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Field Day wecekendl this ycar started offwith a bang--as 2,000 pounds of scrapbegan to pile up behind the dorms. In-stitute and Agenda authorities literallyput '46 in the scrap as they sent theFreshmen out on their errands for FieldDay Eve. As Lester A. Ackerman, presi-dent of the Agend, said lwhen he pub-lished the order requiring every Freshmanto deliver 15 pounds of metal before pro-ceeding on his errand, "\Ve are takingadvantage of our superiority over theFreshman to help out the national wareffort." The picture on the right witnessesthe success of their mission.

During the absence of the Freshmenfrom their rooms in the dorms, '45 withtraditional gusto went to work stacking.Such a complete and thorough job was

done that it is dcbatable who did themost work during the course of theeveninll: the IFreshmen who had to dosuch sundry things as stand on the cornerof Tremont St. vwith shoe box and solicitfree shines until three ill the morning , orthe Sophs, who went into the furniturtimoving business while they were away.

Without doubt the Freshmen must havebeen the most tired, for the next day '45Nwalked off the field against the numer-ical superiority of the under classmen witha complete wvin of 1 1-8 points. In thefirst event of the afternoon the Soph bas-ketball team defeated the Frosh 25-23.However, it must be admitted that theFreshman Marakas-coached team got offto the best start, for at the end of thefirst half they led their opponents by ascore of 14-9.

The second event, swximminlg, waschalked tip as another win, as the record-making Soph medley team stroked in.The tug-of-war, first of only tvwo Soph

losses, and glove fight, came when thleFreshman tuggers pulled their opponentsover just in time for the glove fight. Tiefootballcrs tied; the Frosh got the glo:efight with only a six glove margin. PLhaps if Ackerman had stayed in bed t ienight before this would not have hap-pened, and '45 Nwould have won this eve ittoo.

Well, lhat does all this point to? T eclass of '46, thie largest ever to enter tInstitute, surely in no way physically i -ferior to their less plentiful Sophomle cfellows, certainily as mentally active, bei: taken tas completcly and thoroughly ov rthe coals as the-y were on Oct. 30.

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not the fault of the men who compris dthe class; they came from the same scho( isand places as did thie class of '45, but e ' etreated with so much soft soap and char -ois that class spirit and unity were col-pletl undeve-cloped.

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Fearful of having to bail hundreds of freshmen out of the local county jails,Agenda (see upper right) ran a board to pass on all errands. Bill Katz, afterinforming his freshman of his errand, takes him to the board for approval.In keeping with the spirit of the times, several freshmen managed to bring ina sizable collection of scrap. It is hoped that the bedsprings visible above did

not come from some sophomore's room.

Always on the lookout for something novel, the boys from Agenda, itchingto blow off a little steam after an evening of checking errands, decided thatthe ceiling was too much of an interference, and stacked one freshman room

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Not the least among the reasons behind the sadistic effort ofSophomore class ill the dormitories to harrass the luckless fresh-prior to Field Day, we feel, is the hope that the frosh may:thenmselves so enervated by their exploits of the night beforethey are unable to put their whole soul into beating forty-five.

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,ophomorc reaches high to keep that pass away from the grasping fingers ofirby freshmen. The tie in the football game clinched the sophomore victory.

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DARDDard Hunter reached across a desk

crowded with a pile of galley proofs of hislatest book and several old books in un-usual bindings. He extricated a batteredChinese dictionary from the bottom of apile and continued: "Now, in this volumeyou can see how the Chinese were forcedto alter their brush-made characters sothat they could be adapted to printingwith type." And again the interview wasmomentarily forgotten as Dard Hunterwent on to describe another phase of a

HUNTERsubject to which he has devoted a lifetinof study.

Mr. Hunter is a member of a famil-which has made paper-making and prin!-ing its business for six generations, andthus it is no surprise that he began worein this art under the guidance of his fatherand is still working in the same field.

At the turn of the century he went outon his own to collect information on print-ing and paper-making among all civiliza-tions. Since then he has traveled far: tomany countries in Europe; to China,

Paper made in Kashmir, India, on seives of this type, is of high quality. It isused for the manuscripts in the Kashmiri and Persian languages. This mill

makes sheets about 36 inches square of linen and cotton rags.

