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Academaik Freedom Editorial

Graduation Job Opportunities

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:obs Available,how DecreaseFrom Last YaIndustry Positions StillGood But 1949 GradsFind Keen Competition

What does the 1949 Technology-aduate face by way of obbainingjob after graduation? To find

se answer to this question, Thech went to Professor Carlton F.

ucker, Student Placement Officer,. I. C. Accordlng to Professor

ecker, the lush conditions of lastar have tightened up a bit, but.e chances of obtaining a positionindustry 'are still good.

Last year, some two hundredrms interviewed graduates of 1948id the same number appear tob interested in securing Technol-y men this term. The companiesid the dates of their interviews areblished weekly in The Tech. In-

[cations are that the total num-ar of jobs available is smaller thisaT. Professor Tucker mentionedle increased output of other tech-[cal schools as contributing to thisend.

Keener CompetitionInasmuch as competition is~ener, Professor Tucker suggestedat Seniors give serious attention, all matters of placement. He

irticularly mentioned keeping ap-)intments, and answering corre-ondence promptly. He finds Itipossible to predict coming indus-ial conditions or to ascertain thegnificance of present economicends concerning job opportunities.Professor Tucker disclosed thatte Placement Office receives many'quests for Juniors and graduateudents for industrial employmentlring the summer. These oppor-Lnities are posted on bulletin)ards and are on file with all thirdbar registration officers.

Summer Jobs at InstituteVarious summer jobs In the In-itute laboratories are available toidergraduates. These positions'e usually obtained through the-ofessors operating the labs butme may be procured through the

r$sonnel Office. For example, inLst years students have earned:tra money in the spectroscopyid biology labs. In addition to the,ove sources, many outside jobsay be obtained through the TCA.

SOLAR HOUSE OCCUPIED

Pictured above is the newly constructed solar house occupied by HaroldB. Reid '50, and his wife. Conspicuous in the picture are glass surfacesof the heat collectors appearing on the roof of the house. Comprisingthe house are two bedrooms, kitchen, living room-dinng room, andinstrument room. A twelve hundred gallon tank is used to store thewater heated in the collectors, which are designed to keep the house at68°F. night and day. The house Is provided with auxiliary electric heat-ing equipment for prolonged periods of cold when the temperature islikely to drop below 65° F., and also for convenience in experimental work,according to Professor Hoyt Hottel of The Chemical Engineering Depart-ment. The heat collectors represent a net area of four hundred squarefeet over which the sun's heat is received.

M.I.T. Glee ClubMaking BroadcastIn Hnnington Hall

On Sunday, February 27, theM.I.T. Glee Club, conducted by Pro-fessor Klaus Liepmann, will beheard in a broadcast sponsored bythe Monsanto Chemical Companyover the New England Network ofthe National Broadcasting Com-pany.

Originating in Huntington Hall,the broadcast will be heard locallyfrom 5:00 to 5:30 pm. over radiostation WBZ. Admission will befree, and the doors will closepromptly at 4:50 p.m.

This is the fourth in a series ofNew England Glee Clubs sponsoredby Monsanto. Already heard wereYale, Mount Holyoke, and Tufts.

The program will include worksby Schubert, Randall Thompson,Purcell and Bartholomew.

eavy Bombers Contracted For?echnolgy FLygg aborator/esTechnology is now operating sev-al Army bombers at Bedford Air-irt for flight test purposes. These.anes, which include a B-29, a C-47,B-25, and a , B-26, are held under.iLmnent contract with the Govern-

tween the laboratory and Buffalo orEglin Field created problems thatdo not occur when the laboratoryand the testing ground are neareach other. Therefore, in order toincrease the efficiency of the pro-

ent, and are being used as flying gram, it was decided -to constructboratories.The project, which goes undere name "MI.T. Bedford FlightLcility," was begun to enable,icker and more efficient testing,Lder actual flight conditions, ofechnology developed airbournenipment. This work had previ-sly been done by the Air Force.d the Cornell Aeronautical Labo-tory.

Hangar Being Constructed

New devices or methods, aftering laboratory-tested, must beten further tests under actual op-ting conditions. In the case of

ronautical instruments, this natu-aly involves flight tests.after the project got under way,was found that the distance be-

the necessary hangar to house theplanes.

Formerly a Fighter BaseThe Institute has leased a plot of

ground at Bedford Airport for thispurpose, and the hangar is nownearing completion. During the war,the airport served as a fighter base,and was used by the RadiationLaboratory.., to install the latestradar equipment in bombers andfighters that were then sent to Eu-rope.

