The Acropolitan A MONTHLy'PUBLICATION
BY THE ArONTANA
STATE
SCHOOL OF MINES
BUTTE, MONTANA,MARCH 28, 1929
VOLUME VII.
NUMBER 5
M CLUB DANCE TO STERNHEIM SPEECH GAUDIN TO BE RESEARCH ,PROF. BE HELD APRIL 5 'PLEASES STUDENTS Hurrah I The big jig is not going to be held on Good Friday, after all, but on the fifth of April, a week later. Vivo Quinn gave us the news, and thereby Shows his remarkable foresight in giving the first dance after the Lenten season. Now with all the new letter men it is only fitting and proper that we bring them in this article. Jim McCourt will be there with Lucille -he finally made a date after three unsuccesful tries. (This is a good chance to get in on some good technique.) Ross Henry will be there with a pessimistic outlook and will probably be .ready to "go" with anybody. Skimmet Sullivan will be there with Mama, Papa, aunts, uncles, cousins, sisters, brothers, or what else have you? Howard Elderkin will-oh, well, why go further? Jack O'Brien may show up if he can get a Tuxedo. Sahinen will probably peek in. Verdo Johnson will find some space with his bulk. Ed Trueworthy will be there ready to 'jig every dance. Ammie Shea may come if he can ~:et a car. And of course, all the old lettermen will show up. One last word-the Winter Garden, Friday, April 5, $1.00-and help the Orediggers get their hard earned sweaters!
NOTICE-FRESHMEN According to the rules for freshmen, class caps must be worn again starting March 18, 1929. BE SURE TO COMPLY. JOHNSON PROUD
PARENT
Prof. and Mrs. Henry C. Johnson are receiving congratulations on the birth of ~ son. The young man, who is the latest addition to the circle of faculty children, arrived Thursday evening, March 21. Here's a long Ufe and much happiness to yau, Baby Johnson.
Everyone has, or should have, become familiar with the weekly assembly plan inaugurated at the beginning of the sec.. ond semester. The success of the experiment, for that is what Dr. Thomson frankly admits it to be, can not yet be ascertained, of course. It remains to be seen how popular they will be when real spring is upon us! So far, it seems that the assembly has filled a real needthat of getting all-we, repeat, all-of the students together at certain times in order to hold class meetings, A. S. S. M. meetings, and to hear speeches either by members of the faculty or by outsiders. Beyond a doubt the most interesting of the assemblies was the one at which Rabbi Emanuel Sternheim was the speaker. Most of us sat up and took notice when we heard of the various places Dr. Sternheim had studied. Paris, Oxford and Heidelburg are certainly not to be sneered at! And perhaps the most astounding thing about the lecture was that we stayed sitting up and taking notice for the whole hour. A tribute, that, to the power of any speaker, and more especially when one knows that the subject of the talk was "The Educative Value of Literature." We have all known, most of our lives, that we should read the socalled "good" books-Classics, etc., but it is not too much to say that never before had we heard in such a lucid and entertaining manner some very important reasons why we should read these books. Dr. Sternheim said that a civilized man is one who understands the world in which he lives and the forces by which it is moved. He drew for us a picture qf the modern human being, operating merely as a robot and not as an understanding thinker. He explained that with modern life as complex and intricate and highly specialized as it is, that it is very difficult to get the broad vision and view which makes the really civilized person. Then he proceeded to explain that the only way of ever acquiring that very necessary broadness of mind was through the read(Continued on Page 3.)
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DISPUTE RAGES The matter of the girls' athletic insig-
President Thomson has announced that nia is at last being settled. Two. comProfessor A. M. Gaudin, now a member mittees have been appointed-one of men, of the faculty of the University of Utah, the other of coeds-and empowered to get will become Research Professor of Ore together, kill each other if necessary, but Dressing at the School of Mines, corn- at any rate, reach an agreement of some mencing July 1 of this year. sort. Brassie Johns, Fat Matlock, VIVo This is the first research professorship Quinn, Honie Kiley, and Smiggs Murphy to be established at the School of Mines, I are the Miners' representatives, while and is in line with the policy which the Patsy Alsop, Tecla Davis, Naomi SternBoard of Education desires to have car- heim, Mary M. Lowney and Eleanor Rice ried out, of making the Montana School will uphold the girls' rights. of Mines one of the outstanding research The question, briefly stated, is this: institutions of the country, so far as the the girls want some for~ of recognition mineral industry is concerned. for their basketball worx and the boys Although a comparatively young man, don't want them to have the block MProf. Gaudin has already won recognition in fact, won't let them have said M. wen, as a national leader in the field of in- that's all right, the girls realize that it vestigating the fund~mentals of the flo- wouldn't be fair to be awarded an lVI,and tation concentration process. He receiv- they're not sure what they do want. WE'll ed his preliminary education at the Lycees never mind, it'll all come out in the wash, of Versailles and of Toulon, and received and we can give the coeds of 1929 credit his Baccalaureate degrees from the Uni- for facing the issue and trying to do the versities of Paris and Aix. Subsequently decent thing-that is, get the approval he was a graduate student at Columbia of their fellow Miners on their project. College, N. Y., and received his engineer's Let's be fair, and settle the matter for degree from Columbia School of Mines. future years. Prior to his engagement with the University of Utah, Prof. Gaudin was for two years lecturer in Ore Dressing at Columbia University, and was also associated with Taggart and Yerxa, Consulting Engineers, of New Haven, Conn., as research engineer in connection with the flotation, litigation involving the Miami Copper Co. Monday, March 11th, the coeds formed and the Butte and Superior Mining Co., a new club which they hope to establish aganst the Mnerals Separation Companies. permanentlyat the School of Mines. This new club is an Athletic Association, which will have all girls who are enrolled in Physical Education as its members. After the Womens' Athletic Association was formed, the officers for the cl~b were elected. Miss Tecla Davis was elected president; Clara Roat, vice president and Eleanor Rice, secretary treasurer. In winning the debate with the Normal The W. A. A. was formed for the purCollege, held here March 14, the debate pose of interesting the women students team of the School of Mines, did several of the M. S. S. M. in athletics and further things: I-won their first debate of the promote sports among the weaker (?) year; 2-administered the first defeat the sex. The other units of the Greater UniNormal College debaters have suffered versity of Montana have a Woman's Athsince their present Coach has been with letic Association, and therefore the School them; 3-and, which necessarily follows, of Mines should have one to promote as
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