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Pearl Harbor and the disastrous:events that followed have force-fully brought home to the Amer-ican Public the vital part played inour social and economic structureby rubber, one of our most essentialimported raw materials. DoctorErnst A. Hauser, Technology's emi-nent authority on rubber and col-loid chemistry, and Professor in theDepartment of Chemical Engineer-ing, gave a clear and concise pic-ture of the critical state of the rub-ber situation in the United Statestoday, and the great part Technol-ogy has played in the developmentwork on synthetic and other rub-bers, in an exclusive interview toThe Tech.

Decrying the lack of foresightand imagination hitherto exercisedin the handling of the situation,Doctor Hauser ascribed the presentplight of the rubber industry to a

5:15 Club CarnivalFeatures Gadgets,Games, And Queen

Alpha Club, Goodale.,Student Hlouse WinRube Goldberg Contest

With a gay, festive spirit runinghigh, the Anual 5:15 Club Carni-val, held last Saturday evening inthe club room and Morss Hall,afforded four hours of constantentertainment for those peoplewho were in attendance.

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Guest InitiatesMade Me~mbers ByInstitute ChapterInitiated at the Tau Beta Pi ban-

quet last night at the Hotel Shera-ton., Professor Erwin H. Schell,head of the department of Busi-ness and Engineering Asdminjtra-tion became an honorary memberof the national honorary engineer-ing fraternity.

At the same time, two otherhonorary members were initiatedfor chapters at other schools. Mr.William J. King officially became amember of the chapter at Tulanewhile Mr. James A. Powell wastaken into the chapter at NorthCarolina State. These men wereinitiated by the Technology chap-ter because their work in thevicinity of Boston made it impos-sible for them to attend their ownchapter initiations.

The address of the evening wasmade by Professor Douglass V.Brown of the department of Eco-nomics who related some of hisexperiences while a member of theHarriman Commission to Russiawhich investigated lend-lease prob-lems. Professor Brown returned tothe Institute several months agoafter over a year and a half ingovernment service.

Ten Juniors and two Seniorswere initiated into the fraternityat the annual spring ceremony.They are Donald C. Berkey andRobert I. Jacobson, Seniors. whohad been on cooperative coursesduring the last initiation, andCarleton F. Bryant, Jr., William J.Cochran, John R. Foley, Robert W.

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Karl Wenk Chosen942 Class Agent

Wil Hielp IncreaseAlauvii Fund DBonationms

Karl E. Wenk, Jr., '42, Chairmanof the Budget Committee, has beenappointed 1942 Class Agent for theAlumni Fund, according to an an-nouncement made yesterday by theFund offce. In this capacity Wenkwill be in charge of the class or-ganization for the solicitation ofSeniors, graduate students, and for-mer students who are affiliatedwith '42. He follows in the foot-steps of William J. Folberth, Jr.,'41, who likewise serves as Agentfor his class.

The Fund was established twoyears ago by the Alumni Associa-tion for the purpose of adding eachyear to the Institute's capital re-sources. With each contribution of$3.00 or more goes a year's subscrip-tion to The Technology Review.

Prospects GoodAsked about the prospects for

this year, Wenk stated that in hisopinion the Class of 1942 ought toturn in a record amount. "Considerwhat 1940 and 1941 did during theirfirst years as alumni," he said. "243men in the Class of 1940 gave over$1,000; last year 208 members of1941 gave $1,214. Our class is grad-uating at a time when we carn ex-pect to draw higher salaries thanthose two classes could at the timeof their graduation.

"Then too we're going to be scat-tered throughout the world shortly,and the 'only way we'll be able tokeep track of each other is througI4our Class Notes in The TechnologyReview. Fred B8aumann will havehis hands full, but I know that heand his assistants will turn out agood job."

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Failures In MarriageMlay Be Due To IgnoranceIn FinaL Homemaking

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For Next YearNominate Three ForChairman;g New, OldBoards PlanI Dinner

At a meeting of the DormitoryCommittee held last night in Ware,three Juniors were nominated forthe position of Chairman of thegoverning body. Nominated were

Henry M. Tiedemann, Robert J.Schaefer, and Bernard Brindis.1'71e election of one of these mento the important position will takeplace later this week.

Seven members were selected tocontrol the various committeeswhich function in the dormitories.Those elected are: Gregory C. Gar-garin, '43, Dance Chairman; Greg-ory J. Azarian, '43, Athletic Chair-man; Raymond F. Frankel, Jr., '43,Frosh Chairman; John B. Macken-zie, 143, Social Chairman; Henry M.Tiedemann, '43, Burton Room; Ber-nard S. Brindis, '43, InformationChairman; Eugene A. Schnell, '44,Dinner Chairman.

The new and the retiring boardswill meet for dinner at the ParkerHouse next Monday night. The re-mainder of the members chosenare: Senior House, James A. Mal-loch, Jr., S. Richard C'hilderhose,Robert J. Schaefer, William J. Coch-ran, Harry Ottinger, Jr., andGeorge C. Marakas.

