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l J3nuary 14, 1938, at the post Entered as second clan matter office in San G-ermán, Puerto Rico, under the act of August l poLyGRApH J AN U A R Y ISSUE 24, 1912. - POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF PUERTO RICO San Germán, P. R. J .\~T.\ RY DDHNG HALL NEEDED A tall·ateel conatruction tower be· 5ide an unfiniahed dinlnsr; hall through se,·eral ¡:renerationa o( stud· ents it hns symbolized a la11k wellbegun, bul never cnrrie•l to com· pletlon. One unit was fini11hed nnn ha!l served after a fa!lhion na n dining hall. ln fact, it !l:t>emetl quite n slep in ad\·ance over the rucle structure it replaced. The cooking equipment was installed in n ba!!ernPrtt ~to~ room. What w:ts intended to be the k\t(.'hen serves 8!1 a dining room. Hetore the enrollmcnt reuched it~ present numbers, the arrangement proved fairly satisfa,·tor)·. But the enrollment hu been growing year by year. Thc indications are tbat it will continue to gTOW. Thc embnras,;ment o! thc matron grows apace. One problem is how to prepare the food and get it 11en·ed on thll tnble11 before it gets cohl. A greater problem Í!l how to sent tht> hungry buys and girls. Every posslble arrangement o[ the tables has been triefi. Even 110. there is no wur to gel them all in. Between fiftr 11nd aixty are accomoduted in a bn~~cment room below. On the Cloor abo''~'• the t.'lbles are 11till so crowrled thnt oflcn thf' students al one tahle hnve lo stand until thn~e at the ulljoining table hnve aeatt'd themsdn·~ and drawn their chaira uncomfortably clotte to the table. The rnatron is heroically tryi ng tu inculratc good tablc nuumera as u part of college training. lt ia uphill business. Tbe crowderi cundltion nf the hall does not lentl iurlf t tJ thP cultiYation of gracious tuble manners. The dining hall thia year is crowded to capacity. It ls physirally im· po!lslblc tocare ·f or more. \\'hat about the increa!'ed enrollment o( next year and t.he years to come! A re t.he doora of the lnstitute to be- closed in the face of man}' worthy nnd aspiring young men and young womcn of Puerto Rico? That will surely be the case unless the meana are forth· coming to complete our dining hall thie )"ear BEN EF ACTORS OF THE LIBRAR Y Much credit. belongs to lhe friends of the Behool who have tacilitated the growth or the librar)' by thrir güts. Tbe total number ot auch contributions is much too large to ~ publicly acknowledged here, but a few examples of recent )'eart have been chosen at random. The Class oí 1931 presented four large t.ables for the reading room ~~ ita gift to the school. The splendid mahogany cbarging duk at tbe en· trance was a gift ot tbe membera of the Faculty Women's Club who have also made very aubstantial contri(ContinuH on paJe 3, Col. l .) 20. 19l2 Friends and W ork Call Again ::s· l. FIRST IMPRESSIONS Askt-d by our reporter to give thclr rirat Imvressions of Puerto Rico, our newly nn-iYed faculty tnembers were rnur.t eloquent and enthusi · • · lhclr praise ot the island. Mr. 5HYHH gav~ U!'! the foiJowing Stntement: \VHAT IS A COLLEGE PROFESSOR ? Tt all depends on the \'lew point as to whl\t is a College Profest~or. The average student would prob· ably say, "He is one of those Know it Alls who mnke life more or lesa miserable for atudents." The well wom spinater whose life has been "enriched" by years of teach· ing would res pon d: "He is a peraon uained and consecrated to the task of ~ting the youth of the nation along paths of culture, refine· ment, morality. and usefulness." However, when war comes, as now, and we see college studenta rushing forward to help defend the rights and honor of their country, many will be inclined to think of the professor as the builder of ideals of altruism and public aerviee. In the technkal field he might be d<!Cinetl as "Rathcr aour once in a while, but he sure doea know his stuff, nnd that'a what it tAkea these days." During Christmaa Holidays wlten the t>ersonnel of a group of campus cnrollers becomes known we may think of the profeasor as "Almost a human being." Well, what is a college professor~ 1 think we rnay be safe in stating that he or she is a per110n at least Iairly well trained in sorne academic field, a person whom sorne inatitution has seen Cit to employ, and who then set about to make hia own little world go aa well as he can. Sometimes be IIUCceeda fairly well. Sorne fail, but in moat cases do not know it. In that respcct they are about like the rest of mankind. Charles A. Leker. "Tt is now thc S(><:ond clnr of our life here in Puerto Rico, ancl as 1 :reflec:t back on the lirst twenty-four hours, 1 fínd lhat thcy han) had tor u' the troe qunlity of l\d\"enture. The unknown has un!oldc<l bcfore U!l. We ha\·e becn thrilled by the scenes ot your b<"autiful lslnnd with ita undulating mountains and grcen valleys. with your fine roads that now "ind up and through the ntounbin passes and now- are laid in long stretches under a\·enues of noble trees. 'We ha,·e bcen chnrmed by thc Spnnish archiléeture and by aights of quaint houses, by the narrow atreets and the re· freshing open plazas of your towns: nnd we hnve been transportt'd back in imagination to the ages of thc real ndventurers by whosc daring and :Cor· titude the life and thc greJ\t traditions of Spanish ch·ilizatlon were brought lo this !stand. At the urne time wc hnve been sorry to note lhat there are stíll conditions oC ignoruncc and poverty. "You are a fri~ndly people, howe\'er. rendy to help lhotte in necd, and responsi,·e to advances of genulne friendship. 1 am sure you ha\·e great capa"ity for friendship. l should illUI· gine. too, that you are a pcople more than usually bless~d with Cine artistic st'nsc and mo\'ed by high arti~tic lmpulst'a. No doubt many eouls among you rise to heights of creative insight and splritual asplraúon. 1 come to you ""ith a sense or revcrencc at "'hat God has made you to be and at what you are yeL to bt.~ome. 1 ha'-e many things that 1 want to leam from all o( you. 1 hope thnt 1 mar be able gracioualy to be helped by you and that in ca!l:es where I am under misa¡»prehension, 1 may be willing to be shown the truth. 1t is a prh·itege and honor to come to a &ehool ";th a record and a function such as l'ol)·· technic has. 1 look forv•ard to great days ahead, in which l ahall make discoveries in friendahip. Together we must press forwurd inlo the realm of righteouanesa, wisdom and líght. " 1 aee that here in Puerto Rico a fuaion or severa) racea has been going on. Despite that, I am given to und~ stand that there is a minlmum of feeling a b o u t rAda! disllnctiona. \Vhatever a man's rac:ial background may be, he is regarded, I take it, as a Put>rto Rican. If my underatanding ia c:orrect, then in a world that haa been largely robbed ot democratic ideals. you are orrerin~ an unuJU&I demonatrarion of democracy. Perbapa the ploneer splrit you have received from your forefathera is being worked out toT this generatlon In prec~l)· (ContinuH on pare 3, Col. 3.) POLYGRAPH 2 Polygraph Published for the students, faculty, alumni and friends of the Polytechnic Institute. Managing editor this edition, Mr. Luis Santullano and Mrs. Laura G. de Bover with volunteer student help, The President's Column For every thousand times that we hear a reference to "victory", "winning the war," "ultimate triumph," etc., we hear about one reference to "PUERTO RICO EVANGELICO" PRESS, PONCE, P.R. "winning the peace," that ";11 follow the war. All of us realize that though "winning the war" i~; our all-out effort now, the real purpose of winning the war is in order that we Dr. Andrew Hammond, educational coordinator for our neigh- might "win the peace." If the war is boring islands, the British West Indies, upon rus recent visit to our won and we allow hatred and re,·enge be written into the pe3ce treaty, campus made the statement that he thought the present war ha~ to we will sow seeds for the next war been a good thing for the youth of Great Britain. that children and grand-children will He explained that prior to the war, a feeling of futility and have to fight. We must win the peace! I am not, however, completely hopelessnes prevailed among the younger generation. British satisfied with what most of us think youth thought more in terms of material gains than in terms of of when we use the phrase, "win the moral values. When unable to cope with the difficulties presented peace"........ Let us look at the VerTreaty, for a moment. Presiby a confused social and economic order, the great majority of sailles dent Wilson did all he could to make young people would soon capitulate to a feeling of frustration and it a juRt treaty: he asked for no war defeatism, to an attitude of "what's the use." This war, however, reparations for the United States, for no territorial or colonial posseshas awakened them to the realization that there is something sions and for no commercial or milimore significant to fight for than the automobile, the social tary concessions, but he was a realist, pleasures, and the material comforts of life. There is the British for all hiR idealism, and he asked for tradition of seven centuries of affirmation of individual freedom a League of Nations which would have a level head, a warm heart, and some based on Christian ethics. There are two thousand years of Christ- prominent teeth, a League to imple· ian civilization which are in jeopardy. There is British culture \vith ment the treaty and prevent further all that it means in art, literature, religion, and home life. All of outbreak of war. But, the American people who had given the blood of this is worth defending. British youth has discovered that he can fifty thousand of their choice sons to forego many of the luxuries of life, bul that he can canot survive "save democracy" pulled the teeth without being driven by those forces of loyalty and idealism with from the League by refusing to enter it and ever again to "send ther sons which man is