Recently, due to economy meas-ures, the Air Force ws without alocal plane large enough to trans-port an iron lung to California touse in a polio epidemlc, and theInstitute was able to cooperate withthe Air Force, by lending one of itstesting planes.

Nineteen TeamsVying n Debate

Subject Will ConcernEducation Par For All

Assembling at the Institute todlayand Saturdays will be participantsin the Second Annual Mi.T. New'England Debate Tournament. Atthe tournament will be representednineteen of the colleges from thispart of the country which havebeen most aotive In debating.According to the Debating Society,some of the best collegiate debatersin New England will be present atthe Tournament.

The question for debate will be:"Resolved, that the Federal Gov-ernnent should :adopt a policy ofequalizing educational opportuni-ties in tax supported schools bymeans of annual grants."

Two Teams Per SchoolEach school will be represented

by two teams-one affirmative andone negative. The coaches accom-panying the individual debatingteams will serve as critic judgesin the various rounds of the debate.In the seeding rounds, however,only a single judge critic will beused.

Time limits are set for -ten min-utes for the constructive speechesand five minutes for the rebuttals.After two seeding rounds, the eighttop schools will then proceed intoan elimination tournament of threerounds to determine the winner.

Registration for the first roundof debates will take place todaybetween 6:00 and 7:00 pam. inRoom 6-120. Beginning at 8:04) panm.and ending at 9 p.n., WTMIT willbroadcast the first round debates.Round two of debates will be stagedon Saturday between 9:30 and 11:00am3.

Final Bout on SaturdayAfter a recess for lunch, the de-

bating will be resumed at 12:30.Upon completion of the first andsecond elimination rounds, the finaldebate will be saged between 4:00and 5:30 pm. in Room 6-120. Theculmination of the affair will be thepresentation of a trophy to the win-ner at a banquet to be held in theCampus Room of the GraduateHouse Saturday night.

] Two Hours Of usic;Then Dancing Tllu OnePlanned At Tech Sing_I - - - _ _ - - IFive Members OfBoston SymphonyTo Perform Here ,

As part of the Humanities De-partment's series of concerts, theBerkshire Woodwind Ensemble, aquintette composed of first deskplayers from the Boston SymphonyOrchestra, will play in HuntingtonHall Thursday, March 3, at 8:30p.m. Three hundred and fifty freetickets to the student body weremade available at the InformationOffice yesterday at two o'clock.

Second in SeriesThe concert will be the second in

the humanity series this year, theother having been a performanceby,the London String Quartette lastFall. The quintette is composed ofFlute, Oboe, Clarinet, French Horn,and Basoon. They will be heardin a quartette by Mozart, and quin-tettes by Beethoven, Hindemith,Milhaude, and Fine. Professr Fineis teaching at Harvard at the pres-ent time.

Faculty TicketsA limited number of tickets will

be available to the faculty throughthe various departments. The play-ers include James Papoutsakis,Flute; Pasquale Cardillo, Clarinet;Louis Spire, Oboe; Willem Val-henier, French Horn, and RaymondAllard, Basoon.

Mugy Lift TicketSales End Monday

Jr. Stag Party FeaturesBeer., Hot Dogs, Movies

Initial returns on the ticket salesfor the Junior Class' "Mug Lift"have proven to ,be great enough forthe committee to announce thatsales will be discontinued aftertwelve noon this Monday, and thatno tickets will be sold at the door.Tickets are being distributedthrough agents in the dormitories,fraternity and commuter groups;those who have not been contactedmay get their tickets from 10:55A.M. to 12:05 P.M. in Bldg. 10.

Highlight of refreshments for theevening will be Jakie Wirth's Darkbeer, accompanied by potato chips,pretzels, and hot dogs. Cokes willbe provided for non-beer drinkers.On the entertainment schedule arecartoon movies, several of theCharlie Chaplin classics and an oldKeystone cops feature.

The beer will be served in an in-dividual engraved mug, available toall attending. Old clothes will bethe rule.

Only Three Moving PartsUsed In New Carburetor

A new carburetor of revolutionarydesign has recently been put on themarket by the Fish CarburetorCompany of Agawam, Massachu-setts. Mr. Fish, president of thecompany and designer of the car-buretor, will describe the featuresand applications of his product in atalk next Monday at 5:00 p.m. inRoom 3-270.

