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

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16 TECHNIQUE 1915 well equipped in his particular line of work, but he has behind him the many years of successful work of Tech in training men and women for their work. He who goes out from the Institute into any kind of work has a rich heritage of well- earned traditional value in the very fact that he has studied at Tech. I have always found that Tech is a name to conjure with, and we all know that this would not be so if the students had not gained from the Institute that knowledge and skill whereby they have made good. HORTENSE W. LEWIS, Vassar, ,97, IVI. I. T. 1899-1900. THE COLLEGE MAN AT TECH F' I ' HAT of our college men? Are they not quite an im- ' - portant factor in Tech life? Considering that about twenty-five per cent. of our student body is made up of men from other colleges and universities, we can but admit that theirs is quite an important part of the life at the Institute. VVhat are their sentiments with regard to the school? What part do they, and what part should they, take in our student activities? Before we either enjoin them to take part in these activities or judge them too harshly for failing to take an inter- est in the things that are of interest to us, we should first pause and con- sider the conditions under which they have come, and the part that Tech should play in their lives. Some of these men have spent but one year at another college, others have spent two: we will but con- sider the case of the man who has either obtained a degree, or has, at least, spent three years at another institution of higher education. A college training is a strange adventure: the value obtained there- from is illusive and intangible, but it is there, nevertheless. It has been well said that the value of a college education rests, not in the courses chosen nor in the volumes that are studied, but in the associa- tions, the meeting of fellow-men on a common ground, the grasping and conquering of new conditions,- in short, the Ending of one,s self. An eminent authority has said that the great benefit derived from col- lege life lies, not in what one gains in concrete knowledge, but in what one loses of that which is objection- able in him,-all of the rough spots, the meanness, the selfishness, and the petty conceits being rubbed off, and the true character beneath polished by the contact with fel- low-men in the daily life upon the campus and in the fraternity house. And so with these men one great phase in their lives is past and gone 9 E 5 7- X -.,,--..,.fmf,- 1 --.... - Eur, P-. 5 .5 - r-E rf-w'f si rib: i l . ,. . . ,L4f62WEr.LkbalL-y, .f, 6' 1 Yr -4,-M5E,3 57?.i4fQv'g?fEgm5:::m..:l N.-. Mi: Q , 15: Ehzg in .E--fffififf u me QQ, W-WF4Q4341j542fF--l'Y'+i g -:::az:::.:-: gm. .::x4f,'s:z:zoa:w4mW :T G f, lf- Y- gi-yur...i-nigvccaffifliliii'11 c ,, ' . ' rei- : S f E 5 ff Q -gloom--1 am- irgjhksi Egan! 'Left:.':-F :::2f.'f:,ccc':a','F57F ---- F l .EA -i t' WX' I M 3' fl' 5 il M: 5 ,m -.L . . . . . .. . -: , 115-,M-1 L. ,. fi KQE fi F'. 'E51F,Hq',Ifz4-fpJ1vf,5f,,1gr-F,1grg,vfi i 41 Y -5 nl

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1915 TECHNIQUE 15 along the line they are pursuing now, for five years, with a reason- able remuneration. H. S. Hs1N. THE CO-ED AT TECH f' VER fifteen years ago, after having taken the degree of L Bachelor of Arts at one of the large colleges for women in the East, I came to Tech. As a place to study chemistry, both in its practical and theoretical aspect, the Institute was highly rec- ommended to me. I must confess, though, that, till I was actually in Boston and had called at the Bur- saris oflice and seen some of the Institute buildings, Tech was but a name to which one wrote for a catalogue and from which came a large and exceedingly impressive book, telling of courses innumerable. In reading that catalogue, and in subsequent attendance at the Insti- tute, one was impressed with the very slight English training that is required from a Tech student. One cannot but feel that the student has been deprived of a wealth of happiness and pleasure when he has not gained some intimate knowledge of the best English and American writers. Then, of course, the ques- tion comes, I-Iow could a man at the Institute do any more work than is already required of him, in any course he may choose to take?,' That the Institute stands for work, work, and little play, no one who has spent even a month there can ever doubt. The man or woman going to Tech must have a willing- ness to work and a capacity for work. In the year and a half that I studied chemistry at the Institute, I never found but that the women received every courtesy both from the students and instructors. To my sense women were accorded ab- solutely fair play, and it seems to me that is all that the most ardent advocate for women's rights could hope and ask for. Concessions and special privileges to Women, I am glad to say I did not see, nor should they, in my judgment, be expected or counted for, on the part of women who may choose to attend the In- stitute or any co-educational col- lege. To me the work that I did at Tech was exceedingly satisfactory. The training was careful, accu- rate, and broadening, and I gained thereby a sureness and certainty in that particular branch of work which I studied at the Institute, which enabled me to do work as an analytical chemist in one of the large New England mills for several years. The student who goes to the In- stitute and is willing to work comes away from there not only ' ' ' 7 ..1. 0 U-V 21217-L2iT.' 'Ag' 1745741 i . E :I X c , , -ff ' -'H' r'-'r.'.u::r:?'1.swr.::.w,,,...:.- - '5' fl. ,4+,w m'::z'f'W'rm'.m-: '::f r -- -A-' '- .-111' Ewa' I : ,Lax ,-,-,Mwwmem-...I-rf:affzff'f'M::N ifgl- ,, M, iWnssasav.az:iwz4nqrcx.,,. - '-mi i.-f-Jai F P..:i L- .,..:: c QW: If 5 H AQ I . E. 5 E. 2955: Mn. .:,:4'ff,gzg,z,saaw1z ' j Ki, kxrafji F1-4..:..1sasaam qggqmmlggqfggocgsmgxx, E gggggigg .. . ,x 5 ef .. z ml ' R:---V-....,...,.,..,,-PH! '1 1 1 1 2' if ' '. -fi 2' 3. Q N' ii 1 1 'i L '?1'.HC'mc':v,':'m--':v:.'i. :::':55 .. H., . . . . . .. 55-17, f' '- . 4: S I

