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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. FRIDAY, OCT. 20, 1950 PRICE FIVE CENTS VOL. LXX NO. 38 Soccer Team Edges Tufts - - . Page 3 Ather Hours - - ... Page 2 Letters To The Editor - - - age 2 iversaie Residents Mo0ve To East Wi ng NVovember I November 1 is the date now set for the opening of the newly con- verted Riverside dormitory, reports Mr. Gordon Watson, manager of the Baker House. The biggest causes for the delay of the original open- ing were indecision as to furnishings and trouble getting present tenants out of the building. - Rooms in the eastern half of the building will be ready on the opening date, while the western half will not be ready until after the second term begins. Two hun- dred students have been living temporarily in the unconverted west wing. There are many single rooms, but other combinations are avail- able. The space will be open only to upperclassmen. The dormitory is to be operated by a new student staff plan, under which students do all the porter work in the dormn Marty Miller To Have Lead In Molier Play "BI aeglnary Invalid" Dramashop moved into the final stages of rehearsal this week for its fall production of Moliere's farce, maaginaiy Invalid. The play will be presented on the evenings of November 3 and 4 at the Pea- body Playhouse. Imaginary Invalid, a product of Moliere's satirical wit, is set in Paris in the latter part of the six- teenth century. It tells of the trials and tribulations of an aging hypo- condriac, Argon, who calls on doc- tor after doctor to cure his imag- nary ills. When he finally tries to marry his daughter Angelique to one of his doctors so as to cut down the price of his treatments, only his maid Toinette is able to set things right again. The result is a satirical comedy in which Moliere constantly pokes fun at the medical profession, Miller Has Lead The leading role of Argon will be played by Marty Miller, who ap- peared most recently in Drama- shop's production of Three Men on a Horse last fall. Gloria Montalbano of Emerson College will play the part of Toinette, -and Kathie Peters of the Boston Conservatory will appear as Angelique. Tickets for the Imaginary In- valid will go on sale in the lobby of building 10 on Monday, October 23. The Peabody Playhouse, where the play is to take place, is located on Charles Street, three blocks east of Charles Street Station. The first series of Technique options will be sold -from Monday, October 23, through Frid.y_, October 27, from 10:00 to 3:100 p.m., accord- ing to an announcement from Gen- eral Manager Samuel Rabinowitz '51. A new feature that is to be added to the book is a sweetheart sec- tion, the pictures to be selected from submissions from option holders. Full details can be obtained at the option booth. Air Force Officers Visit Institute In Campaign To Get Officer Trainees A team of U. S. Air Force officers will visit the institute (Rm. 1-287 for 5 days beginning October 23 as part of a nation-wide campaign to provide the opportunity to quali- fied young men and women to be- come officers in the U. S. Air Force. According to Captain Harrison 0. Stines, who is here to make ad- vance arrangements for the Selec- tion Team, men with two or more years of college have an oppor- tunity to go directly from civilian life into one of three officer train- ing courses. Both men .and women, according to Capt. Stines, can qualify for Air Force Office' Candidate School. For six months as students here, they receive the equivalent of a staff sergeant's pay and upon graduation are awarded commis- sions as second lieutenants. These officers are assigned to non-flying jobs in administrative and techni- cal fields. Besides schooling, ap- plicants for the Aviation Cadet Pilot or Navigator training emust be single, citizens, and between the ages of 20 -and 26tc. 4 Million Necessary To Finish Up Drive At a dinner. held by the Greater Botbon Committee last Tuesday at the Hotel Statler, Marshall B. Dal- ton, chairman of the M.I.T. Com- mittee on Financing Development, announced that $16,000,000 had so far been raised. Mr. Dalton is presi- dent of the Boston Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance Company. His address was as follows: "It is a very great pleasure to preside on this significant ocasion. I- am grateful to the Greater Bos- ton Committee for giving me the opportunity. -And it is a significant and a critical time in the life of M.I.T. The Development Program to raise $20,00D,000 for vitally- needed buildings, equipment and 'endowment has 'been under way with ever-increasing tempo since organization work commenced two years and three months ago. It started with the organization of the Committee on Financing De- velopment, consisting of more than 750 leading M.I.T. men and friends of M.I.T.'throughout the country. During the sunrmer and early fall of 1948 plans were completed. In- creasing numbers of workers have since been recruited and intensive solicitation carried on among a widening circle of M.I.T. men, cor- porations, foundations and other Photo by Astrachan Dr. Karl T. Compton, Chairman of the Co'rporation, addressing the Greater Boston Alumni Fund Drive dinner at the Statler. friends of the Institute. Today we come into the home stretch and open this final phase of the fund- raising campaign in this, one of many such dinners .being held throughout the country. In the first place let me tell you that there are about 4000 alumni and friends actively at work on na- tional and local committees. Within (Continued on Pave 4) Photo by Cohen No, you are not dreaming! You are I program of the Institute. The plans at looking at a model of the future west campus of the institute as conceived by twelve