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THIS school is devoted to the teaching of science, as applied to the various engineering professions; viz., civil, mechanical, mining, and electrical enginecring,. as well as to architecture, chemistry, metallurgy, physics, and natural history. Besides the above distinctly professional courses, the Institute offers scientific courses of a less technical character, designed to give students a preparation for business callings. A four years' course in biology, chemistry, and physics has been established, as preparatory to the professional study of medicine. Modern languages are taught, so far as is needed for the ready and accurate of scientific works and periodicals, and may be further pursued as a means of general training. The constitutional and political history of England ai d the United States, political economy, and international law are taught, in a measure, to the students or all regular courses, and may be further pursued as optional studies. Applicants for admission to the Institute are examined in English grammar, geography, French, arithmetic, algebra, modern history, and geometry. A fuller statement of the requirements for admission will be found in the catalogue, which will be sent without charge, on application. A clear admission paper from any college of recognized character will be accepted as evidence of preparation, in place of an examination. Graduates of colleges conferring degrees, who have the necessary qualifications for entering the third year class in any of the regular courses of the Institute, will be so admitted, provisionally, on the presentation of their diplomas, and will be given opportunity to make up all deficiencies in professional subjects. The feature of instruction which has been most largely developed in the school is laboratory training, shop work, and field practice, to supplement, to illustrate, and to emphasize the instruction of the recitation and lecture room. Surveying-instruments are provided for field work in civil and topographical engineering. Extensive shops have been fitted up for the use of both hand and machine tools, and a laboratory of steam engineering has been established as a part of the instruction in mechanical engineering. Several steam-boilers and steam-engines of various types are available for experiments and tests, as well as a large amount of special apparatus for measuring power, for gauging the flow of water, for tests of belting, etc. The laboratory of applied mechanics contains two testing-machines,--one for ascertaining transverse strength, the other for tension and compression,-besides apparatus for time-tests on timber, for tests of mortars and cements, for tests of shafting, etc. The department of mining engineering and metallurgy has the use of laboratories in which the milling and smelting of lead, copper, silver, and other ores, in economic quantities, are regularly performed by the students themselves. The \! classes in architecture supplement the work of the drawing and designing rooms by the examination of structures completed or x in course of erection, and by practical experiment in the laboratory of applied mechanics, testing the strength of materials and working out problems in construction. The Kidder Chemical Laboratories consist of a laboratory for general chemistry (288 places); a laboratory for analytical chemistry (0o8 places), together with a special room for volumetric analysis (20 places) and a balance-room with 22 balances; a laboratory for organic chemistry (30 places); a laboratory for sanitary chemistry (16 places); a laboratory for industrial chemistry (i6 places); two convenient lecture-rooms; and a well-supplied and reading-room. The laboratories are thoroughly equipped for the purposes of ordinary instruction, and they also possess excellent facilities for the promotion of original research. 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FRANK WOOD, PRINTER, 352 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON. HEREseems to be a growing feeling, espe- cially in the lower classes, that the frater- nity men are endeavoring to control student COMPLAINT which we affairs here, and that therefore the fraternities have to make against should be opposed, and no fraternity menii elected our readers at the In- to positions in class or society, put on commit- stitute, is in regard to tees, or otherwise honored. That members of the small extent to the fraternities hold many of the prominent which they use, or, positions, is true; but that the fraternity, as rather, do not use, our such, is made a tool in the college politics, is i,/,,f/~ ~ columns for communi- false. The number of fraternity men at the . / cations upon local af- Institute is small, while the field from which to [._1~ $fairs. One of the choose is large, so that those who are selected chief objects of the college paper is to serve as to become Greeks are very often the ones who the organ of the students-a place where they would be prominent in any case. A class, or can make complaints, requests, or suggestions. society, in electing men to its offices and filling The Faculty have the bulletin-boards whereby its commitees, should consider the fitness and to make communications to the students; the willingness to work of its candidates, without latter, however, cannot make use of that ready regard to whether they have attended any par- means, but must resort either to the cumbrous ticular preparatory school, or wear fraternity petition, or to the columns of the college paper. badges, or not. When members of a class allow A board of editors is necessary, of course, to petty feelings to close the eyes of their judgment, conduct the publication, but if the students in they are working against their own interests. general do not use it for the purpose just Other things being equal, the class that best mentioned, it fails of its object of being preserves its unity in feeling and action will the organ of the students, and becomes simply accomplish the most as a whole, and receive the that of the editorial board. A writer upon most benefit in its individual members. The college journalism says, that the best means fraternity, by its nature, is removed from other 160 60THEIT TE -CH.

- college organisms, and it is only because of F-OR a number of years past our ignorance of its true aims that these feelings has been used, not only as a gymnasium ever arise-unless, as is the case in some col- and drill hall, but also for dancing parties. leges, the purpose of the fraternity has been Most of these parties have been given by mem- perverted. At the Institute there is no cause bers of the Institute, who have merely gone for any but friendly feelings toward the Greek- through the form of obtaining permission from the letter societies. gymnasium committee, nothing being charged d IT has occasionally been remarked, and per- them for the use of the gymnasium. Some of haps with reason, that the class of '86, dur- the apparatus is in a very bad state, several ing its career, has as a whole been lacking in new things are wanted, and the gymnasium com- social enterprise to some extent. We are speak- mittee have no money with which to get them. ing, it will be seen, of the class as a whole, for, The Corporation allows a certain amount each as is well known, many of its members are de- year for improving the apparatus, but it is not servedly popular for their interest and spirit in enough to keep it in good repair. The money social matters. The cause of the apparent want obtained from the lockers, which really should of enterprise is due mainly to the fact that a go for improvements, goes to defray expenses large number of its members spend all their of coal and gas. time over their work, to the utter exclusion of Taking these things into consideration, we class matters, and this is shown by the general suggest to the gymnasium committee that they advanced scholarship of the class. Of this latter, charge something to those parties who desire I '86 may justly be proud, and this is, of course, of to use the gymnasium for dancing, or any other paramount importance; but, at the same time, it but its legitimate uses. We think this is especially is not only pleasant, but advantageous, to keep applicable to outside parties who desire its use. up certain class associations, both for the time The money thus obtained can, at least, keep in being, and always. good repair the apparatus which we now have. It is proposed by the small portion of the Senior class who attend class-meetings, to have B RILLIANCY and perseverance are brought some sort of a class-day this year. Now, if '86 into strong contrast in college life. The has really been backward in class spirits hereto- large body of students regard brilliancy with fore, an opportunity is here offered to redeem especial admiration, and give the greatest praise itself; and instead of being known as " the first to him who acquires knowledge with the least class that did not give a Freshman ball," (a title effort, who seems to do with ease whatever he which, though by no means to its discredit, is, attempts. On the other hand, the majority of it must be confessed, a negative one,) it may instructors regard perseverance with especial achieve the greater honor of being the first favor, and assume that steady application alone class to establish a regular class-day at the In- should receive encouragement. But is it not stitute. true that both brilliancy and perseverance are Our Alma Mater is now in her twenty-first worthy of admiration, both need proper encour- year; in fact, she is of age, though still a young agement? The brilliant man sighs because he college in comparison with those around us. is wanting in the power of application, feeling It is high time that some such custom as Class- that he wvill never achieve any lasting success; day should be formed here, and we think '86 while his persevering fellow, as he slowly grinds will give it a start, if only every member will out his work, envies the other's quick wit. A interest himself in the matter. A committee little thought would show that both ready wit has already been appointed to arrange the de- and perseverance are necessary to attain success, tails, and it is confidently believed that the af- and it needs neither proof nor illustration to fair will prove a success. show that both can be acquired.

