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'VOL. V. BOSTON, OCT. 21, 188. NO. 1. .--- .------,'------~- - I ------much to do in the way of improving the maga- Published on alternate Wednesdays, during the school year, by the zine. But it is for another kind of support that students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. THE TECH must more than ever before look for BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 1885-86, this year. It is in the line of literary contribu- JAS. E. SIMPSON, '86, Pres. I WA. H. CHADBOURN. Jr., '86. tions. The men who have heretofore done H. C. SPAULDING, '87, Sec. EDWIN O. JORDAN, '88. T. W. SPRAGUE, '87, Treas. I -- , '89. most of the writing for THE TECH have now grad- EDITORS. uated, and we must have others to take their W. R. INGALLS, '86, rEdior-inz-Chief. places. It is impossible for the editors to do all ALBERT E. LEACH, '86. F. M. WAKEFIELD, '87. CHAS. H. WOODBURY, '86. , '87. of the literary, in addition to the purely editorial, WILLIAM M. TAYLO, '866. FRANCS L. V. HOPPIN,'88. BENJ. C. LANE, '87. -- , '89. work of the paper, so we must count upon out- THEODORE STEBBINS, '86, Adv. Agt. side contributions. Subscription, $2.00 per year, in advance. Single copies, i5 cts. each. To the Juniors and Freshmen, particularly, we will say that there is still an editor to be chosen FRANK WOOD, PRINTER, 352 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON. from each of these classes. The men best qual- ified for the positions will be selected, and hence -.1 .-, -,." -- "-'. ,, we invite competition for the places. In conclusion, we ask again ;. ['~~'?<.
2 TTHEE TECH. ·' ·i well-trained glee clubs, which never think of not be a class affair, but must have the united ;,r dying out. Let us try and make the M. I. T. G. C. support of all classes. We wish that the editors a permanent one. If only for the credit of the had chosen a more original name than Tech- thing, let the members who remain, and all nique, but, realizing the difficulty in selecting a others musically inclined, do all in their power title for a new publication, we shall not criticise i, to stir up interest in the matter, reorganize and in this direction. The book will be published b4rC fill up their ranks, and it is safe to say they will in December, and, in form and contents, will be T - receive the hearty indorsement of all. similar to the annuals of other colleges. ii The editors of the Technique have our best j~HE prospect of our foot-ball team, this wishes for success. year, is most encouraging. The old foot- ball association being defunct, a new one has S this number will reach a good many who been formed in its stead, which, so far, has have never seen THE TECH before, a word shown itself to be very wide-awake and enter- about the cartoons and initials will not be out of prising. It has been proposed by the associa- place. We are dependent for them on the stu- tion to form a Northern New England foot-ball dents, and it is earnestly hoped that all who can hi,.s. , league, to include Amherst, Williams, Tufts, and draw, will make the effort. The drawings are to Dartmouth Colleges, and the Massachusetts In- be made on smooth, white paper, in india ink, so I, stitute, and an account of the proceedings of the that the lines will be regular and even. Wed- convention held at Springfield, to take action ding bristol-board is good for the purpose. upon the subject, is given elsewhere. Not for Above all, the ink must be ground perfectly several years has so much -interest been shown black; a failure in this respect will utterly in foot-ball, at the Institute, as at present, a spoil the work. All drawings should be accom- large number of men having been trying for the panied by the name of the artist, as without it team. Nearly all of last year's eleven are here none can be accepted. % this year, and it will be greatly strengthened by iP some new additions. The team is to go into N an institution of t'ie size of the Institute, strict training, and will probably have a trainer. the students patronize a wide list of business view of this encouraging outlook, it is the In firms. To some, in particular, we give a sub- duty of all to give good support to the team, stantial support. It is the aim to have our both by subscriptions and by attending the advertising columns contain those firms thus games. Since the team have showed their in- patronized; and, in addition, they contain those tention to try to do something, none will now who would solicit business. We intend to have have the excuse for not subscribing, that the in each line of business representative firms, eleven themselves did not have any interest in and can thoroughly recommend such as appear the games. Foot-ball is a grand good game, in our columnins. To the entering students of and let all do whatever they can to make it a this year we would call particular attention to success at the Institute. the above.
