prncples of chemstry wll often be of 'the utmost value, as, for example, n relaton to nsulatng materals for electrc wres, or n connecton wth the constructon and operaton of storage batteres, or n the varous processes of electro-metallurgy. Hs understandng of general physcs, -sound, heat and lght,-should be clear and extensve. He must have a wde and accurate knowledge of electrcty, both theoretcal and appled, and a thorough tranng n physcal expermentaton, ncludng of course the testng of electrcal apparatus and machnery. Moreover, he should be a good mathematcan, and to judge from recent developments he s lkely to have ncreasng need of such knowledge. do not mean, of course, that to succeed at all as an electrcal engneer one must necessarly be expert n all these, but n so far as he s lackng n any of them he wll be lkely at some tme to fnd hmself badly hampered. Snce the arrangement of Course V. proceeds upon the assumpton that one graduatng from t shall be traned n the lnes specfed as fully as s possble consstently wth the necessary lmtatons of tme, t s clear that no man ought to attempt that course unless, besdes havng a natural taste for expermental scence, he s good n the mathematcs and chemstry of the frst year. Mere ablty to set up electrc bells and gas-lghtng apparatus s no ndex of ftness for the professon of electrcal engneerng. Ths ablty may be consstent wth the possesson of but very slender reasonng powers. The am of the course beng to tran electrcal engneers rather than mere students of theoretcal electrcty, t has been thought best to devote only a moderate amount of tme to the mathematcs of ths subject. But the work done s so shaped as to gve to the student the requste preparaton for enterng upon the study of the hghest work of ths class; and provson s made for the specal wants of one desrng more advanced nstructon, ether pror to graduaton or n the courses for a hgher degree. The amount of chemstry gven n the course s also much less than would, on many accounts, be desrable. But ths could be ntroduced n the hgher years only by dsplacng subjects of even more mportance. The occasonal student who wshes to prepare hmself especally for any branch of electrcty n whch a knowledge of chemstry s partcularly called for, can do ths by enterng Course V. (Physcs), and takng the electrcal and chemcal optons n t; though n dong ths he necessarly sacrfces a very consderable porton of the mechancal engneerng studes. Fnally, a word as to the outlook for those completng a course n Electrcal Engneerng. The student must not look too confdently for large remuneraton and speedy advancement. Hs chances of success are not greater than n other professons. He wll fnd that large L p m E z 2 R r, 1 6 p e r- t
THE TECH. 189 ' numbers of men wth good tranng are enterng the busness, and stll more wth bad tranng or no tranng at all, and that the publc does not always at frst dscrmnate between them. He wll learn that he must work hard, and that there s no place n the professon for the neffcent, the gnorant, or the lazy. He wll always be sure of fndng abundant room at the top; but whle on hs way to that emnence he should be prepared to meet wth severe competton, and be content wth a very moderate recompense for hs servces. CHARLES R. CROSS. Ths year a new cup wll be gven for the Mott Haven games. At the meetng of the ntercollegate Athletc Assocaton t was decded to award t to the college wnnng the greatest number of ponts, nstead of to that one wnnng the greatest number of frst przes. Ponts are to count as follows: Frst prze, fve ponts; second, two; and thrd, one. t was also decded to exclude safetes from the bcycle race, and to decde n a tug-of-war contest only when one team pulled the other by more than half an nch. Exercses n Clafln Unversty, S. C., have been suspended on account of 8oo00 of the colored students leavng. The cause of ther leavng s the canng of the colored chaplan by one of the professors. Sx Samese students have been sent by the Government of Sam to be educated n ths country. They wll go