March, 1896 Rose Technic Staff Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Rose-Hulman Scholar Technic Student Newspaper Spring 3-1896 Volume 5 - Issue 6 - March, 1896 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 5 - Issue 6 - March, 1896" (1896). Technic. 187. https://scholar.rose-hulman.edu/technic/187 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]. THE ROSE TECHNIC. VOL. V. Terre Haute, Ind., March, 1896. No. 6 THE TECHNIC. corps which is invaluable in any company of men striving for a common purpose, and the incentive BOARD OF EDITORS: thus given to contestants for a place on the team, Editor in Chief. adoption by 0. E. MCME A NS. point to the plan as one worthy of Issociate Editors. our athletic association. It may be argued that J. D. INGLE Alumni Rose men have heretofore cared little for the wear- C. H. FRY, ju. Athletics ing of such emblems, but it has been remarked at J. J. KEssi.Ea A. C. EnsTwooD Local other colleges where a similar indifference pre- J. J. McLELLAN vailed, that immediately the definite significance N. S. Kimma Exchange was placed upon the letters, the men who were W. R. SANaonx ..... Business Manager entitled to wear them were quite careful to do so. J. T. MONTGOM ER Y Assistant * HE idea of the organization of local clubs or TERMS. Tassociations of the alumni of Rose resident in One year, $1.00. Single Copies, 15 Cents. the large cities seems to be contagious. It is Issued Monthly at Rose Polytechnic Institute. Entered at the Post Office, Terre Haute, Ind., as second-class mall only two months since the minutes of the first matter. meeting of The Rose Tech' Club of Chicago, the NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. pioneer in this line, were published in this paper. Hereafter we shall follow the general rule regarding subscriptions, Since then very favorable reports have been and shall continue sending THE TECHNIC to subscribers until noti- fied to discontinue. received of its progress. We now have the pleasure of giving in another column the an- HE athletic season will soon be at hand with nouncements of the organization of similar Tall the activity which usually characterizes it clubs in the cities of St. Louis and Indian- here. It is very probable that the plan of closing apolis. It is plain that the representatives of all exercises at the Institute at five o'clock, which Rose in these cities know a good thing when they was so acceptable last year will be put in force hear of it, and with true American enterprise have during the coming spring term. This gives the proceeded to profit by it at once. We may ex- very best time in the day for training in outdoor pect to hear next from the New York City con- work. It is planned to utilize the hour on rainy tingent, which should swing into line although at afternoons with class work on the gymnasium present they can only muster enough members to floor, thus enabling all the men to keep in good comfortably distribute the customary offices with- condition no matter what the state of the weather. out doubling up. THE TECHNIC has made ar- In this connection a suggestion has been made rangements with the three clubs so far organized, which seems to have some value. It is, that the for the appointment of a special correspondent wearing of the initial "R" or the word "Rose" on from each one, who will not only furnish regular sweater or athletic shirt, be made a distinctive reports of meetings of the club but will catch and mark to which only those athletes shall be en- send in all other items of interest in alumni titled who have won a place for Rose in some of circles. We hope thus to be able to contribute in the Intercollegiate Meetb. As is well known, a as far as it is possible for us to do so, toward the rule of this kind prevails at all the larger eastern success of these worthy enterprises by furnishing institutions, and of late it is being taken up by a medium of communication between them and numbers of other colleges. The encouragement by giving to students and friends of the school of a healthy degree of college spirit, that esprit de information concerning their progress. 146 THE ROSE TECHNIC. EAD! Yes and officially buried at a time profit by them in the four short years when they Dwhen it should have been at the full height are his, will reap but a fraction of what the col- of activity and health. The sudden and almost lege has in store for him. The schools of the entirely unexpected demise of the Orchestral purely technical sort are by no means in the Club must be deeply mourned by students and front rank when examined from this standpoint. friends of the Institute, especially those who Not perhaps as far up in the scale as they should cherish a love for the divine art to which the club be when due allowance is made for the essential was professedly devoted. A post mortem ex- difference which exists between their work and amination seems to indicate as the cause of death that of the classical schools. In this respect Rose not a lack of inherent vitality, but rather a state is no exception to the rule in its class, but there of indifference among the individual members, have been heretofore at least two student enter- coupled with a want of energy and push in the prises to whose steady thrift and excellent record officers of the organization. It is almost certain the members of the Institute and its friends as that had a reasonable effort been made, there well have pointed with pride. We will not object would have been aroused and enlisted at least an if some are disposed to add a third. It is a mat- amount of musical talent equal to that of last ter of profound regret that of this all too limited season. At that time, although the prospects did number, one has succumbed to an attack of an ail- seem for a time somewhat dubious yet the results, ment no more deadly than "spring fever." While as shown in the annual concert, were fully up to it is perhaps too late now to attempt to give the the standard of former years. Under the circum- usual concert, there is no good reason why the stances it seems plain that the officers and those very pleasant feature of the last commencement, who have been most closely interested in the wel- the music by our own orchestra, should not be fare of the club are deserving of no small amount included this year. of censure. This is all the more true and at the same time hard to understand, from the fact that NDER the heading of "College Rowdyism" there are certain students of decided musical U The Earlhamite of March 2, has the following ability who have in the past been leaders in other to say: highly commendable student enterprises, that are "The columns of our daily newspapers during at this time freed from such other obligations. It the last two weeks have furnished excellent ma- is only reasonable to expect that such at least terial for texts to those who oppose higher educa- would step to the front and lend the weight of tion, and also grounds for protest and criticism to their influence toward the preservation of an in- the college public. Reference is made to the dis- stitution occupying such a high place in the life graceful class fights that have recently occurred of the Institute. at various colleges, two of which, it must be con- There are many features composing what is fessed are in Indiana—Wabash and Rose Poly- commonly called "college life" which are not technic. Class spirit is a very commendable and found in catalogues or courses of study, nor indeed healthy thing if it is confined to its legitimate in splendid buildings and completely equipped bounds, but if suffered to overstep them it be- laboratories. The strong spur to individuality comes pernicious and degrading, like any other and self reliance, and the opportunities for de- species of ruffianism. The fact that such scenes velopment of varied talents offered by student are enacted in institutions of learning is no excuse organizations, have in many cases proved to be in- for them, but rather a reason why they should be valuable elements in the training of the college the more severely rebuked. Such affrays are man and in the student life of the institution nothing more or less than riots, no more to be con- which he represents.