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For catalogues or further information address The University of Rochester Rochester, N. Y. TABLE OF CONTENTS A Proposed Rendezvous Off-campus (Corwin). ................. 3 University Opening and Registration. ......................... 4 Charles A. Platt.... ......................................... 6 Personality of the Swinburne Boulder (Fairchild). .............. 7 A Distinguished Physicist. ................................... 8 Two Coming Alumni Parties....... ........................... 8 Out of the Pages of the Past. ................................. 9 Perkins on the Monroe Doctrine-A Review (Vallance).. ..... .. 10 Fraternity Scholarship Cup Retired. ......................... .. II Class of '80 Reunes and Philosophizes (Lansing). ............. .. 12 Hereditary Influences in Freshman Class. .. .. ................. .. 12 Chicago's New Contribution....... ......................... .. 13 President's Report Ready... ................................ .. 13 Editorials.. .. ............................................. .. 14 Central Alumni Luncheon.. ................................ .. 16 University to Finance First Scientific Expedition. ............. .. 16 Athletics-Gridiron Vicissitudes (Lawless).. ..... .. .......... .. 17 Basketball Schedule. ... .. ................................ .. 18 State Conference Meeting , 19 Campus Crisps. ........................................... .. 19 Numeral Notations. ....................................... .. 20 In Memoriam. ............................................ .. 23 G-E Campus News phototube receives less light and indicates an increase in density. An adjustable electric contact is provided to operate an alarm. (A running record of the amount of smoke passed .oo". ~ up the stack can be obtained by adding a _~,- ~i y recorder.) Thus, the "electric-eye," which is not affected by cinders and is never closed in TALK FOR TRAINS sleep, has found another way to be of service. N a track near Schenectady, a few weeks Two G-E engineers, W. R. King and Pieter ago, several visiting trade-journalists sat Juchter, developed this new smoke-density inOa test car. From a loudspeaker in this car indicator. King is a '28 graduate of the U. of came a running stream of information. The Kentucky, and Juchter a '24 graduate of the voice was that of a G-E engineer in a "station" Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, a half-mile down the track. Sample remarks: Zurich, Switzerland. "Believing that we could help railroads to speed the movement of freight trains, G.E. has now produced this device - a new system of communication. It's not radio, but, in principle, direct telephony. It's a distant cousin of the carrier-current communication that power companies use. They talk over the power lines; we use the rails, plus any wire line along the track. Now, the man in the caboose can talk with the man in the cab. It abo works between trains up to 5 miles A RONTGEN WARRIOR apart, and between trains and stations. Loud. OR the doctors who are waging continuous speaker reception overcomes the train noises. warfare against the dread, lurking specter Can you hear me all right?" They could. Fof cancer, G-E research men believe they have Dr. Ernst Alexanderson, a G-E Consulting provided another shining sword. Again they Engineer, is responsible for this development. have produced the most powerful x-ray tube He is a 1900 graduate of the Kungliga Tek­ ever built- this time, for continuous opera­ niska Hogskolan, Stockholm, Sweden. Inci­ tion in practical cancer therapy at the Mercy dentally, a partial indication of his versatility Hospital, Chicago. Dr. E. E. Charlton, Grin­ in engineering design will be found in the nell College, '13, is the man who directed the U.S. Patent Office, through which he has been production of this tube. granted more than 200 patents. The giant tube (brother under the glass to those in your radio) measures more than 14 SMOKE IN THE EYE feet in length, is rated 800,000 volts, will treat ..l N eye in the stack is worth two on the patients in a fraction of the time required by .a ground. So thought G-E engineers as they the last "most powerful" one, has x-ray finished mulling over the smoke-nuisance radiation equivalent to $75,000,000 worth of problem of power and heating plants. radium (if there is that much!) and needs 20 A light source and a photoelectric-relay unit gallons of Lake Michigan's coldest water every were installed in stacks in Chicago and New minute to keep cool. Jersey. They are so arranged that when the It's a pleasure to make good motors and good stack is clear, light falls on the phototube; a lamps. It's a greater pleasure to help R meter or recording instrument registers zero alleviate human ills-all in the line «~ ~ smoke density. As the density increases, the of duty! More tubes are on the way. .......... 96-4FBI GENERAL~ELECTRIO Rochester Revie"\V OF-BY-AND FOR THE ALUMNI OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Vov. XII OCTOBER--NoVEMBER, 1933 No.1 A Proposed Rendezvous Off-campus for Students and Faculty By GEORGE B. CORWIN University Y.M.C.A. Secretary For several years there has been brewing sports and hikes and for other out-door in the minds of a few members of the activities in the spring and fall, as well as faculty and the student body an idea that enjoying the opportunities for genuine fel­ there should be a place, not too far from lowship with members of the faculty away the University, to which small groups of from the whirl of college life. faculty men and students might go for Plans are being discussed for the careful week-ends, to enjoy the out-of-doors and supervision and financing of the enterprise. the fellowship that comes around a glowing There is sufficient interest to warrant the fire on a winter's night. committee's considering property on which Dr. Edwin Fauver, head of the physical is no existing building. If such a place education department, has probably been be found, the cabin would be built by the one man whose interest in this idea has students and faculty men themselves under been most persistent from its inception, and skilled direction. Assuming that there is he is now seeing the project accepted by an a building on the site finally decided upon, increasing number of individuals~ Want­ it would be rebuilt to meet the require­ ing very much to see the idea become a ments. reality, a group of students and faculty The desirability of having such a place leaders were called together at freshman available has been discovered by colleges camp this September to di~cuss the P?ssi­ other than Rochester. Cornell, Oberlin, bilities of going ahead WIth the proJect. Penn State, Wesleyan and Dartmouth have Backed by unanimous opinion of the need their cabins, which are reported to be in and desirability for such a place, a small constant use and of great value. committee has been appointed and is in the process of examining student opinion, look­ ing at places that have been suggested, studying cabin plans and formulating means whereby the project can be financed and supervised. The personnel of this committee includes Arthur Ticknor, '34, Grover Bradstreet, Jr., '34, J. Lawrence Hill, Jr., '28, of the engineering department, Carl· Lauterbach, '25, Todd Union director, Roman Speegle, of the physical education departme?"t, T. Richard Long, '20, of the mathematICS de­ partment, Dr. Fauver and George. B. Cor­ win, chairman. It has already dIscovered an interest in the project, both on the part of student organizations and individual students, that has been exceedingly encour­ Chairman Corwin aging. The organizations would plan to use the place for week-end outings, taking The committee is in need of further advantage of the opportunities for winter suggestions as to possible sites and would 4 ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW appreciate the counsel and assistance of any water, for swimming and skating, it feels alumni to whom the idea has an appeal. would be desirable, although not absolutely The committee has agreed that the site essential. ought to be within a half-hour's driving There is an element of urgency in this time of the college; that it should provide request, as those of us most interested feel opportunities for hiking and skiing; that that there is no point in delaying consum­ there -should be good drinking water; and mation of the project.