HE Junior class is to institute a custom here, fYR. N. C. DRAPER, '86, has resigned his which has long been needed, and which we position on the Board of Directors of THE hope the lower classes will take care to continue. TEcH, having left the Institute; and Mr. W. H. We refer to the publication of the Junior annual. Chadbourn, Jr., '86, has been elected, by his Although such a thing has been talked of before, class, to his place. Messrs. W. M. Taylor, '86, it has remained for the class of '87 to undertake and F. L. V. Hoppin, '88, have been elected it, and we hope that they will succeed in their editors of THE TECH, and begin their duties attempt. To insure its success, the annual must with this number. 11'ri- n 3 THE TECH. S Singing Sands. the extreme high-water mark; but within that UNTIL quite recently, but two of the so- limit there are patches, here and there, closely contiguous to the called "singing-beaches" were known to musical portions, which are exist--one in Europe, and the other at Man- silent. The beach terminates in ledges of feldspathic chester-by-the-Sea, Mass. Within the last few rocks, which are intersected by years, however, the attention of scientific men numerous dikes. having been called to this subject, it has been The most information on this subject has found that their existence is far more common been contributed by Prof. J. C. Bolton, before than was at first supposed. In the early part mentioned, and Prof. A. A. Julien, of the Co- of I884, the superintendents of the various life- lumbia School of Mines. The facts, as far as saving stations on our sea-coast were instructed known, are these: the singing sand may occur to furnish samples of this sand, wherever found, in comparatively small patches in the midst of and twenty-six specimens, from as many differ- ordinary sand; it always occurs between the ent places, were received. It is said that the limits of low tide and extreme high tide; the number of American localities has now been in- same sand does not produce sounds at all sea- creased to seventy-four, while in foreign coun- sons, nor does it always give forth like sounds; tries it has been reported in thirteen places. when wet they do not emit sounds, and fre- Singing sands derive their name from the quently become quicksands. It was also no- noise which they produce when walked upon, ticed that samples of this sand when transported or otherwise disturbed. The sound is one of in bags lost its sonorous property, but retained low pitch and intensity, and may be likened to it when sent in bottles. a subdued crunching; it is shrill, but not metal- Of course, many theories have been advanced lic, nor crackling. The sound is slightly per- to explain this peculiar property of certain sands, ceptible when the sand is merely stirred by the but, to the knowledge of the writer, no satisfac- hand, is made quite audible by the pressure of tory one has yet been offered. It was first said the foot in walking on it, and is much intensi- that it was caused by a thin film of salt depos- fied by drawing a board or plank over it. Prof. ited around the particles of sand by the waves, Bolton, of Trinity College, Hartford, who two which being pressed gave forth the sounds pre- years ago began the study of this subject, states viously described. This theory was exploded that by simply driving a stick into the sand of when sand having the same property was found the beach at Manchester, a sound was evoked, on the shores of bodies of fresh water. Like which, by actual measurement, could be heard many other inexplicable phenomena, this has one hundred and forty feet, even with the noise also been ascribed to electricity. Some inves- of the surf breaking on the beach. Without tigators say, that it is. because of the friction of doubting this statement, it will not be out of flat and angular surfaces of the component par- place to say that, upon the occasion when this ticles of sand; while others say, in addition, that measurement was made, all conditions must there must be a certain proportion between the have been very favorable for the transmission quartz and feldspar grains. There are several of the sound. other theories, but the evidence seems to best The singing beach at Manchester is about agree with the last. one fifth of a mile in length. The sand is Prof. Julien considers that the conditions of coarse, and compact even when dry. The sonorousness in sands are: perfect dryness, uni- grains of sand are more angular - quite a pro- formity of grain, ranging from one fifth to one portion of them are flat - than the ordinary tenth of an inch in diameter, and freedom from beach sand, and are mostly pure, glassy quartz, dust. . He thinks that any sand satisfying these the others being feldspar. The sonorous phe- conditions may be musical. Exception might nomenon is shown only by the sand lying below be taken to the last statement. 4 4 TTHE TECT1H.
Sonorous sands are now known to be widely worthless fellow of the village, who was sus- distributed throughout the world. They have pected of being a poacher between the inter- been found on the coast of Scotland and the vals of his drunken spells, confirmed the belief Hebrides; on the coast of California, in Nevada, by an account of his own experience there. and on the northwest shore of Lake Champlain; His story was, that on the evening in question along the shores of the Caribbean Sea, where, he happened to be passing the house on his in some places, it is said to be as loud as the way home from Grenwitz, a neighboring village, barking of a dog, and in several places in Asia. whistling to keep up his courage, when he no- The phenomenon is, therefore, widely extended. ticed a glimmer of light through the cracks in W. R. I. the shutters before the cellar windows. Much startled by this appearance, all the ghostly ru- A Shrewd Device. mors about the place passed through his head El FTER the power of Prussia had been so in an instant, and his first impulse was to make thoroughly broken by the first Napoleon his way from the place as soon as possible, but in the battles of Jena and Auerstadt, the Prus- his curiosity overcoming his fears and his discre- sians set secretly to work to retrieve their mis- tion, he cautiously approached the window and fortune. As a means toward this end a secret looked through a crack in the shutter. He had society, known as the Tugendbund, was formed, not looked long, however, before he started off whose members were chiefly professors and stu- at full speed for the village, and did not slack up dents