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"The \Vork of the Coast Guard", amotion picture, will be presented bythe M. I. T. Nautical Association at3:00 P. M. next Sunday in room5-330. This movie will be the secondin a series of "Nautical Afternoons."Students and their friends are cord-ially invited to attend.

The picture corrects the mistakenhotion that the only function of thecoast glard is to chase the rumrunner. The movies show sequencesof the various other duties of thecoast guard.

Among the scenes shown vill beincluded thrilling rescues at sea, thetraining of future Coast Guard Offi-cers at the New London academy, the work of the North Atlantic ice andBering Sea patrols, life aboard theCoast Guard training ship, and theimportance of the shore stations -inguarding the nation's coasts.

Some of the most interesting shotsinclude an injured sailor being takenashore in a coast guard plane, anoil tanker afire at sea, and shipsgoing to her aid, the Morro Castlecalamity, and the use of the breechesi buoy in actual rescues made by menin the shore patrol service.

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Snow Train Is PostponedTo February 28 Week-end

The Snow Train, scheduled torun this week-end, has been post-poned to next week-end, February28.

identity Of New ToastmasterUnknown; "Bill" Greeine

Resigns Post

Meteorologists To Dieterm ineCauses of Weather In

New England

Originally scheduled for Januwa-ary 17, and postponed to thisweek-end because of poor snowconditions on that date, the SnowTrain will not run at all this yearif conditions on the twenty-eighthare bad, according to Richard K.West, '37. There is some possibil-ity, according to West, that thetrain will run to Pinkham Notchinstead of to Plymouth, N. H., asoriginally planned if snow condi-tions warrant.

Definite announcement aboutthe Snow Train will be madeearly next week, when there willbe ticket sales, or, in case theplans are abandoned, money foroptions already sold will be re-funlded.

Leon Mayers And OrchestraTo Play At Dance In Walker

Ascents Will Continue A Mion thFlu Epidemic Causes UJtah

Co-eds' "Kissing Strike"3 esterday morning just beforedaciy meteorologists and radio-menfrom the. M. I. T. Meteorology depart-ment and Harvard's Blue IHill Obser-vatory released from the roof of theGuggenheim Laboratory two smallballoons carrying with them a minuteweather observaiory and radio send-ing station weighing only one pound.This opened a daily series of ascentswhich the combined meteorologicalforces of Technology and HIarvardplan to make every morning for onemonth in all kinds of Nveather.

The aim of this joint project is toobtain a complete record of the tem-perature, humidity, and pressure upto the stratosphere and higher ifpossible. By such daily sections ofthe atmosphelre.they will for the firsttime probe the depths of the intricateand changeable New England w-eath-er.

Funeral Services For FreshmanTies Scheduled For

MidnightCo-eds at the University of

Utah have declared a "kissingstrike", in an attempt to end aninfluenza epidemic there. In re-prisal, the male students havecalled a dating strike to bring theladies to heel. The affair bids fairto develop into a hard-fought bat-tle of the sexes.

The strike was called after apopular blonde co-ed pressed herlips to a glass plate, then put itunder the microscope. After onelook at the thousands of germsfrisking about on the slide, shedecided that she wasn't havingany, thank you. One young lady,however, is reported to have saidto the b. f. "Kissing wouldn't beso dangerous if you used the righttechnique."

Initiation Ceremony RequiresJUnderthings; Police Butt InCaptain Nemo will be the mystery

master of ceremonies in the mock fun-eral at the Freshman Dance tonightin place of Professor Bill Greene whodeclared himself unable to come.

The dance will be held tonight from9 until 2 o'clock in Walker. Music willbe furnished by Leon Mayers' orches-tra which has previously been well re-ceived at other Technology functions.Tickets at $1.75 a couple are on saleall day in the AMain Lobby and mayalso be had at the door.

Professor Greene had previously ac-cepted the position of master of cere-mnonies for the funeral, but found him-self forced to change his mind becauseof the necessity of "catching up onback sleep." Also, he wanted to see ifit was possible to find someone elsewho could be humorous on demand.The Freshman Council believes thatthey have found the man for the job,

-someone intimately connected withthe Institute but who at the presentmoment prefers to be known simplyas Captain Nemo .

