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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPEt OF THE 'UHDERGRADUATES OF THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITurE OF TCHNOGY --- i iT..... -i-- -- -'- i i ii- -- -- · ........ I- i- ii -- i .... _I - - - -- - c- -- --- L- -- -- -- -- - - ude he (6rrt ngu Ve roffes aFr .m op* yMr ep rtdal, (rinabs. r freslatinr votib of aer, Be 2rnisar, 3untiors, 3aaitors, .nb rueen Le To-ReB roDAP, Ue man belitee wlate'er .tour bent erpt 'ter gP tma awit, 7P Corr1e rxtrneu best wuihslhs for A tuaric Chrhfittmm- ye ! When at this most joyous season of the year, Christmas casts its de- lightful spell over the hearts and minds of all, when even men of the busy world, delves in the arts and sciences, seekers after knowledge, workers and students, young and old, are all in a greater or less degree under the influence of Christmastide, The Tech extends its warmest and most sincere greetings. On this return of that most hallowved time which brought to the -world its message of peace and goodwill to men-a time which, by the happiest arrangement, has been made almost from time immemorial the occasion for the gathering together of families often so -widely separated by the demands of education and of labor-a time, also, when the thoughts of men turn for a while from the cold aspects of Nature, Science, and Industry, to the more moral and tender considerations of home and friends-at this time above all others, it is the earnest wish of The Tecl that a universal spirit of good humor, good fellowship, kindly and charitable feeling may reign among us all. (from "The Tech" for December 19, 1895) Our Nation's Defense - Near the end of 1955, IIT sponsored the formation of an organizational franmeworlk for the IDA-the Institute for Defense Analysis. IDA wvas fomrned to broaden and strengthen the resources of the Weapons Systemns Evaluation Group, a group of carefully selected military officers and professional civilians which is the direct source of analytical information in the weapolls field for the Department of Defense. The charge put to IDA reads in part: ".. evaluation of new equipment in the light of militariy requirements ... development of new tactical doctrines to meet changing militalry requirements .. ." General James McCormack, vice president for industrial relations, is nowr president of IDA. In an inteliew, Wednesday, Gen. not met our full commitment to the things to do than people to do them." (IDA eventually hopes to have a min- imum of 100 men on its staff in order to carry out its job.) Due to its de- ficiency in manpower, it has been forced to turn down requests from other branches of government to set up organizations similar to IDA. Says Gen. McCormack, "Our ambition is to do the assigned job -yell." He points out that it is very easy to grow by incorporaiton into other agencies. However, he says, "It is reasonably possible that in the next year we will take other jobs-possibly more spe- cialized studies." Since IDA began two years ago, it has tripled in size from the approxi- mately twienty-five who were on the staff originally. It has drawn on the seoavices of men from all over the iIT comnmunity-especially Lincoln Lab and Electrical Engineering. Gen. McCormack also touched on the condition of Soviet education. He said, "In education they have certain- ly made a more massive, more tightly organized effort than Ae have in sev- eral ways." He pointed out that they have high grade technicians-the sort we get from 2 year colleges-in greater num- bers than we do. By contrast, how- ever, wre have more machinery lying .round and often educate ourselves. Their institutes of technology are run by ministries of industry-one goes through narrow channels of Iamtning, and does not get as broad an education as we do. They far outweigh us in numbers, however. They are currently gradu- sting twice as many gradluates as the U.S. and w-ill catch up with us in total numlber of scientists and engineers sometime between 1960 and 1965 at the plresent rate. Faculty Defers Vote On ROTC Q0uestion If the factulty follows its customary procedure, no action will be taken on the question of compulsory ROTC until the next regular faculty meet- ing early next term. At its last meeting, Monday, De- cember 16, the faculty heard the first presentation of a report outlining the desirability of voluntary ROTC. By custom no action is taken on such a report until at least the second pres- entation. If the faculty votes to abolish com- pulsory ROTC, it will mean the end of an institution which has endured at MIT since World War i days. The entire Reserve Officelrs Trainingr Corps program, Army, Navy, and Air Force, 'ould be put on a voluntary basis. Student government, in the spring of 1956, placed