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

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 HOW WE SPEND OUR SUNDAY AFTERNOONS Page Eighty-nine

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udjr Annual iHtli-Umter Prntr of Engineering VII at Haslgngtnn Park Engineering VII. the class that has the reputation of always starting something new, requested its chief weather forcaster Pung Reynolds to sug- gest a suitable Sunday for the picnic at Washington park. Pung, by his secret methods of atmospheric control caused January 11, to be an ideal day. The class, six strong, assembled at the bachelor apartments of Schroeder and Sabatke. Havlick, a car company employee, financed the fares at the company’s expense. At the park we encountered our miniature member Ervin Riebe, making a party of seven. Reynolds and Sabatke had a thrilling ride on the toboggan slide. Fritchell tried to imitate and took a scat behind one of the fair sex. His ride was thrilling because of the many slaps encountered. Schroedcr suggested that we follow him to the home of our ancestors. The journey ended in front of a monkey cage. After watching the monkeys for a while, we decided to imitate some of their jokes and tricks. Riebe scrambled into a vacant cage, pursued by Havlick. Suddenly the screaming of a baby attracted us. On investigation we found that the baby’s carriage was used by Smith, who used Schroeder as a substitute for the baby. About this time Sabatke. by his farmer instinct, discovered an ancient horse hitched to a sled. The assistance of Schroeder and Smith was necessary to make the horse move. The fair sex about the park were getting pretty attractive to the party. Smith and Schroeder made a bold attempt to get pictures of a pair and were given a cold reception. We stopped on a hill and Havlick tried his luck on Skis. Schroeder demonstrated his ability in sliding on Skis. Reynolds delighted in watching the young ladies taking tumbles while coasting. We left the ski slide, and were determined to get acquainted with some of the “dames” around the skating rink. Fritchcl discovered two that he termed most compelling to look at. Before he could get familiar, Smith and Schroeder, carried olT the flowers of victory. Sabatke discovered two of his acquaintances, and Started off to Highland boulevard, a region very familiar to him. The rest of the party disbanded by a unanimous vote, having in their possession three reels of pictures of events of the day. E. G. S.

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 $ 4 k ..tp -THE 1920 E ' ■ ■ £—rjL, ®ur lExpernttr a Hitlj tljp Jffantliu I he individual members of the class do not have many experiences with the faculty. Whenever any faculty member has anything to do with anyone of Engineering VII, he can figure on having something to do with the whole class. The members of the class stick together like a father sticks to his children. It seemed as if our reputation with Prof. Bovee was NG at the beginning of the fall term. As we figure it out, Mr. Bovee had that opinion of us and therefore decided that it would not give him much pleasure in lecturing to 11s. He therefore saw to it, that Prof. Kartak lectured to us. We were eager to lose our bad reputation as poor students and consequently began the new term right. We studied harder than ever and, in general, tried our best to do better work. As a result of this, we got along very nicely with Prof. Kartak. Now, at the beginning of a new term, we have Mr. Bovee lecturing to us again in electricity. We wonder if it could be that Mr. Bovee has been so quickly convinced that we are now doing better work or is he just -taking a chance with us. Perhaps the schedule just happened to be such that lie should lecture to us. Even if we say that we are trying to do better work, Prof. Yeaton does not believe it. He keeps on saying, “I don’t know what is the matter with you fellows, but I can only figure on half of you being present at any time.” True, professor, but if you had a class of thirty and four were absent each day, you would consider the attendance fairly good. Well, four of our eight are no more than four of a class of thirty. But all the same, we know that if we had only the textbook in calculus we would know nothing of the subject. All we know about calculus we acquired from listening to Mr. Ycaton’s lectures. But, we don’t know much. This, however, is not due to the honorable pro- fessor. We tried to reform from cutting school days now and then, but the healthy air of autumn tempted us again and again until one day we broke our resolu- tion. That day was armistice day. The morning students were to appear in class the first three periods, but we, Engineering VII, did not. The next day our guardian, Prof. J. D. Ball conversed with us and from thence we were a good class, at least two of us being there at any time. Even if Mr. Ball was the man whose duty it was to make us behave—and he did it—all of us liked him and regretted his sudden departure from our midst. Even if we will see him frequently, we miss his lectures. Everyone of us admits that we ac- quired more knowledge out of one of his lectures than we would out of sev- eral books. Engineering VII was very fortunate to have for an electro-chemical lab- oratory instructor a professor of such great ability as Mr. Edward Wesle. The same thing is true in this case as it is in Mr. Ycaton's class, viz., with the book alone, we would know nothing of the chemistry of electrochemistry. Our present knowledge of electrochemistry is due to Mr. Eddy’s interesting and explanatory lectures. Also, Prof. Bovee succeeded in forcing some knowledge of this interesting subject into our craniums. Page Ninety