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paper, used in paying taxes to the Lama.

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.1 used in making houses. In Korea, thin layers are also used in windows inplace of glass.

-ea, Japan, Thailand, and India, in the Orient; to Tahiti,.otonga, and Samoa, in the Polynesians; and to man) anotherof-the-way corner. Although his main interest was to gather

Lerial for publication, he found himself with the makings of aiseum on his hands when he began to bring back specimens,otographs, and drawings. In 1939, at Dr. Compton's request,brought his collection to Tech, to its place on the third floorBuilding 5.

Ensconced in his office at the rear of the museum, Mr. Hunter:d Vu's reporter that of his sixteen published works, seven have

I n made entirely by him, from the mixing of the ink and theiding of the pulp through the casting of the type and the final

inting on his own presses. He owns a mill at Lime Rock, Con-.cticut, where he produced these works.

The photographs on these pages show some of the methods'rich were observed by Dard Hunter in his travels throughout: Orient. Center and place of origin of the paper-making in-

Siamese handmade paper is usually stained black and written upon withyellow pigment. This particular paper is used in making Buddhistic books.The temperature the day the picture was made, Mr. Hunter reports, was 122

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dustry in the East is China. Before the war, there were an esti-mated 127,000 workers in one province alone engaged in handmanufacture of paper. Only in Japan has there been appreciableprogress in large-scale production of paper, and here still a greatdeal of it is made by hand labor. Large quantities of strong barkpapers have been imported from Japan by the United States forindustrial use.

The principle of paper-manufacture is the same everywhere:that of forming macerated vegetable fibers into sheets of paper,usually on a screen. The methods and equipment used, vary fromplace to place.

Dard Hunter's museum, pictured at the top of the previouspage, is open to everyone. For an interesting and informativeafternoon, VuZ commends to you Dard Hunter and his museum.He has brought to Technology the finest collection of hand paper-making equipment and products and early printing methods, inthe country.

Taper was invented in China in the first century A D. It is one of the greatAdustries of the country today. Outdoor drying of the sheets of paper is still

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On this page Vui presents the GuessWho's Who or some of the people whomake Tech tick. Your photographer,armed with a Brownie, a white sheet, andlots of nerv e, meandered around the In-stitute and used thirt)-three vi-uableman-hours in encouraging these Tech per-sonalities to pose. Lxerxvone should beabke to identify these silhouettes. If youdon't know more than eight of them it Isa cinch thev don't know you.

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The biggest y'earbook job ill Newngland-that is the M. I. T. Technique.o make the book one which will beicrished as a permanent record of life at.chnologv, to make it a vwork of art inc real sense of the phrase, and to makereadable and enjoyable to the owner:lat is the task of the staff of Technique.

.and this year, for the first time, came theJIded job of getting the book out in ai iinrmer term and six weeks of the fall.The staff has seemed to do an excellent

,b. Publication is scheduled for DecemberS, anid at the time /'u went to press, thecarbook had been put to bed on schedule•!d with everything in order. In mid-

November 950 copies had been sold, andtotal circulation was expected to reach1200 before the book came out.

Theme of the book this year is M. I. T.at War. From the steel-helmeted beaveron the front cover, to the war-busy pro-fessors at the rear of the book, we aretaken through the progress of a year atTechnology in wartime. Every yearbookstaff says "We are really having a changedbook", but Meissner, McJunkin, and theboys have done something this year thatis radically different from anything donein the M. I. T. yearbook before. Startingwith the declaration of war on December7, they have followed the course of events

in student life throughout the year untilpress time. Chronological presentationbrought up difficulties of working in theactivities which go on through the wholeyear, but this has been accomplished withadmirable skill. The slightly expandedbook has 320 pages this year.

The work which could be done in thesummer was limited, so this fall the mid-night lights have been burning for manynights, and the smell of hypo and D-76have been noticeable in the darkroom farinto the mornings. Circulation and adver-tising campaigns have been busy through-out the summer and fall.