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I Her Answer and the Superintendent of the Mint (by sepa- (TO AN APPEAL.) rate keys, which always remain respectively presented to the O student, when working and sighing, in their possession), and Surrounded by volumes a score, Commissioners; who, thus equipped with accu- Think of the ones who are wooing and striving rate standards, were then ready to go to work. For the same as thou strivest for. The principle on which the coinage is tested is They seize me so blushing and willing, perhaps best described in the words of Section And steal my susceptible heart, 3,539 of the Revised Statutes, which is as I yield to them, laughing and sighing, follows:- With stereotyped feminine art. At every delivery of coins made by the coiner to a I write this regretting and fearing; Oh ! don't let it end your career; superintendent, it shall be the duty of such superin- No longer I'm trusting and-loving, tendent, in the presence of the assayer, to take indis- But,-but ' only your friend,' my deai. criminately a certain number of pieces of each va- LAUREN'S. riety for the annual trial of coins; the number for gold coins being not less than one piece for each one The Trial of the Pyx. thousand pieces, or any fractional part of one thou- sand pieces delivered; and for silver coins, one Section 3,547 of the Revised Statutes of the piece for each two thousand pieces, or any fractional United States provides as follow:- part of two thousand pieces delivered. The pieces To secure a due conformity in the gold and silver so taken shall be carefully sealed up in an envelope, coins to their respective standards of fineness and properly labeled, stating the date of delivery, and weight, the Judge of the District Court for the East- number, and denomination of the pieces inclosed, and ern District of Pennsylvania, the Comptroller of the the amount of the delivery from which they are taken. Currency, the Assayer of the Assay Office at New These sealed parcels containing the reserved pieces York, and such other persons as the President shall, shall be deposited in a pyx, designated for the purpose from time to time, designate, shall meet as Assay at each Mint, which shall be kept under the joint care Commissioners at the Mint in Philadelphia, to ex- of the superintendent and assayer, and be so secure amine and test, in the presence of the Director of the that neither can have access to its contents without Mint, the fineness and weight of the coins reserved the presence of the other; and the reserved pieces, by the several mints for this purpose, on the second in their sealed envelopes, from the coinage at each Wednesday of February, annually. Mint, shall be transmitted quarterly to the Mint at Philadelphia. A record shall also be kept at the In accordance therewith, the Commissioners same time of the number and denomination of the appointed by the President to examine the pieces so taken for the annual trial of coins, and of Coinage of the year I885, met at the Mint in the number and denomination of the pieces repre- Philadelphia, February Ioth, of this year. There sented by them and so delivered, a copy of which were present, besides the ex-officio members record shall be transmitted quarterly to the Director prescribed by law, citizens from Massachusetts, of the Mint. New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, The verification of the contents of the pack- North Carolina, Wisconsin, Colorado, Arizona, ages is simply a matter of accurate counting; and California, including many experts in as- and after this is finished, a few.coins are taken saying. at random from each package and given to the Judge Butler presided at the formal meeting committee on weighing, and others to the com- of the Commissioners, at which the letter of mittee on assaying. A careful record is kept of appointment by the President was read, and all the coins thus received by the committees, the duties of the Commissioners explained. and the coins themselves are put in envelopes, A small box, with two locks, containing the which are sealed, and the contents noted on the standard weights and the gold and silver of back to correspond with the record. In addi- absolute purity, was opened by the Judge tion to the single coins thus set apart for exam- i2a 2THE; TECH. ination, a large number (several hundred) of that is to say, the legal limit was exceeded by both gold and silver coins, are tested by weigh- one one-hundredth (I-Ioo) of a grain. ing in mass. These same coins are subse- In the fineness of the coins, however, there quently melted in large crucibles, and a portion is a greater chance for error, on account of the of this " mass-melt" tested for fineness. tendency of alloys to separate into their com- If one should look in at the Mint at this stage ponent metals when in the fluid condition, or of the operations, he would see the busy Com- when about to solidify. This tendency is more missioners seated around a long table, anxiously marked with the alloy of silver and copper, than counting, recording, checking, and labeling with the alloy of gold and copper; and the test the gold and silver coins which seem to flow to sample of the " mass- melt" of the silver coinage to them from bottomless coffers. Although is, therefore, always taken (after stirring well this is merely clerical work, yet the importance the molten contents of the crucible) by pour- of having an absolutely perfect record of the ing a small quantity into water. This sudden coins received necessitates the utmost care; for cooling prevents any separation of the metals, an error of record at this stage might render and the alloy thus granulated represents the final results valueless. fairly the contents of the crucible. It is very But the serious character of this work cannot seldom that any but the most minute variations altogether render one indifferent to the novelty from standard fineness are found in the " mass- of the situation. It is not often that an assayer melt " of the gold and silver coins, while the in- has to deal with bullion with a government dividual coins may show considerable variation stamp on it; and it is difficult to realize that within the limits allowed by law. these brilliant coins, so lavishly distributed, 'The fineness of both gold and silver coins is represent just so much work to be done, sug- goo; that is, the gold coins contain in Iooo parts gesting, as they do, so completely the idea of by weight goo parts of pure gold. The remain- i compensation. ing Ioo parts are copper, or copper and silver, The weighing is done on a carefully-adjusted "but the silver shall in no case exceed one- Becker balance, such as is used in the analyti- tenth of the whole alloy." In the silver coins, cal laboratory, and standard weights, duly veri- 900 parts are pure silver, and Ioo parts copper. fied, are used to counterbalance each coin. The The law permits a variation of fineness in gold Ii gold dollar should weigh 25.8 grains, and the coins, plus or minus, of one one-thousandth, and double eagle 5 i 6 grains. The variation allowed in silver coins, of three one-thousandths; that is by law from the normal weight of gold coins, to say, a gold coin may be 899 or 90oi parts fine irl plus or minus, is one-fourth of a grain in the without rejection, and a silver coin 897 or 903 dollar, quarter-eagle, three-dollar piece, and parts fine. half-eagle, and one half of a grain in the eagle To return to the work of the Commissioners: and double-eagle. In the silver coins the per- The committee on assaying chip off a piece from missible variation in weight is one and a half each of the coins in their possession, roll it out grains in the single pieces, and when weighed to a thin strip under heavy rolls, and stamp this in mass, two one-hundredths (2-Ioo) of an strip with its proper number. The gold coins ounce in one thousand dollars, in half dollars which form the "mass-melt" are put into a or quarter dollars, and one one-hundredth black-lead crucible, covered with borax, and (i-ioo) of an ounce in one thousand dimes. melted down in a crucible furnace. When E It is not often that the Commissioners find the thoroughly melted, the metal is well stirred, legal limit exceeded. The trial of the coinage and cast into an ingot, from which a piece is of I 884 was quite exceptional in that a silver clipped off and rolled out into a strip, as in the dollar from the Carson City Mint was found to case of the separate coins. The "mass-melt" be I 5I-Ioo grains below the standard weight; of silver is formed in like manner, except that THEn TECH. 163

