Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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25 practice in the Wood-room under the direction of Charlie Bitstock, the Knight of the Tool-room, who has since gone into the grocery business. Our specialists are Chambers, who is advanced enough to play banjo duets with Boyden ; Taylor the flutist, who is a great blow—But hold,we must speak of our future. Although not fortune-tellers, still we safely predict a great future for ’95. If there are five men left to graduate, they will prob¬ ably be in the first six. We intend to invite the Faculty to our Half-way supper and also have Battery B stationed in the wood-yard where we orde r out combustibles. We were going to Chicago this month as part of the Tech exhibit, but the space allowed the Institute was not large enough to accommodate Gilbert’s feet, so the scheme has been abandoned. Since entering the Institute we have seen many changes take place ; the Shops have been enlarged, tuition has become ambitious and gone up another round, and the course has been lengthened. While we cannot positively affirm that we are responsible for these changes, we think Prof. Kinnicutt saw the need of a four years course after conducting a few quizzes in chemistry, and some one has said that the rise in tuition was to replace the glass we broke when snowballing with ’94.

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27 a!Ya (JUNIORS.) OFFICERS. Clarence W. Eastman, Charles A. Burt, Frank E. Killam, Nelson B. Hale, . President. Vice-Presiden t. Secretary . Treasurer. CHEMISTRY. Ernest A. Bickford, Elisha L. Buffington, Clarence W. Eastman, Harry S. Whitney. CIVIL ENGINEERING. Harry C. Boyden, Warren E. Brooks, Nelson B. Hale, Herbert P. Shepard B. Palmer, Elliott W. Peck, Henry W. Pope, Linnell, Otis D. G. Rice, Warren A. Scott. mechanical engineering. John C. Abbot, Louis R. Abbott, Charles M. Allen, M. Clifford Allen, William J. Baldwin, George W. Bishop, Charles G. Harris, George W. Heald, Lewis A. Howland, Edward H. Keith, Frank E. Killam, Leslie Killam,