Armour Institute of Technology - Cycle Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

Text from Pages 1 - 312 of the 1917 volume:

PLEASE RETURN TO ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NEWS BUREAU 3300 FEDERAL CHICAGO o COPYRIGHT 1917 BY H. 1). Stevers H. W. Puschel L. Weiss The Cycle THE STUDENT ANNUA L OF Armmtr dlnstitutr nf (fprltnlngy CHICAGO ILLINOIS JJublUiljfft luj the (Cijrlr Ihutrh fur the 3Juuinr (Elams nf tljr (£nlh'xjr nf tmjinrrrtuy Volume Five: Nineteen Hundred and Seventeen Gwible of Contents Title Page Dedication Board of Trustees . Executive Council Officers of Administration Faculty .... Alumni .... Classes: Seniors Juniors Sophomores Freshmen Organizations . The Press .... Society .... Junior Week Junior Play Sports .... Fraternities Class Societies . Humor 3 7 9 io 12 7 3i 37 59 63 7i 80 111 121 129 139 151 179 215 235 George Hatorence £s cijerger (George Eatorence ikljerger Professor of History and Political Science In dedicating The 1917 Cycle to George Lawrence Scherger, the editors arc choosing to honor one of the best and truest friends of the Armour Institute of Technology. Dr. Scherger was appointed instructor in History at Armour in 1899, associate professor in 1901, and professor in 1903. He was born in Lawrence- burg, Indiana on October 21, 1874. In 1894, he received the degree of A.B. from the University of Indiana; attended the Universities of Leipzig and Berlin during the years 1895-98; and received the degree of Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1899. Dr. Scherger’s life is a busy one. Besides having charge of the Department of History and Political Science at Armour Institute, he is pastor and superin- tendent of Armour Mission, assistant pastor at Central Church, professor at Columbia College of Expression, member of American Historical Association, North Central History Teachers’ Association, and the University Club. Dr. Scherger is the author of “The Evolution of Modern Liberty,” “The Evolution of the German Empire,” and many magazine articles. He is a great lover of art and music, and is an organist of noted ability. Dr. Scherger’s personal acquaintance with the students is extensive, his constant interest in their affairs is well understood, and we may safely say that he is one of the most warmly loved and admired of Armour’s many friends. jr. € gben Armour iHrfi. ptjtUtp 5®. Armour ittrs. 31. gben Armour pjtlltp B. Armour 5of)u C. $Uacfe JfranU W. dlunsiaulug Robert 5. Buttbam THE INSTITUTE The President Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus Birthplace, Chcsterville, Ohio. A.M., Ohio Wesleyan University, 1875. D.D., Beloit College, 1895. I.U.I)., Ohio Wesleyan University, 1906. Beta Theta Pi. Member of American Social Science Society, Academy of Arts and Sciences, etc. Author of Phidias and Other Poems,” “Songs of Night and Day,” “Transfiguration of Christ,” “Monk and Knight,” l.ifc of William Ewart Gladstone,” Metamorphosis of a Creed, November at Eastwood,” Ixjosc Leaves of a Song,” “The Man of Galilee,” Paths to Power,” Higher Ministries of Recent Poetry,” “Paths to the City of God” and The Minister and the Spiritual Life.” Residence 2819 Prairie Avenue. The Comptroller Frederick Urling Smith Birthplace, Manchester, England. Private Schools in England. Bonn University. Identified with Armour Co. for twenty-six years. Assistant Treasurer and Business Manager of Armour Institute of Technology, 1893. Comptroller, 1902. Residence, 710 East 51st Street. The Dean of the Cultural Studies Louis Celestin Monin Birthplace, Berne, Switzerland. University of Leipzig, 1887-1897. University of Zurich, 1879- 1881. High school teacher in Switzerland and Italy, 1881-1886. University of Heidelberg, 1886-1888. Post-graduate student University of Lake Forest, 1889-1891. Ph.D., University of Lake Forest, 1891. National Secretary of Zofingia (Fraternity) of Switzerland. President of the Department of Technical Education within the National Education Association, 1907-1909. Instructor in Philosophy, Uni- versity of Chicago, 1891-1893. Assistant Professor of Education (Summer Quarter), University of Chicago, 1897. Professor of Modern Languages and later Professor of Economics and Philosophy and Dean of Cultural Studies, Armour Institute of Technology, 1892. Member of many scientific educational and literary associations. Residence, Hotel Windermere, 56th Street and Cornell Avenue. The Dean of the Engineering Studies Howard Monroe Raymond Birthplace, Grass Lake, Michigan. B.S., University of Michigan, 1893. Post-graduate work in Physics and Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, 1894. Phi Delta Theta. Tau Beta Pi. Member of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education; and American Association for the Advancement of Science. Residence, 6522 Kenwood Avenue. 10 THE INSTITUTE H. M. Raymond F. W. Gunsaulus F. U. Smith L. C. Mon in please: return to ■JJMOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NEWS BUREAU 3300 FEDERAL CHICAGO £ fftccrs of gbimntetration The President Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus The Comptroller and Secretary Frederick Urling Smith The Dean of the Cultural Studies Louis Celfstin Monin The Dean of the Engineering Studies Howard Monroe Raymond The Registrar George Sinclair Allison The Librarian Julia Beveridge THE INSTITUTE OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION F. U. Smith H. M. Raymond Mrs. Beveridge F. Y. Guxsaulus G. S. Allison L. C. Monin 1.5 Alfred Edward Phili ips Professor of Civil Engineering. Birthplace, Rouse’s Point, New York. A.B. and C.E., Union University, Schenectady, X. Y., 1887; A.M., 1890; Ph.D., 1894. Phi Delta Theta. Sigma Xi. Tau Beta Pi. Member of American Society of Civil Engineers. Residence, 307 Davis Street, Evanston. George Frederick Gf.biiardt. Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Birthplace, Salt Lake City, Utah. A.B., Knox College, 1895. M.F., Cornell University, 1896. A.M., Knox College, 1897. Phi Delta Theta. Tau Beta Pi. Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Western Society of Engineers; National Association of Stationery Engineers. Residence, 5063 Kcnmore Avenue. George Lawrence Sciierger Professor of History and Political Science. Birthplace, Lawrenceburg, Indiana. A.B., University of Indiana, 1894. Universities of Leipzig and Berlin (1S95-98). Ph.D., Cornell University, 1899. Member of American Historical Association; National Geographical Association; Mississippi Valley Historical Society. City Club. Author of “Evolution of Modern Liberty.” Research Work on “French and American Declaration of the Rights of Man.” Residence, 436 East 46th Street. Guy Maurice Wilcox. Professor of Physics. Birthplace, Kansas City, Kansas. A.B., Carlcton College, 1891. A.M., University of Wisconsin, 1902. Member of American Physical Society and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Author of Physics Laboratory Manual.” Research Work on “Optical Rotary Power of Sugar in Xon- Aqucous Solutions.” Residence, 5225 Inglcside Avenue. 17 THE INSTITUTE Harry McCormack. Professor of Chemical Engineering. Birthplace, Spencer, Iowa. B.S., Drake University, 1896. M.S., University of Illinois, 1899. Member of American Chemical Society; American Institute of Chemical Engineers; American Electro-Chemical Society; American Society for Testing Materials. Author of Journal Articles on Metallurgy and Industrial Chemistry. Editor of “The Chemical Engineer.” Research Work in Metallurgy and Industrial Chemistry. Residence, 5.545 University Avenue. Ernest Harrison Freeman. Professor of Electrical Engineering. Birthplace, Topeka, Kansas. B.S., Kansas State Agricultural College, 1895; B.S., 1902, E.E., Armour Institute of Technology, 19C5. Tau Beta Pi. Member of American Institute of Electrical Engineers; Society of the Promotion for Engineering Education; Illuminating Engineering Society. Residence, 601 Laurel Avenue, Wilmette. Walter Kay Smart. Professor of English. Birthplace, Payson, Illinois. Shurtlcff College and Northwestern University; Ph.B., University of Chicago, 1902; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1911. Residence, 1534 East 66th Place. v Chari.es Edward Paul Professor of Mechanics. Birthplace, Belfast, Maine. S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Theta Xi. Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers; American Society for Testing Materials; Society for the Promotion of Engineer- ing Education. Author of Numerous Articles on Concrete Construction and Strength of Materials. Residence, 53CO Woodlawn Avenue. 18 Joseph Bernard Finnegan Professor of Fire Protection Engineering. Birthplace, Stoneham, Mass. S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1904. Member of National Fire Protection Association. Residence, 5433 Ellis Avenue. John Edwin Snow Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Birthplace, Athens, Ohio. M.S., Ohio University, 1896; E.F., Armour Institute of Technology, 1901; A.M., Ohio Uni- versity, 19C4. Member of American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Residence, 7001 Vernon Avenue. David Penn Moreton Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Birthplace, Moscow, Ohio. B.S., Armour Institute of Technology, 190$; E.E., 1910. Tau Beta Pi. Associate Member of American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Author of “Practical Applied Electricity,” Drake’s Telephone Handbook,” “Electrical Measurements and Meter Testing,” etc. Residence, 56 West 34th Street. Benjamin Bai.i. Freud Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry. Birthplace, Chicago, III. B.S., University of Chicago, 1904. Phi Beta Kappa; Sigma Xi. Member of American Chemical Society; Member American Electro- Chemical Society; Member American Institute of Mining Engineers Associate Member of American Physical Society. Physico-Organic Research on “Vulcanized Oils.” Residence, 703 East 50th Place. 19 THE INSTITUTE Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry. Birthplace, New York City, New York. Columbia University; A.B., University of Wisconsin, 1904; A.M., 1906; Ph.D., 190S. Phi Gamma Delta; Sigma Xi; Phi Lambda Upsilon. Member of American Chemical Society. Author of “A Study of Tclluridcs.” Research Work in Inorganic Chemistry. Residence, 511 Hawthorn Lane, Winnctka, III. Clyde Barnes Cooper Associate Professor of English. Birthplace, Prairie City, Illinois. M.A., University of Iowa; Ph.D., University of Chicago. Residence, 1126 East 62nd Street. Oliver Charles Clifford Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Birthplace, Wadsworth, Ohio. A.B., Obcrlin College, 1893; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1907. Sigma Chi. Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Research Work on “Susceptibility of Copper and 'Pin Alloys” and “Studv of I Icuslcr Alloys.” Residence, 6053 Woodlawn Avenue. Claude Irwin Palmer Associate Professor of Mathematics. Birthplace, Michigan. A.B., University of Michigan, 1903. Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Mathematical Society. Author of Arithmetic with Applications.” “Geometry with Applica- tions;” “Algebra with Applications;” Trigonometry and Logarithms;” Co-author of Trigonometry; co-author of Plane Geometry. Residence, 6440 Greenwood Avc. 20 THE INSTITUTE Donald Francis Campbell. Professor of Mathematics. Birthplace, Nova Scotia. B.A., Dalhousic College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1S90; B.A., Harvard University, 1893. A.M., 1895; Ph.D., 1898. Author of “Elements of Differential and Integral Calculus.” A Short Course in Differential Equations.” Research Work in Differential Equations. Residence, 1134 Oak Avenue, Evanston, Illinois. Thomas Eddy Tallmadgk. lecturer on History of Architecture. Birthplace, Washington, I). C. S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1898. Phi Beta Epsilon. Member of Illinois Chapter American Institute of Architects. Winner of Traveling Scholarship, Chicago Architectural Club, 1904. Residence, University Club, Evanston, Illinois. Henry Bascom Thomas. Professor of Hygiene, Director of Physical Culture and Medical Adviser. Birthplace, Elk Garden, Virginia. B.S., University of Chicago, 1899; M.D., Northwestern University Medical School, 1903. Kappa Sigma, Phi Rho Sigma. Chicago Orthopedic Association. Member of Attending Staff of St. Luke’s Hospital; Chief of Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Cook County Hospital. Member American and Chicago Medical Association. Middle States Orthopedic Association. Office, 31 No. State Street. Residence, 6530 University Avenue. Charles Anson Nash. Instructor in Electrical Engineering. Birthplace, Elizabeth, Illinois. B.S., University of Illinois, 1909. Sigma Xi. Associate Member of American Institute of Electrical Engineers; Member of Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. Residence, 3318 Wilson Avenue. 21 THE INSTITUTE Melville Baker Wells. Associate Professor of Bridge and Structural Engineering. Birthplace, Commiskey, Indiana. B.C.K., Purdue University, 1894; C.E., 1895. Phi Delta Theta; Tau Beta Pi. Member of Western Society of Engineers. Author of “Steel Bridge Designing.” Residence, 11252 S. Oakley Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Robert Vallette Perry. Associate Professor of Machine Design. Birthplace, Hartford, Connecticut. B.S., Armour Institute of Technology, 1897; M.E., 1902. Tau Beta Pi; Omega Lambda. Residence, 436 West 66th Street. Thomas Eaton Doubt. Associate Professor of Physics. Birthplace, Ixwisvillc, Kentucky. B.S., Nebraska Wesleyan University, 1892; M.A., University of Nebraska, 1895; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1904; Fellowships at University of Nebraska and University of Chicago. Sigma Ni. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Member of the American Physical Society. Research Work on Absolute Color Equation, Velocity of Light and Spectrum Analysis. , Residence, 5402 Drexcl Avenue. Charles Wilbur Leigh. Associate Professor of Mathematics. Birthplace, Peoria, Illinois. B.S., University of Illinois, 1897. Phi Gamma Delta; Tau Beta Pi. Author of “A Text Book on Trigonometry—Solid Geometry;” “Commercial Arithmetic” for the American School of Correspond- ence; Co-author of a text book on Trigonometry. Residence, 7320 Lafayette Avenue. 22 William Griswold Smith Assistant Professor of Descriptive Geometry and Kinematics. Birthplace, Toledo, Ohio. M.F.., Cornell University, 1892. Delta Kappa Epsilon; Sphinx Head; Sigma Kappa Delta. Author of “Practical Descriptive Geometry.” Residence, 6758 Perry Avenue. John Simpson Reid Assistant Professor of Mechanical Drawing and Elementary Machine Drawing. Birthplace, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. Irvine College, British Government Science and Art Schools, Glasgow, Scotland. Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Author of Mechanical Drawing, Elementary and Advanced,” Drawing and Designing,” “Investigations into Drafting Room Convention in the United States, 1900,” Mechanical Drawing Simplified.” Residence, 6239 Greenwood Avenue. Earl H. Reed, Jr. Instructor, Sophomore Architectural Design. Birthplace, Norwood Park, Illinois. S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1907; Student Redon, 1909-13, Ecole des Beaux .Arts, Paris, France. Delta Kappa Epsilon; Scarab. American Institute of Architects. Residence, 4758 Lake Park Ave., Chicago. Stanley Dean Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering. Birthplace, Manchester, England. C.E., Armour Institute of Technology, 1905. Beta Theta Pi; Sigma Kappa Delta. Associate Member of American Society of Civil Engineers. Residence, 2237 West 108th Place, Morgan Park, Chicago. 23 THE INSTITUTE Henry Leopold Nachman Associate Professor of Kinematics and Machine Design. Birthplace, Sommerfeld, Germany. B.S., Armour Institute of Technology, 1902; M.E., 1905. Tau Beta Pi; Beta Phi. Residence, 6049 Eberhart Avenue. Herbert Julius Armstrong Assistant Professor of Railway Engineering. Birthplace, Sunderland, Mass. B.S., Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1897. Phi Sigma Kappa. Member of American Railway Engineering Association. Residence, 11353 So. Irving Avc., Morgan Park, Chicago. Arthur Henry Anderson Assistant Professor of Experimental Engineering. Birthplace, Chicago, Illinois. M.E., Armour Institute of 'lechnology, 1906. Residence, 6826 Wayne Avenue. Edwin Stephen Libby Assistant Professor of Experimental Engineering. Birthplace, Portland, Maine. B.S., Armour Institute of Technology, 1902; M.E., 1907. Tau Beta Pi. Residence, 11166 Esmond Street. 21 THE INSTITUTE Daniel Roesh Assistant Professor of Experimental Engineering. Birthplace, Aurora, Illinois. B.S., Armour Institute of Technology, 1904; M.E., 190S. Tau Beta Pi; Beta Phi. Member of American Society for Testing Materials; Society of Automobile Engineers. Residence, 6157 St. Lawrence Avenue. William Charles Krathwohl. Assistant Professor of Mathematics. Birthplace, Buffalo, New York. A.B., Harvard College, 1907; M.A., Columbia, 1910; Ph.D., Chicago University, 1913. Member of the American Mathematical Society; The Mathematical Association of America. Research Work on Modular Invariants. Residence, 612S University Avenue. Mrs. Julia A. Beveridge. Librarian and Instructor in Bibliography. Birthplace, Beloit, Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin. Residence, 933 441I1 Street. Edward Diehl Agle Superintendent of Shops and Instructor in Machine 'Pool Work. Birthplace, Grccncastlc, Pennsylvania. Residence, 635 East 41st Street. 25 THE INSTITUTE Assistant Professor of General Chemistry. Birthplace, Boring, Maryland. Ph.B., Dickinson College, 1897;- Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University,. 1-909. Phi Beta Kappa. Member of American Chemical Society. Research Work on the “Determination of Osmotic Pressure of Cane Sugar Solutions.” Residence, 5739 Maryland Avenue. George Everett Marsh. Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. Birthplace, Georgetown, Colorado. S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1902; E.E., Armour Institute of Technology, 1912. Member of American Institute of Electrical Engineers and American Electro-Chemical Society; Member Illuminating Engineering Society. Residence, 3334 Rhodes Avenue. James Clinton Peebles. Assistant Professor in Experimental Engineering. Birthplace, Drcghorn, Scotland. B.S., Armour Institute of Technology, 1904; E.E., 190S; M.M.E., Cornell Uni- versity, 1908. Gamma Alpha, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Kappa Delta. Research Work on “An Oscillograph Study of Commutation.” Residence, 436 West 72nd Street. John Cornelius Penn Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering. Birthplace, Wetering Netherlands. B.S., Armour Institute of Technology, 1905; C.E., 1910. Tau Beta Pi; Omega Lambda. Member Western Society of Engineers; Member Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. Residence, 11344 Eggleston Avenue. 20 THE INSTITUTE Harrie Bridgman Pulsifer Assistant Professor of Metallurgy. Birthplace, Lebanon, New Hampshire. S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1903; Ch.E. Armour Institute, 1915. Member of American Institute of Mining Engineers; American Electro-Chemical Society; American Chemical Society; American Association for the Advancement of Science. Residence, 506 East 33rd Place. Charles R. Swinepord Instructor in Descriptive Geometry. Birthplace, Van Wert, Ohio. B.S., University of Michigan, 1904; M.K., 1907. Instructor, University of Michigan, 1907-1098. Residence, 6506 Kimbark Avenue. John J. Gilbert Instructor in Electrical Engineering. Birthplace, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A.B., University of Pennsylvania, 1909; E.E., Armour Institute 1916. Sigma Kappa Delta; Sigma Xi; Eta Kappa Xu; Gamma Alpha. Member American Physical Society; Member American Institute of Electrical Engineers; Member Institute of Radio Engineers. Residence, 5520 Blackstonc Avenue. Albert H. Krehbiel Instructor in Freehand Drawing. Birthplace, Iowa. Bethel College. Studied at the Art Institute and in Paris. Member of Various Art Societies. Residence, Park Ridge, Illinois. 27 Xkls Peter Peterson Instructor in Woodworking. Birthplace, Hogansa, Sweden. Residence, 1554 North Leavitt Street. Charles Henry Fornhof Instructor in Machine Tool Work. Birthplace, Chicago, Illinois. Residence, 1255 Thorndalc Avenue. William G. Larquemain Instructor in Forging. Birthplace, Buffalo, New York. Residence, 1450 W. Marquette Road. Charles Larsen Instructor in Founding. Birthplace, Chicago, Illinois. Residence, 1101 North Richmond Street. 28 John J. Sciiommer Instructor of Industrial Chemistry. Birthplace, Chicago, Illinois. S.B., University of Chicago, 1909; S.B., in Chemical Engineering, Armour Institute of Technology, 1912; one year of Research Work in Bacteriology, Yeasts and Moulds, 1910. Phi Kappa Sigma; Owl and Serpent; University Marshal. Member of American Chemical Society; American Association for the Advancement of Science. Residence, 4606 North Racine Avenue. William H. I.autz, Jk. Instructor in Architecture. Birthplace, Chicago, Illinois. B.S., Armour Institute of Technology, 1913. Tau Beta Pi; Sigma Kappa Delta. Residence, 7925 S. Green Avenue. Albee Lovejoy Ladd Assistant Professor of Mechanics. Birthplace, Minneapolis, Minnesota. B.S., University of Michigan, 1908. Sigma Xi. Residence, 1325 Last 52nd Street. Phillip C. Huxtly Instructor in Experimental Engineering. Birthplace, Camdcm, Arkansas. B.S., Arkansas University, 1909. Sigma Chi; Tau Beta Pi. Member American Society for Testing Materials; Member American Concrete Institute. Residence, 6351 Ellis Avenue. 20 THE INSTITUTE Frank Hall Childs Lecturer on Business Law. Birthplace, Findley, Ohio. Columbia University, Union College of Law, Kent Law School; LL.B. Admitted to the bar in 1884. Member of the American Bar Association; The Illinois State Bar Association; The Chicago Bar Association. Ellyn Chapin Broomki.l Assistant Librarian. Birthplace, Chicago, Illinois. Ph.B., University of Chicago. New York State Library School. Member American Library Association. Residence, 5750 Midway Park. Harry G. 1). Nutting Instructor in Gas Engineering. B.S., University of Illinois, 1906. American Association of Engineers. Residence, 4729 Prairie Avc. 30 ALUMNI § 1 THE ALUMNI Officers Roy M. Henderson Grover Keeth Walter Rietz William Lautz . F. H. Bernhard E. II. Freeman 1916=1917 President Pice-President Recording Secretary Corresponding Secretary Secretary Master of Ceremonies BOARD OF MANAGERS Retiring in 1917 Retiring in 1918 Retiring in 1919 Henry W. Clausen, ’04 Fred G. Heuchling, '07 T. A. Banning, Jr. 07 W. B. Pavey, ’99 Louis J. Byrne, ’04 H. E. Beckman, ’09 Fred T. Bangs, ’13 J. B. Johnson, ’12 • Founded in 1887 HONORARY MEMBERS Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus, President, A.I.T. L. C. Monin, Dean of the Cultural Studies, A.I.T. H. M. Raymond, Dean of the Engineering Studies, A.I.T. V. C. Alderson, President of the Colorado School of Mines. J. E. Snow, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, A.I.T. F. U. Smith, Comptroller of A.I.T. W. T. McClement, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. Bion J. Arnold, Consulting Engineer, Chicago, 111. H. F. McCormick, Chicago, 111. The Chicago Alumni Association of Armour Institute of Technology holds two annual meetings in Chicago, one in December and one in June. It includes in its membership all graduates of the College of Engineering. The President and the Deans are honorary members of the Association. Associate membership is open to non-graduates having pursued a course during two years as members of classes that have graduated. Wood Shop J « 7 J « « « Y THE CLASSES Corman King Starkel Fritze Lawrence A. King An Economy Analysis of Automobile Engines by a New Method. Born October 30, 1894, Omaha, Nebraska. Calumet High School, 1913. Tau Beta Pi; A.S.M.E.; A Club; Mandolin Club; 1915-16-17; Basketball 1913-14; Baseball 1915-16; Track 1914; Class baseball 1913-14-15; Class basketball 1913-14-15; Senior Class President; President “A Club; Editor, The Cycle 1916; Editor The Armour Engineer 1917; Representative Board Athletic Control 1915-16. King has been the most active man in the class. Not only his versatility, but the tactful and good natured way in which he docs things has brought him the respect and admiration of everyone at Armour. Add to this his excellent work as a student, and you have a record anyone may envy. King is truly one of the “Regular Armour Men”. Lenard E. Starkki. Design and Cost of a Highway Reconstruction. Born May 17, 1895, at Chicago, Illinois. Lane 'lech, June 27, 1913. Civil Engineering. Phi Kappa Sigma; Tau Beta Pi; Sphinx; A.C.E.S; Social Committee, ’14, ’15, ’i6, '17; Business Manager 1916 Cycle; Business Manager, Yol. 9—The Armour Engineer; Picture Committee. You can’t help liking Lcn. He is a hustler, and as a Business Manager he has contributed largely to the glory of ’17. You will hear more of him later, therefore we won’t say any more now. Abraham Corman Closed Nozzle ’lests on a 40 gallon Chemical Extinguisher. Born 1894 at Chicago, III. Austin 11. S. 1913. See., A.E.P.E.S.; ’ 15- 16; Pres., A.E.P.E.S. ’i6-’i7; Sec. Class '16A17; Associate Editor Armour Engineer, ’16A17. Class Basketball, ’15, ’16, '17; Beta Phi; Tau Beta Pi; A.E.P.E.S.; Sphinx, Y.M.C.A. “Abe” is the “Dark horse” of the Senior class. He is one in whom you can put your fullest con- fidence and know that it will be fulfilled. George M. Fritze An Economy Analysis of Automobile Engines by a New Method. Born May 23, 1894, at Chicago, 111. Englewood High School, 1913. Mechanical Engineering. Tau Beta Pi; Sigma Kappa Delta, A.S.M.E.; Glee Club; Mandolin Club; School Quartette; Jaz Band; Class Treas.; Pres. A.S.M.E.; Vice Pres. Rooters Ass’11. “Savage’s” ability to make Tau Beta Pi, work nights, and keep sunny side up with his school activities, promises much for his future. As one of the charter members of the Jaz Band at Armour (drums), and as a soloist on the mouth organ, the “Swede” has had some education. as THE CLASSES £J)e Class of 1917 It seems that it was but yesterday that we first found out to “Remove Hats” on entering the Institute. A great day that was—the day of the formation of our class, and quite a thrill it was for each of us, looking for one familiar face among a bunch of strange ones. These faces did not remain strange to each other for a very long time. By the Friday following, the night of the Freshman Handshake, the class of 1917 was fairly well organized. We had several impromptu yells on deck that evening, which were welcomed by the upper classmen and gloomed upon by our enemies, the Sophs. To be a bit versatile and different from the rest, we decided to have white jersey sweater coats, with our colors, blue and gold,on the arm bands, as insignia of our organization. Previous to that time white hats had been in order and our radical movement caused much comment. Since then we have all matured some- what and the sweaters are rather small for the individuals, but the spirit of the affair still exists. Needless to say we were all primed for the night of November 7, 1913—the Freshman Smoker. Several days previous to that time, the simple emblem '17 seemed to be written on every available fence and sidewalk around 33rd. and the “tracks.” And when the time came, we marched to the Midway and walloped the Sophs, in a grand and glorious rush. But now to shed a tear, as ’18 did us up brown the year following. As. for newspaper publicity, it certainly was not lacking the next morning. We ended up our freshman career by giving a most beautiful dance at the Colonial Club. This dance was the last one of the “money no object” dances to be given by an Armour class. The programs, we will say, were never surpassed at Armour and the mortgage that was held on the same for several years following, is now entirely paid up. During the Sophomore year, we contributed generally to school activities, but when it came to making a big noise, we were entirely absent. The reason was The Physics Course which is taken for the “first ’’time during the Second year. Ah! The Junior ycar-W hen we thought of that we almost shivered for there were such dire responsibilities ahead of us. These were work, Junior Week and the Cycle. Mighty near had to dig down in our jeens to get that good book off of our hands, but it came through with but a few scratches. Surely no one can ever forget our little old last year’s play “Tech Days”. Remember that was the time Stew Miller attempted to sing and the stage hand tried to “pick up” our girl ‘Ole Andren’. Then came our Circus Day, with it’s German U boat of Bobbie Burns’ along with a dozen or so of Igorotes. Yes and we had a Junior Prom at the La Salle that was mentioned in the society columns of the Day Book, a promi- nent newspaper in Chicago. And at last we struck the home stretch, the times when Freshmen go out of their way to say Hello to you. They tried hard to make lawyers out of our dear old classmates, but ended up by giving us all“A’s”and bidding us a fond farewell. The old class is going to be materially broken up very soon, but may its spirit ever prevail; and may we get together in the years that come and talk of the days when we got together every day; of the days when 1917 was a watchword. GTfie Mentor’s g toan j% ong The day draws near when, our classes and Our duties done, shall leave these halls and classrooms Now with memories filled, to venture forth. And carve our names on Fame's bright page. Four years W e’ve spent beneath thy roof, dear school of ours, And many lessons have we learned from thee. Our path has not been easy; we have learned That hard work only is the key to true Success. We came here Freshmen, how remote The days we juggled x and y with dazed Brain, beneath the lash of Campbell’s quips And wanton wiles at our expense. Successfully we’ve striven year on year; Physics, with all its kindred woes, is now A page of dim and hoary history; We’ve mastered it and passed to greater things. Ah! How wise we are, and soon The World shall realize our greatness. We're anxious now to leave, but when the years Have flown, and Time in her relentless spite Has branded us with all her senile scars. Our thoughts mayhap will wander back to thee, O Alma Mater, and the hopes we’d built. In all our childish ardor, here within Thy walls, blasted and thwarted by Necessity, Or aided by Sweet Fortune’s smiles; to the Friends you gave us, who have meant so much To us through long affiliation. Will We wish to be back beneath thy learned roof? Nay, that were puerile; but in leaving thee, We won’t let foolish glee at parting, hide Our truer feelings. Dear old School, good-bye. THE CLASSES B. S. in E. E. JOEL E. ANDERSON Design of a Sine-Wave Alternator. Born Jan. 11, 1892, Joliet, III. Joliet High School, June 1910. Electrical; A.I.E.K., Eta Kappa Nu, Y.M.C.A. Anderson is one of those men who have worked their way through school. After graduating from high school, he worked three years before entering Armour; and since then has been working while attending school. Perseverance is a big factor in the game of life, and Anderson possesses this asset. ABRAHAM S. BENJAMIN Determination of Current Ratio and Phase Angle of Current Transformers.” Born Jan. 2, 1894. at Chicago, III. I.anc Technical High School, June 1913. Electrical Engineering. American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Member of Junior Play Cast. Bennie” is the one who keeps the word of the electricals up to standard. His reports are always on time and his drawings arc finished before the rest of the fellows get started. We know that this asset will get him up in the world. JOHN L. BUR DA (Chemical) Preparation of Salol from Phenol.” Born January 30, 1896, at Chicago, III. St. Stanislaus College, 1913. Politechnik; A.Ch.E.S.; Y.M.C.A. Although Burda has not partaken actively in sports, he has always given it his heartiest support, and has shown the true Armour spirit by his loyalty, friend- ship, and support of all school activities. JAMES W. COHN Comparative Test of Modern Incandescent Lamps with Reflectors, by Diffusion Methods. Born June 15, 189c, at Chicago, Illinois. Mediil High School, Chicago, ’09. Beta Phi; A.I.E.E.; Y.M.C.A. James is determined to throw some light on the subject of illumination, and will doubtless succeed, as a matter of habit. A bad automobile accident last summer failed to stop his scholastic progress. No, he was not joy riding, but demonstrating the car. Ralph Hilliard Earle The Morkrum System of Printing Telegraphy.” Born December 18, 1894, at Newton, Kansas. Newton High School 1913. Sigma Kappa Delta; Tau Beta Pi; Eta Kappa Nu; Class secretary, Sophomore Year; Social Committee, Junior Year; Program Committee, Senior Year; Chairman of Armour Institute Branch A.I.ICE. One of the fellows that support all Armour affairs and keep up their studies too. His record as a student, his ability to make fi 'ends, and his activities and offices held in class and other organizations speak well for his future. ll THE CLASSES B. S. in E. E. Louis E. Given Test of Delco Lighting Plant. Born February 23, 1896 at Joliet, III. Joliet High School 1912. A.LICE.; Junior Play. Louis shows-his pep in the fact that he comes in from Joliet every day and usually is on time. He is quick to grasp jthc subject and is always willing to help another and take a good joke on himself. Charles F. Holmes The design and Construction of an Induction Motor. Born April 3, 1893, at Chicago Illinois. Lake View High School. Sherlock” lives up to his name alright. I le’s the sort of chap who doesn’t say much, but he’s always on the job. Alexander C. Kupshas Power Consumption of Machine 'Pools. Born, August 17. 