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Sun-9-9 ___
CAMBRIDGE,
NO. 53
MASSS., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1941
COMPLIMENTARY __
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GRADUATION Sttident Body
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koWd Faculty , dCo v n
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institute War Policies So Be Stated Friday At Bldg. 7 Meeting
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Accelerated Schedule Only! Seniors Affects the
to graduate 'Class of '42 in April as announced tonight represents the first major change made by the Institute since the nation went to [war a little over a week ago. This move will place about six hundred men in a position i to aid the all-out war effort of the country over a month ahead
Speed-up of the Senior curriculum in order
asses tart Fe - 2
Made without any pressure from the government, this de-
vocation of the entire student body cision to eliminate all unnecessary phases of the senior's curri10. :45 A.M., Friday, and staff at19,5 in therotunday oftheculum and move graduation ahead by. more than a month was aDecembera
based upon the belief that it was the most expedient means of Doeers Building. Al classes are to be dismissed at aiding our war effort. Although this program has been adopted by several other the sounding of the bell at 10:40 ao to the point and will contain schools in this district, none of them have the problem that
Dates Are Moved For All Events Of Class Of '42 In Speed-Up
Other Colleges Push Plans For Work Speed-Up
Institute policy during the wart f schedule either as members of the armed services or in elnergency will be the subject of a !O s statement to be made by President iessential posts in industry.
iCarl T. Compton at a general con-'
1
MEETING
CAL
COMPTON I,
SET fOR
While Technology's Faculty voted | The Faculty of the Institute ! at on the acceleration of courses at its meeting on Wednesday aftercolleges noon voted to shorten the last term other Institute, the -AAkgoA anDroximMA1942 bvJ"ax s of 4.-1-a Class _for the -- --UL-1l as w t4-hnrougnout tne East were pusnlng, --r
s
four weeks to permit Seniors i /plans for telescoping the college pately / year at their institutions, it was re- | to be graduated at the end of April.
of vital importance to every- arises Irom tne unusually neavy ouaa nourinianiy arridnu Dy wlne { ported in the Boston press yester- } No action was taken at this meetHowever, much of this difficulty will be day. Besides minor changes such as ing to change the instruction schedClasses scheduled for 11:05 will eliminated by the abandonment of unessential courses. Institute has made a move and it is now up to the ; the elimination of spring vacation | ule in the first three years or in carry- on as vusual.The
,xords
one connected with the Institute. Institute student.
j
i
All Should Attend whole student body to keep the confusion and problems that and reading periods to advance | the Graduate School. Christmas vagraduation dates to early May, as I cation will remain as scheduled, Deinstitute authorities emphasized will inevitably arise to a minimum. the fact of the importance of this are going into effect in Dartmouth,: cember 24, through January 3. general convocation, urging thati Boston University, 1 Acceleration of instruction for the Cross, Holy all attend and pointing out that Senior Week To Be Better- Tyree; I Tufts, and Boston College, drastic ; Senior class is to be accomplished onlyl on occasions of grave concern, revisions of schedules are taking, by omitting some subjects and to all the students and staff arei place at Harvard, Yale and Prince- ; giving more class exercises per week p sticli meetings called. Senior Week, although undoubt-' number of optional proposals for i in others, including those subjects It is expected that Doctor Compton. substitutions. ton's message will include an ex-: edly missing some of the events, Since last June, students at Har- lfisted and retained as fourth-year T. Coe, '42, president of planation of how Technology is which are a traditional part of the I Jerome vard have been able, by taking electives. plarvin- an effective ptart in the annual festivities, will be an even the Institute Committee, when ques- extra work, to get their degrees in tioned about any possible changes some Theses Omitted,enierai national effort. One of the bigger and better party than was' in the Committee or any of the three years instead of the usual will bel naior points, it is believed, four. Word has come recently from Changes in the second term callstatement on j ust how the In-' previously planned, stated S. Young, undergraduate activities because of Harvard that faculty committees j endar for Seniors only include the titute will couple its fundamental, Tyree, Jr., '42, chairman of the the intensified program facing the are considering the possibility of second term, during the seniors probability that subjects closely itirpose of training engineers with. Senior Week committee, when in! lengthening the sumumer session to the only change stated that as yet related to war activities may be fiat