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juniors, almost all of them high offi-cials in student
government, chosenby the retiring members. Notableamong these have
been the Presidentof the Undergraduate Association, thePresident of
the Senior Class, thePresidents of the Dormitory Counciland the
IFC, and the President of theAthletic Association. The
fourteenmembers suggest the fourteen piecesInto which the body of
Osiris was cutafter he was killed by his brother Set,god of
evil.
Sometime in March, candidates formembersh p are invited to
attend aformal dinner and are instructed tomeet at a certain place
garbed in tux-edo, and to tell no one. No further in-
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inals at 2:45 and the final
!'our s at 4:15 p.m.Di Date will be conducted according
t to t MIT debate rules, whereby theteaar can cross-question or
elect to'use futation during the rebuttal pe-
riod. It is expected that ProfessorRost w's latest book,
Prospects forColl' lzunist Chlin~a, will be used free-Yi, t e
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For more than thirty-five years there has existed on the MIT
campus, a secret senior society called Osiris. Thisleast known and
less often mentioned of all student organizations acquires its name
from the ancient Egyptian godof the damned, brother and husband of
Isis, god of the underworld and judge of the dead.
In further description we quote from the 1941 Technique: "If
thre is one organization at the Institute thatthe undergraduate
body rarely encounters, that body is Osiris. Indeed, not even the
members or purposes are knownto the students. The constitution
filed with the Walker Memorial Committee (now Secretariat), gives
some clues,and those of a quizzical nature may find solace in the
information. From that document one can learn that the mem-
bers of Osiris meet twice in the Spring of each year under the
sign of Sirius,
"I sound my barbaric yawp over the Dog-Star, and that there are
only two officers (chosen by lot), Osiris andthe roofs of the
world." Isis. It is known also . . . that the founders were
foresighted enough to writeWalt Whitman, Song of Myself a
constitution that could not be amended."
Think you can reach the great The above is one of the rare
public descriptions ever given. The Constitu-dome? Why not try? The
Tech tion of Osiris has been removed from the files of the
Institute Committee forLiterary Supplement is interested at least
two years, perhaps more, in spite of the fact that constitutions of
allin all your attempts. Send your undergraduate organizations are
required to be deposited there.manuscripts to the Offices of
TheTech, Room 020, Walker Memorial. This secret society for seniors
elects its members in the spring, shortly
_- - - - - after the Class Elections. The membership is composed
of about fourteen
i)ne of the key questions to be con-sidered was that of finding
amplespace for the use of commuting stu-dents. One suggested
solution was toreserve the "blue room" (the room offPritchett
Lounge, where the television6 set is located) for lunch and
recreationa for commuters. In addition, one of thelounges on the
second floor would bereserved as their study room duringi the day,
but it would be available forf meetings on a sign-out basis in
theevening. The main objection to thissetup is that it is expected
to resultI in greater crowds of students and staffin Pritchett and
Morss Hall duringlunch hours.Other changes on the second door
- -vould probably include the addition ofseveral offices in what
is now a largehall between T.C.A. and FacultyLounge.
The biggest change discussed wasthat of moving the offices of
the Ath-letic Association and the Athletic Di-rector to Walker
Memorial. The mostG likely site for these offices would prob-ably
be in Tyier Lounge.
Institute Committee would probablytalke over a little more space
on thefirst floor for files and offices, enablingit to vacate the
subcommittee offices
(Continued on pape 6)The score for the show was writ-
ten by John Hsia, and the script isby Jack Bacon. Mr. Hsia wrote
partof the music for last year's show,and Mr. Bacon collaborated on
thebook and lyrics. Warren Moon, whois one of the singing leads,
has expe-lrienced a great deal of professionalwork. He recently
sang at the Dor-mitory Christmas Formal and will beheard at the
All-Tech Dance.
This is the fiftieth production ofTech Show. The performance
datesof March 11, 12 and 13 will mark thefirst use of the main hall
of the new-ly finished Kresge Auditorium by anyMIT theatrical
group.
The tradition of Tech Show reachesas far back as 1898, when a
group of I formation is given and no questionsstudents decided to
give a minstrell are answered. If an invitation is ac-show in order
Ito raise money forathletics. The show was given in alecture hall
in "Tech onE BoylstonStreet". The idea grew, and finally,a matinee
performance of a minstrelshow was given in the Hollis StreetTheatre
in the Spring of 1899.