1896; Chicago III. Wendell Phillips High School, 1913. A.I.E.E. Won annual fall tennis tournament, 1916. Kup” is one of the speed boys, as he finished Armour in three and one-half years. This achievement is appreciated when one considers the amount of work one has to do to finish the course in 4 years. He also is a tennis shark, having won the champion- ship in his Senior year. I Ic is cheerful and obliging and in all he makes a good fellow. Edward Daniel Pcrces 'Pest of a Delco Power Plant. Born Aug. 23, 1895, at Chicago, III. Englewood High School, Feb., 1913. Tau Beta Phi; Epsilon Kappa Xu; Mandolin club; “lass” band; A.I.E.F.; Freshman track; Conference 'Pennis 1913-15. Although his job as fiddler in the Jass band was enough to tax all the energies of any normal person, Ed is one of the boys whose school activities have had no ill effect on his regular work. R. V. Prochaska Thermostatic Control of Electrical Heating Appliances. Born June 8, 1894 at Dodge, Nebraska. Dodge High School, 1913. A.I.F.E.; Y.M.C.A. Besides carrying his regular studies, our energetic agent spends his mornings selling handbooks, mag- azines, etc., to the students; his afternoons helping the president of the L, and his evenings assisting the faculty in the laboratory. We wonder what he docs with his spare time. 42 THE CLASSES B. S. in E. E. I.ko H. Rosenberg Power Consumption of Machine Tools. Born May 29, 1896, at Montgomery, Mo. Knglcwood High School, 1913. A.I.E.E.; A.A.F., Membership Committee; Tennis 1915. “Rosie” is the Juvenile Wonder who is finishing his course before being allowed to vote. His origin can be traced back to Missouri, which probably accounts for the fact that he must be “convinced”. He is an amiable combination of Humorist and Engineer, and he threatens to revolutionize industry with the introduction of “efficiency methods.” Harold E. Smith Determination of Current Ratio and Phase Angle of Current Transformers. Born May 21, 1896, at Chicago, III. Carl Schurz High School. A.I.E.E. Smithy is one of those congenial fellows with a sense of humor that is all his own. His working qualities were recognized as soon as he came among us. Even though a hard worker he always had a little time for his fellows. The “bigness” of his heart makes up for the “littleness” of his stature. Clinton Everett Stryker 'lest of a commutating rectifier. Born February 27, 1897, at Chicago, III. Lane Tech. Jan. 1914. Electrical Engineering. Omega Lambda; Eta Kappa Nu; A.I.E.E. Clinton went through Lane and during the last year there did quite a bit of electrical work. I le graduated from Lane Junior College as the only one in the class. Came to Armour in midyear and saw that the college course would take either four and a half or three and a half years, so decided on latter and went to summer school and doubled his program to make it. M. L. Sommer field Experimental Study of an Illuminomctcr. Born December 21, 1894, at Chicago, 111. Wendell Phillips High School, Feb. 1913. Electrical Engineering. The Ohr; A.I.E.E.; Mandolin Club. Myron is the perpetual Sergeant-at-arms of the class of ’17, and it was largely due to him that our class rushes were won. He can also strangle any kind of a musical instrument from a mouth organ to a ukelele. It was these valuable musical talents of his which were responsible for his election as chief utility man of the Mandolin Club. William Thomas Watt “Test of a Commutating Rectifier.” Born August 3, 1896, at Norwood Park, III. Lane Tech, 1913. Sigma Kappa Delta; Eta Kappa Nu; “A” club; Treasurer A.I.E.E. ’l6-’i7; Tech Basket ball ’i5-'i6, ’i6-’i7; Inter-class Baseball, Basketball and Track ’16, ’17. “Bill” took his first two years at Lane, however, he finally decided to attend a “regular” school, and here he is. In spite of his late start, he has established an enviable reputation both as a basket ball “star” and an all round good fellow. THE CLASSES B. S. in E. E. Arnold Zimmerman Experimental Study of an llluminometer. Born, Oct. 2, 1895; Denver, Colo. Wendell Phillips High School, 1913. A.I.E.E. ; ' “Zimm” deserves much credit for the way he has success- fully accomplished his work at Armour. Nothing too big or too hard for his resourceful mind. B. S. in M. E. Otto W. Armspach Study of an Air Washer. Born January 4, 1894, at Dowagiac, Mich. Dowagiac High School, 1913. Mechanical Engineering. A.S.M.E. Drummer in Circus Day Band. ■’Otto” is the only rival of Dr. Keller. He belongs to that class of notables known as the Workers of the Mystic Art.” We arc not surprised that he knows his lessons without studying. He is very congenial and obliging and the Senior Mechanicals feel honored to have him as a member of their class. (� ood luck to you, “Otto.” William Ernst Bauer, Jr. Thermal Conductivity. Born March 31, 1893, at Chicago, Illinois. I.uthcr Institute, June 1913. A.S.M.E.; A.l.T. Discussion Club. Give me the fundamentals, every time,” says Bauer. He is fond of demonstrating the most difficult theor- etical problems of Thermodynamics. Conscientious worker with a good future in view. J. Pierre Bechaud Measurement of water flows by salinity and coloration methods. Born June 9, 1895, at I'ond du Lac, Wisconsin. Fond'du Lac High School 1913. Mechanical Engineering. Phi Kappa Sigma, A.S.M.E. Jean Pierre came to Armour from Fond-du-Lac. From the above names it would seem that he was French, but Bechaud is German. Whenever we meet Pinky he is always telling how much better the Mechanical course is than any other. He is a diligent and studious fellow. We shall soon hear of him as the Chief Engineer of some automobile company. Earle C. Cooper Automatic Temperature Control in Buildings. Born July 17, 1894, at Chicago, 111. John Marshall High School, 1914. Mechanical Engineering. A.S.M.E.; Class Basket Ball. Any man who finishes his course at Armour in three years certainly deserves the respect of his classmates, and this is the way we feel toward Cooper. He, however in his thirst after knowledge, did not give up his athletics but did what he could whenever he could. With the combination of these qualities we predict a bright future for him. it THE CLASSES B. S. in M. E. Harry Mii.ky Goodman Conversion Factors For Viscosimeters. Born December 10, 1895 at Chicago, Illinois. University High School, Chicago, ’15; A.S.M.K.; Armour Discussion Club; Y.M.C.A. (Chair- man Social Service Committee ’13; Cycle Staff ’16. Harry has the ability of getting the most work done with the least apparent effort of anyone in the Senior Mechanical Class. Fdward Wilfred Haines Study of an Air Washer. Born 1895, at Aylmer, Out. Aylmer High School, 1913. Omega Lambda, A.S.M.F., Secretary A.S.M.K. Harold Luttce Determination of Conversion Factors of Viscosimeters. Kxecutive Secretary of the Y.M.C.A. 1915. liorn May 6, 1893, at Chicago, 111. Wendell Phillips High School, Chicago. Mechanical Fnginccring. A.S.M.K., Y.M.C.A., A.I.T.D.C., Rooter’s Association. I.uttgc is one of our well known men, having shown quite a knack at leadership and organization as shown by his work in the Y.M.C.A. His willingness to help and his hearty good nature have made him a favorite among the boys at Armour. Ralph L. Morse Measurement of Water Flow in Pipes by Salinity and Coloration Methods. Born April 14, 1896, at Chicago, III. Bowen High School, 1913. Mechanical Engineering. Delta Tau Delta, A.S.M.K. 1916 Cycle Staff, Cap and Gown Committee. The ability and activity of “Shorty” is not directly measured by his altitude, nay! nay! Rather as the altitude to the fifth power. And then some of his humorous cartoons arc familiar to all of us, and if engineering docs not appeal to him we’ll tip off J. McCutchcon to nail down his w.k. honors, stem and stern, for here’s a “rival” b’gunt. Abe J. Plocinsky 'The Design-Study of a 10 H. P. High Duty Stationary Gas Knginc.” Born April 15, 1896, at Chicago, Illinois. Wm. McKinley High School 1913. A.S.M.K.; A.I.T. Discussion Club; wrestling; Chairman Freshman Smoker Committee. Although Abe is one of our youngest classmates, he is one of the best students at Armour. With his great capacity for doing work, with his good character and with his ability to make friends, Abe is bound to be successful. 45 THE CLASSES B. S. in M. E. Charles Ross Pomeroy The Design study of a ten horsepower, High duty Stationary Gas Engine. Born May 5, 1894, at Cleveland, Ohio. Toledo (Ohio) Central High School, 1912. Mechanical Engineering. Sigma Kappa Delta; Tau Beta Pi; A.S.M.E.; Y.M.C.A.; Class basketball, 1913, 1914, 1915; Vice President A.S.M.E. Charles stayed out of school a year before entering college, working in a machine shop. He lived in Chicago the first two years of school while at Armour. He worked last summer for the Doblc steam car people. Very anxious to get a good job back in Toledo. Why? Bertram Robechek The Physical Properties and Tests of Lubricating Oils. Born on September 5, 1895, at Cleveland, Ohio. Wendell Phillips High School, June, 1913. The Ohr; A.S.M.E.; Mandolin Club. Bert appeared as an expert on oils during the auto show. His ability and ambition has won for him the admiration of his fellow classmates. He is a loyal supporter of Armour affairs and a ‘‘whang” on the ukclclc. X. H. Steixdler Born May 10, 1895, in New York. Wendell Phillips High School, 1913. Mechanical Engineering. Physical Properties and Tests of Lubricating Oils. The Ohr; A.S.M.E. “Nate” always brought joy and laughter to the Senior Mechanicals. He is a good worker and in spite of his hard work always looks so “elegant.” His disposition and personality will surely bring him success. Samuel W. Thai. Application and Development of Water Dynamometer to Testing of Variable Speed Engines. Born April 24, 1892, at Hurley, Wisconsin. West Division High School of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A.S.M.E. Won 135 lb. class championship in Wrestling at A.I.T. Took third place in 220 yd. and 440 yd. dashes in interclass track meet, October 3, 1913. Thai is one of those fellows that has always kept the class in good humor. This quality combined with his great capacity for accurate and quick work is sure to land him a good place in the business world. Here’s to you Sam old boy. H. S. White An Economic Analysis of Automobile Engines by a New Method. Born July 27, 1893, at Denver, Colorado. East Denver High School, 1912. Mechanical Engineering. Sigma Chi; Tau Beta Pi; A.S.M.E.; A.I.T; Discussion Club. Treasurer A.S.M.E. 1917, Junior Play. “Whitcy” is the married man of the Senior Mechanical class. He is a hard and conscientious worker, who can always be relied upon for the finest detail. THE CLASSES B. S. in C. E. Oi.ok E. Andren The Design and Cost of a Highway Reconstruction. Born March 20, 1894, at Chicago, 111. J. S. Morton High School. Civil Engineering. Known to us all as either Andy or Ole. I Ic is possessed with that high degree of politeness that so many of us lack; and this, along with his quick brain and good sportmanship, will win a high place for him. William Hoy Chun Design of the Sanitary Sewerage System Disposal Plant for the Village of Crete, Illinois. Born Feb. 20, 1893, at Honolulu, Hawaii. Cogswell Polytcchnical College, San Francisco, 1913. Hydraulic and Sanitary Engineering. Armour Civil Engineering Society. Chun holds the record for signing absent blanks. The reason for exhausting the supply of absence blanks at one time was due to his untiring activity as secretary of the Chin cse Students Alliance of America. Never- theless Chun’s congeniality coupled with a laugh at all times has endeared him to the Civils, who wish him success when he returns to Honolulu. Louis I. Goldberg Design of a 30,000 horse power Hydro Electric Develop- ment upon the Genesee railroad at Portagcvillc X.Y. Born, June 29, 1896, Dubuque, Iowa. Calumet high school, 1913. Hvdro-Elcctric. A.C.E.S.; A.l.E.E. Tennis, Intcrclass indoor ’15 and ’16; Junior Play. Goldie” came from the Calumet high school to make his debut in the Civil department. At the summer campof’14, he wasoncof the mainstaysof the base ball team in the bush league battles with the Badgers. He played intcrclass base-ball ’15 and ’16, and also in all the tennis tournaments. Lou has given his services to the Armour band whenever it was in action. Although he portrayed the part of a pessimist in the Junior play, he is about as optimistic as they come. James D. Harvey, Jr. Design and Cost of a Highway Reconstruction. Born, August 19, 1894, Chicago, 111. Evanston High-School, 1912. Sigma Kappa Delta; Eta Kappa Xu; A.l.E.E.; A.C.E.S. Glee Club 1914-1917; Mandolin Club 1916-1917; Junior Play 1916. Jim” as we know him, who at Armour hasn’t met him? Full of dry humor, and with his dimples and rosy checks a regular killer with the women. However, in spite of these qualities, Jim is a man with good horse sense”. Harold A. Kleinman Design of a 13,000 H.P. Hydro-Electric Development on East Canada Creek, near East Creek, X.Y. Born June 16, 1894, at Chicago, 111. Bowen High School, 1912. Sigma Xu; Eta Kappa Nu;Tau Beta Pi; Vice-President Y.M.C.A., 1916; Secretary A.l.E.E. ’i6-’i7; Junior Play ’16. He liked to spend his evenings with the ladies but was never known to come to school unprepared in his work. Klciny” is an_A-Q scholar and a real friend. 17 THE CLASSES B. S. in C. E. Stuart N. Miller Power Consumption ’Pest of a Bascule Bridge. Born August 15, 1895, at Port Huron, Michigan. Harrison Technical High School, Chicago, ’13. A.C.K.S. Acting Second Marshall Junior Week, '16; Recording Secretary A.C.K.S.; Junior Play Cast; Cheer Leader ’i5-’i6, ’K -’ 17. More than one 1917 Civil will always remember “Stew” Miller as one of those who made life in the civil draft- ing room worth living. Besides being a rank optimist he is always willing to help a friend in need, and if “Pep” and personality count for anything lie is bound to succeed. Stanley W. Newman Elimination of the Grade Crossing at Downers Grove, 111. Born, January 26, 1897, at New York City, X.Y. Wendell Phillips. Representative Board of Control A.C.K.S. Band '14, '15, ’16; Junior Play. Tiring of the East, Buck” came toChicago and finally entered Armour. Even this has not entirely repressed him. for he will receive his B.S. degree before he be- comes a voter. Buck can always be depended upon to fill in anywhere, and with his pep and his courage to back his convictions he should become one of Old Armours’ successful grads. Omar Grant O’Grady Design of a Hollow Dam and Hvdro-Elcctric Plant at French’s Mills, New York. Born February 18, 1894, at Natal, Brazil. Atheneu Rio-Grandense, 1911. Sigma Kappa Delta; A.I.E.E.; A.C.K.S.; Y.M.C.A. Fatima” came a long way to find a good engineering school. He is a true Armour booster. His happy smile and generous disposition have won him many friends. Arthur Aksei. Pederson Design of a Water Supply System for Park Ridge. Born October 26, 1892, at Chicago, III. Lewis Institute 1912. A.C.IvS. Pederson is one of those fellows not easily reached, but during the four years course, and especially at summer camp, he has earned the friendship of all his fellows. One of the marks of this is the variety of his nick- names. Among his accomplishments is that of staying home (?) and studying (?) Friday evenings. Well Pete, here’s to many more happy years for you. Akmin L. Schreiber Power Consumption Test of a Bascule Bridge. Born May 7, 1895, at Chicago, Illinois. Salem, Oregon High School, 1912. Sigma Kappa Delta; Tau Beta Pi; A” Club; A.C.K.S.; Tech Track Team, ’i3-’i4-’i 3-’i6-’i7; Class and Fraternity Track Teams. President A.C.K.S. Senior class member of Board of Athletic Control. Born in Chicago but spent better part of mv life in the West. 48 THE CLASSES B. S. in C. E. Cakroi.i. Leston Shaw Design of a Water Supply System for Park Ridge, 111. Born December 7, 1895, at Marinette, Wisconsin. I-anc Technical High School, Chicago, Feb. '14. Tau Beta Pi; A.C.E.S.; Track, 'i6-’i7; Treasurer A.C.E.S., ’17; Junior Play Cast. Since coming here from I.anc College Shaw has entered into all branches of student affairs. He is a very energetic worker; anything else we could hardly expect from one who has so much enthusiasm in everything he does. Coming back from Summer Camp and still being the most popular of the Civils shows that our former opinions of him were entirely correct. Earl Hirst Smith Design of a 15,000 H.P. Hydro-Electric Development on the East Canada Creek, near East Creek, N.Y. Born August 31, 1894 at Chicago, Illinois. Wendell Phillips High School, Chicago, ’13. Phi Kappa Sigma; Eta Kappa Xu; A.I.E.E.; A.S.C.E.; Radie E.X.; Y.M.C.A.; Secretary Rooters Association 'i6-'i7; Social Committee, ‘15-’ 16, 'i6-’i7. Social Editor Cycle '16; Junior Play; Chairman Senior Cap Gown Committee. After graduating from high school Earl started attending Armour because it was within walking distance from home. He continued to attend because he was too lazy to change. He now graduates because they are glad to get rid of him. We predict a brilliant and prosperous future for “Smithy.” Harry Wilbur Stride Design for Water Supply System for Park Ridge, 111. Born November 27, 1891, at Sioux Falls, So. Dakota. Washington High School, Sioux Falls, So. Dak., 1912. A.C.E.S.; Secretary A.C.E.S. '17. Harry’s work at Armour has been exceptional, and his faculty for getting the details of an assignment is remarkable. Good luck in Honolulu, Harry. John W. Tierney Design of Hydro-Electric Power Plant on East Canada Creek, near Gclgcsvillc, X. Y. St. Ignatius Academy. Honor A; Eta Kappa Xu; A.I.E.E.; A.C.E.S. Class track ’13, '14, ’15, Varsity track ’13, ’14, ‘15; Track captain ’17; Junior Play, Secy. Honor A Society; Junior Marshal, Cycle staff ’14, ’16, ’17. If Jack shows as much speed in business as he has on the cinder path, we predict some future for him. As a member of the l.A.C. track squad and also our own, he has made a brilliant record in athletics, and those of us who have worked with him in school have learned to admire his scholarship, determination, and honesty. Here’s to you Jack. Hymen Fisher Wai.der An Activated Sludge Plant for Huntlcv, Mont. A.C.E.S. Born Dee. 25, 1896, at Chicago, 111. Joseph Medill High School, 1912. Chemical Engineering. Although handicapped in many ways, Walder made- good at Armour. If you know him well, you arc sure to like him. His favorite pastime is “picking the rag” on the ivories. in THE CLASSES B. S. in Ch. E. Gerald T. Dougherty Manufacture of Acctphcntidcn from Phenol. Born 1893 at Springfield, Ohio. Hyde Park 11. S. 1910. Sigma Kappa Delta; Radical X; Mandolin and Glee Clubs; A. Ch. E. S. Gerald, otherwise known as “Pat.” has always shown a great deal of interest in music, and at the end of his course at Armour has become so popular that even the “Doc” calls on Pat to play in assemblies. Last summer this Irishman travelled the Great Lakes on an ore boat in order to study the music of the sailors. Besides all the musical talent we find that Gerald is an all around good accommodating fellow who can work hard and still be good natured. Stuart R. Evans The Manufacture of Acctphcnetidcn from Phenol. Born June 8, 1893, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. East Division High School, Milwaukee, 1912. Omega Lambda; Glee Club ’13, '14, ’15; A.Ch.E.S.; Class baseball ’15. Class baseball ’15; Junior Social Committee; Junior Play; Senior Pin Committee. “Chick” has shown that it is possible to be a mighty hard worker, and still have time to register good- nature. He is one of the fellows we really enjoy knowing, and we hope that graduation won’t separate us. He is also a “whizz” before the foot lights in his impersonation of the fair sex. Arthur G. Fitzner The Preparation of Picric Acid from Chlor-Benzene. Born, Nov. 3, 1894; Chicago, III. Lane Tech. 1913. Sigma Kappa Delta; A.Ch.E.S.; Y.M.C.A.; Secrctarv A.Ch.E.S. ‘‘Fit .” is one of the best liked men of the class. No matter what his troubles arc he always has a smile and usually a little German joke to help matters along. He is a good mixer and we can assure him of a good place in the business world. Edward Friedman Production of Vegetable Casein. Born January 25, 1896, at Chicago, 111. Wendell Phillips H. S. The Ohr; A.Ch.E.S. Ed, better known to the chemicals as “E.X.F.,” has shown his ability as a student by being out for six weeks during his senior year and yet graduating among the leaders of his department. He will be remembered by the chemicals especially because of the vegetation which he cultivated on his upper lip during the period of incapacity. Norman J. Goorskky By-Products from Garbage. Born Mar. 17, 1896, at Chicago, Illinois. Lane Technical High School, 1913. Chemical F.ngineering. Tau Beta Pi; Armour Chemical Engineering Society; Y.M.C.A.; Interclass Basketball 1916-1917; Vice President Armour Chemical Engineering Society 1915-1916; Cap and Gown Committee 1916-1917. . 0 THE CLASSES B. S. in Ch. E. William Hankan Production of Vegetable “Casein . Horn Aug. 26, 1805, at Chicago, Illinois. Wendell Phillips High School, 1912 A.Ch.K.S.; Ohr; Mandolin Club. Bill’s a regular guy and has a smile for everybody. He gained notoriety as an assistant to Alfred Krncst Dean. His good looks arc eclipsed by his “fiddling”. S. Wilmkr Kendall The Commercial Manufacture of Salicylic Acid. Horn June 17. 189? at Quincy, III. Wendell Phillips High School, 1912. American Physical Society; American Chemical Societv; A.Ch.K.S. ' Wilmer is one of our “men of experience”. He has done research work at the University of Chicago 1913-15 on “Fractional Distillation of Noble Cases from Liquid Air. During 1916-17 he was Chemical Engineer for the Chicago Drug Association. Jacob If. Makkam A Study of the Manufacture of Cellulose. Born Oct. 23, 1889, in Kiev, Russia. Central high school, St. Louis, Mo. “Mark,” the notorious Russian blonde has been Deans right hand man for two years. He is a wrestler of note, and a regular gallery god at Orchestra Hall every Friday. He will be remembered by Prof.--- “Markam here?” No answer. “Mark’em absent”. Archibald J. Mease The Recovery of By-Products from Garbage. Born February 5, 1896, at Chicago, 111. Lane Technical High School, 1913. Chemical Engineering. Tau Beta Pi. Harry B. Richards Manufacture of Salol from Phenol. Horn Aug. 15, 1895, at Chicago, 111. Lane Technical School, June 1913. Chemical Engineering. Y.M.C.A.; Chemical Society; Senior Class Basket Ball. Harry is not very active in athletics, but very active as a rooter. Many friends and acquaintances. 51 THE CLASSES B. S. in Ch. E. Arnold II. Smith The Preparation of Metal. Born,.May 29, 1896; Akron, Ohio. Central High School, Akron, Ohio; 1915. One year at Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio. Sigma Kappa Delta; Tau Beta Pi; Y.M.C.A.; A.Ch.K.S. Y. P. Class of 1915-1916; Chairman membership com- mittee Y.M.C.A. 1916; Junior play, Senior Program Committee; President A.Ch.K.S. “A.H.” who is one of the popular men of the class, spent his first year at Buchtel College, (Coed). He soon recognized the advantages of a technical course at Armour and he came to us the following year. His record as a student coupled with his social activity soon commanded the attention of Tau Beta Pi. We predict that his ambitious, energetic, cheerful and friendly nature will promote his success in the business world as it has at Armour. Walter Wollaston Preparation of Picric Acid from Chlorbenzol. Born February 17, 1894, at Dayton, Ohio. Chemical Knginecring. Wendell Phillips High School, Chicago, 111. Omega Lambda; Tau Beta Pi; Radical X; Sphinx; A.Ch.K.S.; Class President 1914-15; Social Committee 1 14; ’i5-T6, ’i6-’i7; Chairman i5-’i6; Asso. Bus. Mgr. the Armour Engineer; Managing Editor the Cycle T5-T6; Junior Play Cast; ’15-’ 16; Chairman Senior Pin Committee; Junior Marshall. Wally” has the distinction of having been elected the Junior honor man of Tau Beta Pi. His excellent scholarship coupled with his pleasing personality and activity makes him a Regular Armour Man.” B. S. in F. P. E. George Walter Cloidt Hazards of Grain Elevators. Born September 12, 1892, at Chicago, Illinois. Wendell Phillips High School June 1910. Delta Tau Delta; A.F.P.K.S.; Y.M.C.A.; Interclass Baseball 1916; Smoker Committee 'i4-’i5; Repre- sentative Rooters Assn. ’16. George is an able member of the Senior Fire Protect” crew, and is always to be found at the reading-room.” His chief diversion outside of grain elevators” is driving a Kisscll Limousine up and down Michigan Avenue. Frank J. Conway Retardation of Combustion on Passing Through Screens in Closed Pipes. Born, Chicago, Illinois, June 4, 1895. DcPaul Academy 1913. Fire Protection Course. A” Club; Fire Protection Society; Baseball ’i6, ’17; Class Baseball and Basketball ’15, ’16, ’17. “Connie” is the fighting Irishman of The Tech. His pep and ginger will be missed around school just as much as on the teams. Always smiling and never mad at anyone, “Connie” is a good scout. R. 1). Cowles Closed Nozzle Test on Acid-Soda Machine. Born, June 27, 1890; Baraboo, Wis. Wisconsin Academy. F.P.E.S. “Dell” always greets you with a smile and in the class- room or on the field he is with the top notchers. .'� 2 THE CLASSES B. S. in F. P. E. Leonard A. Foschinbaur Standards for Automatic Sprinkler Floor Distribution. Born, May 17, 1S95; Oak Park, Illinois. Oak Park High School, 1914. Phi Kappa Sigma; A.F.P.E.S.; Member Junior Class Play 1916. Acquaintance with Leonard changes the first impression of quietness. He is a staunch supporter of college activities and sure is some fusscr. Kenneth V. Ham. Retardation of Combustion through Wire Screen in Closed Pipes Born, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Dec. 23, 1893. Fond du Lac High School, 1913. A” Club; F.P.F.. Society. Tech baseball '14. '15, ’16, ’17; .Class baseball ’13, ’14, ’15; Class basketball 'i3-'i4, ’14-T5, ’i5-’i6, 'i6-’i7. Besides being one of the Techs star athletes, K. 7' is the champion humorist of the school, Any time you feel down hearted just talk to him and his million dollar smile will chase the blues away. Joseph S. Kui.a Floor Distribution of Sprinkler Heads. Born, March 3, 1894, at Fast Chicago, Ind. St. Stanislaus College, 1912. Y.M.C.A.; A.F.P.E.S. Member of Circus and Rush Band. Joe has the distinction of being one of the most in- dustrious of the hard-working Senior Fire-Protects and like a true F. P. he is never down-hearted. But we can’t figure out just how he finds time to dabble in politics, (it is rumored this spring that he was a candidate for mayor of F.ast Chicago). I Ic has a faculty for hard work and attention to details, com- bined with a cheery personality which will surely prove of value to him in the Greater School which he now enters. Howard Bri ce Maguire Hazards of Grain Elevators. Born, March 24, 1893, at Chicago, III. Wendell Phillips High School, 1912. Delta Tau Delta; A.F.P.E.S.; Y.M.C.A.; Class basc- v ball 1912, ’14, ’15; class track 1914, ’15; golf champion 1915, 1916; President of class ’13-’16; President of Rooters Assn. ’l6-’i7; Chairman of Social Committee ’i6-’i7; Chairman of Picture Committee 'i6-’i7; Cvclc Staff ?I5-’i6; lunior Marshall; Yiee-Pres. A.F.P.E.S. ’i6-’i7. If you want to know who is around school, ask ‘‘shorty.” Besides a few side duties, such as running a sub- station and playing golf, he is one of our most con- sistent promoters of school activities. “Shorty” is also Junior member of the Mcllor-Maguirc “Fox” committee. W. Russkm. Owen Closed nozzle test on a 40 gallon chemical extinguisher. Born, May 24, 1894, at Chicago, III. Austin High School, 1911. Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Kappa Delta, Y.M.C.A., Fire Protection Society, Glee Club, Junior Play Cast. Class Indoor baseball ’ 16; Pres. Y.M.C.A. 1916. Some students arc identified by their courses. I lowever, we do not think of “Russ” as a “Fire Protect,” but rather as an “Armour Tech”. He makes a specialty of variety in his work and play, in which he is always the same popular and good natured fellow. 53 THE CLASSES B. S. in F. P. E. CarKOi. Harry Roberts Hazards of Grain Elevators. Horn, April 8, 1895, at Perdue hill, Alabama. Beaumont, ;Texas, High School, 1913. Delta Tau Delta; A.F.P.E.S.; Senior Social Com- mittee; Interclass Basketball, 13, ’14, ’15, ’16. Harry is one of those fellows with whom one thinks it would be hard to become acquainted. Just try it once and find out what a good fellow he is at all times. Robert E. Schreiner Standards for Automatic Sprinkler Floor Distribution. Born March 13, 1895, at Chicago, III. Austin High School, 1912. Beta Phi; A.F.P.E.S.; Treasurer A.F.P.E.S., '15,’16; Second Marshall Junior Week, ’16; Junior Play ’16; Class Basketball '14. '15, ’16; Class Baseball ’14, '15, ’16; Class Indoor Baseball ’16, ’17. “Bob” is one of the most popular and versatile men of his class. As author of “Tech Days” and “Hello, Dean Monin” he will be long remembered. William P. Tronvig Nozzle Tests of a 40 Gallon Chemical Fire Extinguisher. Born, May 14, 1890, Chicago, Illinois. Kenosha High School, 1912. Sigma Kappa Delta; A.F.P.E.S.; Y.M.C.A.; Class representative to Fulcrum '14, ’13; Class Secretary 15-’16; Vice-President F.P.S. ’15-T6; Chairman Invitation Committee. “Bill” is THE worker of the class; and a mighty good fellow. B. S. in A. Allen X. Drydkn Design of a State Capitol Building. Born, May 26, 1894 at Chicago, III. Wendell Phillips High School, '14. Scarab; Atelier; Glee Club ’i4- i7, Quartette: Mandolin Club, Art Students I.caguc. Social Committee ’13. '14; Asst. Class Treasurer ’13-16, and ’i6-’i7. Massicr of Atelier ’14-’15; Purchasing Agent 'i4-'i7; Auditing Committee ’16-’17; Architect’s Play ’14. Excepting the fact that he is an architect, Allen X. is the type of what every Armour man should be. As with many of us, school rather breaks into his after- noons; but in a manner which makes us ask “how docs he do it, he got away with his work with a record of which we arc all envious. Harold Gillette Ingraham A State Capitol Building. Born, July 24, 1894, at Mcnomonic, Wis. Wausau, Wis., High School. Delta Tau Delta; Tau Beta Pi; Scarab; Atelier; Glee Club, 1913, ’14, ’13, ’16, ’17; Class Basket Ball, 1913. Social Committee, 1914-15, 1916-17; Massicr Atelier 1916-17; Art Editor Cycle 1915-16; Junior Play. Speaking of Architectural, Social, and Jazz Band artists, well just watch “Ing”. THE CLASSES B. S. in A. R. B. Kurzon A State Capitol Building. Born April 9, 1895, Chicago, Illinois. Lane High School 1913. Beta Phi; The Atelier. In our opinion Kur .” is the embodiment of a good scout. His many songs (one for every occasion), and his original brogue arc the delight (?) of his class. However, by the standard of his school work, it is assured that he will make good in his chosen field. Mark Bertram Levinson A State Capitol Building. Born August 3, 1894, at Chicago, Illinois. Joseph Medill High School, June 1911. Atelier; Art Students League. Known by all as Mike;” also called The Phantom”. Mark is right there when it comes to singing. His favorite song is Oh Say, Wouldn’t You Like To Be A Soldier?” Has no enemies except his beard, with which he wrestles daily. Pompadour king. Famous in the “Shelbourg Mystery”. Hard worker. Worked his way through school. Good natured and liked by all. Kenneth A. McGrew A State Capitol Building. Born January 31, 1896, at Kankakee, 111. Carl Schurz High School, 1913. Tau Beta Pi; Scarab; Trcas. Atelier ’i$-’t6, secretary 'l6-’l7; Mandolin Club; runner up in 1916 tennis tournament; Jass” Band; Kenneth’s record in college has been a marked success, due to the effort he has put into it, not only in scholar- ship, but also in social and athletic affairs. Harry K. Maher A State Capitol Building. Born July 27. 1895, at Chicago, III. St. Beta’s College, 1913. Tau Beta Pi; Scarab, Atelier, Massier Atelier, ’ij-’i6. July 27, 1895, was an eventful day in the history of the world, for on that day Harry first saw the break o’dav. His devotion to his studies, his winning personality and his ready Hibernian wit have proven him a real man and have won for him a host of friends. Charles Markei. A State Capitol. Born, Dec. 16, 1895, at Wiota, Wis. Freeport High School, 1913. Atelier. Known as “Freeport” some of the time, and as “Chawlie” most of the time. Good Student. Information Bureau. Unlicensed movie operator at Talmadge’s show. Answers telephone when Schiavone calls up for Campbell. 'Picket scalper and collector for the Harmony. Plays tuba in Ahmor Awkcstra. Worked his way through school. THE CLASSES B. S. in A. Lloyd Eldon Mei.lor Design of a State Capitol Building. Born Aug ic, 1894, at Aberdeen, So. Dakota. Sioux Falls High School, 1912. Delta Tau Delta; Tau Beta Pi; Atelier; Y.M.C.A.; Freshman Basketball; Class Treasurer ' 13, '14; Glee Club ’13, '14, ’15, ’ 16; Architect’s Play ’14. “Spike’s” artistic ability has brightened our halls since he blew into town from the “Far West” four years ago. His record of A’s docs not stop with his studies but continues in his character and good fellowship. Wm. F. Thomsen State Capitol. Born, November 22, 1894, at Chicago, 111. Lane 'I'cch, 1913. Atelier. Tommy” is our practical man. The buildings that lie will build may not Ik- according to Van Pelt or Vignola, but you can bet that they will be practicable. His pet hobby is the opera. He can tell you who wrote any one of them. John W. Turner A State Capitol Building. Born, Oct. 11, 1894, at Chicago, 111. Harrison 'Technical High School, 1913. Treasurer Atelier T6, ’17. “Our lawn” is to the senior architects what a balance wheel is to a watch. Turner has a keen sense of humor; and his chief hobby is in finding new methods of doing cvcry-dav things. He can find short cuts in figuring trusses, or ventilating systems; and we will all vouch for their reliability. Wm. J. Vesely A State Capitol. Born, March 3, 1894, at Chicago, 111. Crane 'lech, 1913. Atelier. Vesely has that nack of “flecking” his brush and squint- ing his left eye that one must get somewhere in France. I le is the originator of Vcsclcycsquc Archi- tecture and like his contemporary Louis Sullivan is a very modest creator. The freshmen and sopho- mores arc always at his beck and call, and it is quite an honor among them to “nigger” for Vcsclcy. Stanley B. Williams State Capitol Building. Born, July 27, 1893, at Orion, Illinois. Lake High School, 1913. Atelier; “A” Club; Track Team 1915-16, and Class track team in 1914-15; Sergeant at Arms Atelier ’15- '16, and ’i6-’i7. Stanley is one of our hardest workers, but he can always find time to take part in anything that the architects start, whether it is “Rough Neck Day” or classical music recitals. One of his principal characteristics is thoroughness. He is a great influence for sobering the freshmen and teaching them to show the proper respect for Seniors. 50 THE CLASSES B. S. in I. A. Thomas B jorge 'I'caching. Born, Aug. io, 1882, at Whitehall Wis. Prepared at Southern Minnesota Normal College. B.S. Southern Minnesota Normal College 1908. A. I.T. Glee Club, 1909-1910. Bjorge had almost no opportunity to attend school until he was of age. In spite of this handicap and in spite of Dan Cupid’s call, he is completing his course. Mis determination is in proportion to his stature. George S. Shubekt Teaching. Born, May 7, 1894. Lane High School, 1911, Lane College, 1913. Taught manual training in the Kenosha public schools, and spent his extra time in completing the major studies required for his anticipated degree. After having worked there a year, he came to Chicago; and while working here as a mechanical drawing teacher, has completed the curriculum required for his degree. We have not had the opportunity to become very well acquainted with George, but arc certainly proud to call him a class-mate. Emil Jabroskey Teaching. Born, Nov. 18, 1883, at Hammond, Ind. He received his early education in Cook County schools; and graduated from the South Chicago High School in 1904, and the Chicago Teacher's College in 1906. He has taught in the Chicago public schools for the past ten years, and at present is a Critic Teacher of Manual Training at the Carter Practice School. He is also a member of the Chicago Normal School faculty. B. S. in Ch.E. Thomas E. Bo-rrs Recovery of By-Products from Garbage. Born, August 2, 1891; Sioux City, Iowa. Pearson’s Academy, Walla Walla, Wash. Walla Walla High School. B. S. degree in Chemistry, Whitman College. A.S.Ch.E. Class basketball 1915, 191b; Track 1916. Edison, coming to us, as he did with so much previous education, has proved a seer among his classmates. However, this has not been to his discredit, quite the reverse in fact, for he has shown himself a real companion and good-fellow. Orkkn L. Hailey, Jk. The Preparation of Metol. Born, June 3, 1891 at Knoxville, Tenn. Corsicana (Texas) High School, 1911. A.Ch.E.S.; Sigma Kappa Delta; Treasurer A.Ch.E.S. The study of engineering is only one part of Hailey’s activities; besides all of his college duties he puts in his eight hours daily with the Common-wealth, a feature that any man should be proud of. With his perpetual smile, lie is one of the best liked men of the Senior class. Ogden Field A Officers of tlje Class of 1918 H. W. PuSCHEL K. A. Taylor F. E. Marx . F. R. Johnson F. F. Quinn I). E. Cable V. A. Kerr . E. F. Quinn V. J. Wignall R. X. Manx President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer • Deputy Treasurers First Marshall Second Marshall Third Marshall Chairman of Smoker Committee W. FI. BRETTING S. L. Evans O. M. Hullinger S. L. Evans . R. E. Marx SOCIAL COMMITTEE W. J. Wignall, Chairman FI. II. Shotwell L. Weiss Representative Board of Athletic Control Representative Rooters' Association Cheer Leader oo THE CLASSES Junior Class $tstorp Early in the month of September, nineteen hundred and fourteen, a large number of young men began their career in Armour Institute. The initial un- familiarity which they naturally experienced soon wore off as they were drawn into closer relationship with one another, and before many weeks had elapsed they met and formally organized as a Freshman Class. Beaumont, who at this meeting was honored with the presidency, demonstrated his ability to successfully pilot his class during the ensuing year. The class spirit rapidly developed and evinced itself with a display of paint which was well executed. Numerous social events followed which were loyally supported by the Freshmen The daring and bravery of this class was well illustrated, when it upset all traditions by holding the first dance of the year in the form of a “Freshman Mixer” dance. The affair was a big success in spite of the fact that the “Sophs” attempted to “muss up” things. This class also furnished a number of athletic “stars” during the year of which the following won school emblems: Sandroff, Hullinger, and Evans. 