Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Technique Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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Advisory Council directs publications Back Row: Harold E. Lobdell, James R. Killian, Jr. Front Row: Stanley G. H, Fitch, Frederick G. Fassett, Jr. HENRY B. KANE Chairman The various publications at Technology are undoubtedly the outstanding activities on the campus. They provide extracurricula work that enriches their members with writing, organization, and management experience. The four Tech under- graduate publications are The Tech, Voo Doo, The Tech Engineering Mews, and Technique. The Tech, though reduced to a weekly publica- tion since the war, presents the news of the Insti- tute to the student body. Technique, as the year- book, describes in a permanent manner the under- graduate ' s activities in the years he is at the Insti- tute. The Tech Engineering News publishes articles on scientific and engineering subjects by the students and Institute professors. Voo Doo as the comic magazine provides relief from the rigors of Tech life. The Advisory Council on Undergraduate Pub- lications was created for the purpose ot assisting the publications in case of unforeseen difficulties and to act in an advisory capacity to the members of the various publications when called upon. [26]

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Second row: Halbertstadt, Hill, Hanpeler Front row: Vozella, Trageser, Street The Student-Faculty Committee was organized to form a link between the large student body and faculty. This link was organized shortly after World War I to help the administration change from a three-semester schedule back to the peacetime program. The effectiveness of the Committee led to its establishment as a permanent organization. The Committee will play an equally major role when this war has ended and we are confronted with a myriad of new problems. Matters discussed at the Institute Committee are first presented to the representatives of the faculty and students. They, in turn, offer recom- mendations to those concerned before action of a definite nature is taken by the Institute Committee. All of this work is carried on by the eight members of the Committee who act without publicity. As little attention is called to the Committee ' s workings, their reforms often go unrecognized except by those immediately concerned. D.WID A. TR.A.GESER Chai Student-Faculty Comm.-harmo [25]

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and forgives us our trespass The four publications, Technique, The Tech, Voo Doo, and the Tech Engineering News, organized the Gridiron many years ago. The members are selected from the four publica- tions with only men who have done outstanding work on these staffs being elected to the Society. The Gridiron has several aims. One is to make a stronger bond between the students and faculty and among the students themselves. Various dis- cussion periods are held at which members criti- cize and offer suggestions to the other publications concerning make-up and editorial material. During peacetime, the Gridiron Society ' s main activity was to offer subscriptions to the four publi- cations to the entering freshmen. These were sold at reduced rates to interest the freshmen in the publications and present the advantages that can be derived as a member of one of the publications. The members have a chance to get to know each other at the rousing initiation banquet held each year. GRIDIRON Curt B. Beck Dean Bedford, Jr. T. Nicholas Ber lage, Jr. Christopher G. Boland Noel N. Coe Russell K. Dostal Kirk Drumheller George R. D orak John J. Frieberger . Man R. Gruber John S. Howkins Richard B. Marsten Alfred J. Oxenham Thomas R. Scanlan, Jr. Arthur Schiff J. Spencer Standish Second row: Drumheller, Standish, Boland Front row: Howkins, Marsten, Berlage, Beck [27]