RELAYS FINALS SATURDAY CIILlfORNl1I TECH AGAIN Ctllifflrnitl Institut, flf Tec/IHfllfllY Volume L. _________ Thursday, March 10, 1949 -------__________ No. 20 Snakes Sallg From Seclusion Caltech Plans Arts "Earth's Period Decreasing," To Stirring Sorb Spectacle ~4~~~c:~~l~~~: has announced its plans for an Gloria Murphy Stars, Other Thespians' Include all·Tech Arts and Crafts Show to Astronomer Ro~al Asserts Carl Fox, Carl Price, Jim Hendrickson, Sis Stabler be held on the campus April 6 Proving again that all Pasadena stage talent does not reside at through April 9. the Playhouse, our Cal tech thespians outdid themselmes again this Last Year year in their annual production, " Ma id in the Iceplant," presented Last year the Club sponsored Eagleson Prints ~ Nights Of Perpetual Full Moon Thursday and Friday evenings at Culbertson Hall, involved a fine arts show at which more Sorbian intrigue, brass corsets, bananas, and the coed system on than sixty professors, students, the roommate plan. <t------------- office workers and their families To Be Exhibited Will Be Result Of Tidal Friction Accel.ts Post exhibited paintings, sculpture, photographs and dra wings. This British and American Educational Systems Contrasted; It all started when Gen. Erd The extensive collection of Opportunities for Graduat'"s in Astronomy Mentioned gang von Graustark accompanied Pr811j Chosen In year the scope of the show has Japanese prints owned by Dr. By Bob Kurland by his daughter Annelida, ac been increased to include pot· Eagleson will be on exhibit at lery, weaving, cabinetmaking, "Atomic" clocks may soon replace the earth as a standard cepted the post of Regent of Blacker Elections the Pasadena ' Art Institute the Undergraduate Teapot at the metalwork and other handcra.fts. timekeeper, according to Sir Harold Spencer Jones, British Astron~ Monday's riot in Blacker was Many Eligible through March 28. In addition orner Royal. California Institute. Gen. von not a water fight with Ricketts. Graustal'k had traced the infa Entries will be accepted from to Dr. Eagleson's prints, the Art I nter view Elections were with us again! any students or employees con· Institute will also display its Sir Harold, in an interview after his Friday assembly talk, mous international criminal With twenty-two candidates run­ Gregori Meuhlenberg, who he nected with Caltech, Mt. Wilson own collection, recently aug­ "The Earth as a Clock," also gave his views on American and Bl'it~ ning for offices, the remainder of and Palomar Observatot'ies, Jet ish educational systems, post-graduate opportunities for Cal­ quested around the world to set mented by a gift from the estate the House was hard put to keep Propulsion Laboratory, Co-Oper­ .tech astronomy majors, and the tie a matter of Sorbian honor, to the Lounge sealed so that initia­ of Mrs. Ernaline Johnson. Also Pasadena. ative Wind Tunnel, and Hunt· British government's financial tin could be carried out. as usual. ington Library. Like last year, being exhibited are some excel­ policy regarding education and Upheaval Pres. DuBridge science. At the Institute, however, Run-otfs some professional work will be lent examples of Japa nese The main body of his talk, things were in upheaval due to After two run-off ballots the shown, but the large majority of swords ancl scabbards. however, co ncerned the slowing the proposal of Dr. Max Crock results were-President, Fred exhibits will be the creations of H il'oshlge Examples Guest Of Honor down of the earth's rotation pe­ for the coed system on the room Drury; Vice President, Frank amateurs and hobbyists. There riod and its effect on astronomi­ male plan. Dr. Drawbridge was Bumb; Treasurer, John Poindex­ will be no jury or awards. It's all Dl' .Eagleson's collection con­ cal observations and the moon's violently against the proposal ter; Secretary, Dick Bartlett; Li· just for fun. tains many examples of the Hi­ orbit. as he saw millions of dollars in brarian, Pete Mason; Pope, Dan AdviSOI"S roshige school (b 1797, d. 1858) . At ASCIT Formal endowments being thrown to Oxy Schuster, and Keeper of the Assisting the show committee Among them are some ·of the The President's Ball, held last Retardation as the result. The whole matter Cans, Gus Soux. in an advisory capacity are Miss well-known Chushingul'a series Saturday evening at the L. A. No need to reset yow' watches Abbie von Schlegell, President of though; the slowing down doesn't was to be decided by the Stu -that series illustrating episodes Breakfast Club proved very en­ '.rake-offs the Board of Trustees of the Pas­ amount to more than two-mil­ dent·Faculty Illicit Rela,tlons The new