'Fhe following September, the Class of ’18 returned to Armour for their second lap of college life. An efficient corps of officers was chosen at an early meeting of the newly “branded” Sophomores. Evans was elected president, and filled his position with a dignity and skill which was highly commendable. At the Freshman Handshake which was held at the Hyde Park Y.M.C.A., the Sophomore Class was well represented, and did its share in creating a fraternal spirit with the incoming freshmen. Perhaps the greatest social accomplishment of the year was the Sopho- more Dance which was held at the Congress Hotel. This dance was a marked success independent of the fact that it was well attended. Chairman Shotwcll and the other members of the class social committee were largely responsible for the favorable outcome of this important event. In athletic competition the Sophomores surpassed their good performance of the previous year. Anthony won the fall tennis tournament in a field of thirty- two entrants. The various class athletic teams were chosen contenders for the championship in every branch of interclass athletic contests. Kerr, a more recent member of the Class of ’i8, distinguished himself on most of the “Tech” teams, as a first class athlete. Sandroff, Kerr. Taylor, and Hullinger were awarded “A’s” for their service on school teams. Shortly before the school year expired a class meeting was held for the election of members of the present Cycle Staff. Stevers was presented with the chief editorship. After having endured the hot summer weather most of the class members decided that school, after all, was the more favorable form of torture. About ninety started this year by “labeling” themselves Juniors. The annual Freshman Handshake was well attended. Fhe Armour Quartette sang several songs which were heartily enjoyed by all. Mann, a Junior representative on this quartette, proved himself invaluable as a vocalist. The election of class officers was soon held. Those elected were: Puschel, president; Taylor, vice-President; Marx, secretary; and Johnson, treasurer. A number of Juniors acted as referees in the Freshman-Sophomore sack rush. The plans for the rush were promoted by a joint committee of the upper classes. The program was carried out without a hitch, and furnished abundant amusement for the spectators. The annual class dance this year was given December i in the Red Room of Hotel La Salle. The Juniors started the athletic season by furnishing a champion golf player in the person of V. S. Eagle. The class basketball team was unfortunate in losing the championship. Captain Kerr’s team was tied with the Seniors at the end of the series with seven games won and two lost. The “play off” game was won by the Seniors. The Junior indoor baseball team has administered two defeats to outside teams. The first game was won from the Sinai social center indoor team with a 4 to 3 score, and the second game was won from the Palmer Park team with a score of 5 to 2. 01 D.E.C. THE CLASSES Class of Nineteen SNnbreb Cigfjteen Mechan ical Engineering Aitchison, P. F. Gashe, R. T. Marvin, X. L. Belke, Y. K. Greenspahn, A. H. Rieger,G. B retting, W. H. Hu 1 FAKER; N. L. Taake, H. E. Cole, M. C. Kerr, V. A. Taylor, K. A. Durhan, E. J. Marks, R. E. Sandroff, . M. Anthony, R. B. Electrical Engineering Hullinger, 0. M. Petzing, E. W. Burns, R. B. Hunt, J. J. ScHEUER, E. Crown, X. M. Jackson, R. S. Schrieber, H. F. Erickson, R. A. Jacobs, L. R. Sedlacek, R. J. Ferguson, A. H. Mathews, R. H. G. Shea, F. Goldstein, J. N. Moore, E. A. Shotwell, H. H. Haizman, E. Xewlander, A. R. Stevers, H. D. Hofgren, A. A. Ora hood, L. 0. Yodges, F. B. Bruce, H. A. Civil Engineering Harnett, B. E. Seliger, K. L. Bush, I. B. Nitka, J. Senescall, C. Bush, L. C. XOTHHELFER, S. D. Smith, E. F. Cramer, Blois Letherman, C. M. Weiss, L. Dierstein, F. C. Peterson, H. A. Wignall, W. J. Cable, D. E. Client ical Engineering Finklstein, Y. Modzikowski, S. J. Eagle, . S. Johnson, F. R. Pearson, A. Elstein, Aaron Klemm, H. F. Prest, I. J. Finkl, W. F. Cole, E. R. Koehler, V. V. Fire Protection Engineering Kingsley, T. Puschel, H. W. Evans, S. L. Kuttnauer, L. Y. Rusk, R. H. Hayes, L. E. Mann, R. N. Sabiston, K. M. Hauseman, R. B. Bultman, Y. Marx, F. E. Architecture Glube, H. Morse, H. L. Chappell, R. A. Hulburt, S. C. Pareira, D. A. Cohen, R. F. Klajda, E. F. Quinn, E. F. Cowles, S. C. Kocii, R. F. Sosna, X. I. Davidson, M. Kuehn, V. K. Twery, L. E. Grammas, P. MacJEldowney, H. B. Wricht, Y. C. } THE CLASSES Martin Stone McCormack Mendi us Officers of tlje Class of 1919 J. M. Stone President W. J. McCormack Pice-President I. C. Martin Secretary W. Mendi us Treasurer SOCIAL COMMITTEE R. T. Peters, Chairman J. E. Alexander A. E. Maitre E. J. Kilfoyle H. F. Rehfeldt W. E. Dady Cycle Representative A. E. Maitre Board of Athletic Control Representative W. Olesky . Serge ant-at-Anns 66 THE CLASSES jgjopfjomore Class Jlistorp It was in September, 1915, that the class of ’19, which now gives promise of being one of the brightest stars in the Armour constellation, gathered; a truly rep- resentative crowd from all parts of the globe, before the gates of Armour. Being of no small import that we should organize at once, we began our eventful four- year career with all due seriousness and ably piloted by Lou Yeomans, we did things and did them right, as any fair-minded upper classman will bear witness. The class from the start was not content to confine its activities to any one phase of college life but entered everything whole-heartedly with a firm resolution to do its best, and under guidance of some worthy leaders a happy combination of high scholarship, strong athletics and good-fellowship has resulted. Our dance was the talk of the season and the banquets, two of them, were pulled off in great style. On Tech-Xite our Armour spirit dominated our '19 spirit as in all the school affairs. We were represented in track by Mcndius and Sommer whom “Long John” considers an important asset to his ’Varsity team. Our first year came to a close in May, 1916, a year filled with fine achievements. Misfortune overtook some of our regular men during the summer and when the class assembled again in September, 1916 it was with sincere regret that it missed such men as Lou, Jap, Kavvy, Bob, Parker and many others. Some new men had joined their fortunes with ours, but it was a somewhat smaller class whose destiny Mac Stone undertook to direct through its second year. Mac’s ability to run things was first evidenced as Freshman treasurer and he has more than kept up his reputation this year. At the handshake we played a minor part, reserving our welcome for the Freshies until later. This year marked a revival of a modified form of the more humane style of rush, which for barbarous reasons was abolished by the class of ’09. We were outnumbered to say the least and would have been better represented in the old style rush, but for the good of civilization we were willing to sacrifice our- selves. Not a member of the class of ’20 can say they had an easy time of it. The rush and the smoker after it were among the real successes of the year. The Soph banquet held on an inopportune date was not the success it might have been. However the fellows more than came back at the dance. What other class ever put across a dance equal to ours? Pete surely deserves credit for that affair which was a world-beater. Our activities next year will be largely confined to the Cycle. Having already selected the leaders for that job you may expect a real book. As we turn the pages of our as yet, incomplete history at Armour, our life these two years has been indeed pleasant. 67 THE CLASSES £s opf)omore Class Class of Nineteen Jpunbrrt) iJineteen F. I.. Ackerlund Electricals W. R. Henning R. H. Rensch E. H. Arnold M. A. Johnson E. ScilEUER M. F. Bacon R. O. Joslyn Abe Sugarman C. F. Butler I. C. Martin A. P. Sullivan K. R. Ewin G. Matejka A. R. ’Phroop C. I). Fisher R. I). Morgan P. IE Weber M. C. Friedman J. P. Muelleman T. Welch A. Grant R. E. Pkntland IE Weston II. Anderson Mechanicals A. M. Grasse R. S. Weinshenker II. B. Atherton I. A. Keeth H. K. Wertheimer I). C. Berc T. A. Kidwell C. K. Eunde A. H. Blaker E. E. Nielsen C. F. Clausen C. I. Carlson IE R. Rehfeldt E. J. Kilfoyle A. X. Gail M. W. Rogers A. T. Hensen G. C. Graham T. J. Rowe M. Marks E. E. Fischer J. M. Stone Industrial Arts A. H. Clasen Fire Protects E. V. Kuttnauer R. T. Peters W. A. Harrison M. G. Meyer F. A. Trask W. H. Brown Architects A. B. Greenlief W. J. Oleksy R. T. Christiansen E. R. Harman S. Ratushuy W. E. Dady A. J. Jensen J. Rubenstyne C. S. Danfcrtii E. P. Eewin A. F. SciIlMEK A. E. Erickson W. J. McCormack A. J. Sommer B. J. Ferring A. R. Monaco W. H. Stevens C. E. Gaul IE S. Muesse M. R. Wallace L. A. Gliatto E. C. Nilsen E V. Wicks Chemicals J. E. Alexander E. S. Iaglowski W. Mendi us W. J. Anderson IE I). King C. W. Muehlbergei G. V. Bradbury A. S. EaZoris S. Newman F. V. Cable E. R. Luckow V W. J. Savoye C. B. Clark E. McClunc T. j. Schulze A. R. Edwards A. E. Maitre 11. T. I Iuber I). W. Grigsby W. E. Mead Geo. Tough R. S. M ELICII A K Civils C. J. Almquist I. M. Euch IE F. Reuter E. J. Bradley C. E. Gold Julian Frank I). S. Chase R. Lake I E W. Hanchette S. Jaffe J. T. McCalmount •Vs THE CLASSES ZlNN Anderson Titus Matson Officers of tfje Class of 1920 H. Anderson President A. Titus Pice-President K. K. Zinn Secretary E. Matson . social co.M irrrFE W INNE, Chairman Treasurer L. F. Jones R. I). Beck L. Anning M. 0. Breckner D. E. Rutishauser Cycle Representative H. T. Rollman Sergeant-at-slrms 72 THE CLASSES Jfresfiman Class pistor? W asn’t it a grand and glorious-feeling to become freshmen on that memorable day of September the eleventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen? It wasn’t funny in the least when we passed a group of supposedly dignified upperclassmen and they gave us the “once over,” or when we asked a foolish question and had them laugh. Nevertheless, in two weeks we had acquired the system, and we were ready to push with the rest to bring Armour to the front. After an address of welcome by Dean Monin at our first meeting, the leader- ship of the class was bestowed upon Homer Anderson, and everybody readily admits that a better man for president is hardly conceivable. His “pep” and true Armour spirit have won for the class the admiration of the school. The Architects are well represented by Titus in the office of Vice-President: Zinn and Matson carry on the business of the class, while Rollman ejects the wicked. Orange and black were voted as class colors. The upper-classmen evidently liked our crowd, and wanted to meet them early, for on September the fifteenth the Freshman Handshake was held, at the Hyde Park Y.M.C.A. W’e certainly felt at home, for there was real life and spirit in the air and we inhaled it. It was a grand success and we enjoyed ourselves im- mensely. About a month later symptoms of the usual decorating fever were discovered in both Freshman and Sophomore classes, but the disease for the most part, at least, was prevented by the injection of an antipainting-toxin by Dean Monin. For the first time in the history of the school, the upper-classmen arranged and put through the annual Frosh-Soph Rush with a system and snap that met with the approval of the faculty. So favorable did the plans impress Dr. Gunsaulus that he donated the price of the sacks. As a result on October the twenty-seventh the two classes marched to Bcutncr field, where the Sophs were given the north goal to defend, and the Freshies the south. Across the center of the field fifty numbered sacks lay in a line, and when the pistol was fired the two armies charged toward the center. They certainly were a sight to see, clad in all forms of armor, from chilly B.Y.D.’s, to football suits. The leadership of our ncble general “Andc” insured us victory from the beginning; and when the pistol, which closed the contest, was fired, thirty-six sacks of the total fifty reposed gently behind our goal. Among these were our class numbers, 19 and 20. After a few cheers for the disheartened Sophs, we disbanded, to meet again in the evening at the Oakland Music Hall for the annual Smoker. It was a jolly affair and we soon forgot our prejudices. The Freshmen again showed their colors by the way they turned out to Tech Nite. Just leave it to them if you want a lot of real noise and excitement. The Freshman Dance was held in the Louis XIV Room of the Hotel LaSalle, on Friday the thirteenth of April, 'flic hoodo date, contrary to prophesy, added greatly to the success of the affair. Chappel’s Orchestra provided splendid music, and from comments heard, all had a fine time. Our athletes needed no special invitation to bring them to the front, for in basket ball we trimmed the Sophs, beat the Juniors, and gave the Seniors a long run for their money. As a result we finished near the top of the list. Five of our men were on the Varsity Squad and two, Bready and Krickson played regularly in the scheduled games. The class as a whole supported athletics exceptionally well, and we expect to annex several championships before the year is out. 73 THE CLASSES Class; of nineteen J|unbreb fKtoentp Students in Mechanical Engineering Adam, Paul j. Fehling, 1.ouis A. W. Lowry, Ross Anderson, Leif Greist, Raymond L. Lynch, Cornelius H. Benson, Carl J. Guthrie, Robert G. Lyon, Sidney P. Bready, James I. Grant, John A. McLaughlin, Hugh D. Bonilla, Richard B. Hall, Thomas-W. Marti son, Albert X. Carlson, John C. Harris, Herman Peterson, Harold C. Chapin, William J. Hempsted, James E. Sario, Filomon Cook, Ellis C. Henry, George SciIWACHTCEN, F.DWARD Coolidge, Robert II. 1 Ioven, Alfred C. Smely, James Curtis, Harry E. Havlick, Spencer X. Wilson, Emory K. Davies, Lynn E. Jones, L. Eric Winklfss, Paul E. Erickson, William L Lake, Claude C. Jr. Loewe, Rudolph P. R. Zinn, Earle K. Students in Electrical Engineering Anning, James L. Busby, Fred E. Gordinier, Leonard L. Klenzy, RobertO. Grabendike, Clarence A. Mahon. Ralph A. Blandow, Wilbur S. Grady, Joseph J. Malwitz ,Ray C. Carey, J. Milton Holmes, Leonard M. Pratt, Thomas E. Jr. Dodds, Edwin E. Huber, Harold Rodrignez, Luis E. Dibrfield, Arnold H. Illg, Robert Sherwood, Glenn L. Engel, Laurence F. Finn, Bernard L. Iohnson, Franklin L. Studtmann, Harry C. Jr. Kihlstrom, Harry C. Tabachnik, Abraham Coodheim, Fred Klawikawski, Anthony |. Jr. Vorkoper, Robert C. Wenner, Alfred T. Wing, Henry R. Students in Civil Engineering Anderson, Homer Landt, Walter E. Oien, Arthur A. Burda, Joseph, Jr. McShane, Charles L. Passialis, Gust Beche, Horace M. MacDonald, Frederick Rollman, Herbert F. Hertwec, Fred A. Manchee, Reginald P. Silverman, Herbert Kech, Alphonse L. Matson, Eugene Snyder, Iohathan L. Winblad, Hugh Wynne, Hugh Students in Chemical Engineering Anderson, Edward R. Dietz, Charles J. Sciiarf, Elmer Beck, Ralph D. Frey, Charles W. Schram, Robert L. Beil, Richard D. Franklin, Benjamin Shipman, Paul R. Benson, Edwin E. Cosiiokn, James G. Stern, Paul L. Brennan, Richard W. JUDSO f, Lyman D. Thompson, Albert J. B R U E KNE R, M Y Nil A RT ( ). Kruse, Rudolph W. Touch, George F. Butterman, Charles F. Lyon, Arthur Vogt, Emil G. Dittlinger, Bruno Mausley, Zene R. Rutishauser, Donald C. WoilLGEMUT, BRUNO F. Students in Fire Protection Engineering Bissel, Woodbridge Kingsley, William E. Mallory, Deane II. Mint ., Charles W. Roller, Robert Students in Architecture Ablamowic, Sigmund V. Jacobs, Rufus M. Sasse, Hugo F. A r km an, William M. Jackson, Ronald M. Spiizner, Roy X. Auner, Cleon M. Karlson, Joseph A. Steinberg, Edward Cardwell, Ellis II. Larson, Godfrey E. SZWAJKART, EUDENE W. Charles, Ellis H. Denton, Laura Ledebuhr, Arthur Titus, Armour Xordwell, Clarence E. Van Vlissincin, Eleanor I). Field, Jess R. Xedved, Rudolph J. Weber, Arthur M. Foley, Alfred W. O'Connor, William J. Wells, George E. Hinkley, F. Clare Popkin, Jacob 74 Wu, William H. Summer Camp Scenes H □Sfe • J2ur - C-. THE CLASSES Summer Camp 1916 One Friday evening, the first part of June in 1916, a mysterious group of young men gathered in the Union Depot, Chicago. It was not their appearance which was particularly mysterious, but the fact that each of them carried a polished wooden box. These boxes were not all the same size nor the same weight, judging from appearances. About seven-thirty, these twenty or more persons boarded a “Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul” train and quietly left the city. The Saturday morning following this quiet exodus from Chicago, the same party alighted from the train at Minoequa, Wisconsin, and surrounded the post office; but to no avail for they had not yet been missed. After spending an hour or so in the town they boarded another train and noisily- left the town. About eleven o’clock the conductor announced “State House,” and immediately thev all arose, and each carrying a wooden box, left the train. The particular spot called State House,” along this railroad, was marked by a little platform, while the surrounding country seemed perfectly desolate. However, after walking for half a mile or so, a tile building was sighted, which was the destination of the party. This is the site of the Armour Summer Camp. “Ah, Watson! The mystery is explained! Those boxes undoubtedly contain surveying instru- ments and this is a party of embryo surveyors.” “Duke” Smith, the colored cook who had accompanied us from Chicago, immediately started to get a meal together while the boys walked around picking out suitable sites for their tents. About two o’clock Duke blew the horn and we sat down to our first camp rations. The afternoon was spent in pitching tents, and arranging camp for the six-weeks stay. Sunday was a windy, chilly day with occasional showers, and was spent by some of the seniors in rigging up a sail on one of the row boats and “cruising” up and down the lake. The boat had not been in the water long enough to close the scams, and it leaked like a sieve, but by constant bailing they were able to keep afloat long enough to move a perceptible distance. That evening, a ball game was staged with the men from the State House, near by, and was lost by' us because at the beginning of the game, the boys wished to encourage the State House fellows—but the encouragement was carried too far. Professor Penn had been ill for some time because of an operation, and was not with us at this time, so Monday morning Pa” Phillips started the work by sending out parties of two each to run a ‘•level” circuit. Following this we used the transit in running “traverses” and laying out” curves. Two weeks after work had started Professor Penn arrived, and was heartily welcomed by everyone. He then took charge of the surveying work, and we laid out a mile of “railroad,” drew the profile, de- termined a grade line,” and then cross-sectioned” our traverse to determine the “cut” and fill”. The true meridian was determined by observations on the sun. It was during these observations that sun-burned faces were in vogue. 'I’hc topographic surveying was done, near the State House, on the Point,” a piece of original pine forest which, as its name implies, extended out into the lake. That which was unfinished by stadia” was done in outline with the plane table”. The last few day’s of camp were spent in putting up triangulation stations at various points around the lake shore; in measuring the angles between them; in establishing and accurately measuring a “base line;” and in making soundings along these triangulation lines of the lake depth. One of the principal features of the camp was “Duke,” the cook. He used to stay up and sit on the edge of his cot every time we had a thunder-storm at night. The next day it was dangerous to ask him for a second piece of pie because lie would be cross from lack of sleep. His favorite sport was to go down to the pier, lie flat on his stomach and dangle a fish-hook in the water until some unsuspecting fish swam over it. Then he would deftly jerk his line so that the fish would be hooked. He really was remarkably successful with this method of fishing. Needless to say it was only a slow and awkward sort of a fish that could be caught in this manner. Duke was a celebrity in his home town (Evanston), being the leader of the band, and a member of the quartette. THE CLASSES During the first two weeks of camp the nights were cold, and we built large camp-fires, and sat around them, burning the soles of our shoes while chilly sensations ran up and down our backs. You can’t keep warm before a camp-fire unless you keep turning around. Camp sports varied, some specializing on fishing and others on building piers and cocks. Stried and “Pete” became f rifous as build- ers, but all of us “got in” on carrying, for a mile or so,.the thirtv-foot rail which was to be used in anchoring the floating dock. Canoeing became popular through the kindness _of John Siman, a guide who had a cabin near camp. He owned two canoes and was very generous in allowing the fellows to use them. Five of the seniors took a two-day trip just before the “Fourth” and four more took a trip the following week. Canoeing on the little creek which ran out of Trout Lake was real sport, as the creek was swift and crooked. Everyone enjoyed the swimming, especially the last two weeks when the water was warm and the weather was inviting. During this period some of the fellows made a practice of going in three times a day; even getting up in time to have a swim before breakfast. There were lots of fish in the lake and some of the boys were anxious to catch some of them. “Jim” Harvey caught some large trout and Penn actually caught a few bass. Chase spent a lot of time carrying a rod around and “Mike” Chun was an enthusiastic fisherman, but, all in all, Duke was the most successful, and all he needed was a bent pin. Social events consisted of phonograph concerts whenever someone would run the machine, and ice cream socials on Sunday afternoons. The cream was obtained from one of the few farms of the region, and the boys would freeze it after Duke had put in the proper flavoring. Each person received a bowl-full and so very few were capable of a second helping. The first of July there was a dance at Whitbcck’s Resort down the lake, to which everyone went, although all of the fellows did not join in the dancing. How they could resist is beyond explanation. Mr. Whitbcck gives this dance an- nually before the regular season in order to give his help a good time. Boulder Junction, however, proved to be the real social center of the vicinity. Very frequently, in fact several times in one week, four or five of the socially inclined were observed to dress up in white collars, and walk “the tics” for five miles in order to call on the girls of Boulder. The only reason that more fellows didn’t go was that there were not enough girls. Following the track back home again in a pitch darkness about midnight, was one of the joys of the camp. Friday, July 14th, camp was broken, everything was packed up, and twenty or more fellows, accompanied by a hilarious colored “gentleman,” and each carrying a polished wooden box, boarded the train at State House and left for parts unknown. In order that they may be apprehended the following list of those known to have been in the party, is published: Smith, ’17 Harvey, ’17 Tierney, ’17 Ki.eixman, '17 Andren, ’17 Xusser, ’17 Chun, ’17 Walder, '17 7S XlTKA, 'iS Chase, ’17 X’OTHELKER, '|S Lake, ’19 Paskili., ’17 Shaw, ’17 Pederson, ’17 Stride, ’17 Weiss, ’18 Ai.mquist, ’19 Dierstein, ’18 Goto, '19 Kngine Room Foundry ORGANIZATIONS TmSRyi ■FACULTY CLUB Armour Jfacultp Club F. U. Smith . W. K. Smart C. T. Palmer J. C. Peebles P. C. Huntly M. B. Wells OFFICERS Honorary President President First Pice-President Second Pice-President Secretary Treasurer F. U. Smith E. 1). Agle G. S. Allison HOUSE COMMITTEE W. L. Ladd M. B. Wells 1 E 1B ERSHIP CON I XIITTE E J. J. Schommer P. C. Huntly CIGAR COMMITTEE R. V. Perry A. E. Phillips MEMBERS E. D. Agle C. S. Allison A. H. Anderson II. J. Armstrong 1). F. Campbell O. C. Clifford C. B. Cooper S. Dean J. B. Finnegan C. H. Fornhof E. H. Freeman B. B. Frf.ud D. B. More G. F. Gebhardt J. J. Gilbert F. W. Gunsaulus P. C. Huntly W. C. Krathwohl W. L. Ladd C. L. Larson C. U. Leigh E. S. Libby H. McCormack G. E. Marsh L. C. Monin :ton G. M H. L. Nachman C. A. Nash C. T. Palmer C. E. Paul J. C. Peebles J. C. Penn R. V. Perry N. P. Peterson A. E. Phillips H. B. Pulsifer IL M. Raymond J. S. Reid Wilcox si D. Roesch G. I,. SCHERGER J. J. Schommer W. K. Smart F. U. Smith Y. G. Smith J. E. Snow C. R. Swineford F. Taylor IL B. Thomas C. A. Tibbals XL B. Wells II. (L 1). Nutting American ocietp of JKerijantcal Engineers Armour £s tuOent JSrancfj OFFICERS Prof. G. F. Gkkhardt George M. Fritze Chas. R. Pomeroy F. W. Haines Harou) S. White Honorary Chairman President Pice-President Secretary Treasurer I’hc great enthusiasm shown by the members and the large attendance at every meeting of the society have been due to the adoption of the suggestions of Prof. Gcbhardt. Prof. Gcbhardt has often urged that the fundamental purposfc of the engineering society was to give every member the oppor- tunity of talking before the body, so that the members might obtain practice in presenting their subject in clear and concise terms. The senior members decided, therefore, to carry out this idea throughout the year; and the results have far exceeded anything that was anticipated. Two interesting meetings were held in September for the Seniors. A great deal of business was transacted, the short talks were given by Messrs. I.uttgc, Armspach, and Bauer. It was decided to give an opening smoker upon the evening of Oct. 4th, at which the Juniors would be guests and should be initiated into the aims and purpose of the society. The large and enthusiastic attendance enjoyed the smokes and cats” and the high-class enter- tainment furnished by Prof. Smith, and Messrs. Huffakcr, Fritze, Armspach, and others. The Juniors were out in good numbers, and through the earnest talks of the professors were acquainted with what was expected from them as members of the society. The meetings following have been held semimonthly on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month. Among the many speakers and subjects presented the following arc of especial note: Mr. Goodman, Submarine Signaling;” Mr. Haines, The Owen Magnetic Car; Mr. Huffakcr, The Manufacture of Glass Bottles;” Mr. King, Automobile-Engine Lubrication; Mr. Brctting, Construc- tion of Steel Stacks; Mr. Polcinsky, The Modern Submarine;” Mr. Robcchck, Oil Testing; Mr. White, The Wood Dual-power Automobile;” and Mr. Thai, “Automobile Ignition.” On the evening of Feb. 14, Prof. Gcbhardt addressed the society upon the subject of Requirements of the Engineering Graduate.” Many Freshmen and Sophomores turned out; and every man present benefitted by hearing of the personal experience and kindly advice of our Boss”. An interesting and helpful illustrated talk was given by Mr. Swincford at the regular meeting of Feb. 28 on the subject of Factory Insurance and Inspection.” Two other important social gatherings of the society were the annual banquet held at Kunz-Rem- mlcrs on Dec. 20, and the Smoker held in the Y.M.C.A. rooms on the evening of March 8, to which the Freshmen and Sophomores were invited as guests. These were well attended and acclaimed decided successes. 82 King tt White Fritze Haines Marks Kerr Plocinsky t Morse Huntley Bretting Huffaker Armspach Steindler Robechek Pomeroy 'Fhal Cooper ORGANIZATIONS ORGANIZATIONS Armour institute of ICectmologp ffiranrt) of tfje American institute of (Electrical (Engineers OFFICERS Ralph H. Earle ....... Chairman Harold A. Klein man ...... Secretary William T. Watt ...... Treasurer The Armour Institute of Technology Branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers was organized February 26, 1903. The object was to give the students of electrical engineering an opportunity to hear and meet men promi- nent in the profession, and to prepare and discuss papers upon subjects of a technical or electrical nature. The meetings during the past year have been Very interesting and the students who have taken advantage of this opportunity to present a paper have brought credit to themselves and to the organization. We feel particularly indebted to Professor Freeman for his interest and active work and we take this opportunity to thank him. We are also grateful to the men from various fields of activity who have addressed us during the year. The meetings and speakers for the year were as follows:— October 5, 1916—Smoker. October 24, 1916—“The Cost of Maintenance of Large Storage Battery Plants.” Mr. James D. Harvey, Jr. “Ignition Problems in Modern High-Speed Multi-Cylinder Gas Engines.” Mr. Earl H. Smith. November 16, 1916—“Voltage and Current Regulation of Automobile Starting and Lighting Systems.”—Mr. L. H. Rosenberg. “Electric Clocks.”—Mr. H. A. Kleinman. December 21, 1916—“The Engineers Personal Equipment.” Prof. E. H. Free- man. February 6, 1917- “A Radio Demonstration and Lecture.”—Mr. H. D. Stevers and Mr. R. H. G. Mathews. February 28, 1917—“Lake Spaulding Hydro-Electric Development.”—Slides from the Pclton Water Wheel Co. Professor E. H. Freeman and Assistant Professor Stanley Dean. March 6, 1917 “The Organization of the Western Union Telegraph. Company” Mr. Drew, Acting Division Traffic Engineer. March 27, 1917—“Commonwealth Edison Substations.” Mr. Grover of the Commonwealth Edison Company of Chicago. $1 Zimmerman Prochaska Kupshas Smith Anderson Given Goldberg Mathews Harvey Stevers Earle Porges Moore Watt Stryker Tierney Nitka Vogdes Hoffcrex Rosenberg Scheuer Benjamin Newlander Crown Wf.iss ORGANIZATIONS Honour Cibil engineering Society A. L. SCHREIBER L. E. Starkel S. N. Miller H. V. Stride C. L. Shaw . President Vice-President Recording Secretary Corres ponding Secretary Treasurer BOARD OF DIRECTORS Asso. Prof. M. B. Wells .... Faculty Member S. W. Newman ...... Student Member The Civil Engineering Society was organized in 1905, for the purpose of conven- ing the upper classmen at frequent intervals for the discussion of topics pertaining to the Civil Engineering profession. The policy of having papers prepared and read by the student members was gradually displaced in favor of that of hearing addresses by men actively engaged in engineering practice. This plan has been followed as much as possible during the past year, the only exception being that of having biographies of great engineers read by student members at those meetings for which professional men could not be secured. Meetings have been held as follows: Oct. 9th. 1916—As usual the first meeting of the year was devoted to a smoker and invitation to new members. Oct. 24th, 1916—Joint meeting with the A.S.M.E. Mr. Win. Y. Lindbloom, an old Armour man, discussed “Scientific Management.” Xov. 7th, 1916—'Falks were given by Mr. Miller and Mr. Newman on their summers’ experiences with different railroads. Nov. 21st, 1916—“Aesthetics of Bridge Design” by Prof. W ells. This was an illustrated lecture and proved most interesting. Dec. 5th, 1916—“Experiences with the City Bridge Department” by Mr. Bley. The speaker has had a wide experience, and presented his subject in a new and interesting light. Dec. 19th, 1916—“W hat an Employer expects of a Young Engineer,” by Mr. F. L. Stone, Consulting Engineer for the C. B. Q. R. R. This was the best talk of the year in that it was concerned with those subjects in which we, soon to commence work, are particularly interested. 80 Goldberg Pederson Stride Shaw Miller Srligkr Nitka Cramer Walder Wells Phillips Starkei. Newman Peterson Smith Shreiber Harvey Chun Crown Weiss Cfje grmour Chemical engineering ocietp A. H. Smith D. E. Cable A. G. Fitzner O. L. Hailey y President Pice-President Secretary Treasurer The society was organized in February 1903 for the purpose of bringing the students in chemical engineering into closer contact with one another and to assist them in their pursuance of that study by lectures from members of the alumni and faculty and also the professional men engaged in chemical engineering work. Our first session was held September 13th, 1916, at which time we decided to continue the policy of holding the meetings in the afternoons whenever possible on account of its convenience to our members and its proven success. It was also decided to have more outside speakers than heretofore and this policy has been the source of many interesting lectures. On October 24th, 1916, Professor McCormack gave a lecture on “What Determines the Value of the Fngineer to His Employer.” This was the first lecture of the year and its practical nature and per- sonal application was certainly appreciated. On December 15th, 1916, the society was treated to a most novel lecture by Professor Harkins of the University of Chicago on the subject entitled, The Periodic System.” The topic was presented from an entirely new point of view, the arguments being based on experimental facts and data recently determined by the professor and his colleagues. Other lectures succeeding these have been interesting and instructive and so far the society has had a very successful year. The events of the year arc tabulated below: Sept. 13th, 1916—Business Meeting. Oct. 24, 1916—Prof. McCormack on “What Determines the Value of the Enginccrto His Employer.” Dec. 15th, 1916—Professor Harkins on “The Periodic System.” Feb. 27th, 1917—Mr. Brewster of the Wisconsin Steel Company on “The Methods and Equipment. March 13th, 1917—Business meeting. April 12th, 1917—Prof. Harkins. Return Lecture on “The Periodic System.” April 18th, 1917—Annual Banquet. May 1, 1917—Prof. Freud, “The Nature of Valence.” '-r Johnson Kendall Hui Friedmann Cable Richards A. Smith Goorsky Tl BBALS Burda McCormack Fitzner Brest Pearson Eagle Dean Pulsifer Wollaston Hankan Hailey Freud Mease ORGANIZATIONS ORGANIZATIONS QL )t Armour Jfirc protection (Engineering ocietp A. CORMAN OFFICERS President H. B. Maguire Pice-President H. Y. Puschel . Secretary L. W. Mattern Treasurer The Armour Fire Protection Engineering Society has reached the fourth year of its existence, each year having added its share to its success. This year has placed the society upon a very firm basis and brought the hearty support and co- operation of every eligible man for membership. A new constitution was drafted and passed which contained many measures necessary for the continued success of the society. On Oct. 24, 1916, the first smoker ever given by the society was held in the Y.M.C.A. rooms and proved to be a big success. The program for the year consisted of monthly lectures on subjects directly or indirectly relating to Fire Protection Engineering. The lectures were given by men who rank high in their respective occupations. Dec. 7, 1916—Captain Joseph Mackey of Squad No. 1 of the Chicago Fire Dept.