of doing its duty for Uncle! formed of the change of date of that could be predicted with any de- Iprovide an uninterrupted academic am. | substituted and that thesis subjects commencement ceremonies., gree of accuracy is the certainty year. It has also been announced that about 75 members of the class may be omitted by some departWith the exception of the Pops that class elections and elections of of 1943 at Harvard will graduate ments to reduce the work of the concert, every event originally on officers in many of the activities June under the older plan. this term to 35 units. Exact details will the program can and probably will would undoubtedly be advanced At Yale, President Seymour has be presented with registration mabe held. As possible substitutions! considerably. That faculty decision will un- i stated that the university will def- ' terial in January. Each department for the affair, there may possibly, , initely go on a twelve-month schedbe a new event added to the cal- doubtedly cause dire results in the The {will make its own decision which iule beginning immediately. events athletic for spring endar, or the Ball may be made program was the opinion of Frank B. Her- .'program is voluntary, for the time l will have to be approved by the much more elaborate. lihy, '42, president of the M.I.T.A.A. .being, but may soon be made com- i Faculty Committee. Illaugulrating the first of a series, Referendum to Be Presented Dodds of Princeton has He felt that because of the increase ipulsory. 'I Open Forums on war sponsored: Under the new calendar, registra. The final decisions for additional in the amount of work taken by tiannounced also that that college *the Debating Society Major!I events will be left up to the mem-l the Seniors, there would be rela- *+willhenceforth make three-year col- |tion day for the second term for -Ia-ard C. Harwood, of the depart- bers of the Class of 1942 by holding tively few of them able to continue lege degrees available to their Seniors will be Saturday, January ,,an, of Military Science, delivered, 'Ia class referendum presenting al 31, and classes will begin on Febas members of the varsity teams. undergraduates. inlelIre at 5:00 P.M. tonight before, -- -The last exercises for ) ruary 2. anddI students )0 Technology Lcu-lty members. In a talk illus-; i will come on Saturday, Seniors ated by wall maps Major Har- 1i , ;April 18, and final examinations Dod discussed "The Axis Strategy I Ifor Seniors are to be held from id What the United States Can, l April 20 to 22. Saturday, April 25, 1918. Members of the class of 1919 this, Techthe last war, as in In War department protests the peated has been held open for Class Day F. by Raymond Introduced work were government in the work entering took a large part nology in possible for men finally made it 'ankel, 143, Major Harwood began ~ exercises, the baccalaureate servengineering colleges to enlist in the further permitted to drop thesis , ice will be held on the following giving a brief resume of the' of the government training. The action of the faculty today U. S. Army Engineer Cor-ps and im- work and graduate even earlier, in sect of topography upon military day, and the Faculty has recom1918. in close parallelism to the mediately be placed on a furlough IiMarch, comes aerations for theaters of war all Irw r)r v I i to the Corporation that the mended The result of these plans was that er the world, stressing the im-1 course followed by the Institute status until completion of their a large number of members of the Class of 1942 be graduated on Mon,rtance of ocean barriers, moun-| during the last war. Unlike the studies. But the problem of draft exemp- .Iclass of 1919 graduated in October i day, April 27. in ranges, and other naturals situation at present, however, the With this as a' back- entrance of the United States into tion was not the only one which hit I 1918, and the close of the war found Itures. The totally unpre- the class of 1920 well on the way to No Disturbance for Other Classes )und, he proceeded to discuss the the war had not been prepared for Technology. prior of efficiency degree with any The Institute's regular calendar pared nation needed technical men, graduating a year ahead of time. 'ategy of the axis and of the 1917. of April, fateful weeks to the badly. Besides and needed them I now in force is 15 weeks and three ies, both on the offensive and on Technology's Cadet Corps and The result was that the nation was -the much publicized intensive trainLdefensive. Engineer unit, as well as the nature days long, while the new calendar |starting from scratch. ing courses given at -the Institute of its instruction, fitted its grad- for Seniors is reduced to 11 weeks. Major Threat in East lTechnically trained men were for various units of the armed n Major Harwood's eyes, one of Imost urgently needed by the serv- forces, Technology undergraduate uates particularly well for service In general, revision of the fourth Christmas of 1918 year class schedule has been ac>major axis threats is in the Far ices and the many newly expanded life underwent a thorough transi- in the army. It where the British stronghold