the sample is taken, as already described, by vessel of platinum containing boiling nitric acid. granulation in water. Two treatments with nitric acid, for about ten Let us first follow the course of the gold minutes each, suffices to dissolve all the silver, strips. Each strip is taken in turn, from the and the pure, yellow gold is left in the form of lowest number to the highest, and from it pieces the original cornets, with a number-stamp still are cut off to weigh exactly half a gram. Then plainly visible. These cornets are then thor- three times this amount of silver, free from oughly washed, dried, and weighed. As the gold, is weighed out, and both silver and gold gold is now pure, each cornet should weigh go are put into a little cone of lead (about ten times per cent of the weight taken for examination, the weight of the gold), made by folding a with the permissible variation one one-thou- small piece of thin sheet-lead (which, likewise, sandth. A correction may be called for by the must be free from gold) into the form of a control assay of the pure gold. If this should, cornucopia. The lead is folded tightly around after treatment, weigh more or less than it did the metals, so that no particles can escape, and originally, it is assumed that all of the same batch, then pressed into the form of a ball. With having been subjected to identically the same each batch of twelve samples thus prepared, treatment, should suffer a corresponding cor- there is placed one containing absolutely pure rection in weight. In any case, this correction gold. To this half-gram of gold is added io is extremely minute. per cent of copper (the amount contained in The assay of the silver coins is a much sim- gold coin), and three times its weight of silver, pler matter. From the strips prepared as above, and it is likewise enveloped in sheet-lead. the standard weight for the silver assay is cut r ii These leaden balls are now put into cupels, and off-namely, I.I I50 grams, which amount should i' heated in a muffle furnace. They soon melt, contain 1.0035 grams of pure silver, since the and in the course of fifteen or twenty minutes silver coins contains go per cent of pure metal. the lead and copper are oxidized, and absorbed The same amount is also weighed out from by the porous cupels. The resulting buttons, the granulated silver of the " mass-melt." The containing the gold and silver, are taken out, test samples are then put into glass bottles, and hammered, and rolled into thin strips, which are dissolved in nitric acid with the aid of heat. plainly stamped with their proper numbers. The solution has a light blue color, from the The metal must be annealed once or twice dur- dissolved copper. To this solution is added a ing the reduction in the rolls; otherwise it be- solution of common salt, which precipitates all comes too hard for the subsequent manipulation. the silver as chloride, and from the amount of The strips, which are nearly white in color, are salt solution used to effect complete precipitation, rolled into small coils, called cornets, and they the amount of silver is calculated. This salt solu- are then ready for " parting," or treatment with tion, containing 5.4274 grams to the liter of nitric acid, which dissolves the silver and leaves water, is kept in a large bottle on a high shelf. the gold unattacked. The object of adding the By means of a gum tube and valve the solution silver is to insure the complete separation of is conveyed to a Ioo-cubic centimeter pipette the metals by the acid; if too little silver which, when full, is emptied into one of the is present the gold will protect it from com- bottles above mentioned. The amount of salt plete solution. From the fact that the propor- in Ioo cubic centimeters is just sufficient to tion of one gold to three silver has been found precipitate I gram of pure silver. Ten bottles the most favorable for the separation of the are usually treated in rapid succession with the metals, the process is often called " quartation." pipette full of salt solution, and they are then The operation is performed by putting the carefully closed with good-fitting glass stoppers, cornets into separate compartments in a little and put in a shaking-machine, where they are platinum basket, which is immersed in another violently agitated for about ten minutes. This 164 14THEl TEACH.

- I makes the precipitated silver-chloride coherent, This precious piece of brass is put on one pan so that it settles promptly, and enables the as- of the balance, and on the other the standard sayer to test the clear supernatant liquid with pound weight used at the Mint. The glass case more salt. For this purpose a solution of salt is closed, and amnid perfect silence the crank is one-tenth of the strength of the original solution turned which liberates the beam and brings the is used. One or two cubic centimeters of this knife-edges on their bearings. Anxious eyes dilute solution is added to each bottle, and watch the indexes on the ends of the beam, from the degree of turbidity produced the as- for one can scarcely avoid the feeling of per- sayer estimates the amount of silver still remain- sonal responsibility for the result. The untold ing in solution. The bottles are again put in the confusion which might overtake the country if shaking-machine, and tested a second time with doubt were thrown upon its pound weight, dilute salt solution to confirm the first estimate. cannot be estimated ! It was with a sigh of re- The accuracy of this determination depends, lief, therefore, that the Commissioners turned of course, on the precise knowledge of the from the balance, which had calmly stood the strength of the salt solution, and to avoid any error test with moving a hair's breadth, and ex- arising from its faulty preparation, a sample of pressed their mutual congratulations. For pure silver is treated at the same time with the whatever might be the difference of opinion re- coins: I.000ooo4 gram is weighed out for this pur- garding the sanity of its legislators in continu- pose, and from its behavior, when treated with ing the coinage of the standard dollar, the na- salt solution, the data are obtained to control the tion's standard weight, at least, was safe, and accuracy of the assay. above suspicion. When the committees on counting, weigh- The Commissioners came together again in ing, and assaying had finished their work, the room where they originally met, and Judge had tabulated their results, and had writ- Butler presided over the final, formal session. ten out their formal reports, the Commis- The chairman of each committee read his report, sioners assembled around the large standard and a unanimous resolution was adopted de- balance of the Mint to witness the test of the claring the coinage of the year I885 to be satis- weights. The balance, which is contained in a factory, both as to weight and fineness. The large glass case about six feet long, was first ex- box containing the standard weights and the amined, to ascertain if it was in perfect adjust- pure metals was delivered up to the Superin- ment. This proving to be the case, one one- tendent of the Mint, and duly locked by him thousandth of an ounce was put on one scale and the Judge. To each Commissioner was pan, and the beam fell promptly and decidedly then given a bronze medal, struck to commemo- on that side. Both pans were then loaded with rate the work of the Commission, and the Board 300 ounces, and when found to be in equilibrium, adjourned sine die. the small weight was again put on one pan. T. M. DROWN. This time the deflection was not so marked, but it was still perceptible. The accuracy and sen- Inside a Catholic College. sitiveness of the balance having thus been N interesting article could be written on shown to be satisfactory, the crucial test, on the transition from the 'English to the which so much depends, was then performed. German University system of education, and With due formality the Superintendent of the the attending higher plane of responsibility and Mint produces from the safe a small box, unlocks manhood that the student in consequence as- it, and hands to the Commissioners the identical sumes at a period of life that fifty years ago troy-pound weight which was procured by was considered little better than the "bread the Minister of the United States in London, and butter" age. The larger scope and freer in the year I827. play given by the institutions of to-day to their Iran IIPE~F~C011.C 165 -~ ~ ~~ H TEH 165 followers, and the complete throwing of the in- the survival of the fittest. The dead wood is dividual on his honor and merit, "to be, or not trimmed out, and the healthy growth, well to be," as the case might prove, would have pruned, proceeds unhindered to develop into struck our fathers as instigations from the the thoughtful scholar. For those who have enemy of mankind. abused the trust placed in them, who have So completely exploded is the idea of foster- wrecked their time with matters foreign to their ing care and parental tenderness in conjunction course, there is no backward road, no returning, with education, that it is with difficulty that the although they seek it ever so bitterly. old system can be found. It still exists, how- Knowing this beforehand, the student is ever, wherever the has con- aware that minutes are precious; that time once trol, the idea of obedience being paramount lost cannot be recovered; and that there is no even to the minutia of the daily circle of life. escape for work ill done. Graduating here No outsider is fitted to judge the merits or means something more than completing a pre- demerits of "the Church and State system." scribed course of studies; it implies character, To do so, one must have entered within the strength of will, and mental victories, in which i and been an actor, and not a mere spectator. but a few of the original number have been suc- To a student, then, of a Catholic college, and cessful. one who has since pursued his studies under The Catholic student, on the other hand, is 4 civil directorship, a certain right is given to considered as a machine, and his duty is to rest draw comparisons. plastic in the hands of his preceptor, to receive Accepting the fact, of which there can be no -and retain whatever impressions the mind or doubt, that the instructors of Catholic schools hand of that official may choose to give. are learned men, and qualified to act as teach- He sleeps in a dormitory guarded by eccles- ers, it simply remains to find out whether the iastics, and rises and retires to the sound of a student flourishes as well under the Roman tac- bell, marches from the lavatory to the study-hall tics of close surveillance as the German method for morning prayer and spiritual reading. An of individual responsibility. Granted that there hour's study follows, and then comes mass, are natures that require a bit of curbing, and which ceremony prepares the carnal appetite which should always be fed with a tether, can for its refreshment. Breakfast over, class com- this doctrine be applied successfully to a body mences, and in its turn study. Angelus rings of, say, seven hundred young men ? Is this - in the noontide hour and dinner. Recreation the Catholic method - as likely to turn out a attended to, study, class, collation, study, prayer class of men whose mental acquirements will and spiritual reading, supper, recreation, and rank as high as those who, through four years study makes up the day's routine. of study, have had to rely not only upon their Each moment is passed under the watchful own efforts, but upon their honor? -who have eye of a prefect or his subordinate. No idle been treated as no longer children, but as what time is left for Satan's hands, and no pupil is they are, yozung men, with whom rests the mak- given such a dangerous charge as his own re- ing or the unmaking of their future ? sponsibility. He is to do and be but as he is Take for example our own Institute: the told, as he is directed, so that the grievous sins student signifies the course he desires to pursue, of omission and commission are forestalled by is classed therein, and then the matter rests the omnipresence of the ecclesiastical eye. with himself, whether he shall attend to his du- The loving care of the Church for the "chil- ties or haunt the pool-room until the examina- dren" intrusted to her is such that over the tion day. In that crucible all is made known, portals of her colleges and schools one is made and the unaccounted hours are accounted for- to feel, if they cannot read, that eternal vigil- the grand weeding is begun, and the result is ance is the price of safety. 166 THFIE TErCIIH.