This is the preview of the 1943 Tech-nique. We commend it to you.

Advice, suggestions, and continuous help fromDino Valz, the printer, keep the book in stepwith the technical possibilities of the printingprocess, keep the cost down, the level of artistic

achievement high.

For dissemination of policies from above, and for discussion of problemswithin the group, frequent meetings of the Junior Board of Technique areheld. Especially this year, with the time element causing accelerated programsfor each department of the book, integration of the work of the various

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Above: To take the dullness out. of the longevenings of checking and planning, HowardMcJunkin, editor-in-chief of Technique, findsnothing so pleasant as female company. Thatsympathetic look in Mary Needles' eye is for the

out-of-commission arm.

Upper left: With the year book, income fromsales goes a long way toward meeting the costs ofpublication. Sales and publicity are spreadthroughout the year. Here we have a late fallsales campaign in Building 10 Lobby. Poster was

used as a come-on.

Circle: In an attempt to give the sedate Tech-nique office something of the appearance of anewspaper city room, Bill Clark, junior boardliterary man, tears his hair and absorbs large quan-tities of coke, trying to get just the right phrasefor that headline. Perhaps he had better dig the

thesaurus out of the library.

Bottom: Although Technique is one of the feworganizations at Technology on which the seniorboard works harder than the rest of the staff,there is no lack of work for diligent freshmen.Here a group of them going about their tasksin the office. In the job of selling advertisements,particularly, the whole staff, regardless of depart-ment, worked with vigor during the summer and

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benefit of book and advertiser.

Top right: In a darkroom shared with Vu,Stevens, Farrell, and Schoenberg, Techniquethotographers, spend long hours preparing thepictures they have taken for the printer. Al-though considerable research has been done on thematter, no satisfactory explanation has been dis-

covered as yet for the inscription on the wall.

Circle: With the emphasis placed in recent yearson making Technique a school year book ratherthan primarily a class book, Potter Hanson doeshis best to sell a copy of the book to a freshman.Sales figures this year indicate that about half the

circulation is outside of the senior class.

Bottom: At the end of the year, the volume ispresented and the new board announced at Tech-nique's banquet, one of the outstanding events ofthe year for those invited to attend. Unlike thesituation at other publications banquets, guestsare in order here. Herb Knape seems to be beam-ing over something: we can hear him telling his

date, "That picture is my masterpiece."

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Bud Strand and Julian Gammon, freshman ties rampant, and their dates, seemto be enjoying themselves. The gentleman at the left looks unhappy, dissi-

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Dick Bettes seems to be doing a nice job of piling up a crowd at the Deltroller skating party. From the expressions, we gather that more than one

person landed hard.

Anything for a party, say the Phi Mu Delta's. Out of Esquire's list of 365excuses, the boys undertook to celebrate Nevada Day. Brush-cut head in the

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:es entered trailing. Here, at turnout time, shells enter the water one afterthe other.

"Field Day to Have Basketball" ran the headline in The Techortly after registration day, and with the usual assortment ofIlies, the fall sports season at Technology was under way.

A sailing team, on October 11, scuttled nine opponents toin two regattas, one at Coast Guard and one at Boston. Per-)rmance, however, fell off later in the season.

A pick-up Senior crew bowed to three Harvard crews in the: ne race of the season, but covered water fast enough to leave-;oston University and Dartmouth behind.

In intramural tournaments, a new point system was an-ounced by the Beaver Key, as the football contest went intoi:e round robin with Senior B favored to win. The annual Fall

i:,terclass track meet was snatched by the Seniors from under'iwe noses of the Freshmen by a margin of three points. Bob:Ieny, high-scorer for '44, garnered eighteen points, but could-:ot bring his class up to the top.

Oscar took his men to New York on Monday, November16, to compete in the I.-C. 4-A cross-country meet. The varsity?laced thirteenth, and several individual Freshmen, notably FrankCassidy, gained honors.

lini MacMillan, on the business end of the megaphone, works hard to moldraw freshman material into top-notch varsity candidates. Men brave the icyNsinds of the Charles daily to keep in condition during the fall season. This

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oSecretariesDoes Welleslev seem too far away? Do Radcliffe women

lack oomph? Perhaps we should try something closer to home.No, not the coeds. It used to be the forgotten man, and now ithappens to be the forgotten secretary. We refer you to the bevyof beautiful Tech secretaries. The majority of these girls (sixhundred, count 'em 600) are surprisingly young and appallinglyappealing to the eye.