Technology graduate stu- dents. The model built during last spring is based on the development mXortierA dblero fP GreatBoo ks ?ame Open LSC Subscription Series M oiay A talk on the "100 Great Ideas" by Professor Mortimer J. Adler, on Monday, October 23, at 5:00 pan. in room 10-250, will be the first pro- gram of the year of the Lecture Series Committee's special Sub- scription Series. Tickets for all six lectures of the series will be on sale at the. door for $1.80 and $3.60 reserved. In addition, tickets for this lecture only will be sold -for $0.50 and $0.75 reserved. Doctor Adler, Professor of the Philosophy of Law at the Univer- sity of Chicago, is well known for his work on the Great Books project, from which these 100 great ideas he will speak about have been derived. His views on education have been put in-to practice at the University of Chicago. He is the author of How to Read a Book, a work designed to help adults educate themselves, and many books in the fields of philosophy and psychology. · Professor Adler, who was edu- cated at Columbia University and who taught there until 1929, moved to the University of Chicago when a very close friend of his was elected president there. It was there that he classified the Ideas of history into 102 main divisions with about 3000 sub-ideas. Succeeding talks presented by the Lecture Series Committee this term will be "There Is Still Time" by Pierre Van Paasen on November 21, and "India After Gandhi" by Vin- cent Sheehan on December 11. In the spring the committee will present three more talks, the first by Al Capp on February 20 entitled "Of Shnmoos And Men." Next is "Minorities In A Democracy" by Max Lerner on March 15, and the last lecture will be Odgen Nash's "HIard Times And Tortured Rhymes" on April 10. present call for $26,287,500 in dona. tions for constructing among other buildings, the gymnasium seen in the upper right hand corner of the picture, the undergraduate dormitories in the left hand side of the photograph, and the faculty club on the lower right hand side. Over $16,000,000 has already been contributed. The model was constructed by F. R. Beatel, J. M. Bondoc, D. E. Clark, G. D. Gray, A. C. . Hamersky, R. U. Hamilton, G. C. McCutchan, L. S. Parker, D. M. Pellish, J. B. MeMorran, N. H. Smith and R. S. Ghosn. If any student receives an Order to Report for Induction before June 1, 1951, he should write a letter to his Local Board and re- quest Postponement of Induction until the end of the academic year, referring to Section 1632.4 of Selec- tive Service regulations. It is mandatory that the Board grant this postponement upon written re- quest of the student, and applies to students in the lower half of their WestCampus Building Project Is Disclosed In a speech given Tuesday night President James R. Killian disclosed long term plans for an improved campus community at Technology. Plans call for development of In- stitute grounds west of Massachu- setts Avenue for recreation and student living. All future labora- tories will be constructed on the eastern side of the campus. The object of the program, according to President Killian, is the creation of the kind of com- munity where students can "better learn the arts of citizenship." He cited a model of the west campus of the future produced ,by gradu- ate students here at the Institute as a "thrilling layout and some- thing we are driving for". Event- ually, he said, more than one half of the student body will be located west of Massachusetts Ave. 400 Present President Killian spoke to more than, four hundred alumni of the Institute at a dinner in the Hotel Statler. This dinner marks the commencement of a drive to raise the remaining four million of the Institutes 20 million dollar Develop- ment Fund Drive. Dr. Killian also discussed the Lewis Committee report and the changes to be made in the humani- ties program. He said the new pro- gram is designed to provide an adequate basis for work and "not for frills or culture with a capital Ranair Eslete Frosh Chairman Officers-elect of the class of 1954 are, Chairman Eddie RaHair, Secre- tary Robert Anslow, and Institute Committee Representatives Cole- man Breese and Larry Holmes were approved unanimously at last Wednesday's meeting of the Insti- tute Committee. At this same meeting the new constitution of the T.C.A. was discussed and approved. More effi- cient organization is promised as the changes go into effect. Members gave their approval to the T.C.A.'s plans to conduct its annual filan- cial drive during the week of October 30 to November 4. Concluding its business for the day the comnmittee approved the election of Robert Woods as treas- urer of the Nautical Association and the election of the Dormitory Cormrittee officers. TECH SHOW '51 Auditions for TECH SHIOW 1951 are now being held every after- noon from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., in Bldg. 18. Anyone (staff, secre- taries, students, etc.) interested in any phase of musical comedy is invited to try out. Those trying for singing parts are requested to bring their own music. Auditions will continue through Oct. 27. For information contact Bill Hawe, at Baker House. PHYSICALS Students who entered the Institute term are 7eminded that they have one more week In which to take required physical examinatlon. class as well as to those in the I other students upper half. this just the All must take a chest X-ray before December 1. C e - , I THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE M.I.T. UNDERGRADUATES -- aarDI~~~~~~~·~~l~~~·~~lllr~~~~s~~~l·IIIPI· C ___ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ __~~~ I I I I i I I I I i I I I , I I -, - - - -- - - - - 11 I - d ia~n 4 & 45 Long= erin lans eve ~eopnient Fun lilts i a8ilion