endowed. to shed blood on foreign soil." We As Dr. Hammond e-xpressed these views we could not help but would not back the League with a realize that this feeling of despondency which prevailed among "poHce army," so now Pearl Harbor is violated. We would not. back the British youth, was also characteristic, to a large extent, of the Lytton Report and send our sons to Manchuria, so now they die in the youth of our own land. Van Wyck Brooks, in an article entitled "Fashions in Defeat- Philippines. We won the last war al-~ right; there is no doubt about that, ism" published in the Mat·ch 22 issue of the "Saturday Review of but we certainly lost the last peace, Literature" asserts: "A mood of desperate unhappiness reigns in for even before Munich, Warsaw, the world, and this is marked especially in most of the write1·s...... Flanders, nnd Pearl Harbor, you re· members there was a Depression, a The temperamental cards of our time are stacked in favor of Recession. a civil war in Spain, and despair, a somewhat sterile despair." ills too numerous to mention. Even College youth, who inevitably comes in contact with the the two cars collided in every garage and the two chickens in every pot brooding melancholy-and at times cynicism-of moody intel- fought each other. Subscription, 50 cents per yenr. EDITORIAL As I finish this columl'l at the Lord Baltimore Hotel in Baltimore, President Roosevelt is talking about the same things over the national hookup on his "State of the Nation" message before Congress, January 6, (12:45 E. S. T.) I say, I am not satisfied with the general ideal o! "winning the pell('~" - I think we must "win our enemies" and "win the world" by establishing that kind of peace that is founded on complete brotherhood and the ideal of Christ, a peace that shall be justas just, fair, and merciful to one group as to the other. We must have a peaceful world not dominated by any nation, not even by ourselves. This means freedom of speech, press, worship and commerce all over the world. There must be no barriers to trade and commerce, no monopolies to supplies. There must be a lowering of our standards of living in order to aid others to raise theirs to a common level. The only way to really win an abiding peace is to win our enemies into friends. We have tried all kinds of schemes to make this abiding peace, but all have failed to date. There is only one way left, the only way yet untried, the way of good neighborliness and Christian fellowship. ThP "Good Neighbor" policy must &tretch around the world, beginning with the Americas. The responsibility to bring this to pass is upon us, the Americans, !or we have both the power and the faith. The responsibility rests particularly upon the colleges and churches of America for they represent the .vay of enlightenment, service, and sacrifice. I call upon every Polytechnic student to keep hatred from his heart, to put. his mind to work on this peace that is to be, and to liil his heart daily in prayer for this new world that rests so much on Christian college men and women. J arvis S. Morris. lectuals, can easily fall prey to this feeling of frustration and defeatism. And let us bear in mind that Spanish and Spanish-American writers, for reasons of temperament, are more than others man. A clever lawyer may use his legal skill to protect criminals. A trained engineer may use his mastery of mathegiven to these moments of intellectual depression. The Polytechnic is doing all in its powe1· to help the student matics to cheat his client or to rob his government in the consform sound and lasting moral and spiritual convictions. In fact, truction of a b1·idge. Moral integrity, a sense of justice, social resthe institution is noted for its sincere efforts in this direction. ponsibility, and loyalty to spiritual values constitute the only We are persuaded that these deeper values do not just happen as framework on which a lasting civilization can be built. This last semester a score of students had to be sent home for n byproduct of academic training. We purposely place in the curri- ' culum, therefore, courses and activities geared to this objective; failure to meet the minumum standards of achievement required and we try as fa1· as it is humanly possible within our limited re- by the college. However, the majority of these students who som·ces, to include his daily living practices in the final evaluation failed could have succeeded if they had acquired the driving of his success or failure as a college student. The opportunity is power of loyalty and idealism to which we referred above. Let us profit by the experience of British youth. Let us not wait here for the taking. Now that we are involved in a war that demands the greatest until the crisis is about to O\'erwhelm us to e>.."]>erience an sacrifices of a11 of us, it is pertinent, therefore, that we should awakening. There is always the danger of being too late. Democracy must have well trained men, experts and technicurge students to be on guard, to fight against the temptation of yielding to dangerous pessimism, and to cultivate those deeper ians, but with it she must have brave, righteous citizens: values which make for the moral stamina necessary to face the "Men whom the lust of office doth not kill, hardships of life and war with cheer and determination. The Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy, Men who possess opinion and a will, mastery of knowlege and techniques alone may be very dangerous. Men who love honor, men who can not lie." A trained chemist may use his knowlege to destroy his fellow POLYGR APH LAS BELLAS ARTES EN EL POLITECNICOI VISITA A MEDICINA TROPICAL SERENATA DE LOS GRADUANDOS Es altamente encomiable y hnlaga· dor el crecimiento que ha tenido el Instituto Polltecnico en sus pocos aiios de existencia en todos los ramos de su programs. Sin embargo, por paN'· cernos el crecimiento m:is notable, si cabe, en el departamento de las be· lias nrtes, pintura y música voy a re· ferirme a estas en mis nnotac1ones. Aunque han pasado apenas treinta ai'ios de su fundaci6n, el Instituto Po· litecnico, como s1empre c:olegio de ar· tes liberates, ofrece cursos de aprecia· cion e historia del arte, principios de disei'io y su aplicaci6n, dibujo, pinturn al óleo, artes manunles. trabajos en metal y joyeria, a cargo de maestros competentlsimos, dire mas, de artistas de reconocida fama mundial. De mane ra que si alg(ln estudiante posee el talento y Ia constancia requeridos para ello, puede, sin trasladarse n otro sitio, especinlizarse en Ia materia y llegar a !'er un verdadero arlista. El programs musical no es menos varindo y rico. He ahi algunos de sus cursos: elementos de musica, apreciaci6n e historia musicales, armonia, composici6n. canto, piano, etc., etc., tarnbien a cargo de maestros bien competentes. Da gusto observar a nuestros estudiant~>s en sus clases de pintura, dibujo y nrtes manuales, y ex.aminar las obras que llevan a cabo; oir los discos 'fonogrnficos para In apreciaci6n musical y los diierentes ensayos del coro e individuales. AI contemplar este panorama artistico no puedo menos que forjnm1e al Instituto Politecnico como un peque· iio conser\•atorio. el unico por des· gracia en Puerto Rico, donde puede uno aprender a dibujar r n pintar hasta llegar a ser un pintor acabndo; donde se enseiian todos los rnmos de la musica, bagaje mas que suiiciente para hacer del aprendiz un cantor, un pianists o un compositor consumado. Y sin embargo. nos faltan muchas cosas para llevnr a cabo felizmente nuestro hermoso programs. Gracias al espiritu altruist~ de la Corporacion Carnegie, tenemos una ~electa y nutrida colecci6n de discos ionogruficos, requisito indispensable para In cultura, historia y apreciaci6n musical pero nos falta un Auditorium, para que Ia audici6n no sea patrimonio de unos pocos, sino de un gran numero de estudinntes y profesores y otras personas invitadns. Un Auditorium adecuado servma para multiple:- fines; para los concier· tos peri6dicos de discos Conograficos y los de Ia Masa Coral, para repre~entar obras dramaticas, oir conferencinntes visitnntes, dar asnmbleas, graduaciones y otros actos academicos. Bartolomé Bover. El dia 22 de diciembre le close d" Bacteriologia visit6 los laborntorios biol6gicos del Departamento de Sam· dad y Ia Escuela de Medicinn Tropical. I nterrogados algunos de los estu· diantes he aqui lo que nos dijeron: "Hay lantas anorn1alidades del fun· cionnnrienlo fisiol6gico como hay in· dividuos en el mundo, es indudnble· mente nuestro comentnrio al ver los laboratoriot~ llenos de tubos de ensayo con muestras de todas clases esperan do ser examinadas. l. Quicn sabe lo que elias revelaran! Se ha ensanchado nuestro concepto sobre lo complica· do que es el problema de las enfer· medades. Asi mismo hemos tenido lu oportunidad de apreciar el inmenso trabnjo que se lleva a cabo en l'uer· to Rico para contrarrestnr Ia invasi6n de nuestros cuerpos por los enemigos microsc6picos. Solo el interes cientifico prevnleciente en esta ~poca. siempre en aumento, seri capaz de quitar el veto del misterio de las enfermedades."-Pura P. Leker. ''EI Dr. Jose Rodriguez Pastor, fue objeto de una entrevista. gn ella nos explico con palabrns autorir.adas, los sintomal', el tratamiento ~ Ia propagaci6n de Ia tuberculosis. Luego puso en nuestras mano& unos cuantos folletos, los cuales ponemos n In dis· posici6n de cualquiel' estudiantc inte· resndo."-Jo~>~ R. ~antingo. "Prefiero el monumento de 62 pulgadns que conocimos en Saniduu, susurre nl oido de Dr. Velet, al ver In Yanqui sonriente que se nos acercaba al entrar al departamento de nutrici6n en l\Iedicinn Tropical. Creo que c!sta explicnra mejor, me contest6 el. Efec· tivamente, desde que aquella Arist6· teles de las vitaminas. comenz6 a ha· blar, quedamos todos maravillndos. Su trabajo sobre vitaminn "E" es una de las cosas mas bellas que he tenido Ia oportunidad de conocer. Nos explicnbn las cosns en una formn tan cia· ra y agradable, y con t:mta autoridnd. que sentiamos verdadero placer en escucharla. Con cientos de rntoncitos blancos estudia ella los ef£'Ctos de Ia ausencia de esa vitamina en Ia dieta. "Lo raro de esto. decia ella, e,; que en los ratones causa inhabilidad de re· producci6n y degeneraci6n de ciertos musculos; en los pollitos, degeneraci6n del cerebro, etc. Su cxperimcnto mas reciente es con monos, el cual se hace mas facil en Puerto Rico que en Nueva York, porque aqui los monos no sufren por el clima. Es una verdadera cientifica: esta enamnrada de su trabajo."