Milwaukee School of Engineering - EMF Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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u THE 1920 EMF .jg SiSay» •V p M “W” for wolfc, so bright and so fair; And Walter A. Bieter, with pompadour hair. “X” for the unknown we never can tell. After working for hours, we quit with, “Oh h-----.” “Y” is for yesterday, we might have improved. Instead, we played hookey and came back reproved. “Z” is for “zigee,” our favorite yell. ’Twas usually followed by that good one “Well, well---- is for “Andy.” You’d never guess That he wrote these few lines. (What a poor mixed up mess.) THE MAKING OF A “ONE-FINGER ARTIST.” Among other impressions the average “Frosh” gathers during his first week at the School of Engineering is the one that while the instructors like a man who writes a neat hand, they fall violently in love with one who uses a typewriter. Gradually this impression begins to produce action and the “Frosh” comes into possession of one of the complicated instruments that he secs so easily manipulated in the office. Having acquired a typewriter by one of the following methods viz., to wit: Buying, begging, borrowing or renting, (stealing one is next to impossible) he is confronted by the problem of operation. The much heralded touch system requires time to learn and as he has several other things on his mind about that time, he generally accepts Mr. Kienth's suggestion of relying on the Hunt and Peck system. This system is one of the oldest as well as the most popular among ama- teurs. having been devised by Messrs. Long Hunt and Quick Peck in 1897. The operation under the Hunt and Peck system is very simple: the writer merely hunts for the key he wants and when found, pecks at it. It also offers the advantage of permitting the use of one finger on each hand only, thus saving the operator much valuable time should he subsequently lose the other three fingers. These exclusive advantages at once attract the “Frosh” and he practices diligently, but the well known elusiveness of the little ivory key causes 4’s to appear where T’s should bloom and r’s to occur in the space allotted to e’s. And the “Frosh” has ample opportunity for lurid thoughts and mental hymns of hate as he pecks and pecks and pecks. Gradually the keys become tired of their game of hide and seek and remain in one place long enough to be poked at the proper time. Finally the “Frosh” develops into a one-finger ar- tist. but by that time he is no longer a “Frosh.” WALTER A. BIETER. II-B. “TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.” Tf a joke is labeled in your name. Don’t take it to heart, or get insane: Wouldn’t it be awful if we never did smile? Why. that’s what helps make our Annual worth while. So don’t get sore if we pop you one. For, as we said before, ’tis only in fun. czz Page One Hundred Seventy-three

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 1920 EMF X- ;;;;;;; 'm'f.:y '' THOSE CONDITIONAL BLUES Chorus: (Sung under certain conditions.) I've got the blues, I’ve got the blues I received some very bad news. No more movies, no more fun, I should have eighty, got sixty-one. I’ve got the blues, I’ve got the blues, From the top of my head to my shoes. Lordy, Lordy school is well. You know me I am SOL. Oh I’ve got the super-conditional blues. (Some blues.) Introduced with great success by Goocher and Forbes. Prof. Kienth (in one of his miscellaneous lectures:) “Mr. Haines, will you name the different races of people.” Haines: “The black race, white race, yellow race, red race, and green race.” Prof. K----: “Yes? Where is the green race located?” Haines: “At present, part of them are in room 157.” (Fresh, meeting.) Ed. Note: Haines forgot to mention the “blue” race which has developed since the “lid went down.” THAT’S WHAT HABIT DOES An engineer said the life of a locomotive was only thirty years. A by- stander remarked, “such a tough looking thing as that should live longer than that.” “Well,” responded the engineer, “perhaps it would if it didn’t smoke so much.” 0 Page One Hundred Seventy-five