Engineers' Edition
The- Daily
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.xTi-no. 13 1.
PRIZES AWARDED
FOR RECORDS IN
COLLEGEGRADES
a S. C. E. Gives Handbook to
Don Young for Greatest
Percentage Increase
in Scholarship.
BEKTWELL WINS MEDAL
Henningson Speaks at Special
Convocation Held at Temple
to Announce Annual
Awards.
rriz'.'s were presented by Sigma
Tau and the American Society of Civil
Engineers to William Bertwell and
Don Young at the special convocation
in the Temple theater yesterday at
president of the Hennington Engi
eleven o'clock. Mr. H. H. Henningson,
neering Company of Omaha, spoke.
Grant Lantz. president of Sigma Tau.
presented a picture of Herbert Hoover,
executive and mining engineer, to the
College of Engineering and it was
accepted by Dean 0. J. Ferguson in
behalf of the college. Almost every
seat in the room was taken.
The Sigma Tau prize, a bronze
medal, was presented to the sopho
more engineer who best met the three
standards of Sigma Tau during his
freshman year scholarship, practi
cality and sociability. Bert well's aver
age for the freshman year was '.)')A.
Don Young presented the medal.
Don Young received an engineers'
handbook from A. S. C. E. for hav
ing achieved the greatest percentage
increase in his scholarship last se
mester over the preceding semester
in school. His average for last se
mester was l(i.28 per cent higher than
for the preceding semester. The next
man showed an increase of 10.34 per
cent. The committee that investi
gated found that most of the men had
suffered a decrease in their averages
last semester, and that the decreases
were usually large, and the increases
small. The handbook was presented
to Young by George Burleigh.
Mr. Henningson was introduced by
Dean Ferguson. He emphasized the
fact that the world is not cold and
cruel, hut that there is a law of com
pensation that is as immutable as
Newton's laws of gravitation.
"What becomes of all the engineers
our colleges and universities are turn
ing out'.''' is a question that Mr. Hen
ingson said he had often heard asked.
"I have heard the statement that
more engineers were being turned out
than were needed," Mr. Henningson
stated, "when just the reverse is true.
"Manufacturers have learned that
in order to succeed they must give
to the public a little more than their
competitors. In order for the manu
facturers to turn out better products
at lower prices they must have effi
cient methods, careful selection of ma
terial, and labor-saving devices.
Essentials for success were outlined
by Mr. Henningson in detail.
"Health is the first requisite for
success. Y'ou often hear of men who
have worked themselves to death. In
&H my engineering experience I have
never known a man die of hard work.
They die because they don't keep
themselves physically fit." '
Choosing a life work you like was
the next essential that Mr. Henning
son named. He once asked the presi
dent of a certain company what he
thought the most important part of
success was, and received the answer,
"That's easy. Just go out and get
into a line of work in which you can
work your fool head off and it seems
like plav."
The ability to work in harmony w ith
one's fellow workers was named as
the next requisite. One of the most
brilliant engineer Mr. Henningson
ever saw, he said, could not advance
because of this failing.
Business ability was next on his
list.
"Don't spend any of your client's
or your firm's money unless you are
sure that the enterprise is commer
cially sound," he cautioned. Mr. Ilen-mng-.-on
then commented on the
dispute at th; -apitol.
"We believe absolutely in Mr.
Goodhue's ability as an engineer. We
do not question his integrity. There
' no doubt, that he could have so
written the specifications that compe
tition would have been keener, and
'he state would have been saved a
considerable sum. Mr. Johnson at
tacked Mr. Goodhue's integrity."
Technical Student
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Members
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a me lacuuy ot a college an in
tegral nart of (hilt mil
the insipid student who is a member
ot the Centurions of the Cohorts" or
of the "Vestals of tlm 'I 'nl'ph" nf cm-no
funny-sounding organization.
Of course, stupid," answered the
engineer, with amusement, and to
prove it one of them has succeeded in
getting a brief record of every mem
ber of the faculty of the College of
engineering. I Ins is it.
Chancellor Samuel Averv. Ph. D..
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LL. I)., is the recognized head of the
University and, consequently, of the
College of Engineering. He was born
in Lamoille, Illinois. Doans College
at Crete gave him his A. B. in 1887.
