A Record of Official Continuous News Service Undergraduate News Organ For 46 Years of M. I. T. Vol. XLVII No. 2 CAMBRIDGE, MASS., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1927 Price Five Cents I I DR. THOMPSON IS Modern Progress GIVEN FARADAY TECHNOLOGY TRACK Led by Engineer MEDAL FOR 1927 I TEAM I Medal Given for Achievements WILL ENTER ENGINEERING IS THE TECH To Open In Electrical Engineering SUBJECT OF NEXT New Competition In Past Year NEW ENGLAND MEET With the advent of the sec- I RECEIVED MANY HONORS M.I ond term THE TECH is start- ... SCIENCE LECTURE I ing a new competition in all de- partments. Any man interested Was President of Technology ADVISORY COUNCIL in the News, Sports, or Editorial Freshman Wrestlers Departments should come to Six Years Ago-Now a I And Boxers Hard Hit; CLEARS PATH FOR Prof. Spofford, Authority In Room 3, Walker Memorial, be- Corporation Member Civil Engineering, To tween 4 and 5:30 o'clock this Required to Take P.T. week. Men interested in the PROVIDING FUNDS Address Public Business Department should Professor Elihu Thompson, acting I All freshmen desiring to evade come to Room 302 at the same president of M. I. T. in 1920 and 1921, physical stringencies of "monkey time. drill" will hereafter be required Winter I. C. A. A. A. A. Meet recently received a cable from London EXPERIMENTS A FEATURE 11 to search elsewhere than in the Cancelled to Aid Team .. to , , , announcing that he had been awarded realms of wrestling and boxing. the Faraday medal for 1927 by the This comes as an order from Compete at Bowdoin Of especial interest to the layman Council of the Institution of Electrical Henry P. McCarthy, head of is the welcome announcement from the WHITING CONCERT freshman P. T. and is caused Engineers. BURKE CASE DROPPED Society of Arts that Charles M. Spof- primarily by the fact that the At present he is the head of the re- ford '93, Hayward professor of Civil SERIES CONTINUED managers in these two sports did search laboratory of the General Elec- not pay strict attention to the Technology's track and field forces Engineering and head of the depart- will be in full attendance at the New tric Company at Lynn. His conspicu- attendance records of their de- ment of Civil and Sanitary Engineer- partments. England Intercollegiate Athletic As- ous service in the advancement of El- ing, will be the speaker at the third Second Presentation Cons fists Further information from the sociation track meet which will be ectrical Science, as well as his many held at Bowdoin College May 20, 21 Popular Science lecture on "Engineer- Of Selections From Old same office conveys the news I notable scientific and industrial that freshmen who are substi- Financial Dfficulties which had be- ing-The Foundation of Modern Civ- clouded the proposition up to the pres- European Masters achievements in electrical engineering tuting some one of the other ilization" to be held next Friday, Sat- sports ent time were cleared away at a meet- in that position for physical training and urday are thought to be re- who through ing of the Advisory Council last night. and Sunday in room 10-250. Sufficiently recovered from his re- sponsible for the award. "sleeping in" or Professor Spofford has other sundry reasons have cuts Inasmuch as this is the first time in been connect- cent illness to continue his series of In Paris, many years that the New England ed with Technology since 1909 in Dr. Thompson received in that sport will be required to musical the Grand Prix in 1899 meet has been held away from Tech- which time his rapid rise to fame has concerts, Mr. Arthur H. Whit- and again in take one full gym period for ing, famed Boston musician, will pre- 1900 for electrical invention and was each and every cut against nology, the problem of acquiring the brought much glory to it. From the decorated necessary day of his graduation sent his by the French government them. po00 to finance the trip was in 1893 his ardu- second recital on Chamber as an a new one. It has been solved ous and industrious pursuance officer of the Legion of Honor. by can- of his music in room 10-250 Tuesday, Feb- In 1904, he received chosen career has been of the grand prize I celling Technology's participation in such a char- ruary 15 at 8:15 o'clock. at St. acter that today he ranks as one of All students, Louis. He was given the Rum- the I. C. A. A. A. A. winter meet in the greatest faculty members and their friends are ford medal in 1902 and in 1910 was the i New York which would have cost $270, authorities in Civil En- first COURSE XVI MAKES gineering. Honors have