Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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Harry Benjamin Feldman Assistant Professor of Chemistry (Leave of Absence) Harold Edward Graves Professor of Chemical Engineering Engineering Carl Gunnard Johnson Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Stanley Herbert Fillion Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Arthur Julius Knight Professor of Civil Engineering, Acting Head of Department Harold Joseph Gay Professor of Mathematics Leslie James Hooper Assistant Professor of Hydraulic Engineering Robert Philips Kolb Professor of Heat-Power Engineering (Leave of Absence)

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began his career at Tech as Oscar Zilch. Oscar got ninety-five on his final exam in high school physics, and he was going to major in physics at Tech, and show the world a thing or two. His first contact is at the dorm, with Daddy, whom he can’t quite figure out. How can anyone be so hospitable, busi¬ nesslike, affable, and firm, all at once? Next he is introduced to Cosine, and de¬ cides at once,— He’s okay, but he’ll bear watching. I can’t have a proctor doing me out of my dessert, just because I don’t like to make beds.” Oscar’s third contact is a blind date provided by the same Cosine, and he promptly decides that desserts aren’t so important after all. But that is another story. The array of wise men facing the fresh- Francis Joseph Adams Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Acting Plead of Department Frederick Raymond Butler Professor of Chemistry Charles Metcalf Allen Professor of Hydraulic Engineering Edward Choate Brown Assistant Professor of Mathematics Donald Graham Downing Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Harold Winthrop Dowes Professor of Mechanical Engineering

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men is indeed imposing, and Oscar runs the gamut. First, he is scared so much by Dutchy that he gets nothing from the class; next he is lulled by Doc so that he can’t remember a word that was said in lecture, and finally he is almost complete¬ ly deafened by the man with the voice in Mechanical Drawing. Oscar soon learns once and for all that one simply does not fall asleep in math class. Nor does one cut, nor let assignments pile up. Doc and Happy and Bill see to this. In the spring, along with the flowers and trees, there blossoms a doubt in Oscar’s mind, the seed for which was sown in the ruins of the first physics exam. This scientific terminology stuff is probabl y okay,” says Oscar, but I’ll take mine in small doses.” The upshot of the matter is that he signs up for the M. E. Willard Elliot Lawton Assistant Professor of Physics Harold Arthur Maxfield Professor of Electrical Engineering (Leave of Absence) William Willard Locke, Jr. Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Kenneth Gerald Merriam Professor of Aeromechanics (Leave of Absence) Gleason Harvey MacCullough Professor of Engineering Mechanics Carl Frederick Meyer Professor of Civil Engineering