to Westmnster College, New Wlmngton, Pa. The average expenses at Yale per year have been for each Freshman, $783.96; Sophomore, $831.34; Junor, $884.7; and Senor, $99.70. The largest expenses reported for any one was $2,900 for the year. The Unversty of Pennsylvana catalogue just publshed gves the total number of students as,302. The outdoor meetng of the Athletc Club wll be held May 2d. The Freshman baseball nne has receved ts new unform. The second-year Cvls are makng a survey of Peters' Hll, near Roslndale Staton. Tech. '92 defeated the Englsh Hgh School nne Saturday, 2-4. A dummy has been secured for football practce. Professor Lanza has gven the '91 Mechancals a talk upon ther next year's thess work. The game between the baseball teams of Tech. '93 and Harvard '93, resulted n a vctory for the latter by a score of 12-5. The Technology Quartet, asssted by the Mandoln Club, wll gve a concert Aprl 8th, at Wellesley. There was a neat contest of three rounds n the "gym" last week, but few were fortunate enough to be present. The Freshmen battalon ndulged n ther frst outdoor drll last Saturday, and the drum corps played Anne Laure! Mr. H. E. H. Clfford s delverng a prvate course of lectures n physcs to secondyear students. Thrd-year students n Chemstry and Chemcal Engneerng vsted the Standard Sugar Refnery at South Boston, Frday, Aprl th. The '91 Mechancals began surveyng, Aprl 4 th. The fne weather s the result of the crcumstance. For the.beneft of those who are tranng for the short runs, there have been marks of oo,
;' 3' 4', }s Etl ',- ~ ~ ':! ; ' D --', }tg :. 41 l -1' d J.,q, t?:! h.uj f -t X :? 5!!:,d 190 220, and 440 yards lad off on Boylston Street above Exeter. L. J. Nlson, formerly of '92, s workng n the offce of Geo. Lawley & Son as draughtsman. He wll return to the nsttute next year. One of the thrd-year Cvls cut a twg on some prvate grounds whle runnng the ralroad lnes at Qguncy. The lne has been abandoned; t was dscovered that t s not worth a "twg." ce and snow have dsappeared. The brooks once more babble ther songs of love and sprng, the hlls now attre themselves n ther cheery garb of green, the cattle low n the meadows,-but alas! our brd thaws not! The Sophomore baseball team has the followng games scheduled for the rest of the season: Harvard '93, Aprl 6th; Exeter, Aprl 9 th; Brown Unversty,. Aprl 26th; Clftons, Aprl 3oth; M.. T. '93, May oth. t has been decded by the jont Senor Dnner Commttee to have the dnner n Odd Fellows' Hall, Aprl 25th. Now that the date has fnally been settled, arrangements wll be pushed forward rapdly. The Class of '88 held ts annual dnner at Young's Hotel, Thursday, Aprl oth. The followng-named offcers for the ensung year were elected: Presdent, Edgar F. Dutton; Vce-Presdent, Geo. C. Dempsey; Secretary and Treasurer, Wnslouw Blanchard. The Freshman Baseball Team played the Englsh Hgh School on Brooklne Common, Saturday, Aprl 5th. The battng was rather lght, a number of men on both sdes beng struck out. The game resulted n a vctory for '93. Score, 7-5. Entrance examnatons for 89o wll be held June 5 and 6 at New York, Phladelpha, Chcago, St. Lous, Cncnnat, San Francsco, Washngton, St. Paul, Pttsburgh, and Portland, Oregon. Detaled nformaton n regard to requrements for admsson wll be furnshed by the Secretary. THEE TECH. E The Class of'93 held a meetng n Room 5, Rogers, Tuesday, Aprl 8th. The meetng was called to take acton on the death of Geo. Mathewson Starkweather, '93, of Pawtucket, R.. The followng commttee were apponted to draw up resolutons: A. B. Smth, H. A. Morss, C. Tantor. The Freshmen should remember that t s not the custom to fast two days before the Senor dnner and then order everythng on the Ynzezzt, and above all, not to have the dnner nterrupted untl the management can obtan a new supply of salt-cellars and butter dshes. t mght also be added for the beneft of those who expect to take trunks, that all the sgns n the hall are of marble or ron, and are bolted down. The Drectors of the Co-operatve Socety held a meetng n 