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Two VbA Men VWin Rhodes ScholarshipsHerbert D. Benington and Eugene B. Skolnikoff, 'both in their final

year of Course VI-A, have been awarded Rhodes scholarships for 1950,it was announced yesterday. The scholarships provide tuition and otherexpenses for' at least two years' study at an English university.

Thirty-two such awards are made annually throughout the UnitedStates. Of the scholarships given in New England this year, four werewon by Yale mnen, three by Dartmouth, and two each by Harvard andMIT.

National Research LaboratoriesUtiize High Vacuum Processes

Situated right next door to Tech-nology on Memorial' Drive is ayoung corporation which has risenin a short period of nine years tobecome one of the nation's mostoutstanding research organizationsand a leader in the feld of highvacuum research. This organiza-tion is the National Research Cor-poration, and its president, RichardS. Morse, '33.

After only seven years out ofcollege, Morse gained financialbacking-from a group of prominentNew Englanders and founded Na-tional Research in 1940. Five yearsof research work with Eastman Ko-dak and a subsidiary had convincedMorse that a company which ex-isted solely for research could carryit on much more effectively thana large industrial concern. N. R.

better'qualified to manufacture andmarket a product. Not only wasthe setting up of Minute Maid Cor-poration the final act in developinga permanent policy, but it was alsothe perfect example of that .policy.

N. R. C. Receives RoyaltyIn 1945, backed by N. R. C. capi-

tal, brains, and equipment, Vacu-um Foods Corporation was organ-ized at Plymouth, Florida. Twoyears later, after the production -ofthe frozen concentrate was wellunder way, N. R. C. relinquishedits one third interest in the com-pany, and Vacuum Foods obtainednew working capital from othersources. That same year the namewas changed to Minute Maid Cor-poration.- At the present time Min-ute Maid is producing 1,700,000 ofthe six ounce cans (each can of

Photo by Frederick Cohen

The Memorial Drive Home ofthe National Research Corporation

C.'s history seems to prove he wasright. Starting out in a vacantautomobile showroom over on'Brookline Avenue In Boston withan original investment of $50,000and a Navy contract for coatinglenses by a process developed atTechnology, N. R. C. now has as-sets totaling almost -a million dol-lars, occupies the brand new build-ing on Memorial Drive to whichthey moved in 1947. and can begiven credit for being the motherfirm to at least one new company---Minute Maid Corporation in Flor-ida,",which manufactures the nowpopular frozen orange Juice. Infact, this last achievement was thefinal act in the developmnent of apolicy which N. R. C. ci.ims as apermanent thing. That Is--to de-

EdRgerton EleetedTo Eta Kappa Nua

Professor Edgerton, it was an-nounced last week, has been electedto membership in Eta Kappa Nu,an honorary electrical engineeringsociety. Professor Edgerton is fa-miliar to all Technology undergrad-uate students for his many pic-:tures which have been included inFrances Sears' Principles of Me-chanics, Heat and Sound.

Edgerton is a graduate of the Uni-versity of Nebraska, class of 1925.He came to Technology in 1927 andhas become well-known for his re-search in stroboscopy and high-speed photography here at the In-stitute. According to a statementissued by the Beta Theta Chapterof Technology, the election of Ed-gerton was largely due to-the factthat beyond his many technical ac-complishments he has shown a con-stant and active effort to promoteatudent-faculty relations at theInt itute.-

velop processes which can then beturned over to other companieswhich nets N. R. C. a handsomeroyalty) of the frozen orange con-centrate each day, and there arealready two other competitors inthe field. According to FortuneMagazine, close to 30% of Florida'sorange juice for the 1949-50 seasonwill pass through vacuum cham-bers.

The process by which orangejuice is evaporated is merely a lowpressure, low temperature boiling,but the number of applications forthe process are enormous.

Penicillin DehydrationOrange juice was not the first,

nor the most important use towhich low pressure, low tempera-

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M.S. Department AppointsSix Master Sergeants

The Military Science Departmenthas announced the lists of menpromoted to cadet non-commis-sioned officers.

Appointed as Cadet Master Ser-geants are Juniors Robert 0. Bent-ley, Robert R. Archer, Stephen J.Chamberlain,'Robert L. MacCallum,Joseph N. Sherrill, and William L.Maini.

Appointed as Cadet SergeantFirst Class are Juniors James E.Roberts, Jerrold D. Title, ThomasR. Friedrich, Richard G. Lock, JohnO. Champeny, Breene M. Kerr,William Seiler, Daniel E. Magnus,William L. Benfer,'Herbert Dessner,Alexander B. MIagnus, Howard A.Mills, Reuben Maine, Thomas Mag-nelsdorf, Kenneth H. Weifenbachand Francis J. Davis.