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Page 1: Letters To The Editor - - age - The Techtech.mit.edu/V70/PDF/V70-N38.pdf · A talk on the "100 Great Ideas" by Professor Mortimer J. Adler, on Monday, October 23, at 5:00 pan. in

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.FRIDAY, OCT. 20, 1950PRICE FIVE CENTSVOL. LXX NO. 38

Soccer Team Edges Tufts - - . Page 3

Ather Hours - - ... Page 2

Letters To The Editor - - - age 2

iversaie Residents Mo0veTo East Wi ng NVovember I

November 1 is the date now set for the opening of the newly con-verted Riverside dormitory, reports Mr. Gordon Watson, manager ofthe Baker House. The biggest causes for the delay of the original open-ing were indecision as to furnishings and trouble getting presenttenants out of the building. -

Rooms in the eastern half of the building will be ready on theopening date, while the westernhalf will not be ready until afterthe second term begins. Two hun-dred students have been livingtemporarily in the unconvertedwest wing.

There are many single rooms,but other combinations are avail-able. The space will be open onlyto upperclassmen. The dormitoryis to be operated by a new studentstaff plan, under which studentsdo all the porter work in the dormn

Marty Miller To HaveLead In Molier Play"BI aeglnary Invalid"

Dramashop moved into the finalstages of rehearsal this week forits fall production of Moliere'sfarce, maaginaiy Invalid. The playwill be presented on the eveningsof November 3 and 4 at the Pea-body Playhouse.

Imaginary Invalid, a product ofMoliere's satirical wit, is set inParis in the latter part of the six-teenth century. It tells of the trialsand tribulations of an aging hypo-condriac, Argon, who calls on doc-tor after doctor to cure his imag-nary ills. When he finally tries tomarry his daughter Angelique toone of his doctors so as to cutdown the price of his treatments,only his maid Toinette is able to setthings right again. The result is asatirical comedy in which Moliereconstantly pokes fun at the medicalprofession,

Miller Has LeadThe leading role of Argon will be

played by Marty Miller, who ap-peared most recently in Drama-shop's production of Three Men ona Horse last fall. Gloria Montalbanoof Emerson College will play thepart of Toinette, -and Kathie Petersof the Boston Conservatory willappear as Angelique.

Tickets for the Imaginary In-valid will go on sale in the lobbyof building 10 on Monday, October23. The Peabody Playhouse, wherethe play is to take place, is locatedon Charles Street, three blocks eastof Charles Street Station.

The first series of Techniqueoptions will be sold -from Monday,October 23, through Frid.y_, October27, from 10:00 to 3:100 p.m., accord-ing to an announcement from Gen-eral Manager Samuel Rabinowitz'51.

A new feature that is to be addedto the book is a sweetheart sec-tion, the pictures to be selectedfrom submissions from optionholders. Full details can be obtainedat the option booth.

Air Force Officers VisitInstitute In CampaignTo Get Officer Trainees

A team of U. S. Air Force officerswill visit the institute (Rm. 1-287for 5 days beginning October 23 aspart of a nation-wide campaignto provide the opportunity to quali-fied young men and women to be-come officers in the U. S. AirForce.

According to Captain Harrison0. Stines, who is here to make ad-vance arrangements for the Selec-tion Team, men with two or moreyears of college have an oppor-tunity to go directly from civilianlife into one of three officer train-ing courses.

Both men .and women, accordingto Capt. Stines, can qualify forAir Force Office' Candidate School.For six months as students here,they receive the equivalent of astaff sergeant's pay and upongraduation are awarded commis-sions as second lieutenants. Theseofficers are assigned to non-flyingjobs in administrative and techni-cal fields. Besides schooling, ap-plicants for the Aviation CadetPilot or Navigator training emust besingle, citizens, and between theages of 20 -and 26tc.

4 Million NecessaryTo Finish Up Drive

At a dinner. held by the GreaterBotbon Committee last Tuesday atthe Hotel Statler, Marshall B. Dal-ton, chairman of the M.I.T. Com-mittee on Financing Development,announced that $16,000,000 had sofar been raised. Mr. Dalton is presi-dent of the Boston ManufacturersMutual Fire Insurance Company.

His address was as follows:"It is a very great pleasure to

preside on this significant ocasion.I- am grateful to the Greater Bos-ton Committee for giving me theopportunity. -And it is a significantand a critical time in the life ofM.I.T. The Development Programto raise $20,00D,000 for vitally-needed buildings, equipment and'endowment has 'been under waywith ever-increasing tempo sinceorganization work commenced twoyears and three months ago.