The funeral; which will take placeat mridnight, will be to commemorate

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Henry Brewer Atrrested LeavilngStage Door After He

Leaves 50c Pay

A Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternityinitiation brought pledge HenryBrewer, Jr., '40, to grief last nightby causing his arrest for stealingwomen's undergarments from the OldHow-ard Burlesque theatre. Brewerwxas taken to the Milk Street policestation and held on charges of-break-ing and entering, and larceny. He waslater released when "Kiki" Roberts,star trouper front whom the clothingwas stolen, refused to prefer charges.

Apparently, Brewer was engagedon a "treasure hunt" as part of hisinitiation, and was compelled to col-liect the star's underthings from theOld Howard.- -He entered by the stagedoor, found his way to the dressingroom, collected the clothing, leaving$.50 in change as payment, and wasabout to leave when he encountered

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T'horne-Loomis Tour Of Europe,Conducted By Course XV,

Will Be Subject Since 1931 the Institute has con-ducted daily airplane flights when-ever weather conditions permitted torecord conditions. But in fog or snowyweather conditions are too hazardousfor flight, and so, w-hen upper airinformation is most urgently needed,it is not available.'

By the use of radio-meteorographsattached to small balloons, howeve',it will be possible to obtain r1-ecbrds-ir/wveather too bad to fly in and to twicethe height to which the plane goes.The first of the balloons, released

(Contiznued on, Page 2)Meteorology

In connection with the exhibit in

Building I featuring the Fifth An-nual Thorne-Loomis Tour of Europe,moving pictures of a previous

Thorne-Loomis Tour will be shown on

|WUednesday, February 24th at 5 P. MI.,

in Room 1-190. This fihl, some ofwhich is in color, is an interesting

picture of travel with the Tech men

who go on this trip, annually con-ducted by the Department of Businessand Engineering Administration forstudents of the Institute.

The exhibit opposite Room 1-181includes snapshots taken by membersof last year's group and a map ofthe itinerary planned for this sum-rnler. This proposes a route throughthe Rhine and World War battlefieldareas of Germany and France, Paris,Geneva to Zurich via Furka Passover the Alps, Munich, Nuremberg,Dresden, Berlin, Copenhagen, Stock-holm, Oslo to Bergen,, a five-daydrive among the mountains andfjords of Norway, then to England,concluding the European journey inLondon, En route visits will be madeto about twenty selected industrialplants.

Two Teams Meet Out Of TownFoes, Columbia And Lafay-

ette, In Dual Contest

--ta 11; C~·`? ozen +, -_".-s=-StS t~- night the Debating Society will meetLafayette and Columbia. The debatewith Lafayette will be held in theEastman Lecture Hall at 7:45 andthat with Columbia will be held inRoom 4-270 at the same timne.

The debate with Lafayette is ascheduled meeting of the Eastern In-tercollegiate Debate League. In thiscontest, Technology, represented .byHoward I. Schlansker '38, and PaulA. Vogel '37, will uphold the negativeof the question, "Resolved, that allelectric utilities should be governmen-tally owned and operated." The teamwill take the affirmative of the sametopic in a league debate against Am-herst in March.

Host To ColumbiaIn the second debate of the even-

ing, the Institute wvill be host toColumbia University. The question,"Resolved, that the several statesshould adopt -unicameral legislature"will be debated with Andrew Stergion'38, Robert Treat '38, and SamuelSenipser '38, -of Technology, uphold-ing the negative.

Both debates are open to the public.

Scenes Will Include Rescues,Morro Castle Disaster,

Training ShipsGuest List For Voo Doe Issue

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Platinum Crucibles Stolen ByThieves Early Yesterday;

No Clues Left

Formal invitations to Junior Promguests will be ready.next Tuesday andmay be obtained in the Main Lobby,according to an announcement lastnight by the Prom Committee. Theseinvitations, which are in script, areembellished with gold Technologyseals.

Names of ticket holders and theirguests must be in by Tuesday in orderto be published in the Prom issue ofVoo Doo appearing at the Statler onthe night of the dance. It is hoped thata complete list of guests will be avail-able for publication.

With only fifty options at $3 left,redemptions at $5 will begin nextWednesday in the Main Lobby from11 to 3 o'clock. At this time R.O.T.C.sign-ups may be exchanged for tick-ets. Redemptions must be completedby Tuesday, March 2.