Appointed as Cadet Sergeant are,sophomores Robert L. Harding,Albin A. Gesek, Richard S. Valpey,Robert W. Damon, Todd L. Wyman,

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Open House Set For May 6;Three Comitees OrganizeDepartmnent, Acti ty Exhibvis

Fire Drills Planned ForDormitories

Grad House EmptiedIn Three Minutes;Dorms Will Be Next

In view of the increasing numberof fires in college dormitories andother school buildings and in aneffort to increase the safety ofdormitory residents, Mr. Frank M.Baldwin, Director of Dining andHousing Facilities, and Mr. MarkJ. Dondero, safety engineer hereat the Institute, announced thatplans for fire drills in the campushousing units are now being tested.

"One fire drill was held recentlyin the Graduate House," MIr.Dondero stated. "All of the menwere out of the six-floor structurein three minutes, which was nosmall feat for a building of thatsize."

Drills Planned for DornsProjected plans call for drills

in the Undergraduate Dormitories,New Dormitory, and ,Building 22.Although actual dates for thesedrills have not been set, plans forthem are being brought to comple-tion as quickly as possible. BothMr. Baldwin and Mr. Dondero hopethat action such as this will makeresidents as conscious of thehazards of dormitory and otherhousing unit fires as. are adminis-tration officials.

With the advent of the fire drills,the fire-safety program here at theinstitute is approaching comple-tion. Mr. Dondero, from his officeAn the basement of Building 24,controls the fire protection of theentire Institute through a largemap of all Technology buildingsand the surrounding factories. Notonly does the map indicate waterhydrant locations, but also the typeof material the building is builtfrom and the date of construction,the size of water mains supplyingthe sprinklers, and the contents ofthe building.

Double Safety for 22Special precautions have been

taken to make highly inflammableBuilding 22 as safe as possible. Inaddition to the large number of

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T.B. Seal Sales Up;Tech Men Thanked

Cambridge Tuberculosis andHealth Association extended itsthanks to Technology students thisweek for their generous responseto the Christmas Seal Campaign,from which the association draws90% of its operating funds.

Emphasizing the dependence ofanti-tuberculosis campaigns uponmoney derived from Christmasseals, the Committee in charge ofSales, headed by Dr. Donald S.Tucker, 'Professor of Economicshere at the Institute, asked, andwill continue to ask, that eachperson give as much as possible.

Locating the cases of tubercu-losis and educating the public ongeneral health problems takes up50% of the association's funds.Another large item is the expenseof rehabilitating the patients afterthey have been released from thesanit".riums.

The doors of the Institute will be thrown open to thegeneral public Saturday, May 6, on the occasion of M.I.T.'s16th Open House. These plans were announced last Friday atthe first general meeting of the Open House Committee.

Between thirty and forty thousand people are expected tovisit the Institute that day; the hours will be from noon till

Low TemperatureEffects DiscussedIn Colins' Lecture

The Society of Arts began its an-nual Popular Science lecture seriesSunday with a lecture by SamuelC. Collins, Associate Professor ofMechanical Engineering, on "TheApproach to Absolute Zero."

Professor Collins discussed anddemonstrated some of -the interest-ing properties exhibited 'by varioussubstances, particularly gases,. astheir temperatures approached ab-solute zero (-273.16 degrees Centi-grade). In the temperature range-150 to -- 27 degrees Centigrade,commonplace elements exhibitstrange, and at farst glance, inmex-plicable, characteristics. Mercuryis solid and resembles closely lead,while lead itself becomes muchharder. Copper and brass changelittle, becoming slightfy tougher,but steel is quite brittle and caneasily be shattered like glass. Rub-ber, also, assumes a glass-likerigidity.

One of the most important ofthese effects is so-called supercon-ductivity. This property is evidentin certain metals, particularly lead,at a temperature of approximately

.seven degrees absolute, and simplymeans that the electrical resistanceof these metals becomes very nearlyzero.

This means -that if an electriccurrent is set up in a closed circuitof lead wire maintained at this

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7:00 p.m. Each departmentwill present dynamic exhibitsillustrating the latest tech-nological advances. These exhibitswill stress the close bond betweenmodern science and the man in thestreet. The various student ac-tivities will also participate; theirrole will be to show that MIT isa school as well as a scientific insti-tution. A track meet, a crew re-gatta, and a baseball game willhighlight the athletic program forthe day.

Open House is being organizedby a student committee under thechairmanship of N. B. Champ, Jr.,'50. This committee, together witha faculty advisory committee underthe chairmanship of H. B. Kanewill be responsible for all planning.The organization has been dividedinto the phases of presentations,publicity, and receptions. How-land A. Larsen, '50; George Piness,Jr., '50, and Charles W. Davis, '50,-have been appointed vice-chairmenin charge of these groups. MarkH. Baxter is Secretary-treasurer.

Prior to the war, Open House wasa bi-annual affair, and presentplans call for a continuation ofthis tradition. The 1950 OpenHouse will be the second since thewar. Since Open House is primarilyan undergraduate project, the com-mittee wishes to encourage partici-pation by as many students aspossible. It is hoped that as manyfreshmen and sophomores as pos-sible will come out for the com-mittee, as they will be responsiblefor the 1952 Open House.

PenciL-Sized Light Beam Being UsedTo Predict Acoustical Properties

Institute students, combiningtheir talents in architecture andacoustics, may help end that an-noyirig experience of sitting in anaudience most of which is not ableto hear the principal speaker.

