Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE PROFESSOR CHARLES M. ALLEN, M. S. Professor of Hydraulic Engineering About two minutes before ten Charlie walks into his office and starts opening his mail. The bell rings and Charlie casually hunts for his books and starts for the class room. In the meantime the bunch, including even Dayton, having arrived, pull out their watches with high hopes. At just 4.999 minutes past ten in walks Charlie and after opening all the windows that are closed and closing all those that are open, greets us with, “Well! ur-r-r-m, what’s the lesson for today?” Somebody gives lesson about three weeks behind. ‘Naw, it’s over on moving blades, ur-r-r-m, this reads like an old story. Any questions?” “Well! if you don’t ask some I will.” P. C. immediately gets scared. “Er, Just what does one of those water sheds that the book speaks of, look like?” Much laughter. “That’s all right,” and explains water shed. “That reminds me of when we were on a job down on the Susquehanna River,” Tells story of the wind that blew so hard that it stopped the river from flowing so that they had to shut down the plant. Laughter. “Ur-r-r-m, That’s all right, you wouldn’t believe it, but it’s true.” To be serious, Charlie is one of the best liked Profs on the Hill, both by the faculty and by the students, and his inexhaustible fund of stories has lightened many of the tedious hours. PROFESSOR DAVID L. GALLUP, M. E. Professor of Gas Engineering Lives there a Tech man who has never read a Sunday Telegram ? If so, your education has been neglected, for you need go no farther to get com¬ plete information regarding Davy, as this subject has been treated often and in detail on its pages. The Institute catalogue speaks of David Lamprey Gallup, Professor of Gas Engineering. This sounds good to the outsider, but why not be frank and leave out the word Engineering, for any man who has taken Davy’s courses will tell you that gas and “air” are adequate descriptions, in spite of the fact that air is a regular course all right.” Now here is our friendly advice to the coming Senior who wants to “make a hit” in Gas Engineering: get the text-book entitled “Internal Combustion Engines,” turn to ( 21 )

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THE AFTERMATH, CLASS OE 1914 does Professor Bird. Moreover this interest does not die the moment a man takes his sheepskin and departs, but follows him throughout life. The “cussedness of material things” does not apply to Piggy, although he may think so. PROFESSOR JOHN H. NELSON, M. S. Professor of Applied Mechanics “Well! What are our troubles this morning?” With this cheerful query Pro¬ fessor Nelson always starts his classes. It is nearly two years now since his coming from the “Gweat” Lakes to stick us with “pwoblems” and his efforts in this line have not all been unavailing. Up to exams he kids us into believing that his exams are a pipe, but then—Oh, my! It is then if ever the Techman homeward plods his weary way. Habits formed out in the “wild and woolly” still cling to him, as he persists in having his hair cut once a year whether it needs it or not. Rumor has it that “Prof” Nelson is some automobilist, and it is expected that soon it will be one of the historic sights of Worcester to see him disguised with his derby racing with the trees along Main Street. Both inside and outside the classroom, Prof. Nelson has won the respect and friendship of all of us who have come in contact with him. PROFESSOR ALTON L. SMITH, M. S. Professor of Drawing and Machine Design Place, Machine Design Room. Time, almost any time. Temperature, about forty-two degrees Fahrenheit. The title of this might be anything from “Over the Spectacles” to “When Dreams Don’t Come True,” but it isn’t. Professor Alton Lincoln “Dingtoe” Smith. Just where the appellation “Ding- toe” comes from is still one of the great unsolved mysteries. In spite of his awful courses, “Ding” is a pretty good “Prof,” and one need but ask to get some mighty good advice. More often, however, we get the advice without asking. He has a genial countenance and we have found him not lacking in the appreciation of a joke. His chief claim to fame is in the fact that he is the general of a small army of drawing instructors, “Jimmy” and “Buss.” The sounds, “Mr.-, draw a line AB about a foot long” in slow monotones will long linger in our ears. “0 all the words which man has used, The best are these ; ‘Class excused. ' ” ( 20 )

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THE AFTERMATH, CLASS OF 1914 the chapter headed “Modem Types of Internal Combustion Engines,” (you can’t miss it, for it consists of 128 pages profusely illustrated) and put in your spare time learning the details and descriptions of the gas engines mentioned, such as the Borsy-Oechel- hauser, Koerting, Cockerill, etc., etc., etc. You will be held for these, and if some lazy mortal questions the necessity of memorizing “so much stuff,” as several lazy mortals are sure to do, Davy will smile and inform him “You can’t play horse with me, even if my name is Gallup.” The Institute may well be proud to have a man on its faculty so high in the auto¬ mobile world and holding a position of honor and importance like that of chairman of the research committee of the Society of Automobile Engineers, for the position is sought by the most expert consulting engineers in the United States. The Committee was or¬ ganized for the purpose of performing “fair and important tests on various things in connection with the automobile industry.” Professor Gallup is called upon from all over the country to make important tests and we are told by good authority that seldom does he fail to uphold his reputation or fail to “obtain ’ (please notice we said obtain) satisfactory results. Yes, Davy is one of the “regular men” on the Hill and we shall all remember what “little we saw of him” by his biting sarcasm and dry humor. PROFESSOR CARLETON A. READ, S. B. Professor of Steam Engineering As under classmen we often wondered who the notorious B. A. was, but upon making inquiry of the upper classmen we were met with a smile and the statement that Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” Upon entering his class for the first time, we wondered what we could have to fear from a gentleman with such a beaming coun¬ tenance. It was not long, however, before one of us for some unknown reason was un¬ fortunate enough to cause the disappearance of this facial contortion. However, like a passing cloud in a summer sky, his frown soon passes and his smile beams forth once more. Prof. Read graduated from M. I. T., in the class of 1891 and returned the next year as instructor in Mechanical Engineering, which position he held until 1 899, when he accepted a professorship of Mechanical Engineering. In 1908 he was called to this Institute as a Professor of Steam Engineering. His spare time is taken up in making trips to Boston, where he has several classes in steam. He delights in bringing back prob¬ lems which gave great trouble to men there, but of course to us they seem simple. ( 22 )