Mr. Fish 'plans to bring along alarge number of carburetors to dis-tribute to the audience as an aidin following his explanations. Hav-ing unusually high efficiency andeconomy, the carburetor opera teswith only three moving parts.

ourteen 6roupsTo Be FeaturedIn Music Contest

This year's "All Tech Sing andDance," sponsored by the Baton So-ciety, has been planned for Friday,March 11, at 8:30 pm. in Morss Hallof Walker Memorial. The Sing, tobe conducted from 8:30 to 10:30p.m., has 14 contestant groups ofbetween 3 and 40 members repre-senting fraternity and dormitoryorganizations.

Immediately after the Sing, therewill be a dance lasting until 1:00a.m. for which the Techtonians willprovide mtsic. Tickets are 60 centsa person for the Sing and theDance, and will go on sale Tuesday,March 1, in Building 10.

New Judging SystemBeginning this year a new point

system of judging has been inaugu-rated for the main awards and for"Egbert." A maximum of seventypoints will be given for singingquality and thirty points maximumfor quality of presentation andoriginality. The Tech Sing Trophywill be awarded for the year to thegroup which has the largest totalpoints, and can be retired only aftera group has won it three successiveyears.

Egbert, the unrevealed prize fororiginality, will be awarded thegroup with the largest total of pres-entation points plus 25 per cent ofthe singing points.

Tryouts ThursdayAuditions for the Sinig take place

in Litchfield Lounge on ThursdayFebruary 24, at 7:00 p.m. Furthrinformation for interested groican be obtained from RichardDobroth, '50, chairman of the qmittee.

Dramashop ShortIn Femil ie Talent

Rehearsals will begin next weekon the Dramashop's coming produc-tion, The Beautiful People, by Wil-liam Saroyan,, to be presented onApril 23 and 24, in the PeabodyPlay House.- Tryouts for The Beautiful People

were held on February 17 and 18,and another tryout will be held to-day from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in Room2-190. It is reported that a fairnumber of mnale participants haveturned out, but the Dramashop, inaccord with typical Technologystandards, is short of females.Copies of the play for the tryoutsmay be obtained from John Bas-tian in Room 24-220.

Mr. Bastian describes the play as"Typically Saroyan." In a reviewof The Beautiful People, the "NewYork Times" referred to it as "A be-guiling and tender little comedywith an ingratiating spirit of gen-eral goodwill."

BOYS' WORK MEETINGThere will be a meeting of all

the members of the Boys' Workgroup in the T.CA. office onMonday, February 28, at 5:00p.m. for the purpose of nomi-nating next ternim'sofficers.Elec-tions will be held at the AnnualBoys' Work banquet on Thurs-day, March 3, at 6:00 p.m. in theWest Dining Room of the Grad-uate House.

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"should a state university... use the people's taxes to supportprofessors who work for a party that is dedicated to the violentoverthrow of the state?" (We are assuming that Life is notlaboring under the delusion that the Institute is a state univer-sity.) This gem was doubtless put down as a clincher by theeditors o~f Life who seem to be unable to keep their personalprejudices out of their "objective" arguments. But to us incollege, it is the whole crux of the idea of academic freedom.Academic freedom is not the privilege eo teach anything onewishes to; it is the freedom to teach the truth no matter whatits consequences are. Life would act as arbiter to the questionof whether Communism contains any truth in its makeup what-soever, and we must then presumably look to the magazinefor the truth instead of to our teachers.

To tacitly assume that the ideology of Communism isutterly false and to then turn around and be so scared of itas -to advocate that we fire university professors who are sus-peoted of believing it is pretty hypocritical. It is -an extremelyalarming sign when a country starts to do this; it is an indica-tion that it has lost faith in its principles and that decay will

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beer, although one connoisseur.of0 the golden liquid, commenting ono the contents pouring forth from one

of the ten kegs consumed, said,L;n "There's nothing like Schlitz, but; this stuff is nothing like Schlitz."L; He's a Milwaukee boy..Sanding by the entrance; we saw. an eager bunch of fellows come

pouring through the front door,carryrag a small table, similar toone wmch used to be in the Building22 lounge. The ticket taker hastenedco open the door, and smiling asKeathe boys, "everything all right?" A