Trying to predict the acoustics ofan auditorium before it is built, onegroup of students has studied thebehavior of a pencil-size light beamreflecting from the highly-polishedceiling of a twelve-inch auditoriummodel. Now, another group is atwork using "beams" of sound in asimplified one-fifth size auditoriummodel.

Estimate AcousticsThe goal in both instances is to

make a very quick estimate of someacoustical properties of an audi-torium even before the room isbuilt. If simple tests show thatsound from the stage will notspread adequately over the entireproposed room, plans can be altered(and tested again) before construc-tion begins.

The method involving the lightbeam is based on the fact that(within certain limits) sound wavesreflect from a wall in much thesame way that light rays reflectfrom a mirror.

Thus a beam of light is made to

take the part of sound waves. Re-flected off mirrored panels in themodel, the light shows what wouldhappen to sound in the full-sizeauditorium.

Student ExperimentersThe beam's path is recorded as

a dark streak on a photographicpaper. Thus, if the light source isat a violinist's position on the stageof the model auditorium, thestreaks on the photographic papershow exactly where the sound ofhis violin would go.

The graduate student experi-menters, whose "light beam" tech-nique was the result of a class as-signment in architectural acoustics,are Scott W. Lyons, Daniel M.Streissguth, William Tamminga,and Clifford F. Young. All are nowengaged in architectural practice.

Actual Sound WavesSuch an "optical analysis," they

reported, saves the tricky graphicalmanipulations which are needed tostudy sound distribution from blue-prints by more conventional meth-ods. It gives better precision and-if perfected-could save time. Thecost of designing acoustically cor-rect rooms should be lowered ap-preciably, the researchers said.

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in high vacuum coating. They im-proved greatly on the techaquedeveloped at MIT.'

Lbcati6n Provides AdvantagesFive years later, in 1X45, when

National Research began its -newbuilding on Memorial Drive, manywere prompted to ask, "Is N. R. C.moving close -to Technology for areason or is it coincidence?" Theanswer is simple and the reasonsobvious. Yes, N. R. C. did movenear Tech for a reason..-. F6'--atTech -is avwilable-- a wealth,-of L eA-perienee and knowledge in.njearyevery field of science.-. Many} re-search projects here parallel th'oseof N. R. C. At one time or anothervarious members of the facul. tyhave served as consultants to Na-tional Research, and .several :.Pfthose, working for' N. R. C. havetaken advantage of Tech's educ,4-tional opportunities.

Mentioh of N. R. C.'s most re-cent development was saved forthe last. In line with their presentpolicy, N. R. C. is planning to dothe same thing -with apple juiseas they did with orange juice. Ap-pie Conceatrates, Inc., was oi-ganized this fall for the productionof frozen apple juice concentrate,and It is expected that operationof the plant at West Conieord,'Mass.,will begin this season. The ju'ice,claims N. R. C., will taste itke pUrefresh apple juice and not-like, -thepasteurized product. :

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ture boiing was put. In fact, theequipment used for evaporatingorange juice is basically' the sameas penicillin dehydrating equip-ment developed earlier at N. R. C.This dehydrating process wasoffered during the war to penicillinmanufacturers royalty-free. andboosted production of penicillin-tremendously. Drying time wasc/it 40 hours-.and the cost reduced80% by the use of N. R. C. equip-ment. Today, 'this same equipmentis beinrg used in England, France,Sweden,- Italy, Switzerland, andAustralia and constitutes a largeportion of all penicillin and strep-,tomycin drying equipment in use.Blood plasma is another productto which high vacuum techniquewas applied with astonishing re-sults.

C .;J;ats Zinc On PaperOn the high vacuum coating side

of the picture, plastics, paper, glass,and fabrics may be coated with alayer of metal only three or fourmillionths of an inch thick. Al-most any metal may be used. Theproduction of electrical condenserelements by coating three mil-lionths of an inch of zinc on verythin paper is now under way bySmith Paper, Inc., of Lee, Mas-sachusetts, using National Researchequipment. Horn buttons, nameplates, and other plastic ornamentsin many 1949A model cars werecoated with copper and aluminumby the same process. Earlier, asmentioned before, N. R. C. coatedlenses and prisms for the Navywith an invisible layer of mag-nesium fluoride to increase theirlight transmitting qualities. Thiswas the company's first job whenit was founded back in 1940, andit was through this process thatN. R. C. gained its first experience

By Jim Stolley and Dav. e Bossen-By -the time the week-end rolls

around, most.Tech men are readyto lay down their slide rules andtest tubes, shake the dust off theirparty clothes, and spend the week-end forgetting about quizzes andall the other nasty things that gowith school. -This was- especiallytrue during the past week-end. TheMiami Triad on Friday night andseveral topnotch parties Saturdaynight buried studies under an ava-lanche of good times.