of the universities. As the people of the for a moment until safe at the villageinn, where country had been disarmed by their conquerors, his sudden and precipatory appearance and pale one duty of the society was to secretly supply face caused great commotion among the com- them with arms and ammunition. These had pany assembled there. After his fear had been to be smuggled in from England and other allayed by the presence of so many friends, and friendly countries, and, since the French troops, he had recovered breath, lost in so long a run, who garrisoned the towns, kept a strict surveil- he told his story. lance over them, it was necessary to employ When he had peered through the shutters, many shrewd devices to prevent discovery. he said, he had looked into a long, low room, In the midst of a forest near the little village which must have extended out beyond the of Waldheim, and far from the highway, stood a house, and underground, for the window was at large, lonely building, long since deserted by a corner of the house, and opened into the upper all except the owls and bats which had taken end of the room. He could only just see one their abode there, and half fallen into ruins from corner of the further end of the room, but there age and lack of repairs. It had originally been he plainly beheld two black coffins, standing on built and occupied as a hunting-lodge by an end, before each of which a candle was burning. owner of the estate, a part of which the forest On the fronts were inscribed some white letters, was. In late years it had been inhabited only which he could not read. Greatly amazed at by the forester and his son, and since one this sight he now, without making any noise, morning when they had been found murdered changed his position so that he could look into in their beds, nobody had lived there. Its the upper end of the cellar. There, at a table lonely location and desolate appearance kept on which two candles were burning, was seated people from visiting the place, and it is not a man with long white hair and beard, appar- strange that it soon won the reputation of be- ently reading some papers, though, as his back ing haunted; at least, that was the current belief was turned, Berger was not quite sure what he among the good people of Waldheim. Never- was doing Forgetting himself for the moment, theless, they had no absolute proof of this until Berger slipped and struck the shutter, causing one day when one Heinz Berger, an idle and it to rattle violently. The man at the table 'Irl-lu 'TFE1101-. 5 THE _1___1__1_TC5 -I hastily jumped up, while another man, whom he The next day Berger's mysterious tale was had not seen before, came hurrying from the the gossip of the village; for in the morning, other end of the room, a pistol in hand. Berger farmer Kuhn, who had been honestly trying to stopped to look no longer, but made for the vil- keep his promise, finally gave up the contest, lage with his best speed. and told the story to his wife, and Frau Kuhn When he had finished his story no one said a had naturally told it to her dearest friend - and word, from sheer amazement. Miller Schmidt after that it was an open secret. was the first to break the silence. Now, it chanced that on this same day, a " How came you to be passing there, anyway, party of French soldiers, under the command at this time of night? That is not the nearest of a lieutenant, who were on their way to join way from Grenwitz." their regiment in a neighboring town, passed Berger, in no condition to lie now, told the through the village. Stopping at the tavern truth, and said that he had been hunting in the for refreshment, the story of the event of the forest, and had dropped his gun on his flight. night before of course reached the ears of the "Do you think they were ghosts?" asked officer. When he had finished his dinner he another. called for his orderly, and sent him to find "Pooh! who ever heard of ghosts having pis- Berger, which was soon done, since the latter, tols, and reading papers, and having to have as usual, was then at the tavern. Having pre- candle-light to see by! ' retorted farmer Kuhn, sented himself, he was directed to show the who was well versed in ghost lore. way to the forester's house; and, notwithstand- "I don't believe the story is true, at all," ing his objections, the lieutenant, sergeant, and sai(l young Berkau, "for I went all over the old two other soldiers soon after proceeded thither. place last year, and there is no such room in under his guidance. the cellar as the one he speaks about. For my " Now show me the window into which you part, I think Berger must have been frightened looked," said the lieutenant, after they had at one of his own drunken dreams." arrived at the house. "That may be so," replied Schmidt; "but I " I can't do it, your honor," answered Berger; he tells his story plainly enough, and he ought " when I was here last night, I was so fright- to know what he himself has seen, and he looks ened that I did not notice which one it was. sober enough now." It was on this side, though." So they discussed the matter further, without The party entered the house with no trouble, arriving at any satisfactory explanation of the since the door had long ago been torn from its story. When, however, at a late hour, they hinges, and looked about. It was not safe to were about to depart for their homes, the walk around very recklessly, on account of the bailiff, Sommer, the magistrate of the village, holes in the rotton planks, which were the re- a shrewd man, whose advice was much re- mains of the floor, and the d6bris with which spected by all the townfolk, addressed them: they were covered. At length a hatchway "My friends," he said, "this may be all im- was found which led to the cellar. All looked portant matter, and I am sure that it will be for dark and indistinguishable below, but candles the best that you say nothing about it; there- having been lighted, Berger, in spite of his re- fore I wish you to promise me to keep it to luctance, was made to go down first, and the yourselves." others followed. Search showed nothing suspi- All promised, and then went their ways to cious here, and at the corners of house on the their respective homes. But Sommer, when he side which Berger had approached the night had reached his house, instead of stopping before, only two small rooms were found, and there, continued on to the deserted lodge in no such alartment as the one he had described. the forest. These rooms, unlike the rest of those in the cel- 6 THE