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A VERY MERERY AND A HAPPY

NEW YEAR

Engineer 'L i k e iKarl T. Compton" Re9quested By Firm;Sage Placement Officer, Lists Employees' Assets

Initiative, vigor and courage were utes"; '........ ambitious, intelligent, re- school and when in business, for theamong qualities stressed by Nathan- sourceful-able to cooperate with all lvaluable contacts that can be madeiel McL. Sage, Placement Officer, in types of people"; "a chemical engi- there. Sage also advised the seniorsthe placement lecture given on Fri- neer ......with pep, commercial sense, and graduate students present to keepday, December 17, as desirable in fu- tact, and aggressiveness." out of politics and away from gossipture enmployees. Unsuspected considerations often inasmuch as seventy per cent of In-

Excerpts were read from letters re- enter into the getting and keeping of stitute graduates' dissatisfaction withceived by the placement bureau quot-ing specifications listed by the pros-pective employers who write to Tech-nology for men. Several of the re-quirements, it was admitted, couldnot be filled: among them that of thecompany which desired a chemicalengineer "just like Karl T..Compton."Also incapable of being satisfied byInstitute graduates was the companywhich wrote, "He must be tall-atleast six feet; and husky ...... an ex-football player would be ideal."

Modesty DesiredSome of the more serious requests

read: "...... not feeling that he is going

Weak Healr, Nervous ConditionGiven As Reasons For

Ending Life

Kolb, Lippitt, 7Wallace, And

Morgan Granted NewScholarship

a job. One concern, for example, de-manded that the mall it hired "beable to stand kidding."

Other letters stated that: "prefer-ence will be given to those not raisedill the city"; he should not be "a ciga-rette smoking machine-and musthave emotional stability; "he shouldbe a leader but not hard-boiled"; "heshould be from 21-24 ...... able to thinkIfor himself." Remarks of this sortevidence a prejudice conceived be-cause of the pleasant or otherwise

jobs can be traced to unpleasant per-sonal relationships.

Opportunity is Kesponsibility"Opportunity is not a privilege; it's

a responsibility," declared ProfessorErwvin H. Schell, head of the Depart-ment of Business and EngineeringAdministration, claiming that stu-dents should feel no hesitancy aboutapproaching friends of theirs whomight have influence.

Relatives, friends of the family,former teachers, and-shades of Pro-fessor Robert E. Rogers-the girlfriends were listed as people thatevery student should contact about

Professor Woo700druff Had BeenFaculty Member Three Years

Each Of The Four RecipientsIs A Member Of Tau Beta Pi

Was Active As A City PlanningConsultant Throughout

New England

Men Are Chosen For Character,Leadership, Activities

Anxld Grades

Professor Joseph T. Woodruff, fac-uity member in the architectural de-partment, took his own life in hishome in Longmeadow, Massachnusetts,early Saturday morning. He has beena member of the Technology facultyin charge of the regional planningdepartment since 1936.

Professor Woodruff had been in illhealth for a long time, and, accord-ing to his doctor and the medical ex-aminer, had been suffering from aweak heart and an acute nervouscondition. His actions were attrib-uted to these causes.

Professor Woodruff was born inColorado Springs in 1894. He was amember of the Class of '17, but nevergraduated from Technology. The de-ceased had been active in city plan-ning circles throughout the East bothbefore and after his appointment tothe faculty in 1934 as an AssistantProfessor in the -City Planning De-partment. He had been a consultantin numerous state and municipalprojects as well as a consultant forthe New England Regional PlanningCommission.

Professor Woodruff is survived byhis wife and two children.

In recognition of outstanding qual-ifications of leadership and charactercombined with distinguished scholas-

tic attainment, the first \William Bar-ton Rogers Awards, established inmemory of the founder of the Insti-

stute, have been awarded to Freder-ick J. Kolb, Jr., Vernon G. Lippitt,Dale F. Morgan, and John J. WVallace,ail members of the Class of 1938.

The awards, which have a value of$500 each, were made by the FaeultyCommittee on Undergraduate Schol-arships, the announcement beingmade last Saturday by Dean EHaroldE. Lobdell, chairman of the Commit-tee. The financial backing for theprizes is provided from the incomeaccumulated from a fund establishedby a group of Technology alumni.

Compton Mfakes Presentation

characteristics of previous employeesfrom the Institute.I Students were urged to join pro-

to conquer the world in fifteen minl- i fessional societies both while at jobs.

Trackmen's Annual BanquetTo Be Held On January

Theta Chi House EntertainsLess Fortunate Boston Boys6

The annual Track Banquet willbe held this year on January 6,and will feature movies, eats, theirrepressible Oscar ledlund, anda prominent guest speaker, whoseidentity is being kept as a sur-prise. Everyone is welcome tothe banquet, and tickets may bepurchased at the track house.