Anniversary CelebrationAbout two hundred and fifty

couples danced to the music ofBrad Kent and his orchestra atthe Triad.- During the intermis-sion, a group of eight girls fromSmith, who caIl themselves theSmithereens, sang several numbers.Dean' Baker and Mrs. Baker werecelebrating their wedding anniver-saxy that night so the band playedthe' Anniversary Waltz. in theirhonor. The dance Friday nightadded another success to the longline -of. Miami Triads.

Halo And WingsSaturday night, the Pi Lambda

Phlyer took off for parts unknown.IThe entrance of the house wasdecorated with a sleek rocket ship,while the inside Wsn fixed, up toresemble' :outer space. The topfloor' was heaven. There were thepeasrly gates, clouds, and an angeldomplete with nalo and wings. Thebasement supplied the other al-ternative, Hell. Red lights, fierywalls, and very shapely devils com-pleted the theme down there. Oneof Bob Norris' bands played for theparty.

Ski Jump In Ski LodgeLambda Chi Alpha held their

Winter Wonderland party the samenight. Outside of the house, asnowman with flashing lights foreyes winked at the arriving guests.The inside of the house was deco-rated to resemble a ski lodge andin one room they set up a minia-ture ski jump. To drive out thewinter wind, a punch aptly namedRed Sneaker was·served. Stephen

Charles and his band played forthe party. Bob Kraujalis directedthe decorations and was in chargeof the affair.

Last but not least was the OffLimits party at the Delta Tau Deltahouse. The Delts opened a typi-cal French cabaret with sawduston the floor and soft candlelightproviding the romantic touch.Guests in French costumes com-pIeted an atmosphere straight fromthe back streets of Paris. Anotherone of Bob Norris' bands providedthe music.

We'll take this opportunity towish all of you a very merry Christ-mas and a hap~y New Year. Begood while you're home, and if youcan't be good . . .

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Word has reached us that there-is'-a strong impression.among fraternity men that The Tech's editorial- policy is anti'-fraternity. The basis for this idea seems to -be two editorialsthat appeared in the September 23 issueof the paper urging'that the fraternities 1) pledge new.-men in the spring afterthey. have been at Technology for nearly a year, and 2) acceptthe administration's proposal that they move into houses to ,be

built for them on the campus 'with insurance company money.Neither of these suggestions, however, have.any intrinsic anti-fraternity elements.

We are guided by two postulates in our attitudes towardsthe principle of fraternalism, 1) the interests and welfare ofthe student body as a whole is more important than the interestsof the fraternities as organizations, and. 2) ,fraternities areworthwhile only to the extent that they provide certain benefitsand advantages to their members.. The first postulate is -simplyan expression of the good, old democratic'ideal of majority rule,and the second rejects as meaningless the concept of organiZa-tion for organization's sake. Within the: framework of thesetwo axioms, we believe that fraternities can play' an importantpart in Technology life; indeed, the statementis so obviouslytrue that it seems presumptuous for us to make it. ./

Now, nobody supposes that adoption of the two suggestionswill be easy; any change is difficult to a degree, ifs only because ' 1

of the inertia that must be overcome. Altering the rushingsystem or moving the fraternities has all kinds of snags that'will have to be ironed out. The thing to'be considered, how-ever, is whether the changes, when balanced against the ob,stacles that must be overcomee, will bring benefits to the studentsand the Institute that are worth the effort.

Here is the point at which our opinior becomes debatable;.We believe that the practice of snatching a major portion ofthe freshman class and removing it from campus life andcontact with the rest of the entering group is reflected in therelatively poor turnout for extra-curricular activities and school-;wide social events at Technology. The fact'is that no othercollege wre know of has rushing before thenew men havestarted school. Many fraternities fear that should rush-weekbe delayed until the spring term, the whole Year will be wrackedby a cut-throat inter-fraternity compeitition'for the most desire-able pledges, but we fail to see how the present alternative 0ograbbing for new brothers in a hectic four days can be any4thing but a lottery in which as many good men are passed up/as are pledged. It can be to the fraternities' ,benefit to waiteight months before pledging..

The arguments for housing the fraternities on.this side ofthe river are much the same -as- those -for delayed rushing.Again it is a matter of getting Techmen to live in a commoncommunity as well as go to the same school. The details of thearchitecture of the new fraternity buildings can be worked'outto the satisfaction of all parties although, 'for economic reasozis,,certain concessions in the direction of -larger living units willhave to be made. Actually, should the Institute decide that:on-campus housing is to be desired and plans a dormitory on.its own initiative, the fraternities may very well find it exceed-ingly difficult to pledge enough members each year since manymen will find the advantages of living right at-Technology out-weigh the sociability incentives of fraternal life. Once more,it would be to the ultimate good of the fraternities themselves,as well as the whole student body, for them to accept -the.principle of on-campus housing 'and to approach as broad-mindedly as possible the problem of designing suitable build-ings.

-It would give The Tech great pleasure to be able to report inew IFC rushing rules next April.: -...

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will be discussed by Mr. T. A.Boyd, General Mo'tors ResearchLaboratories consultant, today,in Rockwell Cage.

This is one of a series ofPlacement Lectures intendedprimarily for Seniors and Grad-uate students, whose classesfrom 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.have been cancelled -by theFaculty. Any other studentswho are free at that -hour arewelcome to attend.

