0 ENGINEERS The Daily VOlTXX. NO. 132 ESG1EEBS' NIGHT 10 BE BIG EVENT General Public Invited to Attend Oid Open Hoube and Inspect Departments. MANY EXHIBITS READY Various Branches of the College Have prepared Samples of Work for Public View. Perhaps the biggest event of ;ln annual Engineers' Week is the opon house of all the engineering depn.; nient, The Tnglneers Night Tliursd:i . On this night, the College of Engineer ing is host to the general public, di 1 all tho shops, laboratories and clad.i rooms in the various engineeiin. buildings are open for inspection. This year, Thursday night, April 21, is set aside as Engineers night nnd plans are complete for one of tint best and most extonslve exhibitions ever put on. The chrQ engineering and the s.p pliod mechanics 'department will nohl their exhibit in Mechanic Arts hal! Transits, levels and compasses will be set up and arranged for display hud some instruments dismantled In oi der that the datallB 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 Ij students taking courses in tho depart nient. In this collection are plans for railroad location, extension and im provement, designs of steel and oon (Continued to Page 4.) UNIVERSITY WIRELESS STATION WILL BE. WILED Transmitting and Receiving Instru ments Open to View of Public Engineers Night. One of the many things to be un veiled to the public on Engineer. Night is the University wireless sta tion. It is harbored in the elect: ical ensuring laboratories just north oi old U Hall. Four lean copper wires 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 tho operating room wherein is located a multitude of transmitting and receiving instruments, so designed and ararnged as to be able to radiate and receive systematic vibrations of tho ether in the form of radio tele graphic messages. Two distinct types of transmitters are In us there, a one klllowatt 6park et with a 250 watt continuous wave art. The former Is very nigged and l tho heavy duty installation. It i operated by remote control and jb tuned to a 375 meter wave length. Our spark has been heard by ama teurs as far as the Atlantic seaboard. Tho continuous wave set is one which can be used to relther telegraphic or telephonic communication. This la1 tor property makes it a very desir able type of outfit. In the receiving set, the desired aisnais are turned In and magnified y two electron dynamic amplifiers. Theso super-sentative amplifier? will Intensify the faintest trace cf elec trical energy to such an extent an to make it strong enough to be easily readable. These and many other won dcrful phenomena will be d jmon atrated on Engineers Night. LINCOLN, FRANK T. DARROW. This iiio.ninc at 11 o'clock Frani; T Harrow w ili ;uu!ri-ss the engineon convocation on "The Point of View of a Young Engineer in the Makiu,;.' Mr. Harrow, is assistant chief engi neer of ihir Burlington lines for west of the Missouri river, which inclue si xthousand miles of track and forty seven hundred miles of line. Mr. Harrow was graduated from Alleghany college, Meadvillo, Pa., ,n 1897. He came west immediately aft or graduation and connected himsell with the Burlington railroad where his work has been everything fron railway location to operation, in-iu-i ing all new construction, tunnels bridges and river control as has h put in along the Missouri river from Omaha to Rulo. Woods Bros, re' a: were used to sonio extent in live! control work. Buring the season of 1905 Mr. Par- row was located at Seattle, Wash. a superintendent of National Con tract ponipnny. II is work cons'siew mainly of . steam shovel excavaticn municipal and bridge work. Mis work attained national prominence througl his ability 1 1 handle big job contracts, In January this year, Mr. Harrow wiis elected a director of the Amen can Society of Civil Engineer.! for it thrioyeiir term, v leaves Ayri 22 to attend the annual national con vention of the American Society Civil Engineers to be held nt New Orleans. WALDO PORR PRESIDENT STUDENT CHAPTER JL A. E. Blue Print Staff for Next Year Abo Selected at Meeting Theid on April 13. The annual election of officers for the student chapter of the Ameiican Association of Engineers was held Wednesday, April 13. The Blue Print staff was selected at till stime. The following men were selected for tho next year: Waldo Poor, president. A. V. LIndgron, vice president. Fred Hing, secretary and treasuier. For tho engineering publication tho following staff was selected: H. N. Barnard, editor. H. Upton, assistant editor. II. G. Van Brunt, business mana ger. J. Applegate, assistant business manager. Robert MeCandless, circulation manager. Clyde Wilcox, assistant circulation mannger. Th0 chapter of A. A. E. was or ganized hero In November, 1919, and has shown stoady growth since that lime, 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 tho year will be given Saturday night, April 23, at Antelope Park. The eloc- trlcals have arranged special lighting effects to bo used for several of tho W, ' ' V"-' K.r'--"'y f Neb XEBKASKA. TUESDAY. APRIL 19, ENGINEERS CALENDAR Tuesday, 11 Convocctior , Ermginters' edition Daily Ne-br.-.skan. Wednesday Engineers field dsy. Thursday Engineers' Nigbt. Fi iday Engineers' banquet, Lincoln ho':el. Saturday Engineers' daifce, Antelope park. Dean Olin Jerome Ferguson. Hean Olin Jerome Ferguson of the College of Engineering, is a native of Illinois. He received his high school education in NebrasKi and is a grad uati. 