The idea of an elective course or optional than you, and the days are very short, to say nothing studies, freedom of will, self-reliance, upon of the fact that the nights are very long. I arise, honor, are heretical thoughts, and are to be dress with lightning celerity, on account of the cold, banished. The young mind is to be watched, and descend into the breakfast-room, where I pour and carefully pruned; the tares are many, and out my coffee from the urn, which sits boiling away the wheat requires a skillful gleaner, or it will on the stove, and masticate my " Br6dchen " (which be defiled. are something like rolls, but rather tough) and but- ter. Often I am alone; but just now a young Eng- i The old classical course as laid down by the K lish boy, who is coaching for the Woolwich examina- Fathers of the church enriches the mind, makes tions, has also to start off early. My first lecture is a finished scholar, and treads no dangerous at nine, nominally, but fortunately for me there is ground. The combative spirit of science "das Akademische Viertel,"--which means, you have a knocks too loudly, and asserts with too much fifteen minutes to get there. Promptly, however, at E force; is given to doubting, and has no rever- a quarter past, the Professor, preceded by an assist- ence for mysteries. Her claims are to be care- ant bearing trays of rock specimens, which would be fully examined before concessions, and she is immense for Bret Harte's famous fracas, rounds the W not to be recommended as a subject for training- door leading from the ante-room, and we all spring X

a schools. to our feet, but immediately sit down again, for he is E I The graduate comes into the world filled with generally in a full tide of conversation. His first N mystic lore, himself almost anancient,-more a words I have never heard. There is a tradition that r. Roman or a Greek than a member of a busy in- they are, " Meine Herren, das letzte Mal--; " but by quisitive, hurly-burly, work-a-day world. the time I get the run of things he is well into the A thousand temptations; forbidden pleas- present lecture. He goes on, not fast, but steadily, very clearly, and in a highly interesting way, but ures; the careful guardianship that has hedged rarely repeating, and stopping only occasionally, him in; the automatic motion,-each in their when a specimen he wishes to show is not to be E kind are offered as taken away; and the startled IF found. Consequently, if your attention flags for a V subject of deprived volition finds himself in a moment, you wish it hadn't, for you lose something. sea beating from every point, with muscles re- Moreover, as he talks he walks around, starting spe- i e laxed, his staff taken from him, in scenes that cimens of the rock under discussion, granite, or w require a Peter, uncertain how to act. gabbro, or whatever it may be, in circulation; so that J. T. G. your mind is liable to be distracted unless you can pay r. attention with eyes and ears quite independently. Student Life in Heidelberg. At ten o'clock, however, he approaches the ante- room door, and, having finished a sentence, vanishes; F N article under the above caption, which and we, having taken a more leisurely look at the appeared in an early number of the pres- specimens, of which he has a wonderfully fine collec- ent volume of THE TECH, having been received tion, wander down to the laboratory below. This with much favor, we have obtained permission consists, first, of three main rooms, wherein are eight to publish extracts from two private letters windows, each with desk and microscope. Of the written by a Harvard graduate, now studying eight in the laboratory, five are Americans, one a at the University of Heidelberg, which illus- Russian, and two Germans. The German assistant trate the same subject from equally interesting is also with us, and always at hand to explain or standpoints. help.* Besides these rooms, which contain a work- ing library, we have a dark room for optical work, a HEIDELBERG, Jan. 7, I886. The best way to give an idea of a student's a chemical laboratory, and rooms for grinding and life here, is to recount the doings of a day, with com- polishing stone sections. ments thereon. Well, then: at eight, my interval Into this last I go, as I have to finish grinding a clock admonishes me that it is time to arise. It is topaz prism. You made me laugh in reading the *This feature constitutes one of the chief superiorities of the German not yet very light, for we are. much farther north system. THEI TEC-H. 1671