· nasty affirmative reply was re-. turned and the boys aisappearea

into tne.crowd with Teir ,ourden.Alterwards we learned that these

gentlemen had putmed one of thesmoothest trecas ol tme season. Evw-ciently they had been wonderinghow To get the beer, without payingGhe bucK. Standing near Wasrelrt1hey noticed several members of theMinstrel Show carrying prop furni-

t bare in. Then the iaea hit them.Hastening .back to the Barracksthey commandeered a small table,carried it over to Walker, then'walked in the FRONT 'door.

l The little men in white uniformsstarted dispensing beer at nine.T 'o minutes past nine, the mob,attracted by the scent, had formeda line with over 50 people in it. by9:30, the line was still there . .only this time everyone was holdingeveryone else up. I

We watched the minstrel show fora while. The charaoterizations ofInstitute personalities had an un-derstanding audience in hysterics,though Joe Miller probably did sev-eral complete turnovers in hisgrave.

Heading back for the '"Commut-ers' Tavern," we noticed severalglassy eyed patrons being helpedhome ,to the "plywood palace,"under the watchful gaze of Mr.Carlisle. A few minutes later, twofamiliar looking gentlemen walkedin the door. One was ProfessorMueller, the other, Dean Pitre.When asked if they would "join theboys in a drink or -two," ProfessorMueller quickly replied, "Oh no! wehave our OWN pipe line runningupstairs ! I"

Of course it's an old story to usall .. this business .of television InPritchett Lounge. Evidently thepleas of many people failed to stirthose who were in a position toremedy the situation. Te time hascome when a person is hesitantabout going to the Lounge bar. Usu-ally there isn't much room, and a"coke" is a sufficient excuse to oc-cupy a chair for three hours, towatch a movie that our grand-parents saw. We recommend chang-ing the name of the place to the"Pritchett Television Theater."

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in colleges who adhere to Communist doctrines are not "nit-' wits." As a rule, nitwits are not employed as professors at, institutions of the stature of Harvard or Technology. Indeed,I if people such as these are Communists, it is probably becausethey have given a great deal of original thought to the problemof world society, and have arrived at Communism as theirsolution. It is a mistake to underestimate them; they are in aimuch better position to explain the nature of reality to Lifethan Life to them.

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OFFICES OF THE TECHNews and Editorial-Room 307, Walker Memorial Cambridge, Maw.

Telephones KI rkiand 7-1881, 7-1882Business-Room 335, Walker Memorial. Telephone KI rklad 7-188aLMail Subscription $3.00 per year, $5.00 for two years.Published every Tuesday and Friday during college year, except during college vacationEntered as second class matter December 9, 1944, at the Post Office, at Boston, M~s.s.

under the Act of MKarch 31, 1879.F-epresented for national advertising by National Advertising Serelco, Inc., College Pub-Ushers Representative, 420 Madison Ave., Now York, N. Y.

Night Editor: Fred Vanderschmidt, '51Asst. Night Editor: John B. Schutt, '52

By TOM KENNEDY and

ED STRINGHAiM

The final ordeal for the pledge.tof the fraternities was the notoriouf"Hell Week." With paddling at aminimum, heavy eyelids were the

}only physical result of the strenu-ous period. Many assignments weregiven to the pledges which broughtabout a variety of results.

The pledges of the Phi Mu Delta's,having knocked down the wall atthe back of their house, piled thebricks along the Esplanade. TheAMC, however, commanded the a!-ready fatigued initiates to emoevetheir. handiwork. Rodger Vance, onanother assignment, obtained a livechicken without the aid of money-His method for acquiring the fowl

I still remains a mystery.The Phi Kappa Sigma pledges

I started off their quest for member-j ship [by being Shanghaied to New;Hampshire by the members. LaterJ they were sent on a treasure hunt| which .was cut short by ,the removalj of one note from the much tor-j mented statue of John Harvard. Inj a contest to see who could get thelargest liquor bottle, Andy Wesselcame through to take the honors

j width his enormous showplece.J On Saturday afternoon variousl assignments were given the SAE| members-to-be. "Brownbagger" Jim.[Stolley, with his six foot slide rule,[and Hank I-ohorst sounded the|Charles River. Eighteen feet ismaximum -depth they reported.At -the same time Bill Meuser was

counting the belles at Wellesley andCharlie Daniell was obtaining pic-tures of himself being kissed by fourgirls.