-R. Guzma n. "Me inleres6 mucho Ia visita a los nnimales experimentales, en :\Iedicinn Tropical, cuidndosament<' atenrlidos pam ser usados ayudando n salvar a Ia humanida•l.-)1. . \ . Pereira. "Son animalitos incomprensibles, pero que sin saberlo estan ayudando al progreso cientifico. Todos ellos estaban contentos y dispucstos a dar sus vidas por miles de seres humanos. jQue vnlientes! Los ratones no sentian Ia nostalgia del campo; los giiimos se sentian como en su casa. Los caballos, ovejas y cabros dan con gusto sangre para los sueros. Vimos a una joven inyectar 11na cantidad de orina a un gtiimo para averigunr si en dicha orina habia el bacilo de tube· ·ulosis."-M. Torres. Ismael Velez. Dedicada a Ia CluAe del '42. BE~EFACTORS OF............... butions to the book collection. Miss Fannv Cnrllon, former librarian, gave the librarian's desk which matches the chargtnf(' desk. The bust of Shakes· peare was a gift of the English Club of 19:39-40. 1\lrs. Palmer and Miss Akers sent a collection of books from the University of Illinois. During the summer Mr. Frank Campos of the Department of Education contributed some books from his personal library. Mrs. M. Frnncisco Lluberas sent a group of books from her father's library. For these and all other gifts, the patrons of the library are very grateful. I Los dias de colegio van pasando; En breve nos tendremos que marchar. La lagrima furlivn enjuganno. Unnmonos en un postrer cantar. 0 noble Alma. Mater generosa, Tus glorias t quien podra enumerar? Jrradias una luz esplendorosa, Antorcha de virtud y bicnestar. Los dins de colegio apncibles Volados son; mas nunca volveran; Empero sus valores indecibles Por siempre en sus hijos vivinin. 0 noble Alma ~later generosa, Tus glorias t qui6n podrn enumerar? Irradias unn luz esplendorosa, Antorchn de virtud y bienestar. Los dias de colegio nos han dado Enlaces de amistad r puro amor. El ausentnrnos boy del muy amado Nos sume en abismo de dolor. 0 noble Alma Mater generosa, Tus glorias l. qui en podr:l enumerar? Irradias una luz esplendorosa, Antorcba de virtud y bienestar. Nathftn Harlan Huff man. FlRST DtPRES~ IOX S ......... this way. You are thus showing the people of other lands how race pre· judice may be overcome by a superior spirit of mutual esteem nnd de\•otion to a common purpose." ::\liss DuUet was equally effusive in her praises. Her statement follows: "Clear shining beacon lights guided the San Jacinto into the harbor. Dawn slowly broke upon the mountains re· vealing the stately ::\1orro Castle. It majestically towered against the sky. "Casu Blanca" rose the cry and there stood the Governor's home. Palm trees sheltered liltle Sp:mish homes. At n very interesting gift shop we found dolls made from shells, hand woven rugs. numerous buttons, paint· ings und Puerto Rit·o Dolls. Our trip through the island wa~.< the most interesting one l have ever experienced. It seemed like a refined and cultivated jungle. The thick green growth of plants :1nd trees seemed to have n sense of order and benuty. The old Spanish homes in their own environment ~eemed much more attractive than those scattered ones in northern latitudes. \'arietr seemed to be the order of lhe day. We went from beautiful homes to poverty stricken ones along side of the 'lUgar fields. The tall straight sugar cane seemed to be the chief product of the island. We saw it growing with its tufted tip. We saw it eaten by rambling children, and more of it was curried to the mills by large trucks which dropped cane everr few fl!et. "What a Garden of Eden this island is-with so many kinds of plants. trees and flowers. with birds singing and water falling. Who could believe it was the second of January 'I It seemed as if I had been transplanted into n new world. Indian corn and a Cew ferns were the only recognitable features. And yet. the hearts of Christians are the same the world over. The warm friendly feelinA" or the people I have met helped alleviate the feeling of sLrangencss. ll seemed so like a dream. and 1 wondered why I was here, and ret you, friends, give purpose, meaning and reality to my position in this beautiful land. lt seems to say, 'Grow, Here is life and beauty and friendship.'" I 3 NEW I"ACULTY MEMBERS This semester the Faculty h.1~ bt·en enlarged. We are happy to we:Come to its membership two new membe rs, Mr. Warren B. Reeve &nd Mis \'irginia Duffct. Mr. Reeve was born in Princeton, New Jersey. Whl'n he was 1:! years old his family moved to l'hilatlelphia, where he attended the West Philadel· phia High School, from which he graduated in 1918. He then entered Princeton UniverRity, rl'ceiving from this institution the A. C. c.ler.:-ree in 1922 and the A. 1\1. in Philos1•phy in 1925. During the latter inten·al he o.lso attended Princeton Theola!{ical Seminarv nnd received his Th.B. nt the snm"e time he was srranled the A.M. degree. He recer ved the award of the :\Iutchmore ~kholarship of the Board of Christian Educatian of the l'resbyteriun Church and studied durmg the academic year of 1925-26 at Cambridge University, Englnnd. Ouring the vacation peri<His he had the opportunity for travel on lhe continent of Europe. After returning from E u r o p e he mas ordained as n Presbyterian minister. Ris pastoral experience included mission work on the C a n a d i n n prairie, the pastorate of a C o n g r e g a t lo n a I Church in the state of )Iaine. nnu from 1926 to 1927 the pastoral~ of the PennsidP Presbyterian Church oi Reading, l'ennsyh·nnia. Being appointted a missionary by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U. ~- A .. he sailed for Japan in the summer of 19'-Z'i. After some years of study of the Japanese langua~e. he bt>came engaged in student work in the city of O!'akn. During a year of furlouA'h in the U. S. in t9:32-3:t. he studied for onP term in the Biblical Seminary in New York City and for one term in Syrncuse, N. Y. He marril'd Mi~l' G. Joan Pritt> of llfrucombt•, Devonsb.ire, F.ngland, at that time. Together they returned to Japan in the autumn of 193:J, spending a month in England. visiting Mrs. Reeve's home and then travelling to Japan by way of Suez. This gave opportunity for a side-trip through the Holy Land. From 19:i:{ till l!HU i\1 r. anti '\lrs. Reeve were engaged in e\'aJJgclistic work ln the outskirts of O"nkn, living in a rented .Japanese house an•l developing a •·hurch through the home. In l!l:l5 their little daugther, Evelyn (the first "E" pronounced long. :1$ in "Eve") was born. Mr. and )Irs. Reeve and Evelyn returned on regular furlough to the united States in November, HI·HI; but a~ world conditions make the t•<mtinuonce or missiouary work in Japan impossible, they were obliged lo seek a new field of l:1bor. As n result the Polytechnic won their services. We are also happ>' to wdcomo into our family Miss Virginin Duffett A. U. Elmira College. M.R.E. Oiblical Seminary in Xew York. .Miss Duflett was born in Niagara Falls, New York, where the scenic grandeur of the Falls in\"ites many honey-mooners. ~he taught Religious Education there. was Lender of a Girl &out troop, and was an Air Raid Warden in the X:ltional Defense Program. She also tnught gym classes at the Young Women's Christian Associations. In Elmira College she majored in History and French, and went on to theological seminary in the desire to become n missionary. I I POLYGRAPH 4 CHRISTMAS WITH THE FACULTY The holiday !<ea on found the varioas faculty members ready with plans and prcpnrations for the long \'at"ation which musl nclurlf' three IJX't'ial dnys,-ChristmM, Nrw Yt'ar!l, and Three KinA"II' (.lnnuary !lixth). Honor must b.· pnid alike to Ranta Claus and the Thrr~ Kings; nnd tr:tditional t'Ustums of both Americnn and Puerto Rican observance prevail. Wreath!! of nntive pine mndf' thrir appearance on front doors. and Chrismas tree lights <ihone from many windows. ThE> trrel'l them~Pives WN<1 generally nalim thorn tree" cut from the wo(){ls on the C'ampu~. They main· tain their form and ('olor for 'lllilP some time. Mr. l'nlmer found a trt>f! beanng red hcrrif!R, Tlr. \'~lt·z lightf'd the' pine trees in his yard. On Christmall !by probably few turkeys appearP-d on dfning tahlcs since they are not plentiful in Puer· to nice>. But if the royal birJ wa,. absent, its plan• was nmpl~· filled by chic•ken from lh<' l nRtitute Jwultry farm or roast pig. !\'ight t"arollng, both Amllrkan (which lulls the sleeper into sweetel' slumber) and Puerto Rican stylP (whkh incites him to join the re\·el· IerR) contributed to the seasonal en· joyment. The Puerto Rican c11rols 11re alwAys accompanied hy native rhythmic instrum<'nts such a11 maracas (round gourds \\ith scecl~ inside to rnttlc) and gulcharo!l (elongated gourds with indentations scraped by metnl prongs) 110d hard wood sticks and hlocks for striking. Jo'ullowing lhl' Spanish cusl•>m of obRen·ing ~oche Buena (Christmas r:,•cl with a late supper, Dr. and 1\tn> Bartolome Do\·er were hosts to a group of frienrls in their home De· cembPr 2~th. Traditional refreshmc'lt!l were t~en·ed: nllho, 11i11cP few if nny ship!! come from Spain nnw, the SJlanish candiE's rame frnm Cuh:1, and lhe Spani;~h olives came from Cali· forn la. On December 2fith Dean and Mr11. Ollt'llr n. lriznrrv entcrlainccl about sixll~n guests in' their home with a picturt! t::how. A group of twelve gatherer! nt th•• home of Mr. ancl ~In:. Uoyd n. Palmer the e\'ening of Den•mber twentyninth to enjoy a 1\Piection of concertos ancl other musical compositions hy re· cording. Mr. ancl !