Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Rose-Hulman Scholar Technic Student Newspaper Fall 10-1909 Volume 19 - Issue 1 - October, 1909 Rose Technic Staff Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.rose-hulman.edu/technic Recommended Citation Staff, Rose Technic, "Volume 19 - Issue 1 - October, 1909" (1909). Technic. 292. https://scholar.rose-hulman.edu/technic/292 Disclaimer: Archived issues of the Rose-Hulman yearbook, which were compiled by students, may contain stereotyped, insensitive or inappropriate content, such as images, that reflected prejudicial attitudes of their day--attitudes that should not have been acceptable then, and which would be widely condemned by today's standards. Rose-Hulman is presenting the yearbooks as originally published because they are an archival record of a point in time. To remove offensive material now would, in essence, sanitize history by erasing the stereotypes and prejudices from historical record as if they never existed. 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 Technic by an authorized administrator of Rose-Hulman Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Vol,. X I X TERRE HAUTE, IND., OCTOBER, 1909 No. I THE TECHNIC stitute. Miss Heminway—as Miss Frances was quite generally called—has been a friend of the BOARD OF EDITORS Institute for many years. She was always inter- ested in everything that concerned it; was person- Editor in Chief professors, and NATHAN A. BOWERS ally acquainted with many of the in former years, when her health was better, used Associate Editors to take delight in having the Faculty members BEN. G. ELLIOTT Assistant Editor JAS. A. SHEPARD . Reviews and even students call upon her. She has always PAUL F. STOKES Alumni kept the memory of Chauncey Rose alive at Com- FRANK P. MooNEv Athletics mencements by having his portrait wreathed with Haien MEES . Locals CARL J. KRIEGER flowers. This tribute she never forgot, even long HERMAN J. MADISON Artist after she ceased to live in Terre Haute, showing El-ecutizr Department her ever-friendly interest by sending roses at F. H. KORNFELD .... Business Manager Commencement to be distributed among the mem- H. B. MESSICK Assistant Business Manager _ bers of the Board and Faculty. While freely spending the income from her TERMS One Year, $1.00 Single Copy, 15 cents large property, she was always careful not to lessen the original capital; indeed, she has prob- Issued Monthly at the Rose Polytechnic Institute ably increased it by reason of her dividends, and Entered at the Post-Office, Terre Haute. Indiana. as second- class mail matter. kept it intact with the intention of finally supple- menting Mr. Rose's endowment. She was very exact in the matter of her will, having it carefully MISS HEMINWAY. thought out to the minutest detail, even making changes in it shortly before her death. On Friday, June 25th, at 3 p. m., Miss Susan K. Frances died. Miss Frances was a distant relation of Chauncey Rose, and was the last of PROVISIONS OF THE WILL. his relations. Her mother, Mrs. Heminway, had made a home for Chauncey Rose in his last years In Article 8 of the will it is provided that the and received a large benefaction from him at his sum of $2o,000 be set aside for the creation of a death. This property naturally fell to her (laugh- fund, to be known as the Firman Nippert Memo- ter by her first marriage, and has now been rial Fund, for the Rose Polytechnic Institute, largely willed by her ( Miss Frances) to the In- the income from which shall be used to aid 2 THE ROSE TECHNIC. worthy students of limited means who attend the NIC begins with this issue we extend greetings, Institute. wish you a long and pleasant acquaintance, pledge It is later provided that the old homestead you the very best we can offer, and request your shall be preserved as a memorial to Sarah A. hearty support. Heminway, to be used for some purpose or department of the Institute forever. This month the leading article comes from a In the eleventh section the Institute is made '99 classman located in Schenectady, and is a re- residuary legatee of all the remainder of the print from The General Electric Review. It is estate, this also. to constitute a fund, known as not our custom to reprint, but the present instance the Heminway Memorial Fund, to be used for the is exceptional, and we are glad of the permission benefit of the Institute. to use this paper, believing that the subject will The Terre Haute Trust Company is made be of interest and value to all Rose men. trustee of the estate, and it is estimated that the residuary bequest will ultimately amount to from $350,000 to $400,000. The Institute will not re- We wish to call the attention of Alumni of ceive any