John R. Taft, Bemis; Kenneth M.Rehler, Goodale; Louis W. Maxson,Walcott; Robert A. Cummings,Wood; Andres A. Freites, Hayden;Joseph L. Kaufman, Munuroe, allfrom the Class of 1944. Robert B.Meny, '44, and Bield Damsgaard,'44, were chosen members-at-large.

VossAnnounces~ewBuilding Option

Housing And LightConstruction Offered

The establishment of an optiondealing with Housing and LightConstruction in the Department ofBuilding Engineering and Construc-tion was announced by ProfessorWalter C. Voss, head of this depart-ment.

The importance of this field,which has generally been ignoredby architects, engineers and moreprogressive builders, looms large inthe defense efforts. Defense hous-ing is being scattered over the en-tire country and much of it is be-ing designed and built without con-sideraiion of the social and eco-nomic effects which it may exertwhen peace returns. This meanswasted materials and effort. Thedislocations which this war willbring are sure to stagger manycommunities.

As 60 per cent of our usual nor-inal construction volume is in hous-ing and many more families wouldlive in privately owned homes ifthey could afford it, the construc-tion industry could well become thespark plug of recovery.

The research which is plannedwill run parallel with this training,many make some progress in costreduction, demountability and salv-age value. If all of these werepresent realities we would still beunable to profit from them unlessthose who manage these affairs arebroadly trained to solve them. It isfor this reason that the Light Construction option of the course inBuilding Engineering and Construc-tion will pay particular attentionto the economic and businessaspects of housing. Both optionsare identical until the beginning ofthe third year when the Heavy Con-struction option continues as here-tofore and the Light Constructionoption provides the training de-scribed.

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policy of complacency and an atti-tude of "it can't happen to us." Itdid happen . . . and to us. .

Crude Rubber Stocks Are SmallDoctor Hauser estimates that the

stocks of crude rubber on hand inthis country at the beginning ofthe present year were not morethan 600,000 tons. Loss of Singa-pore and the Dutch East Indies hasfor the time being eliminated allfurther imports of this preciouscommodity from the Far East,which in normal times suppliedabout 98% of the world's rubberconsumption. Even when the Japa-nese have been driven from Malayaand the Dutch Indies, the chancesare that the rubber plantations willhave been seriously damagedthrough a "scorched earth" policyon both sides, and supplies fromthis source may not be expected formany years after the war.

Normal civilian rubber consump-tion in the U. S;. is close to 600,000tons per year. But when three daysafter Pearl Harbor the governmentclamped down on civilian tire con-sumption and instituted a drasticprogram to limit the use of rubberto the barest essentials, this wasmore than outweighed by a giganticneed of rubber on the part of thearmy, the navy and the aircorps.Armies roll on rubber, planes andships need vital rubber parts. It isrubber that makes modern blitz-kreig possible.

War-Time Consumption"The amount of rubber consumed

in the U. S. in 1941 was well over700,000 tons, and I do not believe

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The third of the Spring series ofT.CA. sponsored marriage lecturesis to be given at 4:00 P.M. andagain at 5:00 PM. this afternoonin Room 10-250. The subject of thisafternoon's talk will be "The Job ofMaking a Home."

"Many failures in marriage arecaused by the partners' unprepared-ness to do an intelligent job ofhome-making together. Such aproject must be undertaken byhusband and wife together." Sosaid Professor F. Alexander Magounlast evening. The Professor furtherstated that love making need notcease after marriage, and the nov-elty of courtship should never beallowed to die out."

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sions, including the popular"Glamour Meter", a Carnival Queencontest, and the much publicized"Rube Goldberg", wacky inventioncompetition. Music was ably sup-plied by the McMenemy twinsand their orchestra, and on:e of thehigh spots of the evening was thedance exhibition given by two fromthe Arthur Murray school ofdancing.

Miss Gloria Gilooly was chosenQueen of the Catrnival from the hostof beautiful girls present. The 15gallons of beer, awarded to thewinner of the Rube Goldberg con-test was won by the Alpha Club,represented by Martinl M. Phillips,'45 and Milton A. Widelitz, '45, whohad on exhibit an "automatic, run-less stocking putter-onner". Secondprize of a case of beer was awardedto G~oodale, who had built a ma-chine to "set the rising sun, andthird prize, a case of soft drinks,was won by memnbers of the Stu-denlt House.

Dramashop CastsLast Play of Year

Dramashop will present its lastperformance of the year on Fridayand Saturday April 10 and 11, atthe Elizabeth Peabody Playhouse,on Charles Street in Boston.

