Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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to some students, tech is merely the reality of a tin mans dream— did he foresee a degree granting organization of musty fact-stuffed professors, frustrated, work stuffed students, and fifty thousand text books pregnant with empirical formulas, empirical diagrams, empirical tables, em- pirical pr oof s-left-f or -student, empirical even-numbered-problems-ansivers, empir- ical intuitively -obviousness, empirical em- piricalness .... 1 o c --it ▼ IV ; Kp; en — « :o 3 J ' tl i l ' J ; i ' ■ : r ; H 1 r 1 I J ■ ill J i[

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then, what be this majestic, wondrous tech? you ask. perhaps the tired and stainless genious of ancient thinkers, or a colosseum where brains are split under the guilded academic sword, or maybe a bunch of brick and ivy btdwarking dear old mrs. higgins.

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then there is the guy whose tech is the next best thing to the french riviera: the idyllic institute pond with its lush, grassy banks ornamented with clusters of lovely becker girls lying around in abandoned attitudes. fc. ' tot