15, Rogers, Thursday, Aprl oth. Commttees were apponted for canvassng the entre nsttute wth tckets for the ensung year. Other commttees were apponted as follows: Book Exchange, Hammond and Kales; Lunch Room, Swan, Meserve, Bems. These are to serve for one year. The advsablty of establshng an extra scholarshp next year was dscussed. The annual meetng of the Co-operatve Socety was held n Room 5, Rogers, Saturday, Aprl 5th. Reports were read by the offcers whch showed the Socety to be n a flourshng condton. mmedately after the annual meetng, a meetng of the drectors was held for the electon of offcers. The offcers for the ensung year wll be as follows: F. C. Blanchard, '9, Presdent; C. F. Hammond, 'g, Vce-Presdent; F. H. Meserve, '92, Secretary; A. E. Fowle, '93, Treasurer. The Cycle Club had ts frst run of the seawork lad out son Saturday. The thrd-year Cvls have for twenty-nne hours a week. A paper was read before the Socety of Arts Thursday, Aprl oth, on rents," by Elhu Thomson, "Alternatng Esq. 1 Cur- ff t F
-r-lf, recf. 191 THE TECH. 191 for bargans n second-hand provsons, and a poor taste,-the latter qualfcaton beng unversally admtted to be necessary tbr the enjoyment of lfe n a boardng house. The watress, the drect agency to whom we look for our daly bread, s a damsel whom fate transplanted f'om the old sod n the tme of the potato famne, and famne n general has been her attendant ever snce. She has the voce of an auctoneer and the arm of an Amazon, and s a servant worthy of her hre. The sx students who fare at ths round table, equal n that msfortune, are n other respects most THE Lounger has often been asked to dscourse dssmlar. Frst, Arthur Allen (S.B., M., T., on "Our Boardng Houses." The subject oflbrs a '89), a survvor of a glorous class, whom fve fertle feld for a reformer; but the Lounger s very years' experence has acclmated to boardng-house lttle of a reformer, and so can treat t but nadequately. lfe. -He s takng a post mortem course n the But some general prncples -whch are 'Stute for hs own amusement. On hs rght s an- patent to every one he, perhaps, can formulate as other bachelor of learnng,-charles Greenleaf, well as another. Frst, the term boardng house Esq., astute and ddactc, postve of deas, and shall be held to nclude those places of resort known nsatable of appette. Next hm, a character that for a long tme as " hash houses," and shall exclude mght be called an orgnal. Ots Rankn, '92 z, s among others Young's Hotel, Huyler's soda fountan, taklng a specal course n engneerng. He s a and the Park House. Of boardng houses scholar, a mechanc, a muscan, a wt, and, above there are two varetes, the good and the bad. The all, a crtc. Hs mtatons of nsttute worthes former s the theoretcal form; the latter s n mght make ther har stand on end, and hs crtcsm actual exstence. make them bald-headed. To hear hm order Boardng- houses sprng up lke mushrooms n a dnner s an nspraton, and to see hm eat t a the path of the Freshman, anld present to hm more thng beyond descrpton. Fourthlon our journey nducements than the catalogue of the nsttute. around the table s Adam Smth, Jr., also '92. He n the dawn of ther career they offer us the delcaces s lterally a man of fgures; they drop from hs of the season at the hand of a pretty water lps lke the jewels of the fary story. Hs reason grl. By the tme of the sem-annuals, f the New s lmted only by nfnty. t s as easy for hm to Year has not rung them out of exstence, ther fare s expressed n ts lowest ter-ms; vz., beans n the numerator and hash n the dlenomnator; and the say how much of the souzpe mzac-,-e would be requred to support the populaton of the globe, as for an ordnary man to calculate the amount needed water grl has become prematurely aged n her to appease hs own hunger. He has estmated the efflorts to supply the appettes of ever-hungry students. num!ber of matches that can be made from a cord of wood, and can tell to the nch how far they would From the multtude of such boardng houses that reach f placed end to end. Hs neghbor, yawn along