The Chi Phi pledges seem to havehad quite a gay hell week. Theywere sent one night to find twentypennies, at a local cemetery. Thenext night -they spent constructinga 52 moving part cigarette lighter.The only paddle broken was, fit-tingly enough, on Beefy ButtBamon. Purity Ed Remmers had topropose to a beautiful lady in acertain swank ,apartment on BeaconStreet. A spy inLthe closet said thathe was a complete flop as a low.

The hostilities of -hell week werebrought to a close by beer partiesand dances The ex-pledges with,their newly acquired pins j sined theranks of the brotherhoods.

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learn to detect short range weatherdisturbances by radar.

As head of the Meteorology Dept.Professor Henry G. Houghton iSTechnology's highest weather au-thority. When asked the questioncommonly asked of all weather mena-bout their well known "bumsteers," e -was quick to defend hisprofe.asdn.

He pointed out that it the firstplace, since all weather bureaus aregovernment agencies, people arejust naturally prejudiced againstthem. Secondly, the criteria of agood or bad forecast is dependenton the indi-idual consumer. For in-stance, if the temperature is fore-east to be 34 degrees, and it turnsout to be 31 degrees, most peoplewould agree that the prediction wasa good one. However, -the fruitgrower, whose oranges froze becausehe didn't get out his smudge pots,would undoubtedly be inclined notto think well of our friend.

Another factor is that the bru-tally unfair public habitually makesmuch ado about little mistakes, andtakes the good forecasts forgranted. Professor Houghton esti-mates that on a reasonable scale 4out of 5 forecasts are fairly accu-rate. With this average, a streakof misses is bound to be encoun-tered.

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believing in Communism, there seems to be two main objectionsto having Communist teachers in our schools. The first is theidea that the American college student is too soft in the headto detect false doctrines, and that he must be carefully nurturedand protected against the big, bad wolf of Karl Marx. Evidently,a great many people in this country do not have enough faithin our democratic way of life or our young people to thinkthat they can stand up against Communism in an open fight;they would rather run away from Communism by making itillegal and by firing suspected or known leftist professors.

The second idea is perhaps best stated by Life as why The

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By GEORGE MIELORThere aren't many people around

the Institute who haven't noticed"Tippy" wagging up and down onthe roof top of Building 24. "Tippy"is radar unit TPS10 erd, for thebrighter of us, provides a clue thatsix floors above the ground is aweather observatory.

At the present time, it seems that"Tippy" is working hand in handwith a B-17. Loaded with equip-ment and M.I.T. Meteorologists, thebomber has been flying to particu-lar weather areas where observa-tions are made, recorded and com-partd with the radar screen whichhas been focused on this same area.In this way, the, Meteorologists will

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THE FACTS OF LIFE

That great and beneficent protector of the AmericanIdeal, Life Magazine, has seen fit of late to include the follow-ing in an editorial lamenting the use by Communists of "innocentfront" organizations backed by Hollywood and college people."The nitwits who front for Communism on Hollywood salariesare probably beyond redemption but Americans can still hope tobnrng some sense of reality to Harvard and to M.I.T." Althoughwe have the greatest respect for the amount of advertising thatLife manages to include each week, and we are frankly enviousof -the way it manages to provide pin money for Mr. Harry R.Luce, we,d,o not think that other than in rare instances it addsmuch to the American cultural scene or very often knows whatit is talking about.

This remark of Life's has exhumed some serious questions,questions that some colleges have already answered by dis-missing faculty members. In recent months colleges throughout

_the country.have been troubled by the problem of what to dowith their liberal or left-wing teachers. Only a short time agothe University of Washington fired three of its professors asCommunists; a small, mid-Western college called Olivet hasbeen literally split in two over the issue of academic freedom.Several other nasty little incidents have occurred during the

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Photo by FletcherDon Lea, "star Tech forward, has just taken a shot which was blocked

by Whistonf, Brown goalie. Number 3 is Ned Dewey of the Bruins.fMeeting two strong Ivy League

foes during the early part of thisIweek, the Tech hockey squad wentdown to defeat in both games. Thefirst was a 5-4 setback at the handsof Brown on Monday evening, whileHarvard administered a 13-6 drub-bing on Wednesday afternoon at theArena.

The Brown game was thrill-packed and hard-fought all theway. Accorded no chance in thepre-game predictions against aBruin six which had taken Dart-mouth into overtime before losing,

the Engineers played sixty minutesof good hockey and were beatenmainly because of the brilliance ofDon Wbiston, Brown goalie.

