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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Rose-Hulman Scholar The Rose Thorn Archive Student Newspaper Winter 2-1903 Volume 12- Issue 5- February, 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 5- February, 1903" (1903). The Rose Thorn Archive. 1080. https://scholar.rose-hulman.edu/rosethorn/1080 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., FEBRAURY, 1903. No. 5 At the same meeting, Mr. Paul E. Turk, '06, THE TECHNIC. was elected Local Editor from the Freshman BOARD OF EDITORS. class, and Mr. Ralph C. Blanchard, '05, to the Editor in Chief, position of Assistant Business Manager. Both of H. BLAIR PETTIT. these gentlemen were selected because of special Associate Editors, FRED. B. LEWIS, Assistant Editor qualifications that fit them for their respective 'J. BOUDINOT HUNLET, Reviews positions. WILLIAM D. INGLE, Alumni J. 0. BLAND, Athletics The board extends to all these new members a L. A. TOUZALIN, GEORGE BENSON, Local hearty welcome, and wishes each the greatest PAUL E. TURK, success in their several lines of work. ALFRED N. AUSTIN, Artist Executive Department. AAA ROBERT F. GARRETTSON, Business Manager RALPH C. BLANCHARD, Assistant Business Manager BOUT once or twice a term during the past custom to meet TERMS: A few years it has been our several speeches, de- One Year, $1.00. Single Copy, 15 cents. together and, after having Issued Monthly at the Rose Polytechnic Institute. cide that we would take a greater interest in ath- Entered at the Post Office, Terre Haute, Indiana, as second-class mail matter. letics and work harder for our teams. At every meeting of this kind enthusiasm was evident, and INCE our last issue there have been several for a week after we were wont to boast of what S changes in the personnel of THE TECHNIC we were going to do, and support our teams by staff. Mr. Irving J. Cox, '03, who has been yelling until a defeat would throw us back into Athletic Editor for the past two years, feeling the old rut of shiftlessness. that he is not so much interested in athletics as Now we have had another meeting, and it is . heretofore, tendered his resignation, which he an open question how long our enthusiasm will urged be accepted. The resignation was reluc- last from the effects. We believe that this meet- tantly accepted by the board, and Mr. John 0. ing marks a great change in athletics at Rose. Bland,'05, was elected to fill the position of Ath- The following reasons lead us to think that en- letic editor. thusiasm will be maintained. In the first place Mr. Bland is Secretary of the Athletic Associa- a "Rooters' Club" has been formed. Now, the tion, and has always shown great interest in all functions of this club will give it a vast influence athletic sports. He has very creditably repre- in doing a great part towards making athletics at sented the Institute on both base ball and foot Rose a success. The Rooters' Club is to be the ball teams. By virtue of his position of Secre- backbone of athletics. Its support will be prin- tary he is kept well informed in regard to all ath- cipally to arouse enthusiasm, for if we have great letics at Rose, and from present prospects should enthusiasm we will never be troubled financially. be able to give us some very interesting reading The enthusiasm shown at this meeting led the in his department. Council immediately to appropriate two hundred 108 THE ROSE TECHNIC. V dollars to the Athletic Association from the Re- proud of having had the honor to win one, and serve fund. The second reason for believing of having belonged to one of the school teams. that the good old times are returning is the fact It will not only do you a great deal of good, but that the Athletic Association has shown itself to the teams as well. be wide awake. A sum has been set apart for AAA each branch of athletics, a competent coach has HE TECHNIC is in receipt of the following been engaged for our base ball team, and im- T communication: provements have been made in apparatus, and in Rooters Club? Fine thing. Just what we need. Cheap, keeping up the gym. too; nothing needed but practice and wind. Now fellow-students, it is your duty to belong I will give three Rose pennants for the three best yells to at least one party. If you are not going to handed in to THE TECHNIC within the next two weeks. The decision as to merit being made by a take an active part in athletic contests, then you committee ap- pointed by THE TECHNIC. A. STUDENT. are not loyal to Rose unless you join the Root- THE TECHNIC will give the names of the win- ers' Club. Here, then, is the chance for every ners in the next issue. Kindly hand in yells to man to do his share. You must be either an L. A. Touzalin. Athlete, a Rooter, or both. In order that all may become members of the club, one man in each class will be appointed to take the names E are very sorry to note that the bulletin and subscriptions of new members. Then but- W announcing the "Modulus" dance, which tons, megaphones, etc., will be purchased and has just been given, was taken down from the enough money will be left to help out athletics bulletin board and maliciously purloined. Such when the time for help arrives. Mass meetings an act is unpatriotic and disloyal to the school will be held in the gym before games and speeches We think that it would be well to state here that will be made and yells practiced. In this way the "Modulus" is not an institution of the Class the Rooters' Club will keep enthusiasm at a high of '05 alone, but is in keeping with an estab- pitch and do all in their power to place old Rose lished custom of the Rose Polytechnic Institute. at the top once more. It is a book representing the school, for the school, of the school, and by the school. It is Jlett authorized by the Faculty, and the person re- HOSE of our athletes who are entitled to an ferred to above has, by his act, done considerable T "R" should wear it on their shirt or sweater. harm to the book, and also offered an affront to Since the new rule has been established in regard the whole school. In the future, please leave all to insignia, the "R" is much more valuable, and is such matters severely alone, and so keep out of full of meaning. Wear it and show that you are serious trouble. THE ROSE TECHNIC. 109 MANUFACTU or WELDED TUBES BY F. C. WAG NER HE ordinary iron and steel pipe in commer- greater than the mean circumference of the metal T cial use are made from strips of iron or steel of the finished pipe. It was then placed in a long bent up into cylindrical form and welded. The narrow furnace and heated to a good red heat. welded joint may be made either by butting the When at the proper temperature it was drawn edges of the plate together or by lapping them. through a suitable die and bent into a trough- The pipe are hence commonly described as butt shaped form. The cross section of the shaped weld pipe, or as lap weld pipe. Butt weld pipe plate, commonly called a "skelp," was approxi- are commonly made in the small sizeS from one- mately a circle cut through and opened out a lit- eighth inch up to two inches, and lap weld pipe tle. The mechanism used for bending was a bell- are made in the larger sizes, running from two mouthed die with a concentric mandrel. The and a half inches to twenty inches or more. mandrel was held in place by a rigid arm extend- The process of manufacture has developed ing outward on the side toward the advancing gradually, each new step diminishing the cost of plate. The plate was pulled from the furnace by production. One line of development has been an ordinary pair of hand tongs and brought up in the furnaces used to heat the iron strips up to to the mouth of the shaping die. It was then a welding temperature. The early furnaces used seized by a powerful pair of tongs carried by a solid fuel, such as poke or anthracite coal.