TECH. lar, were paneled, but this fact attracted no spe- that gave a Freshman ball" shall have faded cial attention. Just as they we about to leave, into oblivion. The Institute has long needed however, one of the men accidentally stubbed something corresponding to "Class Day" at his foot against the paneling. It gave forth a other colleges- something that should throw a hollow sound. The partition was quickly torn mantle of festive forgetfulness and good-fellow- away, and the party found themselves in a long ship over the toils and tribulations of the last vault, at the end of which was dimly seen a four years, and from the good start already double row of black coffins. One of them was made, we trust will grow the great event of the pushed over by the sergeant, and fell on the year--a celebration as comprehensive and at- floor with a metallic rattle. tractive as the exactions of fourth-year work "These are the ones," said the lieutenant; will permit. and bursting open the coffin, it was found to be The programme of the affair was a work of filled with muskets. The others had the same art by itself. The front contained a representa- contents. tion of sundry cherubs in student caps, throwing By this device the muskets had been gradu- up the latter for joy at their emancipation, and ally smuggled from foreign countries by the piling up their ponderous books around a life- Tugendbund, and transported hither, to be like sketch of the class tree, to which one of the stored until the time for their distribution number was nailing the figures "'85." One of should come. Herr Sommer, who was a mem- the aforesaid books contained on its back the ber of the Tugendbund, and who knew of the word "' Homer," which we hope did not delude secret cellar at the deserted house, had pro- the many guests of the class into the impression posed that as a hiding-place. Members of the that the study of that classic author Was pur- society had been at the house on the previous sued at the Institute, as the "title" was simply night, when seen by Berger, preparing to re- the name of the talented designer of the pro- ceive a fresh lot of arms. Warned of their gramme--Mr. E. B. Homer. The front also danger by Sommer, they had replaced the pan- contained a fine picture of Rogers building, eling between the two cellars, and fled, and with Kidder in the background. The back not having time to remove the guns, had left depicted the class prophet, historian, and poet them, trusting to the hiding-place for their following the musician and standard-bearer in safety. It seemed that the French commander solemn file. The whole was gotten up in the of the district had heard of the scheme, and choicest style of engraving, and contained, detailed the lieutenant to investigate. The lat- beside a full list of the members of the class ter was just returning from an unsuccessful association, of its committee and officers, the search, when he blundered into the secret in following programme: - this manner. A.R. OVERTURE . · ...... Quintette. "Seniors' Evening." SONG ...... Glee Club. . HISTORY ...... F. H . N ewell. . IN event, which took place on the first day ZITHER SOLO . . . . . E. Richardson. . .R of last June, the evening POEM . . . . C. S. Robinson. .. before gradua- SONG ...... H. J. Williams. . tion day, under the title of " Seniors' Evening," FLUTE SOLO ...... E . 3B.H om er. was, we venture to prophesy, a good beginning, PROPHECY ...... R. H. Peirce. which will lead to repetitions improving without SONG . . . . Glee Club. ... ending. At the first attempt, and a very success- With the exception of the Glee Club and the ful one, to take something more than a formal first violin of the quintette,- Mr. E. R. Pear- parting of our honored Alma Mater, it will per- son, '87,--all the performers rose from the petuate the memory of the class of '85 long after ranks of the class, and every number was well their proud (?) distinction as "the last class given, the majority of the musical selections TrHE TE CH . 7
- being encored, and the readings provoking vio- Application for admission to the Association lent applause from the initiated. Mr. Robinson was made by delegates representing the State feeling unable to read his poem, it was deliv- Agricultural College of Amherst, but was re- ered by Mr. Fry, the late editor-in-chief of THE fused, a unanimous vote being required for ad- TECH. Huntington Hall was crowded with the mission. A schedule of games was then drawn guests of the graduates, and all seemed well up, each team to play two games with each pleased with the entertainment, whose unquali- other. The schedule is as follows:--- fied success was largely due to the committee, Oct. 17. Tufts vs. Williams, at Williamstown. Messrs. Chas R. Richards, Eleazer B. Homer, Oct. 24 Tech. vs. Williams, at Williamstown. Thos. W. Fry, Morris L. Greeley, and Sidney Oct. 24. Tufts vs. Amherst, at Amherst. Oct. 27. Tech. vs. Tufts, at Boston. Williams. Oct. 3I. Williams vs. Amherst, at Williamstown. Nov. 6. Williams vs. Tufts, at Boston. Foot- B all. Nov. 7. Williams vs. Tech., at Boston. Nov. i I. Tech. vs. Tufts, at Boston. HE new Foot-ball Association of the Insti- Nov. I3. Amherst vs. Tufts, at Boston. tute has been organized as follows: Presi- Nov. I4. Amherst vs. Tech., at Boston. dent, P. R. Fletcher, '87; Secretary and Treas- Nov. 17. Amherst vs. Williams, at Amherst. Tufts, (Exhib.) at Boston. urer, Henry D. Sears, '87; Manager of Team, Nov. 17. Tech. vs. Nov. 2I. Tech. vs. Amherst, at Amherst. W. L. Dearborn, '88; Executive Committee, The following are the changes made in the P. R. Fletcher (chairman), J. M. Smith, jr., '86, playing rules, as revised by W. Camp:-- '88; Mor- S. W. Bowles, '87; W. L. Dearborn, Add to rule IV. A touch in goal shall be a gan, '89. touch-down. have been selected to The following men Omit rule XVI. Vorce, Ladd, constitute the team: Rushers, Change rule XVIII. to "For each intentional Taintor- Fletcher, Cooley, Twombly, Bowles, delay of game, or off-side play by any player, Half-backs, Holden and Moulton. Quarter- his side shall lose five yards, and ball shall be back, Herrick. Full-back, Sturges. given to opponents." Cap- The eleven has elected M. W. Cooley, Strike out in rule XVIII. the phrase, "No has been act- tain. Mr. John L. Shortall, '87, delay arising from any cause whatever shall as "coach," and his services have been of ing delay the game more than five minutes." great value to the team. Strike out in rule XXI. "within five min- NORTHERN INTER-COLLEGIATE FOOT-BALL AS- utes." SOCIATION. - Delegates