the thoroughfare where the sons of Columbus stll vend 'bellssma banana" and grnd the strdent organ, let us select one ndstngushable Theophrastus Beard, '9, s studyng for the stage, n antcpaton of hs sudden removal fom the nsttute, and at odd moments bends hs energy to the from ts companons by any allevatng features, conservaton of a blonde moustache. Sxth and and hold t up to the world; and n accordance wth the sprt of specalzaton, whch s the sprt of the age, let us lmt our research to the consderaton of one table n one corner of the partcular eat- last s Robert Short, unclassed, who s addcted to shockng hs companons by nventons reflectng on ther prvate characters, and who s only tolerated among them on account of an unpad board ng house that we have selecled. The landlord of ths house s a lady of uncertan years and more.uncertan ncome,-the possessor of a fne nstnct bll. The other nterestng features of ths lttle company must, for want of space, be relegated to the growng lst of thngs best left unsad. m
192 THEm TECH. : 1f4 t? 't ts ~. P ~ ',! sol',_~[ : t! a?t t3!.l l '.( As, F~; ~:~, College Notes. The Johns Hopkns students have thrown asde ther regulaton caps and gowns. Harvard has one hundred and eghty-nne courses of study; Ann Arbor two hundred and forty-two. The Boston Athletc Assocaton wll put a nne on the feld ths year. Three games wll be played wth Harvard, one on the Boston League grounds. The next conventon of the New England college presdents wll be held at Wesleyan Unversty. The Senor class at Cornell have decded to buld a boat house as a memoral of the class. t s expected that St. Paul's School wll send thrty men to Yale next fall. The Presdent of the Pekn Unversty s translatng Shakespeare's works nto Chnese. Accordng to the London Lancet the number of deaths from football n all the world last season were 13; fracture of legs, 5; of arms, 4; of collar-bones, ; serous njures to the spne, 3; to nose, ; to ankle, ; to cheek, ; and to knee,. - A frend of Syracuse Unversty has provded a fund for the purpose of fttng up an athletc ground for the students, wth facltes for baseball, football, and track sports. The Harvard Qunquennal catalogue for 1890, heretofore publshed n Latn, wll ths year be ssued n Englsh. Dartmouth College has formed a new tenns assocaton, whch s lmted to 8 members. A tournament wll be held ths sprng, and the wnners wll be sent to represent the college n the ntercollegate tenns tournament. Over $3,675,ooo000 was gven to forty-two Amercan Colleges last year, n gfts rangng from fve to ten thousand dollars. The management of the Unversty of Pennsylvana nne has gven two season tckets to each member of the Faculty, n hopes of gettng them nterested n athletcs. Only 6 of the 103 men who started to tran for the Harvard-Freshman crew at Harvard, now reman. At the last admsson examnaton of London Unversty, 47 out of 75 women were successful. Recently a German student was klled n a duel at Lepsc, and another at Wurzenburg. Hamlton Unversty, of Rome, N. Y., has changed ts name to Colgate Unversty. The average age of those who enter college s seventeen years. A century ago t was fourteen. The Brooklyn Polytechnc nsttute has receved a collegate charter from New York. The Class of '8o has decded to present Prnceton wth a gateway to cost $3,ooo as ther decennal gft. A comparson of the yearly number of students at Prnceton for the last fve years shows the followng results, ndcatng the growth of the college. The ncrease n past year, 103; n two years, 167; n three years, 2 ; n four years, 27. Total number of students now at Prnceton, 770. The old ntercollegate cup, won by Yale last year, and competed for at the ntercollegate games for the last thrteen years, wll be gven to Harvard after the games ths sprng. Harvard has won t eght out of thrteen tmes, and there s no more room left upon t for nscrptons. The record of the colleges snce the cup was frst competed for s as follows: n 876 Prnceton won t, and for the three followng years t went to Columba. n 88o Harvard took t, and retaned t untl Yale won n 1887. n 888 t agan went to Harvard, and last year Yale won wth Columba a close second. The number of frst places are: Harvard, 52; Columba, 45; Yale, 34; Unversty of Pennsylvana, 26; Prnceton, 24; Lafayette, 4; Dartmouth, 4; Wllams, 3; Lehgh, 3 ; Stevens, 3; Amherst, 3; Wesleyan, 2; Cornell, 2; C. C. N. Y., 2; Mchgan, ; Unon,. L E- r t
