Walker Slide-Rule Thief Apprehended

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Official Undergraduate
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Volume LIII.
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No. 45
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Recognition of
Corporation XV
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CAMBRIDGE, MASS., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1933
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Failure to Pay Dues Cause I
Institute Committee's
Drastic Action
Price Three Cents
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1Talkies Shown in
I First Aldred Lecturer Next Great Boom
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Subject of First
Walker Dining Hall
Aldred Lecturer
Institute Seriously Considering
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Speakers at Soviet
Students' Dinner
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Purchase of Permanent
Sound Equipment
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C. M. Ripley, General Electric
Engineer and Traveler
Gives Address
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Talking
motion
pictures
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were
20,000
shown for the first time in the main
MILES
BY
AIRPLANE
hall of Walker Wednesday night, by
the Soviet students, at their dinner
Speaker Is Regarded as Social
ss
celebrating the 16th anniversary of
Committee Will Support Com,
and Economic Interpreter
the Soviet regime.
bined Professional Societies
of Electrical Industry
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The Russian students had obtained
in Open House
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Left
to Right: A. A. Rostarchiek, I the sound films from New York, as"The Next Great Boom" will be the
IG. B. Brailo, K. T. Compton, A. A. surring
that sound equipment was
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subject of an addi ess by Charles M.
The Institute Committee last nigh
Manukian.
available at the Institute. As it hapRipley, of Schenectady, General Elecvoted to "revoke recognition of Cor
lpened, tests of sound equipment were
tric engineer and world traveler, beporation XV until past indebtedness
lbeing carried on by the Photogr aphic
fore the upper-classmen at the Instito the Institute Committee shall be
ldepartment, under the direction of
tute this afternoon at three o'clock in
lFrank H. Conant, so that the group
paid." The trouble arose over the
Room 10-2:)0.
was able to use this equipment.
In forecasting what he calls the
mis-interpretation of a clause in the
CHARLES M. RIPLEY
next boom in trade and industry,
|Permanent Installation Desired
constitution of the Institute Commit )e
Ripley draws largely upon first-hand
tee concerning dues and fines. Thxie Dinner Meeting in Walker Is |A proposal has been presented to I.
info n:ation gathered during his exLr. Van-nevar Bush specifying the
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Attended by Prominent
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Corporation requested that the $I
tensive travels in the United States
Russians
lcosts, desirability, and practicability
fine, imposed as a result of this mis
and several foreign countries. Havlof permanent installations, on apunderstanding, be revoked, but the
In commemoration of the sixteenth Iproval. An amplification system has
ing traveled ovel 20,000 miles by air
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Committee felt that the decisiorte anniversary of the October revolution |been needed in several lecture
during the past ten years, Mr. Ripley
halls
would establish a pi ecedent and de- in Russia, Soviet students at the In- for publ'c addresses. Equipmnent used
Founder of Water and Drainage is regarded as "Engineer, author and
stitute held a dinner Wednesday for talkiies could also be used for such
world traveler." A social and ecocided against the Corporation.
Codes to Present Lecture
night in Walker Memorial.
Accept Commuters' Petition
nomic interpreter of the electrical
The addresses.
to Members of N. A. S.
industiy, he is able to explain the
The petition of the commuters re- guests numbered fifty including many
This is the first time that the Insignifcance
questing the designation of a room a, faculty member s and prominent lrep- stitute has seriously considered acof the "electrical age,"
The Tennessee Valley development,
a general meeting place for commut- r esentatives of the Soviet in this quiring permanent sound equipment. the lmost comprehensive project of an age that is steadily but surely
ing students, was accepted, and it country. Amlong the guests was Mr. The machine under ques;tion is of in- national
economic planning ever emerging ft om its dawvn.
tB3. Br ailo, representing
was voted to express this favorable G.