from Amherst, Williams In referee's duty, page I7, strike out "inten- and Tufts Colleges, and the Massachusetts In- tional off-side play." On page 17, strike out of Technology, met at Springfield, Fri- stitute "'intentional delay of game after warning." day, Oct. I6th, and formed a new foot-ball Omit rules 15, I6, and 2I, in "Interpretation league, to be known as the "Northern Inter- of Rules." Collegiate Foot-ball Association." Amherst was The delegates were very harmonious and en- represented by Mr. Lansing and Mr. Whiting; thusiastic, and reported that the several associ- Tufts by Mr. Wellington and Mr. White; Wil- N ations from which they were sent were of the liams, by Mr. Tyng; the M. I. T. by Mr. Bowles same mind. As the teams are very evenly and Mr. Fletcher. Dartmouth did not send dele- matched, an interesting and exciting struggle gates, having withdrawn from the association. may be expected. A constitution was drawn up, and the follow- ing officers chosen : President, P. R. Fletcher, The first championship game was played at 2. Mass. Inst Tech.; Vice-Pres., W. F. Whiting, Williamstown, on Saturday last, between Tufts Amherst; Secretary, S. H. Tyng, Williams; and Williams, and was won by the latter. Treasurer, N. A. White, Tufts. Score, 49 to o. 4 I 8 I lt rG 'SF C FI. 8 THE TECH.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Noticeable Articles. which gives a very hopeful account of a country which is usually considered as in a hopeless condi- THE numbers of The Chemical News, from July tion of decline. In the same number is a paper on 3 Ist to August 28th, contain a full account of the a country which is fast becoming the favorite methods employed in Koch's Laboratory, in Ber- haunt of tourists, the Norway of to-day. lin, for the biological examination of water. This In the Contemporary for July, Prof. Goldwin Smith .- method of examination is now coming into use discusses the Administration of Ireland, and in the along with the chemical examination. w. R. N number for August, Mr. Bennett contrasts Mr. Herbert A REPORT has just been issued on a visit to the Spencer, Mr. Frederick Harrison, and Mr. Matthew Museums of America and Canada, by V. Ball, M.A., Arnold. In the same number is a capital article, F.R.S., Director of the Science and Art Museum, to be read by all students of history, entitled, Dublin. Prof. Ball visited a large number of institu- " What History tions in North America, and Nature (August 2oth), in can Teach Us," by Mr. VW.S. Lilley. reviewing the report, devotes nearly a page to "the One of the most interesting papers is in the Nine- well-known Massachusetts Institute of Technology," teenth Century for August, entitled "The Metaphysi- cal Society: and quotes Prof. Ball as speaking of the School of a Reminiscence." The Metaphysical Society was a club which existed Industrial Science as "the most important branch of for several years the Institution, which has excited the admiration of in London, composed of the most eminent and in- so many visitors." The School of Mechanic Arts and tellectual men in England, of all professions and the Lowell School of Design come in for a fair share shades of opinion, who met for the purpose of dis- of space in the notice in JVature and in Prof. Ball's cussing philosophical and theological subjects. It is report. certainly a wonderful illustration of the progress of toleration, that such a society could so much as exist; THE vacation magazines have been full of interest- for here ing papers. I have time, in season for this number there used to meet the Roman Catholic Archbishop Manning, Father Dalgairas, of the TECH, to notice only a few. The student of and Dr. literature will be amused and interested to compare Ward; the Church of England Archbishop of York, the different estimates of the great French writer Vic- and Dean Stanley; the Uritarian, Dr. Martineau; the tor Hugo, as they appear in papers in the FortnightlZy Positivist, Frederick Harrison; Tennyson, the poet; for July, by Henry Ceard; in the Contemporary for Huxley, Tyndall, and Sir John Lubbock, the men of July, by that clever novelist and accomplished lady, science; Froude, the historian; Gladstone, the states- Mrs. Oliphant; and in the Nineteenth Century for man; Sylvester, the mathematician ; Ruskin, the artist. July and August, by the English poet Swinburne, a I have mentioned only a few of the fifty-nine eminent devoted admirer of the famous Frenchman In the names enumerated in the article, where also is a list Fortnightly for July is an interesting paper on Low- of the subjects described, and an example of one of ell, by Mr. Traill, and in the September number an- their discussions. Perhaps a more brilliant assem- other on Emerson, by Mr. Courtney; and in the blage of intellectual men never met together. What same number is a paper by Mr. Elcott, on the late would one not have given for the privilege of being Lord Houghton, better known to older readers as the present at their meetings ? w. P. A. poet Monckton Milnes. Students of science will read with interest the List of Publications, M. I. T. short paper by Prof. Sidney Colvin, on the late Prof. MASS. INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. Division of Fleming Jenkin, the eminent electrical engineer, in Entrance Examinations, 3 pp.; Optional Five Years' the Fortnigfhtly for July; and in the number for Au- Course, 3 pp.; Lowell School of Practical Design, gust, the paper on the Life and Labors of Pasteur, 4 pp. Three circulars, 8vo. I885. the great physicist, by Mrs. Lynn Linton. In the Nineteenth Century for July is a paper by SOCIETY OF ARTS. Abstract of the Proceedings Prof. Ray Lankester on the recent progress of of the Society of Arts for the 23 d year, i884 -85. Biology. Pph., 8vo, pp. i62. Boston, i885. Students of geography and politics will read with BLODGErT, G WV. ('73). Recent Improvements in interest a rather surprising paper in the September Electric and Interlocking Railway Signals. Proc. Fortnightly, on Industrial and Commercial Spain, 5Soc. Arts, M A. 7'., I884-85, 62-67. THE TECH.. 9
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. Constitution, List of Offi- The Formative Force of Organisms. id., cers, etc. Pph. 8vo, pp. 8. Boston, I885. VI. (i885), 4-6. CLASS OF 7 7- Class Directory, July, I885. Pph., Color Associations with Months. Note. 8vo, pp. 25. I-d., VI. ( 885), 82.
