Stevens Institute of Technology - Link Yearbook (Hoboken, NJ)

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V Q M , . ,ga- ' -mu Urr the 25th of September, girls, moonlight rides, huammocks, and the various combinations of the Same were go Qutwarcl appearance banished from our minds, as we assembled at the Old Mill for the hardest rear in our college course, and doubtless one which many hope will be the hardest. through life. Proiessor Webb was the first one on the new list and we went fearlessly to htm with Calculus, after 21 tt-C514 of 503 study, at our tongue's end. That is, we thought we did, and 1 have no doubt a few members of the class would have undertaken to have calculated the number of cubic feet in space. But, sad to relate, like Professor Bristol in his prophecy, we were wrong, and soon found, after one lec- ture from Professor Webb, that what we did not know about Calculus would fill several volumes. It was the same way in the other mathematics, especially Co-ordinate Geometry. One student was sat upon for an assertion in Simple Arithmetic. Professor Webb does not waste time or words, and immediatelystarted us in mechanics, and in a way ,ga will never forget. Indeed, an ellipse of stress might even now' be traced among the care-worn lines of a student's face. The tirst impressions of Professor jacobus were not encouraging, for he began his lectures by speaking of a zero circle. Many of the class thought he referred to the A. R. L. Mutual Aid Society and must have thought so all the more, when one of their number, an ex-president, suggested that an indicator card was a combination of a Sinusoid and a Hyperboloid of Revolution. A circular zero was the probable result. We have not, as a class orator has said, learned much of double ported valves in this department, but we have learned one thing, and that is that a pair of dividers is a great labor sav- ing instrument. The class found that a summer's recreation had not changed our old friend, Professor Mayer, in the least, unless it was to increase his rate of talking. Professor Wood was another stranger to us, although we had seen him in combination with a bil liard cue in the Freshmen year. He was, however, a stranger but a short time, for his kindly Ways soon won for him the friendship of all. Die Anna Lise is a thing of the past, and the less said about the Mechanik the better. We still have our Priestlys in Professor Leed's department, and their num- ber rs daily increasing. Doubtless many thought that even old Sweats was trying for that name, when he actually got up and answered a question on the puddling process. '92 is noted, not only for its brilliancy in studies, but for its success in outside things. Her Glee Club, composed of the entire class, is one of which they might indeed be proud. Very little music comes from this organization, but as the professors get plenty of noise, and the rest of the college is told who won the championship, that is all that is necessary. T11 , , - , , - . . . ere may be at times excuses for the singing, reminding one of a rusty gate or a fog horn for V . i Y. g ' 7 u hen the class is led off with a Now, boys, all sing Annie Rooney-one, two, three l the lack of har- mony might be pardoned. This plan of starting, no doubt, has its advantages, for by this we all get off together something in the style of a sprint race b t is Restf , I , U OU HS many keys as there are verses to Yes, there 1 - H . V . Y A ' D 92 is a rm behet er in the all work and no play principle, as a glance at her athletrc records l 2 2 l

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ci 1011 Higrrori . to - - 4 I A 1, 1 wi G ' 1'A' A-af, , t,f, H ELL, boys, we did it, and did it wen, and I think that, if the smoke 'i q I of that funeral pyre is as warm as its memories are in our minds, all that is left of Old Calculus and a Mr. Childe Harold must be -Q? pa. W it rising at the present time. That night, the greatest one in our his- tory, was the turning point in our college career,.for, in the twelve hours preceding it, we had met and conquered our greatest enemy, 'V and had thus passed over the barrier which separates the rollicking, 53255563 i sign-stealing sophomore from the dignified upper-class man. Did we then rejoice? Ask the Hoboken police.-Not even the fact that our procession was led by the Drum Corps of some Hoboken Sunday-school kept us quiet. Professor Bristol prophesied that the rejoicing would be limited to a very few, Professor Wall, like Brer Rabbit, ff laid low and said nothing, but it was evident to us all, after our quiet song and dance in his hall-way, that he thought volumes. Some of our reports showed he had not been dreaming, and then we did the thinking. In justice to Professor Bristol, it must be said that he did End a few students who had been wast- ing their time in his department, and whom he conditioned, one or two having since been missing from the class. One of these, they say, having grown tired of mathematics and Hoboken, left for the soli- tude and drowsiness of a plantation home, where he might forget the charms of a foot-light beauty in the soothing influences of a Cuban cigarette. A few days after the burning of Calculus, when our enthusiasm had cooled down under various modes of treatment, we reported to Professor Denton at' the Institute for our first duties as juniors. Then, to our pleasant surprise, we found that the shop would not accommodate '92 and the Sophomores at the same time. Whether Professor Denton feared for the safety of that wing of the building, or of its being pulled by the police, I am uninformed, but at any rate, we were to take shop throughout the Junior year. What the class did through the summer is known only to the members, but, to judge by an event which took place during the Christmas holidays, and an announcement made since, they could not have 'zwzsfcd their time. 21