His B. Sc. came from Nebraska in '!)2
and his A. M. in '!U. Then the Chan
cellor went to Heidelberg and won his
l'h. 1). in '!)(!. Eater he received the
honorary degree EL. I), from Doane
and the University of Idaho. For
three years after he left Heidelberg,
Mr. Averv was adjutant professor of
chemistry at Nebraska. From MM) to
'01 he was professor of chemistry and
chemist at the agricultural experiment
station at the University of Idaho,
ARE NOW III PLACE
Exhibits at Miller & Paine and
Maver Brothers to Hun
" Until Thursday.
Downtown window displays adver
tising Engineers' Week were in place
Monday morning at Miller & Paine s
at Thirteenth and O streets, and
Mayer Brothers, at Tenth and O
streets. They will run till Thursday.
Cash prizes are offered for the best
guesses as to how many pounds force
will be required to pull apart the one
and three-eighth inch steel bar in the
window of Magee's at Twelfth and O
streets, and as to how much the mid
dle eight inches will elongate. Guesses
may be left at Magee's until f o'clock
Thursday. The test will be run in
the civil engineering testing labora
tory in Mechanic Arts hall at 8:30
o'lock Engineers' Night. The prizes,
fifty cents each, will be awarded then.
In 'the Miller & Paine window
stands a two-ton ammonia compressor
unit of a Baker Ice Machine, the
rough castings of which were pre
sented to the mechanical engineering
department of the College of Engi
neering by the Baker Ice Machine Co.
of Omaha, and finished in the ma
chine tool laboratory by students. A
mummy whose hair rises and lies
down at will draws attention to the
display. Instruments from the metal
lography laboratory are also in the
window.
A wooden model of a blast furnace
adorns the show window of Mayer
Brothers. A valuable dynamometer
from the College of Agriculture is ex
hibited. The connecting rod, valve,
and gears for a Corliss engine being
constructed in the machine tool lab
oratory by students are in the show
case. There is also a photograph ot
the largest plate-girder bridge in the
world, designed by a Nebraska grad
uate. These exhibits will be run until
Thursday afternoon when they will
be dismantled ami the materials re
turned to the University for Engi
neer's Night. The men in carge of
the various parts of the displays are:
Donald Overbold, general chairman;
Joy Phelps, mechanical engineering;
Merle Kainey, electrical engineering,
Don Young, civil engineering; tanoi
Diller, chemical engineering; Sam
Krechefskv, architectural engineering;
and Orpheus Polk, agricultural engi
neering. The perpetual motion machine
that was on display in Miller &
Paine's window last year during En
gineers' Week, was in the window of
the Nebraska Power Co., at Omaha
the whole of last week. It was
planned to take an exhibit to Beat
rice, but for unknown reasons this
was not done. The perpetual motion
device is not yet patched, the inven
tors announce to frighten would-be
patent breakers, because of small me
chanical imperfections. These are be
ing rapidly removed, however.
A principle keeps the pacifist from
f:6hting. but the militarist is quoted
only by the interest.
WINDOW DISPLAYS
LINCOLN, NE13KASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1923
Compiles Brief Record of
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of faculty ot College or engineering
Then he came back to Nebraska as
professor on analytical and organic
chemistry. From '02 to '05 he was
professor of agricultural chemistry
and chemist in the University of Ne
braska experiment station. In 1905
he became head of the chemistry de
partment and held that position to
1908 when he was acting chancellor
for a year. Since May, 1909, he has
been Chancellor Avery of the Univer
sity of Nebraska. The Chancellor is
a fellow in the A. A. A. S., and mem
ber of the American Chemical So
ciety, of the Deutsche Chemische Gos
ellschaft at Berlin, of Phi Beta Kappa,
and of Sigma Xi. He was a joint
author of a chemical text and has him
self published many bulletins on chem
ical subjects. He was a member of
the United States International Con
ciliation Commission with Sweden in
191-1 and 1915. "Who's Who" says
he is a "popular lecturer on educa
tional topics.'
Carn C. Engberg, Ph. D., executive
dean and professor of applied mathe
matics, was born in Ilytton, Sweden,
Nov. 13, 1872. His father was at the
time manager of an iron smelter that
To (he Engineers:
In behalf of every Ag in the Uni
versity we wish to extend to you
our heartiest wishes for a happy
Engineers' Week and a successful
Engineers' Night.