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temperature, the current will flowalmost indefinitely. However, thepresence of this current cannot bedetected by the ordinary means ofinserting a galvanometer in thecircuit, because the instrument it-self has internal resistance whichwould cause the current to ceasevery quickly.

This difficulty is overcome by de-tecting the magnetic field set upby the current flow, instead of de-tecting the current directly.

By using the low temperature ofliquid -air to lower the vapor pres-sure of water, 'Professok Collinscaused water, which was partlyfrozen and containing bits of float-ing ice, to boil.

The next lecture of this seriesis scheduled for 4:00 p.m., Sunday,January 15. The topic will be"Modern Ships for the High Seas."The lecturer will be Admiral, Ed-ward L. Cochrane, .LL.D., DIlng.,Professor of Naval Construction andhead of the department of navalarchitecture and marine engineer-ing.

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DECEMBER 14 TO DECEMBER 20

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14

Electrical Engineering Department. Staff Colloquium: "Laboratory forInsulation Research." Dr. Arthur R. von Hippel. Room 10-275, 4:00 p.ma.

Metallurgy Department. Colloquium: "Chemistry of Copper SmeltingSlags." Dr. Reinhardt Schuhmann, Jr. Room 2-390, 4:00 pa.m

Catholic Club. "Catholic Influence in Modern Affairs." Reverend WalterL Flaherty, Eastman Hall, Room 6-120, 5:00 p.m.

Tech Model Aircrafters. "Experiences in Radio Control." Sture B. Blom.t '"-Control Techniques." William F. O'Neil. du Pont Room, Building 33,

5:00 pam.American Society of Civil Engineers. Student Chapter. Dinner meeting:

"Opportunities for Civil Engineers in the Construction Industry' ."Alfred T. Glassett, Executive Rice President, W. S. Barney Corp.Campus Room, Graduate House, 6:15 pmn.

American Institute of Chemical Engineers. "Textile Technology-theChemical Engineering Approach." Professor Edward R. Schwarz. Room6-120, 7:30 p.m.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15

Faculty Club. Luncheon meeting: "Foreign Policy and the RepublicanParty." Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. Campus Room, 12:00 noon.

Civil and Sanitary Engineering Department. Sanitary EngineeringSeminar: "A Vital Part of Civil Engineering." Professor Rolf Eliassen.Room 1-390, 4:00 p.m.

Physics Department. Colloquium: "Nuclear Reactions and NuclearResonances." Dr. Victor F. Weisskopf. Room 6-120, 4:30 p.m.

Staff Players of M.I.T. Tryouts for March production, "Down in theValley," and another selection to be chosen later. Emma Rogers Room,8:00 p.m. -

FRIDAY, DECEMBER: 16

Technology Matrons. Christmas Tea. The Choral Group of Matrons andDames will present a program of Christmas music. Husbands arewinvited. The President's House, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Biology Department. Colloquium: "Considerations of the Mechanismand Kinetics of the Interaction of Thrombin and Fibrinogen." Dr.David F. Waugh and Betty J. Livingstone. IRoom 10-275, 4:00 p.m.

Mechanical Engineering Department. Seminar: "Fatigue Studies onSingle Crystals of Iron." Professor Frank A. MeClintock. Room 3-470,4:00 p.m. Coffee will be served in Headquarters from 3:30 to 4:00 p.m.

Kappa Kappa Sigma. Dance. 5:15 Club Room, 8:30 pnm.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17

Chess Club. Final playoffs for team, and policy plan meeting. 5:15 ClubRoom, Walker Memorial, 2:00 p.m.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 19

American Institute of Electrical Engineers-Institute of Radio ]Engi.neers. Student Chapter. Smoker. 5:15 Club Room, Walker Memorial.7:00 p.m.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20

Technology Matrons. The Bridge Group. Christmas Party. EmmaRogers Room, 1:00 p.m.

Acoustics Laboratory. Seminar: "A Continuously Variable Filter."Gunnar Fant, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.Room 20E-121, 4.00 p.m.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

The Calendar will not be published for 'the next three weeks, Decem-ber 21 to January 10. Material for the Calendar, January 11-17, is due inthe Office of the Editor, Room 7-204, not later than noon on Thursday.Januaxy 5.

Reviews & Previews

I had the pleasure of hearinglast Saturday at Jordan Hall a veryfine presentation of the Messiah,under the auspices of the CombinedMusical Clubs. The work, which Iconsider to be far and away the bestpiece of music ever written for theEnglish tongue, was presentedthroughout with enthusiasm andtechnical proficiency that seldomslipped from a professional stand-ard.

In particular, I enjoyed the choralwork which brought out the mag-nificent beauty of some of the fin-est choral music ever composedwith a good deal of verve and nat-ural joy. Often in this sort of per-formance, there is a tendency forthe male sections of the choir tocompletely overwhelm the femaleparts, but the singing last Saturdaywas pretty well balanced through-out the night; the girls really heldtheir own.