itself on record against compulsory ROTC. Most faculty and administration officials, and several members of the Military, Air, and Naval Science departments, have in- dicated, privately, their opposition to compulsory ROTC also. A sense of responsibility toward the 90vernment and people of the United States, however, has consistently, in the past severwal years, been cited to justify the continuation of the pro- Gram. Lately (since sputnik) the sci- ntist has been gaining favor in the Public's eye and there is a general a'areness that a scientist is at least as valuable as a soldier in today's defense set-up. McCormack stated, "We at IDA have Joint Chiefs of Staff. There are more N do City Action On River Basin The llCambrlidge City Council tabled a re-zoning application, Monday, which would have opened a portion of the Charles River Basin to indus- trial developnment. However, the ap- plication can be taken from the table at any time and be hurriedly pushed through the Council. Councilnman Al ¥ellucci indicated that the application was probably tabled because of a lack of support for it among the nine-man Council. The application requires a two-thirds nmajority for passage. At a preliminarxy healring two -weeks ago, the voting was 5-4 in favor of re-zoning. At present, a hMr. John Sullivan owns an option to the stretch of the Charles from the Longfellow Bridge to a point just downstream of the Sloan Building, Sullivan has indicated a desire to develop the area into a hundred million dollar industrial cen- te r. At the Council meeting Monday, Sullivan's application was one of about fifty zoning change requests. The Council deliberated on each re- quest for about ten seconds. In that length of time, the view of the Charles was preserved, at least tem- porarily. The room where the City Council met wvas almost deserted. A reporter flrom The Teclh 'was 3IIT's only rep- resentative. Hagen and Sputnik Co-incided The last scheduled Physics Society speaker was Dr. John T. Ilagan, di- rertor of Project Vanguard. However, three days before he was to speak, the Soviets launched Sputnik I. Dr. Hagan was deluged with wolrk in Washington and sent an associate, Dr. N. Whitney Bathews, who drewa a capacity house to Kresge. Weisskopf-Last Sprin g Last spring professor Victor F. WVeisskopf of the Physics Department spoke shortly after several Columbia University physicists, working in the same field as Prof. Weisskopf, an- nounced that the law of parity does not hold. No Change in Capital Physics Society members are hop- ing, that spectacular developments in connection with the Geophysical Year will occur in the next two weeks, to swell the lecture audience once more. (In Washington, spokesman re-iter- ated that there is not the slightest chance of another American satellite launching in the next month.) CHRISTMAS RECEPTION Chancellor and Mrs. Stratton will hold a reception, for students staying at the Institute over the Christmas holidays, in the pent- house at 100 Menmorial Drive on Monday, December 23 from four to six p.m. The committee also approved a bud- get of $199 submitted by the Fresh- man Committee for their operatingI expenses and for the jobs that have been delegated to this committee. Burton Serenades A group of about thirty carolers from Burton House went to three dif- fcrent girls' dormitories on Wednes- day night in in true Christmas spirit sang carols. Girls at Simmons, M.U. and Bexley Hall were very hospitable to the group. Some joined the singing group while others invited them in and offered them coffee and cookies. This Igroup was organized by the Burtton House Committee. East Campus The East Campus House Committee has formally declared it self opposedl to the motion introduced to the Insti- tute Committee by Lawrence Spilro '59. Spiro proposed that the dor mi- tories be represented on Inscom by the House Chairmen, rather than by separate Inscomrn representatives as is the case now. Some East Campusmnen feel that Inscom has no jurisdiction in the matter, that the meni who rep- resent the dormitories on Inscom should be chosen solely by the will of men living in the dorms. A complaint concerning the Finance Board will be carried to the Judicial Committee. According to EC House- comm, Finance Board agreed to un- derlwrite half of the Freshman Orien- tation expenses, but now refuses to hold to the bargfaiin. A ruling on Fin- B3oard policies and obligations is de-. siredl. The main topic of discussion in House Committees of Burton and Baker House on Wednesday, Decem- ber 18, 1957 was the newly proposed Housernaster plan. Judson James '59 explained the plan to the members of the Baker House Committee while Lewis Cohen '58 explained the plan to the Burton House Committee. Be- cause of the infant sta'e of the plan not much discussion followed. Baker House Committee intends to invite some mnember of the faculty, who knows about the plan, to come and explain it further and in detail. Other business of the Baker House .Committee included a letter which was sent to Voo Doe concerning the dam- ages -caused by their party on Dec. 6 in Baker House. SORRY THE TECH will not nublish over the Christmas holidays. The next issue will appear on Friday, Janu- ary 10, 1958. Season's Greetings. 