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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Rose-Hulman Scholar The Rose Thorn Archive Student Newspaper Spring 5-1903 Volume 12- Issue 8- May, 1903 Rose Thorn Staff Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.rose-hulman.edu/rosethorn Recommended Citation Rose Thorn Staff, "Volume 12- Issue 8- May, 1903" (1903). The Rose Thorn Archive. 1083. https://scholar.rose-hulman.edu/rosethorn/1083 THE MATERIAL POSTED ON THIS ROSE-HULMAN REPOSITORY IS TO BE USED FOR PRIVATE STUDY, SCHOLARSHIP, OR RESEARCH AND MAY NOT BE USED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE. SOME CONTENT IN THE MATERIAL POSTED ON THIS REPOSITORY MAY BE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT. ANYONE HAVING ACCESS TO THE MATERIAL SHOULD NOT REPRODUCE OR DISTRIBUTE BY ANY MEANS COPIES OF ANY OF THE MATERIAL OR USE THE MATERIAL FOR DIRECT OR INDIRECT COMMERCIAL ADVANTAGE WITHOUT DETERMINING THAT SUCH ACT OR ACTS WILL NOT INFRINGE THE COPYRIGHT RIGHTS OF ANY PERSON OR ENTITY. ANY REPRODUCTION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ANY MATERIAL POSTED ON THIS REPOSITORY IS AT THE SOLE RISK OF THE PARTY THAT DOES SO. This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspaper at Rose-Hulman Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Rose Thorn Archive by an authorized administrator of Rose-Hulman Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. VOL. XII. TERRE HAUTE, IND., MAY, 1903. No. 8 L. A. Touzalin, Editor in Chief. THE TECHNIC. George Benson, Assistant Editor. Fred B. Lewis, Reviews. BOARD OF EDITORS. Howard A. Mullett, Editol in Chief, J. 0. Bland, Athletics. H. BLAIR PETTIT. Charles B. Falley, Local. Associate /Editors, Carl Wischtneyer, FR so. D. LEWIS. Assistant Editor J. BOUDINOT HUNLEY, Reviews Leo F. Dorn, Artist. W115..LIA -4 D. INGLF Alumni Ralph C. Blanchard, . Business Manager. J. 0. BLAND Athletics L. A. TOUZALIN, The Editor in Chief, Mr. Touzalin, has been GEORGE BENSON, Local PAUL H. TURK. the Local Editor from the Junior Class the past ALFRED N. AUSTIN, Artist year, and has shown himself to be especially well Executive Department. ROBERT F. GARRETTSON, Business Manager qualified for and deeply interested in editorial RALPH C. BLANCHARD, Assistant Business Manager work. He is a man of untiring energy and great versatility, so we are confident in predicting a TERMS: most successful year for the Technic with such a One Year, $1.00. Single Copy, 15 cents. man at its head. Issued Monthly at the Rose Polytechnic Institute. Mr. Benson, the Assistant Editor, has been the Entered at the Post Office, Terre Haute, Indiana, as second-clas4 mail matter. Local Editor representing the sophomore class the past year. He is an easy and interesting writer, XPERIENCE has taught our predecessors and one of the most popular fellows among the that the first paths the young editor of a col- students. With such qualifications he should lege journal encounters are by no means strewn easily succeed in giving the readers of the Technic with rose blossoms, but, upon the other hand, a full and interesting Rose Leaves department are usually thickly beset with deep-cutting and next year. hindering thorns. They have therefore adopted Mr. Lewis, Who will have charge of the the custom of electing the new board some time Reviews, has served the Technic in the capacity before the last issue of the year, thus giving am- of both Local and Assistant Editor. In view of ple opportunity for the new men to profit by the his experience and adaptability he has been elect- experience of their predecessors in avoiding the ed Editor of the 1905 Modnlus, which is to be thorns—or, at least, getting scratched as little as published next year. He is a broad reader and possible by them. we are sure he will get up a wideawake and in- Following this custom a meeting of the board structive department of reviews. was held May eleventh, at which the following Mr. Mullett, is without e'xperience upon the board was elected for the year 1903-1904. Technic staff, but has a wide acquaintance among 186 THE ROSE TECHNIC. the Alumni. Consequently he will have but little NCE more the commencement season is rap- trouble in obtaining articles for the Alumni 0idly drawing near. That time that calls department. forth, in the college man about to receive his de- Mr. Bland's work of the past few months speaks grees, such mixed feelings of joy and sadness. for itself in showing his ability to edit the depart- Joy, that he has successfully completed his work ment alloted to Athletics. in college and is about to enter some branch of the The Local Editors, Messrs. Falley and Wisch- world's work, far better equipped to meet the meyer, are