The changed cast, as releasedyesterday, follows: Felipe Vallego,Robert L. Lichten, '43; Mecha Vral-lego, his wife, Janet, Norris, '42;Pepe Alan S. Michaels, '44; Benja-min L. Gerald Firth, '43, Carmen,Mildred B. Edwardson, '46; Teresa,Frieda S. Omansky '46 ; JaimeTierra, Jorge Ross, '43; CarolinaPinto, Dorothy J. McKervar, r44;

,Tia Martha, Dorothy D. G;ruen-.inger, Katherine Gibbs School; Tia.Cristina, Joan C. Westcott, Kath-.erine Gibbs School; Tio Manuel, L.William Katz, '43; Dick Hubbard,

lJasper D. Ward, '45; Larry Foster,V arold A. Miller, '44; Chica Galvez,Marion H. Ferris, '45; Paco, EdwinA. Rosenberg, 45; Policeman, JackL. U~retsky '45; Nelida, Rosemary J.

.IBurghoff, '44. The characters tolportray the three Indians have notbeen cast as yet.

IAll freshmen should attend the

placement lectures which will begiven in Room 10-250 at 3:00 P.M.,Thursday, April 2.

Professor Harold L. H~azen, headof the department of Electrical En-gineering, has announced that be-cause of the great pressure of workof immediate significance in thewar, the Honors Groups in the de-partment of Electrical Engineeringwill be discontinued for the dura-tion of the war.

Even Camp Technology, summerhaven for many civil engineers andtheir colleagues, the building andconstruction men, Course i men, i efeeling the pressure of the times.On 1,000 acres- of rolling, wooded,lake-studded Maine land, Institutestudents this summer will peerthrough transits with an eye to-ward carrying out their assignedproblems. This year, however, theproblems will have a militaryflavor, for a knowledge of survey-ing is considered to be of such im-portance for men entering any ofthe military services that arrange-ments have been made to open thesurveying program at Camp Tech-nology to a limited number ofundergraduates other than thoseregularly attending.

Many military challenges, suchas the establishment of artilleryranges, mapping, military sketch-ing, orientation, the astronomicaldetermnination of direction, andariel photography depend for theirsolution upon a knowledge of sur-veying. Yet, while greater emphasisis placed upon cooperation with theArmy in this field, the sumnmertraining program still remains es-sentially a civilian course, with mil-itary -problems replacing many ofthe standard problems.

A limited number of men havingfinished one year's work at the In-

take the summer program. Occu-pying an eight-week period fromJuly 28 to September 18, it will cost$100 for tuition, room and board,with special student-aid fundsavailable. Emerging satisfactorilyfrom the summer's work, studentswill have credit for four units ingeneral studies and for surveying1.02. Candidates who wish to beconsidered for the camp shouldconsult Professor J. W. Howard,Room 1-236, or Professor J. D.Mitsch, Room 1-381, without delay.Facilities for accommodating extrastudents is limited.

Off ering a wide variety of naturalproblems in surveying, Camp Tech-nology, established in 1912, islocated high on a bluff overlookingLake Gardner.

Technique Sales To ShowPicture Of Great Court

The frontispiece of the 1942Technique which is to be aKodachrome picture of thegreat court will be exhibited forthe first time in the sales boothwhich can be found in Builg10 on Thursday and Friday ofthis week. Also at this time thenew Technique will be on saleat five dollars. per copy. It isalso requested that holders ofoptions for the year book paythem up as soon as possible.stitute will be eligible to apply tol

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Commnitteemen /To Relieve Rubber Shortage

HONORARY MEMBER

Official Notice

(Editor's note: This is the first and wrote several books on thatin a series of articles, designed to subject.show the progress of Technology The greatest change in Tech-from its inception in 1861 to the noiogy's residential groups waspresent day. Enrollment is the first brought about by the opening ofsubject to be considered, and future the dormitories, which also effectedarticles will deal with such phases a great increase in total enroll-of "Technology Today" as develop- ment. In 1916, before the dormsment of courses, buildings, instruct- were in use, there were 800 stu-Ing staff, activities, athletics, and dents living at home; at theexhibits. We are especially indebted present time, there are only 650to Mr. Horace S. Ford, Treasurer commuters, but the discrepancy isof the Institute, for his help in more than compensated for by thegathering information for these thousand men who now live inarticles. ) dormitories.

Enrollment at Technology grew The average age of Technologysteadily from a mere 72 students students is only four monthsIn 1865 to a peak in the prosperity younger this year than it was inyear of 1920, when a total of 3,436 1900, although anyone who hasstudents, both graduates and under- seen the year-book pictures of Techgraduates were in attendance. It men at the turn of the centuryis interesting that the number of will find this hard to believe. Atcoeds at the Institute follows no that time, mustaches were far moresuch steady trend. There were 44 popular than they are now, andwomen students attending in 1900, said misplaced eyebrows apparentlyby 1910 this number had fallen to added years to their owners' ages.ten, while this year the coed popu-IIn 1920, the average age of thelation has reached an all-time high Institute's students was at a maxi-of 59. Naturally enough, enrollment mum; this increase was apparentlyof women students grows rapidly due to the fact that many menduring war years, when more mem- whose education had been inlter-bers of the weaker sex come to rupted by the war had returned torealize the great opportunities finish their courses.which are open to them in the Geographical distribution of stu-fields of science and engineering. dents has changed considerably in

