M N Hi\. t", v-k ? - 43-0 THE TEgCH now coming out "8_I , Tuesday and FMdap ,)- s rr~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Read your newspawr for Iee up to date Technologynow - Vol. ,I^VIIlNo. 7 CO"MBRIDGE:, MASS., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1948 A, VvAra -- - .- -1 -- -- KPRICE AUXILAMrrer rFly a VT J %ALa-E -- I II Radium Found Tech's Orchestra ia IPresents Concert Faculty Votes Overwhelmingly I In Building 22 on February28j I Doses Students' Technology's Symphony Orches- To Keep onpu sory Athletics tra under the direction of K1aus Radio Hams Exposed Liepmann will present its annualI To Dangerous Element winter concert on February 28. The concert is scheduled to begin at For I Reniainder 1.f ThisT Year For Nearly Two 8:30 p.m. at the auditorium Weeks of - s -- -- Y Three residents of the Building Rindge Tech High School. I| Freshman 22 dormitories were dangerously ex- This year the program will in- CLUB '50 MAESTRO Proposal clude Beethoven's 'alker InvadediI posed to a powerful dose of capsuled First Symlphony,I 11 . To Warrant Study the First Movement I radium for a period of over ten of Shabert's Fr 4taEe AiLYear days it was leaxned last Monday. Seventh Symphony, Bach's Double .By w omen Fitz Grice, '54, Robert Cesari, '50, Violin Concerto, and the Outdoor By FRANK MART, 151 and Daniel Farnsworth, '50, were Overture by Aavron Copland. "6Spring Fancy" Dance given blood counts at Homburg in- The admission price for this con- In a meeting held Wednesday, February firmary to make sure they had suf- |cert by, the Symphony Orchestra is Features Techtonians 11 18, the faeu'ty committee fered no ill effects from the dose, $1.20 and the tickets are now on turned down by a -vote of 101 to 400 women from nine women' incurred while working in one of sale in Building 10 and at the T.C;.A. 9 the freshman petition to discon- colleges in the Boston area will beI (Continued on Page 2) Ioffice in Walkrer Memorial. tinue the athletic program. or the present at the Dormitory Dance e present and until more forceful Committee's "Spring Fancy" on arguments can be presented the Saturday, MERMAIDS OF SMITH COLLEGE WATER BALLET February 28. The list of current Al and A2 courses will be schools includes Wlellesley, Brad- continuedc ford., Lasell, Pine Manor, Bostone Professor Rule, faculty advisor to University, I I Radcliffe, Emerson I the Student Faculty Committee, Sargent, and Simmons. n very ably presented the freshman Only 400 tickets are to be sold to arguments to the committee. It was I Techmen on a first-come-first- stated by members of the commit- served-basis, to insure a balanes tee that the freshman case was well between men and women. These prepared and presented but that tickets are available in the lobby I the arguments were outweighed by lof Building 10 and the TC.A. offie, other considerations. I and from Dance Committee mrm- No Time To Scrap Program I I bers. The price is $1.20 per person. Gene Dennis, whose orchestra wilU I In essence the faculty felt that providei music for dancing at theII Only Acquaintance Dance this was no time to scrap the new sophomore party March 12. program, especially since The Techtonians will play at the new equip. I Iment and instructors dance, which will be the only ac- will be avail- Soph Ticket Sales able soon to greatly facilitate the quaintance dance of the term. Come mittee Chairman present course. Ralph E. Segel, For Club '150 Start According '48$-stated that this would be an to Dean Everett U Baker the , excellent time for men to meet pose freshman petition will 11 Thursday, Feb. 26 now be presented to the C:ommittee 1- sIible dates for the coming full ,j on -Undergraduate . social calendar. WEEI's Sherm Feller Curriculum for n more lengthy study, with view to The To M*#C. Floor Show; entire Walker Memorial possible changes in the program b;uildiB has been reserved for the Gene Dennis To Play next year. 3 dance. An arrangement has been Ticket sales for "Club '50," the 4 worked out so that it is possible to Sophomore night Why Athlet;ics? club, to open at In addition to the question get from the floor to Pritchett. the Hotel Bradford. of the on March 12, freshman propoml.. qixuP--5 af JuavUur6c WY.Lunib monirsVUM-V1-Uw rb. Wwll commence next 'rnurscay, Febz |the faculty asked the The balconies will be open, but due ruary 26. The cover charge faculty meert Five mermaids from Smith Colege at "Club ing why suph a technical at Northampton, Mass., will partici- .to structural weakening dancing '50" will be $3.75 per school as pate in a water ballet at Alumni couple. Tickets