—“The Work of the Chicago Fire Department.” Jan. 11, 1917 -Mr. Fitzhugh Taylor, Fire Protection Engineer, Underwriters’ Laboratories—-“The Development of the Underwriter’s Laboratories.” Feb. 8, 1917—Mr. Gartside, Examiner, National Fire Insurance Co.—“Under- writing Methods.” March 8, 1917 Mr. V. K. Munn, Ass’t Chcm. Eng., Underwriters' Labora- tories.—“Chemical Hazards.” April 12, 1917—Mr. C. Ruchler, Examiner, Insurance Co. of North America.— “The Duties of an Examiner.” These lectures were of great interest and greatly appreciated by the large number who attended. This year has, no doubt, been the most successful year of the society. 90 Fosciiinbaur Bissel Mann Cowles Kuttnauer Finnegan CoRMAN PuSCHEL PETERS Hooseman Conway Matters Allport Hall Schreiner Kula Cole Fischer Roberts Owen Trovxk; ORGANIZATIONS ORGANIZATIONS Clje Htclter OFFICERS Massicr ........... H. C. Ingraham Treasurer J. VV. Turner Secretary ...... K. A. McGrew The efforts of the Atelier towards promoting scholarship and comradeship among those studying Architecture have been very successful this year, especially in large undertakings of an educational nature. Soon after the elections, work was given out to the “ I'rosh” and the initiation followed. The ordeal proved most severe, and will long be remembered by those present. 'I'he usual banquet followed, at which Professor Campbell, Mr. Reed, and Mr. Lautz responded to Toastmaster Ingraham. On January 22, 24, and 26, the Atelier secured the services of Mr. David Yaron, who is widely known in Architectural circles. His three illustrated lectures on “Architectural Indication” were probably more instructive than anything heard here in a long time. On February 20 came the Mardi Gras, the greatest social event of the year. The Architects gained fame because of their wonderful booth, and through their pageant representing “The Introduction of Renaissance Architecture into England.” The booth was designed by Professor Campbell and built by the students. Mr. Reed conducted the Pageant. During the year, the Seniors enjoyed many “inspection trips” around the city. One trip in particular a visit to some beautiful new residences under construction in Lake Forest, guided by Mr. Farrier, will long be remembered. At this time the Seniors are working hard on their Traveling Scholarship Prize Problem, “A State Capitol Building,” and according to precedent some line designs will be turned out. I'he future events consist of a series of lectures by Mr. Ixmis Sullivan, and a lecture by Mr. Robinson on “Period Furniture.” The Atelier Dance, which has become so famous in recent years, will take place shortly and is a red letter day in the calendar. 'I'he boys, “Stanley, “Ing,” “Spike,” Allen, “Mike,” “P. I.,” Charley and “Mac” are leaving this spring and all may say that they arc a credit to old Armour. 92 ORGANIZATIONS ORGANIZATIONS !Hn gpologp We wish to apologize to Miss Van Vlissengen for getting this picture under false pretenses, but hope that by the time school opens in the fall she will forgive and forget. We know that the student body is not the only one that appreciates the presence of our Co-ed. As Mr. David Varon, artist and lecturer, once said in a lecture to the Architects, “The presence of a young lady in class furnishes an unconscious source of inspiration and refinement to the student body. This is realized by the faculty.” And, speaking of the Mardi Gras at the Art Institute, one would never suspect that the angelic face of a nun behind a stiff, starched head-dress was that of our Fair Co-ed! We arc glad that Miss Van Vlissengen did not go to California, and if she makes three more years of school life as pleasant as the first has been, she has fulfilled her duty to the Armour Institute of Technology. Cljc Sergeants at Slrms Marks ’ 18 or. Oleksy ?20 Rollman ”19 ORGANIZATIONS Iee anb jHanboItn Club Concerts It was with great regret that in the fall of 1916 we had to turn away about one-half the men who tried out for the Clubs, not because of their inferior singing but because of the abundance of musical talent which responded to the call for new men in the Clubs. The feature Concerts through the year were, the joint Concert with the Uni- versity of Chicago Glee Club at Mandel Hall on Feb. 10, 1917, and the most successful concert on the musical record of the Armour Institute, which was the Home Concert, held on Friday evening March 30, 1917 in the Auditorium of the Armour Institute. The ilmette Congregational Church and the Wendell Phillips High School were also on our list of concerts throughout the year. On the evening of December 14th, 1916 the Clubs appeared before a very appreciable audience at the Wilmette Congregational Church. The concert gained its success not only through the successful efforts of the Glee and Mandolin Clubs but also by the variation in the program which consisted of Professor Smith and his Solo’s, Mr. Huffakcr and the Banjo, and the Quartette. The Clubs were tendered with a fine supper after the concert which made the evening one of great enjoyment. 'Phe storm with which the students took the first concert at Wendell Phillips on Dec. 12, 1916 called for another on Mar. 27, 1917; both were so successful that we feel that the Clubs will be over run with material in the following years. 90 ORGANIZATIONS 0lee Club Y. II. Bretting, Business Manager J. K. Alexander, Assistant Business Manager W. G. Smith, Director First Tenor Smith, Y. G. Harrison, Y. A. Shotwell, H. H. Ingraham, H. G. R. X. Mann, Leader Second Tenor Owen, Y. R. Dryden, A. X. Harvey, J. D. Hupp, V. E. Hinckley, F. C. First Bass Wignall, . J. Anderscn, II. Marx, F. K. Houseman, R. B. Mann, R. X. Grasse, A. M. Second Bass Frit .e, G. M. Quinn, E. F. Dougherty, G. T. Harmon, E. R. Bretting, W. H. Marvin, X. L. Beck, R. D. Landt, W. E. The Quartette Smith, Prof. . G Dryden, A. X Fritze, G. M. Mann, R. X. The second joint concert with Chicago proved somewhat of a surprise to all. The Clubs were in the best shape they ever were in and with the overflow of music, the greater part of which had never been presented before, was a tremendous success. The Armour lass Band made its first appearance at this concert. Lead by C. Ingraham and assisted by Frit .e, LcValley, Huffakcr and Forges the latest pieces were played, and by the time they had started the audience could hardly hold their seats. The Glee and Mandolin Clubs both lived up to their reputation as being the Best in the West.” After weeks of continuous practicing and hard work the Clubs appeared for their final concert, “The Annual Home Concert.” The music presented was never presented before an Armour audience and it met with appreciative applause. “Rolling Down to Rio” was the opening number by the Glee Club followed by “The Waltz We Love” by the Mandolin Club. The Quartette gave several very good selections and like the Chicago concert the “Jass Band” was with us again and met with greater applause than at Chicago. It would be impossible to go on telling about the concert without putting in a word about Mr. Huffakcr and his “Special” feature. With all this amusement the concert had to draw to a close, the applause from the audience indicating its success. THE QUARTETTE Smith Dryden Mann Fritze 101 Fritz e McGrkw Porges Ingraham 10� Marvin Quinn Shotwell Hinckley Landt Fritze Beck Grasse Harvey Owen Porges Mann Bretting Dougherty Huffaker King Robechek Summerfield Houseman Smith Anderson Gaul Dryden Hanken Kdwards Greist Marks ORGANIZATIONS ORGANIZATIONS Plocinsky Mann Peters Maguire I'ritzk Smith Armour footers Association il. B. Maguire . President G. M. Frit .e Vice-President and Treasurer E. H. Smith . Secretary C LASS R EPRESENTATIVES A. Plocinsky 1917 S. L. Evans . 191S R. Peters 1919 FRESHMAN SMOKER COMMITTEE H. B. Maguire Chairman A. Plocinsky . . . « Senior R. N. Mann J unior 101 ORGANIZATIONS ROOTE,R«5 ASSOCIATION Cfje Armour footer’s Association For the benefit of those who arc new in our midst and do not know what the Armour Rooter’s Association is we will give a brief description of it and its field of work. As everyone knows ‘all work and no play makes Johnny a dull boy;’ we should all have our recre- ations and physical diversions. This is the underlying principle of the Rooter’s Association. It is an organization composed of all of the student body of Armour Institute for the promotion and support of Athletics. It not only encourages participants in athletics but helps to see that those who enter will be well supported by a large band of enthusiastic rooters. It seems that at Armour the student body as a whole is content to let a few enter into the various teams and to let them support themselves as best they can. However due to the effective work of the Association there has been a very marked increase in the number of rooters turning out to view our games. At the beginning of the year in the Fall of 1916 the Rooter’s Association called a meeting of the entire College and explained a new plan which had been evolved. This plan consisted of selling to each student a ticket, entitling him to attend all games and meets during the year, for a small sum. These tickets were given out to all of the student body and were paid for as the fellows were able They arc now practically all paid for which speaks for the enthusiasm brought about. The underlying principle upon which this plan was based was that in order to instill enthusiasm into the fellows it was necessary to get them out to the games. In order to do this it was necessary to do more than tell them to be there, or to charge a small sum for admission. If a man has paid cold cash for anything he wants to derive its benefits. Therefore when the fellows paid or expected to pay for their tickets they made use of them. In this manner the attendance at the meets was increased a good deal. It is known that a College cannot exist in a proper state of enthusiasm for its Alma Mater unless Athletics are present. But Athletics cannot be successful unless supported by everyone. Thus the importance of the work of the Association can be seen. A large part of the success of the Rooters Association is due to the untiring efforts of its officers and their ability to plan new stunts to keep the student interest aflame. 105 ORGANIZATIONS Puschel Anderson Stevers Marx ©otmg jlen’s Christian Association OFFICERS H. W. Puschel ..... H. A. Anderson ..... H. D. Stevers ..... F. E. Marx.................. CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES D. E. Cable F. R. Johnson ...... E. J. Kilfoyle ..... A. M. Grasse ..... E. A. Moore ....... BOARD OF MANAGERS Prof. G. M. Wilcox, Chairman Prof. G. L. Scherger Prof. T. E. Doubt Prof. M. B. Wells Prof. R. V. Perry Prof. O. C. Clifford Mr. F. U. Smith Mr. H. W. Puschel Mr. F. E. Marx Membership Meetings Social Social Service Handbook . President Vice-President Recording Secretary General Secretary 101� ORGANIZATIONS The Y. M. C. A. at Armour is one of the departments of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Chicago. Thru this latter organization the Armour Institute Departmentof Young Men’s Christian Association is affiliated with the State Y. M. C. A., and with the International Y. M. C. A. Thus, when a student joins our department he becomes a member of a world wide organization. As such a member, he is entitled to the house privileges at any one of the Y. M. C. A. houses in the world. By special arrangement with the Chicago departments, our student members are allowed reduced rates when joining any one of these depart- ments for the full privileges. Any student may join the association, as it is undenominational. The affairs of the department are controlled by the Board of Managers composed of seven faculty and three student members. The seven faculty members are elected by the student members. Three of the officers, the President of the Asso- ciation, Vice-President, and the Recording Secretary arc elected to office by the student members. The fourth officer, the General Secretary, is appointed by the Board of Managers. The President, and the General Secretary compose the two student members of the Board of Managers. The Association occupies rooms on the third floor of Chapin Hall, 3321 Federal Street. These rooms arc nicely decorated and contain a piano and a billiard table. In addition to these, a supply of current magazines is kept on hand. The students arc invited to use these for pleasure and study-reading. 'Phe Y. M. C. A. at the beginning of each school year, issues a Hand-book. This is highly prized by the students, for it serves as a memorandum book and as a source of information of interest and use to the students. The Freshman Handshake, which is the first event of the school year, is held under the direction of the Y. M. C. A. This event is held for the purpose of enabling the new students to become acquainted with one another and with the upper classmen. This year’s Handshake was held in the Hyde Park Y. M. C. A. building. We had the use of the social rooms, the assembly hall and the natatorium. The handshake sent all away with the feeling that they had a good time, and with the satisfaction that something definite had been accomplished. 107 ORGANIZATIONS abto lecture anb BcmonStratiou At the regular A. I.E. E. meeting February 6, 1917, H. I). Stcvcrs and R. G. Mathews gave a radio lecture and demonstration. The lecture by Mr. Stevers covered the theory and practice of radio work from the simplest set to the com- plicated commercial set of today. Diagrams and lantern slides of sets and equip- ment made the lecture instructive and entertaining. Mr. Mathews had the operating end of the set to handle. The apparatus con- sisted of an inductively coupled receiving transformer, the latest type Paragon regenerative cabinet, audion detector, audion amplifier, and loud speaking phone. The antennae was suspended between the main building and Machinery Hall. At shortly after 9 p.m. Arlington, Virginia, Station was tuned in and could be heard with remarkable clearness thru-out the well-filled Assembly Hall. This is the United States central radio station from which arc sent weather reports, time signals, and orders directing the navy fleet, etc. Next the Miami, Florida, Station was heard. This is one of the several high-power coast stations which transmits associated press news to the ocean liners at sea enabling them to have daily news- papers printed by the ships’ press. Of course numerous amateurs and commercial stations came “rolling” in. The feature of the evening was the reception of wireless telephone victrola music transmitted from a north side amateur station. Several records were played. The uncanniness of the procedure and the distinctness of the music filled those present with unmistakable awe and admiration. As some of the young men said, “Wouldn’t it be great to have a dance to wireless music?” 109 3T1)t American Association of engineers This year a new organization became known to Armour called the American Association of Engineers. This is an association of all of the branches of Engineer- ing, organized to raise the standards of ethics of the engineer. It has grown very rapidly, being in existence about a year and a half, and already having a member- ship of about fifteen hundred. The motto of the A. A. E. is, “For the Good of the Engineer,” and is to assist the engineer to better himself and have the engineering profession recognized with the leading professions of the world. It maintains a clearing house wherein it enables the individual to better himself and for the employer to obtain trained men. The grades of membership in the organization are Student, Junior, Certified, and Associate Members. The qualifications for membership arc very strict as the object is to eliminate all those from the engineering profession who would tend to lower the standard. Armour is to maintain a membership committee consisting of five members, the committee at the present time consisting of H. D. Stevers, chairman; H. W. Puschcl, R. A. Xewlander, L. H. Rosenberg, and H. I.uttgc. rear rear; ORGANIZATIONS THE CYCLE EDITORS H. D. Stevers H. W. Pusciiel L. Weiss H. H. Shotwell 113 ORGANIZATIONS PUSCHEL Rutishauser Kerr Twery SenEVER WlGNALL Dady Wright Taylor IIullinger Mathews Tierney Quinn ut ORGANIZATIONS €t)c Cpcle 1917 Harold I). Stevers Leslie Weiss Harold H. Shotwell . Editor- i n- C hief Business Manager Advertising Manager Herbert W. Puschel Managing Editor W. J. WtGNALL associate editors Assistant Editor K. A. Taylor Assistant Business Manager W. Finkl Assistant Advertising Manager L. E. Twery Art V. A. Kerr . Athletics E. F. Quinn Social E. Scheuer . Humor W. C. Wright Humor 0. M. Huli.inger Humor J. A. Tierney Senior Class Representative W. E. Dady Sophomore Class Representative I). E. Rutishauser Freshman Class Representative Ralph H. CL Mathews Photography D. E. Cable contributors Literary H. Kleinman II. Maguire F. B. Vogdes E H. Smith K. A. McGrew Art W. C. Wright F. S. Cowles L. E. Meli.or . D. Pareira S. C. Hulbert A. Titus C. Dan forth W. H. Stevens A. E. Erickson E. F. Quinn H. C. Ingraham 115 )t Cpcle 1917 In editing The 1917 Cycle an attempt has been made to make the annual a memento to the Senior graduating class from the Junior Class. We have solicited the aid of all the members of the year 1918 so that the result might be representative of the Class as a whole rather than as the work of two or three officers of the staff. We have worked hard to make The 1917 Cycle a success. It is yours; read it. If you are satisfied we are content; if not, we are sorry that we spent so much time on it. We wish to express our indebtedness to the Rogers Printing Company; to the Jahn and Ollier Engraving Company; and to the William Louis Koehne Studio for their efforts in making the success of this book possible. 'I o the Cycle Board, we wish to extend our hearty thanks for the pride and interest they have taken in the making of the Annual. To the following, The 1917 cycle staff wishes to express its sincere apprecia- tion for the interest they have shown and the encouragement they have given: Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus Mr. F. U. Smith Dean H. W. Raymond Prof. W. K. Smart Dean L. C. Monin Mrs. J. Beveridge 117 ORGANIZATIONS THE ENGINEER STAFF L. A. Kinc L. E. Starkel A. Cor man' W. W. Wollaston IIS ORGANIZATIONS The Armour Engineer has successfully attained the ninth year of its exist- ence, each year having added such quality to the character of the journal that its rise toward the position as the “first” among all college technical publications has been a rapid one. It is amid this rapid rise that the present staff took up its task of adding a new impetus in the form of Volume Nine, which it hopes will result in placing The Armour Engineer in the rank of foremost technical publications in this country. W ithout the co-operation of the Alumni, the Engineer certainly could not have experienced such a rapid rise. In the first place, we owe the contr bution of the excellent articles principally to the graduates of the institute. On the other hand, the support of the Armour Alumni Association has been remarkable. Under the present system, every active member of the Association receives a copy of the Armour Engineer. The “Alumni” department is edited by the publication com- mittee of the Alumni Association and is “that part of The Armour Engineer devoted to personal mention of the graduates of the Armour Institute of Technology and to the affairs of the Armour Alumni Association.” The past year may be crowned a success. The consistent efforts of the Business Department established a representative list of advertisers, while the Editorial Department presented a well edited paper. The articles were chosen so as to present a journal which would be very interesting to read. They were not too technical, but technical enough to keep the Engineer in its proper sphere. As a crouming feature to the success of the Armour Engineer in this and in former years, a supplement was issued with the November, 1916, number, in the form of a General Index to Volumes 1-8. This was compiled by .Viss Ellyn C. Broomcll, Ph.B., Assistant Librarian, Armour Institute of Technology, to whom we are greatly indebted. It is the intention of the present staff to have the index to each succeeding volume published in the last issue of that volume. W e feel that this has added greatly to the position of our journal and hope that the plan will be carried out successfully in future volumes. The editors of Volume Nine gratefully express their appreciation to Dean Monin and Dean Raymond for their untiring interest at all times, to Mrs. Beveridge for her many invaluable suggestions and contributions, and to Mr. Bangs and the officers of the Armour Alumni Association for their help and co-operation. 119 ORGANIZATIONS SOCIAL Ingraham Roberts Wollaston Maguire Chairman Smith GTfje Senior Bance The social season at Armour had an auspicious opening on the evening of November ioth when the Class of '17 held its annual dance in the Louis Sixteenth Room at the Hotel La Salle. This immense ball room, the finest in the hotel, was filled with a happy throng of Armourites, and their friends, who onc-stcppcd and fox-trotted to the unsurpassable music of the Harvey Orchestra with Royal Chappell at the piano. Altogether it was a most enjoyable affair and it was with regret that we heard Chap announce the last dance long before our programs had been completed. The majority of the crowd had had their appetite for dancing whetted, however, and this portion adjourned to the Blue Fountain Room where another hour of dancing and refreshments was provided. The Class of 1917 deserves the hearty commendation of the many Armour people who attend the dances and special credit is due Messrs. Maguire, Ingraham, Roberts, Smith and Wollaston, who compose the Social Committee and who, by their efforts contributed much to the success of the final social effort of the Senior Class. 123 SOCIAL Evans Shotwell Bretting Wicnall Chairman Weiss tDl)t Junior Stance They were there in force, the sweet, the fair, the slim,the plump,the debonnair Marguerite with golden hair, Annette with eyes—beware! Beware!— But what we started to record was that paragon of social events, the Junior Dance. Old 1918 was there as always and, although the scene was shifted from the Florentine Room of the Congress, where the Freshman and Sophomore dances of the Class of ’18 had been staged, to the Red Room of the La Salle, Act Three proved to be all that its predecessors had been, a success with a great big“S.” Ask anyone at Armour “Which has been the best dance?” and the answer will invariably be “The Junior.” And, relying upon the good judgment and excellent taste of all Armour men you will be satisfied. But in case you demand proof we can explain that Messrs, Chappell, Verhoeff, ct.al., furnished the music and of course Royal, being himself a member of the Junior Class, outdid his best previous efforts, and of all the music you ever heard-. Well, why proceed? We per- ceive a look of sincere assent in the eyes that are reading these paragraphs. Too bad its all over, boys, but don’t forget the Junior Prom that our worthy social committee, Messrs. Wignall, Bretting, Evans, Shotwell and Weiss, announce as “bigger and better than ever.” 121 SOCIAL Kilfoyle Maitre Alexander Peters Chairman Reiipeldt Sophomore Dance The Louis XVI Room of the La Salle Hotel was the scene of the annual dance of the Class of Nineteen, on Friday evening, March the twenty-third. A goodly number of Armour’s terpsichorean enthusiasts were present and those who were wise and fortunate enough to attend had certainly no cause to regret it. The music was up to the usual standard of all Armour dance music, the crowd was congenial, and everything transpired to make the Sophomore Dance an unqualified success. A hearty vote of thanks is due to Chairman Peters and Messrs. Maitre, Alexander, Kilfovle, and Rehfcldt of the Social Committee, and to the members of the Sophomore Class for a most enjoyable evening. E. F. Q. 125 SOCIAL An Xing Beck Jones Wynne Chairman Brueckner Jfrestjman ©ante An unusual amount of temerity in one so young was displayed by the Freshman Class in its selection of a date for its initial venture in the management of a dance. Be that as it may, we must give the Class of Twenty due credit for the remarkable success of the Freshman Dance that they put across on Friday, the Thirteenth day of April. Once again the La Salle Hotel was the scene, thereby making this excellent hotel the unanimous choice of the classes as a place at which to act as hosts to the rest of the college. The Harvey Orchestra furnished the music under Chap’s direction and, as usual, this part of the entertainment was extremely well taken care of. The other details were also looked after successfully under the management of the Social Committee composed of Wynne, Chairman, Aiming, Beck, Brueckner and Jones. F. F. Q. i Scarab informal On December 6th, Fdfou Temple, the local chapter of the Scarab Fraternity, gave an informal dance at the Art Institute. “Chap ’’was at the Steinway with lots of “pep,” and a brand new necktie and his music was enthusiastically received by all present. Several engineers were in attendance, glad of the chance to “sneak ” in on some of the Architect’s good times. Cider and doughnuts were served under the supervising hospitality of mine host Allen Dryden. Messrs. Chappell, Drydcn, Maher and McGrew, all Scarabs, were instrumental in the success of this pleasant affair. jHarbt §ras The spirit of the carnival prevailed at the Mardi Gras Festival given by the Art Institute on Tuesday, February 20th, and in which our own architects had more than a passing interest. The period chosen for costumes and decorations was the Fnglish Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries and, after weeks of patient research and hoars of weary trving-on and selecting in the costume shops of the loop, our embryo archi- tects regaled themselves as cavaliers, monks, knights, or Fnglish villagers, and hied themselves hither to partake of the joys of the occasion. “The Transition of Gothic Architecture to Renaissance,” a pageant, was most successfully presented by members of the Architectural Department and their friends. Thanks to the efforts of Mr. Earl Reed it was a noteworthy success and is still the talk of the Institute. “Ye Tickle-Ye Palate Inn,” designed by Mr. Campbell and executed by the students, and in which soft drinks were dispensed, also came in for a large share of commendation. Altogether the affair was a most auspicious one and a great deal of credit is due Professors Campbell and Reed, and Messrs. Ingraham, Monaco, Cowles, Quinn, Christiansen, McCormack, Drydcn, Chappell and many others for their unceasing efforts in making the 1917 Mardi Gras “bigger and better than ever.” Sumor eefe program Monday, May 7—Bowling Tournament. Tuesday, May 8—Faculty—Senior Baseball Game. Wednesday 9, Junior Play “The Lucky Seventh.” , fCvcle Issued 1 hursda-v I01 Circus Day Friday 11—Junior Prom. 130 Circus l ap at Armour Snstitute iflap 4. 1916 After much patient waiting we obtained our Cycles, and proceeded with them to the dis- guised area once called Ogden Field. Taking our scats in the bleachers we divided our attention between the interesting pages of the Cycle and the strange movements of the tent men as they erected the miniature circus tent near the south end of the field. At one place we saw with astonishment a hangman’s post, at another a wrestling mat. At the north end of the field was a pit where all were given an opportunity to “bounce” their most detested “prof” in the “bean.” This proved an interesting occupation to those who participated. It was noticed, however, that but only a few had any such debts to pay their d.t’s. A circus would not be complete without the “red hots,” popcorn, etc., and ours was certainly not lacking in this respect. The monotonous din of the busy streets wras presently disturbed. The sweet strains (?) of a distant “ weenywurst” band reached our cars with a conglomeration of discordant sounds which if heard here one hundred years ago might be inter- preted as being the war whoop of a tribe of Indians. The noise grew more distinct and then we saw the cause for this disturbance. A band of cannibals accompanied by numerous other varieties of half civilized beings were following the band in much the same way that the rats followed the Pied Piper of Hamlin. The band entered Ogden Field, followed by the parade and proceeded around the race track in true circus fashion. Shorty McGuire SOCIAL CmcHM thy- Wt€K Y(ay4.)3)6 SOCIAL performed his favorite stunt of brushing the sky with his “lid” while navigating about the peri- phery of Ogden Field. Noth- helfcr with grind organ and an un- usually large monkey was also in the parade. The spectators were warned not to feed the “ani- mile.” Numerous other attrac- tions maintained our interest. Near the end of the parade was a very strange looking object, a German sub-marine, U-4 (Modern Ford type). The kaiser in his military costume, who was an occupant of the boat, stepped ashore on being handed a note by Uncle Sam. He retaliated with a return note. A duel of notes followed which left the situation as tense as it was before. The next attraction was a wrestling match in which Harry Mouat and Mr. Williams demonstrated some of the fine points of the game. Few will forget the charms and graceful dancing of Zebelda in the tent attraction. Prof. Leigh was victorious in the faculty hundred yard sprint in which he had but one competitor, that being Prof. Gebhart. W e attribute the success of Prof. Leigh to his skill in rapid addition (of steps). No official record of his time was made, however, we feel confident that with some practice he would have little difficulty in making 100 yds. -r- dx —dt= 10 secs. The interclass tug 0’ war was won by the class of ’18. The victors matched their strength with the faculty. The Sophomores found it impossible to pull JohnSchommer out of his groove in mother earth; so they allowed John with the aid of the faculty to pull them over the line rather than break a perfectly good piece of hemp cable. 133 SOCIAL SOCIAL The inter-fraternity and inter-departmental relay races were run off. The Beta Phi fraternity and the Mech. Dept, were victorious in these events. Our last, and by far, most entertaining spectacle was that in which Villa (Mexican for Bruce) was being chased. He was at last cornered and sentenced to the gallows. Those who remained witnessed the sad event. A newspaper reporter was present obtaining the necessary information for his “scoop”. Most of us were convinced that the Villa(in) was dead before he reached the gallows. 135 SOCIAL £fje Submarine CpiSobe On circus Day when the early preparations for the various events had been completed attention became centered upon the south gate where a funny looking contrivance snorted for entrance. Passing through the gateway it proceeded around the opposite side of the track under cover of a heavy cloud of white smoke. Upon drawing near, a gray colored sub- marine became discernable. Attached to the rear of the submarine by a heavy rope was a small shaggy fox terrier dog, and by a smaller rope a mallard duck. The owner of these symbolic creatures, Uncle Sam, stepped from the engine of destruction when it came to a standstill in front of the grandstand. Presently, the Kaiser emerged from the depths of the sub-sea boat and told Unde Sam to hike to the Klondike Regions. Uncle Sam immediately presented several concilatory notes. The Kaiser stamped these under foot and drew his sword. At this point the army and the navy came into action with howling and squawking, leastwise Uncle Sam crossed swords. After a short but decisive engagement, in which Uncle Sam easily had the reach over derr Kaiser, our powers knocked the sword from the enemy’s hand and forced him to sur- render. Thereupon they shook hands, descended into the submarine and sub- merged. Due to the originality and the clever acting of George Burns and Theodore Schulze, the Circus Day Trophy Skin was awarded to the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity. 136 “ edj Daps” On Wednesday evening, May 3, 1916, at the Central Music Hall was given the annual Junior Play, called “Tech Days,” before a packed house. This play was a wonderful success, as evidenced by the appreciation shown by the audience, but more than that was a distinct innovation at old Armour. It was “Tech Days,” a play dealing with Armour life, with its athletics, its college spirit, its humor, and its ideals and withal so full of familiar locations and “Armour pep” besides innumerable college songs, that it simply carried the audience “off its feet,” and gave to them the most enjoyable Junior Play they had ever seen. “Tech Days” was arranged by our Second Marshal, Robert F. Schreiner who also wrote the songs heard during the play, and more than that sang three of them himself. The play itself dealt with the Armour Track Team and their meet with Lake Forest College. Harold G. Ingraham,as Joe Thompson, Captain of the Armour Track Team, was at his best in this part and that means he was good. (Oh, you Bert Williams) John W. Tierney, as Bob Turner, star dash man, was the sensation of the evening as an actor, and we all know him as a real sensation in the track. The fact that Jack’s part seemed so natural to all, made the play all the more realistic. Leonard F. Starkel and Melverne C. Cole took the parts of Captain Joe’s friends to perfection and handled themselves so easily and well that they seemed professional actors. Mr. James D. Harvey, as Jack Dudley, a fussy freshman was a distinct favorite and some song bird. Abe J. Plocinsky and Louis F. Given as Assistant Professor Mcanwcll and Mrs. Fairfax respectively handled these difficult character parts magnificently and their success was evident from the appreciation received from our fathers and mothers at the play. Now, for the best part of all! The Girls! And such girls! The most beautiful girls who ever attended Armour Institute! Fact—! Olof F. Andren, as Alice Fairfax, set all the manly hearts aflutter with his delicate voice and figure, his high heel shoes and evening costume. It was a shame to remove his wig at the end of the play. He was that good in his part, he should have kept it. Harold A. Kleinman, as Helen Mansfield, the heroine, was a real heroine and was so bewitching the hero almost forgot some of his lines during the play. Arnold H. Smith, Harry M. Goodman and Stuart R. Evans all took their parts well. The telephone conversation of the latter gentleman, or lady, I should say, was a great hit. The rest of the parts were all taken with a vim and pep that characterized the whole play, and every participant was deserving of praise as well as thanks for his sacrifice of time and effort to make the play a possibility and success. The big act was the third. The scene was the dressing room of the Armour Team during the big meet. The atmosphere was one of sustained and strained nervous tension, amidst the pistol shots and first and last calls, the exhortations of “Long John Hommer” SOCIAL jraJ w and the Captain and the grand climax of winning the meet in the last race by the slim margin of one point. It was a stirring scene and a masterpiece. The big song hits of the show were as follows: In act one, Stuart X. Miller sang “Don’t Blame it All on Wilcox”. This song will explain itself. “Big Bob” Schreiner sang “We’re the Armour Class of 1917 and the Play closed with “When its Time for me to leave old Armour Tech”. Harvey sang “We Take our I lats Off to You 1916,” and “Oh, you Circus Day.” The big hit of the evening was sung by our Second Marshall, “Hello, Dean Monin, How Are You.” 