A Record of Off;'I ;; i Continuous News Service 4,oI. ;;~ Undergraduate News Organ for 43 Years -Pk of Technology Vol. XLIV No. 18 CAMBRIDGE, MASS., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1924 Five Cents I VARSITY TO RACE SYRACUSE FRIDAY EX-PRESIDENT NICHOLS DIES WHILE ON SENECA RIVER DELIVERING LECTURE-PROFESSOR Oarsmen To Entrain Tonight so As to Have Thursday for Practice HOFMAN STRICKEN BY PARALYSIS VALENTINE IS AT STROKE PROFESSOR HOFMAN EXPERIENCED BREAK Crews Put Through Stiff Work- out In Prepration For SICK EVER SINCE SOON AFTER BEING Syracuse Race A FORMER ATTACK CHOSEN PRESIDENT Atter a sojourn of onlv three days here the Varsitv crew will leave for InI Charge of Department Syracuse tonight where they will race off End Came Unexpectedly Durin g the Orange on the one and one quarter Mining and Metallurgy Lecture at Academy of nile Seneca River course on Friday For Seven Years Science Meeting afternoon. During the last three days the crew has been going through the AUTHOR OF MANY BOOKS samne routine of practice which was DEATH SURPRISE TO ALL characteristic oI Coach Bill Haines' preparation for the Navy. Tile lineup Recognized as an Authority on Inauguration. as President of of the crew has been unchanged since Subjects of Mining the Navy race Awith Valentine at stroke, and Technology Took Place who replaced Greer in this position a. Metallurgy the last hour. The crew will not take June 8, 1921 their own shell as the expense incurred l) transporting a shell is very exces- Dr. H. O. Hofnian, Professor Enleri- Officials at tile Institute were gy.:'atly sive. Howvever. the sweeps and swiv- tus of Mining and Mctallurgy and for- shocked yesCter(lay morning when thiey elswill be taken along. mer head of the department, died at received the follo0ving !cehgramirom This shifting from one shell to an- his home in Jamaica Plain Monday President Straitton: other has made it rather hard for the W~:ashington, D).C. crew to get used to any one shell. Ac- morning from a l)aralytic stroke. Pro- Ex-presidelnt Nichols died .u(hlt'cnly cording to Coach Haines the crew is fessor Hoflman had blen ailing for some this nmorning xwihile delivering an address handicapped a great deal 1by this as time, an attack similar to the one before the National Aca(ldcmil of Scien-ne the mien have to learn by experience wvhich caused his death received ill 1921 Have flag at half mliast. just howt to balance a certain boat. was the cause of his retirement as a Dr. Nichols \xwas a(ldrtri,g,,:-g tinTI;h,- "Down on the Severn at Annap)olis the member of the faculty of the Institute. tiolal .- \Acadely of Scienleft iI the I,:111. crew used a Navy shell and it took sev- He was born in Heidelberg, Germany ir'g' al 'otolnac Park vhici' t'rt-s'~ct,;H eral days before the nien were coni- o01 August 13, 1852. and most of his Coolidge dedicate(l yester(day,. H~. haId fortal~e in that shell. Coming home ::ducation yeas gained ill Germall schoolI j;st turned to a chart illustr;:ii;. 11,. their old shell did not seen' the same anled universities. He received his E. .ull-ject le was discussing whell ]t'ht, - and for the last few days they have M. and Met. E1.degrees from the Prus- denly similled to the flor- . "'AI beengettin. g acquainted with their own ,4an School of Mllnes at Clausthal in Nichols and several phlvvici(-an< who'e -' . )oat. said Bill Haines. "Now we are 1877 and 12 ye-ars later received his de- in tile audience rulshe(l to ihv ldatl/iorim going to Syracuse and will race in a zree of doctor of philosophy at Ohio blit lie was leyond medical ao(l. H i shell in which we have only one day to University. lad a b)reakdown several practice in."' Despite this 'handicap yea ;irg,,.t.d the Wrote Many Books I since then has suffered f'mlm hyart a1 crew made a fine showing at Annapolis For 12 years after his graduation DR. EIRNEST FOX NICHOLS tacks. He is survived 1]whis wi&w(1w against the Middles, the time being es- I - from the School of Mines. Professor - and a dauighter. Hofman served as a practicing metal- I President Stratton has gone to Wa,,- (Continued on1 Page 3) . lurgist. In 1887 he came to the Insti- MINER WILL GIVrEg inlgton1 to attend the (ledication ('tmt-- tute as a private assistant to Professor Notice of Coop ollies and it is believed thiat he wV/as CLASS NOMINATIONS TO R. H. Richards and as a special lecturer present when Dr. NichIols colla,, (1l. in metallurgy-. He was promnoted to ALDRED LEC'TURE I Theft