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1915 TECHNIQUE 17 never to be forgotten, and never to be replaced by anything to come. Their college days are over, those happy, care-free days of little work and much play,-days that hold memories dear to the heart of every man among them. VVhat one is there but can remember his straw- bestrewn and sheepish arrival, the hazing, the rushing, the day that Petey Simonds put the cow in the chapel, or the night he danced the Salome at the Sophomore banquet? VVho but can remember how, as a Sophomore, he nailed the class numerals to the chapel spire, and how as a Junior he fell a victim to the charms of the college widow? But memories such as these fill a chapter long since completed: the page has turned, and a new one be- gun. The scene has shifted, the past is behind. Let us then look to the present. These men arrive at Tech with a new and broader view of life, with a new purpose,-a determination to reach the height of their ambition, -a determination strengthened by the fact that their playtime is over, and the business of life before them. Work is first and foremost in their consideration. But need it entirely occupy their minds? Even realizing that no longer can class politics, athletic attainment, musi- cal club trips, or editorial fame hold charms for these men, is there not some way for them to help, some field for their energy besides the class-room and laboratory? Right here in our midst is a veri- table mine of talent, backed by ex- perience that should not be neg- lected. Here is a man who was president of his college musical clubs, here one who wrote the music for the college show, and another who edited the university daily. Wle do not ask these men to join in the rush for office, there are men in plenty here to do that, but can we not avail ourselves of their help, their co-operation with us in making our efforts more fruitful and our clubs, shows, and publica- tions the best in the country? This then is the place of the college man at Tech. THE COSMOPOLITAN CLUB f' ' HE very cosmopolitan nature of Technology, with its 50 nationalities and its 113 for- eign students, rnade it quite fitting that, in the spring of 1910, a Cos- mopolitan Club should be organ- ized, which should have for its purpose the bringing together of foreign and American students under purely social conditions rather than in the business-like class-room, where only a slight acquaintance is possible. Through the activity of Mr. Gorton James, then a Junior, and the generosity of Mr. George VVig- . . ,, ,, ..,.....,.s.,-f..n....,......,:--v... A- ,L ,..'-'H-...m,,.-....s... :-.:,z:.',':,u.'. N . bl -iii, . 3, inn, . E AEA 4' f' 'min 'I 559- alt.. .Q1LLu.c'emf.a.'9ff41z4:ws:b-'-RP-e-Q 2221222 ' ' L1 .bag MW' if lfhEis:ri '9'55SiseiIfI1' I H 1'- -my pg ' 'vzefuimzlemffaeffwaafcffff 4 ta , LL . L AHRE!! 5442. .:jf,'f1uzcsomcv1ff:z T ' , 2 I KKXQMIEQF' A 35.3-5-.lmndannnnn rg.-5'.!5g6'Zi'6lHfMQcQm.:rceN 3 . . N 51 rv. ,. .. . Q-g::::'-' Fur:m-:m::::::,wm,','lR 2 . 2 2 2 2. '. -f-'X A-'rt'- '-1 .1 QI 1 s 'FEfcc'e'.ff:'W':'Lv':. .c',. :-'-':a-',:f?'. -rzzrfiii I X415-no. T' ,