'The song follows: (Sung to tune of “Hello, Hawaii; How Are You”) 1st Verse— We’ve got a professor here whom you all know, He’s been at this place since many years ago, His name is one we all adore, For he never has been known to bore, And we grow to love him more and more, As the years go by. Chorus— Hello, Dean Monin, How are you? I just thought I’d call you up to say, to say to you, How are you, how arc you, Dean Moninr You are the one Prof, we all love the best, For you teach to us Economics, Logic, too, But the one best thing is your friendship, which is true. Oh, hello, Dean Monin, how are you tonight? SOCIAL 140 SOCIAL Z )t jfresfjman ihanbsfjafee Traditions arc all too few at Armour. But custom prescribes that the first Friday night of the school year be spent in welcoming the Freshmen, in making them feel at home among us, and in helping them generally in becoming better acquainted with Armour Men, with Armour customs, and with the Armour spirit. And this year’s Handshake, held at the Hyde Park Y.M.C.A., on Sept. 15, 1916, was largely successful in accomplishing all these results, tho a good many of the Freshmen apparently suspected that the Handshake was simply a well-laid plot on the part of the rather-feared Sophs to kidnap any unsuspecting Frosh who were foolish enough to fall for their game. But those who did turn out found that the entire school took a friendly interest in seeing that every Freshman present had a good time at this, his first Armour function. After spending the early part of the evening in the large, but crowded, reception room, and in the smaller, but more crowded, billiard room, in renewing old ac- quaintances and in forming new ones, the fellows gathered in the auditorium for the evening’s program. “Mac” Stone loosened things up a bit and got the fellows into the proper spirit by leading off with a “Yea, Armour”. President Owen then took charge, and called upon Luttge, the Department Secretary, for a few words concerning the objects and program of the Armour Y.M.C.A. Dr. Schergcr, who is noted for his ability to interest the students in subjects not technical, wel- comed the Freshmen, and took advantage of the opportunity to urge upon all the fellows the necessity for the well rounded man, whether engineer, artist, lawyer, or what-not, to take an active interest in things not directly pertaining to his own business or studies. On behalf of the Chicago Y.M.C.A. Mr. Carl Yutzcn then gave a few words of greeting, and told of some of the work done by the Y. M.C.A. Prof. Penn followed with theTau Beta Pi talk, without which no Hand- shake would be complete, outlining the aims of Tau Beta Pi and the requirements for eligibility to membership, and President King of the Rooters Association, closed this speech-making by telling of the purposes of that organization, and urged upon all the fellows the importance of supporting school functions of every kind. At the beginning of the program Owen had explained that the Tech Quartet had promised to furnish music for the evening, and had been present, but Le Valley had disappeared. It was rumored that he was calling upon one of his friends who lived near by—and so before each speaker was announced there was a call for Le Valley. But until King had finished speaking, only the echo came back. Jack finally arrived, however, and the quartet made a bigger hit than usual—which, we rise to remark, is going some. The evening closed with eats in the form of frappe and wafers, which some- how seemed to disappear with strange rapidity, and a series of swimming events in the tank. m SOCIAL cCfje ixusfj The Freshman- Sophomore rush which took place on the afternoon of October 29th, in the Webster School yard, was a huge success. For the first time in years it was held with the consent of the President and the Deans, but this fact did not destroy the general enjoyment of the affair. The four classes collected in front of the school buildings and marched over to the field of combat, led by a band, During these maneuvers the Juniors and Seniors saw to it that the “Freshies” and “Sophs” were kept as far apart as possible. A little bird seemed to have whispered in the combatants’ ears that they had better wear their old clothes, and the two classes resembled a mixture of an Italian track gang and a football squad. It was a great shock to the upper classmen to identify some of the toughest looking specimens as their friends. On arriving at the field, the “Sophs” were placed behind a football goal at the north end, and the “Freshies” were stationed behind another goal at the south end. Each side had five sacks behind their goal, which they promptly salted down in as easily defended a position as possible; and there were also forty sacks distributed along a line across the middle of the field. At a pistol shot from John Schommer, each side made a mad rush and grabbed as many sacks as possible. Each sack had a Junior and a Senior to referee it, ’though these gentlemen did not seem to know all the time just where they belonged. The referees stopped all 143 SOCIAL personal scraps, and endeavored to keep the number of men on a sack below eight. After a great “rough house” lasting twenty-five minutes the combatants were “all in” and were glad to stop when the final shot was fired. The “Frcshics” had thirty-six sacks behind their goal and the “Sophs” had thirteen. Each of these sacks was counted as five points. The remaining sack was still hotly con- tested in “Soph” territory a few feet from the center line, and counted one point for them. The success of the “Freshies” was attributed to their numbers, which enabled them to raid the “Sophs’ ” goal successfully while protecting their own. After the two classes had their pictures taken with their captured sacks, they returned to school with torn shirts, missing hats, and dirty but happy faces. Each class carried their sacks, and they paraded on Ogden Field for a few min- utes before retiring to “doll up”. 144 SOCIAL All those who have attended Armour “Frosh” Smokers will, no doubt, recall the intense, confining atmosphere of the assembly—an angry glare, a hasty re- marks sudden plunge, and the staid upper classmen were needed to separate the over-zealous and supervengcant Sophs and Infants. For these affairs were handled scientifically, the combatants to be, were carefully kept apart, conservation of energy being the slogan. This year, this crowning event was accompanied by no such emotions. The class rush having been officially ordained, sanctioned, and blessed, was held the afternoon of October 27, and the great question of lower class supremacy settled once and for all. Many prophesied that holding the rush before the smoker was “putting the cart before the horse,” but such was not the case. The Smoker was held at the Oakland Music Hall with I.. A. King, President of the Rooters Association, in charge, and that is the secret of the success of the evening. Everyone was amiable and satisfied, personal grudges were forgotten, and the evening was entirely given over to a bigger and stronger school spirit. Pipes were passed and the hatchet was buried. A short business meeting was held, H. B. Maguire was elected President and resolutions of appreciation and thanks to Dr. Gunsaulus and the Deans were passed. The rest of the evening was given over entirely to a musical program. Charles and his saxophone sextet were there and an appreciative audience kept them busy for over an hour. They were followed by the “old reliable” Armour Glee Club who also did themselves proud. A request was then made for Pat Dougherty’s Brass Band and this was the climax of a very pleasant evening. So passed another Smoker, the biggest and best ever held at Armour. 146 Again it can he said that Tech-Nite has united a crowd of loyal Armourites and added another enjoyable evening to their social activities. The usual time for this annual get-together meeting is about the middle of the second semester, but this year it seemed as though the managers of Tech-nite waited for an especially good bill at the Palace Theatre, so on Friday evening, March 16, they heard that a world-beater show was in store for the watchers, and the date was set. In one of the several Tech-nite bulletins it was shown that Shorty Maguire signed his howson lot away when arranging for the tickets for the evening. The theatre management still remembers our first Tech-nite about four years ago. From statistics we find that about two hundred loyal Armourites found seats in the balcony on this eventful night, but from the applauding of the boys the performers must have thought the whole town had crowded together into the theatre. That we were all keyed up was shown by the encores received by the unendur- able roller-skaters at the start. When they left the stage they cried: “Eureka! At last we are good!” This clapping “enmassc” was continued to the benefit of everybody concerned, and the boys all seemed to have taken military science, the way they kept time with one danseuse’s steps. The youthful composer, Harry Carrol, showed that he could not only write, but sing, his compositions. And when that Imperial Russian Ballet strutted across the stage!? Yes, we all applied for our passports to the Duma without censorship. Mr. and Mrs. Pat Rooney gave us a treat in their new addition, and when Harry Carrol encored with “Pat Somewhere on Broadway!!” How do they do it? It’s all over now, but the Armour Yell started by Stew Miller, and the pep shown was wonderful. Afterwards, most of us went home—later. A Tech-nite to be remembered; and may they continue forever. 147 SOCIAL 148 V • mSBBBrn SOCIAL Ijo, J3u5. Hjr The £yc)z Powers tje Man. d 150 ATHLETICS II. M. Raymond Dr. H. B. Thomas O. M. I lui. LINGER A. I.. ScHRIKBER C. V. Leigii W. K. Smart F. C. Monin I.. I'. Smith A. K. Maitre ATHLETICS bearers of tfje “M” Abrams Basketball, 1915 Alender Baseball, 1915 Alter Track, 1915, 1914 Beady Basketball, 1917 Bready Baseball, 1915 Bruce Baseball, 1914, 1916 Broman Baseball, 1914, 1915, 1916 Basketball, 1915 Chamberlain Baseball, 1912, 1915 Conway Baseball, 1915, 1916 Basketball, 1916, 1917 Erickson Basketball, 1917 Evans Track, 1915, 1916 Hullinger Baseball, 1915, 1916 Hook Baseball, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1915 Hill Baseball, 1914, 1915, 1916 Herman Baseball, 1913, 1914, 1915 Hall Baseball, 1914, 1915 King Track, 1914 Baseball, 1915, 1916 Basketball, 1914 Kuttnauer Baseball, 1916 Katzinger Baseball, 1913, 1914, 1915 Basketball, 1913, 1914, 1915 Track, 1913, 1914, 1915 Kerr Baseball, 1916 Basketball, 1917 Track, 1916 Mouat Baseball, 1915 Basketball, 1915, 1916 Track, 1915 Mendi us Track, 1916 Paskill Baseball, 1914, 1915 Sullivan, J. K. Basketball, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916 Track, 1913, 1914. 19 S T. Sullivan Baseball, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915 Basketball, 1915 A. Sullivan Track, 1916 SciIREIBER Track, 1915 Sandroff Basketball, 1915, 1916, 1917 Track, 1915, 1916 Taylor Basketball, 1916, 1917 Trinkhaus Basketball, 1913, 1914, 1915 Track, 1913, 1914, 1915 Tierney Track, 1914, 1915, 1916 Watt Track, 1914, 1915, 1916 Watt Basketball, 1916, 1917 Williams Track, 1915 Wilcox Baseball, 1915, 1916 Basketball, 1915 152 ATHLETICS Reason l ebietu, 1916 More men answered the call for spring track work in 1916 than ever turned out on any previous call. Two dual meets with Northwestern College were won. In- the Conference in a record smashing affair our boys were not in it. Tierney, who won a first and second in the 1915 annual meet, couldn’t place. Lake Forest, who won it in 1915, barely beat us out for fourth place. Kerr, Sandroff and Sullivan, the freshmen high jumper performed best for Armour. In baseball with a good infield and two excellent pitchers that were developed here, Wilcox and Broman, we should have won the Championship. The team that won Lake Forest beat us on percentage. We defeated them one game and they played us a 3 to 3 eleven inning tie at their field. Disobeval of orders in bunting and running bases allowed our opponents to tie us. We finished second and had Lake Forest played Beloit College a cancelled game at Beloit the chances were much in our favor for the championship. Wilcox, Hill, Broman, Paskill and Mouat closed their baseball careers for Armour. In basketball from a standpoint of winning games we were a dismal failure. However, adverse criticism is out of place. The team as a whole were excellent fighters and not quitters. Our apponents had to fight every inch of the way. The team missed the fire and leadership of Stillivan and Mouat who graduated. Nobody could be found to take their places as goal shooters. The team as goal shooters was the poorest the “Tech” ever had. The boys may have had hard luck but whatever it was, it was consistent thruout the year. Also, the team was severely handicapped by the sickness of Conway most the first semester and by Capt. SandrofFs illness. John J. Schommf.r As the Cycle goes to press, it is announced that all branches of athletics are to be discontinued for the present; and in their stead will be substituted military training. We are sorry to have to miss the regular baseball games this year, but our regrets arc tempered by the fact that Armour students will have the opportunity to fit themselves for whatever service the future will demand of them. 154 1 Captain Paskili. ATHLETICS ATH LETICS pase pall KING.—As the Armour fans meditate they remember a man who, when Armour was “up against it for pitchers, set out to climb the pitchers ladder of fame and help old Armour 1'cch to keep her time honored name in baseball. This was “I.auric and he has been on the mound for the past two years developing a spit ball and control that made the batters groan inwardly as they saw him put that “pill up to his mouth for they knew what that meant. The team back of him took a snooze when Paskill signalled for one of those spit ters. At bat Laurie had a peculiar manner of holding the willow, but it always met that horsehide cover and placed it in an out of the way place, especially when some of the bases had Armour inhabitants on them. King batted around 300 all season and that speaks for itself. 'I'his coming year Laurie” will be the mainstay on the pitching staff as he is the only ct” pitcher left. But we know Laurie and know that he will give old Armour Tech all that there is in him. HL’LLINGER. If by chance we see a wild throw go somewhere in the near vicinity of first base, we ’arc con- soled with the thought that waiting for that wild throw is a long, lanky, left-handed fellow who has the very desirable habit of “scooping up” the low ones and netting the high ones that come his way. “Hullic” plays the game every minute and it is a joy to see the way he plays this all- important place on the infield. With the willow “Hullic had the habit of planting that little pill just out of reach for a single, but, these singles came often and when they did come they counted. “Hullic’ led the batting of the conference with an average of . 343 all season which talks in an understandable, unknown lan- guage of its own. He was “spiked” on the Galesburg trip which put him out of the last few games. He will be with us for two more years and if first base isn’t one of Armour’s strongest points, then we miss our guess. HALL.—As a fellow who made one take a good deep breath, enjoy it, made every player on the team glad he was living and on his toes” all the time, Hall was there and over. Whether he was taking pot shots at Bruce on third or sizzling the ball to “Hullic” on first. Hall always played the same consistent game on second. I Ic held down that position against all comers with a side splitting vcngcnce. When Coach Shommer balled out a Mouat alternate with Hall” it was all the same. With an average of .250 marked on his willow for the season. Hall could be depended on to do his duly when told to. It is with regret that Armour fans bring themselves to the realization that they arc watching the last few games which Hall will play this season at Armour, for this is his last year with us. We expect much of him this spring and know that we won, be disappointed. 157 ATHLETICS CONWAY.—Ever since the time ’“Slip” went into action on the diamond in 1914, in the class series, it has been known that he “knew” baseball from the ground-up. Slip holds “short” down at an easy pace and proves at all times.to be one of the strongest “cogs” in Coach Schomer’s “machine.” Slip is one of the best shortstops in the Little Five and a man that is greatly feared by all the twirlers in the game. As a team by themselves. Slip on short, and Hall on second, makes an ideal combination to stop “hot ones” and to catch all foolhardy men who attempt to steal second. Slip has gone so deep into the heart of old Armour, that it is with difficulty that we realize that this is his last year with us. I lis place will be exceptionally hard to fill next year with any- one who can anywheres near come up to him. Armour looks with pleas- ure and the other Little Five colleges with regret to see him work at second and with the willow this spring. KERR.—Whenever there was a momentary lull in a game last year, you could always hear some one in the field yelling: “At a boy,” “Eat ’em up,” etc. When a fly went out to center field, this same individual was always under it. “Vol” played the outfield like a professional, smothering everything that came his way. At bat he spread them around in all the corners, and he never was “glued” to a base, or caught asleep. BRUCE.—When the grandstand heard a crack of the bat and saw that a “hot-one” had started for “someplace,” they held their breath, but, let it out again with a sigh of relief when they saw that “hot-one” picked up and sizzled across the diamond to “Hully” on first, in almost merciless manner. With the Bruce, Conway, Hall, Hullingcr combina- tion, the team was kept tip on its toes all the time and feeling like a horse fed on oats. Bruce with his original wit and quick-thinking ability made the people open their mouths with wonder. He had that famous “hook-slide” of his all season working to perfection, and had a peculiar knack of covering a powerful lot of ground and it was rare that the fastest of them could get past him. We arc lucky to have him with us for two more seasons and expect to see some good work on third. 15 ATHLETICS KUTTXALT'.R. -Last year was “Shorty’s” first year at Armour, hut he came out for a position in the “garden” with a determination and stick-to-it-ivc-ncss that landed him a position and his letter. He had a ground-covering ability that was surprising, and a good strong Peg” in from the garden. We will have Shorty with us for three more years and we don’t expect to be disappointed in seeing some mighty good playing done by him. MOUAT.—A man so plum full of fight, gamcncss, grit, honor, and pure love of athletics, we find this game little Scotchman upholding the tradi- tions of his race. Kven tho “Shorty” did have short legs, he covered as much ground as any Jackrabbit ever thought of doing. 1 lis instilling “the fight” in the men has won Armour many games. When the team is at bat and they hear Shorty talk to them and to feel that he is near them puts a determination into them that sends them to bat or to the diamond with a desire to give old Armour all that they had in them. The opposing iwirlers feared Shorty more because of the fact that he always got at least one walk in the game and made them put the ball where he wanted them to, than for his ability to land the ball over the fence. This article marks the passing of one of the biggest, little giants in athletics that Armour has ever had. It is with the deepest of regrets that Coach Shommer looks for another man to fill Shorty’s place. PASKILL. Rube” put a “finish” on Coach Shommer’s machine by being one of the steadiest and most consistent catchers that the “Tech” has ever had behind the bat. When the “break of the game” was imminent, a clear stay-with-’em-gang” floated out from that faraway corner of the diamond and it’s effect was generally that which would allow the “break” to pass, but—Armour had the largest “piece” of the “score pie.” Rube was a veritable “hawk” at catching fouls, and in taking the “horseshoe” out of the other team's hands. With an average of better than .225 Rube was a big prop under old Tech that kept her up on top. This article causes a pang to pass thru the hearts of Tech fans as it denotes the passing of Rube from the numerous activities. We wish him success. 159 ATHLETICS HIM . -Armour lost “JClaudc last year by graduation, and in him we lost a jolly and good matured catcher who had a whole carload of “sand and grit” in him. Claude was a “bear for work, and game to the core. He proved a mighty big asset to the team when it stood a chance of going down on the most important trip of the season, to Galesburg, without a catcher. He has just as big an appetite for “good cats as he has for baseball, as is shown by the way all the waitresses in the hotels on the route give him the biggest helping of all. BROMAX. It is with deep regrets that this article is written, knowing that it marks the end of a brilliant and consistent baseball career of our big warhorsc “John. When John was not on the mound he was doing deadly work in the outfield against the oppo- nent’s flies. He had perfect control all season with a record for the least number of walks, so that not any of the Little Five pitchers could compare with him. With the “willow, John stayed at the top, batting .322 all season. It was with a sigh of relief that the spectators saw Big John” step up to bat with the bases full and two out, as lie always came “thru with a hit when it was most needed. WILCOX. -As a varsity pitcher our own Willie Wilcox showed himself to be all that we had hoj ed and predicted of him (and we had hitched our wagon to a star). As a tricky pitcher who could put the “stuff” on the ball and make the batters eat out of his hand. Willie was as good as they make them. With a prayer on their lips and a pair of knees that wouldn’t behave, the opposing wieldcrs of the willow shut their eyes and with a “trust-to-God swing agitated the ozone over the pan while the ball went through the “grove Leaving a good record behind him and a “rep in baseball circles, we regret that Willie closed his career at Armour last year. 160 ATHLETICS J2ortl)toe£tern College 6, Armour 7 There has always been more or less rivalry between Armour and Northwestern College. So when that school crawled out of its hole on April 15th, it came with a vengeance. A volley of hits in the ninth inning produced three counters and gave the “Tech” a 7 6 victory. The Armour sluggers cuffed Kluckholm hard for 14 hits, three of them being singles by Hullingcr, as he always has the knack of hitting at the right time, and those singles sure did count in this game. “Slip” Conway on short, played a star game, making five assists and picking up every- thing that came his way. King pitched a whale of a game and showed midscason form. His old “spittcr” had ’em all swinging. ARMOUR R. H. P. A. Mouat, r. f 1 1 0 0 Bruce, 3d 1 2 0 5 Conway, s. s 1 1 0 5 Broman, 1. f Hall, 2d. 0 2 1 0 1 1 1 2 Kerr, c f 1 1 1 4 King, p Paskill, c 0 2 2 6 1 1 1 2 Hullingcr, 1st 1 3 16 2 Total 7 14 22 26 Northwestern Armour NORTHWESTERN R. H. P. A. Farrst, 2d ... 1 1 1 1 Fchr, c 1 0 10 0 (). Stinger, s. s . . . 1 1 3 2 Erffner, 1. f 2 3 1 Kluckholm, p 1 1 0 1 Kcllcrman, 3d . . .0 0 0 1 G. Stinger, c. f ... 1 1 6 1 Obcrhin, 1st 1 1 6 1 Stewart, r. f . . .0 1 0 0 Total ...6 8 24 7 1 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 0—6 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 3“ -7 Armour Botons Eafee Jf orest, 11=9 Armour opened the Little Five Conference on April 18th, in a “slugg-fest” with Lake Forest. In the sixth inning Kruger got so dizzy watching the “Merry- go-round” of Armour players around the bases and his neck got so stiff from watching the fly-balls and grounders go past him that he had to be removed from the “slab.” Bartow was put in his place, but he could not “stem the tide” before Armour had galloped around the diamond eleven times, putting themselves two laps ahead of Lake Forest. King and Paskill played their usual good game and had them all guessing. The combat was called off on account of rain and darkness in the eighth inning. R. K. E. Lake Forest...........................4 1 o o o 2 o 2— 9-10-4 Armour................................o 102233 o—11-11 3 Baiters—Kruger, Bartow, Franzen; King, Paskill. uu ATHLETICS Armour bs. Bortfjtoestern Hmbersitp Armour went up to Northwestern’s field on April 20th and had one “battle royal” with the purple squad. The “Tech” team got the little end of a 2 1 score but only after they had “dyed” fighting. Ellingwood, for X. W. pulled some line drives off of Armour’s bats that looked like they were shot out of a cannon into a sandbank. He also passed the platter twice. Paskill trotted over the slab with the one run for Armour. Broman had exceptional control and sure did play real league ball that day. Shorty Mouat played on short in Conway’s place as “Steve” had a bum arm that day, and played in centerficld. Northwestern R. H. P. A. Armour R. H . P. A. Ellingwood, c. f - 2 1 0 Paskill, c 1 0 2 2 Driscoll, s. s . . . .0 0 2 5 Mouat, s. s 1 0 2 3 Kiseller, 3d . . . .0 2 2 0 Conway, 1. f 0 1 1 0 Quigley, 1st . . . .0 1 H 2 Broman, p 0 1 0 3 Grcenst’l, c . . . .0 0 2 2 Hall, 2d 0 0 3 Peterson, 1. f . . . .0 0 3 0 Bruce, 3d Hullinger, 1st 0 0 1 4 Hombeck, r. f . . . .0 1 0 0 0 1 16 0 Loux, 2d . . . .0 1 1 0 Kerr, c. f 0 0 0 0 Hein, p . . . .0 0 2 4 Kuttnauer, r. f... 0 0 1 0 Total . . . .2 7 27 3 Total 3 24 «S Armour . . 1 0 0 0000 0 0—1 Northwestern 1 0 1 0000 0 0—2 Errors—Driscoll, I.oux, Bruce. 2 base hit—Ellingwood. Bases on balls—Hein, 5. Struck out by Broman 2, Hein 1. Armour Cafetsf a 5=1 “ifloutfjful” (Out of itlonmoutfj Armour invaded Monmouth on April 29th. Monmouth must have been stage-struck at the way their knees trembled when an Armour slugger got up to bat. The old “Tech” sure did play ball that day backed Wilcox’s pitching to a nicety. Will’s curves were breaking that day like a cowboy breaks a pony as he had them under his control at all times, not walking a man. Broman in right field pulled some mighty fine ones down out of the sky. Monmouth R. H. P . A. Armour R. H. P. A. Lcndgral, s. s 1 1 1 1 Mouat, 1. f 0 0 3 0 Simbey, 2d 0 0 4 4 Bruce, 3d 0 1 0 3 M'l.’Ghin, 3d 0 1 0 O Conway, s. s 1 0 5 4 McMicheal, p 0 1 0 5 Broman, r. f 1 0 4. 0 Van Pelt, c. f 0 1 0 0 Hall, 2d 1 2 0 1 Kelly, c 0 1 8 0 Kerr, cl f 2 1 0 0 McCoy, r. f 0 0 0 1 Wilcox, p 0 0 0 3 Williams, 1st 0 1 12 1 Hill, c 0 1 5 0 Jenson, 1. f 0 0 1 0 Hullinger, 1st 1 1 12 0 Total 1 5 27 15 Total 5 6 27 K3 Monmouth 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0—1 Armour..................................o o o 3 o o o 2 ATHLETICS lUbe Jforcst JTics Armour, jflap 3rt The nearest that Armour had come to being beaten in the Little Five Con- ference up to this time was when they invaded Lake Forest. On an exceedingly muddy field the combat was waged until darkness stopped it, but not until eleven innings had been played, and still it was a tie. We’ll say it was lucky for Lake Forest that old Father Time hurried the sun down, as old “Tech” was sure going s'rong at the finish. But anyway it killed the “jinks” that always had been with Armour before up there. Broman and Paskill made an unbeatable combination. Hall and Bruce starred at bat and on bases. Lake Forest R. H, . P. A. Armour I C H. P. A. Dean, 3d 1 1 2 4 Paskill, c 0 0 5 4 Krigge. 1st 1 2 14 1 Bruce, 3d 1 1 3 2 Krueger, c. f 0 0 1 1 Conway, s. s 0 0 2 4 McMcrrcn, s. s 0 2 1 0 Broman, p 0 1 0 6 Thorpe, 2d 0 0 4 2 Hall, 2d 1 1 0 3 Stokes, 1. f 0 0 0 0 Kerr, c. f 0 1 3 0 Lciter, 1. f 0 0 O 0 Mouat, r. f 0 1 0 1 Barto, r. f 0 0 I 0 Kuttnauer, r. f 0 0 1 0 Frau sen, c 0 0 8 4 King, 1. f 0 0 0 Xarkley, p 0 0 2 5 Hullinger, 1st 0 2 19 0 Total 2 5 33 17 Total 2 7 33 20 Armour . . 1 0000 1 0 0 0 0 0—2 Lake Forest ..000002 0 0 0 0 0—2 Errors- Krugge, Krueger. Xarkley, Bruce, Conway, Hullinger. 2 Base hit—Bruce, Struck-out by Xarkley 8, by Broman 5. Bases on balls—Xarkley 5. Isttox Jvttocfes Armour ■■■ For the first time in the season Armour was knocked for a victory, on May 5th by the downstaters. Armour had a record of three victories and one tic up to this time. Bunched hits in the fourth and fifth innings, plus an “off” day on “Steve” Conway’s part, helped the visitors gain the needed runs. Broman and Hullinger led the list on the batting, Broman laying out a pretty one by the flag-pole, which netted him a two-bagger. This was followed by one over the fence by ilcox. Bruce with his famous “fade-away” hook slide did some pretty work on bases, although he didn’t cover the platter for a run. Knox R. H.P. A. Armour R. H. P. A- Lichfield, 1. f . .0 O 0 0 Paskill, c 0 0 7 1 Parr, p . . 1 2 1 1 Bruce, 3d 0 0 i 3 (iablson, 3d . .0 0 0 2 Con wav, s. s.. 0 0 2 2 Hamlin, s. s . . 1 2 2 3 Broman, 1. f... 0 2 1 0 Jackson, 2d . . 1 2 2 2 Hall, 2d 0 0 3 2 Carrol, c. f . .0 0 1 0 Kerr, c. f 0 1 0 0 Pritchard, 1st . .0 0 15 0 King, p 0 0 i 3 Jamson, r. f . 1 2 1 0 Wilcox, p 1 1 1 2 Price, c . .0 1 3 2 Hullinger, 1st. 0 2 11 0 Mouat, r. f 0 0 0 0 Total • -4 9 2 7 12 To'al. ... 0 6 27 3 Knox 0 2 2 0 0 0 0—4 Armour 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0—0 Errors—Conway 3; 2 base hits— -Parr, Broman, Wilcox, Jameson. Struck-out—Parr 6, W ilcox 2, King 4. Base on balls- •King 2, Parr 4- Umpire Picket. 163 ATHLETICS Srmour Crottntes j%lonmoutf) The “down staters” came up with a dangerous look in their eyes, May nth, and ready to get revenge for the wolloping that Armour gave them earlier in the season. The game was a delight to the Armour fans as they saw one of the prettiest plays ever pulled off on Ogden Field, and that being a triple play from Wilcox to Paskill to Conway. Armour scored one run in the fourth by Paskill galloping over the pan. Paskill played first base in “Hully’s” place as Hully had been spiked earlier in the season which landed him in the hospital. Hill caught a fine game behind the bat and showed characteristic grit and good humor. Hall and Conway worked together like a couple of veterans, in perfect harmony, being “on their toes” all the time. Bruce did some pretty work on 3d in handling hot-ones. Armour R. H. P. A. Monmouth R. H. P. A. Paskill, 1st 2 1 10 1 Langraf, ?d . .0 0 1 0 Bruce, 3d 0 1 3 2 Finneran, s. s . .0 0 1 0 Kerr, c. f 1 2 1 0 Mc’lhTm, 3d . .0 0 1 6 Broman, 1. f 0 2 1 0 Van Pelt, c. f . .0 0 3 0 Hall, 2d 0 1 2 0 McMichel, p . .0 2 1 6 Conway, s. s 1 2 2 2 McCarey, r. f . .0 0 0 0 Wilcox, p 0 1 1 4 Johnson, 1. f . .0 0 0 0 Hill, c 0 2 5 2 Wilson, 1st . .0 0 14 2 Mouat, r. f 0 0 1 0 McClarv, c . .0 3 0 0 Total 4 12 22 11 Total . .0 2 24 14 Armour 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0—4 Monmouth 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0—0 Errors—Paskill, Conway, McLary, 2 base hit—Paskill. Home run—Conway. Struckout—by Wilcox 3, by McMichel 2. Paskill (Capt.) Wilcox Broman Hill Hu lunger Hall 104 ©aseball Ceam, 1916 Catcher Conway S. Stop Pitcher Bruce . 3d Base Pitcher King Pitcher (sub) Catcher Mouat . Rt. Field 1st Base Kerr C. Field 2d Base Kuttnauer (sub) Outfield ATHLETICS tfjebule 1916 April ii at Ogden Field—Northwestern University 8, Armour 3. April 14, at Ogden Field—-Wisconsin University 12, Armour 4. April 15 at Ogden Field—Northwestern College 6, Armour 7. April 18 at Ogden Field—Lake Forest College 9, Armour 11. April 19 at Stagg Field—University of Chicago 9, Armour o. April 20 at Northwestern Field—Northwestern University 2, Armour 1. April 25 at South Bend—Notre Dame 11, Armour 1. April 28 at Galesburg—Knox College 4, Armour 9. April 29 at Monmouth—Monmouth College 1, Armour 5. May 3 at Lake Forest—Lake Forest College 2, Armour 2. May 5 at Ogden Field—Knox College 4, Armour o. May 9 at Beloit—Beloit College 4, Armour 2. May 11 at Ogden Field—Monmouth College o, Armour 4. May 16 at Ogden Field—Y. M. C. A. College 2, Armour 9. May 18 at Ogden Field—Beloit College 1, Armour 4. Centn Patting glbcrageb Player AB R H BB SO SB SH AY Hullinger 35 3 12 9 5 1 •343 Broman 5' 6 18 1 14 4 1 .322 Hill 16 1 5 0 4 . 0 .312 King 27 0 8 0 12 1 0 .296 Hall 53 4 13 4 9 5 1 •245 Paskill 40 12 9 11 9 8 0 •223 Con wav 5« 11 12 6 6 5 0 . 207 Kerr 57 8 11 0 «7 5 0 193 . 182 Mouat 44 7 8 10 7 2 1 Bruce 8 8 4 4 1 0 • 51 Wilcox 20 1 3 2 7 0 0 .150 Kuttnauer 22 1 2 2 12 1 1 .094 Paseball draining tCrip 'Fhe baseball of the major league was opened by Armour by their leaving at the Park Row station Feb. 30, for their training quarters at South Chicago. There were close to four fans at the station to give the team a rousing send-off. Coach Schommer lead all of last year’s team in the fold at the time of departure with the exception of Petzing who is a hold out. He is expected to reconsider his action, however, and will undoubtedly decorate the diamond when the umpire cries, “Play Ball” this spring. No team ever left for a spring training trip amid more splendor than did the “Techs”. Through the generosity of Mr. Stridiron they were able to enjoy many luxuries enroute, including a fine checker board on which many exciting contests were staged. Bruce played the mouth organ and Kerr sang all the way to the camp, where the team will fit itself for the flag race. Among the prominent stock-holders present on the trip were Sid Williams and N. G. Batbag. 169 Hill Coach, Schommer Kerr Bromax King Trainer Williams Wilcox Paskili Hall Kuttxauer Mouat Conway ATHLETICS Captain Saxdroff ATHLETICS Basket iBall W A'IT- What was this auburn streak going down the floor? Watt? Yes it was, really he in person, and, although a six footer, he is as fast as they make them. ’‘Red” showed knowledge” for basketball last year when he won his A” by hard fighting, and we soon found out how hard a red head can fight and keep it up indefinitely. When a man goes in to guard him, he knows that he is going to have his hands full—and he sure does. “Red” not only plays as a fast accurately shooting forward, but he delights in going down the floor after the ball and bringing it back up like an avalanche going down a mountain side—taking everything with him. We regret deeply that we arc to lose this good natured fighter this year, but we rest assured that the same qualities that covered him with basketball glory will land him on the high road to success with a head start. CONWAY. Slip has certainly made a name for himself in basketball; as a guard he plays a brilliant and con- sistent game, and loves to ‘mix,” get free, shoot down the floor and cage a couple of points for Armour every once and awhile. He has been a steady hard-worker and certainly deserves all the honor that Armour fans give him, and that with a bonus. Slip is a fine jolly fellow but when he gets his Irish” up he says nothing but—we are all glad that we are not the man that played him foul. When Slip goes into the game he seems to give the whole team an added security and a room” on the ground floor of confidence. We regret much to loose Slip this year, but we know that he will tackle life with the same vim and pep that he showed at Armour, and the top rung of the ladder of success be within his reach in the near future. SAXDROKF.