Theft of $2500 worth of platinumfrom the Division of Laboratory Sup-plies stock room in Building 4 was re-vealed yesterday. The Cambridge po-lice were notified that early yesterdaymorning thieves had forced the lockon the supply room and removed anumber of valuable platinum cruc-ibles, valued at $25 each, and cruciblecovers, valued at $10 each. The cruc-ibles were of a special type used inanalyzing compounds which attackthe ordinary porcelain crucibles.

No Clues LeftInvestigations revealed that the

robbers had left no clues behind them.Authorities stated that the theft hadapparently been committed by personswho were familiar with the stockroom, as they took only the platinuma material which is easily disposed of.

I Although some of the twelve placesin this year's group are already filled,there is still an opportunity for reser-vations by students who are inter-ested in making the trip this summer.Bulletins are available in Room 1-181.

No Tech Tuesday

There will be no issue The Techon Tuesday, the next issue ap-pearing on Friday, February 26,as usual. Roosevelt To Address Student

Youth Act Supporters

Three Technology students will beamong the 2,000 young people fromall parts of the country who will bein Washington this week-end to urgepassage of the American Youth Act.

The "Pilgrimage", sponsored by theAmerican Youth Congress, whichclaims a membership of 1,500,000, con-sists of delegates from religiousgroups, trade-unions and student or-ganizations.

The men, Richard Hanau, '39, Ken-neth Seltzer, '40 and Max Shufer,Graduate, were elected at a meetingof Technology N. Y. A. students heldlast Monday by the American Stu-dent Union. They expect to leave byauto thes evening and arrive in Wash-ington about noon tomorrow.

Roosevelt to AddressIn the afternoon, the delegates are

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Pilgrimage

The Voo Doo Staff, that smart setof young people, entertaine d them-selves (the only oi'es they do enter-tain) with an informal tea yesterdayafternoon to celebrate their Februarynumber. Miss Leeta Elliot, knovn as"Tare" among the gay young crowd,and Mis Dorothy Betjenman, the fa-mous skating star, presided at thet a-:able.

In spite of the lack of suitablefacilities for tqea-brewing in the ofri.e,the young publishers were not daeunt-ed and proceeded to bring the engin-eering mind into practical use' byproviding a can of bStrno.

The occasion for the tea was thesuccessful putting-to-bed of the newnumber of Voo Do*, a limited supplyof which will appear on the better

newsstands next Tuesday. In anexclusive preview of The Tech, itwas divulged that this month's maga-zine will contain a preview of thehighlights of the Junior Prom, in-cluding a superrgigantic picture ofthe orchestra, a photograph of theorchestra leader, and a story on theorchestra. There will also be a "brandnew" feature, concerning which Phos-phorus would only say that it iscalled "the scrap book"

The last item is a tragic reversalof Phos' recent pol'cy, consisting ofcollege magazines. Phos calls it areview of the best recent cartoons",but the Tech hopes ,that the need forspace-filler in future issued will notbe so acute and Voo Dog may returnto its abandoned policy.

Nominations of candidates for theexecutive board of the T. C. A. weremade this week by a nominatingcommittee consisting of Willialn B.Eurnet, '37, Josiah S. Heal, '37, andRobert H. Goldsmith, '37, presentofficers of the Association. The elec-tion of the officers for next year willbe held next. March 13.

The committee nominated David A.Wright, '38, for president, John R.Cook, '38, for vice president, NorrisG. Barr, '38 and Edward J. Kuhn, '38for secretary, and Chauncey F. Bell,'38 for treasurer. The new board willI be elected by the vote of the T. C. A.Cabinet. Other nominations may beoffered from the floor at the meeting.

Members of the 5:15 club and theirguests will attend a victrola dace to-morrow night under the direction ofthe room committee of the club.

Dancing will last from 8 o'clock un-til midnight. Thg intermissions will beenlivened by games. Sandwiches andcofee will be served ,at 10:30.

Tickets for the dance are on sale inth clubroom and may also be obtainedRium the committee members at a

Ate of'fifty cents per couple.