war industries. But short-sighted tion. In spite of repeated admoni- found the Institute with more complished by adding an extra Singapore is under siege by rulings on the part of the War de- tions on the part of President Mac- officers in the army than any other class to each subject on Saturday :)anese forces. Furthermore, it partment made it for a time almost laurin to the students to stay in college except West Point. Meanmorning and, if necessary, in the while Tech's staff and equipment )f vital necessity that the United impossible for men to stay in col- school a great many men enlisted for the and day night were working afternoon on one other day. This ,tes maintain communications |lege. It was not until late in the in the army even before the draft government. The newly completed arrangement permits the change to h the Philippines. fall of 1917 that any provision was went into effect. But speed-up was Vith respect to other possible made for the exemption of Tech- to come even for those staying. plant in Cambridge had its back- be made rapidly without disturbing yards filled with barracks, laboraaters of conflict, Major Harwood nology students from the draft. Twenty-four years ago, almost to tories, training buildings. Walker schedules for other years. dicted that American troops to discuss met the faculty the day, Deferment Obtained Some classes may be held between Irht see action on one or more of the acceleration of the work of the Memorial opened on September 1, eral fronts; in China in defense 1917, and was immediately turned 8 and 9 A.M. or from 5 to 6 P.M., A corps of cadets had been in undergraduates. the Burma road and attacking operation at the Institute, and an over to the navy for quarters for and the need for some Saturday Dropped Subjects Non-Professional ian from the rear, in Russia to informal Engineers Corps, but training flyers. The Tech was taken afternoon classes may arise. p maintain that front and force neither had any official status, nor Seniors repeating subjects of It was decided that all non-pro- over by an alumni group and was Germans back, or in North did the establishment of an R.O.T.C. fessional subjects would be dropped, run as a combination alumni and earlier years will take final exanmlea to prevent the Germans from unit change affairs, for these men that the work of the junior and undergraduate newspaper, carrying inations in such subjects. at the univenting the Russian Army or were not considered to be members sophomore classes be shortened by news of M.I.T. and its work to end of the new Senior term (April Caucusus and Mediterranean of the armed services and were thus at least one term, and that work alumni in the armed forces abroad 18) on the subject matter covered riers. up to that time. However, upon re- be given during the summer of as well as in this country. not exempt.
' Varsity Athletics Mway Suffer
L
!
!1,
txis Sstra*te--gv )iscussed By i~1j Harwood
Last War Caused ParallelChanges In Schedules; Seniors GraduatedEarly, Theses Abolished
. .
A
I
EXTRA
EXTRA III i
I Vol. LXI,
'eLet's
Set
The Rising
Sun-9-9 ___
CAMBRIDGE,
NO. 53
MASSS., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1941
COMPLIMENTARY __
_
GRADUATION Sttident Body
|
koWd Faculty , dCo v n
III,. _
i
institute War Policies So Be Stated Friday At Bldg. 7 Meeting
a
Far
.
i
Accelerated Schedule Only! Seniors Affects the
to graduate 'Class of '42 in April as announced tonight represents the first major change made by the Institute since the nation went to [war a little over a week ago. This move will place about six hundred men in a position i to aid the all-out war effort of the country over a month ahead
Speed-up of the Senior curriculum in order
asses tart Fe - 2
Made without any pressure from the government, this de-
vocation of the entire student body cision to eliminate all unnecessary phases of the senior's curri10. :45 A.M., Friday, and staff at19,5 in therotunday oftheculum and move graduation ahead by. more than a month was aDecembera
based upon the belief that it was the most expedient means of Doeers Building. Al classes are to be dismissed at aiding our war effort. Although this program has been adopted by several other the sounding of the bell at 10:40 ao to the point and will contain schools in this district, none of them have the problem that
Dates Are Moved For All Events Of Class Of '42 In Speed-Up
Other Colleges Push Plans For Work Speed-Up
Institute policy during the wart f schedule either as members of the armed services or in elnergency will be the subject of a !O s statement to be made by President iessential posts in industry.
iCarl T. Compton at a general con-'
1
MEETING
CAL
COMPTON I,
SET fOR
While Technology's Faculty voted | The Faculty of the Institute ! at on the acceleration of courses at its meeting on Wednesday aftercolleges noon voted to shorten the last term other Institute, the -AAkgoA anDroximMA1942 bvJ"ax s of 4.-1-a Class _for the -- --UL-1l as w t4-hnrougnout tne East were pusnlng, --r
s
four weeks to permit Seniors i /plans for telescoping the college pately / year at their institutions, it was re- | to be graduated at the end of April.