1st Ten Minutes ScorelessAfter ten scoreless minuteaBrown

tallied twice while the Engineerswere short one man, and led 3-0as the ftret period ended. The sec-ond period saw the Beavers scoringall their goals, with Grady, Russell,Lea and Fuller each blinking thelight once. Brown was held to one

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Tufts Triumphs 38.37;Conlin Breaks Record

One slim point was the margin ofdifference at Alumni pool lastWednesday night as the Tech swim-mers lost to Tufts, 38-37. The En-gineers led all the way and enteredthe final event leading by 37 to 31,but Tufts copped the 400-yard relayand with it, the meet.

Frank Conlin clipped three 0,fullseconds from the Tech record forthe 220-yard freestyle as he nego-tiated the distance in 2:21.4 to winthat race. Singer of Tufts was theonly double winner in the meet,snaring the 50- and 100-yard free-style races.

In a preliminary meet the Techfreshmen outpointed the Tuftsfrosh, 41-25. Both the freshmanand varsity will be in action tonightas they play host to B.U., beginningat 7:30.

SUMMARIESVarsity

30 yd. medley relay-won by MIT (Calla-han, Pelletler, Van Mook). Time: 3:16.6.220 yd. freeatyle-Won by Conlin (MIT);2nd - Manthey (T); 3rd - Appel (T).Time: 2:21.4. (New MIT record)50 yd. freestyl-Wonl by Singer (T);2nd-Edgar (MIT); 3rd-Coombs (NIT).Time: 0:24.2.Diving-Won by Lehman (OMIT); 2nd-Caplan (T); 3rd-Hart (MIT). Points:74.9.100 yd. freestyle-Won by Singer (T);2nd-Edgar (MIT); 3rd-oumbs (MIT).Tim e: 0:5 5.7. ' d- o n be ( I .150 yd. backstroke-Won by Manthey (r);2nd-Dargls (T); 3rd-Jones (MIT).Time: 1:51.8.200 yd. breaststroke-Won by Pelletier(MIT); 2nd-Schwartzmsaa (MIT); 3rd-Dube (T). Time: 234.9.

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Tech Takes LeadThe opening period was hard

fought and very close. The Engi-neers took the lead at about the14-minute mark and held it untilthe end of the half; Morton's twohook shots gave the Beavers a 28-24halftime advantage.

Another hook shot by Mortonmade the gap 6 points as the secondhalf opened, but at this point Blairbegan to get hot and presently theHuskies had taken the lead. Forbhe last 15 minutes the score see-sawed back and forth continuously.

Madden Fouls OutTech's cause looked black when

Madden fouled out of the game withNortheastern leading, 53-50. How-ever, the Engineers roared back asa nice set shot by Corrie and twofouls by MacMillan made the scoreread 54-53 in favor of Tech, with aminute to go.

Northeastern drove down thecourt and Blair, fouled while shoot-ing, connected with both freethrows to put the Huskies backahead 55-54. Once more Tech cameaack, as Morton sank a nice layup,and with 15 seconds to play theBeavers led 56-55.

Again Northeastern came downthe court, again Blair was fouledwhile shooting, and again, to thedismay of the Tech rooters, he sankboth his shots. However, this timeLhe clock ran out before the Beaverscould make their comeback, and soNortheastern emerged victorious.

Frosh Avenge Previous LossIn the freshman game Warren

Berg's five played steady ball all theway to avenge an early-season set-back suffered at the hands of the-Huskies. Trhe team's record nowstands at 9 wins and 3 losses.

Mike Nacey's neat one-handergave the Beavers an 8-6 lead mid-way in the first period, and there-after they were never headed. Techled by 29-21 at halftime, and en-joyed a comfortable advantagethroughout the second stanza.

A Team VictoryNo one individual could be singled

out as responsible for the victory,but Juley Kassig, Herb Glantz,Larry Garthe, Nacey, Cliff Herdman*nd Hank Hohorst all played good)all. The second half was playedwith four personals on practically;he entire starting lineup, and:lantz and Garthe eventually did'QUl out.Outstanding for Northeastern was

Silk, who tallied 19 points to lead,he scoring, and exhibited a hook;hot well worth watching. Theluskies were phenomenal from the

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Blair, rf 9 13 31Diehl, If 3 2 8Sheldon 0 0 0Creedon 0 1 1Walsh, c 6 2 14Keyes, rg 0 1 1Gosselin, Ig 1 0 2

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Cole, rf 0 5 5Granger 0 6 6Toctz 1 0 2Perkins 0 0 0Silk, If 5 9 19Nerl, c 1 2 4Lombardo, rg 1 1 3Bourgeois, lg 3 1 7Walls A 1 3

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Freshnmen /in, - 5749Don Blair, a Northeastern Husky

with icewater in his veins, stood atthe foul line and calmly swishedfour free throws through the hoopduring the final thirty seconds ofplay to hand the Tech courtmen aheartbreaking 57-56 defeat atWalker Gym last Wednesday eve-

iung. In a preliminary game theBeaver frosh outplayed their North-eastern rivals to win, 57-49.