For some 18 years thereafter, manyforms of theatrical
entertainmentwere attempted.As a result of expe-rience, the
management of the 1918Tech Show decided that musical com-edy was
the best form for an under-graduate show. This originated a cus-tom
that has been followed eversince.
cepted, the candidate takes part in aseries of intriguing
incidents, both onthat evening and later, some of whichhave been
witnessed. Should a personrefuse on the basis of a previous
en-gagement or because his questions- gounanswered, he never knows
what hemight have experienced that night, forthere is no second
chance. Last year'sinitiates, for instance, had part oftheir
curious initiation in an old houseon Beacon Hill, into which they
wereled blindfolded by the retiring mem-bers just at dusk. The
succeedingmeeting found them participating in
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The following statement has beenmade by the Executive Committee
ofInstitute Committee:
An editorial in The Tech on Feb-ruary 11th disclosed the
existence ofceltain business practices of a ques-tionable ethical
nature in the seniorring contract negotiations which hadnever
previously been called to the
|attention of Institute -Committee.Recognizing that there ale
areas ofethical uncertainty in the method ofcontract negotiations,
and havingformulated, in order to meet this situ-ation, a set of
operational standardsfor the consideration of Institute Com-mittee,
the Executive Committeewould like to dispel any implicationthat
there has been any mishandlingof funds or misconduct by the
RingCommittee. We stand squarely behindthe integrity of the present
Ring Com-mittee and are completely satisfiedthat they have
conducted their affairsin good conscience.
The question of equating price ofrings to quality is a matter of
judg-
ment. We must assume that when theClass selects its Senior Ring
Chair-man it bases its choice upon a trust ofhis personal judgment.
Therefore, al-though we may set standards for prac-tice, Institute
Committee cannot leg-
| islate judgment standards and shouldmake no attempt to do
so.
Eldon H. Reiley, Presidentfor the Executive Committeeof
Institute Committee.
Chairman Eldon H. Reiley 555 re-ported to Inscomm at
yesterday'smeeting in the Schell Room of Build-ing 52 that the
reason recommenda-tions referred to by the Senior Rin-Conmittee
chairman did not come be-fore Institute Committee was that
thewritten report was not handed in toInstitute Committee until
last Friday,after the editorial in The Tech ap-peared. The report
contained norecommendations for Institute Com-mittee action other
than that it be puton file in the Insconim office for theuse of the
next rint chairman, whichhas been the pi ocedui e in the past.
Trophlies which will be presented to winners cf the tenth annual
MIT Debate Tournamentbeing held today and tomorrow on the MIT
campus.
Today and tomorrow, the Institute will play host to 34 schools
in thetent!l annual MIT Invitational Debate Tournament. The
proposition to. beedebsted is: "Resolved: That the United States of
Amelica Should ExtendDipln-natic Recognition to the Communist
Regime of China."
Today, from 4:00 to 9:00 p.m., and tomorrow, from 9:30 a.m. to
12:15P.m-i the four rounds of preliminaries avill' take place in
Building 2. Duringthe oon break, a luncheon is scheduled, at which
the guest of honor will bePro, -ssor W. W. Rostow. of the MIT
Centel for International Studies.
in the tournament by Robert Jordan,'58 and Alexander Belnhard,
'57 de-fending the negative, and by GustavSwanson, '58 and Allen
Tucker, '58upholding the affirmative. Tourna-ment co-chairmen are
Lowell Wilson,'57 and Edward Roberts, '57.
Timekeepers may arrive at 3:45and 6:45 p.m. today, and at
9:15and 11:45 a.m. tomorrow in room 2-131. All members on the
Institutecommunity are invited to the proceed-ings.
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# tctitSestCanges Planned In Wablker
The increasing shortage of space at the Institute was the
subject of ar m -ting held last Monday between representatives of
the student body and ofth Administration.
Discussion at this meeting centered around plans to provide
temporaryaet.--itional space in Walker Memorial. It was pointed out
that these would bem; -ely interim measures, to last a few years
until the Student Union Buildingis -ompleted. No definite plans
were established, although many suggestionsax ·e forthcoming,
several of which are outlined below.
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I.F.C. ElectionsName LuhrmalnnNew President
The Inter-Fraternity Conferenceheld election of officers at its
lastmeeting, held on Wednesday, Febru-ary 16. The new slate of
officers is:President, George Luhrmann, Jr.'56, of Phi Kappa Sigma;
Vice-Presi-dent and Secretary, Harry Pople, Jr.,'56, of Alpha Tau
Omega; Treasurer,Cy Moss, '56, Sigma Alpha Mu.
Jay Schmueeker, '57, of Phi Deltarheta, and Sven Vaule, '56,
Delta Upsi-lon, were elected to the I.F.C. execu-tive committee.
Fred Culick, '56, ofPhi Gamma Delta was elected to
theInvestigations Committee, and willbe the I.F.C. representative
on Jud-comm.
Luhrmann as President of theI.F.C. will sit on Inscomm, along
withthe Fraternity representative as thevoice of the fratel nities
in studentgovernment.
50th Annual Tech ShowTickets on Sale Mffonday
This Monday, February 21, tickets go on sale in the lobby of
Building 10for the annual performance of Tech Show. This year's
production is calledTyde's Crossinge. It is the story of two
present-day Americans who findthemselves in a unique Colonial
cillage under the Charles River.
The show is under the direction of Dr. Preston Munter, who
directed lastyear's show and is presently directing The Crucible.
Dr. Munter is a veteranof many years as director of college shows
at Columbia University in NewYork City.
