Bromfield High School - Beacon Yearbook (Harvard, MA)

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E UBrom9iel.d. Beaico1-.UZ leadership in the execution of its plans - the provision of safe, efficient, attractive and economical shelter for the innumerable activities of our modern civilization. In the field of architecture, there are three basic lines which a student may follow: General Design, Structural Design, and Building Construction. These three fields differ greatly in many respects. The work which you will do in later life depends upon which one of these lines you advance in. The first field - and probably the most general and wide spread - is the course in General Design. This field covers everything from automotive design to homes and advertisements. In the field of General Design there are a great many lucrative jobs and positions in which there are great chances for advancement. The next line, which is probably the most interesting to the engineer, is the Structural Design which entails a great deal of engineering ability. Structural Design is a more technical side of the architectural field, dealing mostly with detailed plans of large buildings and bridges. This phase considers many of the engineering problems such as weights of material, support, and strength of materials to be used. Building Construction, the last of our three phases, is the part of architecture which we as laymen see as we go along our highways. Build- ing Construction pertains to the actual construction of the structures which the General Designers and Structural Designers have planned. The work of an architect is so varied and interesting that it becomes fascinating. The wide scope of the architect arouses a great interest which drives him forward with speed and determination. ln his work the archi- tect meets all types of people from the millionaire to the common laborer. Because of the many phases in architecture, there are great opportunities for self-expression. This profession, like every other profession, has its disadvantages in that the architect must have close co-operation from the owner, contractor, and worker to do a good complete job. The long expensive years of study and practice are also a great hindrance to the young architect. Another great disadvantage is the necessity of establishing his own practice, for the young architect must have large capital and the social connections neces- sary for securing clients. The architect of today is a very important man in our society. He is one of the keys to our comfort and convenience in the future. He is the planner, designer, and builder of the homes of the present and future. The architect has a great many more materials to use, and he is more skilled in all the methods of building, from the Roman and Greek to the modern. than was his predecessor. Thus with all the knowledge and learning which has been gathered since ancient times, the architect has become a prominent figure in our lives today. Philip E. Messersmith Page Twenty-five

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Brom? i el.cl Beacon Lou Gehrig at the plate as clean-up batter. At this time, Lou and the Babe were equally dangerous at bat. In 1920 the Yankees won the pennant but could not seem to repeat their success in 1921. When 1922 rolled around they made a very good start by winning many of their games in the early part of the season. They found that they were drawing such large crowds that their ball field was proving inadequate. Now they spent a large sum of money and built the Yankee Stadium which was called the house that Ruth built . The box receipts collected the first year that Babe Ruth played for the Yankees were used to build this stadium. The ball team enjoyed another great year in 1923. In 1924, 1925, 1926, the Yankees were in a slight slump. They ended up in fifth place in 1924 and in third place in 1925. When the year 1926 came, they climbed out of their slump and won the pennant but lost the World Series to St. Louis when St. Louis won four out of six games. The 1927 baseball season found the Yankees with a very good ball club. The season was a long one, but Babe Ruth now playing the outfield was making up for the bad year he had had in 1925. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were the hope of that 1927 team. The Babe and Lou had had a run contest throughout the season and they were close until the last few weeks of the World Series, when the Babe hit seven more homers and ended the series with sixty home-runs to Lou's forty-seven. Lou Gehrig ended the season with 174 runs to his credit while the Babe had batted in 152 runs. Each team plays one hundred and fifty-two games in a year, the Yankees won 110 of them to win the pennant. They played the Pittsburgh Ball Club in the World Series and won six games in succession. Until this day there has been only one ball club which has earned the enviable title, The Greatest of Them All - the 1927 Yankees. John Henrickson -i-1 ARCHITECTURE Ever since the time of the primitive man who lived in a cave and ate raw meat, we have tried to improve our living conditions. The first homes were only caves and trees in which man went for shelter and protection. Down through the ages great strides have been made in the field of build- ing. We have gone from the primitive caves and medieval huts and manors to our modern homes with all the conveniences of our day. In this present age the construction of homes, buildings, and bridges is of the utmost im- portance to our every day life. The building industry, second only to agriculture and the food indus- tries in terms of money expended and employment provided, lacks only an adequate supply of building materials and labor before launching upon the largest program of construction in all history. In carrying out this great program, the building industry looks to the profession of architecture for Page Twenty-four

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Zunromfzzeia Be aiconm SCIENCE IN OUR DAILY LIVING Think of how life would be if there were no such thing as science. Webster says that science is the accumulation and accepted knowledge systematized and formulated with reference to the discovery of general truths or the operation of general laws . The scientist, by using these laws as the basis of his experiments discovers many new and useful items, which are later applied to our daily living in fields of agriculture, industry, medi- cine and our ordinary home life. Many people will disagree when they are told that science contributes more to our every day being than any other thing, but I say that they are wrong. Scientific experimentation in the fields of agriculture is carried on to produce better and fuller fruits and vegetables, better fertilizers, and better insecticides to rid the growing plants and trees of harmful pests. Scientists are continually working and testing to find new and better methods of preservation. In former times all meats and fish were dried or smoked, and fruits and vegetables had to be home canned. Today, foods of all kinds are frozen or vacuum-packed by sanitary, scientific methods, and are trans- ported to the markets by trucks, boats, and planes, all of which result directly from scientific facts and experiments. In industry there is always a quest for new metals or alloys with which to construct new tools and machines or to improve the old ones. The search for these new metals and alloys is carried on in metallurgical laboratories with the aid of scientific data of all types, varying from periodic tables to notes on stress and strain and the reactions of the metals to the weather and extreme temperatures. The machines built with these metals and alloys preserve our food, construct the tractors and tools with which we grow this food, and construct the automobiles we use every day, they even aid in constructing articles from or with which we derive some of our en- tertainment and recreation. Radios, movie projectors and cameras, and television sets, which are constructed by these machines, in themselves are the applications of over a thousand different laws of science. In the field of medicine, many of the new treatments such as the radio- logical treatments and the X-ray treatments for cancer are direct results of experiments in the fields of physics and biology which are component parts of science in themselves. If experiments had not been carried on in these fields of science, we would have a terrifyingly high death rate because of tuberculosis, small pox, typhoid fever, diphtheria, and other diseases which were fatal not so many years ago. Through scientific research it was dis- covered which chemical compounds were the best to meet and combat various affiictions. We have also discovered processes by which to synthe- size adrenalin for chronic ailments, insulin for diabetes, penicillin, strepto- mycine, and auriomycine for pneumonia, and the anti-histamine for hay fever and the common cold. In recent weeks there have been a few out- standing accomplishments: the mechanical heart which by-passes the fiow of blood around the heart instead of through it while doctors are perform- ing delicate operations upon this organ, a new two-way plastic valve to re- place the heart valves damaged by rheumatic fever, and the mechanical kidney to purify the blood while the natural kidney is being operated on. Page Twenty-six