Bass Solo OutstandingAlso, I particularly enjoyed Paul

Matthen who sang the bass solopart. He has a deep, rich tonalquality to his voice, and he sangthose long runs in a way thatbrought joy to my heart, not slur-ring a bit, but presenting each notecarefully and cleanly. SumnerCrockett, who sang the tenor solopart, was a little less clean in his

tricky passages, but he has a bigvoice that carried the part rightalong. I thought his "Thou ShaltBreak Them" very fine. Helen Mc-Closkey (alto) occasionally lackedthe volume that the part demands,but was really quite beautiful inthe melodic aria "Ere Shall FeedHis Flocks." Willabelle Underwood(soprano) sang pleasantly and pro-ficiently throughout, but now andthen I sort of got the idea that shewasn't quite in the spirit of things.

Criticism of OrchestraMy only really major criticism

of the evening, however, falls onthe orchestra. During the firstpart, with the exception of the sec-tions in which it accompanied thechorus, the playing was rather life-less; proficient, but "square." Theyseemed to perk up in the secondpart, however, and got into theswing of things. (Maybe conduc-tor Liepmann gave them a half-time pep talk.) Whoever playedthe trumpet part in "The TrumpetShall Sound" did very nicely, too.

Al in all, though, it was a verypleasant evening, and certainly oneof the finest concerts the musicclubs have ever given. It was apity to see so many empty guestseats; I wonder if somethingcouldn't be done about "no-show"guests? Oh yes, one other thing,it is very distracting to both.: udi-ence and performer to have flash-bulbs popping throughout the con-cert. -F. V.

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Bridge Club Tops Harvardin Team-Of-Four Contest.

Coming from behind on the finalset of hands, the MJ.T. BridgeClub defeated Harvard in a team-

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lead of 1590 points on the I;rstthree rounds, the Tech team sweptthe fical. roun d to win by 1050,points. Other teamn-of-four matchesare planned for the near future.

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WHAT ABOUT TECH'S-A-POPPIN?We should like to register a dissent against the criticism appearing

in the editorial column last Friday, which expressed the opinion thatTech's-a-Poppin ought to be dropped from the Technology calendar.In our opinion, Tech's-a-Poppin is a wortwhilhe institution and deservesto be saved.

Admittedly, Tech's-a-Poppin is not perfect. 'AThe conduct of thebeauty contest could certainly be lmproved to a point where less friendsof the committee get to be finaliets. Moreover, the Hex-a-poppin show,the weak part of the program for the pasttwo years, could well bereplaced by a more entertaining and better-planned endeator. How-ever, the argument that Tech's-a-Poppin ought to ,be scrappedbecause most of the athletic contests were lost this year does not seemto us very logical.

I It's true that Engineer squads came out on the short end of thescore in four of the six events in ithe abbreviated schedule, includingthe "major" basketball and hockey games. However, with the possibleexception of Harvard in hockey, none of the weekend's opponents canby any stretch of the imagination be considered as "out of our class."B. V., for example, beat us in basketball by 20 points, but over thelast decade basketball relations between the two schools have beenon fairly even terns. (Last year, B.U. won the T.P. game, but theEngineer five later beat, the Terriers on the latter's own court. Theorder might just as well have been reversed.)

The argument that T.P. has not caught on with the student bodyis refuted by the large attendance at 'Almost all events. In fact, wemight suggest that some means be adopted to accommodate a largercrowd at the',basketball game in the future,.since the present facilities

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Summary: M.I.T. at Dartmouth: Tanner, 280; Zar-

tarian 272; Robertson 269; Chamieny,209; MacDonald, 269. Total, 1359; Dart-mouth, 1372.

M.I.T. at Norwich: Tanner, 282; Har-tung, 27s; MacDonald, 76,; Robertson, 273;Gauntt, 272. Total, 1381; Norwich, 1363.

Mi.I.T. at Vermont: Tanner, 28(; Hartung,27(6; Gauntt, 276; Robertson, 272; Pasieka271. Tdtal, 1381; Vermont, 1378.

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It was anmounced last week thatWilliam P. Nicholson, '52, has beenelected captain of next year's crosscountry team, succeeding Sam 1ol-land. Nicholson was a standout onthis year's team and took the var-sity's only irst place of the season,coming in first in the Techmen'svictory over New Hampshire.

The team, which won two outof three of its regularly;schedulledmeets, will be lhit htrd-by gradu-ation. Only Nicholgon and Ed OLneywill return from the group whichran in the -New England gCrossCountry Championship.

Riremen Win TwoWhile Lsing One

Top Norwich, Vermont;Beaten By DartmouthAfter winning their first two

matches at home by record-break-ing scores, the varsity riflemen hadto settle for two wins out of threestarts on their road trip last week-end. On Friday night the Engineerswere upset by a hot Dartmouthteam which fied 1372, their highestof the year, against Tech's 1359.