—We need no introduction for Sandy,” our beloved captain and center, as he has a spot in every Armour student’s heart. He holds a place high in every one’s esteem, not only for his brilliant athletics but for his being an all around good fellow, and high in his studies. Sandy—to give his history—came from Lane Tech, leaving behind a record that has been unsurpassable. He made the Tech team in his first year, starting out at guard position; but when his jumping abilities were discerned he was shifted to center, where he has held that position ever since, against all comers. As a dribbler Sandy” is a veritable steam roller, and his trips down the floor arc seldom stopped until he has made a basket. He is a big, solidly built mass who can get a basket from any angle. He is a born fighter and fights with a stiff upper lip from the start to the finish with every ounce of strength, grit and sand he has in him. He was the rudder for the team this year until he had to quit athletics on account of an operation and a visit to the hospital. We hope sincerely that he will be able to be with us in body on the basketball floor beside being there in spirit next year. 169 ATHLETICS TAYLOR. A long rangy man, and they called him Kat,” appeared on the basketball floor as a freshman aspirant for the “Tech” team. By his great work he won a place as a substitute on the team, and was carried as a sub all year. Although he had never handled a basketball before that year, he showccLsuch ability that we expected great basket- ball history from him. Next season he went out with a vcngcnce and won his “A,” but only his inexperience in basketball kept him from being a regular. We admire his grit in sticking and in receiving hard knocks and a con- tinuation of them without a murmur but knowing that it was for the good of Armour that he was taking these hard knocks. 'Hie 1916-17 season he came out in the class games and showed a fight and form that delighted the hearts and eves of Armour fans and “ pretold ” much of his coming success in basketball. When the season opened for Tech men immediately after the closing of class basketball Kat was on the job every night. He fought hard and held a position as forward with a vcngcnce that prevailed thru the season. It is a marvel to Armour how Kat Taylor can hold so much fight, sand and stick-to-it- tivencss in such a small body (although he is by no means a midget). Kat plays the game in a clean way, being always on his toes and never crabbing. His love for Armour, his true Tech spirit and his personality have won their way into the hearts of all Tech men. We expect much more of the same stuff in basketball next season from Kat. KFRR.—Kerr’s work in behalf of the basketball team this year was very much appreciated by all who followed the team. His spirit and aggressive- ness were a great help to the team in times of trouble, and his fight and pep a source of delight to the fans. When Sandroff was compelled to drop basketball, “Vol,” because of his jumping ability, was shifted from guard to center, where he stayed all year. The way he used to knock ’em dead” and then innocently turn his back on the referee was a good example of his versatility. I Ic played a fast, hard, game, and was in the fight all of the time. He always managed to slip in a few of the points along with his great defence game. His big jumps under the opponents basket when the ball was up in the air will be remembered for some time, and we look for a lot more of it next year. KRICKSOX. A tall, rangy, tow-headed, good natured Freshman came out for basketball this year and his name was F.rickson (or Fry ’ for short). As this build of man always delights Coach Schommcrs’ athletic eye, Fry, bv hard work, made the team. He had a peculiar knack of caging a few extra goals from the center of the floor in each game. But the whirlwind Ira Bready kept working for the same position and in the last half of the season won out after a long hard fight. But you can’t keep a good man down and Fry is with us for three more seasons. If he improves as much as he has since he struck Armour in the future he will be a colossal force in keeping old “Tech” at the top. n—1—g——m inanHBnaHn: 170 ATHLETICS Bready—Ira appeared this year and opened his career in basketball in the class games. Here he showed exceptional speed, fight, and a lot of “horse sense’' in basketball. So coach Schommer got a hold of him and Ira came out for the Tech team. It was certainly a hard scrap for Ira, especially as a Freshman, to get a place on the team. But his fight, his grit, and his whirlwind speed besides his being a mighty good fellow at heart won for him a place on the team as regular towards the end of the season. We have Ira with us for three more seasons and expect a lot from him. If he don’t develop into one of the best (if not the best) basketball men on the Armour floor, then we miss our guess by a long ways. He promises to-put up the same kind of a game during the next three seasons that his brother did his last year, and that speaks for itself. Hmsfeetball, 1916 Sandroff (Capt) Taylor Watt Coxway Kerr Bready Kricksox Center Forward Forward Guard Center and Guard (sub) Guard (sub) Guard ATHLETICS Kerr Bready Taylor Erickson Watt Captain Mouat ATHLETICS SCI IREIBKR.- In Schrcibcr wc find an athlete who certainly does use his brains in making his legs and body do as he wants them to do in accordance with Coach Schemmcrs training. Me worked hard in getting his honors and deserved them. He showed his heels to his opponents in the high hurdles and looked down on them as he cleared the bar at a height which only the best of them could come within striking distance of. We arc promised much in the track events of the coming season. This is his last year at Armour and in passing him the track team loses a sub- stantial help, and point-winner in this good-natured, hard-working man. He carries with him our best wishes. TIERNEY'.- -Jack” is a man who sure does know how to get over the ground in short order. Has been making the aspirants for track honors eat his ’‘dust’’ before they even get a secondary honor. He was one of the biggest point winners for “Tech” and is a man to be feared as he has not been beaten in the Little Five on any- thing but a “technical.” Jack is a hard, persistent worker and shows a mighty pretty form and a powerful stride, which carries him over the ground at the speed of an express. He is the captain for the coming sea- son and being so is an added inspira- tion to the team. His time in the ICO is 10 Hat and in the 220 is 25 flat. That true Armour spirit of his and his being an all around good-fellow makes us regret deeply that this year is his last one with us. We watch him go forth into the sterner walks of life with a feeling that he will “make good.” SANDROFF.- -Here is our much beloved “Sandy.” If calculus was as familiar to us and known as well to Armour students as Sandy is, then wc would all get high marks in that subject. In both track and basket- ball he is a colossal giant to Armour. It is a pity that he does not take baseball into his athletic curriculum as he would certainly shine there. We have Sandy with us for two more seasons, but it is doubtful if he will be able to come out this season because of an operation. As a weight man and a jumper (which combination docs not often go together) he is a star. There is not a man in the league who puts the heave behind the shot that he docs. “Sandy” holds the high esteem of all Armour students. 171 ATHLETICS EVAN’S.— ' Stanly, Shorty, Dutch” Evans is with us yet and needs no introduction to Armour fans, as this jolly good-natured fellow has won the high esteem of everyone. Coach Schommer certainly made a find, as his 4:46 for the mile shows. Dutch has a spirit of fight and a whole lot of pure sand and grit in him that puts him in with the first three to cross the tape and hence some more points and another boost for old “Tech.” ‘ Shorty” is to be with us for two more seasons, and it is with pleasure that we look forward to seeing him in action again, and passing out of focus of his near sighted opponents when they try to read the number on his back. We are expecting much of him this season and feel certain that we will not be disappointed because he has improved much since he came to Armour. KERR.—At the conference meet at Galesburg, Kerr performed the un- usual stunt of winning his third letter in his first year here. lie displayed the same pep and spirit here as in basketball and baseball, and fully deserved the honor. He also entered the discus, shotput, and broad jump. SULLIVAN.—Armour in the past has been represented by mighty “skimmcrs-of-thc-bcnding-willow. ’ Memories Barr and other jumpers waft back from the misty time of days that arc past. But of all the con- quering heroes, our own Andy Sullivan promises to be their peer, par excellence. His consistent jumping around the s'S, k $'9 mark is a beautious sight to behold. Andy has the stuff in him ' from the ground up” and promises that he will uphold the time honored name of the “Sullivan clan” in Armour athletic circles. He worked hard last year and won his “A.” 175 ATHLETICS SOMMKRS.— Sommers .came to Armour with all the prestige of the Chicago Athletic Association behind him. As one of the coming sprinters of the I.ittlc Five he has ably lived up to his reputation. He has put in a strenuous year of apprenticeship swallowing Tierney's dust. It is expected that he will be able to take them all out for a ride after another year of this. Me has three more years with us and we expect much from him in helping dear old Armour stay on top. MKNDIL’S. ‘Bill” is one of those athletes who appears to be built more for endurance and solidity than for speed, but his time in the low and high hurdles sadly gave the lie to these assumptions. Bill shows all the earmarks” and other indications of finished hurdler, but acquired these said marksonly after the most diligent training and perseverance. If he continues to improve as he has in the short time he has been at Armour, Bob” Simpson, Kelly and the others will have to fasten their laurels more rigidly fore and aft. MOUAT. -An athletic team at Armour would be like a ship without a rudder without “Shorty” Mouat on it. Although a small piece in himself it was his continual boosting and fight on every team that was the big factor in his helping Armour stay on top. As a long-distance man he seems to approach the perpetual motion machine. Shorty was one of the brainiest and quickest thinking athletes that Armour has ever had. Besides being on Armour teams he was generally the leading factor in two or three other teams in the city, also holding the A. A. F. wrestling championship in the 115 class. We regret that wc cannot honor him in some way as would fittingly become one who has done so much for his Alma Mater. His going leaves a big breach in Armour athletics, which will be hard to fill. In training “Shorty” was a good example for aspirants for athletic honors to follow. 176 ATHLETICS WILLIAMS.—In one particular event Williams has specialized, and that is the 440 yard. In this event he is certainly a star. Although he didn’t win his A” last spring on account of illness we have his promise that he will be out this coming season in his old form, and show the boys up. We regret that this is his last season with us but we expect him to do much in boosting old Armour up on top, and we don’t expect to be disappointed. Our sinccrcst wishes go with him as he leaves Armour this year. ®racfe QTeam, 1916 SCHREIBER Evans Sommers Sullivan A. Williams Mouat (Capt.) Tierny Sandroff Kerr Mendius ATHLETICS ATHLETICS MINOR SPORTS ilnterclass IBasUethall CHAMPIONSHIP DECIDED BY EXTRA GAME Coach John Schommer’s announcement of the interclass basket ball schedule brought many new faces up into the gymnasium. The Senior tryout resulted in the Watt, Conway, Cooper, Hall and Botts combination, with Goorsky as an able alternate. Kerr, Sandroff, Taylor, Cable and Weiss of the Tech squad with Cole, and Shot well represented what seemed an almost undefcatablc Junior aggregation. The Sophomore class entered Mendius, Stone, Maitre, Clasen, Joslyn and Ewcn as pennant contenders. 'Fhc abilities of the above squads being known, no surprises were expected from them, but Coach Schommcr looked forward to the shinning lights in the Freshmen quintet. Of the forty candidates Scharf, Bready, and Illg showed previous experience. October 16, the opening day of the contest marked the defeat of the Seniors and Sophomores. In the Curtain raiser The Frosh trounced the Sophs to the merry tune of 9-3 while the sedate Seniors stepped aside to make room for the rampant Junior Quintet. Early in the season these games manifested the good basketball sense of some of the newer men. The scries consisted of nine games, three of which were played each week. In the second game of the series the Freshmen sprung a surprise by beating the Junior team 9-8 in a hotly contested encounter. From then on the Juniors lead the league until the Seniors “bucked up” and with a series of wins caught up. In the final game for the championship the third year team did the unexpected and blew up in the extra session which w'as necessary to decide the issue. Poor team work on the Juniors side coupled writh the excellent playing of the opposing five, gave the pennant to older men. The inter-class games as a whole were very successful in aiding the men prepare for the Tech team and gave Coach Schommer an opportunity to look over his material. It is hoped that next year even more interest will be shown in these games than in the past season. Standing of the teams: Won Lost Percentage Senior 8 2 .800 Junior 7 3 .700 Freshman 5 4 • 225 Sophomore 0 9 .OCX) IXTER-FRATERXITY ATHLETICS During the last two years the Armour Greek Letter organizations have competed in athletic feats. For some reason unknown the baseball series never took place, but the inter-fraternity relay race still remained to be one of the features of Circus day. Phi Kappa Sigma, Delta Tau Delta, Omega Lambda, Sigma Kappa Delta, and Beta Phi competed for a silver loving cup in the one mile relay race, Finkl, Kerr, Sandroff and Mendius of Beta Phi won a close race with Omega Lambda second, and Delta Tau Delta, Phi Kappa Sigma, and Sigma Kappa Delta finished in the order named. 179 ATHLETICS )3usy r Juh. Jndoor T aw Oh Siun way T Voider Bai u Frosh Sophs ISO ATHLETICS junior Sitboor Ceam In spite of the slight success encountered by the Juniors in their attempt to encourage an Inter-class Indoor Baseball series, the boys got together and played several games with outside teams. Captain Ferguson had a valuable asset in the pitching ability of Mathews. The team did not get nearly the practice it should have, and to this we attribute our two defeats at the hands of the Crane team. We profited by our mistakes, however, for the general team-work was much better and every man showed improvement in his batting in the games with Palmer Park and Sinai Center teams, both of which went down to defeat before us. We would like to see a team organized by each class, to add to the zest of the sport by competition. We feel we could easily handle any team that might be so organized; but come on fellows, look what David did to Goliath! SCORE Armour Juniors at Palmer Park 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Armour 0-0-5-1-0-0-0 6 Palmer Park o-i-i-o-o-o-o 2 Hits—Armour Jun. 6 Batteries:—Palmer Pk.—Veto and O’Brien Palmer Pk. 4 Armour—Mathews and Moore Strike Outs Veto (Palmer Pk) Mathews (Armour) Bases on Balls Armour 0 Palmer Pk. 3 BATTING AVERAGE 9 15 AB R H SO BB % Cable, s.s Moore, c 12 5 7 2 0 • 575 20 7 9 7 3 450 Anthony, s.s 10 a 4 3 0 .400 Mathews, p 18 2 7 8 2 •393 Morse, c 16 5 6 8 4 •375 Goldstein, c.f Ferguson (Capt.) i.b. 9 1 3 1 0 •333 26 5 8 12 0 .310 Beaumont, ••■■• 23 7 6 12 l . 260 Stevens, r.f. 20 'y 5 7 1 .250 Hunt, 2 b 23 4 3 11 2 .130 Xewlander, s.s. 5c r.j. 11 188 53 1 7 1 . 100 Team Average .316 1S1 ATHLETICS Annual Jfall tennis Tournament The Annual Tennis Tournament of 1916-17, started with an entry of thirty- two aspirants managed by A. C. Kupshas and L. II. Rosenberg. There was lively competition from the start, and when things cleared up, the contest was up to the semi-finals with four Seniors left. These men were Mattern, a Fireprotect., Kupshas, an Electrical, McGrcw, an Architect; and Goldberg, a Civil. Kupshas won from Mattern, 6-3, 6-4 and McGrew overcame Goldberg 6-4, 8-6 in a hotly contested battle. After much delay due to the weather con- ditions. Kupshas beat McGrew and became the champion of the tournament. Kupshas deserved the championship as he started out in great fashion, not losing a game until the third round when he won from Ro cnberg 6-3, 6-3 without much difficulty. Sfic Urmour Tollep pall QTeatn A volley ball team made up of Juniors and Seniors has been organized at Armour during the past year. We have played games with Sinai Center and the West Side Y.M.C.A. Palmer Park will probably be our next victim. The following men make up the team; Mathews, Ferguson, Goldstein, Goorsky, Mease,and Moore. We would like to see the classes run off some interclass scries. Volley ball is fine exercise, and does not require experience. 182 ATHLETICS (Sol! The annual fall golf tournament was again held at Jackson Park, and was a marked success. Wm. S. Eagle, Jr., is the champion at Armour, which is not at all surprising, for “Bill” is a real champion. He is well known in golf circles, ranking as one of the best in the city. In the city championship tournament of 1915, “Bill” made one round in 69, which ties the course record in competition play and is some record, being six strokes under par. He did not enter the City tournament of last year because of lack of time, but we sincerely hope that he will this year as he has a splendid chance of “bringing home the bacon.” Another new man in the event was R. P. Manchce, a freshman; but this was no handicap to him. He made his opponents up to the final round feel the sting of defeat early in the game, having them all 6 up with 4 and 5 to go. When he met Eagle in the final round it made an interesting match, as he was allowed five strokes handicap. This match was close all the way, “Bill” winning finally, 1 up. Much credit should be given Manchee for his cool and accurate playing, considering it was his first tournament and the fact that he was matched against such a seasoned player as Eagle. We were glad to see so many representatives from the faculty and hope that their interest in the tournament will not wane. Profs. Wilcox and Leigh had a merry little tussle of their own in the first round, it taking 36 holes to decide the match, the former being the victor. Prof. Leigh was runner up in the tourna- ment of 1915. Herewith is a tabular result of the event: J G. M. Wilcox J. S. Reid W. C. Wright C. W. Leigh W. T. Wig.Nall L. A. King H. S. Mouat W. S. Eagle, Jr. W. G. Smith Bye A. L. Ladd A. J. Sommer F. I Shea ' 0. M.Hullinger, X. L. Marvin R. P. Manchee Wilcox 5-3 Wilcox 5-4 (36 Holes) Leigh 6-5 W1GNA1.1. (Default) Eagle (Default) Eagle (Default) J Eagle 2 up Smith (Bye) Ladd 6-5 Ladd 3 Hui.i inger S-7 (36 Holes) Manchee 6-5 M anchee 6-4 ) Manchee 6-5 f Eagle Champion 1S3 ouNDFry a l£7F AR T VENT 1X1 FRATERNITIES $f)t Happa ls tgma CHAPTER ROLL Founded at the University of Pennsylvania, 1805 Alpha 1830 Delta 1834 Epsilon 1834 . 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FRATERNITIES FRATERNITIES c«M ,6h' 3 y Fronti F R©8 rr IMS OrtHo. � H l0 FRATERNITIES Delta GTau Delta Founded at Bethany College in 1859 CHAPTERS SOUTHERN' DIVISION Vanderbilt University University of the South Washington and Lee University University of Virginia University of Georgia Tulane University Emory College George Washington University University of Texas WESTERN DIVISION University of Iowa University of Wisconsin University of Minnesota University of Colorado Northwestern University Leland Stanford, Jr. University University of Nebraska University of Illinois University University of California University of Chicago Armour Institute of Technology Baker University University of Missouri University of Washington Iowa State College University of Oregon of Kansas NORTHERN DIVISION Ohio University University of Michigan Albion College Western Reserve University Hillsdale College Ohio Wesleyan University Kenyon College Indiana University EASTERN Allegheny College Washington and Jefferson College Lafayette College Stevens Institute of Technology Penn State College Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute University of Pennsylvania Lehigh University Tufts College De Pauw University Butler College Ohio State University Wabash College West Virginia University Purdue University University of Cincinnati Miami University DIVISION Massachusetts Institute of Tech Cornell University Brown University Dartmouth College Columbia University University of Maine Syracuse University University of Pittsburgh Wesleyan University so FRATERNITIES ZDelta £au Belta GAMMA BETA CHAPTER Chartered May ioth, 1901 Seniors George W alter Cloidt Ralph Lincoln Morse Howard Bruce Maguire Harold Gillette Ingraham Lloyd Eldon Mellor Carrol Harry Roberts J uniors W illiam Howard Bretting Bernard Emmet Hartnet Royal Albert Chappel Ralph Fowler Koch Norman Lee Huffaker Everett Francis Quinn William James Wignall Sophomores Robert Thomas Peters Thomas James Rowe Andrew Paul Sullivan Borden Wilbor Freshmen Frank Charles Ryan Alfred Tinsley W'enner Hugh Wynne Kendrick Zinn Pledges Everett Harmon William Noling Erickson Alfred William Foley James Evans Hempsted Earl John Edward Alexander Gilbert enable Bradbury Walter El wood Mead John um 'I'op Row— Hartnktt, Mei.lor, Maguire, Wignali., Wii.bor. Third Row- Kocii, Bretting, Alexander, Peters, Kricksox, Qi inn. Second Row Ingraham, Morse, Cloidt, Roberts, Bradbury, Hueeaker, Sui.uvan. Bottom Row- -IIempsted, Wenner, Zinn, Harmon, Foley, Mead. FRATERNITIES Dei.ta Tau Delta House !9. FRATERNITIES Cau Peta $ljt BETA CHAPTER OF ILLINOIS Chartered April 6, 1906 Faculty E. H. Freeman, Armour, ’02 P. C. Huntly, Arkansas, ’.10 W. H. Lautz, Armour, ’13 C. Y. Leigh, Illinois, ’87 E. S. Libby, Armour, ’02 D. P. Moreton, Armour, ’06 Members II. L. Nachman, Armour, ’02 J. C. Peebles, Armour, ‘04 J. C. Penn, Armour, ’05 R. V. Perry, Armour, ’97 J. V. Richards, Illinois, ’io Daniel Roesch, Armour, '04 M. B. Wells, Purdue, ’94 Honorary II. M. Raymond, Dean of the Engineering Studies A. E. Phillips, Professor of Civil Engineering G. F. Gebhardt, Professor of Mechanical Engineering Harry McCormack, Professor of Chemical Engineering Abraham Corman Ralph H. Earle George M. Fritze Norman J. Goorskey Harold G. Ingraham Laurence A. King Harold A. Kleinman Harry E. Maher Kenneth A. McGrew Archie J. Mease 9 7 Lloyd E. Mellor Y. Russell Owen Charles R. Pomeroy Edward D. Porges Armin L. Schreiber Carroll L. Shaw Arnold H. Smith Leonard E. Starkel Harold S. White W alter Wollaston Donald E. Cable Frank S. Cowles Norman L. Huffaker 1918 Edward A. Moore Kenneth M. Sabiston Harold H. Shotwei.l Kenneth A. Taylor 'lop Row—Schrieber, Porges, CiooRSKKY, Smith, Mkllor, Shaw, Mease, Starkkl. Middle Row—Fritze, Ingraham, Pkkbi.es, Penn, Gkuhardt, Perry, Wells, Freeman, Wollaston. Bottom Row McGrkw, Maher, Pomeroy, Kleinman, King, White, Karle, Corman, Owen. FRATERNITIES Han IBeta $t CHAPTER ROLL Founded at Lehigh University i N I885 Lehigh University 1885 ...... Alpha of Pennsylvania Michigan Agricultural College 1892 .... Alpha of Michigan Purdue University 1893 ...... Alpha of Indiana Stevens Institute of Technology 1896 .... 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Alpha of Massachusetts University of Maine 1911 ..... Alpha of Maine Pennsylvania State College 1912 Beta of Pennsylvania University of Washington 1912 ..... Alpha of Washington University of Arkansas 1914 ..... Alpha of Arkansas University of Kansas 1914 ..... Alpha of Kansas University of Cincinnati 1913 ..... Beta of Ohio Carnegie Institute of Technology 1916 Gamma of Pennsylvania 19« FRATERNITIES €ta Eappa i2u Honorary Electrical DELTA CHAPTER Chartered 1909 Faculty Professor G. E. Marsh 1917 Earl Hirst Smith Edward D. Porges William T. Watt Joel E. Anderson 1918 Leroy O. Orahood Axel A. Hofgren Ora M. Hullinger Ralph H. G. Mathews Edward A. Moore, Jr. Professor J. J. Gilbert Ralph Hilliard Earle Vernon E. Hupp Harold A. Kleinmax James D. Harvey Harold DeEorest Stevers John W. Tierney Clyde Senescall Clinton E. Stryker Harold H. Shotwell h s Top Row—Porces, Tierney, Watt, Stryker, I Iupp. Middle Row nderson, I Iarvey, Kleinman, Fare. Bottom Row—Stevers, Orahood, Senescali., Shotweel, Smith. FRATERNITIES FRATERNITIES €ta 2£appa 32u HONORARY ELECTRICAL Founded at the University of Illinois, 1904 Alpha Beta Gamma Delta Epsilon Zeta Theta Iota Kappa Lambda . Mu CHAPTER ROLL University of Illinois, Urbana, III. Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, III. Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pa. Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. University of Missouri, Columbus, Mo. . Cornell University, Ithaca, New York University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. University of California, Berkeley, Cal. Pittsburgh Alumni Chapter, Pittsburgh, Pa. Chicago Alumni Chapter, Chicago, III. New York Alumni Chapter, New York, N. Y. Schenectady Alumni Chapter, Schenectady, N. Y. Milwaukee Alumni Chapter, Milwaukee, Wis. St. Louis Alumni Chapter, St. Louis, Mo. 200 FRATERNITIES ©mega Hamfaba LOCAL Organized October 21, 1908 Faculty Robert V. Perry, Armour, ’97 John C. Penn, Armour, ’o W7 Stuart R. Evans E. Wilfred Haines Walter Wollaston Vernon E. Hupp Clinton Stryker Harold H. Shotwell Stanley L. Evans Richard N. Mann Everett R. Cole William Eagle Sigmund D. Nothhelfer Henry D. King Ral 1918 Thomas Kingsley, Jr. Fred E. Marx O. Merle Hu lunger Kenneth M. Sabiston Norton L. Marvin Raymond Erickson Clyde Senescall Houseman J. McWilliams Stone Derwood S. Chase Arthur Grasse Morton W. Rogers Einar L. Nielsen Mynhart Brueckner William E. Kingsley Albert Martinson F. Clare Hinckley 1919 Alfred E. Maitre Clarence B. Clark Ralph R. Lake Raymond O. Joslyn Albert J. Jensen Arvved J. Sommer 1920 Harold Huber Leonard Holmes Ralph I). Beck Jonathan E. Snider Top Row— Marvin, Stone, Hullincer, Mann, Josyi.n, Haines. Third Row T. Kingsi.ey, Stryker, Marx, Shotwell, Ntelsen, Jensen, Chase, Clark, Rogers. Second Row Grasse, Sabiston, Wollaston, IIipp, Krickson, Perry, Penn, S. R. Kvans. Bottom Row—Holmes, Hinckley, Bruecknbr, Beck, Sommer, W. Kingsley, Cole, Huber. Omega Lambda House FRATERNITIES Signia l appa Delta Organized September 20th, 1912 Faculty Members Stanley Dean, Armour, '05 William J. Lautz, Armour, ’13 John J. Gilbert, Penn. ’06 James C. Peebles, Armour, '04 William G. Smith, Cornell, ’92 1917 John I.. Broyles Gerald T. Dougherty Ralph H. Earle Arthur G. Fitzner George M. Fritze Orren L. Hailey Omar G. O’Grady Li:Roy O. Orahood W. Russel Owen Charles R. Pomeroy Armin L. Schreiber Arnold H. Smith Wm. P. Tronvig Wm. T. Watt 1918 Herbert W. Puschel 1919 Henry B. Atherton Daniel C. Berg Roy T. Christiansen Marian E. Bacon Arthur X. Gail Christopher L. Gaul J. Almon Keith Edward J. Kilfoyle William J. McCormack Armand R. Monaco Howard S. Meusse Arthur Oien George C. Peterson William J. Savoye Wayne H. Stevens Albert T. Tiiroop 1920 Edwin E. Dodds Robert Ii.lg Alfred C. Hoven Pledges Edwin H. Arnold George F. Tough Richard M. Brennan John B. O’Connell J. M. Carey Francis P. Shea 20G Top Row—Dougherty, Smith, Pomeroy, Orahood, I'ritze, Berg. Fourth Row Siireiber, Kilfoyle, Gaue, Troxvic, Fiv nkr, Broyles. Third Row-Savoy e, Gail, Tiiroop, F.ari.e, Atherton, Howards, Watt. Second Row Me esse, McCormack, Owen, O’Grady, Hailey, Puschel. First Row Christianson, Monaco, Owien, Stevens, O’Connell, Ilg, Keith. FRATERNITIES FRATERNITIES peta Pji Founded at University of Chicago 1911 Alpha .... Beta .... Gamma Delta .... Epsilon Zeta .... Theta .... CHAPTER ROLL ’ . University of Chicago Northwestern University Armour Institute of Technology University of Illinois University of Iowa University of Michigan Rose Polytechnical Institute GAMMA CHAPTER Chartered March 1913 Faculty H. L. Nachman, Armour, ’03 Daniel Roesch, Armour, ’04 A. CoRMAN 1917 R. Bernard Kurzon Robert F. Schreiner Fred Dierstein William Finkl Volney A. Kerr Paul F. Aitchison Harold T. Huber 1918 William F. Sandroff Kenneth A. Taylor Francis B. Vogdes Leslie Weiss Louis E. Twery Lorenz W. Mattern Carl Almquist Robert T. Gasche William Mendius 1919 Chester C. Danforth Carl L. Gold Hubert G. Rehfeldt Earl Ewen James Ira Bready Ross Lowry Allen Erickson Albert H. Thompson Harry Kihlstrom Pledged Walter W. Koehler Raymond Malwitz Harry E. Curtiss Emil Vogt Albert C. Grabendike Harry T. Clausen Leonard L. Gordinier 210 Top Row—Vogdes, Mendius, Rkhfei.dt, Mattern, I'inki., Ai.mqiist, Sandroff, Kerr.Twery. Middle Row—Weiss, Siireiner, Corman, Taylor. Bottom Row- -Cold, Grabendike, Vogt, Dierstein, Maiavitz. FRATERNITIES FRATERNITIES Beta I’m House FRATERNITIES learnt) HONORARY ARCHITECTURAL Founded at the University of Illinois, 1909 Karnak Edfou .... Ipsim Boule Thebes .... TEMPLES University of Illinois Armour Institute of Technology Washington University Pennsylvania State University Earl H. Reed EDFOU TEMPLE Chartered 1915 Faculty Members W. C. Richards A. N. Dryden H. G. Ingraham 1917 P. J. McGrath K. A. McGrew H. E. Maher R. A. Chappell F. S. Cowles S. C. Hulburt 1918 H. B. MacEldowney E. F. Quinn W. C. Wright R. F. Koch R. T. Christiansen 1919 G. E. Wells E. R. Harmon 214 Top Row—Koch, Qunn, Chappel, McGrath, Christian. Second Row Wright, Maher, Ingraham, Reed, MacKldowney, McGrew. First Row—Wei.i.s, Cowles, Dryden, Harmon, Hulburt. FRATERNITIES f s a r i i n i r i ; s pfjtnx OFFICERS Harold D. Stevers President Herbert W. Puschel . Secretary-Treasurer Faculty Member Dean L. C. Monin Leonard E. Starred Members in College Harold D. Stevers A. Corman Herbert W. Puschel Lawrence A. Ring Harold H. Shotwell W. W. Wollaston Leslie Weiss 2 IS 219 Top Row—Stkvkrs, Shotweli., Wollaston, Kino, Corman. First Row—Pusciiel, Weiss. FRATERNITIES CLASS SOCIETIES L. A. King J. W. Tierney V. A. Kerr Honor “H” ocietp Two men met not so long ago in a small southern town to talk over business. After they had finished their business transaction, and were smoking cigars to- gether, the elder one noticed a small block “A” on the younger man’s watch chain. It reminded him of his Alma Mater, Armour Tech, so he asked what it signified, and found out that the younger man was also an Armour graduate. Clasping hands, they related to each other how they had won their “AV in their separate sports; the elder one in basket ball and track in 1903, and the younger man in baseball in 1914. Then the wearer of this coveted “A” told to his brother alumnus, how a club had been formed, called the Honor “A” society, in the spring of 1914, for the purpose of bettering athletics and promoting good fellowship at Armour; also to aid in bringing out material, and hence stimulating competition for places on the various teams. To get things started, a petition was submitted so the Executive Council, which approved the idea at once, and authorized the “A” men to carry out their plans as laid. At the first meeting of the athletes, a con- stitution was drawn up and officers were elected. A few of the most important articles in the constitution arc as follows: Art. 2, Sec. 1. The society is to serve as a working unit for all “A” men in the discussion of athletic questions, and (Sec. 2) to secure and preserve all records of athletic teams. Art. 3, Sec. 1. Any student of Armour Institute who has won a letter in any of the three major sports, (basketball, baseball, or track) is eligible to membership. Art. 5, Sec. 1. There shall be no regular meetings, except the annual banquet. Meetings shall be called by the President. Art. 7, Sec. 1. The emblem shall be a 14 K gold block “A,” with stars engraved as follows: a star for every letter won. (1) A letter won in baseball shall be indicated on the right side. (2) A letter won in basketball shall be indicated on the left side. (3) A letter won in track shall be indicated on each leg of the “A”. (4) Each captain shall wear a star on the cross-bar of the “A”. 221 CLASS SOCIETIES Lawrence A. King J. Tierney . V. A. Kerr . Wm. Sandroff K. A. Taylor V. A. Kerr F. J. Conway K. V. Hall H. A. Bruce O. M. Hullinger W. T. Watt L. A. King onor Societ? Honorary Members John J. Schommer Dr. H. B. Thomas Members in College President Secretary and Treasurer Statistician I. . V. Kuttnauer A. J. Sommer J. Tierney Wm. Mendius A. Sullivan S. L. Evans A. L. Schreiber S. B. I LI.I AMS Ira Bready A. F. Erickson Cfje £ ijr Bertram Robechek Class of 1917 Nathan Steindler Myron L. Summerfield William Haxkan Edward Friedman Raymond B. Anthony Class of 1918 Harry Glube Alexander S. LaZoris Class of 1919 Harry K. Wertheimer Roy N. Spitzer Class of 1920 Edward Steinberg Samuel N. Abrams Alumni Harry S. Harris Samuel E. Sosna Sidney C. Finkelstein Ben no B. Sostheim Alexander N. Grossman 226 Hop Row Newman, Friedman, Anthony, Spit .er, Steinberg. Second Row -Wertheimer, La Zoris, Robechek, Summerheld, Steindler, Glube, Hankan SUMMER CAMP SCENES Switchboard in Kncink Room When the call for Reserves of the U. S. Army was given, the Cycle staff was left without its editor-in-chief. Although a great part of the work had been completed, the responsibility of publishing the 1917 Cycle was left to the manag- ing editor. The editor wishes to express his most hearty appreciation for the effort and sacrifices of the man- aging editor, not only [in this emergency, but thruout the editing of the book. institute Calendar June 8 Thursday 1916. Entrance Examinations June 26 Monday . Summer Session Begins. August 4 Friday Summer Session Ends. September 7 Thursday Entrance Examinations. September 11 Monday . First Semester of the College Year October 2 Monday . 1916-1917 Begins; Registration Day. Evening Classes (First Term) Begin. November 30 and Dec. 1 Thursday and Friday Thanksgiving Holidays. December 8 Friday Evening Classes (First Term) End. December 11 Monday . Evening Classes (Second Term) Begin. Dee, 25, 1916, to January 6, 1917, inclusive Midwinter Recess. January 27 Saturday 1917- First Semester Ends. January 29 Monday . Second Semester Begins. February 12 Monday . Lincoln’s Birthday, a Holiday. February 22 Thursday Washington’s Birthday, a Holiday'. March 2 Friday Evening Classes (Second Term) End. March 5 Monday . Evening Classes (Third Term) Begins. April 6 Friday Good Friday, a Holiday'. May 11 Friday Evening Classes (Third Term) End. May 27 Sunday . Baccalaureate Sermon. May 31 Thursday Commencement Exercises. June 2 Saturday Second Semester Ends. June 7 Thursday Entrance Examinations June 25 Monday . Summer Session Begins. August 3 Friday Summer Session Ends. September 6 Thursday Entrance Examinations. September 10 Monday . First Semester of the College Year 1917 1918 Begins; Registration- Day. lUs embltes i|elb Burtng 1916=1917 October 12, 1916. Musical Recital given by Mr. Daniel Bcddoc, Chicago. Mr. Daniel Protheroe, Chicago. Reading given by Mr. Benjamin Scovill, Chicago. March 21, 1917. Lessons from an “Eastern Battlefield,” and illustrated archaeological lecture. Given by Dr. Gunsaulus. April 11, 1917. An assembly at which the student body was addressed by Col. Foreman, National Guard; Col. Winston, Engineers Corps, U. S. A.; Mr. Shappcrt, U. S. Navy; and our own Dean Monin. 