It started with the organizationof the Committee on Financing De-velopment, consisting of more than750 leading M.I.T. men and friendsof M.I.T.'throughout the country.During the sunrmer and early fallof 1948 plans were completed. In-creasing numbers of workers havesince been recruited and intensivesolicitation carried on among awidening circle of M.I.T. men, cor-porations, foundations and other

Photo by Astrachan

Dr. Karl T. Compton, Chairman of theCo'rporation, addressing the GreaterBoston Alumni Fund Drive dinner at

the Statler.friends of the Institute. Today wecome into the home stretch andopen this final phase of the fund-raising campaign in this, one ofmany such dinners .being heldthroughout the country.

In the first place let me tell youthat there are about 4000 alumniand friends actively at work on na-tional and local committees. Within

(Continued on Pave 4)

Photo by Cohen

No, you are not dreaming! You are I program of the Institute. The plans atlooking at a model of the future westcampus of the institute as conceivedby twelve Technology graduate stu-dents. The model built during lastspring is based on the development

mXortierA dblero fP GreatBoo ks ?ameOpen LSC Subscription Series M oiay

A talk on the "100 Great Ideas"by Professor Mortimer J. Adler, onMonday, October 23, at 5:00 pan. inroom 10-250, will be the first pro-gram of the year of the LectureSeries Committee's special Sub-scription Series. Tickets for all sixlectures of the series will be on saleat the. door for $1.80 and $3.60reserved. In addition, tickets forthis lecture only will be sold -for$0.50 and $0.75 reserved.

Doctor Adler, Professor of thePhilosophy of Law at the Univer-sity of Chicago, is well known forhis work on the Great Booksproject, from which these 100 greatideas he will speak about have beenderived. His views on educationhave been put in-to practice at theUniversity of Chicago.

He is the author of How to Reada Book, a work designed to helpadults educate themselves, andmany books in the fields of

philosophy and psychology.·Professor Adler, who was edu-

cated at Columbia University andwho taught there until 1929, movedto the University of Chicago whena very close friend of his was electedpresident there. It was there thathe classified the Ideas of historyinto 102 main divisions with about3000 sub-ideas.

Succeeding talks presented by theLecture Series Committee this termwill be "There Is Still Time" byPierre Van Paasen on November 21,and "India After Gandhi" by Vin-cent Sheehan on December 11. Inthe spring the committee willpresent three more talks, the firstby Al Capp on February 20 entitled"Of Shnmoos And Men." Next is"Minorities In A Democracy" byMax Lerner on March 15, and thelast lecture will be Odgen Nash's"HIard Times And TorturedRhymes" on April 10.

present call for $26,287,500 in dona.tions for constructing among otherbuildings, the gymnasium seen in theupper right hand corner of the picture,the undergraduate dormitories in theleft hand side of the photograph, andthe faculty club on the lower righthand side. Over $16,000,000 hasalready been contributed.

The model was constructed by F. R.Beatel, J. M. Bondoc, D. E. Clark,G. D. Gray, A. C. . Hamersky, R. U.Hamilton, G. C. McCutchan, L. S.Parker, D. M. Pellish, J. B. MeMorran,N. H. Smith and R. S. Ghosn.

If any student receives an Orderto Report for Induction beforeJune 1, 1951, he should write aletter to his Local Board and re-quest Postponement of Inductionuntil the end of the academic year,referring to Section 1632.4 of Selec-tive Service regulations. It ismandatory that the Board grantthis postponement upon written re-quest of the student, and applies tostudents in the lower half of their

WestCampus BuildingProject Is Disclosed

In a speech given Tuesday nightPresident James R. Killian disclosedlong term plans for an improvedcampus community at Technology.Plans call for development of In-stitute grounds west of Massachu-setts Avenue for recreation andstudent living. All future labora-tories will be constructed on theeastern side of the campus.

The object of the program,according to President Killian, isthe creation of the kind of com-munity where students can "betterlearn the arts of citizenship." Hecited a model of the west campusof the future produced ,by gradu-ate students here at the Instituteas a "thrilling layout and some-thing we are driving for". Event-ually, he said, more than one halfof the student body will be locatedwest of Massachusetts Ave.

400 PresentPresident Killian spoke to more

than, four hundred alumni of theInstitute at a dinner in the HotelStatler. This dinner marks thecommencement of a drive to raisethe remaining four million of theInstitutes 20 million dollar Develop-ment Fund Drive.

Dr. Killian also discussed theLewis Committee report and thechanges to be made in the humani-ties program. He said the new pro-gram is designed to provide anadequate basis for work and "notfor frills or culture with a capital

Ranair Eslete

Frosh ChairmanOfficers-elect of the class of 1954

are, Chairman Eddie RaHair, Secre-tary Robert Anslow, and InstituteCommittee Representatives Cole-man Breese and Larry Holmes wereapproved unanimously at lastWednesday's meeting of the Insti-tute Committee.