3 >I dF Q MY X L I~ff 1 slg VOL. LXXVIi NO. 48 I,- 5 (ENTS (AMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1957 Cohen At Odds Wlith Article On Housemasters Burton House president Lewis Cohen '58, in a letter to Hlouse Conlmittee meminbers, gave his interlpretation of Dean Rule's views on housemaster s. Cohen noted repeatedly that his in- terpretation was conttrary to certain statements in a Thre Tcech article vwhich appeared Tuesday. Cohen did not indicate how he had obtained Dean Rule's vicews. Presum- ably he met with the Dean sonmetimne after the article appeared. Cohen dlid not present his interpretation as such, instead representing his words as un- varnished truth incapable of refuta- tion. Dean Rule, according to Cohen, did not mean to imply that the house- master system will be used for super- vision and closer control over student activities. The Dean, after reading, Cohen's letter, agreed with Cohen that the article had over-emphasized these aspects. Excerpts from Cohen's letter fol- low: "Disregarding the intlroductory par- agraph (of the article in The Tech), the Dean is quoted as seeing three main points in the systenm: 1. By fostering contacts, supervi- sion, and organization, it will make dormitory living more enjoyable. 2. It will provide an economic basis for house purchases of food, services, etc. 3. It will provide closer control over- student activities in the dormitories. "The Dean said nothing of the sort. The three points he made to the re- porter were as follows: 1. The dormitories can be made into a much better place to live; and in fiact, they can become miore educa- tional and enjoyable experiences. To these ends, if mnembers of the faculty or staff are resident in the livin, groups, the students wiil have a bet- ter chance to atssociate wmith themn on a non-academic basis. (Contrlary to the article, there wouldl be no "super- vision" or "organization" by the resi- dents.) 2. The Housenmaster w*ould have under his supervision a small budget that Awould be spent for such items as redecolation and elremodeling of public areas, etc. Such a budget is presently handledl by the Manager of the Dormitories (lqr. Do-). By hav- ing such things handled w% ithin a. liv- ing group, attention can be given to things that the Housemaster and the students agree need the most chance. Thus control over this activity wouldl be decentlralized and put closer to home. (Contrary to the article, noth- ing was said about the house pur- chases of food, etc.) 3. The authority of the Dean's Of- fice Would be decentralized, with the Housemaster being able to exercise any of the powera that the Dean's office exercises wiithin the dormitories. Student government would not be dis- tunbed; rather, most of the problems that student government now takes to the Dean's office would be taken to the Housemaster. This is also in line with the decentralization of the remodeling and refurnishinlg budget. (Contrary to the article, there isoult be no "closer control over student activities .. .")." ao Expand IDA Expects Geophysical Year Head Due Here For Physics Society Kresoge Talk The Physics Society, which, twice in 1957, happened to invite promninent speakers to MIT just when their w-ork was achieving world-wide publictiy, wvill try again next month when it sponsors a talk by Dr. Joseph Kaplan,.Director of the American branch of the International Geophysical Year. Dr. Kaplan will be in Kres,ge Auditorium Thursday, Janualry 9, at five in the afternoon. Although his topic has not yet been announced, Dr. Kaplan has assured his hosts that he w*vll pull no punches. Caterer Fouls Up- No Yule Goodies A certain outside caterer got his signals crossed and forgot to send over the cider and doughnuts to the Christmas Convocation in Kreso'e Auditorium, Wednesday. Arrlange- ments where minade by a member of the Institute Commnittee who checked with the caterer as late as Monday that enough refreshments for a thou- sand people would be on hand. Arnie Amstutz '58 disclosed these details yesterday mot ding in apolo- gizing to the MIT community on be- half of student government. In the past, he said, refreshments were hmn- died by the Walker Dining Service. However, the service was not involved at all with this year's arrangements. H-ousecomms Are Dealing With ProbleBms That Are Largely Leocal In Their Nature