Technology should require Pool on February 28. Two performances wil not be permitted on any bal- for Sophomores will be athletics. will be presented, one in the afternoon on sale on He was answered by the statement and one m the evening. conies in Walker, either for this or Thursday, Friday, and Saturday I I- I I c in that Technology requires Englis} any succeeding dances. the lobby of Building 10, while gen- eral and English is not actually "'tech- sales will begin on Monday, nical," Smith College Life March 1. the implication being that Guard Team both were required be'cause both Finals For Title Floor Show Planned were considered The very important. To grand ballroom of the Hotel In a statement SPut On Wcater- Ballet Here Bradford will made after the ,OCf Messiest Prof be converted for the faculty meeting Arthur Wasserman, On February 28, the Technology varsity swimming team will play night into the "Club '50," whch host to will Secretary of the Freshman Class, the Smith College Life Guard team. The girls will put on two, End Nest--It WVeelk provide dancing and feature a floor ballet performances lor Technology men, one at 4 p.m., and the other show, led by Sherman Feller of the (Continulec on -Page4) at 8 p.m., in the Alumni Pool. Tickets are $.90 and $1.50 respectively. Latest results in Vao Dools Messi- radio program Club Midnight. The "Tango," a luminous "lights out" performance, and other .est Office Contest show Professors Appearing nightly on station swimming stunts and exhibitions will be featured by the girls, under .Irving H. Cowdrey, Avery A. Ash- WEEI from midnight the to 1 ams' 5:15 Dance Toniht direction of Miss Gertrude Goss. At intermission, the Technology down, and George de Santillana in Feller's program features record. swimming U U -- team, clad in gay ninety I .the lead as building winners were spinning, humor, and interviews HigEjghts W~e1eked swim suits, will do a burlesque take- announced this week. Finals will with personalities such as Guy off of the girls' acts, Unlimited Course be held next week when the grand Lombardo, Jean Sablon, and Hazel Mansfield Orchestra For the past two years, the Smitb winner will be chosen by two un- Scott. Noted for his imitations of Plays At Birthlday Ball College team has borrowed the pool IChoice Is Probable easelozed outside Judges. local personalities, Feller will pre- for somewhat similar performances. Program Opens To Aid Bttildinlgs vary inl degree of gen- sent a floor show combining com- The 5:16 Club will hold its first This year, however, the Technology Frosh Course Selection era. eleaMiiess s-o that the winner edy and talent. big dance of the year tonight at varsity team invited the "life in one bleeding may not even qual- Music will be provided by Gene 9:00 p.m. in Morss Hall of Walker savers" to the pool for their act. In an effort to aid freshmen in I ify in another. In several cases it Dennis and his Orchestra, who have Memorial. rickets are on sale in the the selection of their course, a pro- I was repor ;ed that a professor must been held over for four consecutive lobby of Building 10, or if tickets gram designed to present the factsIwin because the other offices were (Continued on Page 2) cannot be purchased there, they about the various courses has been Iso far below par -that is, cleanli- will be available at the door of T.C.A. Moa Sell undertaken. Dean Thomas P. PitreIness ran rampant. PMorss Hall during the dance. and Professor John Rule, who is I Despite the lack of material in Committe Favors The dance, to be called Washing- Tech Cabin To Y in charge of the program, believe Isome sections a few professors man- ton's Birthday Ball, will follow the Recently, the TCA was informed that no course will be limited in en- aged to pile up an amazing assort- Students Seeing University of Massachusetts at Ft. by the Cambridge Y that rollment next semester. The only ment. In Building 1 Professor Cow- I Devens basketball game, also to be it would Marked Finals like to buy the Tech Cabin. If the problem facing the student is the drey won hands down while Pro- held in Walker Memorial. 5:15'ers YMCA presses this, there is little selection of his course. fessor Ashdown had the fortune to The Student-Faculty Committee advise men coming to the dance to the TCA. can do bout give in, as The program will consist of a be reported twice, once bay the inl- has endorsed a policy permitting also attend the basketball game and the Cabin is on Y property. series of -five lectures and various quirer assigned to Building 4 and students to see their marked final giveI their dates a double treat.