Home Electrically Equipped
the dependent make, so that the Institute undertaken in this country, will-be
sentiment to the administration offi- S upreme Committee of Industrial would assumae complete control once described by Dr. Arthur E. Morgan,
MIr. Ripley's home in Schenectady
Education in the U. S. S. R.
cials of the Institute.
the purchase woas made. Several de- president of Antioch College and Is completely wired electrically for
Alexander A. Rcostarchiek, '34, the partments are contemplatin-, the use~ chairman of the Tennessee Valley all modern conveniences. The kitIt is hoped by the officers of the
Commuters' Association that the Ichairman, gave a short history of of sound flinms to aid in classroolni in- Authority, in an address
before rnem- chen is a veritable engineer's paragranting of this room will provide Soviet industr ial education in Amer- struction:
Economlics,
MechanicalI ber-s of the National Academy of dise, being equipped with an electric
a means of creating a "spirit of good iea in -which 'he stated that sixty men Engineering, and Mining E~n-ineey- I Sciences at 8 o'clock Monday in i-ange, refrigel ator-, dishvasher, tele(Continued on Page 2)
fello-ship" among the comi-uters,
ing.
Walker Alem(oriai. The address will chron cloek. ion, orange juice exI
q open to the public wVithlout charge. ractor, and radio loud speaker. The
and also that the present practise of
b~e
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eating lunches in the locker room,
Dr . Mor-asan wvill disc-Lss for the appliances in the dining-room include
which is detrimental to the best inter, f,
first tihne in a public address details a space-heater,, -. affle-iron, toaster,
ests of the commuters and to the
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Despite
olf the surlvey of the Tennessee 'ValleyTpercolator, and erg--cooker,.
undergraduate life of the Institute as
libasin about to be undertak-en
by, the the large amount of apparatus, the
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a whole, will be eliminated. John
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National Science Adviso ry Board, of monthly operating expense is only
P. Calrcy, '35. representative of the
I vwhich Pr esident Compton is chair- $10.
Commuters' Association, estimated
IInmani.
Sir. Ripley was associated with
that "If wve had a nice roomn in which
several consultin- eng,;neerin<] offices
(Conltills e(l 0n Page 3)
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to eat, we could easily double our
in New Yolk until 1916, when he bemen-ibership."
camre connected with the General
A motion that the Institute ComElectric Con-pany. His business and
mittee should cooperate with the
pleasure trips have carried hini as far
Conibined Professional Societies il
east as MSoscowv, and as :far west as
I)etitioning the adiministlration to alSeattle, San, Franlcisco, and Los
low the presentation of an Open
Former I n s t i t u t e Student An-kles, andl as fai- south as M1exico
House this year, Wvas passed.
Caught by Vigilance
Citv.
Other business transacted at the
Com mittee
meeting included the appointment of
Edward F. Everett, Jr., John D. DEBORAH V. RUBENSTEIN, '34
Aftersettino a trap to cateh the
JOSEPH DAUBER, '34
Gardiner, Arthul E. Wells, Jr., and
thief who had for two weeks, been
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Haurison S. WNoodnan, as Sophomore rl1]wo
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Seniors Co-Authors of Script Chosen Out of Four Others as51 appropriating slide-rules f lonnoonmember s of the WValker Melmoiial
day patrons
ofthe N
talkerM~elmorial
Winner of Masque Award of Fifty Dollars;
Enters Varsity and
Committee, and of Henry B. BackenCafetereia, the vi
^lance
cnimittee I Hedlund
Professor Greene to Coach Show
Freshmen in Harrier
stoss, '34; Edgar B. Chiswell, Jr., '34;
t
1eadcde
by Gene Cary. 33,last TueeChampionships
Deborah V. Rubenstein, '34, and liter-ary activities, in his own A ords.
and Philip B. Wrallker, Jr., '34; as
lay caugzht the fiher in the act. The
menlbers-at-7al
lge
person,
of the Dormitory Jo ETph Dauber, '34, eo-authors, will consisted of "combats with Eng lish
when taken to Station 2 of
11r111h S1o1ton Jenkins his maain
Committee, subject to the approval of be awarded the Masque prize for the instructors and p~rofessors." He wvas
the Cauniidge Police
Depaltnenrt,
hope,
Coach ()sear H-edlund~will take
lest
Tech
Show
script,
the Point System Coimmittee.
the judging c former president (,f the Liberal
eavehis name as
Hartley P. Thomnas
a
squad
of seven 'karsity and seven
committee has announced. The award Club, and hails fro:
of
Braintree,
a student in the
InstiSew Yorlk,
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freshmlan
harriers to Newv York- this
of S50 will be presented at a meet- where he attended Stun vesant and tute for several
months
Cast
year.
week-end to compete in the I. C. A.
ing of the Masque Society, within a Far Rockan-away High Schools, and
Thomnassaidl hewas employed by
weel; or two.
the Boston
.4thieticAssociation,and A. A. A. Cross-country ChampionNew Yoilk University.