Preparation for the indoor re-lays will be continued during thevacation, with regular practicesheld every day under Oscar's su-pervision.

Theta Chi Fraternity last nightentertained fifteen underprivi-leged boys of Boston at a turkeydinner and Christmas party atthe chapter house. At the endof the evening each boy was pre-sented with a pair of sneakers.

Although this is the first at-tempt of the fraternity at anylike plan, it is hoped that, underthe sponsorship of the nationalTheta Chi organization, the en-tertainment can be repeated an-nually.

Better Understanding BetweenFrench, U. S. Students

Is Club's Aim

French Travel Movies Shown

Presentation ceremonies were heldby President Compton in his office,with members of the Committee andheads of the academic departments in

(Continued on Page 4)Rogers Awards

Declaring that t he purpose of theCercle Franlcais was to further bet-ter understanding between the French

and American students, Professor Er-nest F. Langley opened the first ofthat society's meetings last night inroom 6-120.

His talk was supplemented by sev-eral remarks of Raymond Samuel,Graduate from France, who declared,in French, that before he came herehe had believed that all Americanswore large hats and lived in tallbuildings. Upon arriving, he foundthat Americans are under a similarmisapprehension about the French,for they believe that they live in theEiffel Tower and have long, blackmoustaches.

After the speeches, a travel movie,"La Rourgue," was shown. It de-picted the lives of the people in thatlittle-known part of France. Flashingscenes on the screen, the movie also

New Year's First Social EventTo Be M'eld in Walker Commuters To End Successful

Year With Festivities

Twenty-Four Tons of ClothingHave Been Collcted

For Refugees

Jacky Ford s-d his fifteen-pieceorchestra, will play at the SeniorDance to be held Friday, January 7,in the Main Hall of Walker Memorial,the Dance Committee announces. Thisorchestra played at the recent DormDance.

Plans, although not yet definitely

With over 150 options sold by yes-terday for the New Year's Ball, Mil-ton I. Wallace, '38, chairman of thedance committee, predicted a com-plete sellout by the end of the week.Places for about fifty couples remainas the time limit for redemption ofoptions closes tomorrow afternoon.Places reserved by options which arenot redeemed by tomorrow will beplaced on open sale beginning Thurs-

Tech Representative in TurkeyTeaching at Roberts

College NowWomen employees of Technology

have contributed more than one hun-dred dollars for Chinese relief, it wasannounced last night by the NewEngland Committee for Relief inChina. An additional $600 has beenraised by students at Wellesley,Madame Chiang Kai Shek's almamater.

Altogether nearly $2500 has beenreceived, although the Committee'sgeneral fund drive has not yet begun.Of this amount $500 has been sent tothe Hon. C. T. Wang, Ambassadorfrom China at Washington, for dis-tribution through the Chinese RedCross Society, and $750 for medicalsupplies for distribution through Dr.Cotui, Chairman of the ExecutiveBoard. In addition $500 has been sentto Mr. E. E. Barnett, General Secre-tary of the International Committeeof the Y. M. C. A. for civilian relief.

(Continued on Page 4)China Relief

Last spring, the T. C. A. decided toinitiate work projects in foreign col- formed, are progressing for the en-leges. To this end they sent Robert tertainment and floor show. A five-H. Goldsmith, of the class of 1997,1 act vaudeville to last one-half hour,to Robert College, Istanbul, Turkey. a roller-skating tap dancer, and danc-Recently a letter was received from ing teams may be expected.Goldsmith, telling of his experiences Only Seniors and fourth-year stu-in Turkey. Following are some ex- dents will attend, admission beingcerpts from his letter which describe gratis to them. To make this pos-life in an engineering school in Tur- (Continued on Page 4)key. Senior Dance

day noon.Ted Bailey's orchestra will play at

the dance which starts at ten New(Continued on Page 3)

New Year's Ball

included shots of Roquefort, the homeof the famous cheese of that name.

(Continued on Page 3)Cercle Francais

"From what I can gather, RobertCollege is ever increasing its reputa- Winners of Rogers Awardtion.as an engineering school. .Turkey needs engineers and this iswell proven by the ease with whichmen procure jobs on graduation....And the fact the Robert Collegeteaches in English also helps, formuch work is being done by Englishcompanies out here....

Student Attitude DifferentFrederick J.

IKolb, Jr.Vernon G.

Liplpitt"There is a great deal of contact

between the staff and the students inthe extra-curricular activities, espec-

(Continued on Paag e 4)T. C. A.

"The Chemist as an Architect" willbe the subject of a lecture by Pro-fessor Edward R. Schwarz of the De-partment of Mechanical Engineering,before a meeting of the Chemical So-ciety tonight in Room 6-120 at 8P. M.