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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPEt OF THE 'UHDERGRADUATES OF THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITurE OF TCHNOGY--- i iT..... -i-- -- -'- i i ii- -- -- · ........ I- i- ii -- i ...._I

- - - -- - c- -- --- L- -- -- -- --

- -

ude he (6rrt nguVe roffes aFr .m op* yMr ep rtdal, (rinabs.

r freslatinr votib of aer,Be 2rnisar, 3untiors, 3aaitors,

.nb rueen Le To-ReB roDAP,Ue man belitee wlate'er .tour bent

erpt 'ter gP tma awit,7P Corr1e rxtrneu best wuihslhs for

A tuaric Chrhfittmm- ye !

When at this most joyous season of the year, Christmas casts its de-lightful spell over the hearts and minds of all, when even men of the busyworld, delves in the arts and sciences, seekers after knowledge, workersand students, young and old, are all in a greater or less degree under theinfluence of Christmastide, The Tech extends its warmest and most sinceregreetings.

On this return of that most hallowved time which brought to the -worldits message of peace and goodwill to men-a time which, by the happiestarrangement, has been made almost from time immemorial the occasionfor the gathering together of families often so -widely separated by thedemands of education and of labor-a time, also, when the thoughts of menturn for a while from the cold aspects of Nature, Science, and Industry, tothe more moral and tender considerations of home and friends-at this timeabove all others, it is the earnest wish of The Tecl that a universal spiritof good humor, good fellowship, kindly and charitable feeling may reignamong us all.

(from "The Tech" for December 19, 1895)

Our Nation's Defense

-

Near the end of 1955, IIT sponsored the formation of an organizationalfranmeworlk for the IDA-the Institute for Defense Analysis. IDA wvas fomrnedto broaden and strengthen the resources of the Weapons Systemns EvaluationGroup, a group of carefully selected military officers and professional civilianswhich is the direct source of analytical information in the weapolls field forthe Department of Defense.

The charge put to IDA reads in part: ".. evaluation of new equipmentin the light of militariy requirements . . . development of new tactical doctrinesto meet changing militalry requirements .. ."

General James McCormack, vice president for industrial relations, is nowrpresident of IDA.

In an inteliew, Wednesday, Gen.not met our full commitment to the things to do than people to do them."(IDA eventually hopes to have a min-imum of 100 men on its staff in orderto carry out its job.) Due to its de-ficiency in manpower, it has beenforced to turn down requests fromother branches of government to setup organizations similar to IDA. SaysGen. McCormack, "Our ambition is todo the assigned job -yell." He pointsout that it is very easy to grow byincorporaiton into other agencies.However, he says, "It is reasonablypossible that in the next year we willtake other jobs-possibly more spe-cialized studies."

Since IDA began two years ago, ithas tripled in size from the approxi-mately twienty-five who were on thestaff originally. It has drawn on theseoavices of men from all over theiIT comnmunity-especially LincolnLab and Electrical Engineering.

Gen. McCormack also touched onthe condition of Soviet education. Hesaid, "In education they have certain-ly made a more massive, more tightlyorganized effort than Ae have in sev-eral ways."

He pointed out that they have highgrade technicians-the sort we getfrom 2 year colleges-in greater num-bers than we do. By contrast, how-ever, wre have more machinery lying.round and often educate ourselves.

Their institutes of technology arerun by ministries of industry-onegoes through narrow channels ofIamtning, and does not get as broadan education as we do.