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The present senior class oficers andthe alumni office have
announced thecomplete revision of permanent classoffices. The
offices of permanent presi-dent and vice-president will remainas
before but the permanent secre-tary's position has been amended to
Iinclude the functions of treasurer.
The person filling this office will
be assisted by an assistant secletary-treasurer. These offices
were broad-
ened in order to provide for the care
of a class treasury of approximatelyten thousand dollars. The
positionsof class marshal have been abolished.This group will be
replaced by a six-man executive comnmittee.
Most important of all the changesperhaps is that affecting the
tenureof the selected officers. They will bepermanent in name
only.
The executive committee ;%vill prob-ably not lead the class in
for com-mencement as the marshals had donein the past. There may,
however, bea special table set aside for the per-manent officers at
the commencementluncheon.
1e - eutive Comzmttee Presents3tatement On Senior -Rings
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To the Editor of Tlte Techi
VOL. LXXV Friday, February 18, 1955 No. 4
Editorial
Calendar of EventsWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23
Acoustics Laboratory. Seminar: "Calculation of Acoustic
Relaxation Time inGases." Mr. Stephen J. Lukasik. Room 20E-225,
4:00 p.m.
Electrical Engineering Department-Cooperative Course VI-A.
Sophomore Ori-entation Lecture by engineers of the Philco
Corporation. Room to beannounced in next Calendar. 4:00 p.m.
Graduate students and fresh-men also welcome.
Electrical Engineering Department. Colloquium: "Modern
Stroboscopic Light.'Prof. Harold E. Edgerton. Room 10-275, 4:00
p.m. Refreshments wiltbe served in the Jackson Room (10-280) at
4:30 p.m.
Hillel Foundation. Regular business meeting. Crafts Lounge, 5:00
p.m.Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. Lecture: "Sketch of
Christ." Jackson Lounge
(10-280), 7:00 p.m.Varsity Hockey Team. Game with Northeastern
University. M.I.T. Hocke, -
Rink, 7:00 p.m.Alpha Phi Omega-Alpha Chi Chapter. Regular
meeting-installation of offi
cers and new constitution. Burton House Radio Room, 7:30
p.m.School of Architecture and Planning. Lecture by Mr. Eero
Saarinen. Roomn
7-437, 8:00 p.m.EXHIBITS
French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist prints are being
featuredin an exhibition to extend through February 27 in the New
Gallery of theCharles Hayden Memorial Library. Hours: Monday
through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 2:00-5:00
p.m.
Photographic Salon prints by Charles H. Tipple of Oneonta,
NewYork, will be on display in the Photo Service Gallery, Basement
of Building11, through February 21.
An exhibition of ceramic sculpture by Prof. Frederick H. Norton
willbe shown in the Faculty Club Gallery through March 14.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
The Calendar of Events appears in THE TECH on Tuesday
withannouncements for the following eight days (Wednesday through
Wednesday).Due to the holiday, notices, typewritten and signed,
must be in the office of theeditor, Room 7-204, ,ot later than noon
on WedneJday prior to the date ofpublication.
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The questions raised by today's front page article strike atthe
very roots of our system of government. We are confrontedon a
college level with a threatening problem-one of which isof national
scope as well: how much information does the publichave the right
to demand of its representatives? Several mem-bers of the present
and past undergraduate body have raised thisquestion in regard to
the organization named, fearing that per-llaps we at the Institute
are missing the benefits of our own gov-ernmental system because of
a denial of the rights of studentsto be informed of the actions of
their representatives. Answeringthe question these men have raised
is not difficult: what is theobjective, why the secrecy, how great
the influence of a clandes-tine society which is composed of the
leaders of student opinionand the heads of the administration and
the faculty-whichmeets regularly during the academic year to
discuss Instituteproblems, yet refuses to divulge the names of its
student mem-bers, the content of its discussions or its
intentions?
Having considered the worth and the desirability of
publiclypresenting what information we have at great length, we
haveconcluded that it is proper that the students be informed of
thesituation that exists.
The men involved in Osiris may claim that their private livesare
being invaded, that their constituents have no cause to ques-tion
them for whatever groups they partake unofficially. Yet
themembership rolls of this organization show an
unquestionabletrend toward the enlistment of almost every power in
studentgovernment. And he who would represent the public must
makehis private life totally apart from his job--or have no
privatelife.
We place this stigma upon the members of the
organization,present and past: We have not published all the long
list of allallegations which have been drawn against this group
over thecourse of many years, for we did not feel that all could be
ade-quately substantiated. Yet we do feel that its members have
beenflagrantly guilty of a blindness, a narrowness of viewpoint, as
tothe fundamental concepts upon which any democracy must stand,and
which the Institute as a leading force in liberal and progres-sive
education should strive for, and be able to realize, more read-
·ily than most social groups.
What these men should never have forgotten is that the ba-sis of
a strong and free society is a well-informed public, andthat an
intelligent society can use its liberty without resortingto
license, can govern itself better than any caucus is able to do.And
unlike a caucus, an informed society cannot possibly degen-erate
into a ruling clique of small men in high office. For we mustbe
always on guard lest good men give way to bad and weak-ness follow
strength.