description of your lectures on physics, in your last rately, so that we thoroughly understand a mineral letter, by using the word " paralyze " as synonymous and its optical properties, before beginning its micro- with polarize. The theory of polarization we have scopic study. Don't think, however, that we do not to have at our fingers' ends. You know that topaz use chemistry. That chemical laboratory isn't for and most other crystals polarize the light that passes show; there is always some one there. But chem- through, and also give it different velocities, accord- ical methods are used as a last resort for qualitative iI ing to its direction, so that the refraction is different. work, and are mainly reserved for quantitative deter- I have been working at cutting a prism which has its minations. The blowpipe tests, too, of which I used edge parallel to the machro axis of the crystal. It is to hear so much at Harvard, are here scarcely men- done by cementing the crystal to a piece of glass the tioned, although there is a continual reference to size of your palm, in the proper position, and then their composition in classifying minerals. rubbing it on a glass plate covered with emery. On About four it grows dark here, but the gas is hard minerals it is a slow and not very easy process. lighted, and we work on till six; then home, and As I am getting up my triceps, rubbing away, I sud- study until half past seven, when we have a hearty denly discover that it is past twelve, and I must skip supper. Just now my evening work is mainly draw- up stairs to another lecture. ing crystals; and if you want to find ample employ- The first was on minerals in the mass; the second ment for all the most ponderous English and German is on them as individuals. The lecture goes on adjectives in your vocabulary, you try to draw a much as the other,-save that as from one to two quartz crystal, with half-a-dozen rhomboidra and there are no lectures, the Professor is inclined to trapezoidra ! round out the lecture at the expense of the next Wednesday night we have a "colloquium," like- hour. * wise a "Nach colloquium." That is to say, about After this, we scatter from the laboratory to our six o'clock the Professor comes from his private midday meal, crying, "Mahlzeit " as we leave. I go room into the laboratory, if not already there. We only a little way off, "Zum Goldner R6mer," where, gather around the table and give each other accounts with some other students, I eat my soup, beef and of the latest publications in our department of pickles, potatoes and cake, and talk, or read the little knowledge, which have been divided around among German papers, which contain about as much news us for that purpose. The Professor makes his com- as a quarter of a Record, and can be read between ments, and the thing often ends in a lively discus- drinks. Then back I saunter to the laboratory and sion, which is great fun. finish making my prism, and proceed to measure the As we are not through till past eight, and have all index of refraction in the dark room by the ghastly missed our suppers, we go off together to dine at the light of a mono-chromatic sodium flame; or perhaps sign of the Griiner Baum, and afterward drink beer some of my H Fl. solutions are dry, and I examine and sing student songs until a late hour. I once the crystals left under the microscope. asked a Docent who comes with us, how late students Perhaps you may not see the connection between generally studied; at whichhe laughed, and replied my prism-grinding and microscopic work. Well, the that they generally sat up till one or two, but didn't chief, practical end which my work has, outside usually study in the evening much. Of course we purely scientific ones, is to solve the problem: Given we were talking about the working students, not the a rock, an aggregation of minerals in often micro- corps students, who fight the duels. They never scopically small grains, of what is it composed? study at all the first few terms; but they stay here One of the ways of determining this is through the five years. optical properties of the minerals when viewed in There is a general idea that Germans are very their sections, for not only the color but the refrac- thorough, and know more than other nationalities. tive power, the crystals' form, and many other char- If so, it must be in the training in Gymnasia, for the acteristics can be so determined through polarized University men seem to behave very much as similarly light. placed men in America. There is only one other Now, our Professor - as it seems to me very theory that suggests itself; viz., that beer and tobacco wisely - first gives us work on the properties sepa- stimulate the intellect. * This custom is said Hot to be distinctively German.--EDS. For my own part, I am glad I came here. There THE TEC H. l III may be some place in America where I could get dead march, the procession passed. First came the work that suited me, and I suited as well, but I didn't band, all dressed in black; then a few student officers; 11 know it. I have a taste for mathematics, but I can't and then the hearse, a large one drawn by six horses. stand them pure. Here I can use all I have, even Each horse had a student at his bridle; behind determinants and quaternions (of which, however, I walked two students with black draped macs, and do not believe the professor knows much); but they others carrying the corps and national flags draped play only second fiddle. Chemistry, geology, optics, in black. After these followed the rest of the stu- mechanics, and all my favorite subjects are coming. dents; first the corps, which are aristocratic, and In fact, my experience is such, that if you find some after them the Burschenschaften und Verbindungen. kind of work that is fitted to you, and knuckle down The officers were dressed in black dress-coats, to it, after you get agoing it is more fun than a goat, tight white knee-breeches, and black top boots, and better than football. carried dress swords, and wore various hats,-some Yours, ever, the ordinary student , some cocked hats, some a W-- L . velvet four-cornered cap with an ostrich feather. The corps students were dressed exactly as they HEIDELBERG, Jan. 17, I886. were for the ball the night before ; that is to say, ordi- I must tell you about a very dramatic spectacle I nary evening dress, with the band of corps colors saw yesterday; one, too, that is not often seen. For across the breast, and their corps . nearly a month a student has been lying in the hos- After they had left the body at the station they pital slowly dying. The cause, not to put too fine a came back, with the band playing a lively march, to a point upon it, was a sword-cut on the temple received large square, around which they marched and halted, in a mensur, or student duel. I have been intro- forming a large hollow square. The officers col- duced to his antagonist, a man even taller than my- lected in a body on one side, and at the signal " One, self. The wounded student was short, and the cut Two, Three--Throw ! " all the students hurled their rather an unusual one. The student is also said to torches toward the center. For a moment the square was full of wonderful flitting meteors : the spec- have had a very thin skull, to have fallen down on I tacle of these hundreds of blazing torches whirling I the same spot, to have been subject to fits, to have i had his blood in an unhealthy condition. Some of through the air, was one the like of which I never I these rumors are doubtless partly true. Deaths from saw. Of course they did not begin to fall all in the these duels are about as rare as from rowing or play- same place, but servants hurried into the center, and ing football, and of course no blame attachesto his through the murky gloom were seen gathering them p opponent more than to any of the corps students. together. The ground strewn with fire-brands and The night of the ball he died, and on that account the figures dimly seen amid the smoke made a most all the members of his corps were absent. The next infernal scene. day we heard that his funeral services were to be in At last they were all gathered into one heap, the Providenz-Kirche; that afterward he was to be which, from its pitchy richness, sent forth clouds of escorted to the station by the student societies, and inky smoke, with here aid there a burst of intense all the usual ceremonies performed. flame. The officers advanced, and forming a circle When I emerged from my German lesson, about about the fire, clashed their swords together in fence, half-past five, the dusk had well gathered into even- while the students sang " Gaudeamus Igitur." ing; the sky was overcast, and an occasional snow- " Let us rejoice, then, while we are young: flake fell. But the Haupt Strasse was filled with After our happy youth, cometh old age; people, either surging to and fro or standing on curb- After a sad old age, earth shall receive us." stones and doorsteps. I had thought of going to the 'Let us eat, drink, and be merry, for to-morrow we die." funeral services, but gave up the attempt and waited. I thought in the midst of the celebration, how After awhile torches were seen up in front of the much the deceased would have enjoyed it were he church; not such affairs as we use in America, but alive, and could not help wondering what were his real torches, long sticks saturated with pitch or tar, feelings as it was. giving forth a lurid flame and much smoke. We did In the evening they had a Trauer-Kneipe. not have long to wait, for soon, to the sound of the W- -L THE TECH.9 169