The Farmers' Fair Board,
ELTON LUX, Mgr.
"Handcraft" Will Be
Subject of Lecture
"Handcraft" will be the subject of
the second lecture in the series of
three now being sponsored by the so
cial service coi.. .littee of the Y. W.
C. A. for the benefit of women who
will have charge of girls' groups next
summer. Miss Mabel Dobbs has been
secured to talk on this subject Thurs
day at 5 o'clock at Ellen Smith Hall.
All women interested in this train
ing course are invited.
"Hikes and Week-end Trips" was
the subject of the meeting last week.
"Nature" will be the topic of the last
lecture on Thursday of next week.
Gage Accepts Position
on Chautauqua Circuit
Buford Gage has resigned as cap
tain of the University Band in order
to accept a position with Harrison
Redpath in chautauqua work. Grove
Bixby has been appointed as drum
major and captain, and he will serve
the rest of the year.
Fred Colby is also leaving the band
to do chautauqua work. New men se
lected for the band are B. Bonewright
drums; Wells Daly, trumpet; Maurice
Henderson, trumpet.
Attention Cadets!
Parade and Review will be held
at 3 o'clock today in honor of .rep
resentatives of Reserve Officers,
American Legion, Veterans of For
eign Wars, and Spanish War Vet
trans. All cadets are requested to
report in uniform unless properly
excused.
The Home of the Cornhusker"
Uy FRANK J. MOLES
In Charge of University of Nebraska Radio Station
Radio station WFAV. owner and op
erated by the University of Nebraska
is situated in room 110 of the Electri
cal Engineering building. Nearly
everyone on the city campus is fa
miliar with the" big cage antenna
which stretches from the tower of "U"
hall to the power house smoke stack.
This antenna is about 100 feet high
and is used for both transmitting and
receiving.
The transmitter was assembled from
standard parts by senior electrical en
gineering students. It consists of
two :0-watt oscillator tubes, two 50
watt modulator tubes and one 5-watt
speech amplifier tube. The rated out
put of power to the antenna is about
100 watts the same amount used in
a large mazda house lamp. j
Power to run the transmitter is se
cured from a half-'alowatt, 1,000-voIt,
direct-current gentrator driven by a
was later bought and closed up by a
big trust, so Dean Engbcr.-r was con
nected with engineering from the
first. He received his B. Sc. in 95, A.
M. in '97, Ph. D. in '99, all from Ne
braska, and was elected to Sigma Xi
in 1898. Since his graduation he has
been professor of applied mathematics
at the University, dean of men, and
executive dean. He has written a
number of articles on mathematical
and statistical subjects and is the rec
ognized chess champion of Nebraska.
Oskar Edwin Edison, M. Sc. in E.
E., assistant professor of electrical
engineering, was born at Gothenburg,
Nebr.. and leceivcd his degrees from
the University of Nebraska, B. Sc.
in E. E. in 1911. M. Sc. in E. E. in
1915. He is a member of Sigma Tau,
Sigma Xi, and A. I. E. E. From 1915
to 1917 he was employed in the oper
ating department of the Common
wealth Edison Company of Chicago.
Since 1917 he has been teaching at
the University of Nebraska.
The remainder of this record will
appear in the Thursday issue of the
Daily Nebraskan.
E
Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and
Agricultural Graduates Have
Achieved Distinction.
Presidents of corporations, officers
in the United States Army, chief en
gineers on important projects, and
presidents, deans and professors in
colleges are but a few of the posi
tions filled by alumni of the Univei
sity of Nebraska in the last half cen
tury. Three incomplete volumes of records
of engineering graduates, containing
hundreds and hundreds of pages, are
sufficient to show the impossibility of
mentioning names with any degree of
fairness with such a list from which
to choose.
Civil engineers have become rail
road executives, bridge builders, high
way and railroad constructors, con
tractors, irrigation engineers, military
engineers, professors, and municipal
and government engineers.
Mechanical engineers have become
deans of engineering colleges, design
ing engineers, superintendents of
manufacturing plants, and executive
officers of public utilities.
