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, A l.I . Ii , . , ,I ..I i , , - 2-M". Vol. LI,. No. 12 CAMBRIDGE, MASS., FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1941 Price Five Cents I I l INSTITUTE OPPOSES SUMMER SESSION 'Class Nominations Due Walker Staff I By Noon March 31 Senior Week Ball Planned March 20, 1941 Nominations blanks for class Option Sales To Technology Students:. officers must be in the hands of the For April 18 Recently the Office of Education in 'ashington Elections Committee by noon on Begin Monday asked the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Edu- Monday, March 31, according to a Five Hundred Bids cation to examine into the feasibility of engineering col- statement issued by Franklin P. Purchases To Start Sent Out To Alumni; leges accelerating their programs so that graduates could Seeley, '42, chairman of the com- In Lobby, March 24; mnittee, last night. The date of the Stars Gahan's Music be made available earlier to industry and the military services. The S.P.E.E. Committee, which included Dean elections have been set for April Price Set At $4.50 The seventh annual Walker Assem- Moreland, recently made its report. Its conclusions in 9. The sale of Senior Week options I)lies Ball with the music of Don brief were that it would be impractical and unwise for the Besides the nominations on the will begin on Monday, March 24, and G-alan's orchestra, has been planned engineering colleges to accelerate their programs except for standard form, each nominee must continue through Friday of the same foi- Friday, April 18th, from 10 P.M. to the Class of 1942. It suggested, with a number of reserva- submit to the committee a state- week, according to announcement by 3 A.M. in Morss Hall of Walker Me- tions, that the Class of 1942 could be graduated next ment on standard typewriter Robert S. Williams, 41, Chairran of inor0!ial. Five hundred bids to this February by attending classes throughout the summer. It paper giving his name, the office the Senior Week Committee. Options foi;Ji.lial dance have been sent to Tech- estimated the cost to the Federal government of such a for which he is running, his cu- may be secured from nine in the lologyn alumni in almost forty-eight program in all the engineering schools would be of the mulative rating, his activity list, morning till fve in the afternoon on E qtates and in five foreign countries. and a photoraph of himself. In these days in the Main Lobby of order of five million dollars and pointed out that the Building 10 or from any member of The evening's festivities will include addition to this, nominees for present program of short intensive courses to train men class presidencies are privileged the Senior Week Committee. a buff et supper to be served at mid- for national defense would be handicapped by the ac- to submit a statement of policy. Priced at $4.50, the options may be night and entertainment presented by celerated program. Moreover, the men who would be bought for cash or may be pledged 'Walker staff members and by some graduated earlier would not have as sound an education against R.O.T.C. checks scheduled to unannounced outside talent. Follow- as those who followed the regular schedule. Dorm 5E15 Dance arrive near the beginning of April. ing a custom initiated in 1934 when Redemptions will be made in early The Advisory Committee on Engineering Education May for another $8.00. the ball was first held, the decora- which has been called together by the Office Held Tonight At tions committee is to use royal purple of Education Miss Stevens to Draw Numbers as the principal color motif. approved this report and the matter now rests with the Bermuda Terrace (Continued on Page I,) Miss Meredith Stevens, Simmons Is Only Staff With BallI -- 31 Bunny Berigan Plays Senior who was recently "drafted" Boasting of the distinction of being I- into the Technology regiment as all the only student staff in any school to Research Shows You Sleep Like A Top For "Spring Frolic" Honorary Colonel, is to draw two hold such an annual affair, the Walker From 9:30 to 2 draft numbers corresponding to option staff members planned their dance Qualityq Not numbers onl Wednesday, April 9, at Quantity Is What Counts William F. Watkins, '42, and Louis with as little expense as possible al- 5 P.M. if current plans go through. Don't worry, men, if your sleep is, Some doctors contend that the loss A. Iacobacci, '42, co-chairmen of the thoug~h the budget has increased The numbers chosen will receive free broken up by water fights and such, of sleep is only slightly as important annual Dormitory 5:15 Club Spring yearly from that of 1934. With only Tedemptions worth $8.00, but in order for latest medical studies of large as many people think