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

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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

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 V, M ,,,-,, 'THE 4920 EMF | USE SSfe. Engineering VII is not different from any other class. Everybody says, “Our friend, Mr. Kienth.” We say the same quite often. Prof. Matthews is also a friend of everybody, but he is not the .same kind of a friend that Prof. Kienth is. viz., a friend who has the “Givemes.” Another thing, you cannot begin an argument with Mr. Matthews because he does not waste his time that way. Mr. Kienth. on the other hand, is a ready debater on any subject. Perhaps he does not consider arguing waste of time. SINCE JANUARY 1. 1920. Erwin Sabatke is awake. Harold Vinje came to school three times. Erwin Riebc did not smoke. Edgar Schrocder became an A. I. E. E. member. Ewald Fritschcl did not go out with girls. Carl Smith has not been working. Paul Reynolds washed dishes at the Boston Lunch. Joe Havlick has shaved exactly 13,678 times. Reynolds to J. Havlick: There arc two foreigners in school now, one from Siam and the other from Nebraska. THE BEST WAY TO KILL AN ASSOCIATION Don't attend meetings. If you do attend, come late. If weather is a bit disagreeable, stay away. When you do attend, be a grouch and find fault with the officers, with what they do and the way they do it. Never accept an office—it is much easier to grouch, criticise and find fault than to do things. Get sore and kick because you are not appointed on a committee—if you are, do not attend the committee meetings; then tell everyone how things really should be done. When called upon by the chairman, act indifferent, as disagreeable as possible and say nothing; if you do say anything show signs of being hurt. Promise to join the association and then hold back in your dues as long as you can. If you are asked to get a new member, act as if you were peeved or too big for such work—promise to and then don’t do it. When the association adopts a resolution ignore it—pretend it was for your competitor but not for you, and when questioned about it say you did not know anything about it. Don’t do any more than you have to; what you do, do unwillingly, and when others get in and roll up their sleeves and unselfishly do their utmost to help matters along, set up a howl that the association is run by a gang of dishonest persons. J. HAVLICK. y - Page Ninety-one