of vital importance to every- arises Irom tne unusually neavy ouaa nourinianiy arridnu Dy wlne { ported in the Boston press yester- } No action was taken at this meetHowever, much of this difficulty will be day. Besides minor changes such as ing to change the instruction schedClasses scheduled for 11:05 will eliminated by the abandonment of unessential courses. Institute has made a move and it is now up to the ; the elimination of spring vacation | ule in the first three years or in carry- on as vusual.The
,xords
one connected with the Institute. Institute student.
j
i
All Should Attend whole student body to keep the confusion and problems that and reading periods to advance | the Graduate School. Christmas vagraduation dates to early May, as I cation will remain as scheduled, Deinstitute authorities emphasized will inevitably arise to a minimum. the fact of the importance of this are going into effect in Dartmouth,: cember 24, through January 3. general convocation, urging thati Boston University, 1 Acceleration of instruction for the Cross, Holy all attend and pointing out that Senior Week To Be Better- Tyree; I Tufts, and Boston College, drastic ; Senior class is to be accomplished onlyl on occasions of grave concern, revisions of schedules are taking, by omitting some subjects and to all the students and staff arei place at Harvard, Yale and Prince- ; giving more class exercises per week p sticli meetings called. Senior Week, although undoubt-' number of optional proposals for i in others, including those subjects It is expected that Doctor Compton. substitutions. ton's message will include an ex-: edly missing some of the events, Since last June, students at Har- lfisted and retained as fourth-year T. Coe, '42, president of planation of how Technology is which are a traditional part of the I Jerome vard have been able, by taking electives. plarvin- an effective ptart in the annual festivities, will be an even the Institute Committee, when ques- extra work, to get their degrees in tioned about any possible changes some Theses Omitted,enierai national effort. One of the bigger and better party than was' in the Committee or any of the three years instead of the usual will bel naior points, it is believed, four. Word has come recently from Changes in the second term callstatement on j ust how the In-' previously planned, stated S. Young, undergraduate activities because of Harvard that faculty committees j endar for Seniors only include the titute will couple its fundamental, Tyree, Jr., '42, chairman of the the intensified program facing the are considering the possibility of second term, during the seniors probability that subjects closely itirpose of training engineers with. Senior Week committee, when in! lengthening the sumumer session to the only change stated that as yet related to war activities may be fiat of doing its duty for Uncle! formed of the change of date of that could be predicted with any de- Iprovide an uninterrupted academic am. | substituted and that thesis subjects commencement ceremonies., gree of accuracy is the certainty year. It has also been announced that about 75 members of the class may be omitted by some departWith the exception of the Pops that class elections and elections of of 1943 at Harvard will graduate ments to reduce the work of the concert, every event originally on officers in many of the activities June under the older plan. this term to 35 units. Exact details will the program can and probably will would undoubtedly be advanced At Yale, President Seymour has be presented with registration mabe held. As possible substitutions! considerably. That faculty decision will un- i stated that the university will def- ' terial in January. Each department for the affair, there may possibly, , initely go on a twelve-month schedbe a new event added to the cal- doubtedly cause dire results in the The {will make its own decision which iule beginning immediately. events athletic for spring endar, or the Ball may be made program was the opinion of Frank B. Her- .'program is voluntary, for the time l will have to be approved by the much more elaborate. lihy, '42, president of the M.I.T.A.A. .being, but may soon be made com- i Faculty Committee. Illaugulrating the first of a series, Referendum to Be Presented Dodds of Princeton has He felt that because of the increase ipulsory. 'I Open Forums on war sponsored: Under the new calendar, registra. The final decisions for additional in the amount of work taken by tiannounced also that that college *the Debating Society Major!I events will be left up to the mem-l the Seniors, there would be rela- *+willhenceforth make three-year col- |tion day for the second term for -Ia-ard C. Harwood, of the depart- bers of the Class of 1942 by holding tively few of them able to continue lege degrees available to their Seniors will be Saturday, January ,,an, of Military Science, delivered, 'Ia class referendum presenting al 31, and classes will begin on Febas members of the varsity teams. undergraduates. inlelIre at 5:00 P.M. tonight before, -- -The last exercises for ) ruary 2. anddI students )0 Technology Lcu-lty members. In a talk illus-; i will come on Saturday, Seniors ated by wall maps Major Har- 1i , ;April 18, and final examinations Dod discussed "The Axis Strategy I Ifor Seniors are to be held from id What the United States Can, l April 20 to 22. Saturday, April 25, 1918. Members of the class of 1919 this, Techthe last war, as in In War department protests the peated has been held open