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Freshman Dance

Tech And HarvardScientists Send

Balloons AloftDKE Plege Jailed

Thef For PantiesFrom Howard Cutie

"Kiki" Roberts AllowsTreasure Hunter

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Travel PicturesShown Wednesday

Debating TeamsBattle Tonight

NIautical AssociationWill Present lMovriesOf Coast Guard Work Invitations For Prom

Are Ready On Tues. Chemical Supply R oomIn Building 4 Robbed;Loot Valued At $2500

N.Y.A. At Tech SendsThree To Washingtonl

PhosphorouAs Celebrates New Issue At"Informal Tea" Over Can Of SBteRO Candildates Nominated

For T.C.A. Exece, Board

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PARAMOUNT AND FENWAY -"Lloyds of London" with FreddieBartholomew, and others divides en-tertainment honors with Booth Tar-k-ington's famous "Clarence" featuringRoscoe Karns, Eleanor Whitney, Eu-gene Pallette, and Jolhnny Downs.

FINE; ARTS--"YelIow Cruise" con-tinues through the second week. WlaltDisney's "The Three Little Wolves" isincluded.

WASHIINGTON STREET OLYM-PIA-Sonja Henie in "One in a Mil-lion" and "Easy to Take" with MarshaHunt and Johnn Howard is beingshown through Tuesday.

BEACON-"Can This Be Dixie" and'"The Girl on the Front Page" con-tinues today and tormorrow. PlayingSunday, Monday and Tuesday are"Theodora Goes Wild" and "qVithoutOrders."

EXETER--"Come Closer, Folks"and the extremely popular "One in aMillion" vie for honors in the showbeginning Sunday.

UPTOWN - Deanna Durbin in"Three Smart Girls" and Dick Powelland Joan Blondell in 'Gold Diggers of1937" share the twin bill starting to-day.

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surfaces, so efficient that the sound can beheard through al1 of Walker. The number ofstudents who bowl, and the number who tryto use the other facilities of Walker at thesame time, justify the expense.

METROPOLITAN- "Green 'Light",the picturization of Lloyd .C. Douglas'best selling novel, starring ErrolFlynn, Anita Louise, and MlargaretLindsey, is the screening at the Metfor the current -week. On the stage isthe Canova family, Annie, Judy, andZeke, in "Radio Revels of 1937."

RKO BOSTON.George White'sfamous "Scandals" with Willie andEugene Howard and HIelen Morgan isthe first of the Boston's 5.th Anni-versary shows. Lee Tracy and MargotGrahame in "Criminal Lawyer" is thenew screen attraction.

KEITH MEMORIAL--Dick Powell,Madeleine Carroll, Alice Faye, andthe Ritz Brothers in "On the Avenue",a new musical, begins today as theMemorial's contribution to RKO's 55thanniversary.

tjv'm. , V I FEBRUARY 19, 1937 No. 4

MASSACHUSETTS JNSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYThe opinions expressed inb this col-

umn are those of the writer and donot necessarily concur with the edito-riml policy of The Tech.

Managing BoardGeneral M11anager ..................................... ihard G. Vincens, Jr., '38Editor .......................rt.........:..Robe . Katz, '38Managing Editor ...... ............................... Dudley A. Levick, Jr., '38Business Manager . ....................................... Douglas G. Esperson, '38Associate Business Manager ......... .....................James C. Longwell, '38

Editorial Board

T'S ABOUT TAIE FOR THEHonorable Mr. George Wemple of

Walker Memorial Committee fame tomake his monthly address. He madehis first one before the end of lastterm. That one succeeded so well thatthe new edition must soon be forth-coming.

It goes something like this: In hisreport, Mr. Wemple reads a moderatelist of undergrads (most of themmembers of the Institute Committee)who are overpointed. Later hecasually introduces a motion to allowthese individuals to remain overpoint-ed' because they are "capable" andhave shown "ability" to manage sev-eral different activities all at once.

Naturally, no one of the solonsresents his being called "capable".Smirks, smiles, and even open guf-faws accompany the chorus of "ayes"when the question is put. Cannily,tongues-in-cheek, the legislators in ajudicial capacity, vote to presentthemselves with more than theirshare of activity "plums".

Thus, in its own little way, Techhas the same vexing problem that isarousing the entire nation in regardto the Supreme Court. Should thelegislative and judicial functions of agovernment be entirely detached ? Ifanything, the outrage is more fla-grant here, where the same bodymakes and interprets its laws.

The immediate horizon is notbright. Mr. Wemple, when his handwas forced, brought the poster rulesup to date. it is doubtful, however,whether he can correct the evlils ofthe present points system while thepeople who are to decide the issue arethose who stand to lose the most byits correction.