Hilda. chewing stock-operators, irritated by badly-paved Most fickle of all and dirty streets, where the dust-bins stand unmo- Is my gay, pretty Hilda; lested at all hours of the day (this is not Boston), con- Yet charming withal, stantly shocked by the want of finish and elegance Most fickle of all, On consistency's wall that pervades all the exterior life of the cities, the She's but a poor builder; lone traveler is tempted to concentrate his observa- Most fickle of all tion on the shortcomings of America. He forgets, Is my gay, pretty Hilda. while in this carping mood, that the country is very A vision of light young, and that it is not so much the imperfection of From Olympus' fair portals, the civilization that ought to astonish him, but rather She stands there to-night, the universality of that degree of material civiliza- A vision of light- tion which he everywhere finds. He forgets the Oh, loveliest sight, E'er granted to mortals; , and museums, and splendid educational A vision of light institutions that private munificence is creating all From Olympus' fair portals. S. over the Union. He forgets the extent, the wealth, the magnificence of the country, the determination Noticeable Articles. of the people, and their unparalleled working capac- The rather timid conservatism of the recent ity which makes twenty years in America worth of Sir Henry Maine, entitled "Popular Govern- more for progress than forty years in . Above ment," is vigorously met in the Fortnightly for Feb- all, he forgets that leaven of refined people, those ruary, by Mr. John Morley, Mr. Gladstone's new hospitable and charming friends whose sympathies Secretary for Ireland, and himself one of the best of and interests he has found to be so wide, and whose England's political writers; and by Mr. Godkin, social qualities have often struck him as being pecu- editor of the NVew York NVation, in the Nineteenth liarly complete; . . . and, reflecting upon what has Century. Nothing, however, that the eminent author already been achieved, he will be tempted to adopt of "Ancient Law " can write can fail to be worth Herbert Spencer's conviction that the Americans may reading, and his new book contains one paper that reasonably look forward to a time when they will gives a capital outline of the United States Constitu- have produced a civilization grander than any the tion. world has known." Whoever is not afraid of the Serbonian bog of In the same number there is i pleasant account of Irish politics can enter it under good guidance, for Nassau and the Bahamas, a paper on "What Boys in the Nineteenth Century for February there is a Read," and another on "The Wear and Tear of paper on "Alternative Policies for Ireland," by London," which gives a formidable account of the Prof. James Bryce, the learned author of that admir- labors of an eminent London barrister, doctor, judge, able historical monograph, "The Holy Roman or member of Parliament. Nevertheless, the follow- Empire"; a book, the reading of which no student ing are very just remarks "It cannot, I think, be of the Middle Ages can afford to omit; and another shown that, provided all proper precautions are in the Contemporary for February on "Home Rule," taken, mental work, even of the hardest kind, and by Prof. Freeman, with whose name readers of THE pursued for almost an indefinite period, really injures TECH are somewhat familiar; while in the Fort- the nervous system of the individual thus occupied. nightly there is an anonymous " Radical View of the Indeed, as a matter of fact, it is almost invariably Irish Crisis." followed by an entirely opposite result. The human In the Fortnightly there is a provokingly amusing body is a machine, so constructed that work is a paper, signed Theodore Child, and entitled " Through necessity for its continued existence and well-being; the States." Mr. Child's account of his experiences the amount of work it is capable of doing is in strict in our country, especially of railway traveling and proportion to the power of the mechanism; and hotel life, are more just than complimentary, but while other machines, having no power of repair, one cannot help laughing at their truthfulness. But tend to become weaker and worn out by use, the he is by no means blind to the good side of things: strength and capacity of the nervous and muscular " Buffeted by the vulgar crowd, jostled by tobacco- systems of the human body are increased by exer- "ril 1*,nC11 cise, provided the latter is regulated by certain well- The Edinburgh for January contains a paper on known laws. Injurious effects resulting from hard England, Afghanistan, and Russia, which no one work are almost always traceable to neglect of obvi- will fail to read who is interested in following the ous precautions. " slow but steady progress of Russia eastward into In the Contemdporary, Sir John Lubbock has a poor Asia, or who has made acquaintance with desert life paper on the "Pleasure of Reading," and winds up and Turcoman tribes and dare-devil adventures, in with a futile attempt to make a list of one hundred the exciting book of MacGahan, the newspaper cor- best books, which is much like trying to make a list respondent, or in Capt. Burnaby's "Ride to Khiva." of one hundred best dinners for all palates. Prof. The Edinburgh also has a paper recounting the Geffcken finishes his valuable paper on "Contempo- vain attempts of the French to colonize or conquer rary Life and Thought in Germany"; and Frederic Madagascar, that great island of which we know so Harrison, the redoubtable Positivist, writes on the little. There is a paper on Victor Hugo, and one "Radical Programme." more on Sir Henry Maine's " Popular Government," The Quarterly Review for January contains an elab- of which the reviewer says: "By a fortunate coinci- orate article on the new translation of Don Quixote, dence, at the very time when the British was the great book of Spain. It is satisfactory to those in the act of accomplishing the largest experiment of who never found themselves growing enthusiastic over popular government which has ever been tried in the the earlier English translations, to know that not one United Kingdom, a book issued from the press which of the seven that have been before made is at all ade- deserves to rank with the best and wisest productions quate, and that Smollett's "is worse than unsatisfac- of English political literature." This is the conserv- tory; it is a burlesque." In Mr. Ormsby's we have ative liberal view. w. P. A. for the first time an adequate reproduction. "He has lived among the Spanish peasantry. He has (GOMMUNIGATIONS. looked into their ventas, and made personal acquaint- ance with many a provincial inn-keeper, and many a The editors do not hold themselves resdbonsible for o@11'ions Maritorhes, and many a Sancho Panza. He has expressed by corresPondenls. learned their vernacular phrases. He has made himself at home in the exact society in which Don EDITOR OF TECH :- I read with considerable in- Quixote moved," and probably in out-of-the-way terest the editorial, in your issue of March 4 th, re- parts of Spain; and the greater part of Spain is out-of- lating to athletics and our gymnasium. I agree with the-way; the society is not much changed since the you on the whole, but I do not think that you have time of Cervantes. hit upon the correct solution of " why the students do Spain, fallen from her high estate, and now, through not patronize the gymnasium more." Some three the combined influences of bigotry and bad govern- weeks ago I went down to the -gymnasium, and at- ment, is one of the most backward of European na- tempted to take a bath after exercising. I followed tions; yet she is still a wonderfully interesting country, the printed instructions posted over the shower-bath, and one that has always had a special interest for and waited patiently for five minutes to obtain the Americans. The best history of Spanish literature is right degree of temperature, and finally, in disgust, by a Bostonian, Mr. Ticknor, and one of the best of resorted to a bucket of water and a sponge. I also Spanish libraries in the world is the one bequeathed noticed that in order to keep their feet clean, some of by him to our city library. Washington Irving wrote the fellows had to make a flying leap from the bath- the lives of "Columbus and his Companions," and the ing-room ofi to the bench in the dressing-room. In picturesque "Conquest of Granada." Prescott's books my opinion it is in the bathing appliances that all are all on Spanish subjects, and some of the best the trouble lies, and the sooner the Corporation pro- travels in Spain have been written by Americans, vides a decent place to bathe in, the sooner will the though no one quite so good as that remarkable book, " instructors be gratified by the students' clearer brain, George Borrow's "Bible in Spain." and the nation by the far-reaching inheritance of The Quarterly has a paper on the "House of health." Yours truly, s. S. Ir CondO," and an account of England's new acquisi- tion in the East, "Burmah, Past and Present." A grate thing - The furnace. TPIR q7RC14. 171 'PHE 'rECH. 171 I '85's Class Dinner. letics," Walter C. Fish; "The Faculty," Hol- 5HIRTY-EIGHT members of the class of lon C. Spaulding; "Canada," Thomas D. '85, the last class to give a Senior ball, Brainerd. All the responses were full of wit, gathered at Young's on Saturday, March 6th, those of Messrs. Mirrlees, Todd, Gushing, to inspect a very tasty menu, designed for the Fish, Spaulding, and Brainerd being especially occasion by Mr. E. B. Homer. good. The inspection having been completed, not- After an excellent dinner, which Young's withstanding continual and continued interrup- knows so well how to provide, a ballot was tions by the irrepressible Arthur, President taken as to who was most worthy of the spoon; Richards called on A. R. McKim for " The Re- and after some discussion the ballot was decided mains," great respect and feeling being exhib- in favor of Mr. Thompson, over his nearest ited therefor; E. HI. Mumford, for the "Alma competitor, Mr. Patterson, all agreeing, how- Mater; " A. D. Little, for " The Publication ;" ever, that Yale had done herself credit. The and Ike's spirit for the " Absent Ones." other members were each presented with a little Ike's substantial spirit and Tracy Lyon were gift, kindly donated by the Foundling's Home, the most foreign elements, one coming from in the shape of a little two-inch baby bottle with New York, and the other, Oswego, N. Y. all the attachments, and filled with Prof. Nich- After talking, stories, and singing, the as- ols' H 2 SO,. Mr. Taintor then favored the as- sembly broke up, and the fourth annual dinner sembly with an antiquated manuscript, set to was a thing of the past. s. w. song, which he had revised for the occasion. It went off capitally, and its chorus is still ring- ing in the ears of all. The Junior Class Dinner. Not too much praise can be given Mr. Kirk- HE second annual dinner of the class of '87 ham, who, in the capacity of toast-master, did was held at Young's, on Friday, the 5th much toward keeping the boys full of spirits. inst., about fifty members being present. There (See Technics.) Much credit is also due Messrs. were three tables,-two running parallel the Todd, Sturges, Draper, Harris, and Kirkham length of the room, the other running across for the manner in which the supper arrange- at one end, for the accomodation of the officers ments were conducted. The class adjourned and guests of the class. On this table was also about I2.30, entirely satisfied with its feast and placed a " monkey gymnasium," arranged by the good times "Across the walnuts and the Messrs. Harris and Stone, with the help of some wine." lady friends. It was an elegant little affair, rep- resenting the various athletic sports at the Technics. Tech., and a foot-ball game which did not rep- THINGS ONE WOULD RATHER, ETC.- Miss resent our last game with Williams, but which Brown: "Oh, don't hurry, Mr. Craggle." told what will happen next year. The menu Craggle: "Well, really, I'm not feeling very cards had on the outside an original design by well, and only want a little fresh air. I shall be Mr. Draper, and within contained the toasts, all right as soon as Iget outside." which were responded to, as follows:- THE ENGLISH OF IT.- Student in German: I "Our Alma Mater," James H. Mirrlees; couldn't find the meaning of froh, Professor. "The Class of '87," Fredrick C. Todd; "The Helpful Professor: "How do you feel when Ladies," Norman Q. Stewart; "Past Mem- you are full of spirits ?" bers," Albert L. Cushing; "Foot-ball," Mau- Student: " Drunk !" rice W. Cooley; "The Society of '87," Frank E. Shepard; "The Glee Club," John L. Short- Athletic student (translating): "Es sparte all; "The Tech," Benjamin C. Lane; "Ath- immer": He always sparred. I 172 'T-HE T`ECH.