They far outweigh us in numbers,however. They are currently gradu-sting twice as many gradluates as theU.S. and w-ill catch up with us in totalnumlber of scientists and engineerssometime between 1960 and 1965 atthe plresent rate.

Faculty Defers VoteOn ROTC Q0uestion

If the factulty follows its customaryprocedure, no action will be taken onthe question of compulsory ROTCuntil the next regular faculty meet-ing early next term.At its last meeting, Monday, De-

cember 16, the faculty heard the firstpresentation of a report outlining thedesirability of voluntary ROTC. Bycustom no action is taken on such areport until at least the second pres-entation.

If the faculty votes to abolish com-pulsory ROTC, it will mean the endof an institution which has enduredat MIT since World War i days. Theentire Reserve Officelrs Trainingr Corpsprogram, Army, Navy, and Air Force,'ould be put on a voluntary basis.

Student government, in the springof 1956, placed itself on record againstcompulsory ROTC. Most faculty andadministration officials, and severalmembers of the Military, Air, andNaval Science departments, have in-dicated, privately, their opposition tocompulsory ROTC also.A sense of responsibility toward the

90vernment and people of the UnitedStates, however, has consistently, inthe past severwal years, been citedto justify the continuation of the pro-Gram. Lately (since sputnik) the sci-ntist has been gaining favor in the

Public's eye and there is a generala'areness that a scientist is at least

as valuable as a soldier in today'sdefense set-up.

McCormack stated, "We at IDA haveJoint Chiefs of Staff. There are more

N do City ActionOn River Basin

The llCambrlidge City Council tableda re-zoning application, Monday,which would have opened a portionof the Charles River Basin to indus-trial developnment. However, the ap-plication can be taken from the tableat any time and be hurriedly pushedthrough the Council.

Councilnman Al ¥ellucci indicatedthat the application was probablytabled because of a lack of supportfor it among the nine-man Council.The application requires a two-thirdsnmajority for passage.

At a preliminarxy healring two -weeksago, the voting was 5-4 in favor ofre-zoning.

At present, a hMr. John Sullivanowns an option to the stretch of theCharles from the Longfellow Bridgeto a point just downstream of theSloan Building, Sullivan has indicateda desire to develop the area into ahundred million dollar industrial cen-te r.

At the Council meeting Monday,Sullivan's application was one ofabout fifty zoning change requests.The Council deliberated on each re-quest for about ten seconds. In thatlength of time, the view of theCharles was preserved, at least tem-porarily.

The room where the City Councilmet wvas almost deserted. A reporterflrom The Teclh 'was 3IIT's only rep-resentative.

Hagen and Sputnik Co-incidedThe last scheduled Physics Society

speaker was Dr. John T. Ilagan, di-rertor of Project Vanguard. However,three days before he was to speak,the Soviets launched Sputnik I. Dr.Hagan was deluged with wolrk inWashington and sent an associate, Dr.N. Whitney Bathews, who drewa acapacity house to Kresge.

Weisskopf-Last Sprin gLast spring professor Victor F.

WVeisskopf of the Physics Departmentspoke shortly after several ColumbiaUniversity physicists, working in thesame field as Prof. Weisskopf, an-nounced that the law of parity doesnot hold.

No Change in CapitalPhysics Society members are hop-

ing, that spectacular developments inconnection with the Geophysical Yearwill occur in the next two weeks, toswell the lecture audience once more.

(In Washington, spokesman re-iter-ated that there is not the slightestchance of another American satellitelaunching in the next month.)

CHRISTMAS RECEPTION

Chancellor and Mrs. Strattonwill hold a reception, for studentsstaying at the Institute over theChristmas holidays, in the pent-house at 100 Menmorial Drive onMonday, December 23 from fourto six p.m.

The committee also approved a bud-get of $199 submitted by the Fresh-man Committee for their operatingIexpenses and for the jobs that havebeen delegated to this committee.