Tech came back Saturday morn-ing to down Norwich University,a potential threat to the Engineers'title, by a score of 1,381't -i363. Astrong Universiy of Vermont teamthen nearly gave -the 'Beaversanother loss on Saturday afternoon,but was edged out by a 1381 to1378 count.The match with Vermont sup-

plied the most .excitement. Tech,took an early ten-point lead whenAllan Tanner, who was high Techshooter for Tech Ln. all threematches, scored a 286 on the :firstrelay. Tom Breen then pulled hisGreen Mountain Boys to a :five-point lead in the second relaywith a sensationl score of 291points -out of a possible 300. rnk

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jPeiksol l Team .Beateny,, :y..qW.est Point SquadS- ai powerful West EPointgug,.l. .' l st- S Saturday,- the Tech0pll.,teai -' dropped an 83-pointdsi5-lff.: Bothi the Ehgineers and

Cadets got off -to a bad. start inthe -slow fire run,- but scores pickedup with West Point taking the leadin the ttimed and rapid match.

The -high five scorers for Techwere' :.Billing, 246; Markey, 261;Von Muller, 240; Sames, 248; andSargent 248. The five high for Armyran- from-261 to 278 and gave thema total of 1326 against the Engi-neers' 1243.

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Squhash Team BowsTo- Wesleyan, 6-3-'The Tech squash. team absorbed

its-. second- lo .of the season. lastSaturday . afternoon, .-bowing toWesleyan on the home courts. Thefinal score was 6-3 in- favor of theCardinals.

Fernando Irigoyen, GordonRampy, and Pete Silveston garneredthe only wins scored by the Engi-neers.

The summary:Hentz (W) defeated Eckardt, 15-10, 15-9,

15-8; Jones (W) defeated Cotter, 15-8, 15-8,15-10; Travis VX') defeated Drucker, 15-13,9-15, 9-15, 18-14, 15-12; Irigoyen (M.I.T.)defeated Carney, 15-8, 15-9, 15-9; Ackerly(W) defeated Geisler, 15-11, 6-15, 15-9,15-11; Rampy (M.I.T.) defeated Byron,15-3, 15-7, 15-16, 15-11; Huang (W) de-feated Namitz, 15-11, 15-8, 18-15; Silveston(M.I.T.) defeated Itoy, 15-10, 15-9, 5-9, 15-9;Keers (¥W) defeated Weatherbee, 15-11.15-11, 8-15, 15-12.

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Varsity MaulersBow: To Harvard

Hansen Scores .Pin;. ' Frosh Lose, 20-17Meeting a powerful. E Harvard

team last Saturday afternoon, .theTech wrestlers went down -todefeat- by a score of 24-7, thusevening up their .season's recordat 1-1. The Ibeaver frosh were alsobeaten, by a closer- coint o-f 20-17.

In the 136 lb. class, Tech's JohnHansen pinned his opponent for theonly .Varsity pin of the afternoon.This was Hansen's second straightpin of the season and seems. touphold -Coach George Meyerson'sconvictions as to Hansen's promisefor the future. EIeavyweight ChuckBading tied his opponent. in theunlimited match to notch ,the onlyother Tech points.

In the Frosh meet, heavyweightCharles Seymour registered thefastest pin of the afternoon forany Tech wrestler, with 2:47, whileHarvard's Adams scored a fast 1:40.Henry Meyers and John -Moga alsoscored pins while Richard Lan:dy

earned a tie for the rest of the

Tech points.

Varslty:121 lb.: J. Kozol (H) decisioned S. Ray-

mond (M.I.T.), 2-1; 128 lb.: D. Harnsberger(M.I.T.) forfeited to Abboud (H) ; 136 lb.:Hansen (M.I.T.) pinned Carter (H), Time:6:41; 145 lb.: Smith (H) decisioned Calla-han (M.I.T.), 4-2; 155 lb.; Sawyer (H)decisioned Haggerty (II.I.T.), 3-2; 165 lb.:Connors (H) decisioned IMitchell (M.I.T.),8-1; 175 lb.: Keith (El) pinned Ferguson(MI.I.T.). Time 2:22; Unlim.: BadingMI.I.T.) tied Claffin (H), 2-2.

Team scores: Harvard 24, M.I.T. 7.

|Freshmen:121 lb.: AMeyers (M.I.T.) pinned Tuleja

(H). Time: 3:35; 128 lb.: Lee (H) pinned-Taub (M.I.T.). Time: 4:31; 136 lb.: Iben(H) pinned Schmidt (M.I.T.). Time: 3:14;145 lb.: Adams (H) pinned Lecar. Time:1:40; 155 lb.: Buch (H) decisioned Ebling(M.I.T.), 6-2; 165 lb.: Moga (M.I.T.) pinnedClarke (H). Time: 5:14; 175 lb.: Landy(MI.I.T.) tied brown (H) 1-1; Unlim.; Sey-mour (M3I1.T.) pinned Davis (H). Time:2:47.

Team score: Harvard 20, M.I.T. 17.

lTechi Mer'menEdged, 39-36

Final Relay Clinches.Victory For Amherst;Two Tech Records SetDespite breaking two records,

the Tech mermen lost to Amherstlast Saturday in a meet which wasnot decided until the final relay.The Lord Jefts won by the samescore by which Tech defeated themlast year, 39-36.