considerable return from this benefac- classes '90, '91, '92 and '93 to the notice appear- tion for some time, but in anticipation of the ing elsewhere in this issue regarding the proposed benefits that will accrue from it, it is planned to Mendenhall memorial tablet. Certain members at once increase and improve the equipment and of the committee have put forth earnest effort to laboratory facilities. bring this matter to your attention, and as yet As to the disposition of the homestead, plans only a minority have responded. The plan is have not been definitely formed, but it is prob- surely most commendable, and we trust that those able that it will be used for museum and assembly whose names are not already listed will give this purposes, especially for the convenience of the matter their attention at once. various Polytechnic organizations, who will thus * * * * be provided with a down-town meeting place. THE TECHNIC wishes to extend greeting to The Heminway bequest will probably mark the three new members of the Faculty: Mr. the beginning of extensive changes and improve- Albert A. Faurot, librarian and instructor in Ger- ments the entire plan and organization of the of man; Mr. Claude H. Cary, instructor in Chem- There is no prospect of radical change Institute. istry, and Mr. Philip Heimlich, instructor in have plans been adopted as yet immediately, nor Drawing. for future extension. Mr. Faurot is a graduate of the University * * * * of Nebraska, receiving the degree of M.A., and For a long term of years no October issue has done graduate work in Germany. He served has appeared without an item in this department as librarian at Rose from 1896 to 1901, and ha, wherein the new editorial staff made their initial since been instructor in German at Morgan Park bow; and lest some may deem its absence a neg- Academy. lect, we explain. This year a new plan has been Mr. Heimlich graduated from a Technical followed, and the new staff undertook to edit a High School in New York City, and completed June issue in time for Commencement. In that the architectural course in the University of New issue can be found an outline of new policies and York, receiving the B.S. degree. a general statement of the plans of the staff for Mr. Cary comes from Middlesboro College, 19o9-1o. Connecticut, where he received the degree of B.A. To those whose acquaintance with THE TECH- in the scientific course in 'o9. THE ROSE TECHNIC. 3 TESTING OUTFITS FOR COLLEGE LABORATORIES By E. P. EnwARns, '99. Few of us possess more than a vague realiza- In normal years the testing force consists of tion of the magnitude and importance of our edu- between five hundred and six hundred men, rep- cational system and its far-reaching influence on resenting from seventy-five to one .hundred edu- the growth and progress of the country. cational institutions. These men are trained to A better appreciation of .the subject will be have .an intimate familiarity with every class of gained by a glance at the following table of electrical apparatus, and from their ranks the statistics: most capable are selected to fill positions in the engineering and commercial departments of the COLLEGES AND TECHNICAL SCHOOLS IN THE UNIVERSITIES, company. UNITED STATES. Number of institutions 500 This practice has met with such marked suc- Value of grounds and buildings $2.40000,000 cess that the company has extended its policy in Income (1905-1906) .40,705,120 an endeavor to reach, indirectly, the whole stu- Value of scientific apparatus 28,000,000 dent-body. The means adopted for accomplish- students enrolled 250,000 Number of ing this end may be enumerated as follows: Number of instructors 22,000 First—Laboratory sets have been developed With these figures before us it does not re- with particular reference to the varied require- qnire a vivid imagination to picture the mutual ments met with in the educational field. These advantage to be gained by close cooperation be- sets embody in the one piece of apparatus the tween these institutions and the representative salient characteristics of several commercial ma- manufacturing concerns of the country. Only by chines. The low price at which they are offered such cooperation can the educational institution places them within the reach of every technical keep abreast of the times and advance the best school. interests of its students. From the manufac- Second—Every consideration is given to re- turer's standpoint this is a "consummation de- quests for quotations on apparatus intended for voutly to be wished": for his recruits must be use in the laboratory or for purposes of instruc- drawn largely from the graduates of these insti- tion, and in quoting prices on such apparatus the tutions.