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Miss Rubenstein is president of
Both of the authors wtere on the that he inade the trip over fromBosCleofan, the social club for feminine recently issued Dean's list of undertoneach day to lunch in I~alker
New Men to Be Pledged at an students at the Institute, and vice- graduates with high scholastic standMemorial. When he entered the hall
president of the Sedgewick Biological ing.
Elaborate Ceremony
he laid his coat over a
student's
Medical College Ass'n
Society. She is also a member of
Asard Made on Four Counts
to Give Aptitude Tests
slide-rule. Aftereatinga light lunch
Scabbard and Blade will hold its the editorial board of THE TECH, and
with
The avard wvas based onl the fol- quickly he . picked up his coat
first dance of the year tonight in wras a secretary of the Liberal Club. lowving foul poillts: intrinsic dramatic the slidIe-r ule
beneath it. While he
Medical Aptitude Tests, as
Walker, from 9 until 2. New pledge, Her homne is in Roxbury. She for- value, interest to Technology, possi- was leavingthe hall he wias accosted
administered in the past three
wsill be inducted into the society at merly attended the Girls' Latin bilities for staging, and opportunities by a
police
years by the Association of
Rfficer
'who had been
12 o'clock sharp, with an elaborate School.
'American Medical Colleges, will
fr om the balcony, and
for music, dancing, and stage effects. w-atching
tapping ceremony.
Dauber wvon a $200 prize in an All five scripts submitted ranked placed under areest.
be given at .3 o'clock, Decemnber
Carroll Fentress, '34, in charge of essay contest sponsored by the Amier- high in. these respects, according to
Police visited his home in Braintree
6;, in room 2-1 32. A fee of one
the po-ogram committee, has an- ican Chemical Society, in 'his fresh-| Paul Lappe,
dollar from each applicant is
'34, president of Mlasque and after searching, found two other
rtounced that the chaperones will be man year at the Institute. His other| and one -of the judges.
slide-rules anda book stolen from
required to defray the expenses
Colonel Samuel C. Vestal, head of the
students at the
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Military Science Department of the
The thefts hichA had become freThis test is now one of the
Room of Walker, under the auspices quent, ivere
Institute, and his daughter; Lieutennormal
requirements for admisreported
by
patrons
of
HEB~a`H
E~bC~hTPO~rPJ
f the T. C. A.
ant-Colonel and Mrs. Robert Arthur,
the
cafeteria
sion
to
during
a medical school, so
the
noon
hour
Professor Claire E. Tturner, of the
and Major and Mrs. Oscar J. Gatfor
the
that
last
all
fortni-ht.
students planning to
No
trace
of
Biology and Public Health Departchell.
them
enter a mnedical school net
as
w found until Thomas
The physical training directors of ment, addressed the gathering on the
novas
The dance is open to everyone, Massachusetts
year should register with Proand Rhode Island subject of "Health Education." The cauzht last Tuesday. The numerous
wvhether a member of the society or Y. M. C. A.'s held a meeting yester- meeting concluded
slide-rules
not
>fessor
recovered
F.x Alexander Magoun in
were
diswith a lunch in
not. The subscription price is $2.
posed of before they could detect the
room 4-136.
day morning in the Faculty Dining North Hal;.
culprit.
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COMMUTERS' PETITION
FORt ROOM IS ACCEPTEI
SO)VIET STUDENTS
CELEBRATE 16th
YEAR OF RELGI[ME
DR. A. E. MORGAN
TO SPEAK ON TENN.
VALLEY PROJECT
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RUBENSTEIN ANDDAUBER WINNERS
OF MASQUE PRIZE FOR TECH SHOW
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Walker Slide-Rule
Thief Apprehended
Jenkins Faces
Test in 10:A's
Mlilitary Society
Has Dance Tonight
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TURNER SPEAKS ON
HEALTH EDUCATION