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 lie 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 Br. Charles P. Steinmetz. Buring 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 ho 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 the electrical engineering department, which position he still holds. In 1918, during tho absence of Dean Stout In army service, Professor Ferguson was made acting dean of the College o' 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 f-ield day to get in movies taken by Dr. Condra, 2 p. m. r. - -' j V'- v' J'J - ', q I 't s 1 "wr n HEAR DARROW TODAY Frank T. Darrow, assistant chief engineer of the Burllngcon for lines west of the Mlscouri river, will address the convoca tion for all Engineering ctu dents today at 11 o'clock on "The Point of View." Ti e En gineering College Is exceedingly fortunate in obtaining this speaker and every student in that department la urged to at tend hit lecture thlt mornirg. SENIORS1 Order your caps and gownt nowl Call at the College Book Store to have your measure ments taken. Do it today! CAP AND GOWN COMMITTEE EDITION RASKAN 11)21. JAMES B. HARVEY. Toastir;aster of Engineers Banquet. Jiiiiii.'H I?. Harvty, vice president oi the Colli!. iinsilal Gas and Electric company of Omaha will have chargu of the. toiist list at the bantiue'. Fri day evening. Mr. Harvey entered the Univei.si y in 1904 and was gradu ated in 1909 after completing tho course in i-li.-clrieal engineering and taking a graduate course in median ical engineering. He made liis "N" in football, was captain of i lie leani in 1908 and assistant coach in 1C09. He is the president of the Nebraska section of the National Elwtric Light ing association and has been promi nent in public utility work for a num ber of years. Mr. Harvey was toast master of the Coinhusker banquet in 1915. The following is the toast list for this year: Tonstinaster, James B. Harvey. "The Engineer as a Mixer." Law rence Metzgar. J "The Engineer as a Student." O. J. Ferguson. "The Engineer as n Salesman." J. A. Bruce. "The Engineer as a Business Man R. E. Campbell. "The Engineer as a Pathfindei," R. L. Cochran. "The Engineer as a Constructive Force in the Nation," George A. Lee Lawrence Metzgar as the represent ative of the student body will dea' (Continued on page three.) "FIELD DAY" IS BIG EVENT IN WEEK OF CELEBRATION Large Parade to Form at State Farm Campus Wednesday Morning. Nebraska has scores of "niosi fa vored i.auhions," but Engineers weex rates well toward the top of Ihb "most favored" ones, and the annual field day the greatest d.-y of Engi neers Week. Enougn events will be held so that every engineer can lake part. ' R. Gingrich, as chairman ol the Field day committee, has collected to gether numerous events. Here a brief outline of tho program. Meet at M. E. Hall at 9 a. ni.. We.ineaday and form parade for State Farm at 9:30. This parade is to be no small part of the doings. It will be lead 1 tho Engineers band mounted on the civil engineering department's prizo Garford htallion. With "Stubby" Stur- devant as the leader this is a band that is a band: it doesn't look very strong, but hoot mon, or maybe bet ter 'toot' mon, you'll 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 tho price of admission. It has been rumored that a number of skin (felino mephitis) secured on tho in spactlon trip are being beautifully tanned, engraved and embroidered tc bo given as rewards to the victors College Athletes to Clash. The first thing on the program Is tho preliminary baseball games tor (Continued on Page S.) 1 FEATURES IH Annual Tradition of College Has More Extensive Program than in Previous Years. DANCE ADDED AFFAIR Week of Celebration Has Grown Out Out of Annual Panquet, 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, "lias 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 th week. Engineers' week has grown out of the first Engineers' banquet which was lu!d 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 might bu shown to the interested public. Thus two of the numbers were com bined and formed the nucleus for tho present Engineers' week. 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.) cm IBM TAD WELL PRESENT PORTRAIT OF DEAN STOUT College of ngineering Will Receive Gift cf Picture of Former De partment Head. Sigma Tau, honorary engineering frnti -nity, will present to the Col logo of Engineering at engineers con vocation on this morning a portrait of O. V. P. Stout, former dean of tho College of Engineering. Mr. Stout was graduated from tho College of Engineering of the Unl versity of Nebraska in 1888 and imr.ie diately went into work along the liny of railway location, construction and maintenance, with? the? Burlington, Missouri Pacific and Union Tacio railroads, reaching the position ot acting division engineer, Wyoming di vision, Union Pacific railroad. Mr. Stout was connected with the state university from 1891 to May. 1920, being head of the College d" En gineering after 1893. From 1S?4 to 1904 he was resident dydrographcr United States Geological Survey, h- rigatlon investigator for United State department of agriculture; consulting engineer on construction of irrigation system of Tri-State Land company o.i North Platte River, rofting two mil lion dollars; consulting engineer and head of engineering department ft Costilla Estates Development com pany, Colorado Springs and San Lulu. Colorado. Stout Wat Major. Mr. Stout has frequently been en gaged to report on irrigation projects of great magnitude including reclam ation of the coded portion of the Sho shone reservatfon In Wyoming. Ke 13 (Continued to Page 4.) HEW dances.