Rochester Institute of Technology - Techmila / Ramikin Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Chemistry Nineteen

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 Shaping a bowl Beginning an oil study old life-line-to-the-Wcst with its bulky and squat lift- bridges. There are seascapes with the smell of salt in them, green waves breaking into a white surf, or quiet fogs settling at Ogunquit and Rockpoit, Maine, or Gloucester, Massachusetts. Inland there are rickety old houses on Cape Cod. and hundreds of miles farther inland, the fields, houses and barns of rural Michigan and Western New York. In “Class at R I. T. 1917 we catch a glimpse of a painting class as it appeared four years before Instructor Ulp became Director of the Applied Art Department in HIT. High button shoes and ankle length dresses glitter- ing below the hems of blue smocks were the feminine fashion highlights during the school day. As director, Mr. Ulp introduced the idea of moving picture episodes to train students to observe models in motion. He also helped in the development of the Roch- ester Art Scales, a tested method of evaluating art com- petence. There in the April exhibition we saw not pictures only but felt that we had studied the profile of a commercial illustrator, and fine landscape painter, long time lover of the RIT neighborhood, inventive teacher, and for SI years the director of the Department of Applied Arts, Mr. Clifford M. Ulp. Finishing touches on still life Instruction in modeling class

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RAYMOND B1EHLER EDWIN HEN RICK HOMER IMES RALPH T. VAN PEURSEN Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble, Shakespeare’s prophetic eye mirrored the life of the Chemistry students. Toil. Ask any of us the meaning of the word “toil” and we will not only define it, but give you a few choice ex- amples , . . waiting for two hours in Quantitative Analysis for a crucible to ignite to constant weight, spending weeks chasing an unkown through group St in Organic only to find that it belongs in group S2, whirling test tubes around in a centrifuge until we feel our own brains spinning, making capillary tubes; reflecting junk and distilling junk Trouble comes next—double trouble, even triple trouble —especially when three samples of an unknown arc run into a slightly dirty beaker , . . or when careless moist fingerprints disturb the weight of hygroscopic salts. Disaster strikes when a student of “Quant measures two drops of hydrochloric acid Operating the Spedograph and plotting curves PATRICA LLOYD T wertty