ORGANIC LABORATORY.- Enter student, wikth camera: " Is there any objection to my taking the laboratory ?" Preoccupied instructor: "No; but be sure and give me an order for it." Professor to zones (who has just computed on the blackboard the head of water necessary to drive a certain turbine): " Seems to me, Mr. Jones, you have a remarkably large head." FACT vs. THEORY.- Scene: Freshman in labo- ratory, during explanatory lecture. Instructor: "What is produced when sul- I phur is burned in the air, Mr. Luffy ?" Robert H. Richards, '68. Recently elected Mr. Lueffy (with the assurance of absolute President of the American Institute of Mining knowledge): "A very bad smell, sir." Engineers. A general explosion followed. H. M. Howe, '72. Elected to Board of Man. Instructor in photography, examining nega- agers of American Institute of Mining Engi- neers. tives: "Seems to me that in getting a good Mr. Howe is at present in the West, collect- view of Trinity you have made the Brunswick look rather too full." ing data from a work on '" American Steel Man- ufacture," which is to be published in the col- junior, absent-mindedly: "That's because umns of The Engineeringand Mining last night the Brunswick made us I mean 7ournal. the camera slipped." The latter paper speaks of him as being " uni- versally recognized as probably the most com- petent engineer in America for the special work l ( in question." John R. Freeman, '76, late principal-assis- tant engineer Essex Water-power Company, has accepted the position of Inspector for Bos- ton Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance Com- pany. L; \ W. A. Chapman, '85. Proprietor of a hotel

. 11:;_, , - " , I 1* ! Ii4 and skating-rink, Galveston, Texas. _k.44 7q; A. D. Little, $85, formerly editor-in-chief of THE TECH, Chemist with Chas. S. Wkh eel- wright, manufacturer of wood-pulp, Providence, R.I. O. T. Stantial, '85, assistant chemist with Lehigh Zinc Works, Bethlehem, Penn. W. H. Ellis, Jr., '86, student in chemistry I' t 4 at Heidelberg, Germany. Geo. W. Paterson, '87, was one of the two gentlemen who, at Chautauqua, in the summer of I88o, saved from drowning Miss Mina Miller, recently married to Thomas A. Edison, the

FJEATHER-WEIGHT SPARRING -A LOCAL HIT. electrician. THER TECH. 173

F. A. Thomas has returned to the Institute, and is now plotting curves. The Freshmen propose to present to each member of their successful tug-of-war team a suitable medal and a class supper-ticket. Keep it up, '89, and you will make a name for yourself. Arthur F. Bardwell, '89, was recently in- itiated by W--- -Z~ the Sigma Chi men. Mr. Bardwell's brother was a charter member of the local The Society of '88 had a love feast, last chapter of that fraternity. Friday evening. The Herald of March ioth contained an ar- The Hammer and Tongs Club dined at ticle descriptive of the Institute and its work. Young's, Saturday evening. The article was adorned with excellent cuts of one or two of the professors and of the build- The Seniors have appointed a committee to ings. consider arrangements for Class-day exercises. H. E. Hill, '87, and F. L. V. Hoppin, '88, Charles Cheney, '89, has become a member were missed from the architectural department, of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity. not long ago, but were traced to H. H. Walter C. Fish was elected to the gymnasium Richardson's office, where they were found committee at a meeting of the class of '87, carefully erasing all marks that they had made. March 9th. The first-year architects submitted twenty- Some twenty of the architectural department seven designs for a porch for city residence. took notes on the construction of the Black George C. Shattuck's received the highest Hussar, the first night of its presentation. mark, and Charles L. Faunce's next. Others fol- The class of '88 proposes to try the novel lowed, almost too numerous to mention. combination of the Quincy House and no wine, Extract from N. Y. Graphic: "Culture still on the occasion of the supper, March 25th. booms in Boston. On Saturday afternoon, Poet The Orchestra furnished the inspiration at John Boyle O'Reilly presided as referee in a an enjoyable i gymnasium dancing party, Sat- series of heavy slugging I matches between mem- I urday afternoon. i ber of the Y. M. C. A. It is not visionary to ex- '89 men smiled contentedly at the announce- Ii pect that a nickel-plated effigy of John L. may i ment that, in the Harvard inter-class tug-of-war, yet grace the Common or the Public Gardens." '88 pulled '89 by about six inches. There were twelve designs for a combination A condensed account of the life of Gen. billiard-hall, boat-house, and belvedere by the Walker somewhat similar to one published second-year architects. F. L. V. Hoppin is to in THE TECH, Vol. I. No. 14, appeared in a re- be highly congratulated on receiving first men- cent issue of the HZerald. tion. J. Prince Loud received second mention. The Crimson speaks of the pleasure which At a meeting of the Base-Ball Association, Yale has had in listening to a course of lectures March 5th, the following elections were made: by Pres. Walker, and deplores the fact that president, Guy Kirkham, '87; vice-president, Harvard has not had a like privilege. Quintard Peters, '87; secretary, A. H. Badger, At a meeting of '89, March 4th, Messrs. '88; treasurer, John L. Shortall, '87; manager, French, Simpson, Olzendam, Basford, and A. D. Currier; committee for selecting the Bailey, were appointed a committee for the team, the manager and W. L. Brainerd, '86, class supper, which will probably take place John L. Shortall, '87, W. L. Dearborn, '88, at Parker's, March 26th. C. W. Pike, '89. THER TOECH.