rhe TECCH. 193 There s a movement on foot at Yale to secure the erecton of a buldng to be called the Yale Home, where sck students may receve the care and attenton whch cannot be gven n ther rooms. t s estmated that $700 annually wll cover all expenses. A new scholarshp, to be known as the Scott Hurst Scholarshp, has been founded at Yale. t s the ncome of $5,ooo, and wll be conferred upon two students, one Junor and one Senor, for ntellgent ndustry and approved scholarshp, wthout any specfc compettve examnaton. A new weekly wll soon be publshed at Harvard, contanng a report of all the Unversty lectures, and all the work done n the scentfc department. Sx hundred Russan students have been arrested, on account of recent dsturbances. The average expenses at Yale per year have been: for each Freshman, $783.96; Sophomore, $83.34; Junor, $884.7; and Senor, $99.7o. The largest expenses reported for anyone was $2,900 for the year. ncludng the last race, 47 eght-oared races have been rowed by Oxford and Cambrdge. Oxford has won 24, and Cambrdge 22, and one has been drawn. The gale Lt. s the oldest lvng college paper. Last year the Atlanta crew won 8 races, 14 banners, 8 ndvdual cups, 64 medals, the Harlem eght cup, the Harlem challenge cup for fours, and the Harlem lades' plate for pars. The total number of przes was 99. The new athletc board of Amherst have decded that no person shall hereafter be a member of any of the college athletc organzatons unless he s an accredted member of the college as determned by the regstrar's books. The members of the Unversty of Pennsylvana orchestra dress n caps and gowns when they appear n publc. Dancng, says a phlosopher, s lke the father of the Prodgal Son. t klls the fatted calf. MAcCornmck: " want two poached eggs on toast." 'tz 7 ater: " Yes, sr." "And be sure and have them fresh lad." "Yes, sr: 'll have 'em lad on the toast, sr." M1r. De Style: "Let's go to the theatre to-ng ht." Ars. De Style: " have nothng to wear" Mr. De Style: "Then let's go to the opera." Bzg-gs "t was rather queer about that cab-horse runnng away on the avenue yesterday and dashng nto Hagerty's saloon, wasn't t?" yggs: "Oh! don't know. understand there was a Congressman n the cab." "And you wll be my wfe, Clarnda?" he pleaded passonately. "No, Mr. Wlkns," she sad, gently but decdedly; "you can't enter the league; you'll have to be satsfed wth the brotherhood." Young Alan: " understand you want a young man to edt your paper." Edtor: "Yes, sr; have you had any experence?" roulng Alan: " have taken one term n journalsm at Cornell Unversty, and-" Edzor: "That wll do. You may take my desk and go to work and 'll go and run the elevator. Please be as knd to the rest of the staff as you can." Presently the census-taker wll be around, book and pencl n hand, and conversatons lke the followng- wll be n order:- Census-taker: '" Have you chldren?" Wolzmanz: "Yes; a son." Census-taker: "Male or female?" Woe?an : " Ma le." Censts-laker: "Age?" Womwnan: "Two years and a half." Census-taker: 'Marred or sngle?" W'omaZ : "Sngle." Census-taker (closng book): "That's all rght. Thanks." Mr. Skn: "Ddn't tell you, sr, that wouldn't be responsble for any bll contracted by my son?" Ar. Shears: "Yes, sr, you dd. But he ddn't contract the bll, sr; he expanded t."
j_ -.. 194 TlHE TEOCH. f ~[l ))]] fosr F X ~lltl 'Z '11 --m-~ ",%, kt ' - -- - - --. 1 X_ 1.-.,,.; -- - _ -- -.- --,--- c7 -=------ - =- -ce- _L -- - --_---o -2-5 - ----- L------- 7CLLL-- C -S -- 3 --- ----- c=-. - C-- - C--CT= -- L ''- ; ''; :.., " DEAREST, BE MNE; MY FORTUNE SHALL BE YOURS." "MY LOVE S NOT TO BE PURCHASED, MR. COUPON, BUT YOU MAY HAVE THE REFUSAL OF T." :, } D -,,