\ln. Palmer were host~ al a small dinner on January third. Sunrlay afternoon, January fourth, Miss Mary Alice Lamar received the fat"ultr and their children at tea in Borinquen Hall to present the new members of the fnt"ulty, Miss Virginia Duffet. and ~tr. and )Irs. Warren H. Reeve and little ~liss Evelyn Reeve. Many residents of the campus wt-nt away for a!: or part of the vacation. Min Gloria Zt>ngotita went to her home in Guaynabo. Dr. and Mrs. George :\f. Robison and Mi11~ Grace Gamble spent a week m San Juan. Miss Wilma Mosholder, Miss Helen Huffman, and Dr. and Mrs. Luis A. Santullano enjoyed several days of cool weather in the mountain!! of Ai· bonito. 1\fr. and Mrtt. Francillt'o Castillo were in Ponce and Guayama. Mr. and Mrs. Marciano Avilb and sons Carlos and 1\larciano, Jr. spent four days in San Sebastian. Mr. and Mrs. Felic:io Torregrosa went to San Juan and Guayama. To San Juan also traveled Mr. and Mrs. Crist6bal Ruiz ~UESTRO CAMPUS LA Qeil\fiCA EN EL POLITEC'NICO Cuando llega n nuestras mnnos por vez primera el cat61ogo del Alrna El Dr. Fred R. Whaley, al ofrcct>r Mater nos Rorprende el numero de edifi<"ios que hay en E'l Campus del l'o· el primt"r curao de qu!mica en el Politecnico. Diecisiete. f::S muy cit-rto, si litecnico en 1933, empet6 con un grucontamos las re~idencias de Ia Farul- po de 22 e.studianth. Cuando yo ini· lad y demas construC'ciones. Mas un cic mis cla11es de qulmica aqui en "fre1.1co," de imap:inat"l6n , ·iva, CJUE' 1939, ln matricula a11eendla a 511 jamas haya visitado estas lomas, pue- j6vene11 en E'Rtos c:urRos. En el seme!l· de di11tribuir esos cdificio~ de otra tre pnsado, el numero de Cl!lludiantell manera. Durante sus aiios dP estu- en el Departamento clc Qulmica Cue diante en Ia Escuela Superior ha oiclo de mti!l de ochenta. Comlidernndo Ia !lituaci6n mundial, hahlnr, rcpetida~ vel·es, de lo que es un Colf'gio o una Uni\'ersidad, de Ins no es difidl explicar este rapido diferenda!l entre• unn y otra vida t'!l• aumento de t•asi 400 [>Or ciento en cl tudinntil : por lo cunl 'es posible que numero cit- oyrnte!t P.n quimira, pU~.il al llegar a Phraner o a Borinquen o, el inU1rcs en t(){las las den,·ltts exacsi se quiere, a SciE>nrc Hall, se ncrr· ta.s ~e. hn multiplicadn. ~in embargo, que n uno de sus nue\'o~ compaiieros el aumento enonue de estudiante;:; (alguno a quien Crt':\ tan 0 rna~ "fro'S• que trnbajnn t>n el l11boratorio planco" que i-1) y lc haga vnrias pregun· tea serios problt'ma• al profesor a cargo cle c•slos cur ;oR: el problemn, taR ........ no solamente de adnptnr las facilidn· ;. Digame, d6nde t'sta el edificio d<• des del lnborntorio u un grupo t.nn Ia Uibliotct"a? ;. Cual es e) Teatro 1 numeroso de alumnos, sino tambien el ;. D6ndc esui Ia Capilla? En !IU mt-nte problema cle ofr«er mayor \'ariedad ha ralitatlo una operac1on aritmeticn. en la n!th,rnatura para satisfacer los Son clicri11icte. Estoy 1m Science llnll. dc.seos de los grupos c•<m distintos pro· Alii donde se lt'vantn nquclla te-rre p6sitos \'ocacionales tales l'omo los dicen que estti el com<'dor. El de mfls premedicoR, los futurns macst r >3· c!c• arriba, nqucl que tiene un reloj mar· cicncinl'l, etc., incluyendu et:~te I>roblema cando las nueve, es el domitorio d11 Ins de aiiadir nuevos cursos avnnzados de nina;:;. A Ia izquierda despuc~ de cru· modo que nuestro>' grnduados scan zar el lngo, apnrecc el "Clarence preparadns al igual que los: ell! grande!! Harris." Mas a Ia izquicrda aun. sobre universitlnclt-!1 y colegim• del Conti· unn lomita, se yergue muy majestun· nenle. so el "l'hraner," que fie me antoja lin· La e~·nl't'Z de fondoa en el Tnstitumario "el ca!ltil!o de Ia dcsolnci6n." to y Ia lnrga distancin que :<epara a Son cinco. Aim nccesito ,·er lo); otros Ia Isla de los centros eliuratinls indusdoce. ;. E11tartin localizndos en el otrn triale3 del Continenti', han contribul· extremo de San German 1 ;. Quien sn· do a aumentar las difkultade;: en In he'! l'odria ser. La mitad de In Uni· Mluci6n d!' estos prohlemn!l. A pesar versidnd rsta en Ma yngiiez. de esto111 ob!llliiculos, e:e han herhu El e.~tudi:mtc. a qulen el "fresco" progrel>Ofl I!UStanciales en )os ultfmos de nuestro cuento ha inte rro~~:ado. tic· do!> aiios. GTa('ias a la gent-rol!idad del ne dos probabilidades. Que jamiis es· ~egociado I nsular de ;\linu. se obtu· tudiara el cat:ilogo con detenlmiento, vo una colecci6n de los minerales de hastn iijarse en detalles como t-1 que Puerto Jtiro. l'or In amnbilidad de comentumos, o que unn Ronrisn se hn· compaiiinM comcrcialNI que noll <lieron yn nsomado a ~Ul't labio11 at recordar muestras de las piedras que ul'an como ese mismo momento en su ano de no· , materia prima. mediante regal01; y vato. compras. se ha ido C'Oillpletl\ndo In &m como fuerc. Juan ~abra a Ia colecci6n ha~ta contener mucstras de largn cu6ntos son y dondc estan to· los elemento); miis imJ>ortnntcs en su ~:stado natural. Aun <'ontinunmos aiia· dos los Nlificios en cl l'nly y c6mo M !IRma t"ndn uno de p.IJo~. Y si Mr. diendo material y agrnclt-t"emos a to· dos los alumnus y amigos del Institu· Lek~r llcga a pr.•guntarlc el numrru de t"olumna~ que hay en el pasillo .flpl to que nns ayuden en estn tarca, conScience Hall, el como muy ·•aguzao'', tribuycndo con mue,-tras de los mine· se aprentleni cunnto nombre hara en rale); y piedra.. ori~:1narias clel sitin estn11 lomas........ Goodyear. \'eve, (;iJ. clonde vivcn. lcspie y otros que yo mismo no he Tamhicn hal·ia fnlta en Ia en· mt'mori1:ado. senanza de Ia qufmica )teneral e l'asaran cuatro aiios Csi Ia plaga tie inorgamt·n una serie de modelos mortalidad estudinntil no lo hace vic· de las \'ariada;; estructuras cristali· timR) y yn en visperns del inoh·idable nas. La construcci6n de t-stos mode· episodio de Ia et~enlem hist6ricn, vol- los fue t'Oillenzada en el semeatre pavern a recordar su pnocupad6n de sado, y ya tenemos un grupo de es· "freiiCo." Yn no lo desilusionan1 In au- los, que ell muy util en el estudio tic las !eyes fundamentales de Ia cristalisencul de aquello~ edificios ) awni das que en su mente 1de mozalhete di· zaci6n. Los eefuerzos para aumentar el nubujara. Ahora diri: "F.I colegio es mas que los edificiol<. Son dieci11iett!. mero de objetos para demostraci6n no Podria scr linicamente In vieja casoua se limita a Ia enseiiam:a de Ia quimi· de It\ que R61o nos qucdn Ia escnlern, en inorgnnica. Modelos nt6micos que dondt> un dia el Dr. Harris finc6 una sirven para Ia expllcaci6n de Ia iso· esperanza. Ahora me parece que el meria en el espacio y dP Ia reacci6n Poly es infinito. ~t anana me voy y 6ptica representan solamentc una de conmigo llevo los recuerdos r las e.x· las mejoru en este cur~o. Tambicn perienciaa de tanto!:' momentos vh;dos aqui las compaiilas comerciales de Ia entrt' estaa lomas que "unas vt>r<'l\ no11 Isla y del Continente han contribuido hablnn de historin y otrns V(.'('E'S no'! enviando rompuestos y productos qui micos pan1 nuestra colecci6n de suahnblnn de amor." tancias orgunicas. Ht>mos utilizado, Jorge l\ehemias Cintron. ademas de esto, Ia cooperaci6n de los estudiantes adelantados en quiruica, los cuales sintetizaron algunos de los and Mr. and Mrs. Hafael A. Cruz compuestos necesitadoR en sus ejerci· with their children Rafael Jr., Nelida, cios de labontorio. Agradecemos aqui and Julie. Ia generosa ayuda de la industria del pals, que permiti6 numerous ns1tas a sus fllbricaa de productos orgluticos. La parte mns importante •lei trabajo del quimiro es el experimento en los laboratorios. Asi ,;e procur6 dar enfasis al desttrrollo del lnboratorio y del equipo quimico. l.oR p~riodos df'l trabajo en el laboratorlo fucron prolongados huta 4 horas. En quimicn org:inica sc requieren ahora dos perlodos ~emanales de laborntorio, en Iugar de uno. Otrns mejora!l matt'riales en el laboratorio inclupm reparacion del alumhrado, Ia susUtuci6n de lnR viejos frcJ{acleros po: frt'gndt'ros de cernmit•n y la adquisici6n de una nevern. AI lahoratorio analitico "" nfiadi6 un equipo para procesos electrollticos y para determinadone!; del nltr6geno )'!'gun Kjehlahl. Con Ia compro de un aparnto pum el elltudio de Ia 011m6~is s!' hnn iniciaclo !'sfuerzc,s encnminudos n con;:eguir el equip• r>ara un cur"o de quimica fisir 1 SP ts· pera que. a pcsar de Ia es a.,t'Z .1c· tunl en materiale,: de construccu)n, ;;ea posible cnmprar este equipn •.m un futuro proximo r ofrecer un l'Urso en cste ramo el niio que \':ene. La adlcl6n dt• este rurso n nue.•tro pruln'amn de cnsenanza c1ulmica e!< nece.!'ario, no solamt-ntt• para acomo· dnrse a Ins direct"ione!l de In American Chemical Society respccto a Ia aprobnci6n •I"' loll "creditos" en quimica, sino por Mr muy deseada !'n Ins me· jorcs escuelas dl' medicina de Io.s Est.ados Unido!';, Ins cuale;: aconsejan a todos los E':<tudiantes de lllfltlicina tomnr un curso de esta indole antes Jp graduarst: de colegio. Cumpli<'ndo con los requisitns dr Ia American Chemical Society nl eft-'Cto de que z;e den cursos adelantados en qulmica, st' ofrt.'!.'i6 un cunw en Historia de Ia Quimica por \'Ct primera el SE'mestre pasado. Ayuda a este fin el numento de la bibliotct·a del de· pnrtamento, nwdiante In atlquisid6n JlOr 10 alios del "Chemical Ahstracts" y Ia serie de "International Critical Tables:," adema\s de numerosa11 monogrnfial'. Sin embargo, el progre11o mcncionado no repre:;t•ntn mi1s que cl primer pnso de los murhos que tenemos que dar para completar Ia enseiinnza de In quimica dt- manera que nos pemlita igualar la labor a Ia de C'OIE'gios t·onocidos del Continente. A !'ste fin nos haec falta, ademas del curso dtquimic.a fisica. otro curso avanzado como el de sinlesis orglmicn r un aumt'nto considerable en Ia colecci6n de nuestra biblioteca r de nuestro equipo de laboralorio, de modo que at fin sea posible e11tablecer tambien un pcqueno departamento de investigaciones cien· tificas, departamento uti! tnnt{) para el progreso de Ia enseiianza como para ~~ estudio de los muchos y ,·ariados problemas cientificos de interes que ofrece Ia naturaleza en uta isla tropical. No cabe duda que el desarrollo de este programa necesita cierto tiempo. Sin embargo, en primer plano esti Ia necesidad de conseguir fondos suf1c1entes para Ia realizaci6n rapida de utas ideas. l'or eso he expuesto aqui el progreso del Departamento en los ultimos aiios a fin de llamnr Ia atenci6n de los amigos y graduados del lnatituto y del Departamento de Ciencias especialmente acerca de Ia labor realitada y de Ia nect-sidad de seguir adelante : cosa que solamente podemos hac:er con Ia ayuda de quienee sientan verdadero afcc:to hacia el Polit~cnico. Fritz Fromm. I I l January 14,second 1938, class at thematter post Entered as office in San G-erman, Puerto Rico, under the act of August 24, 1912. 