Disturbs DeanF H. P. Talbot '05 said ycstcr(l;.. BE INBY END OF WEEK Assistant Professor of Mining in 1889 "The death of Dr. -Nichols was aI gre-.l and in 1891 was made an Associate Pro- Manager's Sleep surprise to all who knew h'in iI,r. Jti- fessor in that subject. "The Business of Enginieering" though le had been il il] heatl!] joir Nonmillations for the various class of- i From 1898 to the time of his retire- Subject of A. H. Ro sonie tinle, such a sud(Iden decease lwais ficers for the three lower classes are mentl in 1914 he served as a professor gers' entirely unexpected. The circumslaut, s due at the Information Office. I room 10- aand in 1914, due to the death of Pro- Talk This Week Amateurs Get Away With Ten attending his breakdown indicate(fhat 100, betwveen9 o'clock Friday and 12f 4 fessor Richards, was made head of the Dollars From Store lie had worked too hard( of ];ite ,,,14 o'clock Saturday. The nomination ddepartment of Mining and Metallurgy. Allen H. Rogers 90, a promin wvas completely wvorni Ipapers must be in the standard form ap- aellt con- After Scare out. I c;t; :i;l;- Dr. Hofman was the author of hume- sulting Iililg engineer, will giAve the cerely express on the p)art <,flht J]')- )roved bv the Institute Comnn ittee, and rousr books and treatises on his chosen tenth lecture of the Aldred series in1 stitute the deepest sy~ml)athlx i fr 'd7:;. e signed 1)3'10 menrhers of the class subject,s best known among which are room 10-250 Fridav at 3 o'clc Nichlcols and and by the candidate. ock. He At about I o'clock last Sunday moril- her daulghiter." The form is 'Metallurgical. Chemistry.. "Metallur- has chosen The Business of E \V. A. Ross, General Secretary of 1tt ixen in the T.C.A. handbook. t xngineer- ing A. G. Noyes. manager of the Tech- gv of Iron and Steel," "Metallurgy of ing" as the topic of his address;,and has T. C. A., stated, "It was mly good for- Besides the usual list of candidates Lead,"I "Metallurgy of Copper," and a had a wide expericnce in thee nology Branch of the Harvard Coopera- ach b)allot will also contain mlgiineer- tillu e to serve uider Dr. Nichols for an amend- I:book entitled "General Metallurgy." ing profession to draw on. tive Society was awakened to answ er iotir years as Graduate Secretary oi lent to the Constitution to be voted on He was verv well known in SCiCn- Mr. Rogers is a mem-ber of all old a telephone call informing him that the thle 1)artmotith Christian Associ;l',ion. y all four classes. "The Chairman tifict circles and was a member of a New England family being a f the Walker Memorial descend-- store had just heen robbed for the Committee 1 large nmnber of societies. He was a ant of Peregrine White, one of thet May-\ (Continued on Page 4) hall be an ex-officio member of the memberr of the American Chemical So- flower passengers, and was l second tinme this vear. According to Executive Committee of the Institute c ciety, the Anlerican born in Institute of Metals Marshfield. Mass., in 1871. J 1)011t Illis Mr. Noyes. he iiiiinediately dressed and Io'lmittee"is the motion to be voted tthe American Institute of Mining and graduation front Technology I in 1890 hoppedI onto his trusty bicycle and dis- I m. No room has been obtained as a Metallurgical Engineers, the British In- he went to Arizona wit} Pheip SOPHOMORE MILITARY as stitute Is. Dodge regardingII all traffic regulations. without of Metals and the American In- and Company. a mining conec:ern. He stitute of University Professors. The renained in the West until 1906 even a tail light, he made a bee linle MEN BUILD TRENCHES r 6 serving for the store. Upon finding that remains will be cremated at the Mass- with the American Sn....h;i... I -0.1. ...... .. ... 1___ I- ......IwI rlNUXhAl bU ,lil T IU achusetts Crernatorv at Forest Hills .... .... n I :his afternoon. ''tundoremehsiebr.Tile heR. 0. T. C. unit somes prac11~.tl (Continued on Paze 4) intruders had oinh-succeeded ill HOLD DANCETOMORROW ahl- experience in warfare construcl lm scoutling w\Aithialout tenl dollars iln toe i ie C encl W lfIC 1t cash. E ngineer Folowxving the policy of last IUnitsw ill be given an olpipm'- year, SeniorSubmits Check to Fulfll Thepair entercdby tlee door, tunity to cngage ill th actuak wrL: . IC ecT ilology Meno rah Soci etyw ill !)ryingb ac k theiron l gratin g Oi l the tren ch hilding. Y esterdavi nor.ing oldits ann ual dan ce tomorrow even- inside Of th e door an db reak ile tile1 ii gineers ere iurnished -.