MZiss Ellen Swallow of the Class the past forty years. The majorof 1873 was the first woman to classifications and their percent-graduate from the Institute. She ages are shown in tabular form:was also the first woman instructor 1900 1941at Technology, teaching in the De- Massachusetts ..... 60% 30%partment of Chemistry, and later Other New Englandshe married Professor Richards. States ........... 10% 10%Miss Swallow gained fame as a Other United States 26% 53%pioneer in sanitary engineering, Foreign ............ 4% 7%

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that its members will be unable to participate in their fourtlh

and last season of spring sports. That means that those athleteswho would usually have an opportunity to earn a straight Tduring the spring of their Senior year will be deprived of thatopportunity. Consequently, the present spring season will af-ford the Junior athlete his last chance to get the cherishedstraight T. With the present system as it is, the junior par-ticipating in a spring sport, who would be deserving of a straightT in his Senior year, may very easily be overlooked at the endof this season simply because he is a junior.

We suggest, therefore, that the coaches, who -make therecommendations, and the Advisory Council on Athletics, whichmakes the final awards, bear in mind that Juniors in spring sportshave their last opportunity to earn a straight T this season andthat they seriously consider these Juniors for the award.

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plication nor the processing ease ofthe natural product. "I am a chem.ist, keenly interested in synthetics,but from .the point of view of anation's economy, I still think thatnature does a better job," Dr.Hauser stated. He therefore urgesscientists on the one hand to re-double their efforts in the perfec-tion of existing synthetics and inthe search of a true synthetic, andon the other the production ofnatural rubber in the Westernhemisphere.

Home-Grown RubberGuayule rubber shrubs have re-

cently gained much publicity. Na-tive to the highlands of Mexico, theplant is capable of thriving well inclimatic conditions of the South-west United States. Testing workat the Institute on the propertiesof Guayule have proved to DoctorHauser that a good quality rubbercompound can be prepared from

;uayule. Doctor Hauser has beenvigorously advocating the largescale plantation of Guayule forsome time (see The Tech May 27,

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Lack of Scrap Is SeriousRubber. reclaim which is at pres-

ent being extensively used in therubber industry wherever possibleis facing the critical situationwhere its largest supply source-old automobile tires-are no longerbeing sold for scrap. Doctor Hauseradvocates the organization by thegovernment of an energetic cam-paign for the collection of all rub-ber scrap. He also believes thatrurther research is necessary in ourreclaiming methods and in ourmethods of compounding reclaimrubber. This field has also not beenneglected by him, and he is at pres-ent engaged upon successful workto improve the tensile and abrasionproperties of reclaim rubber com-pounds. One of the Doctor's morenotable farsighted achievements isthe development by him and DoctorDesiree S. LeBeau, research associ-ate at the Institute, of a methodby which it is possible to reclaimany type of synthetic rubber, whensufficient quantities of such will be-come available.

In order to avoid a paralyzingbottleneck in our war industries,caused by a shortage of rubber,

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that even with the most stringentrestrictions it will be possible to re-duce our wartime needs for rubberto less than 600,000 tons per year,"Doctor Hauser stated. "Bluntly, Ican't see how the rubber on handcan last much beyond the end ofthe present year," he added.

Discussing the tremendous syn-thetic rubber program which hasbeen projected, Doctor Hauser feelsthat production figures have beengreatly overestimated. Shortagesof the auxiliary raw materials re-quired in the manufacture of Buta-diene copolymer synthetic rubber,such as styrene and acrylo-nmtrilewill be the chief bottleneck. "Underthese circumstances.

Moreover, it must be realized thatup to the present no true syntheticrubber has been produced. Syn-thetics have not the universal ap-

John F. Tyrrell, '43Harry Ottinger, Jr. '43

Robert P. Richmond, '43.. A. Donald Moll, '43

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Gardner H. Sloan, '44Paul Talalay, '44

Joln T. Toland, 't4Miartin E. \W'unsc h, '44

Mortimer W. Mbeyer, '44Harry W. Turner, 744

Walter C. lcCarthy, '43John W. McDonough, '4Robert B. Rumsey, '43Robert J. Schaefer, '43

Freshmen, even Tech freshmen,will be irrepressible, although theEnglish Department thinks they'rejust plain lazy. One playful mem-ber of the Class of 1945 was recentlyassigned to grind out 1000 wordson that thrilling topic, "Is Russiathe Land of the Future?" Beingunable to find a Sophomore whohad ever covered that particulartopic, friend freshman proceededto rack his brain, and finally cameup with an idea. As a result, oneprofessor of English received atheme entitled, "Is Russia the Landof the Future," and underneath,the words, "No, no, a thousandtimes lo!" It is assumed that hismark on the theme began with anF. and ended with another.

