Ir ·-- 1. -- ' TH E TECH VOL. XXX. NO. 7 BOSTON, MASS., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1910 PRICE TWO CENTS PROFESSOR GURRIE ON C.E, SOCIETY TO VISIT INTERESTING SPEAKERS SOPHOMORE LOSE TO PORTUGUESE SITUATION LYNN GRADE CROSSINGI SECURED BY C,E. SOCIETY DEAN ACADEMY 5-6 I I Effect of Revolution On U.S. Prof. Breed Comsulting Engi- Plans for the Year Well Under New Football Rules Tried by Trade to be of No neer for the Work will Way---Meetings will be I i Institute Team for Importance Conduct Party Held Bi-Weekly First Time Professor Currier, head of the His- Next Saturday afternoon, weather The work of the several years in tory and Political Science Department, permitting, there will be an excursion, the Courses of Civil and Sanitary En- The 1913 football team took ad- suggests that the recent outbreak of under the auspices of the society, to gineering has started off in the usual vantage of yesterday's holiday to the revolutionists of Portugal may not inspect the work being done in abol- way, with no changes worthy of note. travel to Franklin and meet the team be a general uprising of the whole ishing the highway grade crossings The two upper classes have com- from Dean Academy there. Although people. The success of the new Re- at Lynn, Mass. In the very heart of menced the field work on the several defeated, the Sophomore men played public of Portugal depends ultimately the busy city of Lynn, at a point subjects requiring it, and the second an aggressive game throughout, and upon the character of the people and where daily half of the population of year class will start their piece of the score was in doubt until the final how they will be affected by "free- the city passes, the tracks of the Bos- work as soon as they have become moment of play. dom" of controling their own affairs. ton & Maine Railroad cross the main sufficiently familiar with the use of New rules were observed by both As is usually the case with upris- street at grade. To readjust the surveying instruments. sides, although the penalties seemed ings, this terrible outbreak at Lisbon street and railroad levels in order To many students the field work is to show that the 1913 men had ac- was the result of long smothering that persons may cross over or under the most attractive feature of Courses quired a better grasp of them than causes. Chief among these was the them, and to do this without stop- I and XI, for it gives them an oppor- their opponents. Two twelve-minute King himself. Professor Currier says ping traffic through the city, was the tunity for outdoor work once or twice and two ten-minute periods were he was wholly unfitted to rule, a problem that confronted the engi- a week, and so breaks the monotony played. weakling and dissipated to an ex- neers. Changes in the grades of nine of the steady grind of class and draw- The game was called at promptly treme. different streets have had to be made ing room work. The classes are kept 3.30. Tech won the toss and those to With regard to the advisability of to meet the new conditions. The cost at outdoor work until the weather be- defend the north goal. On the kick- the United States recognizing the new ofI this improvement, which is already comes uncomfortably cold, and then orf, Eichorn at full-back, received tile Republic, Professor Currier compared half-finished, will be about one million during the winter months the results ball, but 1913 men lost it on a fumble the situation to that of the year 1870, dollars. An additional factor of inter- of the work are calculated and plotted after the first few plays. Dean then the time of the establishment of the estII is lent by the fact that Professor in class. made a long end run and scored a French Republic. In three days our C. B. Breed of the Civil Engineering The fourth year class in Hydraulics touchdown soon after; goal was government recognized the new Department has been consulting engi- is now engaged in practice in gaug- kicked and the score stood 6 to 0 in favor of Dean. change, but with Portugal, Professor neer for the project. Saturday will be ing the flow of streams. The greatest No more scoring took Currier did not believe such immedi- an excellent time for one to see this experimental work is being performed place in this period. ate action advisable. Our economic work, since how the problem is being on the Merrimac Canal at Lowell, 1913 kickied off in the second period, conditions will be little affected by solved will be explained