DRAWING TEE LINE

T is usually very difficult for a person to de-cide just where to "draw the line." This

difficulty is especially true of the variouspranks which college students so often play.The Institute is probably noted for the effic-iency with which these stunts are performed,but this efficiency increases the difficulty.

Yesterday's "theft" of a burlesque star'sunderwear as a fraternity initiation stunt isan example. Fraternities have particular diffi-culty in drawing the line when it comes toHell Week duties of freshmen. One can arguethat this "theft" was just good, clean fun, andthat it is something in the nature of a rebirthof "that old Technology spirit." The samemight even be said of the desecration of thenew Coop building last week, and with as littlereason.

Herbert K. Weiss, '37Frederick J. Io!b, '38Harold James, '38

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In the case of the Coop, the "Technologyspirit" may have been present, but the culpritsfailed to draw the line between a good stuntand vandalism. In yesterday's incident, moreis involved.

Obviously the fraternity initiators failed todraw the linle between a harmless stunt andone that might have placed their initiate inserious trouble. Luckiy, the underwear owner,evidently realizing the value of good free pub-licity, refused to press charges. Next timethey might not be so lucky.

But aside from the objections in this specificinstance,- there are more fundamental objec-tions to the whole idea of Hell VWeek. The the-ory that the punishment inflicted on pledgesin an initiation makes new or better men ofthem is generally-discredited. What IHell VWeekdoes accomplish is the practical loss of at leastone week's school work. With nights taken upperforming all the brilliant stunts- that the

. brssflttlx11_of_~. ~~gisdonein £he._·daytime. Furthermore, physical punishmentduring Hell Week results in little more thanhard feelngs, in most cases. Interfraternityorganizations have gone on record as oppos-ing the practice. Technology's fraternitiesshould follow suit and take the "hell" out ofHell Week.

Night Editor: William R. Stern, '40

N A COLLEGE MAN'S LIFE

f`ON:TINUING its policy of endeavoring tomake Technology men more conscious of

religion, the Technology Christian Associationis sponsoring an "Embassy"' on the 15th a-nd10th of March.

The T. C. A. seeks cooperation of the fra-ternities in sponsoring informal discussionsamong groups of men, under the leadership ofalumni and clergymen qualified to discuss"The Place of Religion iln the College Man'sLife". These leaders will, whenever possible,visit the house of which they were membersin their -college.

It is also doubtful whether Mr.Wemple has any particular desire toremedy the abuse.

:'T'S A WELL KNOWN SECRET'that the hitherto-isolated architectsare just on the verge of gathering uptheir drawing boards and moving enmasse to a new home on the campus.Substantiating it is the news, not yetreleased for publication, that theRogers building has been sold.

Full steam ahead on the plans forTech's newest building has been or-dered. Professors in the architecturaldepartment, logically enough, are thedesigners. The new home, it is ex-pected, will be on the MassachusettsAvenue side, attaching onto Building

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Such an endeavor to arouse interest in aphilosophy of life is a creditable undertaking-providing that it is carried out in the properspirit. If the discussions are presented as dis-cussions, and not as persuasions, they will fillan important position. It is just such an im-partial consideration that the T. C. A. is plan-ning, it would seem, because they must knowmost Technology men's instant reaction todogma.

There is but oxne more difficulty which at-tends the "Embassy," and that is the typicalTechnology response to every activity - "Ihavent' the time." Such comment,in additionto being "shopworn," is one that cannot beapplied to this undertaking, for it is the planto schedule -these discussions imnmediatelyafter sulpper, and in whatever other leisuretime is ordinarily lost without profit.

We shall watch the approach of the T. C. A.Embassy with interest, both to see the men'sreaction to it, and to see whether it can bemade to fill an important place at Technology.

yesterday morning at 6 a. m., quicklylifted and floated away. As it gainedaltitude its miniature radio transmit-ter broadcasted the records of themeteorograph which were picked upby special receiving instruments inthe laboratory.

Harvard University is supplyingthe radio-meteorographs, balloons,and hydrogen, and M. I. T. will domost of the calibrating, launching,recording and reporting. The resultswill be available not only to the U.S.Weather Bureau, but also to the dailyclass in air mass analysis and weatherforecasting at M. I. T., and to botheTechnology and Harvard for researchpurposes.

5.PROFESSOR KNOWVS BEST

The elimination of final examinations intheir present form is becoming more than"just an idea" formulated by students wish-ing to rid themselves of the bother.