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was a surprise ending to a bit ofmusical oratory rendered by mem-ber of Course III, followed by apolka from which some, no doubt,haven't recovered as yet. Amusingreports of the Delts, who contin-ued their dance at Chi Phi, afterhours, with two kegs spirited upfrom North Stoughton have reachedyour columnist's ears. The boysfrom 22 The Fenway are still airingthe -premises, so we hear.

. . .great attraction at the 5:15all-Tech carnival was a novel ar-rangement that tested the abilityof potential dive-bombers. Resultsseelm to show that the fair sex werebetter at getting their objectives.Hearing many favorable commentsconcerning the Kappa Sig party weare especially interested in the rea-son behind the great attractionthat the barroom seemed to hold,even in the face of some good musicsupplied by Jack Sardi.

l . for lovers of solid downbeat,the Savoy is definitely a must.Frankie Newton rules the band-stand with six hepcats that makewith the jive. "No cover or min-imum charge" completes the col-| umn's best bet for swing entertain-Iment.

... the old story of March comingin like a lion and going out like alamb was again proved false asgood old New England weatheradded to the woes of those TechI. F. C. weekenders who wouldn'thave been interested in Mondaynine o'clocks anyway.' Bringing tomind the "Battle of Music" at theStatler last Frday night, your col-umnist would like to report thatlvaried opinions seem to indicate adraw with "more danceable" de-scribing Marshard's music, and"better musical numbers" charac-terizing Donahue's swing.

. . . Saturday night parties carriedon festivities with a faster tempo,doubtless because of the universalinformality that reigned. Successof the Sigma Nu-Alpha Tau Omegacombined party at the Common-wealth Country Club was shown bythe large number of funsters thatcrowded the clubhouse; while thenovel addition of a buffet dinneradded to the fun at the Pi LambdaPhi record dance that went off ingreat style.

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quotas of happy farmers. High-

point of the Phi Beta Epsilon brawl

Doctor Hausersible sources 'natural rubber

urges that all pos-of synthetic andshould be exploited

as rapidly as possible, with a viewto the consideration as to what rub-ber can be made available andwhen. "No single method of pro-ducing or source of natural rubberwill solve our problem, but only aconcentrated effort to utilize allpossible sources, small and large,natural and synthetic, will enableus to survive the crisis," ProfessorHauser concluded.

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VOLUNTARY PHYSICAL TRAININGThe paunchy stomachs of Technology men have been pro-

truding from tightened belts, their half-closed eyes have beenglazed and bloodshot, and their tired feet have been draggedacross the campus ever since the most difficult scholastic schedulein the country was adopted by the newly-founded MassachusettsInstitute of Technology many long years ago. But lately theseoutward signs of physical inactivity have become particularlynoticeable.

This can undoubtedly be accounted for by the fact thatmany of the Institute's athletic facilities have been either perma-nently or temporarily put out of commission by the Institute'swar efforts and that the physical condition of the majority ofthe students has consequently deteriorated to a new low. Com-pulsory physical training for freshmen had to be discontinuedwhen students were denied the use of Walker Gymnasium a fewmonths ago. All athletic events and practice sessions on BriggsField had to be cancelled. And finally the Hangar Gym wascondemned to destruction to make way for more urgent waractivities.

Today, however, the Walker Gymnasium has been returnedto the Institute and is now available for physical conditioningof students. Henry P. McCarthy, Director of Physical Train-ing, has announced that special classes will be arranged to meet

the time and needs of the students who wish to participate. Thefirst of these classes is to be held tomorrow at 4:00 P.M. andwill consist of exercises and games which aid in physicaldevelopment.

That this training will be valuable to the Technology stu-dent is evident in many ways. Statistics show that men par-ticipating in athletics make better grades than the non-athletes.In 1940, the sportsmens' rating was 3.67 while the generalundergraduate average was 3.31. The athletes chalked up an-other 3.67 in 1941 while the entire undergraduate body wasgetting a 3.3S. At the same time, the student who endeavorsto improve his physical well-being will be doing his little parttowards the improvement of the nation's general physicalcondition.

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Acrobats BeatenIn Close MatchBy Sp r]llfileld

33-21 Is ScoreOf The Final MeetOf Gym Season

The Technology Gkym team, oneof the hardest-hit of all athleticsactivities by the disruptions of thedefense effort, had a very creditablerfeet with Springfield College on

Saturday, March 28.The team, which has had en-

forced idleness imposed on it sincelast fall, lost to its opponent by the,close score of 33-21. The meet wasbitterly fought, but Springfield hada definite edge on out acrobats. Wetook three firsts, George AndersonOn the sidehorse, Co-captain HeinieShaw in the tumbling division andHenry Bourne in the rope climbtopping the list. Henry Bourne wassecond on the rings, with Bob Max-well on his heels. Fred Stearns wasthird in the rope climb.

The Springfield team was com-pos~ed of excellently built men, ac-cording to Emilio Touche, co-cap-tain of the Beavers. This meetends the abbreviated schedule ofwhat was a potential "big-winner,"the other meet having been early-in the season with McGill Univer-sity. At Montreal Technology edgedout McGill 46-44.

