Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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noticeable virtue is his humility before a twelve inch piece of wood labeled log- log duplex decitrig slide rule. his per- sonal belongings are unmistakably those of the novice, some of the universal pos- sessions among entering freshmen include: his long-hidden heffner harvest, a joan baez album, two volumes of quantum mechanics made simple, last year ' s sci- ence fair ribbon, and an autographed pic- ture of werner von braun. (of course, we mustn ' t forget that new world stamp al- bum he plans to complete in his leisure hours.) u I | ' 1 ' ™ ' SMgg 2»,

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scholastic ally, the TECHMAN is a lance- lot in relentless pursuit of truth: he is re- markably loyal, romantically fearless, and dreadfully mortal, of course, he wasn ' t al- ways this way. (even lancelot started off as a lowly page working his way through knight school.) nowadays, this ephemeral novice is the high school senior, when he first falls into tech ' s hands, he is nothing more than a flesh-colored mollusk, bar- nicled with national honor society pins, and full of unripened baby fat and Sunday school ideals about college, his only 22

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the necessity of change for our neophyte is painfully evident, yet not always ac- complished, for the submissive, neverthe- less, the metamorphosis is spontaneous, beginning with the payment of his first tuition bill and ending with his first dear alumnus mail, after a week, he has al- ready abandoned the notion of an eiglit- hour night of sleep, (early to bed and early to rise makes a man go on pro.) he experiences his first trauma when he dis- covers that all tilings in life have rigorous mathematical significance, even the mysti- cal arrow of cupid has been redefined as the love vector. it doesn ' t take Jiim long to realize that there are more things in heaven and earth than were mentioned in the catalogue, he no longer approaches the prodigious accumulation of knowledge