officers were not too in the famous Japanese mario­ joyable. I t was a formal dance C.ommittee. To complicate mat adena Art Institute; Roger Hay­ nette play later played upon the Ii-seconds per day over a period gently ca,rted to the Physics Pond honol'ing Dr. DuBridge, Presi­ ters Gregori Meuhlenberg was a ward, Pasadena a rchitect and art­ regular stage by Japan's fore­ of a century. via every mud puddle between ist, and Jarvis Barlow, Assistant dent of the Institute. He and This gradual retardation will, member of the committee, hav­ Blacker and Guggenheim, where most dramatists, Chikamatsu Director of the Modern Museum some of the faculty were there in a few mil1ion years, lengthen Ing tied to Pasadena and now they were able to wash them­ Morza-Yeman and Tokedo Tzu­ posing an an R. A. named Charles of Art in Beverly Hllls. mo. The play was first given at the day to 47 of our present days. selves thoroughly. As of Monday in addition to the many student Ottersprach. He had a corner on r--------------, Yedo in 1748. The length of a, day will then be night, Blacker's new President a nd alumni couples. equal to a lunar month. the international corset cartel, had a single-in Blacker Dabney MclUaney Prize Other Prints At the intermission Ralph Lov­ .Moon Spirals and saw coeds as the wedge to court, while Dan Schuster was Open to Seniors ~md Jun­ Other prints from Dr. Eagle­ berg presented Dr. DuBridge The earth will then always move in on the American cor alone with foul' walls-no more! • iors set business. son are some of the Great To­ with a gift from the student present the same face to the Since it will take a week to re­ Pal)el"S d ue Aln'n 18 body. Hal Lomen's band pro· Seduction • kaido and others fl"Om the vari­ moon, just as the moon shows cover from this night of terror, See Pl'IlL l\'l,acI\li.no, 212 duced some very fine music dur­ The resulting plot between ous stations of the Kiso Kaido only one face to the earth now. the new officers will not take of· • Dabney, fOl' details ing the evening, and everyone Gregori and Annelida to seduce series, the Seasons, together The moon a lso is spiralling five fi ce until early in the third term. with several scenes from the seemed to spend most of the i r one of the Frosh on the commit feet further away from the earth Hundred Views of Yedo, the time danCing. There was a very tee to approving coeds and thus each century, due to the sam e Provinces, and two of the un· good tUl'nout, a.nd all events pro­ swinging the spUt vote, was the force causing the lengthening of Tile Caltecll Metl/f)' usual size known as Harimaze ceeded without mishap. high point of the play. the day. I t is very seldo m t hat t he California Tech pr ints articles with used for figures and floral This is the first dance of this Coeds Approved 'ridal B l'ake no imm ediate n ews value. articles w h ich treat with subjects sprays as a rule. type to be held here in some In the end the committee ap The most likely cause for tWs beyond the ordinary range of of news reporting. time, and a pparently it was a proved. coeds, and reunited Gen lengthening of the day, explained A week 0 1' so ago, Bernm-d Sh ol'c brought us an essay which very successful idea. We might von Gl'austark and Annelida with Third Term Registration Sir Harold, is the tidal friction h e had written and wh leh he felt dcscl'ved whim" JJUblication, look forward to such dances in Ernst, his son, and Veda, his Registration for the third between the oceans and sea bot­ Altel' we read it, we agl'eed w ith h im. It should be of vital in ~ the futu,·e. The L.A. Breakfast wife. They had been missing term will be on Monday, toms. The sea., in such shallow terest to evel'Y stu(l mlt a nd faculty mC mbel" of the Instit ute, CJub was formerly Tom Bren· for martY years because of March 28. The first day of bodies of water as ocean shores, a naman's place, and is a very Sorbian revolution over the ac In the hope t hat this article will In'Ovoke some comment, classes will be Tuesday, the Bering and Irish seas, acts as beautlful spot, complete with cepted manure theory. In addi· w e give he."e the enth'e essay which Bernard 8 hol'e has written. March 29. a brake on the spinning of the bar. earth. tlon a $500,000;000 endowment AN EVALUATION OF THJj1 CALTECH ME'fHOD was given to the Institute for With the ASCIT play this ends l1'rel)idatton the improvement of Schnapps, By Bm'nal'd Sh ore an ASCIT weekend of entertain­ Trepidation, the astronomical and Gregori was found out and T h ere is m tmpr essh'e u nunis lity about the primary purpose of Twentg-Four Hour ment which has proved to be a effect of other small irregular shot.