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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1921)
E N G I E E R S ' E D I N T I O N The voirxxTNO. 1ft.'. 10 BE BIG EVENT General Public Invited to Attend C.d Open House and Inspect Departments. MANY EXHIBITS READY Various Branches of the College Have prepared Samples of Work fo. Public View. Perhaps the biggesf event nf ;ho annual Engineers' Work is the open house of all the engineering lca.. ment. The Tngineers Night Thursua? . On this night, tha College of Engiiuoi ing is host to tho general public, at 1 all tho shops, laboratories and cla.-w rooms in tho various ng'.neei in . buildings Are open for inspection. This year, Thursday night, April 2 is set aside as Engineers night and plans are complete for one of ilit best and most extensive exhibitions ever put on. The civil engineering and the ap plied mechanics iepartnient will nob! their exhibit in Mechanic Arts ha" Transits, levels and compasses will bo set up and arranged for display mi1 some instruments dismantled in o dc-r that the details of their construc tion may be visible. Along with this display of surveying instruments will bo a collection of drafting instru ments and a showing of maps, plans and specifications as worked out l students taking courses in tho depart ment. In this collection are plans for railroad location, extension and im provement, designs of steel ami eon (Continued to Page 4.) UNIVERSITY WIRELESS STATION WILL BE JNVEILEO Transmitting and Receiving Instru ments Open to View of Public Engineers Night. One ol the many things to be un veiled to the public on Engineer. Night is the University wireless sta tion. It is harbored in tin- oW(:ic;,i engim ring laboratories just north ol old IT Hall. Four lean copper wiius are strung from tho U Hall flag pole down to tho midships point o' Electrical Engineering Hall. Those constitute the antenna of 9YY. They lead to the operating room wherein is located a multitude of transmitting and receiving instruments, so designed nd ararnged as to be able to radiate and receive systematic vibrations of ine ether in the form of radio tele graphic messages. Two distinct typs of transmitters are in us there, a ono killowatt spark et with a 250 watt continuous wae Pt. The former is very nigged and is the heavy duty installation. It i operated by remote control and is tuned to a 375 mter wave length. Our spark has been heard by ama teurs as far as the Atlantic seaboard. The continuous wave set is one which can be used fo reither telegraphic or telephonic communication. This la1 ter property makes it a very desir able type of outfit. In the receiving set, the desired 'cnals are turned in and magnl.'ied y two electron dynamic amplifieis. These super-sentative amplifiorp will Intensify the faintest traco cf elet Weal energy to such an extent aa to ffiake it strong enough to be easily tradable. These and many other won derful phenomena will be d iraoi "rated on Engineers Night. ENGINEERS 5 I.IM'OIA. FRANK T. D ARROW. This nio.iins ;it U o'clock Frni; T narrow v. ,, auress me engineers eviivocai.ou on "Tho Point of View of a Young Engineer in the Making.' Mr. Harrow, is assistant chief engi ueer of in . uuri.ngton linos for west ol ilio Mi.-sourt river, which indue si xihnusand miles of tr::ck and forty fci'M i lniTidre.i iniie.s of line. Mr. Burrow w;is graduated from Aiu-f-'iiiiiiy ooiuge. .vieaavnie, i'a., .n 1897. He came west immediately aft or graduation and counecled himsell with the Burlington railroad where his work has been everything from railway location to operation, in- iui ing all ni'w eonstruction, tunnclfs, bridges and river control as has h(e . put in along the Missouri river f.-om Omaha to Kulo. Woods Bros. rt'ai.'s were u.ied to some extent in livei control work. During th season of 1903 Mr. Har row was located at Seattle, Y.'ash., as superintendent of National Con Intel wimpany. His work cons's.e.'. mainly of steam shovel excavation, municipal and b'-idgo work. Ilis wori: attained national prominence througl his abii'ty t t handle big job contracts. In January this year, Mr. P.irrow was elected a director of the Ameri can jvciot.y of Civil Engnur.