Ted Heuchling's five played whatwas probably its best game of theseason before a cheering crowdwhich was well interspersed withNortheastern rooters. Lou Mortonhad his hook shot working and didan admirable job of guarding IngaWalsh, the Huskies' big man, despitehaving to play almost the entiresecond half with four personalsagainst him. Captain Jim Maddenplayed without rest and scored 18points before fouling out of thegame.

Jack Corrie and "Mac" MacMil-lan also played some great ballduring the course of the evening.However, the Engineers could notstop Blair, who ran wild to the tune

Tech Feners LoseFirst Of SeasonTo Harvard, 18-9

Tasting defeat for the first timethis season, the Tech fencers lost toHarvard last Wednesday night.Losing many bouts which couldhave gone either way, the Engineerswere overcome by the score of 18-9.

The foilsmen, who were countedon to win by a large margin, barelymanaged to eke out a 5-4 advan-tage. Captain Abbate won threebouts as he, Frank Kellogg, andTony Mirti combined kor the onlyTech victory.

The epee men fared much worse;beaten by the score of 8-1, they werebadly outclassed. With CharlieKurz, Fred Rayfield, and Al Zesigerfencing, only Kurz was able to sal-vage a bout.

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Squashmen LoseTo Harvard, 9-0

Tech's hapless squash team ab-sorbed another 9-0 shellacking lastMonday aftemnoon, this time at thehands of HaTvard's racqueteers.Only Hank Eckardt and Pete Siives-ton were able to win a set as theEngineers absorbed their ninth suc-cessive drubbing.

SUnIM3ARYHlenry Foster LI) defeated Stoney, 0-0;

lugh Foster (if) defeated Eckardt, 3..1;McK. itrick (ll) defeated Irigoyen, 3-0;Clark (El) defeateud Chairman, 3-0; Nawn!t ) defeated liampy, 3-0; Eames (H)defeated Meyer, 3-0; Cabot (H) defeatedMartin, 2.-01 Fischelis (H) defeated Dick-son, :'-,0: Plumlptorn, (HI) defeated 'Slveston,:;-1 .

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United Engineers & Constructors,Inc., Philadelphia, Pa., ,March 8;I, VI, IL.

Brown Company, Berlin, NewHampshire, March 8, 9; XV, X, II.

The Cleveland Electric IlluminatingCo., Clevelknd, Ohio, ATarch 9;II, V.

Baltimore Gas & Electric Co., Balti-more, Md., Maxch 9, 10; II, VI,

XV, I.Raybestcs, Bridgeport, Conn., March

8, 10; XV.

Public Service Electric & Gas Co.,Newark, New Jersey, Mlarch 10,11; IX, VI.

Roges Corp., Manchester, Conn,March l1; X.

The Standard Oil Co. (Ohio), Cleve-land, Ohio, Maareh 14, 15, 16; II,X, V, I, XV.

R.C.A., Camden, New Jersey, March14, 15; II, VI, VI]I.

NA.C A., ,Langley Field, Va., Mtarch14, 15; XV1, I, VI, I, 'VIII, XVIII,

Philadelphia Electric, Philadelphia,Pa., March 14, 15; II, VI.

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National Aniline, New York, N. Y.,Feb. 28; LT, X.

Carbide & Carbon, South Chlarles-ton, W. Va., Feb. 28, March 1;X, II, V.

Standard Oil Development Co., Iinl-den, New Jersey, Feb. 28, March 1;la, X.

Chance Vought Aircraft, Dallas,Texas, Feb. 28, March 1; II, XVI,VI.

Standard Oil Company of Calif.,San Francisco, Oalif., Feb. 28,March 1; X, LI, I, VI, XV.

American Locomotive Co., Schenec-tady, New York, karch i; II, VI.

Hercules Powder Co., Inc., Wilming-ton, Del., March 1, V, X.