Many men entered the New Eng-land Athletic Union Gym meet heldin the Walker Gymnasium at thesame time. At this meet men com-pete as individuals, and many Tech-aology men were entered. Ray

|Keyes, '40, came back to take firstsiln the rings and sidehorse. Among

F the mdraes;- Anderson took,second, Heinie Shaw third in tum-blhi~l. In the Novice sidehorse corn-,petition Davidson, '45, won, fol-~'owed by J. Angell, 2nd, and S. Dick-jenson, 3rd. In the Novice Parallel~bar division, Al Shelby beat all com-petitors. followed by Bourne andGall. In the Novice tumblingVerner took third.

Springfield men placed high iniiany events proving definitely

,superior in high bar and tumbling.The outstanding man of the meetweas also a Springfield man, Ether-idge, who turned in a superlativeperformance on the tumbling mat.The team will hold its annual ban-quet on April 8, when the future

program will be discussed.

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Freshmen Set 10.8

For Same Course

Slipping over smooth water, thencutting through rough water, thevarsity crew yesterday afternoonet a time of 9.50. for the mile andhree-quarter course from the boat

"ouse down to the Boston end ofongfellow Bridge. Following in

close strokes, the freshman tailedWith a time of 10.8 for the samecourse. These are the first timetrials set for this season, for whichail crews have been rowing sincethe last of February.

Setting the stroke for the varsityis DeLeo, followed by No. 7 manFlowers; No. 6, McGuire; No. 5, Ty-berghein; No. 4, Lehman; No. 3,Bakker; No. 2, Heller; No. 1, Mal-loch. The coxswain was Laird.This varsity crew is light, but theheavier crew, in the second boat,are not as fast. The high strokevork will begin shortly.

Class presidents sometimes havemore in common. When LangdonFlowers was president of the fresh-inan class last year, he showedpromise on the freshman crew, and

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At one of the most successful ofthe winter track banquets, sixty-five tracksters saw the Techniquecup awarded to Robert A. Miller,'43, as a tribute to his high scorein last season's matches. GeorgeN. Ziegler, 144, was the recipientof the Leon S. Thorsen Trophy,given annually to the freshman,of the previous season's team whoshows the most improvement.

The principal speaker at themeeting held in the Walker Din-

|ing Hall was Eugene P. Carver,|recently elected selectman of the|town of Brookline and a well-known|

!track official.. Mr. Carver spoke on||the necessity of sports during the|I present emergency, stressing the||need of strong men in all of theX|services today. He was introduced||by Bob McBride, president of the||Technology Track Club, who acted|

as toastmaster. Other speakers in-cluded Bob Bowie, field coach, and"]Doc Johnson, trainer.

The trophies which were awardedlast night are given annually tooutstanding trackmen. The Tech-nique cup, a large silver vessel ap-proximately a foot in diameter,was a complete surprise to itswinner, when it was announcedthat he had won. The cup is spon-sored by Technique, the schoolyearbook, and the winner's nameis engraved thereon.

The Leon S. Thorsen Trophy wasestablished last year by S.Thorsen, who was captain of thecross country team in 1928. Hisrequest stipulates that the cup bewon not by the best freshmanathlete, but by the one who, byreal work, cars improve himself tosuch a point that he is successfulin the matches.

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Hedlund Continues CompetitionIn Spite Of P. T. Suspension

With nothing like it on any othereducational institution, freshmanP. T. competition enters its thir-teenth season this year in spite ofthe fact that physical training isno longer required of freshmen.

In the summer of 1929 Oscar Hed-lund sat down and thought throughthe system of competition which he!put into eff ect the next winter. Thefirst try was very successful and the'competition has continued eversince.

Based on PentathalonThe P. T. competition is based

fundamentally on the A. A. U. pen-tathalon, in which scores in fiveevents are counted toward the totalscore of each man. In the arrange-ment devised by Oscar each entrymust compete in seven of the fol-lowing eight events: high jump,shot put, broad jump, 60-yard lowhurdles, 50-ard dash, quarter, half,and one mile.

The scoring is based on tile fresh-man P. T. competition records, Ifa man equals the record, he receives100 points. If he exceeds it or fallsshort of it, he receives more or lesspoints according to the difference.

Three Medals AwardedThe freshmen taking first, sec-

ond, and third places are givengold, silver, and bronze medals re-spectively. Oscar has put muchtime on the competition. He hascomplete records of the achieve-ment for the thirteen years of itsexistence.|He has even gone so far as tohave graphs drawn which show thebest marks for each year. Thesegraphs show the rise and fall of

Itrack talent as it has come to Tech.

|Gives All-Round DevelopmentThe advantages of freshman P. T.

competition are many. It gives all-round development. Bob Bowie and|Oscar Hedlund can tell by the re.|sults for which events their men1

|are fitted. B~est of all it breaks the Imonotony and the mell retain an|1interest in track.