On these grounds of moral incompatibility with beliefs whichwe
uphold as the best ideals of the mind of, man, and in the lightof
statements of student and administration members of
Osiris-statements which should preclude this organization's
existence,
we respectfully submit to the members of Osiris that the
under-graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are
de-serving of, and entitled to, an explanation of the actions of
theirrepresentatives and of the faculty and administration in
main-taining an organization which can easily discredit the entire
con-cept of underograduate self-determination.
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Dear Sir:-One of the catchwords we hear
much about at Tech is student au-tonomy. Here the students both
indi-vidually and collectively in studentgovernment are given
nearly the fullpowers of free men to run their ownlives and
affairs. I firmly believethat the degree this concept is ful-filled
here has determined thestrength of M.I.T. and converselythat what
authoritarianism remainsis a measure of our weakness.
I possess, as I think do most stu-dents here, the democratic
scientist'sinnate abhorrance for secrets and se-cret societies. You
can appreciatethen my shock and dismay when lastspring I heard
rumors about a se-cret society of prominent studentsand
administration members. Thename of the organization is Osiris.
Ifyou look in the volumes of Teck-nique before 1954 you will see
thatthe active senior members have usu-ally included the Institute
Commit-tee Chairman, the President of theI.F.C., the President of
the Dormi-tory Council and other student lead-ers, as well as such
prominent mem-bers of the administration as thePresident, the Dean
of students, etc.Last year they did not publish thenames of the
senior members.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1955The TechPage Two
MANAGING BOARDGeneral Manager ............................
..................... T. Philip Bryden, '56Editor
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Stephe N. Cohen, '56Managing Editor
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David C. Kleinman. '56Business M anager ..........................
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Robert K aiser, '56
EDITORIAL BOARD)Martin A. Jacobs, '56, Bjorn A. Rossing, '56,
Frank J. Sarno, '56
JUNIORNews .................... Robert H. Rosenbaum, '57Make-up
...................... David A. Appling, '57
Asst. .............................. Ira S. Gerstein,
'58Features .................. Anthony C. Turrisi, '56Sports
.......................... John A. Friedman, '57
Asst ........................ Gerald L. Marwell, '57Co-Photo
............................. Felipe Vicini, '56
Richard W. Bloomstein, '57
BOARDCo Copy ..................Robert G. Bridgham, '57
J. Philip Bromberg, '56Exchange ........................Everett
H. Trop, '57Advertising ..................Martin I. Victor,
'58Treasurer .................... Philip B. Mitchell, '57
Asst .......................... Donald J. Lewis, '57Circulation
.............. Ro ger D. Wollstadt, '58Office Mgr .................
Jacob D. Gubbay, '6
STAFF MEMBERSBenson Chertok '57, Stephen Edelglass '56, Paul
Abrahams '56. Fredric Gordon '56, IBertholdLippel '56, Daniel
Schneider '57, Lee Richardson '50, Myron Schulman '58, Stephen
Auerbach'58 George Myers '58. Adhar Mirchandani '57. David Bentlev
'58. Stanley Shapiro '58,William Cunningham '58, Robert Witonskv
'58. Harris Hvman '"5. Robert Soli '58, HelmutVeymar '8, William
Alston '56, Maurice da Silva Solis '58, Donald Steig '55.
STAFF CANDIDATESSeth Weeks '58. William Daly '58. Roger Kapp
'58. Arthur Schultz '57, Frank FlahertyElliott Myers '58, Dick
Rosen '58, Stanley Fenster '58, Donald C. Aucamp '57.
'56,
SUBSCRIPTION RATESInstitute Mail: $2.25 per year United States:
$2.75 Foreign $3.25
OFFICES OF THE TECHNews, Editorial and Business-Room G20, Walker
Memorial. Cambridge 39, Aiass.Entered as second class matter at the
post office at Boston, Massachusetts.
, MR. LENNARD WHARTONTech '55Room 123D, Burton HouseMass.
Institute of Technoiogy
MR. J. TIMOTHY ANDERSONHarvard '55
Eliof L.22Harvard University
MR. VINCENT R. LARSONHarvard '56Adams 142Harvard University
MR. EDWARD K. McCAGG, IXHarvard '57Winthrop D-21Harvard
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We are student members of the Board of Directors ofthe Harvard
Coope rative Society. Among our responsibi-lities is representing
the Coop in its relations with the staiydent bodies of Harvard and
the Massachusetts tInrstitu eof Technology.
.. We are available at the above addresses, and hope you will
feel free
to bring us any criticisms or suggestions you may have aboutr
the opera-
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then, the organization meets over din-ner and discusses problems
of gen-eral interest to the student and ad-ministration members,
especiallythose before the Institute Committee.The student members
of Osiris arepicked because they are the leadelof student opinion.
