. ... Debris . Richard Addison Smart, M. Prof, in Ex. Eng. very little change of scene. It is not uncommon to see the uniquespectacle of a group of students quietly chatting a few feet in frontof the huge machine while it is tearing along at the rate of fortymiles an hour. This is not for the reason that they wish to leave avain and undesirable world, but because the drivers are so mountedupon wheels that the locomotive can not locomote. In the testing department, in charge of Professor Hatt, thestudent is made acquainted with the strength of materials. Hereare instruments of torture f
. ... Debris . Richard Addison Smart, M. Prof, in Ex. Eng. very little change of scene. It is not uncommon to see the uniquespectacle of a group of students quietly chatting a few feet in frontof the huge machine while it is tearing along at the rate of fortymiles an hour. This is not for the reason that they wish to leave avain and undesirable world, but because the drivers are so mountedupon wheels that the locomotive can not locomote. In the testing department, in charge of Professor Hatt, thestudent is made acquainted with the strength of materials. Hereare instruments of torture for any kind of material that grows, andthe helpless specimens are some times so shattered and generally disorganized in the tests that theywould not be recognized by theirfondest friend. The stones testedare usually chips off the oldblock. (This is a joke. We feelthat it is a good one, but not toogood to insert here.) The finishing touches of thein the engineering laboratory,during its leisure hours. Be-. engineers education are givenHere is to be found the lab. catsides the cat there are differ-ent types of engines, pumpsand other machinery used fortesting purposes. It is herethat the fair visitor from townstops to admire the manly youthas his skilled hand controls theswiftly revolving wheels. We in-sert here pictures of the instruc-tors in their working clothes. We are not ashamed of them intheir every-day costumes, for we remember that to them willlargely be due the strawberries and cream and other luxuries ofour later life. The equipment for experimental work in engineering is oneof the best of its kind in the country. Altogether there are in thelaboratory forty steam cylinders, aggregating fifteen hundred horse- William Kendeick Hatt, A. B., C. E.,Asso. Prof, in App. Mech.
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