At this same meeting the newconstitution of the T.C.A. wasdiscussed and approved. More effi-cient organization is promised asthe changes go into effect. Membersgave their approval to the T.C.A.'splans to conduct its annual filan-cial drive during the week ofOctober 30 to November 4.

Concluding its business for theday the comnmittee approved theelection of Robert Woods as treas-urer of the Nautical Associationand the election of the DormitoryCormrittee officers.

TECH SHOW '51Auditions for TECH SHIOW 1951

are now being held every after-noon from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., inBldg. 18. Anyone (staff, secre-taries, students, etc.) interested inany phase of musical comedy isinvited to try out. Those tryingfor singing parts are requested tobring their own music. Auditionswill continue through Oct. 27. Forinformation contact Bill Hawe, atBaker House.

PHYSICALSStudents who entered the Instituteterm are 7eminded that they haveone more week In which to takerequired physical examinatlon.

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?rogram would be to attract to T echnology students who m ight otherwisenever com e here. Presumably, the students would normally go to a liberal

irts school, so that in this limited, but nonetheless real, area the Institute1would enter into competition. A more general, and more significant, area ofcompetition was cited by Mr. Heart himself when later in his letter he cor-rectly paraphrases one of the objectives of the new program as that of train-ing Technology graduates to be leaders. Traditionally, Iarvardfwains leaders

red Technology trains engineers. Many people around here (incidentally, thesedo not necessarily include myself) firmly, reasonably, and honestly believethat this school should continue to train engineers and that it should bend

its efforts towards improving engineering education rather than enter intogreener pastures. These people may hold that !eaders are barn and not made,and support their contention by calling our attention to the large number of

leaders this school has produced despite the handicap of a technical educa-tion. My point has been, and still is, that these people ought to be heard

from before the recommendations of the report are executed._Mr. Heart's next three paragraphs are an accurate statement of the intent

of the committee, for which more credit to him. I have never misrepresentedthe committee's intent; but I now have the opportunity of accusing Mr. Heart

of glibness. He approves of the committee's suggestion but inserts the con.ditional phrase, "if this can be done without. major sacrifice in a technologi-cal way." Again, many people here (also not necessarily including myself)

take issue with the repot's conclusions on this very point. They, too, ehouldnot be glibly dismissed without a hearing.Of course, I have cited no horrible consequences as examples since no hor.

rible consequences are to be found. I do maintain, however, that several non-horrible, but nevertheless undesirable, consequences may possibly ensue, to

the possible detriment of the Institute and its graduates. Mr. Heart dismissesas glib my "mention that we may 'turn out poorer engineers,' ' I so I have no

alternative but to contradict him flatly. I regard the possibility (althoughnot the certainty) o4f a decrease in engineering education standards to be a very

real one.At last, Mr. Heart hits me where it hurts. Th e importance of criticism

was the very point I have been trying to make, but he questions the validityof criticism of the report on the grounds that twentytwo respected men have

spent two years in drafting it. I know, however, that the framers of thereport had no such ideas about its sacredness but to the contrary intendedit to be controversial and anticipated a general discussion of its provisions.

Indeed, it was the fear of premature controversy that was the principal reasonfor the high degree of secrecy surrounding the drafting of the report.

It should now be perfectly clear, even to Mr. Heart, that my original inten-tion was to stir up an interest in the report among the student body as well

as among the other groups at the Institute. Apparently I have succeeded inaccompishing this objective. Now that the air has been cleared. I hope otherswill come forward with their opinions on the report (not on me); I mustretire' from active service pleading battle injuries. Sander Rubin, 50

The w ?TechFiIDAY, OCTOBEM 20, 1950 NO. 38

college vacation,

VOL. LXXNews and Editorial--Room 307, Walker Uemorial, Cambridge, Mass.

Telephones: KI rkland 7-1881, 7-1882.Bustness-Room 335, Waqker Memorial. Telephone: KIrkland 7-1881.Mafi Subscription $3.00 per year, $5.00 for two years.

Published every Tuesday and Friday during college year, except during cunder the Act of March 31. 1879.