Burton SerenadesA group of about thirty carolers

from Burton House went to three dif-fcrent girls' dormitories on Wednes-day night in in true Christmas spiritsang carols. Girls at Simmons, M.U.and Bexley Hall were very hospitableto the group. Some joined the singinggroup while others invited them inand offered them coffee and cookies.This Igroup was organized by theBurtton House Committee.

East CampusThe East Campus House Committee

has formally declared it self opposedl

to the motion introduced to the Insti-tute Committee by Lawrence Spilro'59. Spiro proposed that the dor mi-tories be represented on Inscom bythe House Chairmen, rather than byseparate Inscomrn representatives as isthe case now. Some East Campusmnenfeel that Inscom has no jurisdictionin the matter, that the meni who rep-resent the dormitories on Inscomshould be chosen solely by the will ofmen living in the dorms.

A complaint concerning the FinanceBoard will be carried to the JudicialCommittee. According to EC House-comm, Finance Board agreed to un-derlwrite half of the Freshman Orien-tation expenses, but now refuses tohold to the bargfaiin. A ruling on Fin-B3oard policies and obligations is de-.siredl.

The main topic of discussion inHouse Committees of Burton andBaker House on Wednesday, Decem-ber 18, 1957 was the newly proposedHousernaster plan. Judson James '59explained the plan to the membersof the Baker House Committee whileLewis Cohen '58 explained the planto the Burton House Committee. Be-cause of the infant sta'e of the plan

not much discussion followed. BakerHouse Committee intends to invitesome mnember of the faculty, whoknows about the plan, to come andexplain it further and in detail.

Other business of the Baker House.Committee included a letter which wassent to Voo Doe concerning the dam-ages -caused by their party on Dec. 6in Baker House.

SORRY

THE TECH will not nublish over

the Christmas holidays. The next

issue will appear on Friday, Janu-

ary 10, 1958. Season's Greetings.

3 >I dF Q

MY X L I~ff 1 slg

VOL. LXXVIi NO. 48I,-

5 (ENTS(AMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1957

Cohen At OddsWlith Article OnHousemastersBurton House president Lewis Cohen'58, in a letter to Hlouse Conlmitteememinbers, gave his interlpretation ofDean Rule's views on housemaster s.Cohen noted repeatedly that his in-terpretation was conttrary to certainstatements in a Thre Tcech articlevwhich appeared Tuesday.

Cohen did not indicate how he hadobtained Dean Rule's vicews. Presum-ably he met with the Dean sonmetimneafter the article appeared. Cohen dlidnot present his interpretation as such,instead representing his words as un-varnished truth incapable of refuta-tion.

Dean Rule, according to Cohen, didnot mean to imply that the house-master system will be used for super-vision and closer control over studentactivities. The Dean, after reading,Cohen's letter, agreed with Cohen thatthe article had over-emphasized theseaspects.

Excerpts from Cohen's letter fol-low:

"Disregarding the intlroductory par-agraph (of the article in The Tech),the Dean is quoted as seeing threemain points in the systenm:

1. By fostering contacts, supervi-sion, and organization, it will makedormitory living more enjoyable.

2. It will provide an economic basisfor house purchases of food, services,etc.

3. It will provide closer control over-student activities in the dormitories.

"The Dean said nothing of the sort.The three points he made to the re-porter were as follows:

1. The dormitories can be made intoa much better place to live; and infiact, they can become miore educa-tional and enjoyable experiences. Tothese ends, if mnembers of the facultyor staff are resident in the livin,groups, the students wiil have a bet-ter chance to atssociate wmith themn ona non-academic basis. (Contrlary to

the article, there wouldl be no "super-vision" or "organization" by the resi-dents.)

2. The Housenmaster w*ould haveunder his supervision a small budgetthat Awould be spent for such itemsas redecolation and elremodeling ofpublic areas, etc. Such a budget ispresently handledl by the Manager ofthe Dormitories (lqr. Do-). By hav-ing such things handled w% ithin a. liv-ing group, attention can be given tothings that the Housemaster and thestudents agree need the most chance.Thus control over this activity wouldlbe decentlralized and put closer tohome. (Contrary to the article, noth-ing was said about the house pur-chases of food, etc.)