Electrical engineers are superinten
dents of hydro-electric plants, advance
agents in Europe and the Orient of
leading American electrical apparatus
manufacture rers.
Agricultural, engineering originated
at the University of Nebraska not
many years ago and most of the grad
uates of that division have become
professors of agricultural engineering
at Nebraska or at institutions that,
following the example of Nebraska,
have introduced this department into
their engineering colleges. Others
have become bankers, merchants,
farmers, manufacturers, and drainage
engineers.
The architectural and chemical
groups are so new that they have
very few graduates who have been
out of college mere than two or three
years.
one horse-power motor operated by an
eighty ampere-hour storage battery in
the laboratory. This makes the set
very dependable because it is not nec
essary to have the power plant run
ning to get high voltage.
The normal day range of he set
is about 200 miles and the night range
is about 500 miles, although under
good conditions the signals' have been
accurately reported from both coas.
Reports have been received from
thirty-seven states and several parts
of Canada. Two-way phone conver
sations have been carried on with sta
tions in Lallas, Chicago, Roswell, Ok
alhoma City, Denver and other near
by places.
The voice may be transmitted di
rectly from the station room or may
be brought by land telephone lines
from the library or other buildings
(Continued on Page Four.)
NGlEfiG ALMI
HAVE MANY CALLINGS
ENGINEERS ARRANGE BIG ANNUAL
CELEBRATION IS REST OF WEEK
Parade of Entire Personnel of College Through IJusinees Section
of City Thursday Noon Displays for Engineers'
Night, Formal Open House, to lie
in Six Uuildings.
COACH SCHULTE TO TAMv PEP TO TECHNICALS TODAY
Field Day Friday and No ( lasses O. J. Fee to Ue Toastmaster
at Huno.net Friday Evening Dance
Saturday Ends the
Festival.
Engineers' Week the thirteenth
is here. Today at eleven o'clock
Conch Schulte speaks at the "pep"
meeting in the Armory; Thursday
comes the parade and Engineers'
Night; Friday is field day no classes
closing with the banquet; the dance,
Saturday, ends it. Window displays
appeared Monday, and a special con
vocation was held Tuesday. Herman
M.KIenUhy, senior mechanical engi
neer, is general chairman in charge
of the week.
Publicity Day
All' engineers are to wear the badge
of their college, the white ribbons
with a blue "E-23" today, publicity
day. Henry Gargent, president of the
student chapter of American Associa
tion of Engineers, will preside at the
meeting in the Armory today. There
will be yells led by Sargent and Hen
drickson, and music, and then "Indian"
Schulte will speak. The blue and
white Engineers' flag attracts atten
tion to "U" hall by day. and by night
the electric sign "April 2(i" reminds
the city and the co-eds at the library
that Engineers' Night is coming.
Slides are being shown on the screens
of Lincoln theaters; news items have
been .-ent to almost every newspaper
in the state. Every night an invita
tion to Engineers' Night is broadcast
from the radio station. E. Wonder
Norris is chairman of the publicity
committee, and its members are E. K.
Learning, Arthur F. Lof, E. K. Healy,
Donald Overholt, and William Bert
well. Parade
A float built by each department of
the college is to appear in the parade
that leaves the Mechanical Engineer
ing building at noon Thursday for the
business district. An Engineers' band
under the direction of William Rabe
will march with the floats and trac
tors. The faculty members of the
college are to join in in automobiles,
the students following afoot. L. G.
Foxwell is general chairman for the
parade. Men in charge of the build
ing of the floats are: Carlson, me
chanical: Carl Tefft, agricultural;
Smith, architectural; Newell Freeman,
chemical; George Taylor, civil; Edgar
Safarik, electrical.
Engineers' Night.
The twenty-eighth annual Engi
neers Night begins Thursday at 7:30
when all engineering buildings, the
Armory, and Chemistry hall will be
thrown open. All laboratories will be
open and all machinery and equipment
in operation. The program in short
is:
8:00 Chemical show, lecture room,
Chemistry hall.
8:30 Metal pouring, foundry, M.
E. building.
U :00 Radio concert, ' Armory.
t):00 to 10:00 Moving pictures, lec
ture room, Chemistry hall.
1015 Chemical show, lecture room.
Chemistry hall.