Refreshments will be served at theclose of the meeting in the FcrrestJewett Moore Room.

Twenty-five members of the societyyesterday afternoon w e re shownthrough the Lever Bros. soap fac-tory. Processes of soap manufacturefrom raw fat and alkali through theCanizzarro reaction to the finishedproduct were demonstrated. At theconclusion of the trip, gift packagesof soap were presented to each mr.em-ber.

Five Tech men are to attend theAmerican Students Union Conventionwhich is to take place at Vassar fromDecember 27 to 31. Four of the men,Thomas Goldfrank, '39, Richard Ha-nau, '39, Harold L. Posner, G., andGerald W. Waring, G., are to repre-sent the Technology unit, while Al-fred J. Green, '40, is to appear asrepresentative for the Boston District.

At a meeting yesterday the Tech-nology men were instructed as towhat stand to take on (1! peace pol-icies, (2) financial aid for studentsand liberalization of college curricula,(3) participation in progressive po-litical acts and legislation.

Dale F.Morgan

John J.Wallace

CHRI[STMAS

Joseph Woodruff,Faculty Member,

Takes Own Life

Four Seniors GetRogers' Awards

Of 500 Dollars

First Meeting OfCercle FrancaisHears E. Langley

Seniors Will DanceTo Jack Ford's Music 5.15 Club Will Give

Gala New Year's Ball WomenEmployeesGiveTwo Hundred Dollars

To China lRelief FundRobert H. Goldsmith

Tells Of ExperiencesIn Letter To T.C.A.I

Schwarz To AdidressThe Chemical Society

Tech Sends DelegatesTo A.S.U. Convention

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form a philosophy of life not based lated body. I would not call the war-orn religion, and superior in some re- rior a traitor for his display of hu-spects to the religious philosophy. manity. To those whose minds are

blinded in their earnestness for massRevi...a_. robbery and international law break-lltlVilDWS and Previews ing, this might sound absurd. But

what is right can not be wrong. Are_ the civilized people of this world

METROPOLITAN-Today and to- going to yield their opinion just inmorrow the program is Manhattan the samne way as the spirit of nationsMerry-Go-Round with Phil Regan and has been subdued to nothing in theAnn Dvorak, also a Major Bowes' wake of force and power and theCollegiate, Revue on the stage. Thurs- §olemn pledge of the nations has beenday for a week is True Confession, blown to bits by the booming of big

a story of a false confession to mur- guns ?der by Carole Lombard, Fred Mac- May the love for peace and theMurray, and John B3arrymnore, wvithcourage for upholding righteousness

"Swing Santa. Swing" on the stage always prevail! -A Chinese.Nancy McCord from the Metropolitan To the Editor of The Tech:Opera Co. [ I believe that much space and pub-

PARAMOUNT AND FENWAY - lishing effort are wasted in your "Let-Through Wednesday Daughter Of ters to the Editor" column wheneverShanghai, with Anna May Wong and a topic which is rich, directly, or indi-

Larry Crabbe, Love is on the Air, rectly because of a related topic, inwith Ronald Reagan and June Travis. controversial possibilities is intro-Submarine D-I opens Thursday with duced by a reader. The occurrence ofPat O'Brien and George Brent, also the waste is not the fault of the edito-45 Fathers, a story of millionaire rial policy; usually not the fault of thebachelors attempt to convert Jane initial writer; but often the fault ofWithers into a passive sweet lady. those who succumb to the urge to

SCOLLAY AND MODERN-Tech- reply protestingly. Protest is justi-nicolor Ebb Tide and gangster story fiable only when the nature of theGangway will run through Thursday, initial comment is extremely rash,Second Honeymoon with Tyrone malappropriate, or fallacious, andPower and Loretta Young starts Fri- even then the replyer's attitudeday along with Daughter of Shanghai should be that of a constructive criticwith Anna May Wong as a secret with a desire to pity greater thanagent. the desire to censure.

UPTOWN-It's Love I'm After In many cases the replying writersstarting Friday with Leslie Howard. have good reason to reply, but in soBette Davis, and Olivia DeHavilland, doing, in addition to discussing the

also Merry Go Round of 1938 oli the, main issue or issues, quite frequentlyscreen with Bert Lahr, Jimmy Savo, flounder in the quagmire of verbosity

and Alice :Brady.and hasty conclusions; lose sight ofEXETER - Ronald Colman and the main issue or issues in the jungle

Madeleine Carroll are appearing in | of superfluity, shallow thinking, andThe Prisoner of Zenda with Wendy unrestrained, personal feelings; andBarrie and Walter Pidgeon in A Girl (Continued on Page 4)With Ideas during the first of theweek. Beginning Thursday Ronald