Students repeatedly are voicing their ob-jections to the examinations, saying they areriot a true judge of one's knowledge of a sub-ject.

Dr. Earl R. Gabler, of the New York uni-versity School of Education, substantiates thestudent viewpoint in a recent article. Hepoints out that final examinations, as givenin the present system, have little practicalvalue and are often harmful because they arebased on a psychology of fear.

"In the main, the examination as now usedis a vestige of the old education," he ex-plained, "which emphasized facts out of abook, removed from life, abstract and wordy.Its acquisition was based upon -fear and driveof the teacher."

Dr. Gabler advocates an examination pre-pared and answered by-the student, picturing-the subject applied to some -life situation. Inthis way, he maintains, the gap betweentheoretical and practical knowledge can bebridged.

A favorable attitude is developed towardthe subject, fear is eliminated and the pupilis-helped toward a happy understanding," the-professor concluded.

This is similar to what seniors here have·been aslding for-not entire, elimination ofexams, but some worthwhile substitute thatwill give the student and teacher a betteridea of what has been learned..' . ' '-Syracuse Daily Orange

Once the change is made, oldRogers, the first Technology, will beno more. It and the Boston Universitystructure next door will become thesite of an-office building, the better-informed are saying.

OPULARITY AND NOT MERIT,as usual, seems to be the dom-

inating factor in the coming electionsfor the senior week committee andthe senior class marshals.

Perhaps it is too early to judge, butmost of those who have "thrown theirhats in the ring" are the same re-spected gentlemen who already havean excess of activity jobs.

No bar against these individualscompeting for the offices exists, how-ever, 'for neither of the positionscomes under the doubtfully meritori-ous points system (see first item, thiscolumn). General class apathy is alsoto blame.

The upshot of the matter will nodoubt be the additional overburden-ing of those individuals whose curseit is to be popular.

BY THE FERRET

the sad demise of the freshman tiesand rules. In the coffin, which will becarried around the room by six huskypallbearers, will be deposited the dis-carded freshman ties of the class of1940. The committee has announcedthat if those who do ,not wish to partwith their ties will put their names onthem, they will be returned upon de-mand.

HEAR THE PINS FALL

PERIODICALLY people using Walker com-plain of annoyances from the other activi-

ties there. Some of this is unavoidable, be-cause so many activities are crowded into toosmall a space. But some of them are avoidable.

The noise from the bowling alleys is one ex-ample. With close to two thousand stBrings

bowled each week, the number-of pins knockedover runs into six figures, and the noise, whileunlrmeasurable, is mnuch too reat.

Last night, for example, the Catholic Club

dancers could not help realizing that the dorm-itory bowling league was in action, for the

noise came close to drowning out the music.Until the time comes when Walker is so en-larged that twov such events can be widely sep-

arated, temporary measures should be taken.An improvement that would reduce the

nuisance to a fraction of its present amount

would be the simple expedient of lining thewalls and ceiling with sound-absorbing na-

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Gym Men Travel For Two Meets B6xers To Meet Yale Tomorrow;Today And Tomorrow Team Improvement SeenStrengthened Institute Squad

Plays In Hangar GymTonight

The Institute hoopsters are girdingtheir loins again for battle tonight,and with a more cheerful outlook.They will meet a veteran Vermontsquad tonight in the Hangar gym at8:00.

Badly out of practice, the M. I. T.men lost their last game to Clark thisweek, but since then they have had achance to put in some time on inten-sive workouts, and have developedsome team plays.

The Vermont team is a veteran or-ganization, but lacks reserves. It hashad a fairly good record to date thisseason, winning four games and losingfour. They have averaged 34.6 pointsper gamne to 33.1 for their opponents.

Eight Men Make Trip To N. Y.;Frosh Remain At Home,

Fight AndoverInstitute Men Hold 241 Lead For

Two Periods, Then BowTo Huskies

. Depleted by sickness, the Institutegym squad travels to Princeton andAnnapolis today to meet in successionthe Princeton ana Navy teams.

They will meet the Princeton menon their own floor this evening andthe Navy muscle-twisters tomorrowafternoon on the Navy floor.

A series of illnesses and disabilitieshas sadly stripped the Institute squadfor these meets. The loss of WilliamrPhinizy will be in particular felt. Be-sides Phinizy, the following men arealso going to be out of the meets:Frances R. Conley, '38, who is havingan eye operation; Bascom C. Emerson'39; who has an injured ankle; Os-wald Steward '39, who is in quaran-tine; and George D. Cremer '39.