- tor a. thr. -yo;:r term, v leaves A;i:ii 22 1o attend the annual national con vention of the. American Society ;.f Civil Engineers to be hold it New Orleans. WALDO PORR PRESIDENT STUDENT CHAPTER A. A. E. Blue Print Staff for Next Year Also Selected at Meeting Theld on April 13. The annual elolion of officers for the student chapter of the Ameiican Association of Eugineerb was held Wednesday. April 13. The Blue I rint staff was selected at ihi stime. The following men were selected for thi next year: Waldo Poor, president. A. V. Lindgren, vice pmsidtnt. Fred Bing, secretary and treasuior. For tho engineering publication the following staff was selected: H. N'. Barnard, editor. H. Ufiton, assistant editor. It. (J. Van Brunt, business mana ger. J. Applegatc, assistant business maniiger. Kobert MeCandless, circulation manager. Clyde Wilcox, assistant circulation manager. Tho chapter of A. A. E. was or ganized here in November, 1919. and has shown steady growth since, that time. R. N. Tracy, the outgoing pres ident, has aided greatly in establish ing a strong and well known chapter here. LAST ENGINEERS' DANCE COMES APRIL 23 The last Engineers' dance of tha year will be given Saturday night, April 23. at Antelope Tark. The elec tricals have arranged special lighting effects to be used for several of the LY i NKllUASKA. Tl'KSDAV. APH1L 10. ENGINEERS CALENDAR Tiiesu.iy, 11 Convocctior , Ennginteis' cditicn Dily Ne br.skan. Wednesday Engineers field d,y. Toursd.y Engineers' NigM. Fi iday Engineers' banquet, Lin.-cln hoiel. Saturday Engineers' tiaifce, Antelope park. Dean Olin Jerome Ferguson. Dean Olin Jerome Ferguson of the College of Engineering, is a native of Illinois. He received his high school ed.iej.tion in XebrasKi and is a grad nan. of the Univcsi.y of Nebraska, having received the degree of bachelor of science in electrical engineering in 1903. Following his University course, he spent two years with the General Electric company. Schenectady, N. Y., going through the testing course and working in the transformer engineer ing department. In the latter place he was actively engaged in the de velopment work on new types of transformers. In the fall of 1905, he went to Union College, Schenectady, as an instructor in electrical engineering, working di rectly under Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz. During the next seven years he con tinned his teaching at Union College, advancing to practical charge of the department under Dr. Steinmetz' over sight. In 1909 he received the degree of master in electrical engineering, as a result of special studies taken under Dr. Steinmetz. covering power sys tems, electrical apparatus design, tran sient phenomena, etc. In 1912 he returned to the Univer sity of Nebraska to take charge of th electrical engineering department:, which position he still holds. In 1918, during the absence of Dean Stout in army service, Professor Ferguson was made acting dean of the College of Engineering. Although the regular college work during the subsequent year was badly demoralized, the Col lege of Engineering was called upon (Continued on page 3) All Engineers out for Field day to get in movies taken by Dr. Condra, 2 p. m. HEAR DARROW TODAY Frank T. Darrow, assistant chief engineer of the Burlington for lines west of the M 1st our i river, will address the convoia tion for ail Engineering stu dents today at 11 o'clock on "The Point cf View." The En gineering College is exceedingly fortunate in obtaining thia speaker and every students in that department is urged to at tend his lecture this mornirg. SENIORS! Order your caps and gowns now! Call at the College Book Store to have your measure ments taken. Do it today! CAP AND GOWN COMMITTEE I '-My EB RASKAN JAMES B, HARVEY. Toasti.-astcr cf Engineers Binquct Ji.nv's B. Haniy, icv president ol Hit: t)i;t:.iu.'.ital Gas and Electric company of Omaha will heve charge of the ;o;.st list at the banquet Fri day evening. Mr. Harvi-y out red tli' Univi '. M y i ; 1904 and was gradu ated in 1909 after completing tho course in , '.-ctrieal engineering and taking a graduate course in median ic.