Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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IF AC HD HUY Suddenly he is seized by two masked figures and whisked into a waiting car. What is this—kidnapping? a raid? No, as the two seizers unmask they seem to be friendly and . . . shhh, one of them is speaking: “Er, ah, urn, WELCOME TO WORCESTER TECH! ah, er ...” That was Ripper, and his companion in hospitality appears to be Leight, Elmer’s freshman advisor. The tendency of a body at rest to remain so nearly snaps the necks off the trio as their car starts off with a teriffic burst of speed. ‘‘HEY,—you at the wheel, slow down.” Oh, it’s Sam— well, never mind—what? No, of course I don’t expect you to spoil your tradition, but . . . Thirty seconds later our car slams to a stop in front of Sanford Riley Hall and our new freshman is whisked into the dorm to meet face to face with Daddy, who in turn presents him to Gordie, faculty proctor in the dorm. After a good night’s sleep, Elmer strides bright and early to his first college class—a physics lecture in Kinnicut Hall. As the lecture starts, Elmer hears announcements alpha and beta Francis Joseph Adams Professor of Electrical Engineering Donald Graham Downing Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Harold Winthrop Dows Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering 14 Harry Benjamin Feldman Assistant Professor of Chemistry

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Francis William Roys Professor of Mechanical Engineering Albert James Schwieger Professor of Economics, Government, and Business Leland Leavitt Atwood Professor of Modern Languages and History Percy Robert Carpenter Professor of Physical Education Andrew Hall Holt Professor of Civil Engineering Ernest Dana Wilson Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry

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Charles Metcalf Allen Professor of Hydraulic Engineering Frederic Raymond Butler Professor of Chemistry Edward Choate Brown Assistant Professor of Mathematics Harold Joseph Gay Professor of Mathematics Harold Edward Graves Professor of Chemical Engineering ' §|g§ Stanley Herbert Fillion Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering 15