The Navy squad this year is wellbalanced and have always been atthe top of the league.

Prospects for a good showing bythe Institute boxing team when itmeets Yale at New Haven on Satur-da.y afternoon were said to be strongby Tommy Rawson, Technology box-ing coach, yesterday.

"The boys, especially the freshman,have shown a lot of good stuff lately,"Tommy said, "and we expect to givethem a good scrap down at NewHavern." He went on to declare thatthe excellent showing that the yearl-ings made against the more experi-enced Boston Boy's Club leatherpushers Wednesday night when theylost 5-4, made him hopeful for a vic-tory by the frosh contingent.

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After defeating Boston College andUnion College, the varsity fencingteam left for New York this morningto compete against St. John's Univers-ity and Columbia University with highhopes of keeping their slate clean. Theswordsmen meet St. John's this after-

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Show Unusually Good TeamworkI

A rabbits foot in their pocket, theInstitute Pucksters Tuesday eveningheld a two-one lead over a superiorNortheastern team for almost two-thirds of the game before succumbingto a relentless Husky onslaughtwhich netted the red and black icemena 12 to 4 victory.

Within ten minutes of the firstperiod Cohen and Muther had scoredtwo goals for Tech, while Bialek hadpushed the puck past Rebori for theonly Northeastern first period tally.

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Walton Lunch Co.iMorning, Noon and NightYou will find All Tech at78 Massachusetts Avenue

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A dual track meet between the com-bined classes of '39 and '37 and thecombined classes of '40 and '38 is afeatured event on the Track program.The meet will take place at two-thirtytomorrow afternoon on the outdoorboard track and the indoor cage.

A handicap meet will be held a weekfrom tomorrow at the samoe place,same tinre.

Quality First Always

THAT'SWinning only one match out of five,

the Technology Squash Team wasdefeated by a strong Union BoatClub Team on Wednesday. Stearnswas the only squash man to win hismatch, while Babcock, Ellis, Vallone,and Bloom lost theirs.

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~Pi~gr~sf~maae Wednesday afternoon in Room 6-120.---.---- - ~ The American Student Union has in-

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.ngiy South Portico of the White House, and r Ingl~~~~Y Iale Boxingde- accept petitions asking him to back . . .. SO n

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,u rl ~UIIVIVI J~ne-s-csIvaI -;Y v scsvaddressed by Senator Lundeen, ofM|innesota, and Congressmen Maver-ick and Voorhis, the initiators of theAmerican Youth Act. Young peoplewill then meet the legislators fromtheir districts and urge +hem to passthe bill. A theatre partcy will be heldin the evening.

The American Youth Act, recentlyintroduced into the Senate by SexatorLundeen, and into the House by Rep-resentatives Voorhis and Maverick,calls for the appropriation of $5,000,-000,000 to furnish jobs on governmentprojects at union wages for imem-ployed young people. It would alsoextend the aid now furnished needyhigh-school and college students bythe National Youth Administration.

Returning Monday, the Technologydelegates will give a report on thePilgrimage at a meeting to be held

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The remainder of the first chashowed Tech piaying astonishigood and lucky hockey, both onfense and offense. Although bothearly Tech scores came on indiviattempts, the play was characterby the novelty of teamwork onpart of the Engineers.

With only five minutes ofsecond canto left, the Huskys none, two, three, four, five, six ginside of less than four minutesgive Northeastern a lead which inlast period developed into ascore.

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N~ortheastern Spares--Aelherall, Ray Jsonll, Sessloe, Fielding Grogan.

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Friday, February 195:00-Radio Society Meeting-Room 10-275.7:00-Harvard Rifle Team vs. M. I. T.-Here.

Saturday, February 208:00-5:15 Club Dance--5:15 Room.

Among the varsity boxers, much islooked for from Bill Beer, '39, whowill enter the ring in the 125 poundclass and Bob Treat, '38, a heavy-weight. According to Rawson, both ofthese boys have shown much improve-ment during the last few weeks.

Not all other positions on the vars-ity squad have been definitely filled asyet but among those already selectedare, in addition to' Beer and Treat,Phii Constance, '39, in the 145's, DonHolloway, '38, 155 pound mitt man,Henry Kettendorf, 175 pounder, andIchiro Takahashi, in the 115 pounddivision.

