Drexel Institute Engineering Department - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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PROPHECY Cffontinuedl ti-ical science. Doc has not discovered or invented anything startling yet, but although slow, you know he delves deep, and you may confidently expect to hear from him in the future. After graduation Cliff Robbins made his way, by means devious and round-about, to Canada, where he was overtaken by a job in Vancouver. He wrote to Moody some time ago and it was in that way I heard about him. It seems that he is doing well, being in charge of both the designing and installation of a big order of electrical machinery in Vancouver. He is the Canadian representative of an American manufacturing firm. The fellow who has traveled farthest is Burrows. After getting married he traveled to Egypt and the beloved desert. I-Ie is the advertising and sales-agent of an American farm implement company which is bucking the International Harvester Company. It is largely due to NNalter's efforts that his company is the success which it is. He intends to establish a branch in Cairo. His wife accompanied him on the trip and Burrows writes that it is one long vacation. Don't forget to let me know about all the fellows who are with you. Sincerely, DOC, g Asst. Chief Eng. Darby 81 Angora Railroad, Ltd. After reading the letter I gave him the telegraphed compliments of Roberts, sent by means of one of his new 30,000-mile wireless systems, congratulating him on the banishment of Professor Bea- ver. This attitude surprised us all, for Roberts was an electrical genius, but then we students must stick together. Applegate left us, and as Thorn was struggling with indecision as to Whether to make the raven pierce the azure bluen or the bluze alure or the Nblue azure'f Van de Mark and I were left alone. 62

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PROPHECY CConlinuedD . baseball. He was pitcher on several pennant winners and last year he was one of the VVorld Champs. After that he retired and bought a country place on Long Island. We went out there overthe week- end and from all appearance Bill has surely fallen on his feet. I-Ie do11't do a blamed thing that he doesnjt want to do, He wanted to know where his partner Lewis is, but I couldn't tell him. Prepare yourself for a surprise. Last sum mer when 'in Atlantic City I met Bill Farley coming down the Boardwalk in a chair. I got in with him and when he offered me a cigar I looked at him in surprise. As you can see, he must have changed very much from the Farley we all knew. He has charge of some power installation work which will keep him there all summer. It seems as though some fellows have cinches thrust upon them. He told me that he had been married directly after graduating, but had left his wife at home when he came to Atlantic City. His education has been completed since leaving Drexel-you should hear him 'cuss at the mosquitoes. Don't tell johnson, if you happen to see him, of this change in Bill, I am sure it would grieve him very much. Lansdale knows Steer no more. I went through that burg last month and I found that the old reliable insurance business is in the hands of another. Steer went VVest after successfully passing a Government Civil Service exam. He soon became an instrument man and is now engineer in charge of a large Government reclamation project in Nevada. He sent me a picture of himself taken with his wife. He looks like a bushwacker. Not only a mustache, but a full black beard now covers his entire face. He says it is too much trouble to shave, but he certainly looks fiercej just before he went West he bought S50 worth of 'fBetween the Acts little cigars, as he was afraid to risk being left without his favorite brand. V Doc Cushing is still studying. You would think that the course at Drexel would satisfy any one. But not Doo He has graduated from the ranks of the students and is now a scholar. He is in charge of a very extensive and well fitted up laboratory, endowed for the advancement of elec- 61

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PROPHECY CContinuedJ I take pleasure in quoting Van de Mark's words, which show how much he relies upon my good judgment as an advisor, and in what esteem he holds me: Jones, the police have lately given me the details of a dastardly plot which is being hatched under our noses. Three men are in it. One is that fiend Johnson, who slandered me from the bal- cony yesterday. I-Ie is a professor at the Mexican Institute of Technology, but happily is now jailed. The other is Johnston, editor of a mean little paper called 'The Chalk Throwerf You remember that he always did like to throw things in the drawing-room? The third is Scott, who is the leader of a new sect, the Do Nothingsf' who believe in taking part in nothing, one of their peculiar princi- ples being a hatred of personal photographs. By this reticence they think they can prolong their lives. Well, as the poet says, 'when things are like this'-that is, when three such peculiar people get together-there is bound to be trouble. Scott has the idea, Johnston preaches it in his paper and Johnson has invented a hideous thing called a two-phase rotary converter, which produces this slothful feeling in any individual co-ming in contact with it. You and I must defend the honest, hard-working, peaceful Mexican public, so what shall we do with them ?t'1 . ' I then advised Vandy to have both Johnston and Scott expelled from the country? reason- ing that Johnston could get his Old job, keeper of the axf' in the Physics Lab., and that as Scott didn't believe in doing anything, it would not matter where he went. I Johnson we allowed to stay, after repriinand, for the poor guy was still married and depended upon teaching for a living. The debarkation of these exiles was supervised by Lewis, the chief of police, who has profited by his experience with the park ,guards and has made a good cop. - Vandy and I, at the call of VVinter, now went in the palace for tea. 63