Would they beable or willing to oppose a well or-ganized
administration position putforward at one of these
meetings-especially in the light of the admin-istlration members'
further knowledgeand experience, as well as their con-trol of the
students' records and rec-ommendations? Or would the stu-dents be
good fellows and forgetabout it? The rest of the studentbody might
even remain uninformedof the decision.
I have no proof that the organiza-tion has been used for this
purpose,but I .wonder what they have to hidein their secrecy. Does
the administra-tion have views on certain studentissues that call
only be discussed insecret with a few hand-picked stu-
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Osiris(Continued from Page 1)
further ceremonies in the penthouse of100 Memorial Drive, the
home of thelate Dr. Karl T. Compton.
The group meets secretly, often onTuesdays before Institute
Committeemeetings, and is known to discuss cur-lrent problems of
interest to both stu-dents and administration. Past mem-bers
apparently have a standing invi-tation to attend current
meetings,should they be in the vicinity, andmany do.
Through the years it has been thepractice to publish the names
of theretiring student members in Tech-nique, even though all
identities areconcealed during the year in whichthese persons are
active. For the firsttime, however, in the 1954 Tech-nique, these
names were not listed.There is a strong indication that thiswvas
done to secure further the exis-tence and purpose of this
organizationwhich now appears to the casualreader of the yearbook
to have onlymembers of the faculty and adminis-tration on its
roster.
Osiris has, in addition to its dozenor so select seniors, many
importantfaculty and administration membersincluding the Vice
President of theInstitute, the Dean of Students, theBursar, the
Registrar, members of theCorporation, and members of theteaching
staff. The President of theInstitute is known to attend
meetingsalthough he had not been listed as amember up to 1954.
Members aresworn to secrecy and will deny theirassociation with the
group. Almost allof them will disclose no informationconcerning the
organization and somewill go so far as to feign completeignorance
of its existence. However,among the members from the Class of1954
not heretofore publicly disclosed,w'ho attended Osiris meetings
wereDean L. Jacoby, Albert A. Ward, DavidR. Wones, Jack W. Smith,
Samuel J.Losh, David L. Vogel, Wilbur Fiske,Edwin G. Eigel and F.
LawrenceHolmes. Members of the presentgroup from the Class of 1955
whoseidentities are still secret includeamong others, Eldon H.
Reiley, JohnJ. Seiler, W. Chandler Stevens, GlennD. Jackson,
Lennard Wharton, DavidNasatir, Thomas A. Marlow, andDavid B.
Brooks.
In 1940 the question of class honor-ary societies was a major
issue beforethe student body. Then, as now, therewere many students
who seriouslydoubted the purpose and value of suchorganizations
which were, in theireyes, merely self-perpetuating fra-ternal
groups constituted in the nameof "honor." The student body
hadnothing to say as to which of its melm-bers had distinguished
themselves inthe eyes of their classmates and weretruly worthy of
membership. Togetherwith "Q" Club and Beaver Key, Osiriswas under
particular fire, being agroup of student-elected officials meet-ing
in secret over the conference tablewith members of the
administration.In the spring of that year, a generalvote of the
student body was taken onthe question of Class honorary socie-ties
in which those 'voting expressedan overwhelming opinion against
thesegroups. The vote, however, was voidedby the Institute
Committee on thegrounds that an insufficient number ofballots had
been east. Thus these or-ganizations, Osiris aniong them,
existtoday.
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1Ike Geiger: Seven Years Of ProgressDuring His Tenure As
Athletic DirectorHis Goal Was To Give Each Student The Opportunity
To ParicipateFreely In Athletic Activities Which Contribute To His
Education
Ivan J. Geigcr, late Director (of Athletics at the Institute,
who died of ahcart attack Jan. 18, 1955. MIT's first Athletic
Director, he was largely re-svoonsible for the cxpan.ioi. of the
intercollegiate and intramural programsin, the last. few years.
During hi.s tenure in office the Rockwell Cage, theSkating Rink,
the Tennis Courts, and other facilities were added to
Instituteproperty. He was a leading figure in New 'Englanl and
National Athletics.
'p: New Slating Rintk; Middle: Athletic Board showing structure
ofthe 'letic Association; Bottom: New Basketball Floor in Rockwell
Cage.ITh: atrng Rink and Cage Floor are two of the rmst recent
additions to?snI .'e Athletic facilities.
"Our MIT sports program is nearly unique inthis country, in its
amateur spirit, its wide stu-dent participation in expansive
intercollegiate,intramural, and recreational program, and inthe
extent of student administrative opportuni-ties offered by a strong
undergraduate athleticassociation."
JAMES R. KILLIAN, JR.Ike Geiger, in his seven years at the
Institute,
did more for this program than any other per-son. His philosophy
of athletics brought theprinciple of amateurism to its logical
extreme,and his work in the development of an intra-mural program
second to none and in the ex-pansion of athletic facilities made
the dream ofsports for everyone a reality.