Colman and Elizabeth Allan are inJust across the wayA Tale of Two Cities also JudgePriest with Will Rogers and Anita Students, we serve

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Managing BoardGeneral Manager ............................................... Richard G. Vincens, Jr., '38Editor ...................................................................................... Robert E. Katz, '38Managing Editor .................................................... Dudley A. Levick, Jr., '38Business Manager .................................................... Douglas G. Esperson, '38Associate Business Manager ........................... ........ James C. Longwell, '38

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original creation. This belief, of[|lawbreaking is "in itself against establishedpractice, it constitutes in itself, a breach ofethics. It seems inconceivable by any formof thinking that the criminal offender should

: be protected in his machinations. The tappingof telephones has in the past been responsible

3 in part for the successful capture and convic-tion of criminals. Much vital information thatis necessary for the capture and conviction ofexisting gangs is now being obtained overtelephones. Nevertheless, the fact remainsthat the Supreme Court says no, it is not fairand hence the criminal breathes a little easier.Possibly the G-men have an ace up theirsleeve, a man with X-ray eyes or something.We await such things with anticipation.

FUTILE CONGRESSITS TIME WAS LARGELY WASTED

O ONGRESS ends its special session thisweek without having accomplished a

single objective, Number one on the adminis-tration pro-ram, the granary bill, is tangled inconference. The wage and hours legislation,second objective, was interred by recommital,,ote Friday night. In comniit'xee are bills toc)reate seven regional planning zones for floodcontrol, conservation and incidental power de-velopment. Legislation touching on the reor-ganization of government departments andagencies has hardly come to the attention ofthe legislators, while the President's proposedanti-trust revisions have seen no'action at all.Work on anti-lynching laws too has been post-poned by common agreement.

We cannot in all truthfulness say that Con-gress accomplished nothing during its session,for it did manage to pass legislation providingfor $225,000 in holiday travel allowances formembers, and to straighten out several otherproblems. Among other things it authorizeda loan of Capitol paintings for the sesquicen-tennial observance of the adoption of the Fed-eral Constitution. An expensive favor, since ithas cost $225,000 to authorize.

Congress reconvenes with the New Year,and it is our hope that our solons act morespeedily and with more aplomb to put throughthe worthwhile business on the legislativeagenda. Particularly the housing bill (whichmay yet pass during the special session), de-serves prompt attention. The advantages ofdecent low scale housing and the probable ac-companying business stimulation are too ob-vious to mention here. Other projects whichdeserve reconsideration are the wages andhours bill and the anti-lynching laws.

If our Senators and Congressmen can forgetsupposed regional advantages and personal de-sires in an effort to aid the American economicsituation, prompt action on many measurescan be effected. -Next time Congress appro-priates itself several hundred thousand dollarsfor travelling expenses and takes off for home,we hope there will be more constructive workto show for its efforts than this session canboast.

RELIGION AND SCIENCEAND SCIENTISTS' BELIEFS

ON connection with our recent editorials onscience and religion, one of our readers has

sent us a booklet Dointing out the religious be-liefs of five great scientists, Fabri, Faraday,Pasteur,, Newton, and Kelvin, and has criti-cized us for having "done away with religionas a non-essential, especially to the scientificmind." But a close study of these scientists'beliefs shows that religion can be a non-essential, which is all we ever claimred.

Scientists' beliefs seem to fall into severalgeneral classes. One group may be typified

by a statement of one of Faraday's friends,"When he entered his meeting-house he lefthis science behind. .. ." This attitude was

nmlore common among physical scientists. Aconflict, remember, can be inherent withoutbeing recognized.

Another group, like Kelvin and Newton.argue for religion on the basis of biological

,evidence" (they were physical scientists),"evidence" which has been later disproven.The latest stand of this Croup, that there wassomething peculiar about "life," attributableto God, of course, is in the process of falling,

with the discovery that the filterable viruses,long known as living matter, can also be crys-tallized like most non-living matter.The other, and probably largest group, con-

ceives of God as no more than a Creator, aFirst -Cause, but having no part after the

course, discards the great mass ofreligious beliefs, which depend on aninterventionist God.

The atheist would say, "in the be-ginning there was the universe?" forso far- no scientific evidence of any-thing else has been found. The "FirstCauser" would say, "No, somethingmust have brought it about-in thebeginning there was a God." We canargue as to which belief is the mostplausible, the most reasonable, but wecannot prove one or the other. Butthat is dealing with God solely as aCreator, which is a different plane ofargument from that of previous edi-torials and letters.