The average age of this group of essential people around Techis around twenty-one. (No we didn't stack the figures.) Red-headsare scarce, but well represented. Blue eves dominate the field, andheight seems to waver around the five foot six inch mark.

Shirley Ridgway (which see), one of the girls interviewed,has been Prof. Huntress' secretary for about a year. She is 5' 4",has blue eyes, brown hair, and has the kind of disposition thatgoes with dimples. Graduate of Katie Gibbs, she lives inl Wabanwith her family. Her sister had the same job but quit to marrya Tech man. She goes out with Tech men and says that most ofthe secretaries would like to meet some Tech men.-"They knowwhere we are-they can just come up and see us".

Next we have Jeanne Triouleyre, Dr. Wtulff's secretary andlab assistant. She is pert, has blue eyes, brown hair, is about 24years old and towers about 5' 3" above the Harvard boys. Herhome is in Northampton, where she went to Smith college. She

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Barbara Mlitchell, secretary in the Economics Department, takes a minute olifrom a busy day for a drink of water from the office cooler.

Peggy Jordan, Ruth deCosta, Betty Sullivan and Corinne Friel, Radiatio girls, find 'Walker lunches to their liking, and a few moments' rest on the sterFoutside the Lounge Bar a pleasant intermission before returning to th:

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has a room on Marlborough Street and walks across Har,'ardbridge every day. (Time not known-do your own sleuthing).Jeanne thinks that Tech men are much more refined than Harvardor Dartmouth men. She likes our lack of rah-rah atmosphere."Tech men are not very glamorous, but I like them for theircharacter, not their 'pretty faces'". For your information Dr.Wulff's office is 8-413.

Mary Foley probably has come in contact with more Techmen than any other secretary around school. She is the very cutegirl encircled by the army in the M.S. department. Mary is 5' 4",has reddish brown hair, grey eyes, sunny smile, and she has reachedthe ripe old age of 19. She lives in Cambridge with her mother.Her favorites are basketball, Bob Hope, and uniforms. She spendsmost of her money on clothes and Defense Stamps, thinks that anacquaintance dance between the Tech men and the secretarieswould be a swell idea.

In the lounge bar or Cafeteria at Walker at every lunchtime the Tech man can wander in for lunch or browse around anddream in an atmosphere consisting of hundreds of beautiful Radia-tion workers who do everything from clerical work to drafting.Most of these girls are, on the average, younger than the Institutegirls. They have not had much of an opportunity to meet theTech men, but think that the idea of being sociable would be thecats meow.

How about it you committees? Why not hold an all Techstudent-and-secretary dance. Let's get the ball rolling. Here weare with no gas to get to Wheaton or Wellesley, and six hundredbeautiful girls in our own back yard.

Mary Foley of the Military Science Department checks up on that letter in thefile for her boss. For further data on the personable Miss Foley, we refer you

to the adjacent article.

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Technology's first Freshman class of thenew war hit Cambridge and Boston latein September, providing almost everyfraternity with "the best pledge class wehave had" from amongst its seven hun-drld members. With blankets not avail-able, Freshman camp was held at Tech-nology. Sophomore prexy Johnny Burkebecame the first to escape dunking.

Biggest concern of the new Freshman, aswell as of most upperclassmen, was thedraft and what they were going to doabout it. To the end of clearing up thesituation, boards were set up, recruitinggroups visited Technology, and the ranksof the various reserves were swelled withmen who had planned to be engineers. Atpress time, nothing had been announcedregarding the status of the imported En-listed Reserve Corps, nor of the non-reserve members of the underclasses. Dr.Compton in his annual report to the Cor-poration had called for a clarification tosolve the quandary of students andcolleges.