two new men selected because of quali- vicissitudes and enjoy the pleasures of life than fications and experiences that are believed to well his less fortunate brother. Sadness. , because it fit them for such a position. means the breaking of fond ties, the desertion of The Artist,' Mr. Dorn, needs no introduction beloved haunts, and the necessity of making new or recommendation to the readers of the Technic, associations and friendships that can never take for its pages have often been beautified and its the place of those of our college days. articles illustrated with his sketches. At Rose we are naturally interested in who is Mr. Blanchard, the Business Manager, has fill- to deliver the Commencement Address, and in ed the position. of Assistant Business Manager which one of our elder brothers, that has trod since.February, in which capacity he has been of the same paths over which we have been toiling inestimable service to the Manager. With this the past four years, is to tell us of his experi- experience and .his wide acquaintance among the ences and allow us the benefit of his advice. business men of the city the financial side will be The Commencement Address this year will be well looked after. delivered by Dr. R. S. Woodward, Dean of the • Faculty of Science, Columbia University. Dr. of finances recalls to mind the fact Woodward is a man of no little renown, a polished SPEAKINGthat the past year has been one of the best and pleasing public speaker. He has chosen as ihe Technic has ever experienced, at least from a his subject "Education and the world's work of financial point of view. Usually it has been to-day," so we can look forward to a most inter- 'necessary for the Technic to call upon the Council esting and instructive address. for a special appropriation, with which to settle The Alumni Address is to be given by Dr. up its actual running expenses. Owing, how- Charles E. Mendenhall, who graduated from ever, to the good management its affairs have Rose in 1894, afterwards receiving the degree of received in the hands of Mr. Garrettson, it will Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. not only be able to pay all of its running expenses, Mendenhall is at present Assistant Professor of 'which have been somewhat heavier than usual Physics, University of Wisconsin. owing to the large amount of illustrating that . APIA has appeared this year, but has added two type- writers to its stock. IT is indeed gratifying and pleasing t6 have a I Board of Managers, at the head of The sources of revenue the past year have been: the Insti- Student's Council, $2147.70 tute, that is so ready and willing to do the hand- Alumni Subscriptions, 92.00 some thing, as did the board in regard to the re- Advertisements, 431.50 cent senior trip to Pittsburg. Every request was Total, . $$11.20 granted, and $200 was allowed to assist in de- This shows that out of nearly three hundred fraying the expenses. graduates only ninety-two subscribe for the The reception that the Alumni gave us in Pitts- Technic, less than one-third. This seems to us burg makes one rejoice that he is soon to be one to be a very small per cent indeed. Surely a of them. Every Alumni within a radius of 100 graduate does not loose interest in his Alma miles of Pittsburg left his business, and devoted Mater so soon. his time and-means to making every phase of the THE ROSE TECHNIC. 187 trip a success, and they certainly did. They are screen a chart, which looked very much like a all jolly, good fellows, every mothers one of pedigree sheet, that showed the division into de- them. partments from the President, through the vari- ous Vice Presidents, Superintendents and Engi- The members of the Institute, on Wednesday, neers down to the workmen in the shops. He April 29, had the pleasure of listening to a very pointed out the various schemes by which the interesting address, on "The Organization of stage of development of the smallest part of a Great Industrial Establishments," by Mr. A. L. machine could easily be determined by the heads Rohrer, Superintendent of Works, General Elec- of the departments. His talk was illustrated tric Company, Schenectady, New York. with many lantern slides of views about the vari- Mr. Rohrer reviewed the organization and mer- ous establishments of the General Electircal Com- ging of the several smaller companies into the pany. In closing, Mr. Rohrer told of the work General Electric Company. He threw upon the and opportunities for technical graduates. 188 THE ROSE TECHNIC. Photometrical Measurements. By PROF. C. L. MEES. HE rating of artificial light sources by pho- color of objects, practically, becomes the criterion T tometrical measurements has of late years of illumination.