One reader has questioned whetherwithout religion there can be incen-tive to do good. Careful thought andreading of biography will make onerealize that there have been manywho did good for other than religiouscompulsions. We are not attemptingto minimize the importance of re-ligion; we are not urging that weshould try to abolish religions, butwe do maintain that it is possible to

(Editor's note: TXhe following let-ters were. received some time ago,but unfortunately could not be pub-lished sooner because of space lim-itations.)Editor, The Tech:

Htaving read the letter to the editorin the last issue of The Tech, I cameto realize that there is among thestudents a definite misunderstandingof the nature and the purpose of theStudents' Committee for China Relief.

It is an undeniable fact that theabove mentioned organization has asits aim the extending of aid to thoseneedy Chinese who are innocent vic-tims of a modern war. But this ispure charity out of human sympathyfor the unfortunate fellow beings.How could one call it an open antago-nism to Japan and alliance to China?Reminiscent of the chivalrous accountof a valiant warrior offering a cigar-ette to a dying enemy to soothe theuttermost pain and agony of a muti-

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Herbert K. WeiM, '87John R. Cook, '38

Maurice A. Meyer, '39Ida Rovno, '39

Edwin L Smith, Jr.. '39Ralph S. Woollett, '89

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CHRISTMAS SPIRITWHERE IS IT?

S MEN go home to celebrate Christmas,much will be on their hands. Work that

should have been done at school, the girl thatmay be waiting, presents that must be bought,those we hope have been bought for us, festi-vities around Christmas and New Year's, re-ports that are due the first day school resumes,national and international affairs. In all thejumble, hardly a consideration of the meaningand origin of the festival for which our holidayis named.

Christmas the celebration of the birthday ofChrist is lauded by many just because theymay get more presents than they give or be-cause it breaks a long spell of hard work.Christmas was originally a festival for Chris-tians who believed that the manner of livingwas set forth in the Bible and as exemplifiedin the Biblical teachings and life of Christshould be followed. These men believed in theGolden Rule in helping other men and in lovingmankind.

One symbol, that of giving presents, remainsto be battered about and misused while therest of the world forgets and denies all tieswithi the ideals that all Christians pretend tobelieve. Certainly the world has forgotten allabout brotherly love. Armies are sent for nojust reason to bomb innocent people. Capitaland Labor are at each other's throats withseeming intent to kill, while we sit at horne,smugly giving away small favors to a few closefriends, possibly even sinngirn praises of idealsto which we give lip service but would notthink of carrying out.

Men have died for the ideals embodied inChristianity, but this Christmas men will diefor lack of these same ideals. We will be cele-br-atinog the birth of a plan that was to let allmen live in peace with each other, but it hasfailed so far. Merry Christmas.

TAPPING TEL EPHONESGIVING THE RACKETEER A BREAK

"ACKETEERS who are breaking Federallaws of any type were given a new lease on

life yesterday with the announcement of theSuprenie Court opinion that telephone tappingwas unethical and 'thus could not be admis-sable as courit evidence. Thus the famed G-manhas to find another means of trapping the wilycrook. This country, always noted for its senseof fair play, has long felt that the underworldcharacter has not been given a proper chanceagainst the minions of the law. Hence theSupreme Court action.

Looking at this question from a seriouspoint of view, it is significant that the opinionof Justice Sutherland, who cast one of the twodissenting opinions, is that,-"in lawbreaking,there is no ethical question involved." Law-brea}king itself consists of opposing or break-ing ethical practices. After all, ethics are notset up by the will of a few but are the out-Igrowth of custom, precedent or the like. Since

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Tuesday, Decepmber 21, 1937 Page Three

I Dorm Men Carol Dr. ComptonWho Extends Xmas Greetings

The Spirit of Christmas pre-vailed in the dormitories last

night as 120 students gathered tosing Christmas carols around afire. Later the group assembledbefore President Karl T. Comp-ton's house and repeated the

carols. Just before the groupwalked slowly away singing "'Si-lent Night," Dr. Conmptoon ap-

peared at the door to wish every-one a Merry Christmas. Musicalaccompaniment for the carolerswas present in the form of ac-cordion music. With an enthusi-astic singing of the Stein Songand with cries of "Merry Christ-mas!" filling the air, the stu-dents returned to their rooms tocontinue their vacation packing.

Beaver Quintet Loses ThirdBy 53-28Victory Hinges On Contested

Will Between MarmaAnd Brewster

Each Team Scores Two Falls;;Brooklyn, 4 Decisions

To Wine By 22-10Suffering its first defeat in five

matches, the Technology rifle teambowed to the superior marksmanshipof the Arlington Rifle Club last Fri-day evening on the Institute range bythe score of 912 to 894.