Night Editor: Newell J. Trask, '52Assistant Night Editor: Arthur A. Winquist, '53

UNDERGRADUATE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION tThere is one basically confused issue at the root of the present

controversy concerning the proposed changes in the undergraduateprogram at the Institute. Whenever anyone states the purpose of under-graduate engineering education he uses sweeping generalizations sub-

ject to widely divergent interpretations. It is important to realize that tthis is true not only when someone gets up to say grandiloquently that"MIT should train men for life" but also when someone else comesup with the less apparently ambiguous statement that "MIT should ttrain men to become good engineers." It is one thing to say that amedical school should prepare men for the medical profession, formedicine is a fairly well defined professional field, and an entirely ,different thing to say that an undergraduate professional school should ltrain men to become engineers because the term "engineering" is applied ,

to activities on many different levels. There is a big gap between thedrawing of wiring diagrams for pin-ball machines and basic researchin the analysis of electrical networks, and it is a difference whichis overlooked when both jobs are merely considered to be "electrical 'engineering." r

For our purposes, it is sufficient to divide all engineering activityinto two classes. In the first group fall the "four-year engineers." Theyare that great number of practicing engineers who complete theireducation with the four year undergraduate program. They are -thegreater part of any graduating class, and they comprise the greaserpart of any company's engineering department. As technology becomes

more and more advanced, it is-doubtful whether or not they could becalled professional men in the usual sense of the word, but even if theyare'not to be so distinguished there remains a great need for this kind

of -engineer.The second group comprises what we shall call the "professional

engineers," since they alone work at what is truly 'the professional level.In order to qualify for this group, it has become almost an absolutenecessity to acquire professional education beyond that which can beassimilated in -the four undergraduate years. Too often when peopletalk about engineers they have only this group in mind, for these are

the men who are doing the more advanced work in their different fields,and they come to mind first when one thinks of engineering.

In addition to the two groups we have already mentioned, there is,as we pointed out in a recent editorial, a third group, the non-engineers,which consists of those graduates who do not go into engineering at all

when they graduate.- In any consideration of -the entire engineering educational program

it is necessary to bear in mind three factors. First, for each of thethree categories outlined above there are separate educational require-

ments. Second, it is impossible to divide engineering students into theabove three categories until the greater part of their undergraduateeducation is completed. Finally, it is therefore necessary for, an edu-

cationial program to provide simultaneously for all of the three majorcategories into which its students will eventually fall.

The most persistent misconception of the purpose of undergraduateengineering education is that it must turn out qualified professional men.This has been a practical impossibility for a long time now, but it hasremained the unattainable goal of a system which attempts to cramthe undergraduate curriculum with as exhaustive a technical coverageas can possibly be compressed into a four-year period. The result is thatthe "four-year engineers" are getting more technical education than theyneed, and they are sacrificing general educational requirements in orderto get -it. And no matter how "technical" the undergraduate program, thehopeful "professional engineer" finds that he must still go on tograduate school. He too misses out in respect to the general educationwhich should have been a more important part of his undergraduateprogram, and he also suffers because his undergraduate professionalcourses were compressed in scope and cluttered with detail to the pointwhere fundamental principles escaped attention.

An undergraduate school cannot ,presum-Le to turn out professionalmen in four years. However, the four-year man can directly fil aposition in industry, even if the present technical curriculum were to bediminished slightly. Such innovations as a five or six year undergraduateprogram neglect the need for educating such men.

Viewed in -this lilght, it is obvious that the undergraduate professionalprogram can well withstand the kind of liberalization proposed by theCommittee on Educational Survey. It is unfortunate that in its reportthe committee did not see fit to be considerably more specific aboutthe reasons for their suggestions. There evidently remains a considerableopposition to any change in the educational -program here, and thisopposition might have been overcome if the report had pointed to thespecific conditions which demand that the changes be made.

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When it comes to campus doings, his major sis Service.

Telephone people are like that, too. Theybelieve in giving good telephone service--cour-teous, friendly, helpful service. And because they ,believe it so strongly, their spirit of service shows iup in community affairs.

That's why you'll find telephone men andwomen working on charity drives, joining serviceclubs, leading Scout troops.

Both at work and at home, telephone peopletry to help out wherever there is a need-andenjoy doing it.

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Dear Sir:Since the reputation of the Institute educationwise is of personal interest

to all undergraduates, I hope that all students have been reading the recentexchange of letters on the Educational Survey Report in this column. I hope,too, that everyone reading this has available for reference a copy of Mr. FrankHeart's letter which appeared in last Tuesday's The Tech.

Initially, Mr. Heart falls guilty of the very crime of which he accuses me,quoting out of context. Furthermore, he compounds the felony by using thequotation to distort what I actually did say, a crime to which I plead notguilty. It should be abundantly clear from the last paragraph of my firstletter and mny entire second letter that the issue I was raising was that the con-clusions of the committee should be generally discussed, from the point ofview of possible consequences, before the provisions are adopted.. ]it shouldalso have been clear that the specific criticism of the report that I cited wasmerely an example of die sort of consideration I thought should be givento all the conclusions of the report.