for Class Day F. by Raymond Introduced work were government in the work entering took a large part nology in possible for men finally made it 'ankel, 143, Major Harwood began ~ exercises, the baccalaureate servengineering colleges to enlist in the further permitted to drop thesis , ice will be held on the following giving a brief resume of the' of the government training. The action of the faculty today U. S. Army Engineer Cor-ps and im- work and graduate even earlier, in sect of topography upon military day, and the Faculty has recom1918. in close parallelism to the mediately be placed on a furlough IiMarch, comes aerations for theaters of war all Irw r)r v I i to the Corporation that the mended The result of these plans was that er the world, stressing the im-1 course followed by the Institute status until completion of their a large number of members of the Class of 1942 be graduated on Mon,rtance of ocean barriers, moun-| during the last war. Unlike the studies. But the problem of draft exemp- .Iclass of 1919 graduated in October i day, April 27. in ranges, and other naturals situation at present, however, the With this as a' back- entrance of the United States into tion was not the only one which hit I 1918, and the close of the war found Itures. The totally unpre- the class of 1920 well on the way to No Disturbance for Other Classes )und, he proceeded to discuss the the war had not been prepared for Technology. prior of efficiency degree with any The Institute's regular calendar pared nation needed technical men, graduating a year ahead of time. 'ategy of the axis and of the 1917. of April, fateful weeks to the badly. Besides and needed them I now in force is 15 weeks and three ies, both on the offensive and on Technology's Cadet Corps and The result was that the nation was -the much publicized intensive trainLdefensive. Engineer unit, as well as the nature days long, while the new calendar |starting from scratch. ing courses given at -the Institute of its instruction, fitted its grad- for Seniors is reduced to 11 weeks. Major Threat in East lTechnically trained men were for various units of the armed n Major Harwood's eyes, one of Imost urgently needed by the serv- forces, Technology undergraduate uates particularly well for service In general, revision of the fourth Christmas of 1918 year class schedule has been ac>major axis threats is in the Far ices and the many newly expanded life underwent a thorough transi- in the army. It where the British stronghold war industries. But short-sighted tion. In spite of repeated admoni- found the Institute with more complished by adding an extra Singapore is under siege by rulings on the part of the War de- tions on the part of President Mac- officers in the army than any other class to each subject on Saturday :)anese forces. Furthermore, it partment made it for a time almost laurin to the students to stay in college except West Point. Meanmorning and, if necessary, in the while Tech's staff and equipment )f vital necessity that the United impossible for men to stay in col- school a great many men enlisted for the and day night were working afternoon on one other day. This ,tes maintain communications |lege. It was not until late in the in the army even before the draft government. The newly completed arrangement permits the change to h the Philippines. fall of 1917 that any provision was went into effect. But speed-up was Vith respect to other possible made for the exemption of Tech- to come even for those staying. plant in Cambridge had its back- be made rapidly without disturbing yards filled with barracks, laboraaters of conflict, Major Harwood nology students from the draft. Twenty-four years ago, almost to tories, training buildings. Walker schedules for other years. dicted that American troops to discuss met the faculty the day, Deferment Obtained Some classes may be held between Irht see action on one or more of the acceleration of the work of the Memorial opened on September 1, eral fronts; in China in defense 1917, and was immediately turned 8 and 9 A.M. or from 5 to 6 P.M., A corps of cadets had been in undergraduates. the Burma road and attacking operation at the Institute, and an over to the navy for quarters for and the need for some Saturday Dropped Subjects Non-Professional ian from the rear, in Russia to informal Engineers Corps, but training flyers. The Tech was taken afternoon classes may arise. p maintain that front and force neither had any official status, nor Seniors repeating subjects of It was decided that all non-pro- over by an alumni group and was Germans back, or in North did the establishment of an R.O.T.C. fessional subjects would be dropped, run as a combination alumni and earlier years will take final exanmlea to prevent the Germans from unit change affairs, for these men that the work of the junior and undergraduate newspaper, carrying inations in such subjects. at the univenting the Russian Army or were not considered to be members sophomore classes be shortened by news of M.I.T. and its work to end of the new Senior term (April Caucusus and Mediterranean of the armed services and were thus at least one term, and that work alumni in the armed forces abroad 18) on the subject matter covered riers. up to that time. However, upon re- be given during the summer of as well as in this country. not exempt.
' Varsity Athletics Mway Suffer
L
!
!1,
txis Sstra*te--gv )iscussed By i~1j Harwood
Last War Caused ParallelChanges In Schedules; Seniors GraduatedEarly, Theses Abolished
