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

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nwimmghigm-- 7 nf-. --a w .4 -- K-mm THE TEKTON THE EVENING SCHOOL IN ACTION Above we give a picture of the Institute during an Evening School session. It ref quired an hour's exposure. If more of us could find it possible to give up an evening hour or two during the winter we might learn a bit concerning a most interesting, and perhaps the most useful, work the Institute is doing for men in industry. During the year past we had an evening school of 1012 men, by far the great majority of whom were studying along lines connected with their daily work. These are just such men as you will be after a few years on the job. Since we have no Evening School Alumni Associaf tion that school says very little collectively. They say a good deal individually, and that is usually very much to the point. They like our coursesand method of instruction. Their very good attendance records show it if they themselves say nothing. The comf ments of several hundreds of men yearly almost universally favorable lead us to believe that they are pleased with their work. When any course in a school can accommodate only a third of the men applying for it, the content and method of that course must perforce be what students of the subject are looking for. That is the situation in many of our Evening School courses. It would be interesting to compute the average number of year's attendance of evening school men. Nothing of the kind has been done in our evening school, but we know of several men who have attended for six consecutive years. When you conf sider that this has been done often amid the difficulties of loss of a job, with several small mouths to feed perhaps, and with the sickness, which besets us all at times, to contend with you will come to respect the character of our evening school men which prompts them to improve their minds and skills under such handicaps. Very few of us realize the effect of the evening school grind. After February lst it seems to get you, and with the bad weather of that month and March we usually lose a large number of evening school students. This year there has been practically none of that falling by the way, -+Ni341'+

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muon neF ci:m-4 umm THE TEKTON QUOTE FROM NEWSPAPER According to the records kept by the librarian, the ten most popular books in the school library are: james Davis-The Iron Puddler. Harry M, Franck-A Vagabond Jour' ney Around the World. Mark Twain-Life on the Mississippi. Rudyard Kipling-The Light That Failed. B. T. Washington-Up From Slavery. Michael Pupin-From Immigrant to Inf ventor. R. Sabatini-Scaramouche. Edward Bok-The Americanization of Edward Bok. Life of Westinghouse. Dr. Wilfred Grenfell-Autobiography of a Labrador Doctor. It is the librarian's observation that the two busiest men in school, who are also outstanding scholars, have read the most books. They have felt the thrill and stimf ulus of great life stories, as Professor Ver' non suggests. The theme of Professor Vernon's lec' ture might well have been that old provf erb: Tell me what you read, and I will tell you what you are. That biography is an important adjunct to religion because it emphasizes the great' ness of the human soul was recently pointed out by Prof. Ambrose W. Vernon of Dartmouth. He stated that the tendency of modern science has been to minimize the signin' cance of humanity, and added: Astronomy swallows us up in immeasf urable space. Geology, with its unimaginf able aeons, belittles the insignificant gener' ations of men. Amid the austerities of physics and the intricacies of chemistry we wonder how we could have been interested in watching 'the clock beat out the little lives of menf Nor does one's scorn of his humanity gain much relief from biology, the liaison department between things and men. Evolution, its fundamental tenet, subordinates individuals to streams of tendf ency. Individuals turn into curious prof tuberances in which the untiring forces knot themselves in a necessary lassitude be' fore they push further in their endless course. Even psychology treats us as inf stances rather than individuals. The study of biography is important in offseting this attitude and in refenforcing religion, because it nxes men's minds on the unique greatness of the human soulg because it points out that the progress of the world has in large part depended upon the energy and insight of individual souls, because it demonstrates that the great movf ers of the world have been preponderantly religious men, because, as it enables us rev' erently to enter into their company, it ref produces in us the religious experience, because it convinces us that it is the prof gressive and independent among the religf ious men who have had the most inspiring influence, and because it leaves us awaiting and expectant of further and more inevit' able triumphs of the divine spirit in the hearts of men. HIGHLY EFFIOIENT Caller: How is your new assistant get' ting along these days? Chemist: Oh, fine, he's got things so mixed up now that I couldn't do without him. PLUMBING GLASS Butler is heartbroken because he cannot go to live at Winthrop so as to be with the rich young widow that he took to the last school dance. How about that girl back in Leominster? --nf 33

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cnug-Ja f-BC?H!XE!fT'D0 -l'f'3ffL'3 THE TEKTCN but an exceedingly large percentage of the 1012 students have completed the year's work. The favorable weather has helped greatly in this result throughout our even' ing school session. Men are coming from as far as Worcesf ter to attend the Evening School. Uur radius is quite as large as that of the day school. We have had men move to Boston from as far as Chicago to attend our par' ticular classes. We are proud of the kind of men we have in the evening school and you, as loyal alumni of the Institute, will be as proud as we are. If you're working near Boston next. year come in and see us during an evening school session. We'll be glad to see you again and we may be able to help you in making good on your job. You'll have to work overtime if you expect to progress. '? WHN'l'W1JH'1'II 1 THE CLASS PRCPHECY Vv'hile in Boston, in the year 1935, I attended a meeting of the Master Plumbers Association. Whom should I meet but Graves, Murphy, and Osborne, and learned from them that our class president, Ed. Hallinan, is now president of the associaf tion. just as the meeting was about over, one member of our class, MacNeill, got up and presented two rules for the plumbers to use while working: First-No profane language. Second-No immodest stories. Both rules were tabled until the next meeting. The next day I thought I would take a ride around to see if I could run across any more members of the class. In Lexington I read a big sign, Samuel Dickerman, Largest Poultry Raiser in New England. While changing a tire, just before reaching Peabody, I heard two men say, Have Skinner figure your job and get 'skun'-have Durkee figure it and get a square deal. j When in Lawrence I noticed that all the music stores were displaying copies of the latest song hit, entitled 'LMy Alice - Music and words by Leo Bergeron. In Haverhill, where several new apartf ment houses were being built, I read this sign, Plumbing and Heating Installed by Maroneyf' Continuing on my journey I finally reached the big town of Laconia, N. H. The buildings of the town were gaily decorated and the people were having a parade. In answer to my questions as to the reasons for the celebration, I learned that it was for none other than our classmate, Everett Lord! He had just completed a new invention for the Laconia Car Co.- to use hot air pipes in the back of the seats to keep the passengers warm in the winter, and run cold water through the pipes to keep them cool in the summer. Cn returning to Massachusetts, the next town of importance that I visited was Ware. There I saw a huge illuminated sign which read David Rohan-Sanitary Engineer. Going toward the Cape-in New Bed' ford-I passed a large truck belonging to The Ray Wilcox Co. That name seemed familiar to me and on stopping to speak to the driver I learned that he was our old friend Ray! On inquiry as to who the Co might be, I was told that it was his wife and five children! ! ! At Falmouth, Tom Heffernan and Tom Lawrence had just cleaned up millions with their latest invention: a new wiping solder that will not burn the hands. They took me down to see Parolski, who is now owner of a radio station. While we were there he received an S. O. S. from -.sq 35 ja.