Fifty cents will be paid at this office for a r served out to all the employas. From this rally- copy of THE TECH, Vol. I. No. 7, in good con- ing-point the party visited in turn the coolers, dition. mash-tubs, boilers, fermenting-vats, and lastly, The Senior class dinner will be at Young's, with the aid of a dozen candles, the great vaults, Friday evening, March 26th. All members of reaching fifty feet underground, where huge the class, past or present, are earnestly re- tuns, running up to I30 barrels capacity are quested to be present. stored; bringing up at regular intervals at the bar, where the foreman, whose short, massive Our local editor was told in the civil room, form and immense white felt hat, made a first- he had gone in search of news, that one where class model for a Half-Moon Navigator, would item was that no talking aloud was allowed during produce an extra supply of glasses and encour- office hours. He took the hint, and waited for age the party by exhibitions of a capacity which no more items. only the Chicago man attempted to emulate. A At the second regular meeting of the Class feature of interest in this establishment is the Club, last Thursday evening, at Young's, Pro- I introduction of the use of ammonia, condensed fessor Pope was unanimously elected the first by a steam engine, instead of ice, for cooling the honorary member of the club. Messrs. H. C. beer imemdiately after boiling, to prevent the Moore,'88, and T. W. Pietsch, '89, were voted setting in of acetic or lactic formentation. The in, bringing the total number of members up to condensed gas is allowed to escape through a a nineteen, which is one less than the limit pro- sort of water-fall of horizontal pipes, down the vided by constitution. Seven couples then outside of which the boiling beer trickles, arriv- "took the floor," and twenty-five games were 1 ing perfectly cold at the bottom. An extended s played during the evening. account of the brewing business is given in the On Friday evening, March I2th, the 2 G. October, I885, number of Harper's Monthly.

Society gave a reception at the Quincy House, r

in honor of Prof. Richards, the new President h of the A. I. M. E. Prof. T. M. Drown, Mr. F. W. Clark of the Institute, and Mr. H. 0. Hof- man, the distinguished metallurgist; Mr. H. M. Howe was unable to be present, on account of his absence from the city Capt. D. A. Lyle, U. S. A., '84, and several other ex-mem- bers of the Society, were present. A quartet from the glee club kindly volunteered their services, and entertained the guests with several well-rendered selections. The affair was very

successful. Ic Nine Junior chemists visited the well-known brewery of J. Roessle at Roxbury, last Friday.

These works employ between sixty and seventy 5

hands, and turn out sixty thousand barrels of i

beer annually. Just inside the door is a sort -UNFORTUNATE EVIDENCE

of small central hall, hung with convivial mot- UNFORTUNATE EVIDENCE. toes, such as Caller: "WHAT? ! IS THE HERR PROFESSOR NOT AT "Erst mach' Dein Sach', HOME? ! WHY, I SEE HIM NOW, THROUGH THIS DOOR! " Und trink und lach," Maid: " OH, THAT- THAT IS ONLY HIS SHADOW ! " and containing a bar, where unlimited beer is I Fliegende Blaiter. THE TEICH. 175

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HARVARD.-Chamberlain, '86, broke I the col- lege record in putting the shot at the first spring meeting, his put being 37 feet io0 i inches.--There are thirty candidates for the freshman nine.--The boat crew is $I,700 in i debt.-Sixty men are in training for the Mott Haven team.-Smith, '86, and Henshaw, '89, AT THE MASQUERADE. will constitute the change battery. -He-Isit all right when everything is masking, Since people are not what they seem to-night, YALE.-At the games, March 6th, two Yale Perhaps to flirt, and do so without asking,- i records were broken,-Brown, '86, making 8 Is it all right? feet Io4 inches in the running high kick, and She-Is it all right when none can see your blushes, Goodwin, '89, making 5 feet 6 inches in the Hearing sweet words you know full well are light, Yet to forget that doubt which ever crushes,- running high jump.-By the retirement of Is it all right? Brooks and 'Hamilton from the Mott Haven He-Is it all right when no one will betray you team, Yale's chances for the cup are greatly (What lips half seen do more than half invite), lessened.-The battery for this season will To steal one kiss-just one; confess, I pray you,- probably be, Kellogg, '87, catcher, and Dann, Is it all right? '88, pitcher.--Seventeen men are trying for the She-Is it all right that after you have kissed her, freshman nine.--The professional coach for the To say the least a thing most impolite, She should unmask, and say, " Since I'm your sister, crew has been given up.-Boat crew is $1,200 Is it all right?" in debt.--The nine has arranged for four games -Yale Record. with the New Yorks and two with the Nationals, "Ah, chappie, glad to see you. I say, could during Easter vacation. you lend me ten dollars? I want to go out for PRINCETON.-Princeton closed the season with a bit of breakfast." $253.55 in her foot-ball treasury.--Twelve Prince- " Certainly, dear boy, but you had better take ton students, graduates of Exeter, have offered a fifteen; you may want a cigar, you know." gold medal for the best declamation from mem- Ranmbler. bers of the academy's literary societies.--The One of the brightest lads in a school not far Glee club will make a trip through the South, away was asked by the teacher, "Why are ani- I starting April I4th. mals larger in a tropical than a frigid zone?" IN GENERAL.-Nine of Wesleyan's Foot-Ball The quick reply was, "Because heat expands Eleven return next year. There are I93 stu- and cold contracts!" dents at Wesleyan.-Lafayette will present a NOT SIGNED.-Auctioneer: "Now, gentle- strong tug-of-war team at Mott Haven this men, what shall I say for this magnificent and year.-Courtney will coach the Cornell crew authentic Paul Veryoneasy? Come, start it at again this year.-The University of Vermont something." was admitted to the Intercollegiate Athletic Old Gentleman: " Don't see the painter's Association at its last meeting.--Stevens' In- name on it anywhere, mister." stitute was recently admitted to the Intercolle- Auctioneer: "Of course not. A picture like giate Lacrosse Association.-There are twenty- that doesn't want signing; it stands on its four candidates for the Williams College Nine. merits. No bid? Pass it in, John, and bring -Amherst has six of last year's nine left.- out the 'next. Now, gentlemen, here is a Twenty men are trying for the ball nine at superb Landseer by the same hand." (Tab- Cornell. leau !)- Melbourne Punck. 1'76 3i TH&E TECH. e _ __·I I______·______

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We lingered, in the act to part, The last word still unspoken, I. By the quick beating of my heart !r The silence faintly broken.

So beautiful she seemed, and pure- Ah me! how I should miss her: i'U Unable longer to endure i My wish, I asked to kiss her.

A blush of deepest rose o'erspread I, Her face, as if to mask it, !I As, with a woman's art, she said, U "Why, Frank, you should not ask it !" ! SOOYSMITH. ~F,. o .. n l

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SHE DRAWS HER BOW. Selected miscellany-- Mince-pie. She draws her bow with ardent care ,1$1a To bind her wealth of raven hair: First Tramp (contemplatively) : "Horace, did This little maid of scarce fourteen you ever wonder what you would do if you got all ! Jre Has found vraiinent too soon, I ween, Vanderbilt's money?" That she is fair and debonnaire. i Second Tramp: "No, I've never thought ~m The years sped by; my boy, beware ! much about it; but I guess I would lay low II{ii A maiden never looks so fair till the affair blew over.-Ex. As when, upon the village-green, She draws her bow. He had a silk hat, With laughing eyes beyond compare, That was glossy and round: She drives her suitors to despair He had a silk hat, When chosen of the day the queen: But he went on a bat, She feasts them at the old demesne. And on it he sat The game is up; 'tis sad, when there With a sensible sound.

Shte draws her beau. He had a silk hat ol - Williams Foirtnizght. That was glossy and round. Ardent lover (embracing the leading lady): - Yale Record. At last, my own, I can hold you in these arms- The manager of a Boston daily telegraphed at last I can look into those calm blue eyes, and to its correspondent in Belfast last week to l'l read there the sweet story of your love. Kiss "send full particulars of the flood," thinking away my sorrows, love, and the past will seem that the freshets which have been inundating like some dreadful dream! (Aside to her)- the Hub and vicinity extended *1I1 to Maine. The /1 I Now, when you kiss me, don't hang on forever. answer was returned by postal: " For particu- There's my wife watching me from the opera lars of the flood, refer to the 7th chapter of I box.-Rambler. Genesis." -Ex. THEn TEACH. iii

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