Of the ten man team representingthe Institute the five to place wereCharles H. Maak, '38, the captain,

with an individual score of 181; Rob-ert W. Pratt, '39, with a 180; Valen-

Losing by a score of 53-28, the

Beaver basketball squad last Friday

night met the Massachusetts State

College team at Amherst. The star

of the game, according to Co-Captain

Michael Herasimchuk, '39, was Co-

Captain Paul Schneider, while the

In their second match of the sea-

son, the Tech wrestling team fell be-fore a superior team from BrooklynCollege, New York, by the score 22to 10. Both teams scored two falls,but Brooklyn won four other matchesby decisions.

William H. Stone in the 126 poundclass and John Vanderpool in the 16apound class were the two winners forTechnology. Both were New Englandfreshmnen champions in the sanme

Edged out by a forty to thirty-seven

score, which involved a contested winrequiring a prolonged huddle by theofficials, the Engineer swimmers lastSaturday lost to the natators from

Worcester Polytechnic Institute in ameet held at the University Club.

The closest event of the afternoon's

competition was between Jack Karnafor the visitors and Bill Brewster of

Tech in the 130 yard backstroke.Winning time was two minutes flat.The only winner for the Beavers wasStuart Paige, '39, who has not beendefeated in two years of college com-petition. Paige saved the Instituterecord by carrying off honors in thedive. His teammate, Arthur Cook,'39, followed him with a second ilthis series.

high scorer was Wrignt, '40, who

earned Line points.

Other players in the game, whose

loss the captain attributed to the finetine deOlloqui, '40, with a 180; John L.

Ohlson, '39, with a 179; and Normanclasses last year. In the only matchwhich went into overtime WilliamHoffman of Technology lost the de-cision to I. Cantor of Brooklyn aftertwo extra-period sessions.

The results: M. Schiller (B) de-

|basket-shooting of the Mass. State

team, were Theodore Thomas, '40;

Thomas Creamer, '40; Oliver Kangas--

'38; Richmond Wilson, `40; and Hy-

[men Katz, '38. |

L. Davis, '40, with a 176.

Won First Intercollegiate LeagueMatch

Results of the first of the New

England Intercollegiate League

matches which was fired at Kingston,Rhode Island, against Rhode IslandState College on Saturday, Dec. 11,have been received from the National

Rifle Association in Washington, con-firming Tech's victory by a score of1289 to 1263. In the final rescoringthe team total for the Beaver rifle-

mnen was raised a total of fivee pointslover the estimated score which '>heyoriginally reported.

feated John Vyvezberg (M.I.T.); Wil-liam H. Stone (M.I.T.) threw SigScheider (B) in 5:00; David Spirit(B) threw David Wan, (M.I.T.) in4:10; S. Luff (B) defeated RobertCohen (M.1.T.); B. Fromartz (B)threw Mike Cettei (M.I.T.) in 5:10;John Va;nderpool (M.I.T.) threw H.Sims (B) in 5:37; M. Schiffrin (B)defeated Phil Lucal (M.I.T.); and I.Cantor (B) defeated William Hoff-mnan (M.I.T.).

This defeat marked the third

straight loss for the Engineers; italso ended a two-year feud of one-point victories with Mass. State. In1935 Tech defeated Mass. State by asingle basket, while last year the up-

state mllen took the game from thebasketm-en by a single foul shot.

HA RVARD SQUARETech Takes 400The four hundred yard free style

relay 1elped pile up points for theCardinal and Grey as a team com-pose;, of Archibald Main, '38, ByronWheeler. '39, Mead Bradner, '38, andWilliam Schuler, '40, outswam theW. P. I. men.

The summary:300-yard medley-Won by Worcester (Platulkis,

Evans, Johnson) ; second, M. I. T. (Brew-ster, Fabens, Wheeler). Tinme3m. 29s.

220-yard free style-Won by Crandall (W);second, Martin (M) ; third, Kiuniholm (W).Time 2m, 37 9-10s.

-5-yard free style-Won by Love (W) ; second,Braner (M) ; third, Karna (W). Time-26 3-10Os.

100-yard free style-Won by LoVe (W) ; sec-ond. Schuler (M) ; third, Gardner (M).Time-.59 7.-1 Os.

150-yard back stroleWon by Karwna (W);second, Brewster (M) ; third, Platuk~is (W).Time-2m,

200-yard breast strokeWo~n by Evans (W);second, Williams (M) ; third, Morgen~thavw(W). Tirne2m, 45 2-10s.

440-yard free, styleWon by Crandall (W);second, McEvoy (M) ; third, Carson (W).Time6m 18 2-10s.

DOive on by Paige (M). 74.7 points; second,Cook (M), 70.7 points; third, Magrgiolo(W}. 69.6 points.