!When the P. T. requirement was|[repealed in December, Oscar called|together all the freshmen and in-1

[spired them to keep on coming out.|Today forty to fifty fellows are en-|tered and freshman P. T. compete 1

1tior. continues in spite of war re-||strictions.l

,Gbolfers W^ill Meet Indians|

Heinie Shaw, co-captain of the var-sity gym team, who recently tookfirst place in the tumbling eventat the combination Springfield and

Ni.E.A.AIU. meet.

E Emilio Touche, co-captain of thegym team, and a sidehorse expert.

Spring shore school will combmence today at the Nautical Asso-ciation Pavilion according to Ken-neth L. Warden, '43, Commodore.The first school of the year willget under way at about 5:00 P.M.,and this year will see the emphasisplaced on sailing itself. The coursewill be considerably shorter thisyear because splicing must beeliminated as a result of the ropeshortage.

The school is open to all studentsand members of the staff who careI|to learn the art of sailing. It wouldbe greatly appreciated if some ofthe members who hold the rank]of helmsman would report and help|get the new members out onto the water. There will also be alschool for the Technology Damesat 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday's.There are some excellent sailorsamong this group according to theCommodore but there is an urgent need for helping them get started.

In First Game On April 11

Starting their season with a gamewith Dartmouth, the Tech Golfteam will play four matches inApril and several more in May itwas announced recently. Insteadof a visit from Dartmouth, theM.I.T. quartet will go to Hanoverto meet the Indians on their home-ground on April ll.

On April 16, the team will faceB.U., and then will meet Brown onthe next day. Harvard will followon the 30th of April. In May, theteam will enter the N. E. Intercol-legiates, then meet WNP.I., and Yale,finishing the last of the month.

is now doing well on the varsity.Johnny Burke, this era's froshprexy, is heading the same way,while the varsity looks gingerly athis showing.

The Junior-Varsity crew hasThiede setting the stroke, and thefollowing men in order: No. 7,Spitz; No. 6, Soderberg; No. 5,Bowen; No. 4, Taft; No. 3, Wald;No. 2, Leader, while the bow manwas DeBell. Coxswain was Clauson.

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Miller Gets Technique Trophy

At Winter Track Banquetl

Tech Rifle TeamGets Third PlaceIn R.O.T.C. Mleet

Second Squad TakesFifth Place, CompetingFor Hearst Trophy

Competing for the William Ran-dolph Hearst Trophy, the MI.T.rifle team placed its first team inthird place and its second teamin fifth place. Vermont arrived atthe first position with 928 for thetotal four position, leading Tech-nology with 902 points.

The competition was the Na-tional R.O.T.C. match for the firstcorps area, comprising 18 teams.The four positions allowing a pos-sible 200 points each, were prone,off-hand, kneeling, and sitting.Each member of the first team willreceive a third place medal.

The third highest individualhonor was captured by Jim Harker,with 190. Dundon, on the secondteam leaped his bounds to followHarker only one point behind. Theother members of the first team

|were Terry, Weisenthal, Gannon,}and Shoffner. The second teamIwas made up of Dundon, Corwin,IWoodworth, Wood, anld Cantor.|The freshmen last night took an

l'easy match from the Junior var-sity team, with a score of 1275 to|the low 1193 of their competitors.|The J.V. squad numbered only fourmembers, so that one of the froshhad to shoot for them.

Possibly the frosh have too greatan. incentive, for they have to for-feit a nickel for each miss. How-

Iever, they didn't have to pay muchlast night.

The winners were Rosar, with thehigh score of 274 , Ilfield, Ericson,Wilson, and Burmaster. Corwinwas high for the J.V. with 270.The rest of his team was: HaasWood and Scott.

18 Fraternities| And All Dorms

|.To Play SoftballAll the dormitories and eighteen

of the fraternities have signedthemselves to a process of elimina-tion on that babe of baseball, soft-ball. Opening next Saturday, an-nounced Sid Atlas, '43, the gameswill be run off two a week, on Sat=r-day and Sunday, until graduationof the Seniors. This is to permit asmuch opportunity as possible forthe Seniors to get their whacks inbefore Senior Week. Easter Sun-day, however, will be excluded.

Until it is possible to use the Fen-way Ball Park, it will be necessaryto use the grounds between Build-ing 2 and Walker Memorial. Thesewill be appropriately lined and ar-ranged for the tournament. In caseiany question arises as to the tourna-ment, Sid Atlas can be reached atCom. 4288.

Swimlming TalksOffered to Students|Coach Jarosh To Start

Series Of Four Thursday|The first of a lecture series on

lthe elements of swimming is to begiven at 5:15 P.M. Thursday at the|

|Alumni Pool, John J. Jarosh, swim-|Iming coach announced last night.|

These lectures are not intended||to teach swimming, but are to be given as an outline of methods of|Iapproaching learning how to swim {in order that those attending them |will be able in turn, to teach them-Iselves. The series will be open to|Iall male students and staff mem-||bers. All men interested in the lec-|}tures may appear either on the||pool floor or in the gallery of the}natatorium.|

The first lecture on Thursday will|discuss "Learning How To Swim".||On the following Tuesday after-||noon from 5:15 P.M. to 6:00 PX.M"The crawl stroke" will be illus-||trated; on Thursday afternoon.