Ike felt that it was feasible as well as desir-able to conduct
an athletic program aimed atthe majority rather than the minority,
in whichthe philosophy, aims and objectives are not onlycompatible
but also in complete accord with andsupplementary to academic
philosophy, aimsand objectives. He was an enthusiastic sup-porter
of student management as valuable tothe participant through the
development ofleadership and a sense of responsibility. He
wasalways on guard against overemphasis, realiz-ing that it breeds
professionalism and in thelong run warps the goals of an
educational in-stitution, substituting athletic prestige for
in-tellectual achievement.
PhilosophyThis is not to say that he considered inter-
collegiate competition unimportant and victoryundesirable. He
felt that ".... athletic compe-tition, competition to win, benefits
the studenteducationally as well as physically. Consequent-ly,
intercollegiate athletic competition is -re-garded as a privilege
to be extended to all stu-dents, certainly not to be restricted to
a fewhirelings as is the case in some institutions."Ike thought
that the charging of admission wascommercialization and that it was
accompaniedby evils not compatible with his goal of educa-tional
athletics. He called it a "vicious inconsis-tency" and attacked the
attempts of adminis-trators who tried to rationalize this
"commer-cialization" by claiming its value in public re-lations and
athletic prestige.
Amateurism was his theme. He did not be-lieve the athletic
program should support itself,that athletic scholarships should be
awarded orthat students be obligated or induced to partici-pate in
athletics by granting of special favorsof any kind. Instead, he
agreed with the tradi-tional Institute policy of awarding financial
aidto all worthy students.
In a memorandum to Dr. D. L. Farnsworth,then acting Dean of
Students, he set forth hisideas on the objectives of collegiate
athletics."Participation in athletics," he wrote, "mustoffer
opportunity to the individual to meet situ-ations with growth in
personal and social at-tainment for all members of the group."
Thesatisfaction experienced in any form of sportscompetition and
the attainment of carry-overskills which will bring enjoyment to
the studentin later life, often forgotten in this day of
thespectator and vicarious as opposed to activeparticipation, were
among his goals. For today'syouth, who, in this time of progress
and highstandards of living, have been called the mostunfit
physically America has ever produced, herecommended athletics.
These were the ideas of this man, who in hisrelatively short
tenure as an athletic director,climbed to the heights of his
profession. To puthis ideas in practice at MIT, a new programwas
needed.
GrowthWhen Ike came to the Institute in September
of 1948, he found MIT in a period of growth.The West Campus
Development plan was in itsembryo stage. In the next year Baker
House wasbuilt and Burton House acquired. Athletic ac-
tivity was centered about Barbour Field House,the Alumni Pool
and Walker Memorial Gym-nasium. Technology Field still occupied
what isnow the East Parking lot. The intramural pro-gram was small.
Beaver Key Society sponsoredsome seventy-five intramural contests
in threesports.
If sports for all was to be the goal, then intra-mural sports
were the key to its attainment.Ike put them into the hands of the
Athletic As-sociation and engineered the enlargement of theprogram
from three sports to its present totalof thirteen. Participation
has trebled while thenumber of contests held has risen from
seventy-five to over nine hundred.
The addition of volleyball, bowling, table ten-nis, swimming,
tennis, squash, track, sailing,badminton and hockey to the previous
big threeof touch football, basketball and softball has in-creased
the scope and the appeal of the pro-gram. This entire program is
student run andstudent planned. The Intramural Vice-Presi-dent, who
heads the A. A. machinery initiatedby Professor Geiger, is
responsible for all intra-mural sports, carrying out the policies
laiddown by the Executive Committee and himself,initiating policies
beneficial to intramural ath-letics, and the intramural council is
the govern-ing body of the sports.
FacilitiesThe plan for increased participation and the
growth of the athletic program necessitated asimilar increase in
facilities. The plans for WestCampus development and the new West
Campusdormitories indicated a similar move by theathletic
department.
The acquisition of Rockwell Cage from thegovernment was one of
Ike's major accomplish-ments. He negotiated with the Army (it
wasformerly located at an Army training camp inthe South),
purchased it at an almost unbe-lievably low price, had it
disassembled andtransported to Cambridge by barge and erectedat its
present West Campus site. The basketballcourt at Walker Memorial
was woefully inade-quate and Ike, after several years of vain
at-tempts, obtained the necessary funds, andsecured the new
basketball floor. The hockeyrink, obtained through alumni donations
washis last physical acquisition. For the rink, heinstituted a
schedule which is by far the mostliberal to be found at any
college, devoting theoverwhelming majority of time to general
skat-ing.
We all too often feel that there is an inevit-able dichotomy
between athletics and academics.Ike Geiger was a rare example, an
educator inthe field of athletics who sought to synthesizeacademics
and athletics into the long soughtideal, the education of the whole
man.
The Intramural Council of the Athletic Association,.Both an
extensive intramural program And studentmanagement of the A.A. were
among Professor Geiger'scontributio,u to Institute athletics. The
IntramuirolCouctil controls thirteen different sports in whichl
j.o)teams consisting of close to 2500 men compete.