to those who Mass., under the instruction of Pro- and a few mninutes later Wilfert, 1. h., the new situation. Our entire trade choose to join the party. fessors Porter, Russell and Barrows. punted 45 yards over the quarter- with Portugal does not compare even Professor Breed will accompany the Locating and surveying a railroad back's head. Fallon, 1. e., got the ball and carl ied it over for a touchdown. favorably with that of the city of Bos- party and point out the different line through the towns of Wellesley ton. There are many Portuguese in places of interest. and Needham is the work of the Wilfert failed to kick goal. During this section of the country, but the third year students in Railroad Engi- the remainder of this period and all through the next two, both teams only effect they may bring about will neering. The supposed line is to con- fought stubbornly and neither could be purely sentimental and of second- nect the Boston & Albany tracks in come within ary importance. the vicinity of Wellesley Hills with scoring distance until a I NEW MUSICAL CLUB the New York, New Haven & Hart- few minutes before the close of the I ford line near Needham Junction. game, when 1913 punted out of Last week the whole class went over bounds, the ball going out near the AERO DEMONSTRATION Tech Orchestra Organized Onthe ground thoroughly with Profes- Dean goal line. Some discussion oc- sors Allen and Breed, making what is cu-rred here. but finally Dean was technically known as a reconnois- given the ball. The game ended with Tech Club of Merrimack Valley Permanent Basis sance. The reconnoissance is the the ball near- the centre of the field, first trip made by the party whose with the score 6 to 5 for Dean. For duty it is to lay out such a line. It 1913. Eichorn at full-back, and Goff Plans Aeronautical Reunion An organization, to be known as the is a rapid survey made without the at right lal[, played excellently gain- at right half, played excellently, Massachusetts Institute of use of the regular surveying instru- gain- Technol- to carry !he ball. The subject of aeronautics is not ogy Orchestra, held its first rehearsal ments, but with reference to the best available maps of the region. Grades, I only attracting the attention of the last Tuesday afternoon, under the men here at the Institute, but other highway crossings and various ob- graduates also are showing a keen in- leadership of R. Eksergian 1912. The stacles are noted, to be considered terest in the subject. An aeronauti- object of the orchestra is to get to- (Continued on Page 3.) cal reunion of the Technology Club of gether fellows who play instruments COLUMBUS DAY PARADE the Merrimack Valley is the latest en- other than those in the banjo and I thusiasm of the alumni. mandolin clubs. At present the plans BASKET BALL MANAIGER n Yesterday, for the first time in Bos- On Tuesday afternoon, October 18, BASKET BALL MANAGER -uton, Colunbus day was officially cele- the club will meet at the Vesyer are somewhat indefinite. If the club brated. The chief event of the (lay Country Club, Tyngsboro, Mass., from proves a success, which will be deter- was rle monster parade which mined after 2 to 8 o'clock, to discuss the subject. a few rehearsals, it is to Owing to the fact that last year's started at noon and marched through give concerts, as do the mandolin and The Tech Aero Club will give a dem- manager of the basketball team, A. T. nliny of the princilal downtown onstration of soaring, and the remain- banjo clubs. Men who play orchestral streets. This parade was probably instruments Bennis, did not return to the Institute tle h;'gest and finest der of the afternoon will be devoted of any kind are strongly that has been to golf and tennis. urged to attend the next rehearsal, this Fall, another man must be chosen seen in Boston for some time past. It which will be held in the Union on to fill his place. The men will be toolk in all about two hours and a half Dinner will be served about 5.15 Tuesday, October 18, 1910, at 4 P. M. o'clock, at $1.50 per plate. Professor sharp. elected by competition, and anyone il passing a single point. Besides Abbott Lawrence Rotch of Harvard many floats, which pictured a number The following men reported: wishing to try for the position is re- of historical subjects, thousands of University, president of the Harvard quested to apply to T. B. Parker 1911. men from the warships and from the Aeronautical Society, founder and di- Violins: C. M. Berry 1914, T.