3. The authority of the Dean's Of-fice Would be decentralized, with theHousemaster being able to exerciseany of the powera that the Dean'soffice exercises wiithin the dormitories.Student government would not be dis-tunbed; rather, most of the problemsthat student government now takesto the Dean's office would be takento the Housemaster. This is also inline with the decentralization of theremodeling and refurnishinlg budget.(Contrary to the article, there isoultbe no "closer control over studentactivities . . .")."

ao ExpandIDA Expects

Geophysical Year Head Due HereFor Physics Society Kresoge Talk

The Physics Society, which, twice in 1957, happened to invite promninentspeakers to MIT just when their w-ork was achieving world-wide publictiy, wvilltry again next month when it sponsors a talk by Dr. Joseph Kaplan,.Directorof the American branch of the International Geophysical Year.

Dr. Kaplan will be in Kres,ge Auditorium Thursday, Janualry 9, at five inthe afternoon. Although his topic has not yet been announced, Dr. Kaplan hasassured his hosts that he w*vll pull no punches.

Caterer Fouls Up-No Yule Goodies

A certain outside caterer got hissignals crossed and forgot to sendover the cider and doughnuts to theChristmas Convocation in Kreso'eAuditorium, Wednesday. Arrlange-

ments where minade by a member ofthe Institute Commnittee who checkedwith the caterer as late as Mondaythat enough refreshments for a thou-sand people would be on hand.

Arnie Amstutz '58 disclosed thesedetails yesterday mot ding in apolo-gizing to the MIT community on be-half of student government. In thepast, he said, refreshments were hmn-died by the Walker Dining Service.However, the service was not involvedat all with this year's arrangements.

H-ousecomms Are Dealing With ProbleBms

That Are Largely Leocal In Their Nature

Pae 2 The Teei

VOL. LXXVII December 20, 1957 No. 48

i

FRIDAY, D CEIBER 20, t957

even though the alien has not CU'an.ed his address since The last repotTo report address obtain address report card, Form 1-53 af any, UnifedStates Post Office or any Irnmigratiorand Naturalization Service OfFice.

he needed' I say to iys,slf-Harry. you're crocked. Butdamned if this guy don't ttke off h;s },at and sit down.

"'Ho ho ho ho, boy," this joker says, ''you sure are a,goodsend. \Why thosc floor deer of mine have had sometime dotying, missiles an 1 whatnot. I'm a wreck. Anal poorDancer's le,, is hurt."

I asked vihat club did this dancer work at, but heVou'dn't say. I have me another snorth, and we really getto 'lAkin'. WVhoever he was, this guy was a real good Joe.H., tells me about pieing Charles Adams' bed and puttin'ecid bullets in Lone Ranger six-gun sets. All in one night.( i1l the time I was thinkin' as how he looked like a well-

fed John Foster Dulles.) Why that guy's been interceptingChristmas cards to Ebenezer Scrooge for years!

Anyway, this fella seems to be just my type or guy, andve B.-S. for a couple more hours. Do you know, I reallythink he had a load on when he left. (So I asked him tocome to my New Year's party). Then he takes off.

Now, I been waitin' around all day at the New Year'sparty and the bum hasn't showed up yet. I knew he was aphoney !

Lord, it's been a funny week! You know someone le" itout that Grandma Moses found a baby-carriage under herChristmas trce; Winston Churchill got some King's Menshave lotion; and Mr. Furness gave Betty a Hotpoint wash-in(g machine! Real crazy. But after all, Millie re-hockedher combs and got my watch back: great gal, Millie. ThoughI really don't see thise trading prose'its around. Everybodyalways ends up with what he started or somethin' he don'twant anyway.

It's startin' to snow now, and-oh there comes the kidridin' on the bicycle he got for Christmr... BICYCLE??

-Sid Magee '62

eolleve woarldMIT makes the news again!!! This time in sometbin.,

much more important than the usual technological news.The Tufts Weekly printed the following announcement:"Note from MIT-Sigma Epsilon Chi, the Junior honorarydrinking association held a meeting Saturday, Nov. 2."Funny how word gets around about those things.