CLASS OF '8 I. Class Directory, 1885. Pph., Has Man a Tail? Id., VI. (1885), 92. I 1210O, pp. 8. A New Endowment for Research Id., ALLEN, C. R. ('85). See Nichols, W. R. VI. (1885)) 144; -VAature, XXXII. (I885), 297. AUSTIN, AMORY ('73). Manganese. Oil, Paint, NICHOLS, W. R. ('69). Chemistry in the Service and Drug Reporter, XXVII., 8 (June 3, I885). of Public Health. Abstract of an Address before -- The Boynton Train Indicator. Id., I884-- the Section of Chemistry of the American Associa- tion, Ann Arbor, August, I885. Science, VI. (1885), 85, 122. 208. Also, a shorter abstract in The Sanitary Engi- CLARK, T. M. (Prof.). Recent Improvements in neer, =XII. ( i885), 287. I[September Ioth. Building. Proc. Soc. Arts, Al. r. T., 1884-- 85, with C. R. Allen ('85). Contributions to 5-II. our Knowledge of Sewage. _7ourn. Frank znst., CROSS, CHAS. R. ('70). Report to Boston Tariff August, 1885. Association on System of Martin Automatic Fire with I Alarm Co. Oct. 20, I884. Circular, pp. 2. P. D. Borden, Jr. On a Case of the Rapid Exterior Corrosion of an Iron Water-Main. Some new apparatus for studying Tele- L7ourn. Assoc. Eng. Societies, IV. (I885), 274-284. phone Currents. Proc. Soc. Arts, M. I. T., I884- NILES, WV.H. (Prof ). Report of the Permanent 85, 120. Meteorological Committee. Proc. Soc. Arts, AL I. T., A School for Electrical Engineering in 1884-85, 137. Boston. Science, VI. (1885), I50. NORTON, L. M. (Prof.). Coal Tar, and the Colors Electric Measuring Apparatus. Note. Derived from it. Proc. Soc. Arts, A1 I. iT., 1884- Science, VI, (i885), 283- 85, 29 - 33. FULLER, FRANK L. ('7 ). The Wellesley I[Mass.-[ l Minor [Chemical]l Investigations. Am. Water WVorks. _eourn. Ai rsoc. Eng. Societies, IV. Chemn. _7ourn., VII. ( 1885), 114 - 20. (I785), 401 -412. PICKERNELL, F. A. ('85). The Electric Railway HOLMAN, S W. ('76). On the Effect of Temper- in New York. Science, VI. (IS85), I48- I50 ; Elec- ature on the Viscosity of Gases. Proc. Am. Acad., trician and Electrical Engieer. IV. 325 (Sept., I885); XXI. (I885), I- 44. Also printed separately. Te/eg,'raph 't ournal and Electrical Review, XTVII. 228. On the Friction of Leather Belts on Iron (Sept., I885). Pulleys. 7ourn. Frank Inst., Sept., 1885. PICKERING, W. H. ('79). An attempt to photo- JACQUES, W. W. ('76). Underground Wires. Sci- graph the Solar Corona without an Eclipse. Science, ence, VI. (i885), 6- 7. VI. (I885), I3I - 133U Underground Telegraph Wires. Proc. Soc. - A method for determining the Unit of A4rts, AL . 1'., 1884-85, 2I- 27. Light. Id, VI. (i885), 183. LANZA, GAETANO (Prof.). Applied Mechanics and ---- TThe Color of the Sky. Note. Science, VI. Resistance of Materials. svo. 700 illustrations, (I885), 316. John Wiley & Sons New York, i885. -- --- Method of determining the Speed of Pho- LYLE, CAPT. D. A., U. S. A. ('84). Casting tographic Exposers. Proc Amner. Arcad., XX. ( I885 ), Heavy Guns at South Boston. Proc. Soc. Arts, 478 - 482. ML. . T., I884-85 88 - 94. Principles involved in the Construction of MINOT, CHAS. SEDGWICK ('72). The Effect of Photographic Exposes. /d,XX. (885), 483 -489. Cold on Living Organisms. Science, V. (i885 ), 5 22. 2 pl ates
i, r':10 THE TECH. -I I JOSEPH E. NUTE, with United Gas Improve- ment Co., Philadelphia, Pa. MARCELLA I. O'GRADY, science teacher in Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore, Md. FRANK A. PICKERNELL, assistant in depart- ment of mechanical engineering, Mass. Inst. Tech. RICHARD H. PIERCE, with Edison Electric Light Co., Brockton, Mass. NEWBERT M. RANDALL, assistant in mining laboratory, Mass. Inst. Tech. WHAT '85 ARE DOING. CHARLES R. RICHARDS, with Whittier Ma- DAVID BAKER, Pennsylvania Steel Co., Steel- chine Co., Boston, Mass. ton, Dauphin County, Pa. C. STANLEY ROBINSON, assistant engineer, EDWARD R. BENTON, draftsman, with H. H. Hancock and Calumet R. R., Opechee, Mich. Richardson, architect, Brookline, Mass. OTIS T. STANTIAL, private assistant to Prof. HEYWOOD COCHRAN, draftsman, with Louis- R. H. Richards, Mass. Inst. Tech. ville Bridge and Iron Co. HENRY P. TALBOT, assistant in analytical EDWARD H. DEWSON, JR., in Boston and laboratory, Mass. Inst. Tech. Albany R. R. Shops, Boston, Mass. GEO. 1'. VANIER, Pennsylvania Steel Co., FREDERICK Fox, JR., Post-graduate student, Steelton, Pa. Mass. Inst. Tech. ERASTUS WORTHINGTON, JR., assistant engi- THOMAS W. FRY, in shops of M. C. Bullock neer of Middleboro Water Works. Manufacturing Co., Chicago, Ill. MORRIS L. GREELEY, teacher in mathematics, WALTER K. HARRINGTON, with Norman Wa- in Chicago, Ill. ter Works Co., H orsick, N. Y. CHARLES F. SPRING, traveling for Walter ELEAZER B. HOMER, with Hartwell & Rich- Bros. Drain Pipe Co., 68 Water Street, Bos- ardson, architects, 68 Devonshire Street, Bos- ton, Mass. ton, Mass. WILLIAM J. HOPKINS, in a bank, New Bed- FRANK H. LORD, assistant in first-year draw- ford, Mass. ing and mathematics, Mass. Inst. Tech. JULIAN 0. ELLINGER, Sprague Electric Motor HENRY MARTIN, assistant in analytical labo- Co., 65 FifthSAvenue, N. Y. ratory, Mass. Inst. Tech. HUGH MACRAE, Wilmington, N. C. ALLYNE L. MERRILL, assistant in Depart- ment of Mechanical Engineering, Mass. Inst. TRACY LYON, Oswego, N. Y. Tech. EBEN G. MERRILL, in employ of H. W. Ellis On Thursday evening, October 22d, there will & Co., hydraulic engineers, Laconia, N. H. be a reception to the faculties and students of the Institute of Technology, Harvard Medical EVERETT MORSS, with Morss & Whyte, wire College, and Boston University, at the building works, 75 Cornhill, Boston, Mass. of the Boston Young Men's Christian Associa- FREDERICK H. NEWELL, Ohio Geological tion, corner of Boylston and Berkeley Streets, Survey of Oil Fields, Macksburg, Ohio. at 7-30 P. M.a THE F'E)C . 11 --- - ~ ~ H TE H - - 11 II Prof. Sedgwick read a paper on the compar- ative merits of water gas and coal gas for il- luminating purposes, before the Society of Arts, at its first meeting, this year. President Walker is to deliver a course of lectures on finance, this fall, open to all mem- bers of the Senior class, who have taken the political economy of the third year. OR- - . - - The papyrograph notes on mechanical engi- neering, revised and extended, have been The 2 G had its first meeting of the year at printed. A printed pamphlet on electrical Young's Hotel, Wednesday, Oct. 7th. measurements will soon be published. i The Lowell course of scientific lectures will A bicycle club has been formed at the Insti- begin during November. tute. Its membership is already large, and is increasing. Two C. H. Atkinson, Harvard, '85, is studying very successful runs have been held, and more are mechanical engineering, at the Institute, this to follow. The club year. has accepted the invitation of the Massachusetts club to