it is, but the dance committee have announced the the student members to do the work to be considered in the drawing, op- majority continue to agree that even names of those who .4*of the dance, the ball also maintains majorities of the citizenry of the are to chaperone tions must be paid for in full. moderate losses cannot be taken with the dance tonight uniqueness in that it has a restricted United States have shown that it's held in the Bermuda Sales of options this year have thuls a grin as many Tech men have (per- Terrace of Hotel Brunswick from 9:30 :bid list. the quality of our nocturnal pillow- (Continued on Page 4) haps inadvertently) undertaken to I P.M. to 2:00 A.M., featuring Bunny XPlans for the dance have been pushing that counts, not quantity. In prove. Stop the practice, boys, because Berigan and his orchestra, ; ~~(Continued on Page B0y other words, gentlemen, sleeping test subjects with one-quarter of their The list of chaperones is as follows: from high noon to high noon is no sleep withheld lost most of their Mr. and -Mrs. Walter H. Stockmayer, Alpha -PhiOmega good if you interrupt yourself to eat spontaneous effort, although routine Professor and Mrs. Donald C. Stock- an orange or close the window or to Jobs did not suffer. barger, Captain and Mrs. Edward C. Officers Elected Outin Club Plans prove F-ma. Now comes the revelation: The Harwood, Mrs. Karl T. Compton, Pro- Research shows also that the fellow secret, men, John E:. Gardner, 43, is relaxing; not just lying fessor and Mrs. J. Warren Horton, who confounds you with prodigious down for fifteen minutes to fret and Captain and Mrs. Arthur D. Caswell, I Chiosen To Head Skiers, Cyclists, stories of sleeping like a top wasn't fuss, but stretching out and relaxing Professor Leicester F. Hamilton, Pro- kidding -because the average human all the muscles Mr. McCarthy built Scoutinlg Fraternity Hikers, Horsemen fessor Avery A. Ashdown. and Mr. moves once in seventeen minutes; all up Elections of executive officers of for you, including the face muscles Jack Wood. To Take Short Trips of which gives the lie to the man who which so often are muscle bound in Alpha Phi Omega, National Scouting For the benefit of the large number says he slept like a log. Light, noise, that insipid grin the Profs love to Fraternity, were held at a meeting of The M.I.T. Outing Club's schedule of dancers expected to be present the anld eating fatty food before retiring see. If you can't rest go out and play the fraternity last Wednesday eve- for this weekend will offIer a -hiking dancing floor of the Bermuda Terrace increase the number of tossings in the fresh air, don't aggravate the ning in Tyler Lounge of Walker Me- trip, a riding trip, a cycling trip to a has been tripled. Tickets will be sold although they may not actually wake situation by tiring the brain thinking morial. rendezvous in the Blue Hills and for all day today in the lobby. If any the subject. yourself to rest. John E. Gardner, its skiing enthusiasts a ski trip to the tickets are available after the lobby Jr., '43, was I -I -. II Tufts Cabin planned. I. sale they will be sold at the door I elected the new president of the fra- ternity, and Daniel M. Schaeffer, '42, All of these trips will start in f ront Prof. Tallman Undergraduate Average tonight. Cf Walker Memorial, on Saturday was chosen vice-president. The other [Drops afternoon, March 22, at 1:30 P.M. In Fall Term positions were chosen as follows: Speaks At Smoker Maxwell H. Kaplan, '42, Secretary; LMAan A. Smith, '41, will lead the riding Showing a decline of 0.03 from Robert trip to the Hills, where they will meet Says U. S. And Britain last June, the general average of CQIor Portraits R. Imsande, '42, Treasurer; Robert B. Meny, '44, Historian, and tile hikers led by Fred T. Fleischauer, I Behind Germany the undergraduates for the first XE '42, and the cyclists under Bob Brown, i]e,- Aa-ulrice E. Taylor, 142, A1l~mn! Secre- I Ian Total Production term is 3.28, according to an an- Placed On VB at a rendezvous for supper. tary. Professor Gerald B. Tallman ad- nouncement by the Dean's Office New Type Photograph The Technology scouts are planning Two Ski Trips on Schedule dressed the members iof the 9: 15 yesterday. Recently Developed to cooperate in a Greater Boston ,The Technology skiers will leave I Club at their annual spring smoker Sigma Alpha Mu led the frater- scheme, under the National Defense ,Saturday for a weekend at the Tafts I Despite Difficulties held in Pritchett hall Tuesday after- nities with a 3.55, thereby regain- Program, of mobilizing the scouts in ,College Mountain Club Cabin at Plym- noon, March 18, on the subect of ing their position at the head of A new era in photography has been the New England region in case of .