233 IBap of tfje engineer MEN WHO DO THINGS WILL BE NEEDED By Del. Frank Grane The man of the future will be the engineer. He is the man who can do things; and is better than the man who owns things. The millionaire is a temporary, passing, makeshift product of civilization. He is merely holding things together until the people get sense enough to do their own owning. Some day little boys will read that the world once had millionaires and huge private wealth units, just as they will one day read and wonder that men once had kings. But the official who will forever be indispensable is the engineer. The time will come when the President of the United States will be chosen as the man who has the greatest talent and skill in organizing public works. There will be no more politics in his selection than there is now in choosing the master mechanic of a railway or factory. When a nation goes to war nowadays, that is, when it becomes necessary to exert its supreme collective strength, nobody dreams of electing the most popular politician or the cleverest speechmaker to lead the armies. It is the man who can get the last ounce of efficiency out of men and out of gunmctal that is wanted. Some day the nation will realize that it is continually in a crisis, and that in peace as in war we need the highest order of efficiency and organization. We need the engineer to arrange the transportation of people, and goods from place to place, without waste, without competition, without graft. We need the engineer to get meat, bread and milk from farm to citizen without the present inefficient tangle of trusts and middlemen. We need the engineer to turn the profit of public enterprise toward building good roads and bridges, instead of enriching a few shrewd manipulators. We need the engineer to manage the city as economically and smoothly as if it were a manufacturing plant. We need the engineer to organize the farmers so that all can work together for each and their products marketed without being preyed upon at every step of the way from farm to household. Wealth can be taken away from us. But the power to do things cannot be taken away. (Reprinted from Chicago “ Daily News” with permission of the Author.) 234 junior A WARNING Gentle reader, you are taking your fate, nay, your very existence, in your own hands at this moment, and far be it from us to urge you on. Yet, no matter what vve can say here, the end is inevitable—your fate is scaled. You are about to enter the mysterious and sordidly unromantic realm of that relentless ruler, I. M. Funni. Take warning, and look before you leap, remember, there is no come-back. Of course you can hunt us out tomorrow and give us heck, but the thing is here in black and white and may not be eradicated. Therefore, consider our apolcgies made. This being the case, it merely remains for us to confess that the following fifty pages (whoa, Nell, don’t get scared!) comprise the best little department of original wit to be found south of the river. If in any case you fail to sec the point, don’t lay the blame on Ye Ed, because without doubt it is due to your own mental incompatibility and the extreme density of your cranium. Having successfully digested the preceding ratiocinating dissertation, you may now proceed with our hearty commiseration. Defalcation This collection of sheer idiocy is respectfully and apologically dedicated to the funniest man at Armour. Knowing the extremes of his distempers, however, we will refrain from mentioning his name. Safety first! without doubt you know him, and if you don’t it’s, as he says, your misfotune. ©uiltp Conscience Beneath a slender cocoa palm A negro lay at ease; Beside him rose a fishing rod, A bait can ’twixt his knees. He dreamt of dear old Ireland, That country brave and free. And wished with all his heart That he were far across the sea. While thus his thoughts were roaming On that lovely Emerald Isle, He felt a tup, and woke to find He’d hooked a crocodile. The crocodile was peeved a bit, As anyone could see; The nipper soon observed this fact, And hied him up a tree. The reptile rose in boiling rape And spread his wings to fiy: This may seem strange, but really, dear, I wouldn’t tell a lie. He soared above the palm tree far. And wheeled like any hawk. Then opening his ugly throat He squeaked a wicked squawk. He shook the rattles on his tail, And sang in fiendish glee, As gracefully he swooped toward The nigger in the tree. Once more he spread his jaws apart. And gobbled down the coon, Who thought it was an awful shame That he should die so soon. As darkness closed above his head, The darky woke again, And found he’d tumbled in the creek, Which soaked him to the skin. And now in grim reality, This time ’twas no delusion, An ugly brute was just about To jump at his conclusion. He scrambled out with muffled shout. His face was almost pasty; 1 le grabbed his rod and can of bait And left with footsteps hasty. Then running to the cornfield. Where he should have been before, He swore by seven orange cats I Ic’d shirk his work no more. Moral: Don’t fish with a guilty con- science. w. c. w. HU M O R You can call a girl a vision, BUT—be careful when you refer to her as a sight. He saw her stepping from the car And up to her he sped; “M'y I not help you.to alight?” “I do not smoke,”.she said. “No,” said she, “1-1 can only be a sister to you.” “Very well,” said he. “I must be going. I had expected a different answer from you, but—well, good night!” “George,” she faltered, as he started out into the night, “George!” “What is it?” he asked, very crossly. “Aren’t you going to kiss your sister good night?” He did not go then. “Have you an opening for me?” “Yes, right behind you.” Professor Reed: “Ah what have you done on your esquisse?” Harry Maher: “Why, I don’t know, sir. Is it soiled?” Our maxim: You can lead a fool to the trough of knowledge, but you cannot make him drink. “Ah, love, I would like to listen to you all night,” said Everett, as he rose to go. Six months after they were married he stayed out fifteen minutes too long, and his desire was fully gratified. “Well, I’m going to get married next week.” What will you live on—love?” “No, we’ll live on loves father.” Said his wife to Podsnap, who staggered in at midnight, let the canary out of the cage, and hung his overcoat on the chandelier: “Ignatius, where have you been?” “I have been to the Shin-Shin-Shin--------------” “Oh, some vaudeville show.” “No, not at all, m’dear. Thash wrong. I have been to the Shin-Sh-Shin- Shin-Shimphony Or--------” “To the what?” “To the Shin-Sh-Shin-Shinnati Shimphony Orshershtra. Thash where I have been. To the Shin-Sh-Shin--------” “But where on earth did you get the stutter?” asked his wife. “Gcsh you don’t read the papersh, d’ye?” “What’s that got to do with it?” “Well, the papersh all shay that the Shi-Sh-Shinnati Shym-Slymphony Orshestra would play intoxicatin’ muschic, Ishabcllcr, an’ they did it, Ishabcller, they did it, b’gosh.” 238 HUMOR ppernonsense (With profound apologies to Claude F. Bragdon.) It becomes my painful duty, gentle (?) reader, to scribble for your edification a few lines of projected foolishness. Now, in order to derive the full pleasure from this little visit to the 600 sided super-world, it will be necessary for you to dispell from your mind, if you have one, all previous impressions; to drop, as it were, from your shoulders the cloak of unbelief. Assuming that your intellectual tablet is now a complete blank, I will endeavor to describe to you the agitation, the surprise, in fact the whole state of mind of a frankfurter, upon finding itself suddenly projected into the fourth dimension. How did it happen? Well, you will find the answer to that question in “The Accidents of A Mathematical Life,” written by ME, edited by ME, and published by—ME. To return to our frankfurt, we find that it has undergone a physical as well as a moral change due to its movement. It no longer resembles the common, or garden variety of “Hamburg in tights,” but now partakes of the nature of the Super-sausage described in my “Tales of a Tessaract,” Vol. I. If possible, imagine yourself in the position of this poor purp, sitting on one end in the midst of a group of assorted phenomena. A half turn to the left will reveal to your anxious gaze an ambiguous onion, lazily basking in the sunlight and chewing its cud. This sight alone would be sufficient to unbalance the mind of a rational person, but in your case there is no danger, so we will continue. A few hyper-squares away may be seen a group cf infuriated tessaracts, courage- ously defending their young from the attacks of a starved oyster. In matters of the heart these are truly the most ferocious beasts imaginable, so with shivers of apprehension we will turn from this awful sight. Br-r-r-r! But what is this toothsome looking object on our immediate left? It is a mag- nificent specimen of the genus citrus brownam, better known, perhaps, as a toasted orange. This seems to be a very young specimen, but nevertheless a close observer could detect a striking facial resemblance to our old friend and classmate Quinn. Our suspicions arc confirmed when the strains of “So Long Lctty” arc wafted to our ears on the breeze. A strange shadow suddenly obscures the light, and raising our eyes we behold a flock of flying oysters grazing on the hyper-planet. Their numbers are momen- tarily increasing, so that soon the scene will be in total darkness. We will therefore take one more last lingering look at the curious assembly and resign ourselves to the abysmal darkness peculiar to the mathematical night, while we await with a heavy heart the awful events which we feel certain are about to take place. If you have carefully followed this learned dissertation, it must be apparent to you that what we started out to do was really a hopeless task. Therefore we will abandon hope of unravelling the thoughts which pervade the depths of our frankfurt’s mind and leave it to its fate. Without doubt you have derived as much benefit from this article as the writer did listening to the originator of the tessaract, so we thank you for your charitable attention, and hope we have satisfied your fourth-dimensional appetite for some time to come. W. C. W. 239 HUMOR (Quatrain in Cfjrce lines Four lines arc not needed, So here’s a simple clue— We’ll ask the summer question: (Cnglisi) :3s ;% l)e 3s � pot� e Wossatchoogot Afnoonnoos. Lassdition. Enthinkinnut? Saw. Xuthninnit’cept lasspecchrosefelt’s. Lottarot. Donsayso? Wossawetherpreicshun ? Scsrain. Donblccvetho. Funthingswethcrnvbkintellwossgunnado. ’Sright. Well, slong, seeyuhseevnin. She purchased a beautiful trousseau; ’Twas hasty and foolish to dousseau. For the man she would wed Has gone clean off his head; That’s why the poor maiden boohooscau. Sheza Peach: “Jack called last evening.” I. M. Chcllis: “Huh! Don’t see how you survived. I suppose he talked about something idiotical all the time?” S. P.: “Well, yes, I believe he did mention you quite often.” Gus (calling the roll): “One.” Answer: “Here.” Gus: “Two?” Ans.: “Here.” Gus: “Three?” Etc. ’Sa fine system, saves much confusion and gives certain parties great mental training in remembering more than one number at a time. There was a young chicken named Alice Whose hands never boasted a callous; But she never could marry You, Tom, Dick, or Harry, Because she must live in a palace. 210 3u W )it ) Wt Cat When Greek meets Greek almost anything is likely to happen, but when Greek meets Roman—we have it on the assurance of the Architectural Department— good things to eat are the inevitable result. For on Saturday afternoon, December the 16th, Pericles Grammas, acting in collaboration with Armand Monaco, set before thirty-two hungry architects such a feed as would make the mouth of a 42 centimeter gun water in anticipation. Roast lamb cooked by Grammas and seven pounds of spaghetti embroidered and prepared by Monaco, were the features of the bill of fare; and in addition we had French bread, onions, cheese, coffee, cigars, and other things. Amidst the popping of corks and the pleasant wreathing smoke of thirty-two light hearted Ha vannas we listened to a brief talk from each and every one of the thirty-two who were present. That eminent toast-master, Royal A. Chappell acted in the capacity of master-of-ceremonics, while his worthy efforts were ably seconded by Harry Maher, the Irish minstrel. A rising vote of appreciation was tendered Pericles and Monnie after which we all had just one more (onion) and then we all—went—home. -SfiY'WinDY'DAY— HUMOR 3foj s of TUfe Working on the Cycle until twelve p. l, having the lights go out, discovering the door locked and no matches in your pockets; feeling around for five minutes for coat, hat, dummy, etc., then tumbling over a chair and having all to do over again; then leaving by the fire escape and having a police call raised which takes half an hour to explain. Oh, yes, ’snice. There was a young lady named Peg, Who said “Food I must borrow or beg, “ For I surely will die Without beefsteak or pie; It’s a year since I’ve eaten an egg.” tarings of 12MI noton Srcfjitccts It’s a Hoopy Dooper. He shakes a wicked foot. I’m in bad sape. Sould say so. Well, goldarn! I’ve got the Red. Over at the CLUB— Well, by gol, get that mug outa here! Oh, shay, shimply shacrcligioush. Horse on you, Glubc. I’m graduated. He’s got a breath like the back of a hack. Let’s go see a burlap show. Good thing you had your mouth open. Hello, Jawk! We’ll all chip in, and you skip over to Henry’s. Oh, zee leetlc Walrus! And while we’re on the subject: The love of some women is most touching. “I see your new butler is most careful of the wine.” “Yes, he carries it around with him most of the time. 242 HUMOR jHatfjematical jUteinterpretatton of iflatrimonp The author of this article wishes to set before his fellow students and their friends the results of an astonishing discovery that it has been his privilege to make. This discovery has been the means of unravelling, to some extent, a mystery which has been delved into from time immemorial by millions upon millions of men in all walks of life. Rich and poor, great and small, Christian and Heathen, wise and otherwise, have all pondered upon the hidden secrets of this great conn un- drum, yet none, until now, has been able to perceive anything beneath the super- ficial with regard to it. The mystery referred to is, as you may have guessed, matrimony. The question now presents itself to you, no doubt, “How can one of his tender years and little experience know so much of such a subject?’' Truly, I cannot speak from experience, and my observations have been limited to those incident to living with a married couple for the greater part of thirty years. Yet thirty years is far too short a time to learn anything definite about matrimony even if spent in the married state. However, the seemingly impossible has been accomplished. I do not wish to appear to brag about my discovery, because I have come upon it all too easily. Scientists have given their lives for far less than this. Few have been so favored as I. Even Isaac Newton, who discovered the law of gravitation, was permitted to do so only after he had suffered the pain of being hit upon the head by a falling apple. It really docs not seem fair that I should have been permitted to discover anything concerning matrimony without having been exposed to it. The discovery has been revealed to me by the application of Mathematics to the problem. You arc all well aware of what it means to apply Mathematics to a problem. Ii means that the conclusions at which you arrive are incontestible. Mathematics is an exact science, and figures do not lie. Your attention is respectfully called to the more or less well known proposition that, under certain considerations, two arc equal to one. Let X = A Multiply by A AX=A2 Subtract X2 from each side AX — X = A- — X Factor X(A — X) = (A+X) (A-X) Divide by A —X X = A+X Now let us take a man, and denote him by “A,” and a woman, and denote her by “X,” and let us “join them mathematically,” by the foregoing reasoning. The application is a perfectly rational one, because when a man and woman allow themselves to be joined in matrimony, they believe that they arc absolutely equal, and therefore X = A is correct. Of course the man tells the woman that she is away above him, and he is not worthy of her, etc., but he never means a word of it; if he did, he would be afraid to marry her for fear she would leave him at the first opportunity; and if the woman really thought that she was greater than the man, she would be reasonable about it. Now, it is demonstrated above that if X and 243 HUMOR A separately are equal to each other, X and A added or joined together arc equiva- lent to X alone. But it is very easy to sec that X and A together cannot be equal to X unless A is equal to zero. The complete analogy to matrimony is now evident. When a man and woman arc joined together in holy matrimony, the two are made one, and it is always the man that becomes insignificant; and any honest married professor of Mathematics will tell you that tins is true. The only way a man can get the best of his wife is by beating her, and if he beats her he is nothing anyway. But this is not the significance of the analogy. In the mathematical demonstration above, in order to obtain X = A-f X both sides of an equation were divided by A —X. But if X = A, dividing by A —X is the same as dividing by zero. It is to be remembered that a definite answer cannot be obtained by dividing anything by zero, and for this reason the demonstration is not a rigorous one. A-f X is equal to X only on condition that it is agreed that the equation can be divided by zero, or that the equation can be “divided by nothing.” And thereby is a great secret divulged. You know that there is in the marriage ceremony a phrase: “What God has joined together let no man put asunder,” and now, with the aid of mathematics, we are able to see why this phrase was introduced. It was meant to convey the idea to the man and woman that “nothing can divide them.” And they live happily ever afterward, she running things, and he perfectly content with his insignificance as long as he agrees that “nothing can divide them.” Editor’s note: We feel that the Armour Institute of Technology ought to be here publicly absolved from all blame for putting such nonsense into anyone’s head. The Institute evidently has, however, failed to deter the feeble mind that conceived this rot from its course toward premature decrepitude. 211 HUMOR The crop of Freshmen was even more verdant than usual this year. Severa 1 have been observed who catch cold if their finger nails are trimmed too close. Pa: “Had a note from your teacher today. Willie.” Willie: “That’s all right, Pa; I’ll keep it dark.” Harry M— came in quite early the other morning, and, failing to find his cus- tomary egg in the cuckoo clock, entered into a violent quarrel with the hat rack. His wife called downstairs, “What’s the matter, Harry?” “I’D teach them goldfish to snap at me!” was his reply. There was a young hunter of geese. Who was caught by the city police; They put him in jail Without any bail, And charged him with breaking the peace. However, he got out through his friend Hinky Dink, and is now a successful insulting engineer on Clark St. Everett went into Schulte’s the other day to get a cigar, and some boob stepped on his fingers. At the Atelier Initiation: Q.: “Is there any ice here?” A.: “No, we don’t serve hard drinks.” A well known doctor prescribed a dozen blotters for a patient who had swallowed a bottle of ink by accident. Absorbing case, wasn’t it? Junior Arch.: “There is hardly any antesis on that column.” Frosb.: “Oh! Uh-huh, thought there was sumpin wrong wif it.” Peg: “Molly told me that you told her that secret I told you not to tell her.” Kitty: “Oh, isn’t she the mean thing? Why, I told her not to tell you I told her.”’ Peg: “Well, I told her I wouldn't tell you, so don’t tell her 1 did.” He's a close friend of yours, isn't he? I should say he is. He won’t even lend me ten bucks. “Come in and have something. Humps.” “No, thank you. I had a drink not six months ago.” 215 HUMOR Chemical Snspcctton UTrtp WVvc seen them make H-X-Q three, W e’ve seen the white lead industry, We’ve seen them making Paris green, We’ve seen them crank for gasoline, We saw the stills for glycerine, We saw the naphthalene. We’ve seen and smelt boiling dope— Crunching and graining to give us soap We’ve been out north where bricks are made, We think we know the foundry trade, We’ve seen them turn out rails and bars, Shrinking tires for wheels of cars, We’ve seen them blow converters {or steel, Could tell wrought iron by look or feel, We’ve seen both open-hearth and blast, Iron in pigs and iron that’s cast, We’ve seen them diffusing beets for the sweets, Making cements and reenforcing concretes We’ve seen them steeping iron by the tons, Then watch the stuff pass over the runs. The finish starch was white and fine, Fit for our meals or the wash on the line, We’ve seen them desilverising some lead, Cupolling the button until it was “dead.” We’ve seen producers of “juice” and gas, Steam power plants that were certainly class, Hut all of the wonders mentioned before, Are nothing compared to what was in store When the “Chemicals” went to the home of the brew With Long John Schommcr and the rest of the crew— Schoehoefen’s the place—or if your not wise The home of the beverage called Edelweiss, The sight of the kettles was tame— We expected all these before we came, The room full of hops was a heavenly spot, It was “raining ’’beer, where it cooled from the pot, 'flic bottling and labeling was a wonderful sight, As mechanically right as science could bring, 2-16 HUMOR The end of the tour was the acme of all, Call it beer garden or dining hall. We sampled the brew and found it 0. K. So they refilled our glasses with little to say, Sandwitches of ham and egg and cheese, Quartered dill pickels—as much as you please, Then came cigars of aroma rare— Some took then “home,” some smoked them there, Enough to say this trip was the best, Will long be remembered by me and the rest. Ha xkan, ’17. THE CHEERFUL CHERUB I cwrvt cultured— dty by diy I plod through targe deep books unmoved b hy is it when I jo bigh riy mind just tates to be unproved? f erre '! f. ) FRESHMEN ? Cfje “j Qtes” (Apologies to R-y-d k-l-g.) “’Oo is it makes that bloomin’ noise?” Asked Files-on-parade. “It’s counsel’s openin’ argument,” The color sergeant said. “’Oo ’as to ’ear the bloomin’ stuff?” Asked Files-on-parade. “The chief and his two hired men.” The color sergeant said. “For he doesn’t know his law, he misrepresents the facts; His reason is so faulty you can sec through all the cracks. And he’s pretty sure to get it where the chicken got the axe, When the court pronounces sentence in the morning.” 247 HUMOR Japanese JBop—Jfurnace ®afeer=Care= 0f One cold daytimes are Mon. Jap-boy much dishcouragcd by unpresence of anything in pocket of pants. I fearing hon. fat Irishwoman landlady elevating tip stairs, I arise up quickly and exit out window in fast rush. Hon. tirc-cxcape are nice furniture on house-wall, so Jap-bov arc unablcd to slowly mingle through alley with great speed. I then scramble gracefully down street to find some lost jobs. Success, moreover, arc absent. “ Do no-one want to amployment me?” I ask myself. But there are no answer, so hurrying slowly past news- boy paper-stand without boy, I grab paper and leave soon. I quickly turn to male-men-wantcd-for-hclp page, which are soon overlooked. Many jobs arc there for button-sewer-ons in factorys, and firemen etc. and so forth, but I am disgust. None arc for m . But sudden I sec a sign on nearby fashionable barn:— “Man wanted to take care of furnace.1’ Furnace are new thing to Hon. Jap boy, but for several reasons all of which arc the same, I put down curiousness and ring bell. Thinnish highbrow-looking butler open Hon. door, and I yollcr softly:— “Please to enquire, where the furnaccman jobs to get.” He sniggle “Ha, ha,” in my face, but I fail to sec wits, having only last Sunday liver in stomach Please to beg pardon,” I haggle, “Where arc Hon. Missus?” He then take me to her with much impolishness, and I ax her for job in serious haste. “Arc you experience?” she arbitrate. “Sure I renig in American,” if pay arc attached to job.” 'Well,” she snips, “Jimcs, shorn his jootics,” and hang her double-cyc-glass-with-handle on shoulder, of kimona. Hon. butler escape me carefully down back stairs, landing me on end of tail among many ashes. “Firstly, please to sift these ashes,” inform fishfacc-with-hairbunch-on-end-of-chcek.” Then put draft on for an hour, after which remove off and place on check.” This are all strange news to poor Jap-boy, but I snaggle back, “All right, Jimes. “This do not seem to please Hon. Butler, but he retreats away, and I arc ‘left alone with me. So, quickly starting fast business of ashes-sifting I make much dust in place. “Hcah, hcah!” soon yollah missus down. “Go to alley for sifting ashes idjit. 1 must go to alley, where soon ashes are all sifted. Then I remind myself of draft, so 1 open back door and stand for some whiles in shiv. All at once Hon. missus jump down, almost knocking me nearly one-half-way over with scare, and snarl:— “Say, darn-fool Jap! You freeze my both feet off with cold! For why are door open?” “Hon. Jimes have told me to put on draft,” I renig, but she know almost nothing, and BANG! goes door. Next I assure to put on check, so ascending up stairs I take smallest check in desk of Hon misses and presume to put it on fire. She arc still standing near beside me, and while reading “853-40” she fall inconscious, and hollah, “Jimes, help! Help!” Jimes are already there, moreover, and next thing poor Jap-boy finds himself all outside in graceful bunch around alley. “ Are that house some of Dunning,” I quest, but no one arc there to hear, so Hon. Jap-boy arc once more out of job with no pay. Hoping you are the same, I remain Noci Hito per W. C. W.. ’i 8. (With much apologies to Hashmura 'logo.) 24 s HUMOR Prof Doubt: “What did Carnot do?” Student: “He was the first editor of the Cycle.” There was a young man from Armour Who origin’lly was a farmour A card full of E’s Made him weak in the knees So he went and jumped in the harbour. A package containing Erickson’s drawings was turned in at the Dean’s office with the following note: Found on the “L” platform by another Swede. Someone: “What’s 0 in this formula?” Hullingcr: “I don’t know; it’s all Greek to me. W. G.: “Stop snoring, Friedman, you’ll wake Weston.” Logic Prof. Wilcox: “The fact that a man has a boil on his neck does not prove that he is full of puss. Klever Kid: “Yea.” W. G. S.: “There will be no class tomorrow' on account of Birthington’s Wash-day, so Friday I’ll give a quiz on steel, and bronze, and those other doggone things.” Prof.: “Derive the formula for HP in Watts.” Bright Student: “'Fake the year Columbus discovered American and divide by two.” Rosenberg: “ Can you imagine a fellow who takes five years to go thru school ?” Rusk: “Well, I’m not thru yet.” 249 HUMOR VLi)e £3cfecttbc I finished my last chapter of Gullible’s Travels and closed the book with a bang, which seemed to startle Ohms, who was un- . usually nervous this evening. He had not said a word in all the time 1 had been back from supper: merely smoked his pipe which had by now quite filled the room with smoke. “Come, my dear fellow!” I implored. “What has come over you this night, that you arc so sober?” “The saloons are closed to- day,” he replied. “You do not get my drift—I mean why the gloom? You sit there like your grandsire cut in alabaster.” “On the other hand, Hotsun, I am quite active, although my movements, I will confess, would not portray that fact. While you were out to supper I had a visitor, a professor of mathematics from Armour Institute, who has brought to me, I will admit, a most perplexing problem.” “A problem in mathematics? I queried. “I was very good in that study in college.” “Wrong again,” Ohms answered in his decisive manner; however, it has to do with a problem in Calculus. It seems that two quiz papers which our client was marking bear a striking resemblance to each other. “And what are your clews?” I asked. “I have several in the rough, but one which stands out most foremost you will soon know as I hear my client now on the walk below.” The bell rang and Ohms went to the door. “Come in,” he said briefly. A tall middle aged man entered, carrying what I first thought to be a cane, but what turned out to be a very fine new mashic. “I see you are a devotee of gojf,” ventured Ohms. “How could you have guessed it?” quizzed our surprised client. “Wonderful!” I wonderfulled. “Trim me at golf and you pass the course,” I tell my students,” he said further, “but the quiz papers. Have you any deductions?” “I have one question to ask,” replied Ohms. “How far from each other did these fellows sit?” “They sat next to each other, sir.” “As I thought. The rest is simple. My good man, these fellows copied.” “Impossible,” I impossibled. “I never thought of that,” said our client, much pleased at the wonderful deduction. “That is all I want to know. Now, what will be your fees?” “A new Colonel 31.” 250 Remember this— will give better service, last longer and help you more in your studies than any other writing implement. It is an economy. Waterman service extends everywhere. Prices: $2.50 upwards. Sold at the Best Local Stores L. E. Waterman Company, 191 Broadway, New York Tho largest assembly ever photographed. Yale-Harvard Football Game One Good Turn Deserves Another We take this opportunity to thank our advertisers for their patronage and co-operation; they are worthy firms and the students should avail themselves of every opportu- nity to bring them business. HUMOR ittetallurgp An orator is silver tongued or golden, mouthed. An explorer is bronzed by African suns. A resolute chap is iron willed. A. sluggard moves with leaden feet. An ostrich has a copper lined stomach. A millionaire has tin. A swindler is as slippery as quicksilver. A borrower has brass. IParlSabits I remember, I remember, The house where I was shorn; The hallowed place where little lambs Came peeping in at morn. The playful bears and friendly bulls Who wisely counseled me, And where I bought at eightv-eight And sold at twenty-three. ?Dantet) A direct reading instrument for measuring the logarithmic decrement and wave- length of electromagnetic waves. Cowles: “I had the unanimous decision of the judges on my poster.” Thomsen: Is that so? That’s good. Did anyone else compete?” Visitor: Oh, is this the Cycle Room? It looks more like a cyclone room.” Student: Would you please inform me as to nature of soap bark?” Professor Freud: Why yes. It’s the bark off a soap tree. I thought they weren’t going to get married until autumn?” Yes, but they changed their minds. You see, they heard of a servant who was out of a place, and they wanted to secure her.” Cowles has an awful time with his new car, doesn’t he?” Yes, every time he repairs it lie has a lot of parts left over that he can’t find a place for.” 252 John Cheshire C. Shotwell Cheshire C Shotwell REAL ESTATE RENTING LOANS and INSURANCE 4304 COTTAGE GROVE AVENUE CHICAGO Telephone Oakland 1088 Paul Willis, President J. A. Jacques, Genl. Supt. A. J. T. Bennett, Secy, and Engr. W. W. Seymour, Chief Engineer KENWOOD BRIDGE COMPANY ENGINEERS AND BUILDERS OF STEEL STRUCTURES OFFICE WORKS 1410 First Natl. Bank Bldg. Grand Crossing, Illinois Telephone Randolph 1488 Telephone Hyde Park 1748 CHICAGO William A. Magie Telephones Frank 0. Magie President MAIN 1074 and 1075 Treasurer AUTOMATIC 53-216 MAGIE BROTHERS CYLINDER, ENGINE AND DYNAMO Cup Greases, Boiler '’ 'VT'T CJ 110-112 Scuth Clinton Compound V 1 1 vkj Street Cotton Waste CHICAGO 253 HUMOR £edj locals Many of the boys arc taking advantage of these fine spring evenings and have been seen strolling on the campus with sopic of our more popular co-eds. The Junior Class were the guest? of Dean Monin last Wednesday. He gave a very enjoyable talk on Economics and the cfass as a whole felt much refreshed for going. Bruce allowed he could hit the horsehidc at a .400 clip the other day as he saw a load of empty barrels going down 33d St. Many improvements arc under way at the institute. The latest addition is a fine new fire escape, thanks to the F. P. E. department. We arc glad to sec that Vogdes is attending all his classes again. He was quite negligent for a time and it was feared by some that he would have Dr. Schcrgcr after him for unexcuscd absences. Wm. Eagle is spending much of his spare time in the library reading German chemistry. We don’t know whether he knows what he’s doing, but he puts up a durn good bluff if he doesn’t. There is a rumor about school that Shotwell called on a young lady last Friday evening. The rumor has not been confirmed at the present writing, however. Of all sad words Of tongue or pen, The sadest are these: “I’ve flunked again.” Gettlc sprig is odd the way Gettle sprig is cubbing; The birds are sigging blithe add gay Add by dose is rudding. 2 ta Jones Laughlin Steel Co. CHICAGO, ILL. Complete Stock of various steel products in warehouse. Immediate Shipment Main 2207 Printing DANCE PROGRAMS FRATERNITY PRINTING HPHE BEST of the Class Dance Programs and A Fraternity Printing came from our plant. Get our bid on your printing. TELEPHONE NEWCASTLE 371 Bajniirn triirra JJrrsH Representative: H. D. STEVERS 6804 Hurlbut S., CHICAGO Dietzgen Measuring Tapes WILL ENABLE YOU to take measure- ments accurately and quickly. Graduated to U. S. Standard. Simplified reading — see cut — gives reading at a glance—saves delay—mistakes. Division lines on top of ribbons — convenient to see. Cases substantially made — insuring service. EUGENE DIETZGEN CO., Manufacturers Drawing Materials - Surveying Instruments • Measuring Tapes Chirico New York San Francisco New Orleans Pittsburgh Philadelphia Watch for the First Issue of the Armour Engineer HUMOR GTlje Golfer’s; defeat ('Io be sung to the tunc of “She’s the Lass for me,” with pathos.) ’Twas on a Saturday afternoon. The sun was shinin’ bright, That I went out to Jackson Park 'lo defend my golfing right; And there 1 met the faculty, All three of them were there, We teed our pills on number one, And forward all did fare. Right down the fairgreen. strange but true, We all made wondrous drives, And keeping up this deadly pace We halved the first in fives. Then teeing up with courage high I slammed it with a will, But though 1 scored a bogey five I sigh’s four was lower still. So on the third, my joncr hole, We started full of hope, But soon I sliced into the pit And scored the same old dope. Now rallying with desperate swing I drove up to the hill, And copped the hole with bogey four. While Leigh was searching still. I guess this must have been for me The pride before a fall, For right away I sliced into The bush, and lost my ball. Right then and there I started on A slow but sure decline; In fact he had me just four down At the end of number nine. I pulled a bogey on the next. But Leigh shot “birdie” three; Then both of us crossed the water hole As neatly as could be. On number twelve, as oft before, My prospects shrank once more. With this he had me dormic six, And thirteen loomed before. Although thirteen had often been My lucky one before, It took me all my time that day, 'Fo halve it with a four. So there I stood, defeated, Six up and five to play, And I had neither seen nor smelt My handicap that day. w. c. w. 25 fi Wm. L. Koehne OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER FOR THE 1917 CYCLE Particular attention given to Armour Institute Students and families The Koehne Studio Mo n ro e B u ildin g 104 South Michigan Avenue Opposite The University Club HUMOR Witfj tfje Cljtss papers By Ring W. Lardncr of the Chicago Tribune The feature chess meet of the week was that held between Princeton University and the Armour Institute Tuesday night. Princeton was represented by A. Scckel and we bore the colors of Armour, whatever they are. The game was an even thing for the first hour, not even a pawn being bumped off. During the second hour there was wholesale slaughter, which left us with five pawns, a knight and a bishop, and our opponent with a rook and five pawns, one of which had a clear field for a touch down which would have meant a reinstated queen and probable victory for the orange and black. But you know Princeton; you remember what happened in this year’s Yale game. A Yale man kicked off and the Princeton quarter back allowed the ball to fall undisturbed to Mother Karth while he pondered what play' to call on the first scrimmage, serene in the belief, that as Yale was on the offside, the oval pigskin would remain where it was until he chose to pick it up. A Yale man, however, had doubts about the blues being on the offside. So he brazenly raced down and clutched the ball to his bosom, Strangely enough, the referee agreed that he had a right to do that thing, and a very few moments later, Yale was kicking, or missing, a goal from touchdown. Well, in this here chess game, in the last period of play, Princeton left its remaining rook unguarded in the very path of an Armour bishop, and the first thing rou know, Mr. Rook got the hook. 