participate in their lantern parade of the W. B. Douglas, formerly Mass. Inst. Tech. 22d inst. '87, is playing quarter-back on the Wesleyan Prof. T. M. Drown, the eminent authority foot-ball eleven. on iron and steel analyses, and formerly profes- The first meeting of the year of the Hammer sor of chemistry at Layfayette, has succeeded and Tongs Society was held at Young's, Satur- Prof. Wing as director of the laboratory of day evening, Oct. I7th. analytical chemistry. Prof. Joseph J. Skinner, It is said that a large number of'87 men wit- formerly instructor of mathematics at Yale, has .i ., nessed the eclipse of the moon on the night be- been appointed professor of first-year mathe- fore the condition examination in physics. matics. The fourth-year miners have begun work in . A Freshman recently asked at the supply- the mining laboratory upon the following sub- room in the chemical laboratory for a piece of jects: Anthony, Ontario silver ore; "solid glass tube, " with which to make a stir- Burling- ham, Vershire copper ore; Chadbourn, ring-rod. jewel- er's sweeps; Ingalls, argentiferous zinc blende; Much new machinery, including two new Lynde, concentration of silver ore; Wilson, jigs, a new frue-vanner, and a three-stamp bat- gold chlorination; Young, Calumet coarse sand; tery, has recently been added to the mining lab- Simpson, smelting galena. Simpson had a very oratory. successful agglomeration run, of fourteen hours' Mr. Geo. W. Blodgett, the electrician of the duration, on Thursday, October 8th. Boston & Albany Railway, is to give a course The Athletic Club will hold an out-door meet- of lectures on the application of electricity to ing on Saturday, Oct 3 I st Special medals will railway signals, before the fourth year electrical be given to all who break Mass. Inst. Tech rec- engineers. ords. The events will be: Ioo yards dash; 220 The fourth year mechanical engineers have yards dash; quarter-mile run; one mile run; been classified into three divisions: They are one mile walk; two mile bicycle race; running mill engineering, locomotive engineering, and and standing broad jump; putting the shot; marine engineering. Students choose between and a tug-of-war between '88 and '89, ten men one of these courses. on each side, and without cleats. 12 THHIE TE;CH.
- I The Freshmen held .their first class meeting 6HI·E (90TiLrEGE WOl~LD. last week, in room 15, Rogers, It having been rumored that the Sophomores were to attend I the meeting and attempt to break it up, the HARVARD. -Seven hundred and forty mem- Freshmen secured a list of the members of their bers take their meals at Memorial Hall, which class from the secretary, and stationed a stal- is taxed to its utmost capacity. There also wart sergeant-at-arms at the door, armed with seems to be a lack of dormitory room at the the check list. The big men of the class were college this year. The "Annex" has lately appointed a committee to assist the sergeant- moved into new and more commodious quarters. at-arms. About fifty Sophomores put into -Prof. Agassiz has been offered the position of appearance, but as the Freshmen numbered Superintendent of the Coast Survey, but has de- two hundred, it was, perhaps, fortunate for the clined.-A Chair of Journalism has been recently former that they did not succeed in entering established at Harvard, and is to be filled by the room. Score one for the Freshmen. J. B. McCollogh, editor of the St. Louis Globe- Democrat.-James Russell Lowell has resumed The total number of students at the Institute, his connections with the college this year, hav- this year, is 720, divided as follows: - ing charge of courses in Spanish and Italian.
SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE:-- The recent destructive "rush" made by the
REGULARS. SPECIALS. TOTALS. Sophomores upon the Freshmen, resulting in Fourth Year . . 48 24 72 the breaking of chairs and settees and lasting Third Year . . . 63 53 116 for nearly an hour, seems to show that the cus- Second Year. . . io8 8o i88 First Year .92 35 227 tom of "rushing" at Harvard has not become quite extinct. 411 192 603 SCHOOL OF MECHANIC ARTS . 57 YALE. A young woman has entered the Sen- LOWELL SCHOOL OF DESIGN . 60 ior class of the Yale Law School. She is the first
Total . 720 woman to enter any of the departments other than the Art School. A course in electrical The great decrease in the size of the Freshman engineering has been inaugurated this year in class, from that of last year, is due to the fact the Sheffield Scientific School. The Fresh- of the standard of admission having been raised. man class numbers I34. - President Porter, The number of applicants was greater, this year, who is revising Webster's Dictionary, has than last. already made considerable progress upon the Technziquze, the new Institute annual, to be work. -At the regular fall races last Wednes- published by the Junior class, will probably day, the eight-oared two miles straightaway, be- appear in December, before the Holidays. It is tween the Juniors and Sophomores, was won to be profusely illustrated, and is to contain a by the former. fund of information about the Institute, which IN GENERAL. -Sophomores both at Brown cannot fail to be of interest to both alumni and and at Dartmouth have voted to allow the undergraduates. The price will be fifty cents. Freshmen to carry canes. - Dartmouth is to The editors offer a prize of five dollars for the have a new paper, known as The Stylus, a most satisfactory design for a cover, competition monthly, whose first number will appear next being open to all students of the Institute. The month. -Johns Hopkins is having a new physi- editors of Technzique are: F. P. Gulliver, editor- cal laboratory and observatory built, at an ex- in-chief, Quintard Peters, T. W. Sprague, Guy pense of $ioo,ooo. -Among the great Ameri- Kirkham, F. M. Wakefield, W. J. Barnes, and cans, who have expended their youthful talent Solomon Sturges. Business manager, H. C. in editing college papers, are the poets, Holmes Spaulding. and Willis; the statesmen, Everett and Evarts; ITHF2 TE1CH. !3
and the eloquent divine, Phillips Brooks. Ex. -Williams comes to the front this year in the matter of hazing, seven sophomores having been suspended for indulging in that historic pastime. -- Hereafter, at Amherst, no degrees will be con- ferred on students who have not attended their gymnasium duties regularly. -- The Freshman -classes at various colleges number as follows: Princeton, Io2,; Cornell, 125; Amherst, 98; Dartmouth, 76; Bowdoin, 40. - Bowdoin is to HOBSON 'S CHOICE.
