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

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Two reasons why Greve and Groth attend fraternity meetings: Cigars and punch. One morning Wickus was taking a nap in calculus class. Stransky was about to punch him so that Doc. Yeaton wouldn’t see him, when Yeaton re- marked: “Don’t be so rough with him Stransky. Let him sleep a-while.” Eddy is working in Mr. Brown’s office correcting papers. He reports that lie has learned two more applications for the formula: Force is equal to the mass times the acceleration. Ellison discovered to be an 1. W. W. (1 Worship Women.) How- Prohibition involves calculus: The amount of alcohol is the vari- able which approaches y- of 1% as the limit. Lieut. Rick of the R. O. T. C.: “What shall we do tonight?” Buchan: “Get that girl that you had at the Association dance and I’ll get some other doll and we’ll go out for a good time.” Our idea of a pessimist is a man who would not sit down to eat a baked apple with cream without first determining the core loss. Calculus Problem: Differentiate pi with respect to (a). Answer: If we let (a) stand for appetite the whole class proves them- selves skilled mathematicians. Lowcock was asked why the efficiency was not taken into consideration when figuring the secondary current of a transformer, from the rating. “Oh, that’s the outcome of the transformer.” “Say, Rogers, did you study your math, hist night?” “Yes. We spent all our time extracting the root of log x in the park last night.” Mr. Bovee has entered the commercial field. Tic has accepted a position as collector for the McGray-Hill Company. He now starts his lectures with this refrain: “Did I get four dollars from everybody for McGraw-Hill?” JOKES Alborn is working on a novel electric heater. It is designed for 220 volts, 3 phase. It has three heating coils disconnected in Y, that is, the neutral ends are brought near together but not in contact. Thus the resist- ance is infinity, and the current zero. Then I-R—0X00. which is inde- terminate. Therefore the heater will give any amount of heat desired. It is regulated by a small dial on the front. Page Seventy-seven

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 (Elaaa Histnnj k 4 We think it was Alexander the Great who said, “History is but fiction agreed upon.” With this worthy gentleman's quotation before us, we will proceed, trying now and then to refute the statement as quoted. All things have a beginning—our beginning as a class began in the sum- mer of 1917—fifty of us—occupying most of the space of the school which at that time was situated in the Stroll building. These conditions were soon changed, however, upon the removal of the College of Electrical Engineering to its present location. We were impressed, and distressed; impressed by the vast field of Elec- trical Engineering, distressed financially by the existing conditions at that time. But those days are gone:— “Oh Friend, forever loved, forever dear, What fruitless tears have bathed thy honnour’d bier.” Lord Byron. Early in 1918 the original class was divided into two separate classes. For that, and similar reasons, the class to-day is not the one that originally started, only four men of that class now being with us. Some left school, some entered the service; new men entered from time to time from other classes, and from other colleges and universities. Some former students re- turning from service were placed with us to finish their course. The “final close up” shows us as we have always been—BUSY. L. B. and G. R. Qferut IX Humor If Stransky (explaining to Doc. Ycaton how he worked a calculus problem) ‘I can do it that way, but I doubt if you can.” One morning room 159 was cold and Mr: Black wanted to open the windows. The class objected, and Mr. Black said: “I’ll furnish the hot air.” Have you noticed how Groth has been shaking lately? No, he isn’t cold. He was out to a dance the night before and hasn’t got through shimmying yet. Blassingham (reciting in mathematics) : “Two plus two is approximate- ly four.” A. C. Ball: “A proposal is a contract in which the consideration is a promise for a promise.” Lowcock: “If a fellow writes a letter to a girl telling her that he will marry her and signs his name could she hold him to it?” What do you mean, “hold him” Hank? Fellows, have you met Sam Lee’s uncle yet? He has a laundry on Wells street. 1'oge Seventy-six

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i THE i p2(0 EHF ■' ..A» U f IF— If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same: If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss: If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: Hold on!” If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue. Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you. If all men count with you. but none too much: If you can (ill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it. And—which is more—you’ll be a Man. my son! From Kipling. -pm Page Seventy-eight