'I'he standing of the team is now: Armour: Won one; lost none. Princeton: Won none; lost one. And it will be a beautiful night in January before Armour agrees to a return match. We agree with the Germans- -The time to quit, etc. An Irishman had secured a job loading freight, and was on his last trip, with a three-hundred pound anvil under each arm. W hen he was half way across the gang-plank, it broke and he fell in. With great splashing he came to the surface. “T’row me a rope!” he shouted, and again sank. A second time he rose. “T’row me a rope, I say!” he shouted again. Once more he sank, and once more rose struggling to the surface. “Say”, lie shouted, angrily, “if one o’ you shpalpeens don’t t’row me a rope, I’m goin’ to drop one o’ these dom tings!” 2.V West Michigan Steel Foundry Company MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN Manufacturers of High Grade Steel Castings Office and Works West Western Ave. Dockstader Sc Sandberg REPUBLIC BUILDING CHICAGO Catering Especially to the Clothing Requisites of College Men Suits, Top-coats, Evening Clothes as low as $25.00 E. R. MOORE COMPANY MAKERS OF ORIGINATORS OF Collegiate Caps, Gowns and Hoods Moore’s Official High School Cap and Gown JUDICIAL, CLERICAL, BAPTISMAL AND CHOIR GOWNS RENTING OF CAPS AND GOWNS TO GRADUATING CLASSES A SPECIALTY 932 TO 938 DAKIN STREET CHICAGO HUMOR dk Spinal Column Wanted, the acquaintance of a young lady working in a spaghetti factory. Object—Macaroni. German soldier after having both legs shot off laid down his arms. Thirty Turkish Mosque’s have been burned. Holy smokes. General Nuisance had his left side shot off; after being in the hospital six months it is reported he is all right. A British captain after being sent home with both legs and arms shot off was told by his wife to take his trunk and go. Cross-eyed man was arrested in Paris as a spy. He was neutral, but looked crooked. It is reported that the Irish have taken Green River. At least once a day every man in the U. S. eat Navy beans. How do you measure flux? Count the lines of force. Arch tects Problem Design of a six story bungalc. Goof No. i: “Why did you get a black triangle?” Goof No. 2: It does not show the dirt.” Goof No. 1: “Oh, I thought you liked the licorice flavor.” He: “What did you give me that dirty look for?” She: “You’ve got a dirty look, but I didn’t give it to you.” Is it, or is it not, a delightful, delicious sensation, When: Mechanics prob- lems arc not done for your 11130 class and a lecture is announced for 10:30? You’re handing in your last Physics experiment—and Prof. Doubt hands you back eight unaccepted ones? You buy a plate dinner for twenty cents at the beanery, you get to your table and then see what you bought for a meal? Mr. Kelly calls you to the Dean’s ofhce and Dean Monin only wants your program card? They call out the names of those who get valentines; and you don’t get any— till the next hour? You think you’ve made 95 in a quiz, and you have? You can tell someone who doesn’t know, “Oh, that jane? That’s Elinor.” You’ve forgotten to draw curves, the experiment is accepted? You are trying to study in electric lab., and Watt, Rosenberg, Benjamin, Stryker, Smith, Zimmerman, Kupshas, Given, etc., start to argue about a circle diagram? You say “Hello” to someone in the library, and don’t get caught? You ask her for a kiss. She says, “No,” and you have to take it? You see them polishing the name plates on the fence of OGDEN field? You are in a crowd, mostly girls and you look down and find you’ve left a button open—on your shoe? She asks you to fasten on her skates? You show some Prof, his mistake—and he shows you it is’nt one? 200 Continental and Commercial National Bank of Chicago CAPITAL, SURPLUS AND PROFITS $34,000,000 Officers Arthur Reynolds Ralph Van Vcchtcn - - Alex. Robertson - - - Herman Waldeck - - - John C. Craft - - - - - James R. Chapman - - - William T. Bruckner - - John R. Washburn - - - Nathaniel R. Losch - - - George M. Rc Vice-President Vice-President Vice-President Vice-President Vice-President Vice-President Vice-President Vice-President - - Cashier y no Ids, President Harvey C. Vernon George B. .Smith - - Wilber Hattery - - II. Erskine Smith Wilson W. Lampert Dan Norman - - - George A. Jackson John F. Craddock Joseph McCurrach Reuben G. Danielson Assistant Cashier Assistant Cashier - Assistant Cashier Assistant Cashier Assistant Cashier Assistant Cashier - Assistant Cashier Mgr. Credit Dept. Mgr. Foreign Dept. Mgr. Transit Dept. Continental and Commercial Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago CAPITAL, SURPLUS AND PROFITS $5,000,000 Officers John Jay Abbott Arthur Reynolds Charles C. Willson Frank H. Jones George M. Reynolds, President Vice-President William P. Kopf - Vice-President Henry C. Olcott - - Cashier Robert J. Hercock Secretary Albert S. Martin Assistant Secretary Mgr. Bond Dept. - Assistant Cashier Assistant Cashier The Hibernian Banking Association CAPITAL, SURPLUS AND PROFITS $3,000,000 David R. Lewis - Henry B. Clarke - Ixniis 13. Clarke - Frederic S. Hebard Officers George M. Reynolds, President Vice-President Everett R. McFadden Vice-President John P. V. Murphy - Vice-President George Allan - - - - - Cashier Thomas E. McGrath - - - Secretary Mgr. Sav. Dept. Assistant Cashier Assistant Cashier The Capital Stock of the Continental and Commercial Trust and Savings Bank ($3,000,000.00) and the Capital Stock of the Hibernian Banking Association ($2,000,000.00) sire owned by the stockholders of the Continental and Commercial National Bank of Chicago. junior Hardup, Accident and Indemn.ty Company. INDEMN.TY. Section 8: (a) If the insured shall suffer from any one of the following sicknesses con- tracted during the term of this policy, viz: Typhoid Fever, Typhus Fever, Pneu- monia, Pleurisy, Diphtheria, Diabetes, Appendicitis, Scarlet Fever, Small Pox, Peritonitis, Varioloid, Typhlitis, Erysipelas, Measles, Hepatitis, Brain Fever, Asiatic Cholera, Acute Cerebral Meningitis, Angnia Pectoris, Cancer, Carbuncle Cerebral Apoplexy, Chicken Pox, Calculus---------------. We might say right here to the Freshman that since this disease must be suffered for two years that it might be well to hold a Hardup policy Xot An Adv. Knix: “Judging from Dean Monin’s lecture this morning, he doesn’t like to see us smoke cigarettes.” Blix: “Yes. Gee. I wonder what he’d say if he knew I took Spanish just so I could read the inscriptions on cigar boxes.” See “Harry and Shorty” on “Preparedness” That long lean guy is H. B. Maguire, He’s one of that bunch that protectcth fires, He was humor Ed and champ golf player, And made Tech Xite a successful affair. ■HLIMW ifeljop I really shouldn’t take the time To write this nutty stuff; I cannot move, I cannot look But what I see enough To keep me busy forty days And forty nights as well, Writing reports and studying: lire long I must “mach schnell”. But since they’ve wished the job on me— It’s wrong, I say, all wrong— Old Satan I command of thee Behind! and push me along. Schommer’s Advice to a Ball player—(Censored) iiotitf!!!? All alumni of the Armour Destitute of Knowledge are invited with untion to attend a meeting of the Aluminum Association to be held on February 30th, 1976, at 33rd. an de tracks; the following spcclers will be there if they come- R. U. Silly, I. M. Dcd, Scppul Kerr. Ann Teek, Ima Gufe, Ura Phule, Sheza Lcmmun, Iona Ford, and Kismcgood Knight. Visitors are expected to bring their own programs and peanuts. I?otrl -Rules To prevent guests from carrying fruit from the table, there will be no fruit. If you become hungry during the night, take a roll in bed. Feeble old gentlemen should not be found playing in the halls. Biscuits found riveted together can be opened by a chisel furnished by the waiter. If you have a nightmare and find the bed to be a little buggy, hitch the marc to the buggy and drive off. Those dining cars are where everyone should eat, especially if one is dieting. I went into one last year, being able to do so as the school played the liabilities incurred for the same, it being a baseball trip. The waiter, an Ethiopian gentleman, brought me a list of casualties of some of the victuals which wandered too near the car. My first selection, strangely, was a dish of soup, surnamed tomato, which was brought to me in the course of a few miles. I immediately investigated it, and was much chagrined to find that tomato was not a coefficient of this soup equation, and protested the use of submarines in soup-fare to the waiter. He consoled me by explaining that I could not expect to find cottages in cottage cheese, or porters in a porter house steak. He brought my steak in next and at first I thought it was a crack in the plate. It was so tough I couldn’t stick a fork in the gravy so I told him to take it back and bring me some spaghetti or some- thing I could eat. He said he couldn’t do that as I had bent it all up. When he poured my coffee he said, “It looks like rain.” “Yes,” I replied, “but it has a faint odor of coffee.” 26� 7 7 cat Atzz- S ' - £ ? 1 . • ■ i-- HUMOR tulip’s But 7 S[Zl s +JT- J' - ss S’Sf xr -7P IA Learn What the Armour Oval Label Means to You V ■ SUPPOSE you could have the best from the orchards, fisheries, dairies and farms of all America brought to you. How sure you would be of choosing the best! Yet, this is what the Armour Oval iMbeloffers—the l e«t foods from everywhere- delivered in packages — perfect in condition — just as ij you lived alongside the far ml What you buy under this Label is always top grade, for the Oval Libel is unique among trade-marks in that it is also a grade- mark — reserved exclusively to identify the BEST. Under it Armour’s highest grade of each product may be bought from dealers, no matter where you live. Look for the Armour Oval on dealers’ store fronts, and on packages on their shelves. It identifies Star Stockinet Ham, Star Bacon, ‘‘Simon Pure” Leaf Lard, fc-u'Je-sf Package Foods, Clover- bloom Butter, Grape Juice and Armour’s Oleomargarine—Glendale (natural color), Silver Churn (white) —and many others. ARMOUR COMPANY 1076 CHICAGO r HUMOR Etje unt The snow has gone and the hunt is on! But not with falcon or hound; Its not a chase o’er valley and dale Urged on by trumpet’s sound. The scene is not some country club Or hunting reservation, Tis thirty-third street, “by dc tracks,” Where haps this grand occasion. The pri .c is not some frightened hare, Or type of water-bird; It's just a pipe—a plain gas pipe! Which went to rest unheard. It seems that every fall ’o the year (To the past four I can swear), They bury a pipe on thirty-third From the tracks to the thoroughfare. But after a summer of idle play, (Or maybe in Physics lab), When we get back to the Tech in the fall The P. G. has had it’s confab. And so with the fall at hand again. Once more they mince the way, Laying this time five new pipes, For the hunt the following May. And so goes on this hide-and-seek, This annual hunting affair; Here’s hoping this hunt will be the last— But there’s really no hope there. H. x ran ’17—No apologus 206 Our New Booklet entitled Push Button Mag- ic will be mailed to you at your request. A TOUCH of the button in the mod- 1 ern home, and a room is flooded with soft, mellow light, an electric appliance is made to operate, a floor or table lamp is lighted—this is all resultant of the wonderful advances made in electrical conveniences for the home. Your home, although it is wired, may not be equip- ped with many of the new electrical conveniences that promote comfort and happiness. A visit to our Elec- tric Shops will acquaint you with numerous electrical housewiring supplies that you would be glad to have in your home. We carry an extensive line of electrical accessories for your automobile. COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY ELECTRIC SHOP, 72 West Adams Street ELECTRIC' SHOP, Jackson and Michigan Boulevards AUSTIN. 5646 West Lake St. BRANCH STORES; BROADWAY. 4523 Broadway i LOG AX SQUARE, 3127 Ix gan Blvd. ISOUTH CHICAGO, 9163 South Chicago Ave. CHICAGO Recognized Specialists Johnson Bronze Bushings as bushings that arc bettor—bushings made in a plant specially built and equipped for the produc- tion of bushings and bearings for every type of machine from a toy motor to a huge rolling mill. Quantity production by an organization of bushing specialists in a special plant enables us to quote the right price to you. Send specifications to Dept. Y. C- JOH. “Bushing Specialists Works and General Offices NEWCASTLE. PA. c. i Cc npirrrpc ) N, w York Cilv- Buffa,°- Cleveland. Detroit Cincinnati, Chicago. San I-rancisco Recognize 267 1 j HUMOR Some day, perhaps, you may read that Hall and Conway arc acting serious Prochazka has nothing to sell. King is not attending to business. Wignall got a string of A’s. Rusk is wrestling champion. Sabiston is singing in Grand Opera. Petzing got a hair cut. Greenspahn stops talking. Yogdes says, “I don’t know.” Hotgren isn’t going down town. Hupp goes to school. Evans loses his “pep.” Scheuer stops grinning. Bruce is an engineer. Mann grows a mustache. Mac Stone lassoes the bull instead of shooting it Somebody reads the “Engineer.” Wollaston is optimistic. Stryker isn’t talking electricity. Ingraham isn’t imitating someone. Kleinman flunked. Earle forgot to be serious. Marx hasn’t a good story. Deacon Cable dedicates his new church. Weiss is still collecting dollars for this Cycle. Shotwell isn't on a social committee. “Push” isn’t chasing into the Deans’ office. BUT IT WONT BE FOR SOME TIME YET, OLD PA I . Johnny was told to use the word “notwithstanding” in a sentence. He said, “My father wore the seat out of his trousers, but not with stand- ing. ” 20S KOI A few of the many College and School Annuals printed by ROGERS PRINTING COMPANY 2Q South La Salle Street C III C AGO 118 East First Stree' DIXON, ILL -BHf HUMOR € bb?enen? Woodshop, Instructor: Didn’t I tell you to notice when the glue boiled over? Studc: Yes sir; it was twenty minutes past nine. Translating Latin: “Haec in Gallium est importanus.” “Hike into Gaul; it’s important.” “How old is that lamp?” “Two years.” “Turn it down; it’s too young to smoke.” When she wasn’t looking, I kissed her. What did she do? Refused to look at me the rest of the evening. S. S. Teacher: Now Johnny, why do we put a penny on the plate each Sunday? ’Cause there ain’t nothin’ smaller. We liken Prof. Wilcox’s examinations to counterfeit money as they are so hard to pass. “Have any of you fellows got a match?” Dead silence. “Well I presume then I’ll have to use one of my own.” An Irishman who had been bitten by a parrot went into a drug store to get his finger dressed. Druggist: “What bit you?” Pat: “Indade it was a quarc bird. It looked to me just like a Haybrew duck.” How dare you swear before me? How did I know you wanted to swear first? Generally speaking women arc— Yes they are. Are what? Generally speaking. In a restaurant: My cocoa’s cold. Waiter: Put on your hat. Studc: “I am indebted to you for all I know.” Prof.: “Don’t mention it; it is but a mere trifle.” She: And would you put yourself out for my sake? He: Yes. She: Well, please do it then: I’m awfully sleepy. 270 ■ ■ I FULL DRESS SUITS TO RENT also the latest styles Tuxedos, Prince Alberts, and Hats FOR WEDDINGS and all other Social Functions RICHARD BLADDY 130 N. La Salle St. Telephone Main 1149 Second Floor Opposite City Hall Bansell-eicock Company Structvira.1 Steel I -And Iron Works Archer Ave. and 23rd Place CHICAGO AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS National Co-Operative Business Organization FOR ALL TECHNICAL ENGINEERS OUR OBJECTS: To raise the Standard of Ethics of the Engineering Profession and to Promote the Economic and Social Welfare of Engineers: 1st. By affording means for the interchange of information. 2nd. By maintaining a Service Clearing House. 3rd. By affording patent and legal advice in matters of common interest t Engineers. 4th. By supervision of legislation and to Encourage Engineers in useful activity in public affairs. th. By proper publicity of Engineering in the language of the layman. 6th. By creating a brotherly spirit among Engineers. If you arc qualified to give efficient service in any branch of the great field of Engineering (civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical, mining, architectural, etc.) you should in obligation to yourself and your profession, join thiswelfareorganization NOW! Write for information. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS, 29 South LaSalle Street National Headquarters. Telephone—Central 73 Chicago Illinois 271 HUMOR Culleb from ©. %. COOL INDEED (From The Tuttle, N.D., Star) At the burning of a barn in Steele recently, our superintendent displayed some nerve and pluck. Miss Sherman did not wait for the men to get there but hastened to the barn without stopping to dress, and in bare feet untied the horses before they had become unmanageable thus saving them a lot of trouble. There is not a man, we venture to say,in all Steele but would have stopped to put on his pants before venturing out into the crisp air, but she did not, her whole thought being of the dumb animals imperiled, and it was indeed, a nervy and cool headed per- formance. “Here Comes the Bridge” (From the Saunemin, III., Headlight.) Fifty years had elapsed since Miss Sarah Funk and Baltzer Schaub took the martial vow in the home of Miss Funk’s parents. A Trailer (From the Polaski Co., Ind. Democrat.) A few days ago the stork left the twelfth child at the home of a Logansport family named Carr, and Mrs. Carr says slic’d like to name it Caboose. Just as we were going to press we found that we still had a vacant space in this child of our imagination. We feared that Weiss would kick if we didn’t fill the book up, and make his longlist of subscribers think they were getting their money’s worth. We sent a scout through the corridors of our beloved institution in search of a merry quip. He soon returned with the following, which he had overheard. We decided to print it because it is representative of the conversation between students. It seems that Marvin stopped Hully as the Freshmen were drilling in the gymnasium. With—“Say Hully, some of the Freshmen have deserted already.’ Hully: “Oh, is that so, where did you hear that?” Marvin: “I was just passing the ‘gym’ and I hears someone veiling ‘Squad Left’.” 272 Armour Institute of Technlogy Chicago Courses offered in MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, FIRE PROTECTION ENGINEERING, CIVIL ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL ARTS, AND ARCHITECTURE © These courses are each four years in length and lead to the Degree of Bachelor of Science © COMPLETELY EQUIPPED SHOPS AND LABORATORIES The Institute Bulletins will be sent upon Application HUMOR Writing this way at so much a line would hardly pay. Never! Nay, nay! It would be absurd! Still, I am of the opinion That It is a great deal honester Than calling this, kind Of Stuff poetry, And getting so Much a Line For it. Eh? “G-G-Good evening!” said Stevens, who had come to speak to her father. “Good evening,” replied the old gentleman. “You look a bit nervous.” “Oh, you flatter me. I was afraid I looked scared to death.” “Stcnnet, dear, the cook has left—” “Now Gwendolyn, is it right to meet me with such news when I return home late from the office, all tired out and hungry—” “But, Stcnnet, dear, I merely want to say the cook has left—” “Yes, I know you ‘merely want to say’. And I merely want to say that it’s a great shame this house is eternally disorganized. Other women manage to keep their servants. Why can’t you? Why—” “Stcnnet Hulburt, I tell you that the cook knew you would be late, so she left a cold chicken, a custard pudding, and a pint of claret on the dining room table for you.” “Well, in the name of common sense, why didn’t you say that at first?” New York Phones St. Louis Wabash 2579 Auto. 62-536 S. B. CHAPIN CO. Gane Bros. Company STOCKS BONDS The House with the Goods and Best Service Rookery Building Trinity Building Bookbinders Supplies, Leather and Machinery 209 S. LaSalle St, 111 Broadway 610-618 Federal Street CHICAGO CHICAGO NEW YORK We find positions in Engineering, Architecture, Manufacturing, Chemistry, Teaching and Sales, etc. THE ENGINEERING AGENCY, INC. (25th Successful Year) 1001-1662 Monadnock Block, Chicago Engineering instruments rented, sold, bought and exchanged 275 HUMOR My Bonnie lies under the auto, My Bonnie lies under the car: Please send to the garage for someone, ’Tis lonesome up here where I are. “Do you have matins at your church?” “No, we have oilcloth,” Wouldn’t that floor you? One of our stews was arrested the other day on suspicion because they caught him cnetcring a powder mill with a copy of Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s “Poems of Passion” under his arm. Clara: Coming home from the dance the other night I met Charlie Spooner in a crowded car, and he didn’t even offer me a seat. Maud: Perhaps he knew you had been sitting down all evening. Eva: You seem to be having a great deal of trouble with your new car. Jack: Yes, I have named it “True Love.” True Love? Gracious! Why? Because true love never did run smooth. I took a share in a garden, But got an awful shock; I found the canny gardener Had watered all the stock. Waiter: We do net serve half portions, sir. Patron: Oh yes you do, but you charge for full ones. First Turtle: Grandma is nearly 400 years old, and has lost all her teeth. Second Turtle: Well, then, she has a soft snap. Jfount) in “ at” tCaplor’s Siarp January 22, 1917. Tickets for show £ 6.00 Dinner .... 10.00 Flowers 6.00 Taxi 5-53 Candy 1.49 Miscellaneous • '3 Total .... £28.15 Note: Kitty is a wonderful girl. Editor’s Note: Detailed investigation by the Spinkertons and Colmes show that Mr. Taylor was down in Galesburg upon this day. Also that while there he had exchanged coats with a friend and thus the mystery of the memoranda. Anyhow Kat says so and we take his word for it, altho Kat and Kitty sound familiar. 276 The Fulton Heavy Duty Manufacturing loathe was designed as a result of the demand for a simple high power lathe to do plain turning, boring and facing. The simplicity of the machine throughout renders it particularly adaptable for work of this kind, from the very smallest to the largest within its range. As regularly furnished, the machine is equipped with a three step cone, and with single back Gears. The cone steps are of large diameters and carry a 3belt. 1S{ Inch Swing—7 Foot Bed, distance between centers with plain head, 38 inches, with friction head 36 inches. Fulton Machine Tool Co. 1438 Bryan PI. Chicago, Illinois GANSCHOW GEARS ere made by Gear specialists. Men and equipment capable of particular work. We make cut Gears for ell purpeses,end spec- ialize in Automobile and Tractor Gears. Let us quote on your specifications. WILLIAM GANSCHOW COMPANY Washington Boulevard and Morgan St., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 277 HUMOR ILigfjt Occupations Admiring a concrete form.' Gathering the grain in a pine board. Trying to cat from an electric feeder. Squeezing the oil out of an oil-stove. Getting your bearing with a drawing compass. Looking for TWO beautiful coeds at Armour. Trying to rust a bar of castile soap. Picking the teeth of a spur-gear. Making a transverse test on a beam of light. Running around a magnetic field. A blind music lover going to the follies. Not Quite so Light Smoking a lead pipe. -■ t x =� 7'1 ' . f S ' “You can’t get in here on a half ticket,” exclaimed the doorkeeper at the Junior play. “I thought I could,” explained the Soph, “because I have only one good eye, and expect to sec only half the play.” “You’ll need two tickets, then, because it will take you twice as long to see the show.” “I don’t think much of Holland.” “No, it’s a low lying country.” COMPLIMENTS AND BEST WISHES FROM THE ELITE LAUNDRY 219 E. 35th St. Phone Douglas 3447 Profit by the experience of several generations of engineers and use I Q p Surveying instruments. Slide Rules. Lev- | (X L elingltods, Measuring Tapes,etc. etc. The fact that Engineers all over the world regard K E products as the standard of excellence is not a mere coincidence. It has taken exactly fifty years of close attention to the needs of Engineers and much painstaking effort on our part to achieve this distinction. KEUFFEL ESSER CO.. OF NEW YORK 520 South Dearborn St., Chicago General Offices and Factories. Hoboken X. J. GREEN CHAIN GRATE STOKERS SMOKELESS—AUTOMATIC LABOR SAVING GECO STEAM JET ASH CONVEYORS DUSTLESS, SIMPLE, RELIABLE, SAFE GREEN ENGINEERING CO., EAST CHICAGO, IND. Green Chain Grate Stokers BULLETIN No. 1 Geco Steam Jet Ash Conveyors BULLETIN No. 2 C O S T t; M K s For Parades, Pageants, Celebrations, Centennials Bal Masques, Plays, Operas. Minstrels, Circus also Wigs, Masks and Accessories Shipped on rental basis to any point in the United States VAX HORN fc SON. THEATRICAL AND HISTORICAL COSTUMERS 919-921 Walnut St. Philadelphia, Penna. Established 1852 Student Patronage Solicited HUMOR Wo tfje «2 tutor 'i Sir: You have behaved like an impetiginousscrogle—like those who,envious of any moral celsitude, carry their unglicity to the height of creating sym- posiacally the fecund words which may polymathic genius uses with uberty to abligate the tongues of the wcetless! Sir, you have crassly parodied my own pet words, though they were trangams I will not coascervatc reproaches. I will oducc a veil over the atramcntal ingratitude which has chamfered even my indisccrptible heart. I am silent on the focillation which coadjuvancy must have given when I offered to become your fantor and adminicle. I will not speak of the lippitude, the bolepsy you have shown in exasccrbating me, one whose genius you should have approached with mental discalceation. So I tell you without supervacaneous words, nothing will render ignosciblc your conduct to me. I warn you that 1 would vellicate your nose if 1 thought that any mortal diarthrosis might thereby be performed, if I thought I should not impignoratc my reputation. Go, tachydermic scrogle, hand with your crass, inquinate favors! Draw oblectations, if you can, from the thought that you have synchronically lost the existimation of the greatest poet since Milton! “Is this Heaven?” “Yes, sir, but you can’t get in just now.” “Why not?” “The investigating Committee is in session. “When do they expect to be married?” “As soon as he can become reconciled to the idea of living beyond his income.” “What is your idea of universal peace?” “Well,” said the practical person, “the best I look for at present is a situation where everybody is so willing to fight that no one wants to start it.” 280 •AGATHON is a Greek word for quality—it was chosen as our trade mark because it exemplifies the best of everything. Our buildings are the most modern and all the equipment of the latest design and highest efficiency. Every known improvement in ad- vanced steel plant construction has been provided. We have backed up our facilities with the best ability—every man from the General Superintendent down is of mature experience. Our raw materials are selected for quality we must have the best. Wc have set up a high standard—• •■AGATHON is the word that will insure you of this. •AGATHON guarantees your satisfaction. OUR PRODUCTS AGATHON Chrome Nickel AGATHON Chrome Vanadium AGATHON Nickel Steels AGATHON” Special Analyses • AGATHON Vanadium • AGATHON Silico-Manganese • AGATHON Chrome Steel • AGATHON High Carbon Shipping Facilities Three Railroads THE CENTRAL STEEL CO, MASSILLON OHIO Detroit Office—326-27-2$ Ford Building, F. Walter Guibcrt, District Representative Cleveland Office Hickox Building. The Hamill-Hickox Co., District Representative Chicago Office—Room 1511-12 Lvtton Building, 14 East Jackson Blvd., A. Shaceffer, District Representative Philadelphia Office—902 Widener Bldg., Frank Wallace, District Representative J. E. DockendorfT Co., 20 Broad St . New York. X. Y, General Export Agents HUMOR There was a young lady named Bunny Whose actions were terribly funny; One time she bet That the rain wasn’t wct,: But she lost every cent of her money. Another young chicken was Hplcn, Her favorite fruit was the melon; It was all very nice When she kept them on ice, But when she did not you could smell cm. She had a young brother called Lew, Who lived near a wonderful zoo; He conversed with the bear And the other brutes there, Which raised quite a hullaballoo. W.C.W. There is a fellow named Given Who ought to be glad he’s living. While at Armour he’s been He has raised three chins He’ll eventually make it seven. Leo Rosenberg is some boy They say he’s the ladies pride and joy. A dancer or engineer he'll make, He is the inventor of “Hello Jake.” There is also a guy named Schmidthy His collection of hand books is nifty. With luck, we predict. If he doesn’t get sick. He’ll have read at least half when he’s fifty. Then look at Fat Summcrficld— Cute little fellow, Flays mandolin, banjo, ukc, or cello. When he’s not playing Or stuffing pie down. At the front at the Gaiety He can always be found. I have traveled all over Chicago-town, 1 know it backwards and upside down, And of all the girls I’ve ever seen Y’enus Y’ogdcs is the village queen. You’ve heard of “Matty,” the wireless bug, You can tell him by the radio-look on his mug. Among other bugs he stands quite high, If he doesn’t, Matty’s been idlin’ lies. And Ingraham, the syncopated melody man, He put the “Jazz” in our famous band. On that piano stool He acts just like a fool, And he’s sure to bring the house down with a hand. Established 1897- Incorporated 1902 A. Finkl Sons Co. Steam and Drop Forgings 1326 Cortland St. CHICAGO Telephones Diversey 2000-2(301 283 HUMOR Sii Cpitljobt As 1 crossed the Wheatstone bridge about 3 A. M. I happened to look up. There was Harry Gilbert at the top of one of the coulombs. He gazed fixedly through an electroscope which lie held in one hand; in the other he held a unit- pole, on the end of which was fastened a mag-net. I asked Harry Watt he was doing. “This is my thesis,” said he, without looking away from the electroscope; “I can sec a gauss flying this way; it is only 3 centimeters away. If you’ll keep quiet a few minutes till it comes nearer I’ll catch it in my mag-net. If I can do this elec-tric, I’ll be-the first person in the world to catch a live gauss. I ought to get a swell write-up in the current issue of the Cycle.” When I heard this 1 almost had hysteresis—I knew his capacity for electrolyte, and that he had been visiting the bus-bar with great frequency of late. I wanted to hear more, so I induced him to explain the theory on which he was working. “It’s like this,” said Harry, “When a gauss flics across a field it always travels along some transmission line, to the nearest arc-light, where it can restfully float around with the eddy-current. The gauss has a great reluctance about showing its phase (face), but he likes Maxwell, and if some is hung on a slide wire he gets all excited (like a generator). After opening his feeder wide, helix (or shelix) it until he is overloaded: his power factor is zero, and it is then possible to catch him in a magnet. This is much more humane than the old way. They used to get the gauss inside a Murray loop and then strangle it by means of a choke-coil.” “Come down,” said I “or there is liable to be a big drop of potential.” Harry answered, “I shunt.” I told him that if he didn’t I’d call one of those lightening arresters. “He will-use E.M.F., make you appear in court, charge you with electricity, and put you in some old wet-cell.” Anode this would scare him.” He offered no more resistance and came down. He came down very slowly so as not to break the Right Hand Rule which he had in his pocket. I said, “Harry I’m going to take you ohm.” “Lead the way,” said lie, “and I won’t lag; let me cathode of your arm.” When we were seated in the motor he looked at me and said, “Ha! ha! That’s good joke. Think what the copper-loss by not catching me.” I left him. Thp next day there was no reactance. When I saw him two months later, he said he was off the juice forever. He also told me lie had moved to Elmhurst. The last I heard of him, he was running a condenser in a circular mil and Harry to show his patriotism, had joined the Edis-on storage battery. 2S4 310-316 S. Peoria St. Near Jackson Blvd. Telephone Monroe 183 CHICAGO FOOTE BROS. GEAR AND MACHINE CO. 210 N. Carpenter Street Telephone, Monroe 335 HUMOR “Can’t give yo’ fried eggs this mavvnin’, boss,” the negro porter informed me, lessen yo’ want to wait till we stops.” “Why, how is that,” I asked him. “Well, Suh, dc cook says dc roads am so rough dat ebery time tries to fry eggs, dey scrambles.” 1517 . “Avaunt!” “Marry, come up!” “Odds splutter my nails, have at thee!” “On, gadzooks!” 9 7 “Fa-a-a-akc!” “Soak de ump!” “Paste dc gufc in dc slats!” “Cheese it, de cops!” Familiar Sayings 37S,4I9,°22 . “You’re the only girl I ever loved!” Prof.: If I borrowed a thousand dollars from you, promising to pay fifty dollars a month, how much would I owe you at the end of a year? Stude: A thousand dollars. Prof: I see you don’t know even the elements of arithmetic. Stude: That may be, but I know you. The loss of eden may be attributed to a pomological cause—a green pair and a red apple. “Any accidents on your motor trip through Italy and France, Morgan?” “No, nothing worth mentioning. My wife was thrown out and bruised a bit, but the machine never got so much as a scratch.” 280 “3b” Snbex Name and Business Page American Association of Engineers . . .271 Armour Co. ........... 265 Armour Institute of Technology ........ 273 Ben Fitzner ........... 275 Richard Bladdey 271 Central Steel Co. . . . 2S1 S. B. Chapin ........... 275 Cheshire Shotwell . . . . . .233 Commonwealth Edison Co. ........ 267 Continental Commercial National Bank ...... 261 Dockstader Sandberg ......... 259 Eugene Dietzgen .......... 255 Elite Laundry ........... 279 Engineering Agency .......... 275 A. Finkle Sons .......... 283 Foote Bros. ........... 285 Fulton Machinery Co. ......... 277 Gane Bros. ........... 275 Green Engineering Co. ......... 279 Theodore Gottman Sons ........ 285 Mansell Elcock Co. . . . • .271 Jahn Ollier ........... 263 Johnson Bronze Co. .......... 267 Jones Laughlin .......... 255 Kenwood Bridge .......... 253 Keuffel Esser .......... 279 Wm. L. Koehne .......... 257 Magic Bros. .......... 253 E. R. Moore Co. .......... 259 Rogers Printing Co. .......... 269 Stcvcrs Press ........... 255 Waterman Pen Co. . . . 2SI West Michigan Steel Foundry Co. ....... 259 Van Horn Son .......... 279 2S7 ■