Cooper Union College - Cable Yearbook (New York, NY)

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STudenTs geTTing a TaculTy complex. The amazing phenomena produced by The unpredicTable ProT. all have caused many Treshman classes To break ouT in open applause. l-lis demonsTraTion and ex- posiTion oT waTer boiling so rapidly ThaT iT Treezes should gualiTy him as a sporTs announcer. l-lis lecTure experimenT on The composiTion and properTies oT lighT almosT hypnoTically demonsTraTe The sTaTemenT which may soon become The Cooper Union moTTo-The beauTiTul Things are The useTul Things, and The useTul Things are The beauTiTul Things. No sTudenT will TorgeT The Ball and BosserT Trick oT drawing a sTraighT line by snapping a chalked rope againsT The blackboard. ProT. Ball is also a masTer aT being sTern-This has been demonsTraTed To many rowdy Treshmen and To many an unprepared senior Trying To predicT when we will be called upon To reciTe. The lasT minuTe characTerisTic is also puT To very good advanTage by his cos worker, ProT. IvlerriTT, whose keen memory has embarrassed many a pair oT sTudenTs- never could They share honors by puTTing one reporT in Two books. Well-known To The Treshmen are Mr. Halsey and Mr. Schauss oT The Physics DeparTmenT. Their causTic and somewhaT cynical commenTs have spoiled many an oTherwise aTTracTive reporT book. True To The broad and energeTic liTe he lives, ProT. Roemmle is a leading exponenT oT The aclvanTages oT exTra-curricular acTiviTies. l-lis comradeship endears him To The lVl.E.'s and gives Them solace Tor Their ever increasing Tasks. Even in The days when Cooper Union sTudenTs were noT blessed by a Social Philosophy deparTmenT, They were in conTacT wiTh The philosophies OT minds oTher Than Their own. Perhaps The mosT inTrusive upon small minds oT embryo engineers is Mr. VopaT who, like The Typically picTured philosopher, exalTs in commenTing very dryly upon The enioymenT oT liTe, even beyond The scope oT his beloved power planTs. Cooper Union has many experTs aT The demonsTraTion oT shorT cuTs Through all- nighT problems, yeT The M.E.'s poinT wiTh pride To The noT really a TaskmasTer, Mr. Salma oT The ready quips and very blond hair. l-leading The E.E.'s is ProT. Towle who like oTher experT insTrucTors pracTices The Tine arT oT pulling TeeTh, ThaT is, asking perTinenT quesTions oT a sTudenT who is all Too willing To siT down and shuT up. OT course, This pracTice someTimes leads a sTudenT To answer his own guesTion-which is somewhaT admirable. I4

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ENGINEEHI E FAC LTY A nighf sfudenf was heard fo remark, The firsf few hours I couldn'f undersfand his Scofch accenf-during fhe resf of fhe fime if was iusf fhe lecfures I couldn'f undersfandf' Prof. Coull's infriguing accenf is nof fhe only facfor which makes his classes unique. His subfly direcf sense of humor and driving power has nof only made fhe winning of A. I. Ch. E. confesf problems a Cooper Union fradifion buf has also calmed his wife during fhe Marfian ferrorizafion of New Jersey. Jimmie's sfrong sense of family dufy land docfor's ordersl have recenfly forced him fo abandon cigars, and he now causes cork-fipped cigar- effes fo give up fheir free energy wifh fheir more genfle glowing and fuming. This happened shorfly affer he discovered fhaf The colloidal parficles of fhe laffer's smoke lend fhemselves more readily fo fhe sfudy of Brownian movemenf. His closesf associafe is Prof. Hope, who wifh malice aforefhoughf, causes fhe chem seniors fo roam fhrough reams of German in search of complex compounds. Prof. Hope's course i Quanfifafive Analysis is fhe bugaboo of fhe second year chemical engineers. The sfandard joke abouf flunking Quanf and sfill having Hope has been revised since fhe advenf of Mr. Cunningham. He has fhe repufafion of being fhe besf bowler in fhe Chem Deparfmenf as well as ifs mosf silenf member. Doc Sherman, alfhough a reg'lar fella', is a keen sfudenf of sfudenfs' minds. He has offen remarked fhaf fhe mind is like an affic-if can hold so many facfs and fhen no more: iusf so many fhings can be sfuffed info if-and fhen some musf leave before ofhers can be forced in. Paradoxically enough, he feaches Organic Chem- isfry-fhe greaf conglomerafion of facfs and rules and laws, buf mosfly facfs. The memorable associafion of Dr. Sherman and Mr. Kunz lwhich included fhe beering of many unforgeffing seniorsl has been somewhaf diminished by fhe expansion of fhe Ch. E. Depf. Mr. Kunz now reigns in Unif Ops. Lab. in fhe basemenf. Many of fhe uninifiafed refer fo fhe lab as a Rube Goldberg sef-up, buf fhe sfeady influx of new, modern cosfly eguipmenf puf fhe lie fo fhaf. New fo Cooper Union is Prof. Radasch who was appoinfed head of fhe Chemical Engineering Deparfmenf lafe in fhe presenf school year. The seniors have nof had fhe pleasure of confacf in class wifh Prof. Radasch who looks and acfs fhe parf of a fypical engineer.

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ProT. STarr, The circuiT's man is an appreciaTed lecTurer on The relaTion oT sTu- denT abiliTy To eTforT. Many hypoTheTical dollars and lives, endangered by hypo- TheTical carelessness, have been saved by The always cauTioning Mr. Fairburn Through- ouT The D.C. world and The E.E. labs. A.J.B. Tells oT The elecTrosTaTic volTmeTer which was senT To BosTon so many Times Tor repairs ThaT iT can make The Trip, alone! The SecreTary oT The Engineering EaculTy and ProTessor EmeriTus oT Civil Engin- eering is ProT. Foss who, despiTe his age, leads an acTive life which abounds wiTh Travel, color phoTography, and improvemenTs on his Maine home. l-leading The C.E. DeparTmenT is ProT. Brumfield who was chairman oT The CommiTTee on EXTra-Curricular AcTiviTies. l-le regales his men wiTh The remark, l-low now, broTher scholars, and well They need regaling Tor his TorTe is sTaTically indeTerminaTe sTrucTures. The non-C.E.'s are inTroduced To This subiecT by Mr. Van Buren who has an excellenT collecTion oT perTinenT anecdoTes. This alumnus has a sTack oT exam papers This Thick when he graduaTed-way back when The C.E.'s goT less Mech OT MaT. Than The nighT Ch.E.'s geT now, and +ha+ is Ii++Ie enough. His sTouT hearT was sTung by The unscrupulous and oTherwise ignoranT ouT-world, and so he came back To Tell The currenT crop abouT his own innocenT errors. The champion symbologisT oT Cooper Union is noT a maThemaTics or physics pedagogue, buT Mr. J. P. J. Williams, The philosopher oT The C.E. deparTmenT. One oT his books brisTles so wiTh symbols ThaT iT requires six pages OT symbol deTiniTions. The lanky Mr. Perez will Tor someTime be Tamous Tor his laboraTory comparisons oT The NaTional and American League balls. ln The class room he was quiTe conTenT To be a champion chalk-caTcher. Perhaps The mosT Tamiliar Tigure in The supporTing courses is Dr. ManTz who is Tar Trom being as presumpTuous as TirsT impressions indicaTe, Tor his broadmindedness is greaTly admired by his economics sTudenTs. His relaTives included greaT men- an uncle TasTed The earTh in The sarcophagus of Ramses ll, his grandTaTher leTT him ouT oT his will and Thus induced Dr. ManTz To become a Teacher. I5