I have a new gymnasium.-The University of A thief on his trial refused to be sworn. Heidelberg will celebrate its 5ooth anniversary "Of what use," queried he, "will my evidence be? If I tell the whole truth I shall get the old Nick; next August.---Italy, Switzerland, Norway, If I tell what's not true the old Nick will get me." Sweden, and Denmark have all thrown open their universities to women.--In the German "How do you like Miss Lilliwhite ?" asked and Austro-H-Iungarian Universities there are Brown of Fogg, who had just waltzed with the 2,043 professors and 25,964 students.-The larg- lady; "don't you admire her conversation?" est European university is Rudol-Albrecht's of "Yes," replied Fogg, "she talks well enough; Vienna. It has 5,221 students and 285 profes- but, between you and me," brushing his whit- sors. -Amherst Sophomores have passed reso- ened coat-sleeve, " she 's a little floury." - 'os- lutions discountenancing tug-of-war contests, on ton Transcr-zpt. the ground of the physical injury done the men. Crimson. -- The only Latin magazine in the WHAT HE WAS.- "Were you a bull or a country is edited by Prof. Shumway, of Rut- bear ?" asked an acquaintance of a speculator. gers College. -Thomas A. Edison, the inven- "Neither," he replied, " I was an ass " - x. tor, has presented to the Department of Me- A TENDER CONSCIENCE. chanical Engineering at Cornell a complete A doubtful boon, half good, half bad, electrical plant for lighting the workshops at This rigorous voice within; IIIl7 So heavy is my heart, and sad, rt Sibley College. - The Trustees of Princeton To see my neighbors sin. - LZfe. will meet on Nov. ioth, when it will be decided whether Princeton can play Yale at the polo Brown: "Col. Rosebugle, is it true that you : grounds on Thanksgiving. If permission is not formerly kept a saloon ?" Col. Rosebugle (indignantly). "No, sir; l granted, it is expected that the game will take place at either New Haven, Hoboken, or Phila- never, sir. But," added the colonel, thoughtfully, delphia. - A two-hour course in phonography "I have done as much as any private citizen has been started at Yale. A new chapel, to could do to keep two or three of them up." - cost $250,000, is in process of erection at Le- Texas Siftings. high University. - Several Wesleyan Sopho- Central Park is to have a colossal bust of mores were guilty of throwing water on some Washington Irving, by Frederick Beer, an Aus- Freshmen. As a result, the President withdrew trian artist. It seems to us that beer has been scholarships to the amount of $75 each from more or less connected with various other colos- eight students. Great indignation prevails.- sal busts heretofore. -Life The library of Brown College possesses the only An article in an exchange is headed, "Why copy in existence of the first edition of the a count shot himself." We haven't read the "New England Primer." It is two inches article; but suppose it was because his monkey square, and is valued at $i1,200. - Harvard has died, or some one stole his organ - Norristown given up foot-ball. He raid. 14 THE TIECEHl.
Subjects upon xwhich THE TECH absolutely refuses to receive any more jokes.
Does the fact that eye-beams are mentioned A maid-to-order. -- A servant girl. - Yale in the Bible, go to prove that they studied ap- Record. plied mechanics in those days ? Uncle 'Rastus: "I's willin' to 'knowledge MUSING. dat I stole de ham, sah, but dar am extenuratin' ·;L Beneath the broad elm's pleasant shade, sahcumstances kernected wid de case, sah. I Where Nell and I, child-lovers, played, was 'toxicated, sah, and didn't know noffin what I I tarried. I was 'bout."/ :e Yes, Nell, we've changed since then, 't is true; Mr. X.: "I don't believe you were intoxi- I'm gray-haired, old, and wiser. You Are married. cated, Uncle 'Rastus." Pray tell if you, as I, e'er dream Ulncle 'Rastus: "'Deed I was; I kin prove Of childhood's hours; and if they seem it. If I hadn't been drunk dat night, yo' honah, As sweet. I'd a toted off moan one ham "- Life. :a Or is your life with fuss and care For what to eat, and what to wear, He: If you can't feel any more interest than Complete ? this, Caroline, perhaps we had better break off Ah, Mrs. Jones, no doubt you think our engagement." For memory's pangs the shekel's clink She.' Don't say break, Charles-it's hor- s Atones. ii ridly violent. But we might let it disintegrate [ 'T was all for rhyme, that cynic's sigh, x Because, my gentle reader, I peacefully, don't you think ?" -Fliegende BNat- ,- Am Jones.] -Life. ter. B
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Young men purposing to join a Gymnasium are invited to WTaTsh~ingtCoX Stt:-eet, - - 8C~ tcM T. inspect this Gymnasium thoroughly. HALL & WHIPPLE, Proprietors. iI i TEI TECH. vi 15 per cent Cash Discount, to all Students, from our Regular Prices. Stocks of We keep one of the Largest and Shoes 0 First-class Boots *stow IN THE CITY. and with the additional 15 per Our prices are as low as any other house, cent discount, less, than any house for the same quality goods. FRENCH, ENGLISH, and AMERICAN GOODS FR H In all their varieties. 1` ONE THAT OAN BE WARRANTED WE SELL A GOOD SHOE FOR $5.00, I SBMALI B1ROTHERES, Corner Bromfield Street. I 371 Washington Street, - -
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