Mr. Heart's next point makes me very happy indeed, for it provides mewith an excellent example to illustrate the distinction I see between desiredchanges and consequences of conclusions. For brevity, I will refer to onlyone of Mr. Heart's not-suggestions. Obviously, no committee of reasonablysound collective mind would ever propose that Technology compete with theliberal arts schools. Such l proposal could never be a desired change inInstitute policy, but it might very possibly be an unforeseen consequence ofsome of the report's 'conclusions. Two specific cases (really two facets ofone case) will demonstrate this possibility. On page 113 of the report theGeneral Education Committee states that one objective of the new humanities

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AFTER, HOURSDA 46.ES

Mount Auburn Hospital will sponsor aHarvest .i~oon Dance in Margaret Jewett

Hall this evening, Friday, October 20th.It will be an acquaintance dance.

On Saturday, October 21, the. EverettMoore Baker House will hold its first

couples dame of the year. Dress informal,and admission by ticket which may beobtained at the door.

An acquaintance dance Mwill be held bySargent College on Saturday, October 21,

in the Sargent Gym, *6 Everett St. Cam.bridge, above Harvard Square. Tickets at

door-50 cents plus tax.

musicThe Polvtech Chorus of the Finland In-

stitute of Technology will present a, pro.gram. at Symphony Hall Monday evening

Oct. 23, at &:30. Ossi Elokas, conductor.Tickets at Box Office now. $1.20, $1.60,$2.40, $.00.

Today I Last ChanceFor m Dhony T cket

Today, October 20th, is the lastday to buy subscriptions to the five

final rehearsals of the BostonSymphony Orchestra. Tickets avail-

able to all that signed for them.,are on sale between I and 4 pm. at

the Music Library. Subscriptionprice is $8.00, payment in cash only,no checks.

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Austen Gets WinningGoal WAih Only SecondsLeft In Overtime Frame

By BILL PHINNEY

In a game which required twoovertime periods the Beaver soccer-men succeeded in edging the Tuftssquad 2-1 on Tufts home field lastWednesday.

Neither team was able to scoreduring the first fourteen minutesof play but a ,few seconds after thisthe Tufts attack was able to pene-trate and Bennett hit the netsto put the Jumbos in the lead bya one point margin. Both teamsremained scoreless for the rest ofthe period.

Tech wasted very little timegetting even, Tony Belo booted onepast the Tufts goalie before fiveminutes of the second period had,passed. This tied the game up andended the scoring -for the remainderof the regulation game sinceneither squad could find the netsduring the entire second half.

When the game had ended ina one to one tie, a five minute over-time was decided upon. £However,as was the case throughout thesecond half, the defenses provedthemselves too strong and neitherteam scored

Austen Saves Winning Goal

Another five munute overtime wasbegun and it began to appear asthough neither team would scoreagain. As minutes ran out and onlyseconds were left in the game cap-tain Jerry Austen was able to ,putone into the goal for the Engineers,winning the game.

Tomorrow the squad will travelto B.IU. where they will be shoot-ing for their second win of theyear.

Frosh Also Win

Also last Wednesday the fresh-men squad made it a double vic-tory as they trampled the frashfrom Tufts ,by a seven to one counton Briggs Field. The young Beaversscored the first goal and were neverin trouble from then on.

Neither team countered duringthe first period but in the secondboth Hayesland Elac hit home forTech while the Jumbos again wereheld scoreless. In the third quarter,Tech scored four more times whileTufts countered with ther lonescore.

Once agairl i the fourth quar-ter Hayes hit the nets to give theEEngineers their last goal of .theiseven to one victory.

Following is ~he varsity lineup:g, Silveston; rf, Bachman: If, Rodrigues;

rh, Villareal; ch, Barcinsk;l; lh, Delavega;or, Austen; ir, Aguirre; cf. Belo; il Rah-matallah; ol, Chin; subs, Medal, ichart,Gonzales.

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Soph FootbailersTangle Tomorrow

Marc Pearlman's soph gridmengo to the post for the second timethis season tomorrow afternoon,when they tussle with the sailorsfrom Newport Naval Academy onBriggs Field.

On their last outing, two weeksago, the 53'ers lost a 2~-6 decisionto the Northeastern Frosh, but gave the Huskies quite a scare in the HANlDICAPPlPER FORMP 3

second half, when they were on the offense most of the time. The (Oct. 21-22)sophs have also met other opposi-tion since that time, scrimmaging Nameinformally with Wentworth Acad-emy, October 11, and again wigi, addressBrang;els y.sterday afternoon.

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j ............. (even) Pii Ftgma Kappa(8) Delta Tau Delta .. (+7) Phi Mu Delte

(9) Theta Chi ... (+12) Alpha Tau Omega

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FOOTBALL POLL

As we move into the third weekof intramural football play, intothe league emifinals, it is seen

..... ~BI~ F~ f that fewer teams are in the run-ning. Next week, in the league

,....;-:- .championship playoffs, only twoteams will remain in each of thefour leagues, fram which the leaguechampionships will be decided.