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fresh-man basketball team looked a littlerusty in losirig to a good
Andovercontingent, 64 to 54. The game, play-ed in Rockwell Cage
yesterday after-noon, was marked by extremely poorshooting from the
floor by bothteams and by the phenomenal foulshooting record of the
visitors, whosank 20 of 24.
Andover took an 18 to 9 lead earlyin the game, and the Beavers
werenever able to overtake them. The en-gineer starting lineup of
Al Hur-kamp at center, Ahren Sadoff andDave Larson at the forwards,
andPaul Larson and Myron Shulman atguards, along with substitute
guardsPaul Repetto, Hank Moesta, andJohn Boynton were able to
choponly one point off the visitors' leadin the second quarter, and
the halfended, Andover 36, M.I.T. 28. Thesecond half followed the
same pat-tern, .with Andover finally winningby ten points. Paul
Larson led theBeavers with 14 points as Tech se-riously missed the
services of MacJordan and Dave Rachofsky, whowere unable to be
excused from lab,and John Irwin, who was out withan infected
knee.
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Club Room as a student govern'nezt
workroom, in which would be lo atedduplicating equipment and so
for ,e.
It should be emphasized that -II ofthese ideas are merely
suggesti0,~for further consideration. A cor. mit.tee of three
representatives of th( Ad.ministration and five students hasbeen
set up to continue the inve.r tiga.tion and attempt to draw up
10rconcrete plans.
After a close first half the M.I.T.basketball team had a hot
second halfand edged out Lowell Tech Tuesdaynight by six points.
The game, playedat Rockwell Cage, was originally be-lieved to have
been canceled, but thesudden notice proved to be no disad-vantage
to the engineers who wontheir third straight and raised
theirseason's record to an even 7-?.
Lowell opened the scoring but Jack
Britt, '55, broke the ice to tie thegame at 2-2. With Gift
Weber, '55,leading the way, the engineers Jump-ed into a 10-2 lead,
then Lowell ral-lied to tie it up 12-12. From there itwas a see-saw
battle throughout theremainder of the first half with MIThaving a
slight edge most of theway. The engineers left the courtwith a slim
36-34 lead although theywere outplayed on the floor by theinspired
Lowell squad. Lowell hadmore shots but was unable to hit asthey
made only 30%o of their shotswhile MIT hit 39%. Center Dee Ver-gun,
'56, and forwards Larry Hal-lee, '56 and Weber led the way asthey
cleared both boards well andcarried the scoring load.
Lowell opened the second half.witha fast goal to tie the score
again at36-36 and added a free throw tosurge to a 37-36 lead. After
an ex-change of goals Weber hit two fastjump shots and a foul shot
to giveMIT a 44-41 lead and Vergun hittwo charities but Lowell
fought backagain to tie it up with two goalsand a free throw. This
was the sev-enth time the score had been tied,but it marked the
beginning of theend for Lowell as the engineers sud-denly hit a hot
streak. Phil Platz-man, '56, hit a free throw and Weberhit two more
jump shots beforeLowell got two. Weber came throughwith another
falling jump and Ber-nie Benson, '56, and Weber hit fromthe feld
with Platzman adding an-
MIT 65, LOWELL 59
other as MIT suddenly had a 58-48 lead. Lowell got two but the
engi-neers were still driving as Vergunhit again from the field and
Halleehit three from the line. Benson add-ed two more as MIT
finished out itsscoring and held a commanding 65-52 lead. Lowell
rallied but the timehad run out and the engineers coast-ed to
victory.
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Fencers OutduelStrong Harvard'in Close Match
The amazing Cardinal and Grayvarsity fencing team continued
itswinning ways last night as themaskedmen edged out
perenniallypowerful Harvard, 14 to 13, inWalker Memorial. This
victory tag-ged the Tech duelers as the rankingteam in the East,
since they hadpreviously defeated the only otherexceptionally
powerful contingent inthe East, Boston University, by anidentical
14 to 13 score. This markstheir eighth straight win out of
theirfirst nine starts, having lost only toCornell in the season's
opener.
M.I.T., starting very poorly, wononly three of their initial
nine foilxnatches, with co-captain, Frank Dav-enport, '55, taking
two of the threepoints. The next-event, however, thesaber match,
was handily won byM.I.T. by a score of 8 to 1. With al-most certain
defeat facing them, theCrimson team fought back to a 12all tie,
only to fall one point behindin the next match,. With ,io back
tothe wall, M.I.T.'s Bristol camethrough in a record 20-minute
con-test to beat Harvard.
The Harvard victory followed winsover Bradford Durpee last
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against New Hampshire.
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Engi-neerirng this summer from Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical
Col-lege at Stillwater, Okla. He is president of the local student
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The Engineer hockey team, after a rocky start on its sixteen
game schedule, beat a scrappy University of New
Hampshire sextet 3-2 for its second consecutive victory. P
laying on their own rink, the red-hot Beavers were a vastly
improved team from the squad that lost six games during December
and January. As the score indicates, the con-
test was close until the final buzzer. The Beavers scored first
at 19:22 of the first period only to lose the lead in the
second period on two New Hampshire scores. The Engineers tied
the score at 2-2 at 18:26 of the second period and
the winning marker came midway in the third period.Both teams
passed well in the first period but neither could score because of
good defensive play and goal tending.