Sunday, February 213:00-Nautical Association Talking Movies on Coastguard-PRoom 5-330.

Tuesday, February 235:00-A. S. C. E. pictures on Boulder Danl--Room 5-330.6:00-Debating Society Dinner-Silver Room.

Wednesday, February 246:00-Freshman vs. B. U. Debating Team-at B. U.

Tomorrow- afternoon at two-thirty

in the Hanger gym, an improved In-stitute wrestling team will meet a

Meeting the Beverly Rifle Club ina surprise meet, the Varsity Rifleteam leaves tonight from the rangeat 6 P. M. for a return match. Theshoot was not definitely set until themiddle of the week.

In the last encounter with Beverly,Technology lost by the narrow marginof 5 points in 900. High scorer for theBeverly team was Miss Lydia Dow,who scored 183.

; - The team widll consist of Captain. David .C. Whitaker, '37; Manager

Frances T. Clough, '38; Gordon L.Foote, '38; Seymour E. Heymann, '39;Thomas R. Kinraide, '37; CharleslIaak, '38; Edward B. Myrick, '38;Humbert P. Pacini, '39; Edward C.

l:' -Peterson, '37; and John L. Ohlson, '39.-. - The Varsity match with Syracuse

scheduled for March 26 has been can-celled. The freshman team will holdits first match tonight when it shootsshoulder to shoulder against LowellTextile Institute at 7:30.

M. I. T. Spares--Eddy, Drury. Sachs,Pickard, Cohen, Kettendorf.

Score, N. U. 12, M. I. T. 4.Goals-First period, Acker, 5:55; Bialek,

8:30; Cohen, 9:10.Penalties-First period. Trowt (illegal

check), Fraser (triping). Acker (leg check).Goals- Second period, Ganons. 15:28

Grogan, 16:00; Ganong (Bialek), 16:45Bialek (Bynre), 17:30; Bialek, 18:00Byrne (Gannorg), 18:18.

Penalties-Second period, Fraser (illegalcheck), Acker (charging), Grogan (inter-ference).

Goals--Third period, Bialek, 1:28; Byrne,2:00, Byrne (Bialek), 15:54; Ganong (Fras-er), 16:38 , Cohen, 17:51; Fraser, 8:45;Minott, 19:42.

Penalties-Third period, none.Referees, Ayer and Kelleher.Time, three 20m periods.

strong Brown squad. The Brownteam is expected to be very strong.They have just recently beaten theSpringfield team overwhenlmingly, andthe Springfield team has been ratedhigh.

The Institute team is in fairly goodcondition, Coach Ricks said, and heexpected the meet to be a close one.Almost all the regular members ofthe team will be on the mat tomor-row.

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of Electrical Engineering, has arrivedin China where he will join the facultyof the Nation Tsing-Hua Universityin Peeping for a series of lectures onadvanced electric power circuits, fol-lowing closely his course at the Insti-

- tute.j Professor Harris, of the Depart-

ment of Chemistry, will go to the UJni-versity College, in London, where hewill collaborate with Dr. R. W. B.

, Pearse in further investigation of the[ spectrum and structure of nitrogen-

o: oxygen compounds, in which subjectbotlh scientists 'lhaae long been inter-ested.

sitace my first term in the Senate 11 yearsago, and I have always enjoyed theirtaste and the feeling of eomfort arndsafety a light smoke gives my throat. Ihave done a great deal of public speak-ing, on the floor of the Senate, over theradio and at conferences. Necessarilythis results in a strain on the voice. Sonaturally, in smoking, I have to thinkof my throat--and I havue found that alight smoke is suitable to my throat."

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noon and follow up against Columbiatomorrow afternoon.

A well-balanced team composed ofeight men is making the trip, Led byCaptain Leo Dantona, who fights bothfoil and saber, the group includesDave Bartlett, foil and epee; AndreLaus, foil and epee: Phineas Rosen-berg, epee; Bernard Zuckerman, epee;Charles Wieser, epee; Jerome Salny,saber; and Emile Malick, epee andsaber.

The inexperienced freshman teamdropped their second match in a rowto the Boston Christian Union teamby the count of 9 to 0.

HON. GERALD P. NYEU. S. SENATOR FROM NORTI DAKOTA

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