400-yard-free style relay-Won by MI. I. T.(Main, Bradner, Wheeler, Schuller) ; second,

IWorcester ( Love, Crandall, Murphy, Kuni-holm). Time4m, 10 7J-10s.

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( Continued from Page 2)day brings Shirley Temple in Heidi,also Brian Aberne in The Great Gar-rick.

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Ali Baba Goes to Town with Eddie

Cantor and June Lang, also Hold 'EmNavy with Lew Ayres, Mary Carlisle,and Benny Baker. Starting Satur-day is Leo Carrilio and Jean Parkerin The Barrier, also Live, Love andLearn with Robert Montgomery, andRosalind Russell.

Cercle Francais(Continuedl from Page 1)

After the show, all those presentand interested were asked to leave

their names. All others, who werenot there, can signify their interestby getting in touch with Mr. Samuelat the Graduate House.

The society plans to have a meet-ing for members some time in Janu-

ary, to formulate future plans. Italready has laid the ground-work for

about five French movies, several lec-

tures, and some recordings. Everyone is invited to the movies.

0On 2.40 and ThizgsSeems the boys in 2.40 have been

having trouble with their units lately,

remembering when its B.t.u.jhr.lsq.ft.jft.ldegree F and not B.t.u. hr.lsq.ft.-

lin.1degree F. and such like things.Seems also Professor Svenson, who

has been ministering to their ignor-

ance, has a daughter-now wait a

minute-in grade four. We forgot toask what school.

Seems further that the good pro-fessor is so used to assigning home-

work problems that he assigned (oneto said daughter. Andt she got the

answer tight, and is lat's more, she

got the units right. Now that's thekind of airl who e>,ulci be a rcal hielp-

mate to a Tech man. Or maybe this

explains the professor's success.

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Dancing everyNight exceptSunday

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actly twelve o'clock, a signal will begiven for concentrated noise to usherin the New Year. Dinner will be

served from one to two. Redemptionof options must be made by two

o'clock or special arrangement mustbe made with the committee to retain

places reserved by options. Duringthe vacation, club members will be in

the Main Lobby from twelve to two

each day to redeem options or to selltickets. Redemptions are three dol-lars; tickets are priced at five dollars-

Members of the faculty who haveaccepted invitations to attend aschaperones are Professors Charles S.Draper and Robley D. Evans, Dr.H. E. Hall, and Mlessrs. Clark S.Goodnlan and Herman J. Shea.

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The tables wvill be arranged cabaretstyle around the floor. Ten large

tables seating five couples each willbe placed between the pillars surround-ing the dance floor and under the bal-

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end of the hall a few four couple

tables have been provided.

A large canopy of colored streamers

is being designed by the committeeto mask the entire ceiling. Red andgreen decorations will be arranged

about the hall and in the lobby. The

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ially with younger members of thestaff. This might be explained by the Baton, honordifferent attitude taken by the stu- elected six newdents here than in America. True, meeting held V

the Dorm Coralsome of the older members encourage the Dorm Comand supervise certain activities, de- These membebating, societies, etc., but outside of standing activit.eating meals with them, I, personally are Albert 0. have had no opportunity to engage in Legh o r n, '39, 1this." Walter B. Park

The foreign college project, in on, G., and Alv;which Goldsmith is engaged, was first' , wicproposed in 1928. The T. C. A. sent -.... representatives to Turkey for severalyears, but unfortunately the depres-sion put a halt to their plans. Last spring the final arrangements withRobert College were made. Under the Bagreement the T. C. A. was to paysalary and transportation cost whileRobert College was to provide room |

which the four Seniors are studyingpresent as guests.

Kolb, ex-president of his class andpresent vice-president of the Insti-tute Committee, is a native of Roch-ester, N. Y., and entered the Insti-tute from John Marshall High School.As well as being a member of Dor-clan, honorary dorrmitory society, hehas won his letter on the gym teamand is chairman of the Open HouseCommittee. Enrolled in Course X,Kolb has held an undergraduatescholarship each of his four years atthe institute, and is vice-president ofTau Beta Pi. He is also on the edi-torial board of The Tech.

Lippit'c, who is enrolled in electrical

Tuesday, Dec. 215-6 P. M.-MITAA Meeting-East Lounge.5 P. M.--Outing Club--Dry Skiing Course-- Hangar Gym.

Wednesday, Dec. 225 P. M.-Phi Gamma Delta Alumni of Amherst-College Dinner-

Faculty Room.6:30 P. M.-Dinner to Mr. Wood-Silver Room.

Thursday, Dec. 23HOLIDAYS BEGIN.

Tuesday, Dec. 286:30 P. M.--HIelsinilci University Dinner-North Hall.10-1 P. M. Heisiniki University Dance-Main Hall.

Friday, Dec. 3110-4- New Year's Ball-Main Hall.