The Simmons nightwatchmen are to be highly com-nmended for doing a fine Job of routing (with drawn night-sticks) a small group who quietly climbed the fence lastSaturday night with the dastardly intentions of singing;perhaps four or five of those seasonal songs called Christ-i-nas Carols. One particularly unfriendly gendarme saidsomething to thet effect that these girls' sleep was more Im-portant than their hearing a bunch of college kids sing(I seriously doubt that the girls shared this opinion), andeven went so far as to place under temporary arrest one ofthe braver who mumbled "Scrooge" in a barely audiblewhisper.

Afore news from Harvard. Seems they had a ruckus upat the square the other day when a fellow got himself acrowd and started preaching. The headline in the Crimsonoread: "Evangelists Halt Txaffic in Square; Leader andTwelve Followers Arrested."' The party started about threeo'clock in front of the Coop. The crovd that gatheredsoon grew so big that traffic was blocked, drawing theattention of a nearby policernan, who repeatedly suggrestedthat the evangelist and his crowd either disperse or moveon. After the fourth ignored suggestion he called the paddywagon. Shucks, Mister Policeman, where i come fromthere's preaching every Saturday afternoon, and nobodyseemns to mind. Now if we could all get together with thisrevivalist some afternoon . . .Why heck, this thing could

even replace football and partying . . .-ta'. Dixon Browder '59

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So I had a scotch and started thinkin' xvhat to do, andbefore I knew it, I'd done a heck ofa lot more drinllin'than thinkin'. And finally- I notice the lights is off andMillie has gone to bed (we don't '-'orry too much aboutthe kid, else he might get bad habits: presents). So I startto walk towards our room and suddenly I see the kid-that's the one I told you about-puttin' a glass and soniccookies over near the fireplace. Then he leatves real quiet.Well, the jerk had left a glass of milk and some foolishkind of note about a bicycle for Christmas. Man, if I wasraskin' the rounds and I ran into a glass of milk I'd puke!

So I sneaks into the kitchen and fill up a big glass withscotch and a drop of water--I figure ole Santa likes scotchon the rocks and if he didn't happen to show, by somechanze, I could put it back in the bottle. (I also take aslight taste of the stuff myself.) I go back to the livingroom and pull out a cigar to leave by the fireplace, when

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Wildcats Down Burkemen 67-60;Four Beavers Hit Double Figures

In a loosely played game, the MITvarsity hoopsters dropped their thirdstraight encounter Tuesday night tothe University of New HampshireWildcats by a 67-O60 margin.

Tech awas cold from the floor theentire game, hitting only 27% for theevening. Pacing- the Tech five wascenter Norm How-ard '68 Iwith 25points.

The score remained close throughoutthe opening period, but the UNHsquad managed to keep a lead untilnear the end of the half when Techopened up a three point lead at twodifferent times.

New Hampshire, however, took thelead again at the start of the secondperiod and kept it, until the final gunsounded with the scoreboard in theirfavor by seven points.

Also scoring for the Tech quintetwere Eric Hasseltine '59 and PaulRepetto '58 for a dozen each and cap-

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Last year New Hampshire was shat-tered by the Tech tealm, as the Card-inal and Grey set a new school scor-ing record in defeating them 94-53.

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After lolding the University ofNew Hampshire almost even for halfof the game, MIT's varsity hockeysquad had their defense fall apart, asthey fwent on to suffer a 9-2 defeat atthe hands of the Durhamites Tuesdaynight on the victors' ice.

The homne pucksters opened thescoring, but Tech came right backwith right wing Ed Sullivan '58 slam-ming in a pass from center GeorgePeckingham '59. Before the periodended, the Beavers were a goal be-hind again.

Seconds after the start of the nextsession, the Wildcats counted another,only to have the Beavers close thegap to 3-2 one minute later whenGeorge Kirk '58 denting the twinesafter an assist from Sullivan.

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