1p0LY GRApH FOUNDERS DAY ISSUE - POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF PUERTO RICO San German, P.R. VOLl1ME VAl:- FEBRl An\ 20, 19i2 L ake Gilstrap ' 2 "FOUNDERS DAY" El Instituto Polilccnico l'Bpera ver a sus graduadoa, a .!IUS amtyos }' a los estudiantel' ausentes, en tas celebraciones de febrt'ro 28. AI igual que en alios anteriore,!l es el momento de volver a encontramos unldos por un interes comun en nuestra Almu Mater y vivir junto ul recut>rdo de la fundacion de nue:~tro Colegio y del rt'Cuerdo del Dr. y Mrs. Harris. Es Ia hora (mica del aiio en que el pasado de Ia vida estudiantil puede refrescarae al calor del presente. La eeremonia tradicional se repite: a Ins diez el paraninfo de Ia instituci6n abrira sus puertas para r<'dbir a SU!I estudiantes )' a sus amigos. El comitc Clrganizador no.; ofrece el sigui"nte bosquejo del programs: 1. Ave Marin, dt' Yictorin, por Ia Masn Coral <M Politecnico. 2. Palnbras de bienvenida por el Dr. Jan•is S. Morri.~. 8. Lectura de lo!; diferentcs mensajes de amigos del Politecnlco y del Dr. Harris, 4. (a) "Qui S' y Frotte S' y Pique·• dP Orlando Di Las!!o, por Ia Masa Corsi. FOUNDERS DAY-SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 ''*" Celebrated da)S earl) Cor benefit or graduates. Assembly. Address by \amiI Galib. Dedication o( Clarence Harris Hall. Addre~s by Dr. Angel Archilla. Noon. Luncheon by the lake side for all students, faculty, and lll:OO A. ~1. 11:00 A. :\1. 12:00 l :00 I'. :\1. 2:00 P. :\1. graduate~. Dedication of Lake Gilstrap, Alumni :\leeting in the Science Hall. Plea;;e notify Mrs. Bartolome Bon!r whether or not you will be pre1.1ent at the luncheon. BENEFACTORS OF THE LIBRARY During the thirty years of Polytechnic growth, ita benefactors have been numerous and often unknown to the general public. A recent incident reminds us again of our indebtedness to the countless friends of the school whose interest and sacrifices have made possible the continued progress of the Institute. The letter !rom which lhe following excerpt is taken was addres~;ed to Dr. :\!orris, then sent to the librarian: "I've been following with interest the progress of the school aa •portrayed in each issue of "Polygraph" and realize that it takes money to keep up with the present standards. Since I am not regularly employed, there is a little material aid for me to offer. However, the enclosed small amount will at least provide a book for the library. "May you have success in your efforts to raise funds for Polytechnic and, with Cod's help, may the spirit of the school live forever." WE DO APPRECIATE We do appreciate indeed the girts that friends give to ua and send to us !rom time to time. Most of these are designated for special funds, but some are undesignated. One friend writes, "l cannot give much, but the $2.50 enclosed will be enough to buy a book for the Library." Another friend gave us two sets of usable Encyclopedias and another a used saddle. Another has given us a grand piano...... the interesting thing about our program is that it is so broad and has so many Ceaturea that we can use many strange gifts. The piano will look and sound beautiful in Dorinquen Saln, the saddle will be used either for business or for pleasure horse-back rides on our campus. Our farm manager sometlmes uses a riding horse ten hours a day in his work. We need more good books for the library and since they can be sent for 1~ cents per pound by book post, we ln\'ite our renders to send them to us. We would like a copr of any of the follow- ing: Roget's "Thesaurus of English words and phrases," Harvey's "Oxford companion to English Literature," Thomas Mann's "Joseph in Egypt," Werfel's "Embeuled Heaven ," "The Doctors Mayo" by Clapesattle, "Young man of Caracas" by Ybarra, "Leaf in the ~;torm" by Lin Yutang, "Out of the night," "Language in Action" by Hayakawa, or Remarque's "Flotsam." Good fiction nnd good non-fiction are both acceptable. We wish to thank in particular our friends who have sent us the following glfta since the last issue of the Polygraph. Chapel Fund: Amount needed, $75,000.00. Fonner gifts already, announced $12.20. A friend in Lambertville, N. J., $100.00. A friend in Norwood, Pa., $5.00. A friend in Larchmont, N. Y., $10.00. A friend in Maitland, Fla., $10.00. Friends in New York City, (Continut>d on p&J"t' 3, Col. 3.) (b) "Estrellita" de A. Pons, por Ia i\Iasa Coral. 5. Dl,curao por el Lcdo. Yamil Galib, graduado en el aiio 1938. Del Edificio de Ciencias se pnsara a celebrar unn ceremonia de inauguraCI6n del edificio "Clarence Harris," donde esperamos que el nr. Archilla nos habit' de Ia labor de Mr. Clarence en el Politecnico y donde cantaremos el hinmo "We would build the WoriJ." Junto a este edificio se sen•ira el almuerzo, al cual invitamos n los graduados, a los estudiantea Cuera del Colegio r a Ia Facultad. A las doa de Ia tarde nos proponemos hacer Ia entrega del Lago Gilstrap. Para vosolros va nueatra mas cordial invitaci6n y ni un solo graduado debe !altar en nuestro "campus" y dejar de oir el mensaje de nuestro qucrido Dr. Harris. PARADE AND RECEPTION After five months in New York, Dr. ~orris returned by Pan American plane on February 11. As soon as the students knew of his arrival a parade planned aforetime formed at Borinquen and charged upon Dean Irizarry's home with posters of welcome. They arrived at breakfaat, between the oatmeal and the egg.... ao Carmen, a~;ed nine, ate the egg. Dr. Morris went with the group to the Science Hall and was welcomed informally, responding with a stirring extemporaneous address.... During his stay on the continent, President Morris gave nearly a hundred addresses be f o r e chun:hes, schools, and civic groups, and ga.,.e !our radio broadcasts to Latin America over stations of the X. B. C. system and the General Electric Co. On his way back he stopped in Cuba (Continut>d on pagt' 3. Col. 4.) P OLY GRAPH 2 Polygraph Published for the students, faculty, alumni and friends of the Polytechnic Institute. Subscription, 50 cents per year. Managing editor this edition, Dr. Oscar B. Irizarry with volunteer student helpers. "PUERTO RICO EVANGELICO" PRESS, PONCE, P.R. E DITORIAL )!uch has been said of democracy's failure to produce discipline and efficiency. The Polytechnic students, however, have not lost faith in the philosophy of human cooperation born of self-imposed discipline and responsibility. The order and p1·ecision displayed by the student body in the performance of air raid protection drills is evidence to themselves of what democracy can do wh<!n its constituents are intelligent, responsible citizens. The students organized fire fighting squads to police the evacuation of buildings, put out fires, destmy incendiary bombs and do rescue work. The evacuation of the Science Hall, for instance has been effected in one and one half minutes, in perfect silence, and with almost military exactness. The return to the c1assrooms has been carried out with the same orderliness. Buckets of sand, water hoses, spades, and "machetes" have been assembled at strategic and accessible places. Plans for the evacuation and protection of other buildings are being worked out. Large groups are taking instruction in first aid, and the students are continuously devising means to speed up the darkening of buildings during blackout drills, and improving the vigilance against possible negligence. There is no doubt that this performance constitutes a splendid demonstration of efficiency and evidence of what cooperation can do when there is "esprit de corps"; but there are still greater sacrifices ahead to put us through the acid test of cooperation and devotion to duty. We shall be called upon, for instance, to do with less clothes, to eat only what is barely necessary to maintain a normal standard of health, to drastically curtail automobile transportation, to prepare our lessons in less time and possibly without the facilities now at our disposal, and to donate of our money and labor toward the war effort. When that time comes, shall we be ready to comply? We shall. But there is an imperative need to start hardening our nerves and will power to meet the situation with unflinching determination. There are many ways in which we can make a good beginning. Clothes can be protected from unnecessary wear and tear. Shoes can be repaired in time to avoid discarding. Food can be served sparingly in the plate to avoid waste-it is unpatriotic in times like this to leave food in one's plate to be thrown away. One's taste can be trained to a simple nutritive diet requiring no unnecessary relishes and expensive food stuffs. A student can wisely use every minute of daylight to prepare his lessons and thus save much needed electric power. Much economy can be effected in the use of paper to help the munitions industry. Attendance at shows, and the purchase of drinks, candies, cigaxettes, and other luxuries can be curtailed to a reasonable minimum. The hours devoted to industrial work in the campus can be made to produce the maximum of productive labor. Promptness in expediting business with teachers, the library, and college offices will effect a great savings in time and money to students and the college administration. Week-end trips and joy rides can be limited to official ho1idays ........ Now is the time to start. Will Polytechnic students respond to the call with patriotism? The President's Column En route to Miami to take the plane. Things haYe happened so swiftly in the last few days that I can hardly believe I am actually on my way to Florida, Cuba and Puerto Rico. The night before I left New York, my wife and I celebrated our wooden wedding anniversary and were entertained at dinner by Mrs. Roswell Miller, Sr., whose interest in the Polytechnic goes back fully twenty years when she made a trip to San German with Mr. Mitchell, the late editor of the New York Sun, and Mrs. Mitchell. It was a delightful evening, for Mrs. ?\.1itchell and Miss Edgar and another friend, all very interested in Puerto Rico, were there. We talked Puerto Rican History, Education, Politics, Religion, climate, strat~gic importance, products - in fact, almost everything about the beautiful Caribbean isle. And of course, the Polytechnic was right in the center of the conversation, for Mrs. rt1iller has been a very helpful trustee for fifteen years and buiit for us Roberts Cottage, ( lhe home now occupied by Dean Irizarry) as a memorial to her mother. These four months in the United States have been very helpful ones, but one of the experiences I bave valued most has been the privilege of better acquaintanceship with our trustees. At the meeting on January 20, every trustee of the New York Area was present. Dr. Keigwin, our beloved vicepresident, made a special trip from Ashville, North Carolina, where he is spending the winter' in order to be with us. The report of the Finance Committee was most encouraging, the dinner at the home of Lieut. Com. and Mrs. Roswell Miller, Jr. was delicious, and my review of the year's work was received with heartening interest. The Trustees voted unanimously and enthusiastically to name the new building (now called Coste 1 I o Annex,) Wilson Cotta~e, in honor of Dr. E. Graham Wilson, who has served the Board of Trustees as Secretary so efficiently and willingly, and to have a. special dedication of the building on the first occasion that Dr. Wilson can be present. The Trustees aproved the appointment of new teachers and the program of agricultural advancement in this time of war. They were happy to receive into their number, and regretted his inability to be present, the new Alumni Trustees for the calendar year 1942, Hon. Samuel R. Quinones, Speaker of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico and son of one of the pioneer Presb)·terian ministers of the Island, Don Francisco Quinones. I cannot close my short column without a word about the Polytechnic in the present war effort. We are not only planting all available land in food crops and pushing production all along the line, but we are giving all the students along with their meals ,;tamin B tablets, since that vitamin is particularly scarce in the usual Puerto Rican diet and we are emphasizing in all our teaching those Yalues worth fighting and dying for, real Christian faith and true democracy. More than ever before we believe that the greatest need of Puerto Rico (and the world, for that matter) is a dedicated moral leadership. In the U. S. A. onlr 14 % of the young people are pri,· ileged to go to college and yet 8<V' of those Usted in '"Who's Who in America" are college men and women. The 14 % produces 867'(' of our leadership in all walks of life. How absolutely essential is it, therefore, that our college youth catch ideals and high moral purposes from their studies and their associations! The Polytechnic renews its faith in its original purposes in this hour of world need! J arvis S. Morris. I NTRODUCING 1\ffiS. REEVE Students all over the world suffer from extreme attacks of curiosity and "gossipy" inquisitiveness-this is perfectly natural. Many are asking, "What is the nationality of Mrs. Reeve?" "It she French"? "Her English is so quaint." We shall satisfy your curiosity. Meet Mr11. Reeve: Mrs. Reeve (nee :\I iss G. Joan Price) was born in llfracombe on the north coast of Devonshire, England, and at the age of 6 weeks was taken with her parents to India, where they were missionaries. When she was five years old, sbe was brought back to England and with her brother went to Jive in the home of friends of her parents, who felt that they must carry on with the work lo which they had given themselves in India. They finally retired to England when Mrs. Reeve was 13 years old, and her father took a pastorate in Devonshire. Mrs. Reeve studied at the University of London from which she graduated with honors in Mathematics, receiving the A. B. degree. After a rear of training in the London Day Train- ing College, she taught school for a time, then entered a missionary training college, and in 1927 was sent to Japan as a foreign missionary under the Church of England. On account of the death of both her parents, she had to return to England, via Siberia, in 1930, but went again to Japan the following year, traveling out via the Red Sea, Khartoum, and the Nile valley to visit her brother who was a missionary in the southern Sudan under the same missionary society; and thence overland to Kenya in British East Africa to visit other relatives. before taking ship at Mombasa on the east coast to go to Japan. m health made it necessary for her to lea,·e Japan again in 1932, but in 1933 while in the United States, she was married to Mr. Reeve. Recovery of health made it possible for her t<> return with him to Japan later that year, and now that the war drove them out of Japan, they have come to Puerto Rico to continue their work as teachers. POLYGRAPH EN LA BORA DIFICIL El aiio 1942 tiene que ser para no pocos estudiantcs del Po!it{ocnico un incentivo que los mueva a una mejor conducta escolar. La leecion propia, que hayan podido reeibir de sus calificadones en las diferentes materias, debeni aer un estimulo para un cambio a mejor. El ejemplo, el mediano ejemplo de aquellos compaiieros que ban sido obligados por Ia Adminiatracion a suspender indefinidamente los estudios, podrti. ser el espejo nada brillante en que miren su pon·enir, si se abandonasen todavia mas que en el semestre anterior. Todos hemos de lamentar-la Adminiatracion y Ia Facultad antes que nadic, antes que las mi11mas Camilla.; -Ia decision tomada respecto de esos alumnos, cerrandoles Ins puertas del l nstitulo. No cabfn hacer olra cosa, ya GUe ellos no hubieran obtenido provecho alguno con su asistendn meramente corporal a Ins aulas, ni los profesorl!s debfan consentir esta remora l'n Ins tareas de las c:laaes, debida a Ia la.xitud de esos escolares para el esfueno, a su preparacion insuficiente, a un rcndimiento mental insntisfactorio por motivos que en nada nfectan a Ia bondad de las pel'l!onas. Cada aiio la Administracion y Ia Facultad encuentranse ante el problema de estos ca!'OS dificile..«, que pueden ofrecer un interes de orden social su!ic:iente para que quepa pensar en In organizacion de enseiianzas espcdnlmente destinatlas a Cbtos estudiantes inadnptados o pasajeramente desaplicados, con In seguridad de que murhos de ellos 1 podrian reincorporarse un dia a los estudios normales en Colegios y Universi•lades, y que todos. cuando no exista falla psicologica, acabarian obtcniendo una instruccion suficiente para Ia vida. No debemos olvidar que en Ia soc:iedad actual no prosperan siempre los que lodo lo hnn nprendido en los libros, sino los que aciertan a sarar mejor partido de las circunstancias y afrontar serenamente las ndversidades. Precisamente nos hallamos ahora en In encrucijada de los mundos que luchnn fieramente por gobernar a la humanidad, conforme a In respectiva ideologla: el mundo de In tirania opresora de los hombres y el mundo de Ia libert.ad respetuosa de los espiritus. Inglaterra y los Estados Unidos han decidido dar Ia batalla a Ia barbaric que pretende sojuzgar a los pueblos en plcno civilizado siglo XX. Y es principalmente Ia juventud de Ins fabricas, de las tierraR y de las aulas Ia que luchu en los campos de bntalla y produce materiales en loa talleres, en las minas y en las granjas para salvar a! mundo. Sin duda es esta una tri~te manda que nos ha. dejado el nrio anterior y que el aiio actual hare !luya, con Ia decision de llevnrla, dentro de au mismo ciclo, a t~rminos de victoria o, si esto no fuern posible, con In resoluci6n de asegurar en el aiio proximo el triunfo definitivo de Ia libcrtad y Ia democracin, ~eg\in han proclamado solidarin y rl•cientemente el Primer Ministro Winston Churchill y el l'residente Root:evelt. Ahorn bien, puede ocurrir que algunos estudiantes se venn precisndos a interrumpir los estudioa para acuclir a Ins urgencias de Ia Defensa. Ello les obliga a superarse en el actual Semeslre, de modo que no hallen dificultad al reanudar, el dia de manana, IIUS cursos academkos. Otros escolares mb afortunados por raz6n de edad SENIOR CLASS F or the third time this year the Sentor Class has elected a new pres1· dent. Rafael de Guzman, the president elected at the September election, had to resign becau.!le of the many demands with prior claim upon his time, and Jorge ~letendez \'ega, who suc· ceeded him in office, hall given up the post for reasons of ill health. Juan Orlando Herrero, former pres• dent or the Athletic ARsocintion and debonaire all-around mnn in the campus, is the senion:' new select on to pilot the class. The new roster is as follows: Prel'ident. Juan Orlando Herrero; Vice-president, Alfredo Archilla; Secretary, Genoveva Velez; Trensurer, Hilda Rivera ; Sponsor, Mr. Hoyd Palmer. The Polytechnic extends to these new officers best wil'hes for succes~ and better luck in their tenure or offirt-. DR. MORRIS TIIAl'IKS STUDE;\TS The following lettet· wns !lent to the Rtudents by Dr. ~!orris last month berm~ leavmg ~ew York. We are glad to publish it even at this late date. It v.