Sunday, Jan. 2Holidays End.

Monday, Jan. 32:30 P. M.-Technology Dames-Emma Rogers Room.

IChinese ReliefI (Continued from Page 1)

engineering, has likewise held under-graduate scholarships throughout hisfour years. A resident of Westwood,N. J., he is member of Tau Bet Pi,and was co-captain of last year's var-sity basketball team.

Morgan, a member of Beta ThetaPi and former captain of the varsitygym team, is president of Tau BetaPi, honorary engineering fraternity,and is student chairman of the facul-ty-student committee. A graduate ofwNew Rochelle High School, New Ro-chelle, N. Y., hlie is enrolled in|

and board.as a net result, make condemnedfools of themselves. The folly and re-suiting waste lie in the attempt atadditional "squelching" of the oppo-sition; evolve into a farce when thesuperfluous words take on the formof an epistolary debate, perhaps con-nected to the main issue or issues,but which is most ill-advised. If thew-riters desire a real debate, theplace, time, and more appropriate(oral, or personal correspondence)weapons are, no doubt, available tothem. Such an act is not at allwasteful 'provided the debaters know(a very much abused word) whatIthey are talking about.

But returning to the waste; a ludi-crous example is the recent uproarcaused by the letter entitled, "ChinaRelief." Legally and within certainlimits, there is such a thing as free-dom of speech, of course, but in acollege paper of a cosmopolitan insti-tution such as M. I. T., certain local,

The benefits of this plan are nu-merous. The student receives muchbenefit from his year abroad, Tech'sbanner has been planted in anothercountry, and better feeling betweenstudents of all the world has beencreated.

forThe first shipment of 13 tons ofclothing, it was announced, has ar-rived in Hongkong and is being dis-tributed through the Chinese Wom-en's Relief Association. Nine moretons have been collected and will beshipped to the war zone in the nearfuture.

According to the committee, Chi-nese relief authorities state that $1.00 will provide one month's food for aChinese refugee; $40.00 will build ahut to provide shelter for 50 persons;and $100.00 will purchase sufficientlanaesthic for operations on 300 per-sonILs.

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Course X. Wallace Senior Class President

Wallace, the fourth member of thegroup, is president of the Senior]Class, and president of the InstituteCommittee. He has won undergrad-uate scholarships in all of his yearsat the Institute, and is president ofthe Aeronautical Engineering Society.A resident of Oak Park, Illinois, hehas served as an instructor in glidingfor the Aeronautical Society, and wasco-winner of the mid-western soaringmeet at Empire, Michigan. Wallaceis president of Dorclan and a mem-ber of Tau Beta Pi.

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Senior Dance(Continued from Page 1)

sible, the class treasury is financingthe dance. The dance will be formaland, as has been the custom in pastyears, Beaver Club members willusher. No stags will be admitted.

The Senior Dance Committee - asub-committee of the Institute Com-mittee is composed of John R. Cook,chairman, Harry B. Hollander, Ber-

unwritten laws based on commonsense and sense of propriety should,T believe, set a further limit to thisfreedom. To my mind, almost anyissue involving the United States, itsinstitutions, and its people may be nard W. Mehren, and Willard Roper,

all members of the Senior Class.discussed in these letters by writerswith true authority to express theirviews. For writers with less autho-rity (most students), the followingrule seems to be sensible: makingcomments, including defense and con-demnation, on America and thingsAmerican is justifiable when made byonly Americans or, perhaps, visitorswho have lived here for some timeand have a sincere interest in Amer-ica; making comments on a foreigncountry and things about that coun-try is justifiable when: made by onlystudents from that country or some-one else who has lived in that coun-try and has an interest in it. Thisgoes for all and any broad, sweepingstatements or assumptions, and any

knife-in-the-back thrusts prompted bypersonal enthusiasm, that may rufflethe patience of any one group. Inthis cosmopolitan atmosphere, atleast, sallying forth from one's men-tal backyard with malicious or selfishintent should be taboo. Trespassingwould only provoke counter-attacks,calling for further attacks, and soforth, and the above-mentionedwasteresults. Observance of the aboverule, and, in addition, precise readingand thinking twice before replyingwould, I believe, aid in reducing thiswaste.

Japanese Boycott SentimentAsked In Next The Tech Poll[

The Tech wishes to remind itsreaders that their opinion on theJapanese situation will be polledby The Tech inlmnediately. afterthe Christmas vacation.

The poll questions, coveringonly the possibility of applyingeconomic curbs to Japan, will de-termine whether Technology stu-dents are willing to join an un-official boycott of Japanese goods,and whether they favor a Federalembargo on trade with Japan.

Results of the poll will be pub-lished in the first issue of TheTech after the poll.

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