The American Thread Co., Inc., NewYork, New York, March 2; X, VI.II, XV.

American Smelting & Refiing Co.,Salt Lake City, Utah, Marclh 2, 3;III.

Bell System, March 2, 3; VI, IX, XV.

The Babcock & Wile-ox Co., NewYork, ,New York, March 3; II.

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Esso Standard Oil Co., Baton Rouge,La.; Maxch 16; X.

Arabian American Oil, San Frn-cisco, Calif., 1Vhrch 16, 17; II, VI,I, X, XII, XV.

Kurt Salmon Associates, Inc., Wash-ington, D. C., INiarch 16, 17; XV.

The Texas Company, New York,N. Y., March 16; VI, I, II, X.

Continental Oil Co., Ponca City,Oklahoma, March 18; XIV, XV.

Koppers Co., Inc., Baltimore, Md.,MVfarh 18; II, II, XV.

Designer SpeaksTo A.S.C.E. Group

Dr. D.. B. Steinman, initernation-ally famous bridge designer andauthor, spoke to the MI.T. StudentChapter of the American Society ofCivil Engineers at the CampusRoom on February 16. Dr. Stein-man addressed a capacity audienceof students and faculty, and manyslides were shown of the bridgeswhich he designed both in thiscountry and abroad.

Honor guests at the dinner meet-ing were.: Mr. Karl Kennison, ChiefEngineer of the Metropolitan Dis-trict Water Supply Commission andthe new Contact Member of the So-ciety; Professor Albert Haertlein,of Harvard, and Mr. Arthur L. Shawof the Metcalf and Eddy Company.

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tally during this stanza, whichended with .the score knotted at 4-4.

Althoagh the Beavers seemed tohave the edge during -the last period,none of their shots went home, andLawson's goal at the halfway pointgave the visitors their winning mar-gin. The Engineers had an excel-len, t chance to score during the last,three minutes while Brown hadtwo men in the peralty box. How-,ever, they could not capitalize.

': Harvard TrailsThe Harvard game looked like an

upset in the making as Tech gotoff to a 2-0 lead, with Lea andGrady doing the scoring. Harvardthen took the lead wdth four fastgoals, -but the Engineers foughtback as Hlamilton, Lea and Wal-worth each scored once and the firstperiod ended with Tech holding asurprising 5-4 advantage.

However, for the remainder of thegame the Beavers looked like asecond-rate high school team asHarvard proceeded to turn the gameinto a rout. With the Tech defensefalling apart and the offense .prac-tically nonexistent, Hawvard scoredfive goals in the second period andadded four more ill the last, whileTsotsi's solo dash was the only Techscore for the remainder of thegame. Four of the Crimson's goals

:_ ^--ere scored while they themselveswere shorta man.

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440 rd. fre-,style--1Von by Appel (T):2nd-Conlin (51IT); 3rd--Mellin (MIT).Time: 5:24.,%.

400 yd. reinty---\:onl by Tufts (Milotra,Kuhl, M anthe:. anl Singer). Time:::47.0.

Fireshmen50 yd. freestyhv.--on by Daly (NSIT);

2n(l---Tyler (T); 3rd-Stout (T). Time:0:25.3.

I01) yd. l)reaststrok¢ %Won i)y Pines (SIT);2ndt--I)orsey (5lIT); 3rd---Omans (T).Time: 1:0i9.:.

200 yd. frtestyle--Won by Haley (T);'2nd-Sorenson (S\IT); :'rd--Seli, (MIT).Timte: 2:14.1.

100 yd. backstrokL--Won by Heaton (T);2nd'-O-1, (MIT) ; 3rd-lIeath (QMIT).Time: 1 :11.7.I

100 yd. freestyle--Won by Haley (T);2''ntd--Ulrieh (.MIT); 3rd--Greea (SIT).Time: 0:59.g.

Diviag-WRon 14y Ross (T); 2nd--it:hell(.ST) ; 3rd-cNorton (SIIT). Points: 43,5.

1,50 yd. mnedley relay--wVon by 5I'NT (Plumu-mer, Pinus, and Daley). Time: 1:

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2G9 yd, relay-W~Von by NIfT (Luc-as, I'rlgge.|Danmon, anti Baker). Tine: 1:47.6.

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5. Slove( (Exec. Comnii.): That RichardMInathiews he al)pointed chairman of theeleet:ons coriminttee.

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