been award- especially invited to attend. recipient of the Edison medal. together with an appropriation of $200 In addition to these he has been by the Actvwsory Council if the under- ed to him regularly in acknowledge- Due to a severe attack of the grippe, ment and -awarded the Elliott Cresson medal, graduate Athletic Association will sup- commendation of his achiev- M{r. Whiting was VISIT TO NEW YORK merts. At present he holds the hon- forced to cancel his the Johu ... ity-medal. the Hughes ply the remaining $150 necessary to orable position of Chairman of the second concert that was scheduled for Medal of the Royal Society of London, make the trip. That this will be se- and in 1924 the Kelvin Faculty at the Institute. January 18. After an enforced two medal of Eng- I cured is fairly certain according to land. Finally, in 1925, he received Every Airplane Factory Near John H. Field '27, president of the weeks in bed he was able to Has Received Foreign Awards overcome the Franklin medal. Athletic Association. his illness City Section Included in His rewards have not only come sufficiently to appear before Dr. Thompson is still connected with Will Participate in Penn Relays from Technology but from all over collegiate audiences. Technology in that he is a life mem- Vacation Itinerary the An alternative which might be world. He occupies a distinguish- In this, the originally scheduled ber of the Corporation. His extraor- ed place taken in securing finances for the trip in being one of the very few third recital, he will continue his pres- dinary interest in science is shown by Americans to be members of the Most of the airplane factories around was dropping participation in the Brit- entation of music composed by eight- the fact that in his home at Swamp- ish Institution of New York City were visited during Penn Relays but it was felt by the ma- Civil Engineers. eenth and nineteenth century scott, he has an observatory which he This is one of the highest honors authors. the recent vacation period by a group jority of those present at the Council for Among a very attractive list constructed largely himself and an an American. As fellow of the Amer- of selec- of men and professors of Course XVI. MIeeting that it was more deemable to tions, the Boston musician accompan- organ which is remarkable in that it ican Academy of Advancement of Fourteen men under the leadership of have Technology representatives in ied by noted artists will render can reproduce the tone of the human Science, of the American Men- Professor William G. Brown '16 and that meet than in the I. C. A. A. A. A. Academy of uetto and Andante-Marcia oice. Arts and Sciences, and director of by Beethov- Mac Short of the Department of Aero- winter meet since the latter was an en, Kol Nidrei by Bruch, I the American Society of Civil Engin- and Molto nautical Engineering spent from Jan- indoor meet and because of the fact vivace by Schumann. Mr. Whiting eers, Professor Spofford stands today uary 31 to February 4 inspecting the that Technology already was partici- will be assisted on CLUBS WILL PLAY AT the leading if not the biggest figure in the violin by Mr. methods of construction of factories pating in the regular I. C. A. A. A. A. his profession. His contributions to Bernard Ocko, on the Viola by Mr. WHEATON SATURDAY in Long Island, New Jersey, and Penn- outdoor meet. Louis Kaufman, the world knowledge in engineering on the Violoncello by sylvania. Although Technology through its form a considerable collection and add Mrs. Marie Roemaet. Especially noted during the tripI convenient location near the center of a popular tone to his fame. Banjo Club in First Concert were the increasing use of riveted New England colleges and because of In chosing to speak on Engineering Under New Leader duraluminurn, welded steel tube con- its excellent facilities has been felt as as the Foundation of Modern Civili- MEETING TO BE HELD struction and air-cooled motors. Dur- the logical place for the New England zation, he has elected to speak on a ing the trip to Fokker's the party met meet for the past years. it was decided subject of especial significance to him BY CADET OFFICERS Wheaton College at Norton, Massa- the Corporation XV expedition. this year that the meet should be and of great interest to the general chusetts, will hear the Combined Mu- Plants visited by the group included moved to another place in fairness to Major public. His sub-topics include such Brooks of Michigan will be sical Clubs Saturday night at a con- the Loening, Sikorsky, Edo, Curtiss,I the other New England colleges.