In the 300 yard medley relay,Plummer, Pines -and Baker com-binled to clip three tenths of asecond fronmI the old record of threeminutes and seven seconds whichwas set last year by Bob Pelletier,Dick ,i-tler and Bob Edgar. By fin-ishing the'-220 yard freestyle intwo minutes and twenty secondsFrank Conlin broke his own recordof two minutes, twenty and seventenths seconds which he set lastyear. Conlin also took first place inthe 100 yd. free-style.

Tomorrow night both the froshand varsity will play host to theHarvard mermen at the Alumnipool. The frosh meet will begin at-7:30 with the varsities followingat 8:45.

Summary:300-yard medley relay-Won by Plummer,

Pines, Baker (M.I.T.). Time-3:06.7.220-yard, freestyle- Won by Conlan

(M.I.T.):; 2, Stevenson (A); 3, Gittner(A). Time-2:20.

50-yard freestyle-Won by Edgar (M.I.T.);2, Taite (A); 3. Keydel (A). Time-- 24:4.

Diving-Won by Conant (A) with 76.95points; 2, Asche (A); 3, Lehman (M.I.T.).

100-yard freestyle -' on by Conlan(MNI.I.T.); 2, Stevenson (A); 3, Edgar(M.I.T.). Time-56s.

150-yard back stroke-Won by Plummer(MNI.I.T.); 2, Wasie (A); 3, Stanford (A).Time-1:44.2.

200-yard breast stroke- Won by Pines(M.I.T.); , Tonnessen (M.I.T.); 3, Her-zog (A). Time-2:42.5.

440-yard freestyle-Won by Dittner (A); 2,Keydel (A); 3, Baker (M.I.T.). Time5:19.9.

400-yard relay-Won by Stevenson, Tate,Hall, Schlanger (Amherst). Time-3 :47.2.

s First WinlGlantz Once Again-Paces Tech Attack

Technology's cagers hit the win-ning side of the ledger for the firsttime last Saturday evening, down-ing New Bedford Textile !by a scoreof 49-41. The Textilemen did notprove to be -the soft touches theywere expected to be, however, asthey led at halftime and stayedwithin striking distance of 'I-e leaduntil the final moments.

Zone Defense Effective

During the first half the lead see-sawed back and forth, as a zonedefense thrown up by the homefteam seemed to stymie the Engi-neers' offensive efforts. Textile led,24-21, at intermission.

The second half proved to bemore of the same, until, with fiveminutes left to play, the Beaversrolled into high speed and wentin front to stay.

Glantz Scores 13

Herb Glantz once again pacedthe Tech offense with 13 points,although scoring honors for theevening went to Fred Burke andDeny Moniz of the home team with15 apiece .... Lou Morton andHank Hoherst each chipped in witha couple of pivot shots to help theEngineers' attack. The Beavers werealso in fairly complete control ofthe backboards through most ofthe game. .... The refereeing was

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at the Armory are evidently inadequate. The crowds bothn at thebasketball and hockey games seemed to enjoy themselves, and cheeredthemselves hoarse despite the fact that both -the Beaver five a.nd sixwere trailing all-the way. We haven't heard too many people suggestingthat Harvard abandon football, despite the notable lack of successachieved by the Crimson grid forces last fall. And it seems to us that,as a social affair, T.P. fills a valuable spot in Tech's social calendar.A few suggestions

So, instead of a match for burning up Tech's-a-Poppin plans, we.might offer the corrmmittee the following suggestions: (1) clean up theconduct of beauty contests, making an effort to obtain some famouspersonalities to take part in the judging (like Dahl, the cartoonist, whosupplied a lot of color two years ago); (2) replace the Hex-a-poppinshow with a more professional enterprise, and (3) replace Harvardas a hockey opponent with a team like, say, Northeastern, which ismore in our class but definitely not .in the pushover category.

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Experimerntal. BesultsCombining research techniques

with established-princplea; the stu-dents who devised the reflected-light-beam system used it to studythe right kind of roof shape for a1000-seat auditorium of' fan-likefloor plan.

In some places, they .found, thesound from the stage reaches theaudience on the auditorium floordirectly. In other places it-goes upto the ceiling and reflects back. to:the audience from there; i: AMLothers, sound bounces off frmn thi:rear wall.

Acoustics(Continiued from Page 1)

The other study, which involvesmeasuring actual sound waves in asimple plywood auditorium model,is just getting under way. In thiscase a much larger model is re-quired, but the resulting measure-ments may be easier, faster, andmore complete.

High lPitched SeundThis "sound analysis" system is

based on the fact that a high-pitched sound win behave in a smallmodel just as a normally pitchedsound will behave in the full-sizeprototype. In this case the modelcan be very simple-and thus inex-pensive-while still giving allneeded information.

These two systems are both re-cent projects of students in a grad-uate course entitled ArchitecturalAcoustics. Under the supervisionof Professor Richard H. Bolt, Di-rector of the Acoustics Laboratory,and Professor L. B. Anderson, headof the architecture department, theclass is guided by Robert Newman,an Institute graduate just begin-ning service on the architectureteaching staff.

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