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

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FORGE SHOP CLASS-Won second place in Tekron contest ADVANCED PATTERN-MAKING CLASS-Won third place in Tekton contest

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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

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ff1Si5'JI -- - V - f'f u Qu Y K . .mega THE TEKTQN WHEN DCES OLD AGE BEGIN? A man reaches the prime of life at 27 years. But even then his hearing is on the downfgrade, as that sense is more acute at seven or eight years. Such is the belief of Prof. Karl Pearson. A few years ago Dr. Eugene Lyman Fiske expressed his opinion that our bodies begin wearing out at the age of 12. So authorities disagree. But the average man undoubtedly reaches the pinnacle of his physical pow' ers before he is 30. Thereafter he slowly deteriorates. His health may be good. But the endurance of youth is on the wane. Old age really begins in the cradle. That is, our care and environment in infancy determine, to a considerable extent, the number of years of strength and health will be available to us before we begin to go down hill physically. Yet despite all we can do, the summer of life is brief. In his early thirties a man begins to realize instinctively that he canf' not stand exposure and strain as he could in his teens and twenties. Cf men between the ages of 21 and 31 who were called up under the Selective Service Act, 38 in every 100 were rejected on account of physical defects. Qld age- deterioration, which is the forerunner of physical dissolution-had sunk its talons into them. However, man is in the late autumn or winter of physical condition before he reaches the summertime of mental devel' opment. It is a rare man who has any pronounced degree of wisdom and good judgment be' fore he is 35 or 40. In this way nature compensates us. As our physical powers weaken, our intellect' ual powers strengthen. But only up to certain point. Ultimately comes senility, when mental faculties lose their powers and brilliance. . Lightfheartedly man squanders the best part of his life. Qld age begins to overtake him usually before he really gets down to business. Small wonder, so few reach the top of the hill of success. For youth, while it may work hard, rarely exerts itself to the limits of its powers. The years that are wasted are the most important of all. . 7 ' WliNTWOIi'I'Il +- THE OLDER WORKMAN By EDGAR A. GuEsT Brave boy, be not discouraged at the start, For fame and fortune are the gifts of years, The product of long periods of smart, Of cruel disappointment and its tears. You see success and all you hope to be Combined to grace the pathway of a man, And you are keen to stand as high as he, But he was young, like you, when he began. You envy him the skill which he has earned, And all he owns you would possess today1 But there is much by youth which must be learned, For you, his goal lies twenty years away! Vxfork hard, nor waste in envy, fleeting time, The older workman has the greater skill, The mountain, eager twenty cannot climb, The wiser man at forty surely will. Think not that you should come to fame today, It is too soon. There is no youth alive Vsfho by a single sweep can brush away The years which wait to make fortyffive. Those who have reached the goal which you desire Have suffered much and 'battled down the way, ' If you can cross those years and never tire At their age you can be as great' as they. -at 32 pw-