Wentworth Institute of Technology - Tekton Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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safe-Lwxcin - at-um nm: THE TEKTON RUTHIE IX By JACK ZILLMAN For no words can explain, Cur love for her we claim, 1 For dear is our cutie, Sweeter than the honeycomb, As pretty as the rose, Cuter than the pretty cupid, Who always prettier grows, II As sweet as the stillness Cf the beautiful country air, That when you see her sitting, You think there is no one there. III A cheerful nature has she, For she is as happy as can be, Hardly ever does she cry, When you look her in the eye. IV Her eyes are like the heaven, Her cheeks are like the rose, Her lips are like the bright red setting, Of the beautiful evening sun. V Her smile is like the sunshine, That never seems to wane, For she has the disposition, Of a cheerful pretty babe. VI To no one is she a bother, For so says her mother, That whenever she is playing, In her lying or sitting position, You wonder where she got, Her cheerful disposition. VII Quietly does she slumber, In perfect peace and rest, When lying at her mothers Very comfortable breast. VIII For us it is a happy pleasure, To possess such a treasure, For dear is she to us, She whom we caress. Whom we call RUTHIE. TO BELINDA fCarolyn Wells, in Harpers Weekly, Belinda is the village belle, Her beauty has no H. Her charming manner is perfection. There's no one like her in this I wonder would she think me rash If after her I made a --, And with a manner suave and bland I frankly asked her for her hand. Then if I murmured, Tell me, dearie, Would she say, 'iYes, unto my ?. And yetsHBelinda's tongue's so brisk, I fear I'd be an ig. ' -M WENTWORTH 74- WI-IAT IF- Wood stopped painting, Miller came early, Prouty came regularly, Canada went dry, Harper got: tonguetied, Bryant combed his hair, Creighton grew tall, Anderson repaired his overalls, Bonney washed his neck, Brautt got some new glasses, Holt stayed home nights, Ganey scraped his face, Jeffery wore green stockings, Meade stopped smoking, Miller joined the movies, Prouty had his health, Mr. Morris stopped chewing, Mr. Tapp stopped smoking? GOOD FOR HIM Little Archie: Gee pop, I just swalf lowed a worm ! Anxious Father: Take a drink of wa' ter, quick! quick! and wash it down. Little Archie: Aw, nog let him walk. 494: 29 M.. ,-

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sawn C f -ucinwkvgfiau dem THE TEKTON DISCOVERING YOUR WATER LINE On every ocean vessel may be noticed a water line. The vessel goes best when it is loaded to this line. If overloaded, or if not loaded enough, it is in danger of floundering or becoming less stable. It is equally imporf tant for an individual to know how much responsibility he can carry, in other words, at what water line he can sail best. If he has too many responsibilities, he is likely to flounder, and if not enough, he may become unstable. A man should not take on too many responsibilities, and he should not have too few. All life is a balance, and it is important for every person to learn just how much load he can carry, and how little. T WVENTVVDXTTH 1 WHY PEOPLE READ THE SPORT PAGE Why do so many people turn first of all to the sport page of a newspaper? One reason that has been advanced is that this page is largely a record of vicf tories, while the other pages of the news' paper, which tell of politics, crimes, divorces, etc., is more or less a record of failures. People like to read about success, not of failure, and as long as they do so they will be interested in any form of success, even if it is in a prize ring or on the foot' ball field. NEED OF THE HOUR Frenchmen are selling umbrellas that are equipped with radio receiving sets. What is wanted here is an umbrella that will scream when it is picked up by the wrong party.-Los Angeles Times. A FEW PROBLEMS FOR MATHE MATICIANS 1. Ray Schalk, veteran catcher of the Chicago White Sox, caught a ball thrown from the tower of the Chicago Tribune building. The ball traveled a distance of 460 feet, and its speed was estimated at two miles a minute. Figure the speed. 2. How many feet per second is forty miles per hour? 3. What is the cube root of .64? 4. What is the square root of .9? 5. How would you approximate the height of a chimney on a sunny day if all you had as a means of measuring was a yardstick? 6. Why do you smile when your classf mate says he is a descendant of Governor Carver? Using your knowledge of geometf ric progression, and allowing one genera' tion every thirty years, figure the number of ancestors of your classmate in 1625. 7. Under which of these conditions would you prefer to work one year after graduation? a. Ten thousand dollars for the year. b. One cent the first week, with your remuneration doubled every week for the rest of the year. 8. The year 2100 will not be a leap year. Why not? i- W E NTWORTH 1 HEARD OF THIS TOWN? My friends, have you heard of the town Nogood, On the banks of the River Slow, Where blooms the Waitawhile flower fair, Where the Sometimeorother scents the air, And the soft Goeasys grow? It lies in the Valley of Whatstheuse, In the province of Let'erslideg That tired feeling is native there, It's the home of the reckless Idon'tcare, Where the Civeitups abide. MZSW

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was-Jn W-- ,.i1cSfAg9,Z'i2z-fini - mm THE TEKTON WHY NOT SOW KINDNESS? By F. D. VAN AMBURGH The old philosopher Phocylides wrote: To do a kindness to a bad man is like sowing your seed in the sea. Old Phocylides was a grouch in the head and had gout of the heart. Kindness, like grain, increases by sowf ing, but only a fool would throw a seed in the sea. Radium sells on a basis of fI5200,000,000 a pound, but one little act of kindness, costing no great effort, no money, and only a moment of time, is often of greater help to humans than a handful of radium. The reason for the high cost of radium is its comparative scarcity. The real reason for the unusual appreciation of kindness is largely due to a lack of sufficient producf tion to lower its value on the open market. If everyone were always kind and conf siderate, kindness would be as common as the small stones on a gravel road. Kindness is not a common practice. We all mean to be kind, but our good intenf tions often prove to be the stuff they pave the streets with down in that prison where Satan is warden. TIME Time is the stuff that life is made of. The prisoner serves timefi The butterfly' type seeks to kill time. The peanut polif tician in public office is a time server. XVasting time is an indictment that may be held true of all people. The efficiency men have translated wasted motion into terms of lost hours of labor and have proven the fact of staggering losses reckf oned in dollars and cents at prevailing wages. For time is the most valuable possession of humanity. Precious indeed are the 24 hours allotted to every individual every day. Some by their folly telescope the days, burning the candle at both ends. Others forget the past with its worries and let the morrow wait with its own anxieties. Suffif cient for the day is the evil thereof. It is a blessing that time comes to us in sections of one day. Think what this means to the sick and the suffering, to those who are hopeless, to those who crave the op' portunity of a new start. The sunset seems to gather into its shadows the cares of the day. The dawn comes again with bright' ness to brighten the heart and quicken the step of man. This is the daily miracle, and of it Arnold Bennett writes true words: L'You wake up in the morning and your purse is magically filled with 24 hours of the manufactured tissue of the universe of your life. Waste your innnitely precious commodity as much as you will, and the supply will never be withheld from you. You cannot draw on the future. It is im' possible to get into debt. You can only waste the passing moment. There are two days never to worry about. Yesterday because it is past. And tomorrow, because it is yet to come. Every day is a fresh beginning, every day is the world made new. PRINTING DEPARTMENT Through the courtesy of the S. D. War' ren Paper Company a showing of the new film on the Complete Process of the Manu' facture of Paper was shown to the entire student body in the Assembly Hall. The film of three reels was taken in Maine. Starting two hundred miles up the Kennef bec River, the trees were felled and carried to the stream and ended with the finished product in the mills at Cumberland, Maine. .I - --:wif 30 154:--s