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will show. We ended up the Sophomore year by winning the college championship in tennis and wip- ing the ground with '93 in lacrosse. But it remained for the Junior year to bring '92 out in her true colors and, if any one had doubts up to that time as to '92's athletic supremacy, they were quickly dis- pelled by the result of the championship football games last fall. The management of the games was practically in the hands of '91, but, even with that to contend against, '92 proved the class well worthy of the name, the Invincibles. The hrst game was won from the freshmen by the score of zo to 8 with the whole college yelling against us. This bit of courtesy on the part of '91 did not trouble the team in the least as the score showed, but it does seem strange that the Seniors should act in such an undignified way. From the Sophomores nothing else could be expected. Their tenderness of years will excuse many childish actions. The first game with '93 being disputed, the Athletic Board, or the majority of them, decided the game should be played again. But we had a full revenge on '91 for that act in adding another defeat to the already long list of defeats administered to them by our class. Then came the final game with the Sophomores. Of course, we beat them. Many attribute our success in this game to the complexity of our signal code. Why, even our own quarterback did not understand them. He would get at a safe distance behind the line, and inform 793 they were full of prunes, and, while they were puzzling this out, he would call out, 4-11-44: oh, I don't know what that means, here, Firecrackers, take DER ball. After a few such combinations, we made the touch down that won the game and the championship. '93 says it was a case of luck when we won the first game, a case of luck when we made the touch down in the second 5 but was it luck when they had the ball for six consecutive downs within two yards of our line, and could not force it over ? Well, boys, we have done very well so far, but we have yet a few more championships to win, a year more of study, and we will then fulfil the brightest hopes of our Freshman Historian. '91 goes out this year, and we will then be Seniors. But we cannot let them go without the wish that they will have a much greater success in after life than they had in bucking the line of old Ninety-Two. HISTORIAN. 1' f y sitgil- 1 iv 4, . 95,711 1 X i, 2' ,H av. Q-e , . .. H 5. 51 -1 -3,4 t ., Jaw 6 ,,,.. .ll , ,V 1, '1l.4'c' ' -f ' f' 'lf ' ,ff ' .- 533 f :.' . ft- ,. 1 . -af. E,'f?1.i. I -4- 5 'gig' A w 1' ' V 1 - Tj - .. ,fri ' . ai fafj1 ',ff1 1:35 . :Qt-' dur' 'fir 'ij 1- S'j?':5 'F 1 fthe ' f a'-: fa A 1 -752 ,,. J -5f: jf,g , .. A , F ffa- .fi 'cc ' .fu 'f J' XPS ll. 1. '. 2 ' 4 -f ' 'Lf' J-. ' 5 ' ' . - '1' LU 444' . 1: . ' .--'Tian . 'Lf:,Qg!-!g,: '4C- ,Y -if 'f ' 34 'fur . -iikifff' JM' ca.- ,ff-15-urs' -1 ' H1 Nw in ,' -. ' ' -..'iel 'f4, ,1S' ,, .y KELLY . lr y 'L - , 'HW vu . ,, xa t. ,f'. . -L . ,ff - 1, iff. 2.25. ,lfu ' 4 - ..-4.-.N - .' VJ 4 ' ' N -if -N at --V-V-- -.I, 4 tr V1 ffl. .W UI ,V ,, , ,Qi I I 'pqqygy J l ,'!,fli'Jr .y7tfi Q-,,,, ,V ' , . ,, I ' L,-JPL' ., -.' K :.vQQ,55,'A ,Tina ' i, 33