Due to this fact-that only fourgames will be played-,the Handi-

:...2 -~-*.-cap Forms #4, 5, 6, will have listedonly 4 gamas each week. For ob-vious reasons, weekly prizes can-

""'" i ·""not be offered during this time;however, weekly scores will still betabulated (see rules) toward the5 Grand Prizes. Therefore, it, is

~ ~~~ ~.~ ~...~.... ~ ~:::'"""~-~~ necessary to maintain participationin the contest through Forms #4,5, 6, if one -wishes to .be eligible forthese gifts.

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Teah Hearrers SeekSecond tiraight Win

Tech's cross country team willgo out after its second straightwin tomorrow afternoon againstthe University of Massachusettsharriers. The Beavers, will be run-ning the same team which easilyoutdistanced Tufts College lastweek, 21-36, with Captain BiliNicholson leading the way.

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Green Speaks -In TCA Ser esAboiut Reigion"Religion And The Mind"Topic Of Dissertafi6nBy English Clergyman

The Reverend Canon BryanGreen, Rector of St. MartinsChurch in Birmingham, England,and noted evangelist and mis-sionary, will speak on October 27in the second of the series of re-liglous talks sponsored by the Tech-nology Christian Association. Themeeting will be held in 10-250 at4:30 PM.

This meeting follows the BillyGraham meeting which was spon-sored by the T.C.A. last spring.Canon Green will speak on "Re-ligion and the Modern Mind."

Canon Green has been anevangelist for thirty years and isknown in religious circles for hisunderstanding of theology andeveryday problems.

His range of subjects includes:communism, divorce, and as-sociated subjects dealing withmodem religion and life.

Fund Drive(Continued from Page 1)

the next few months we expect tomnake a personal approach to allof the remaining Tech men andfriends who have not been seen, togive them the opportunity to havea part in this great undertakingwhich means so much to MLI.T. andwhich, when translated into build-ings and equipment across theriver, will be such a source of prideto all of us.

'he material progress of thecampaign is no less spectacular.More than $16,00,000 has been re-.ceived in cash and pledges.

More than 6,i00 contributorsNearly $6,000,000 from 219 corpor-

ationsNearly $5,000,000 from 5,714 in-

dividua~lsNearly $3,000,000 from 26 founda-

tionsNearly $2,090,000 from 58 miscel-

laneous sourcesThese grants and contributions

have ranged all the way from $1,-500,000 to $5.00. There are $4,000,-000 more to go and I am perfectlysure we shall have that during

these next three or four months.I am sure of it because I've seenthis great effort increase in mo-mentum from the beginning. Withthe progress made and the sup-port which I am sure you andthousands more will give we can-not fail. Tech men have a tradl-tion of finishing any job they startand this will be/no exception.

IF IT'S "ARROW" WE HAVE IT

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ney or Vern Pfanku in Baker Housefor transportation and food arrange.ments between 6:00 and 9:00 p.m. onFriday.

Dorclan:If you haven't yet signed up for your

Technique portrait. call Glenn Shattuckat CO 6.5746, October 23, 24; or 25after 8:00 p.m. Sfttings are in Room20-103. Bring your $3.00 sitting fee.

Also bring a flled-out biography blankobtainable at the Building 7, Informa-tion Office.

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WITH A Y EAR1 35F THE WORLD'S, FINEST

AVIATION TRAiNIN In N THE

Yes, sir-it takes a full year's training as an Aviation Cadetto earn your commission as an officer and pilot in the U. S.Air Force. But that commission is worth its weight in gold.

And when you strut those wings and bars for the first timeyou can be sure that you've had the finest instructors andtraining equipment that any flying man ever had... thatyou are ready and able to carry out any mission assigned.

For the Air Force believes being a good pilot is just oneof the qualities necessary.. . you must make a good officeras well ... capable of commanding the respect of superiorsand subordinates alike ... capable of assuming and dis-charging the responsibilities of your office. . capable ofbeing an officer of the U. S. Air Force.

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In jet-pilot language that means . .. GETGOING AND GET GOING FAST! Your take-off point is the Aviation Cadet Selection Teamwhich will soon visit your own college campus.See if you can qualify. If you can ... you're onthe way up to the top. First stop ... aviationcadet training school. First pay . . . $105 amonth for one year with all clothing, food, medi-cal and dental care provided free. First com-mission ... 2nd Lt. in the U. S. Air ForceReserve. Beginning salary close to $5,000 a year.You've got a top job and with your trainingand experience you'll stay -on top.

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California, Stamford Alumni:All University of California and

Stanford Alumni please send namesand addresses to Mrs. EleanorMores Welby, 162 Walnut Street,Brookline, Mass.

Seniors:Dorelan is going to the Tech House

Sunday, October 22. Will membersand pledges please contact Stan Sid-

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