In detail, the displays of Engineers'
Night are:
Chemical Engineering.
Chairman, T. C. Cheuvront. In
Chemistry hall:
Third floor Physical and analytical
chemistry laboratories; experiments
will be conducted during the evening.
Second floor Organic, advanced
and elementary, chemical experiments
in laboratory; colloidal exhibit; thei
mostat room; research laboratory and
experiments.
First floor General chemistry lab
oratory. At 8:00 and 10:15 there will
be chemical shows in the general lec
ture room thermite experiments, a
miniature volcano, a carbon-dioxide
snowstorm; meanwhile moving pic
tures of industrial processes will be
shown.
Basement: Industrial research and
industrial consulting laboratories;
fine balance room; assay and oil and
gas laboratories.
Electrical Engineering.
Chairman, E. R. Safarik. In Elec
trical Engineering laboratories. Gen
eral power laboraory, all electrical
equipment in operation; low-voltage
transformer; high frequency flashover
tests on commercial insulators; safety
first exhibit; radio station in charge of
Mr. F. J. Moles; manual and auto
matic telephone switchboards.
In the Armory Electrical appli
ance display; radio concert in chapel
at 0:00.
.Mechanical Engineering.
Chairman, T. G. Kimball. In the
Mechanical Engineering laboratories.
First floor Machine tool laboratory
(where commercial machines are built
by students, study of production
methods, steam engine in the making;
power laboratory; foundry. All ma
chines will be running in the power
laboratory and tests will be run on
some of them. There will be a com
plete power plant in operation run
ning a lighting circuit.
Second floor Woodworking and
pattern-making laboratories; fuel and
lubricant laboratory with standard
testing equipment in operation.
8:30 Metal pouring in the foundry.
The copula furnace will be started at
8:13 ami the charge of 2,400 pounds
of metal run at 8:30.
Basement Thesis experiments car
ried on by senior mechanical engi
neers; metallography laboratory.
Civil Engineering.
Chairman, G. IT. Taylor. In Me
chanics Arts hall Material testing
laboratory; bituminous and non-bituminous
road materials laboratories
methods of testing materials. Con
crete beams and blocks will be broken
and heavy metal rods torn apart.
Working models of canals, dams,
drainage systems, and drawings of
steel and concrete designs will be on
display.
In the Armory Surveying and
other civil engineeri.ig instruments;
plans and drawings of city planning..
A rt hit ec t ural En gi n eeri n g.
Chairman, R. H. Smith. In the Me
chanical Arts hall Models of archi
tectural design; renderings and plans
drawn by students.
Agricultural Engineering.
Chairman, C. A. Tefft. In the Arm
oryLaboratory equipment; examples
of wood and metal work; complete
model farm.
Geology.
Chairman, E. E. Sorenson. In the
Museum Model oil field and well
built by students in the Department
of Geology; the entire museum will
be open. Students in the geology de
partment will be present ready to
answer questions.
Engineers' Trip Booth.
Chairman, George Burleigh. In the
Armory Collection of photos and re
ports on engineering trips taken by
Nebraska engineers.
The University power plant which
supplies heat ami power for the entire
campus will be open for inspection.
Field Day.
All engineers will meet at the Me
chanical Engineering building Friday
at 9:00 and will leave in a body for
the campus of the College of Agri
culture. Gerald Gray is in charge
of the day. Two baseball games will
be played in the morning. Freshmen
(Ted Page, captain) vs. Juniors (Ger
ald Gray, captain); and Sophomores
(Francis Boucher, captain) vs. Sen
iors (Paul Kreuch, captain). Lunch is
to be taken at the farm cafeteria and
then the championship baseball game
will be played. Then come a level
race, a .-lide rule race, track events,
boxing matches, tennis and horse shoe
games. There will be a refreshment
.-land open during the day.
Lav.lor Sporting Goods Company is
offering a baseball glove to the man
vho shows up in the 100-yard, the
three-legged, and the sack races. The
College Book Store is offering ten dol
lars in trade to the winner of the
.slide rule race. O. J. Fee of the
Evans Laundry is offering five dol
lars to each man of the party win
ning the levei race. There may be
a potato race for the professors, but
.he chairman isn't sure yet-
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