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given the power to regulate labor|unions." The Institute will be repre-I

sented by Lee Hanower, '45, and|

John J. Rueckert, '45.|

During the past f ew days, the|Debating Society has had two|freshmen and one squad debate.lCharles M. Wiswell and Robert P.lAuty, '45, dropped the only de- cision debate of the grou~p to a|squad f rom R. P. I. In the fresh-lmen debates, John W. Colton andLee Hanower, and Robert C. Jahnland William M. C. Laml debated|against Tufts and B. U. respec-|tively.[

James G. Ulmer, Jr., '45, sole|Technology representative for Bos-ton University's pan-American day,took second place in the intercol-|legiate extemporaneous discussion contest which was held there re-&cently.l

Ulmer is now scheduled to go tolNew York City for the regional tournament, and the winner of the|National Tournament is to receiveda free trip around South America.|

The contest was divided into two|parts. In the afternoon there were|three round tables of about eighthmen each. Two representatives were selected from each round table|for the evening phase of the con-|test. This consisted of a group of|extemporaneous speeches on vari-[ous phases of pan-American rela-|tions. It was here that Ulmerlplaced second.|

Tau Beta Pi'|(Conetinuded fr oat Page 1) l

Maxwell, George L. Nelson, Ray-|mond R. Richards, Fredericks C.Smith, William R. Thurston, Jr., Arthur E. Vershbow, and Benj amin P. Wilbour, Jr. all Juniors. Thesemen bring the total membershipito thirty Seniors and thirteenJuniors.I

Professor Schell was elected tohonorary membership because of|his demonstration of the qualities|for which undergraduate mem-!bers are chosen. He has beenlargely responsible for the rapidgrowth and development of his|department and has been out- standing in the field of engineer-lmng management. Professor Schell|graduated from the Institute in1912 as a mechanical engineer. Hehas published numerous articlesof an industrial nature and was|awarded the Gilbreth Medal in 1938 by the Society for the Ad-|vancement of Management for hislcontributions in that field.

In1 addition to his academic con-Itributions, Professor Schell is one|of the god-fathers of the NauticallAssociation, being one of the driv-ing forces in the establishment ofthe Sailing Pavilion and the largefleet of dinghies for which the In-stitute is famous in collegiatecircles. His interest in other stu-dent activities has been notable.

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Debators Meet . |Advisory Board Of T.C.A.

B.U. Today Meets To Discuss DriveUlmer Takes Second The annual spring meeting of the

In Pan-AmesrScand Tas T.C.A. Advisory Board was heldat 4:00 P.M. last Thursday after -

Technology varsity debaters will noon in the office of Horace S.meet B. U. this afternoon at 5:151 Ford, Treasurer of the Institute.on the subject: "Resolved: That | umerous undertakings of the

Technology Christian Association

were discussed among which were

included the T.C.A. financial drive

and letters of solicitation which are

sent to the members of the faculty,

the sale of Defense Stamps, and

the T.C.A. Embassy.

the Class of 1944.

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tion and the financial drive will

be carried out simultaneously in

November. It was revealed that by

March 25 $1,001 worth of Defellse Miss Lucille Lacey, Arthur S. Karol, Miss Louise Siskind, and Robert

A. Plachta rest between dances at last Friday's 1. F. C. Dance.Stamps have been sold through the J. G. Schudel Is Electedvarious fraternities, dormitories,' President Of Chem. SocietyLnA nron7.~+nn -ren-i rJ --

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anu CU1111 1U erUrgIt111 U1,iU·i. J. Gieorge Schudel, Jr., '43, waselected president of the M.I.T.

| Chemical Society, at a meeting of

Lounger the Society held Thursday, MarchI 26 in Room 2-390. John J. Sullivan,

(Continued fron Page 2)E Jr., '43, was elected Vice-president

One of the better known mem- and David Tilevitch, 43, was chosen

bers of the Electrical Engineering I secretary. The treasurer is to be

Department brought to light one l David M. Falk, '43, and Alan M.

of the common failings of M.I.T. Milman, '43, will be in charge of

professors in his lecture the other i plant trips. The offices of publicity

day. Reading a series of mimeo- manager and membership com-graphed notes which he himself mittee chairman went to William

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Dr. William F. Boos, toxicologistfor the state of Massachusetts,spoke on the subject of IndustrialPoisoning.

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They are: James W. Leader,Frank A. Clauson, Albert J. Kelly,Jr.. all members of the Class of1943. Steven H. Brown, Lamar Field,DeLoss Kahl, Jr., R. Brooke Pietsch,

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