. . de Pinna and Mr. Sycamore, not to be hin-C red by the complaint of the family, prepare to

v v their new explosive in the dining room, whilep avers and audience shriek. Those attending the

Dramashop play had an amusing evening.

I.,ad table at the freshman smoker was occupied by such personages as Dr.(:.,mpton, Wally Ross, and Professor Hamilton. No reason has been advanced£f,r the cherubic expression on the face of the noted chemist and administrator.Mlany of these men later spoke at the smoker. It came as a capping to a

successful weekend of freshman orientation.

The best is none too good for this year's freshmen,and among the services they required at the Fresh-man smoker was that of Jack Tyrrell, G. M. ofThe Tech, as waiter. It is reported from usuallyreliable sources that Tyrrell, replete in polka-dot

tie and boutonniere, did a passable job.

Dorclan, initiator extraordinary, did it again thisyear. Starting two years ago with Greek statuesposed by the initiates on the pedestals in RogersLobby, they continued this year by having theirneophytes conduct a real, three ring circus in thesame place. Gentleman at top in the amazing

paraphernalia was ring-master for the show.

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would like to serve you. Their goodsand services are among the best availablein Boston. When next you have a needthat might be filled by one of them, wesuggest that you investigate what theyhave to offer.

ProfilesDid you know these important people

at Technology? We assure you that theyare worth knowing. For those of youwho don't get around, here are theirnames:

First row: Dean Lobdell; Professor Sears;Professor Weiner.

Second row: Professor A. R. Davis;Colonel Putney; Professor Magoun.

Third row: The blind date they got youwhen you were a Freshman; PresidentKarl T. Compton; Mrs. Thomas.

Fourth row: Coach Oscar Hedlund;Cover-girl Shirley Ridgway.

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The staircase in the main school building presentsan imposing setting for school and social life.

', illing crowds ofv .rv low. Below,

girls emerge from the door of the school at lunch hour. The ratio of men to girls isJim Metcalf and two coeds take part in a class in radio technique. This is an important

part of Emerson training.

City School ProvidesBroad Background forDramatic Talent

In this issue Vu attempts to give you athumbnail sketch of the scenes behind thescenes at Emerson College. (Circle 8727for you lovers of the rare combination ofpulchritude and intelligence). Contraryto the average Tech man's belief is thefact that Emerson is co-educational: forthose readers who sniff at the idea of menstudying drama, your reporter refers youto Alfred Lunt, an alumnus of EmersonCollege. The four years at Emerson arefilled with courses ranging from speech,diction, and philosophy to costuming,scene painting, and make-up. In addition,languages, physical education, and historyof playwriting form an integral part ofthe average Emersonian's curriculum.

Many plays are open to the public inEmerson's playhouse where large numbersof Tech men can often be found spendingan entertaining evening attending a re-production of a Broadway hit or a groupof playlets and pantomimes. Emersontakes a deep interest in the opinions of thetheatre crowds of Boston and the Techmen who attend their plays. Emerson re-ceives a constructive and intelligent criti-cism of the play while the audience re-ceives an evening of good entertainment.

The pictures herein presented were takenon one of Emerson's many "first nights".Our staff photographers heartily agree

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with the Life photographer who said thathe had never seen so many photogenicgirls corralled under one roof. After manypleasant interviews with the Emerson co-ed, your reporter compiled the followingfacts pertinent to Tech men: Most inter-esting to the boys of slipstick fame is MissCoed's opinion of fraternity men; sheregisters amazement at the brothers' handsoff (?) policy, but she will nonchalantlyturn into one or Macbeth's witches uponthe reception of an invitation to a dance"over at the house". Dormitory men reallyexcite her-upright hair and horn-rimmedglasses seem to appeal to her more ad-venturous spirit. Many a Tech man hasspent a most pleasant evening reciting themore interesting figures of steam tables toa receptive ear, and in turn witnessing anexcellent pantomime.

This is a scene from a humorous pantomime put on by the students.

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Being an Emerson boy has its advantages, and one of them is close and fr:-quent contacts with the many attractive Emerson girls. Here Bill Brenn.n

takes time out to make a date with Freda Gardner.

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