-.l i iiginei ring. He made bis "N" in football, was captain of the team in 190S and assistant couch in 1C03. He is the president of the Nebraska section of the National Ekv'.ric Light ing association and has been promi nent in public utility work for a num ber of years. Mr. Harvey was toast master of ihe Cornhusker banqutt in 1915. The following is the toast list for this year: Topstmaster. James B. Harvey. "The Engineer1 as a Mixer." Law renee Metzgar. "The Engineer as a Student." O. J. Ferguson. "The Engineer as a Salesman." .1. A. Bruce. "The Engineer r.s n Business Man," R. E. Campbell. "The Engineer as a Pathfimle: ," R. L. Cochran. The Engineer as a Constructive Force in the Nation," George A. Lee Lawrence Mettrar as the represent alive of the student body will dea (Continued on page three.) "FIELD DAY" IS DIG EVENT IN WEEK OF CELEBRATION Large Parade to Form at State Farm Campus Wednesday Morning. eurasKa nas scoies oi niost la vored i.auiiions," but Engineer? weei rates well toward the top of ihb "most favored" ones, and the anuuai field day the greatest dr-y of Engi neers eek. Enougn events will be held so that every engineer can take part. ' R. Gingrich, as chairman ol the Field day committee, has collected to geiner numerous even;s. Here s a brief outline of the program. Meet at M. E. Hall at 9 a. m., Wednesday and foim parade for State Farm at 9:30. This parade is to be no small part of the doings. It will be lead b tho Engineers band mounted on the civil engineering department's pnzo Garford stallion. With "Stubby" Siur devant as the leader this is a band that is a band: it doesn't look very strong, but hoot mon. or maybe bel ter 'toot mon, you 11 be surprised! The events will be held t the State Farm athletic field. Appiopri ate prizes will be awarded to a'l win ners. Real prizes, men! There will be nothing cheap about this Field day except the price of admission. It has been rumored that a number of skins (feline mephitis) secured on tho In spoction trip are being beautifully tanned, engraved and embroidered tc be given as rewards to the victors College Athletes to Clash. The first thing on the program is tho preliminary baseball games for (Continued on Page S.) 1 VRWK F1VK FEATURES IN ENGENEERS' I'.EEfi Annual Tradition of College Has More Extensive Program than in Previous Years. DANCE ADDED AFFAIR Week of Celebration Has Grown Out Out of Annual Banquet, First Held In 1903. The annual tradition of the Engineer ing College is being manifested this week by a greater and more extensive program than has been given in pre vious years. A. V. Lindgren, as gen eral chairman, has arranged for all of the numbers of previous programs and enlarged the scope of each in every possible way. Numerous details have been added and co-ordinated with the program so as to make Engineers' Week one of reality by having the pro gram to extend to -every day of thi week. Engineers' week has grown out of the first Engineers' banquet which wan h.'ld in 1903. As the years passed, it was decided to have a general open right at the Engineering College whereby the actual operation of the machinery and the student work mignt be shown to the interested public. Thus two of the numbers were com bined and formed the nucleus for tho present Engineers' wreek. The banquet was considered by the engineering students as the most at tractive feature of entertainment given under engineering auspices during the school year. Speakers of prominence were secured for the toast list and it (Continued to Page 4.) SIGMA TAU WILL PRESENT PORTRAIT OF DEAN STOUT College of ngineering Will Receive Gift cf Picture of Former De partment Head. Sigma Tau, honorary engineering fraternity, will rresent to the Col Iep, of Engineering at engineers con vocation on ihis morning a portrait of O. V. P. Stout, former dean of the College of Engineering. Mr. S:out was graduated from tho College of Engineering of the Uni versity of Nebraska in 1SSS and imrne diately went into work along the lini ol railway location, construction and maintenance, with? the? Burlington. Missouri Pacific and Union Tacirio railroads, reaching the position ot acting division engineer, Wyoming d; vision. Union Pacific railroad. Mr. Stout was connected witL the state university from 1891 to May. 1920, being head of the College o." En gineering after 1893. From IS? to 1904 he was resident dydrographcr United States Geological Survey, ii- rigation Investigator for United State department of agriculture; consulting engineer on construction of irrigation system of Tri-State Land company on North Platte River, costing two mil lion dollars; consulting engineer and head of engineering department cf Costilla Estates Development com pany, Colorado Springs and San Luis. Colorado. Stout Was Major. Mr. Stout has frequently been en gaged to report on irrigation projects of gTcat magnitude, including retlain ation of the oexled portion of the Sho shone reservatfon in Wyoming. Ke 3 (Continued to Page 4.) dances. h n