·ill interest our graduates as much as it has interested our present student body. To the Students: Thank you for you r gracious cable· gram. I am glad you liked the nddress. For almol't five years now you and your immediate predf:(·esoors have been an inspiration to me in all my work. The chief reason for mr great enthusiasm about Puerto Rico and the Polytechnic I nstitute is the quality of character that we fmd in our ~;tudt>nts. The next broadcast will be Wednesday, J anuar y 21, at 10:15 r. l\1. (your time) and T hope Marfa Esther v.·ill be able to sing. Yesterday she was In bed with a cold when 1 called to make the final arrangements. J an ill s. ltort i~. 3 PARA QUE DIGAN EL IDIOMA F.ste aiio podemos notar claramente Ia diferencia, tanto en el orden ms- teriul como espiritual, <1ue existe entre el Poly de 1942 y el de 193!1. Los estudiante~ estamos de place- roes con los nuevos e interesantes cur- introducidos: todos elloa contri· buyendo a ampliar nuestros conocimientos v a interesarnoa en continuar e!ltudios ·post-graduadoa. Pero "como mientras m!1s tenemos, m{ls queremos" -he pensado en In posibilidad de ha· cer una peticion n Ia r'acultad para poder tener el proximo aiio un curso cle Granuitica Castellana, que tan· ta falta nos viene hacienclo. A mi ~· n murhos nos han disgu~ tado Rie~pre los estudios grumatica· les: los encontramos tUicile.· y sin atrartivos; sin embargo, cunndo vn· moll a e!leribir una pequeiia oracion nos damos cuenta de Ia (alta que nos hare. tanto en Ingles como en espaiiol. l'ersonalmente slento que el espaiiol es nuestro idioma y debemos preocupnrnos por saberlo bien, tanto ul esaibirlo como a! hablnrlo. para que no se nos tache de no suber siquiera espmiol. Claro que es exrelentt• poder conocer utros idiomns, pero ese en que nos han hablado nuest ro11 padres, por el que hemos conoc:ido la historia nuestra y por el que ronocemos Ia palnbra de Dios es digno de todo nuestro respeto y veneracion, que consu;te en usarlo rorrectamente y no trntnr de forma r otro idiomn dentro de ~1. niiadiendo inm.ocellurinmente frases extranas. Alicia )tejia. ~os I I THE FADELESS LIGHT ~tonsoons and sand cover the trail!'!; Wise men of old search out the way. Long is the quest; couragl' ne'er fails; They've seen a Star, expect n new day. Brave men again ride through the night, Blackouts below, dange r hard by. One hope remains, one fadeless light, Bethlehem's Star, fixed In the sky. Xa tha n 11. Huffman. y en general el alumna4lo femenino, rontinuarti.n tranquilamente sus tareas basta Ia graduacion. Mas no crean We Do Appreciate........ por uto que las cosas van a series ventajo11as tras Ia victoria final de los !55.00, A fr end in Ph 3delphia, $10. Aliados, si no se aplican Bobresaliente- A friend in IndeJl('ndence, Kansas. mente; pues los tiempos que vendran $5.011. Friends o C Bridgehampton habrlm de !!er muy duros para todos. Chun·h. L.l .. $25.2/i. A friend of Bay y.;J reajuste de la paz, para desmontar Shore, L. 1., $100.00. Frit>nds of ~ton In gran maquinarin guer rern, y Ins as- roc Church, New York, $12.7:1. tronomicas cifras de millones de d6- Friends in South Side Church. Sy lares gastados impondrt\n enormes racu~e. ~. Y., $27.00. Total, ;:-:l72.18. eronomias n los pueblos y grandes di- Dalanre still needed for Chapel fund, ficultades a las actuates generaciones $74,t:ns2. ~tudent Rotary Loan fund needed, ju\'enilel', cuando pretendan situarse en In vida. ~o se necesita ser muy $5,UOIJ.OO. zahor i para adivinar que en 1944 y Former gifts alreacly announced, anos sucesivos solo triunfnnln en las $55.25. A friend in Montclair, N .•J., nc tividudes profesionnles aquellos mu- $!UIO. A friend in Huntingdon. L. 1., chachos y aquellas muchachas que $50.00. A friend in Schenectady, ~. Y. tengan una preparaci6n destacada y $1U.fl0. Friends of Christ's Church, se hallen en condiciones eminentes pa- Bayonne, X. J., $22.11. Friends in ra nuevas e incruentas luchas. West io:ttd Church, Xew York City. De aqui Ia obligaci6n moral en que $5.00. Friends in Light St. Church. se hnllnn los alumnos de e!lte Semes- Baltimore, 1\td., $411.00. Other friend~. tre, mii~ particularmt>nte que en nin- $5.00 Friend~ of Walbruok Church. g(ln otro curso acaMmiro, de rendir Baltimore. $15.00. A friend of Humptodn Ia posible aplicaci6n en los estu- den Church, Baltimo re, $fi.OO. A friend dios, con la esperanza de que asi po- of Wilkes Barre, Pa., $11l.llll. Total. dr&n afrontar las aeriaa ~ituaciones $221l.3ti. Balance still needed for que inevitablemente traern Ia post- Student Rotary Loan Fund, $4,689.64. Again we v.·ant to !<a)' ''• e do apguerra. 1 prl'<'iatC' thi!l help : Luis A. Sanlullano. I En el roes que menos se habla a parerc por vez pr imera Ia columna joco-serin "PARA QUi-: DlGAN.'' Sus rednctorel' proc~en del pequeiio mundo politutense donde todos no~ conocemos y cada uno cr•··· conOl'cn<e a fi mlsmo. Alentamos el prop6sito de recoger aquellas palpitariones propias de Ia vida estudiantil del mt'i& sano espiritu de compaiier ismo. gaperamos de todM Ia nuis alta expresion de "sport~i p " " Pe1 a que Di~an"........ traur{l de decir algo agradable para todos, todol' los m,.~;es. Empezarcmos a.~l Melendez de Ia Vela y ~chemias jurgan a las pr(·sufenr ,as. El primero substituyc a Fali en In prc!-idencia de Ia Clase toea del'42. Jt'nli renuncia y hny "caucu!l" entre los dos ·•politicians". Cintron nomina :t ~Ielendez para In presidencin en Ia reunion ell' lo:. ""eniors." Se retine cl Club de Espaiiol )" ~ehemfas ~ecunda Ia re· nuncia de Melendez como presldente de Cllf> circulo. Inmedinlnmentc Melen· dez t1ene un candidato: XehP.mias.-•.• Lo snca triunfante. LQue ocurre? Por rnz.one!' personates M<•lenllez renuncm Ia di&eutida presidt>ncia de los "eniorl'. Le sustituye Herrrro. Ho)' el bigotudn ~1dendez de Ia Vela es hombre ~in cartera...... Parecc que yn ensaya malnbnrismo criollo...... (;rnduado, (al lin) nuestro vnte Berrios, estundo Herrero en retraimien· to forzado y Fnli mur preocupudo con sus depo rte!l, nos pregunta una chien: 4 Qui en es el Tenorio •lei Cum pus! Contesten ustedes ...• pero recuerden a ~1araii6n. Tete Fabre~as le pldi6 a los reyell un "Ramito de Flores." Despucs de prolonga•lns conversaciones Fali r ~akl han 1lecidido fundar una cooperativn cm1 sede en uno de los cuartos de esqulnat~ del tercer piso. Alii se ensayan OJJCras pura canlane sobre el puente del !ago a! filo de Ia mad rug-ada....•. El trio Bertoldo, Bertolclino y C.acaseno estaba incomplcto este aiio. Nos referimos a \'icens, Marcano y Modesto Rivera ...... Pero ya no"' visit6 el ft>liz imitndor dt'l Dr. J:o;ngle. En Botlmica.- Dr. \'clez pregunta, ;. Que es una flor? Un estudiante dl' literntura contesta: "Una flor es el pensamiento de una planta.-.. .'' Bonilla se levnnta todos los dias cantando "El cuento quP en mi \'ida, fue el numero c:ien." Ll'or que le prohibierun el UliO de In hibliotecn a Rarnela? Alguien dice que "ella bal·e mi1s ruido que una Herreria Pn el Pnufo.... Hector Luis Loyola (Tobi) P.Xhibe en su cuarto una fotogmfia del fu.mo110 bcso de Clark Gable y Lana Turner. Diariamente el haltiano Jean Jacques de SalinnC" Sot::\ va a comparar su rostro con el del fnmoso viudo de Holywood. "Ti que Margatitn lo estuviese mirando. Ligia.-Tengo mucho coraje, demasiado...... Hit.la: ;. Por que, Colora? Ligln.-La oficinn no me ha complacido. Yo <tUiero Child Psychology_ , Parade and Reception ........ for a few days to v1 -it the University of Havana and pri\'nte 8Chools. A formal reception by faculty and students v.·as held on the e\'ening of Februar>· 12. POLYGRAPH 4 THANKS FOn THE PIANOS ::'olorr;a returned from New York via Miami and Cuba on Februar~· 11, just about the time the pianos arrived. They arc all gifts f rom friends in the United States, as follows: Uprights, given by Mrs. Jenn1e B. l'ulham, Baltimore, l ld.; Rev. and Mrs. Euclid Phillip~;, Daltimon·, ~1d.; and Mrs. 0. J . nrown, East Orange. ~- J. A parlor grand was given by 1\tr. nnd Mrs. Curran, of the Madison Avenue Church, New York. The uprights will be used in our growing musk department for practice and the grand will grare the social room of norinquen Hall. Mr. Heth, of the music: depnrtm<!nl, is particularly grateful to these friends for their hl'lp, und thft Polygraph conveys a h<•arty thank you from the studer ~" .. · I ~ac ;· ·' . Pr•···den~ WEEI\ OF RELIGIOtlS E:\tPH \ SIS Appropriutr to the Lt•ntem period, which brings to U;l ncres.~arr reminders of God's love :for the worltl and of the ~tuff('rings which Jesuit Christ Pndured for it. a !<Cries of special religious meetin~s "ill be held each clay, t>X<'ept ~aturdny, in the mornings al 9:30 and in the evenings at ; :no o'rlock. l>t>trinning Sunday evening. Mareh Ill, and continuing throuJ·h Sunday, March :!2. One or two distinguished speakers from outside will probably be st-t·ured for certain uf the meetings. ll is ~amestl)' hoped tltat this week may be n time nf unique inspiration for the whole coliPge community, but real success in this entcrpri:<e depends on the wny in which each one throws himt:l'lf heart and 1111UI intn the effort. We count or YOL" DEL ·'('JRCULO GA UTIEH BEl" ITEZ" Bnjo Ia presidrncia dP.I estudiante J orge !'