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the puckout of the corner, fed John Sullivan'56 in front of the
cage, and Sullie,after faking the goalie out of posi-tion, scored.
The goal came at 12:14and gave the Beavers a slim 3-2 leadwhich
they never relinquished. SandyAitken '56 thwarted the Wildcats
dur-ing the rest of the period as he leapedon several loose pucks
in front of thenets. The WiIdcats in desperationpulled out their
goalie and operatedwith four linemen until they sustaineda penalty
at 19:14.
Defense OutstandingBeaver defensemen Nick DiBona '55
and Captain Harold Wells '55 did afine job in stopping the
visitors' of-fense. John Sullivan again proved toomuch for enemy
defensemen. He car-ried the puck rimbly through the de-fense
several times in addition to scor-ing the decisive marker of the
game.
The Beavers travel to westernMassachusetts tomorrow to meet
Am-herst at 2:00 p.m. On Sunday after-noon the Engineers meet the
Alumnion the Tech rink in their annual en-counter.
Tech dominated the puck and openedthe scoring at 19:22 on a shot
by WaltBachman '56 assisted by Gus Schwartz'56 and Fred Culick '56.
The Wildcats'Rube Hall tied the score at 8:12 of thesecond period
assisted by John Stiles.Stiles clipped the corner of the netsat
17:22 to give the visitors a short-lived 2-1 lead. At 18:26 Stu
Patterson'57 took a pass from Bev Goodison '57and rocketed an angle
shot by theUNH goalie. With less than two min-utes remaining in the
period a meleeoccurred and a major penalty wasgiven to each
team.
Sullivan Notches ClincherAfter several futile attempts by
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Squashmen BowTo Amherstt 7-2On Tech Courts
Playing on their home courts onTuesday, MIT's varsity squash
teamreceived a 7-2 beating at the handsof a well-balanced Amherst
squad.Tech's only winners were sophomoresHowie Cohen and Tom Thomas
play-ing numbers two and six respectively.Both victories were in
full five gamematches. In the other matches, ReneMendes de Leon,
'55 lost 3-2, WaltStahl, '56, Gordie Bruggeman, '55,and Bob
Millard, '55 lasted fourgames, and Rae Morales, '55, DonSteig, '55,
and Al Hahn, '56 lost instraight games.
The scores follow:1. Herd (A) d. Morales 15-5, 15-6,
15-13.2. Cohen d. Mac)ougall (A) 15-14,
7-15, 10-15, 15-11, 15-9.3. Gadsby (A) d. Stahl 15-7, 10-
15, 15-10, 15-13.4. Wiedmann (A) d. Steig 15-7, 15-
13, 15-5.5. Dillon (A) d. Hahn 15-12, 15-10,
15-5.6. Thomas d. Ooms (A) 4-15, 15-7,
12-15, 15-12, 15-12.7. MacDonald (A) d. Bruggeman
15-11, 18-16, 11-15, 15-13.8. Robins (A) d. Mendes de Leon
15-5, 9-15, 9-15, 15-13, 15-11.9. Hicks (A) d. Millard 15-17,
15-
11, 15-10, 15-8.
What typeof training
program doesDu Pont have?
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dents? If the organization is a meansfor student-administration
communi-cations, why is this negated by se-crecy? Is the secrecy
some sort ofjuvenile fun or are the mnembersashamed of Osiris? Is
this tht: invis-ible government of M.I.T.? Are im-portant policies
on matters such asfraternity discrimination and openhouse hours
determined here to berubber-stamped by student govern-ment? These
are questions I wouldlike to see answered and the reasonsI feel it
my duty through this meansto inform other students of this
pow-erful force in student affairs.
F. Eugene Davis, IV. '55.
Feb. 15, 1955.
Editor's Note: The following open
letter to the MIT student body is
published at the request of Tech
Show.
To The Student Body:Advance reservations for blocks of
seats to Tech Show '55 have beenopen during the past week and
willbe accepted until 5:00 p.m. Saturdayafternoon, February 19, at
the TechShow office, Building 18. This privi-lege is available to
all the studentbody. No groups of fewer than 20tickets can be
handled at present. Be-cause it is impossible to fill small or-ders
first, and split large groups upto fit into the remaining seats,
thelarger orders will be filled first, andconsequently will
probably get pref-erence in location. All reservationsmust be
redeemed on Monday, Feb-ruary 21, or they will be put on gen-eral
sale on Wednesday, February 23.General sales will begin on
February21, on a first-come-first-serve basis.In placing orders, be
sure to specifyalternate dates and prices. We can--not seat the
entire Institute on Sat-urday night.
Thomas S. Doherty, Jr.
General ManagerTech Show 1955
February 18, 1955
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