\. Cintron ha romenzado el Ci~ulo Gautier Gt•n[lez P.US actividades dt>l segundo semestre. Como en ocasiones anteriores, seguimos celebrando nuestras rcuniones en Ia residencin de loll espo~:os Ruiz. Las actividades para el siguiente afio son las siguientes: HomenaJe a J ose Gautie-r Reniter. ; Ia Fiesta de In Lengua r \'arias confp~ncia!l por miembros de Ia Facultad. El jueves li nos dict6 el Dr. Luis Santullano una conferenda sobre el interesante tema de "La Guerra Ciril Espaiinla." La dirN'ci6n del programn utuvo a cargo del estudiante Ismael Fernando Zapater, 'H. SOPHOMORE PICNIC Tht• Sophomore rlass has been trying to :fu,fill sucressfully the wide program of activitie.o; whirh it set out to acromplish at the beginning of the year. · Through the diligency of our president, .Mrs. Rosita Rndriguez, the wise counselling of our 11ponsor, Dr. Luis Santullnno, and the cooperation of every sophomore, the cla~s has attained many of its goals. This semester, a clast~ picnic will inaugurate the semester's activities. The president arranged to have this pa rty in on~ of her father's farms near San German. The group is highly enthusiastic about this event which wit hout. doubt, will prove most atimulating toward greater efforts and closer :fellowship among Sophomores. INFORMAL PARTY The "Cirr·ulo Dr. Harr.s"-a l'ocial organization of nonresident students, initiated ita activities for the second semester w1 th a lively informal party in the home of Professor and Mrs. Charles A. Leker. :'\pxt in the program is a picnic to La Parguera, the sea-side picnic grounds fo1· many of our student arth·tes. A formal dance w:ll follow later in the spring. To halanre these 11ocial activities, the Club agrt>cd to sponsor an as.scmbly program, at whlrh time a sp<!aker of note will be brought to nddrellt~ the !ltudent!l. FRATERNITY ACTIVE COl\11\IUNITY I~ The E\'ungel.cn: Fl'ilternil'\' was organized for thp purpose of ~niling all the , ·udr11t members of the f:,·angdical rhurchc11 in Puerto Riro in u 11inglr group. The uim11 nf this organization arc to create a spirit of wor~hip in our clllllJIUS, tl' :foster do!IC'I' conwrt among the Christian student:- in the Rehnol, nnd to heiJI other chun:hc~ in their work. A group from the J•'ralernil \" viRits 11Pnr·b\' communltir.s carr)·ing the me!l~ll" o'r the Gospt>l whenever lhcy go. Th<" Frntrmil \' m«>ets e\'!!r\ Sun day morning after brenkfast, F1 now on lhe orgnnizalion "; n meet in the hasemt'nt. of the Pining Room Building-. The ~roup consist:< o:f forty members. E~GLIS H CLUB INITI ATES At their lnst mf'eting, the English Club planned srwral 11ctivitirs for this semester. On February 25, twenty students will he informally initiated-sevent£>en of whom are !!ophomores, lhe rest upper claasmen. The formal initiation wos set for the first Wednesday in Mart·h. After the ceremony, whit"h will be held in the Science Hall Building, the Club will go to Mrs. l'almt'r'11 home to welcome the nrw members. The pled~res are: Socorro ::\lari, Ang"lica Rogers, Carmen l>iez, Rosita Hc)driguez, Afda Jon~. Ethel Sepulveda. Carmen Gloria Zengotita, Josue Cnslillo, Rafael Alvarez. Bob Mowry, Jenaro Rodriguez. A play will be pre,;l'nted around the middle of April. A commitlee wa); appointed to select the play and to organize "try·-oot practices" to select the playen. Plans :for the traditional annual banquet were also lnitated. JOIN Y. W. C. A. The Your.g Women's Chr !!lJan Association of our campus is the only organization of it!! kind in the l !!land. The aim of the organn:auon 1!1 to develop the three basic phases of a woman's life: namely, the !lpiritual, the mental and the physical. All the activities of the organization are directed toward that goal. Among these, are religious sen·ires, campfires, recreational games and social functions. The organization meets on Thursday, twtce a month, at the Basement of Horinqurn Hall. Th<l group has about forty membera and three spon!!ora. Our chapter is affiliated with the national organization of the Young Women's Christian Association. There is a great. oppor tunity fo r service in this organization and we urge all girl students to seriously consider joining. PUERTO RICO BEFORE THE GENERAL ASSElfBLY We are glad to publiRh in our columns the brief but forceful address of Revered M. A. Valentine before the General Assembly which the l'rrsbyterJan Church held last Ma\' in St Louis, M i~souri. The text foilows: Mr. Chairman, LadiPs and Gentlemen: It is an honor a!'ld prh·ilege to speak to you nt thi11 moment, on thi!l special oc:ca!<ion. 1 thank you for your courtesy and kindne.,s m extending me this privilege. As you know, l'uerto Hiro ill a little island with an area of onh· smo Rqunre miles, but a populntio~ of almo't two million P• , ·pie. This, in it· self, is a prob1em. for overpopulation makrs it nlmost impossible for u great majority to secure an adet]U&te standard of lh·inf:". This economi~ problem brings ahnut o t h c r problems sut"h a;: moral, religious nncl health malarljustment. I am 11ure that in this group you will be primarily interested in hearing nbnut the religinus nspHrt of the Jlrobl<>m in l'uPrto Hko. This i!! vr.n· im1lnrtant, because our Island is the l•nk bel\noen the two .\merica.--thc '\forth atlll the South. Don't forget Kl"'p it in mind nnd tT)' to make of l'uerto Rit•o a gr!'at bulwark for the <:ospPI. I· ,.. · 'ue that the Church has grown very rapidl>·· hut its members are poor and finant'ially unable to t•rovide :~dequate :facilities. \\'e 11re in need of largt-r buildings to accommlnte the ~rowing congre,:tslion!l. We need alSG equipment for religious educational work. The people are anxious to hear the preaching of the Gospel and there arc not enough ministers. We could have ten timeR the number of peoplE' in our sen•ires every week if we had an adequate number of place~ of worship and buildings large enough to nccomodatc nil who desire to comE'. It was not until the year 1898 lhat Pu<!rto Riro b<!gan to enjoy the advantages of thp Gospel of our Lord Jesus Chri5t and of Democrac\· a.s conceived by the Evangelical ,;orld. In those fort.y years our people have learned to love American in~tilutions and our liltle country will fight to the last ditch to retain the principles inculcated by thest> institutions. The Presbyterian Church m the United States of America should feel proud of the work it hal< done in Puerto Rico in such few years. We have the best hospital in the West Indies. We have the be.st college (the Polytechnic Institute) in the West Indies. Both are substancially supported by the Presbyterian Church. Our Institute ranks next to the University of l'uerto Riro, which is entirely supported by the GovPrnment. The best religious paper on the Island is partially supported by our Board of ~ational Missions. The Puerto Rican mini11try is very proud of our Seminary, an institution which has b.·en conducted for more than 80 years by n P resbyterian minister, and this ministry, which is conductinsr splendidly the work of the Presby-terian Chu~h in the island of Puerto Rico, is in its totality Native. ;\tan)' leaders in the public a!Ca•rs of Puerto Rico arc P resbyter ian. Hear this: The president of the University of Puerto Rico-who ts one of t he most distinguished lawyers of t he Is- land-is an elder in my church; tho! Commissioner of Education and his family, are faithful members of m\· church; the President of the Civil Service Commission of Puerto Rico is an elder, a teacher, and the organist in the Sunday School; the Speaker of the House of Representat•,·es is the son of a Pre~;byterian minister: the judge of the Night Cowl't of our Capital City i~ al!<o an elder of our Church: and one of the Commissioner elders to this General Astwmblr, who, unfortunalely, could not be here, is the Mayor of )layagiiez, lhe third largest city in the island. ~o. as you s~. the work of the l'resb\'terian Church in Puerto Rit•o has man"ifested steady progress. Dut we are jul't bt>~rinning and we are in a Yery gootl position lo assume great(.'r ttnd more important r<!Aponsibllities. We need and ask for your aid in e\"err way; but your mos;t effective help run be rnliz('(J thorough financial a~sistance. I ha\'c just mentioned the g~at work which our Presbyterian Hospital i;; doing among all classes over the islan•l. X C\'ertheJess, it rnill is true that the hPnlth conditions of our little cc>untry are \'Cry ~~eriou;;. On thi!< point, the situation is tragic. Puerto Ril'O still ha~ inadrquate merlical nttention. We need 2.:t:!7 physidan;; and we have onlr 497. There nre Hi lllUOil·ipalities whil·h have no met!icnl ~:e.rvice of any kind. For that reason we must not be ~urpri!'cd to find twire the mortality found in the United States prop~r. Our percentage o:f mortality ill grel\ter than that of the Phillipine Islands, Hawaii, Canada. Argentine, Barbados, Colombia, Costa Rica, Jama;,·:t, £1 Sah·ador. Trinidad, Uruguay, Venezuela, Sweden, Portugal, Palestine. Australia, Xew Zeland. and South Africa. After carefully considering this situation, we ha,·e reacht>d the ronrlusion that a school of me1ficine in the Universit,· of Puerto Rico must be established a~ !loon as possible. Beheve tt or not. the t:niversit\' of Puerto Rico is the only State 'university in the World whirh has both prcparatnry and po~ot·graduate schools but does not. have n school of medicine. Such shock. ng condit10ns m a country which is part of our g reat Nation, makes it deserving of the sympathy of every good ChrL~tian. We need a nd ask for your prayers, your influen<"e and your material help to bring about the standard of life which every Christian citizen must have under the GosJ)f'l of J esus Christ and under the flag of the Unitrd States. MUSIC NOTES At the request of several students, a Musk Club has recently been or~:ani%ed wilh weekly Monday afternoon meetings in the library under the sponsorship of Mr. Heth. Looking toward eventual affiliation wtth the National Federation of ~lu11ic Clubs, the members have proposed many activities similar to those of the Federation. Such plans are intended to promote the cultivation of interest in good muc:ic through such means as sponsoring concerts and recitals, conduc ting "mu11ic identification contests" emphasizmg Music Week, and encouraging serious music study. Membership in the club is open to an)·one who can g ive e\·idence of serious interest. in its acti vities. l p0LY GRApHl l' January It, 1~)38, at the post - Entered sl't!on----'..1 class Puerto matter office inasSan German, Rico, und•·r the act of August 24, l:H2. ALUMNI ISSUE •_________________________ J POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF PUERTO RICO San Genruin, P. R. VOLUME V~ ;:\'• 3 '1 ,\HCII 20, 1912 ============================ "FULLY AI>ULT,'' SAYS PRESIDE~T MORRIS CLARENCE HARRIS HALL, dedicated March 2, 19-12 In his nddrt>as of welcome on Foun•lcr':< n R y. President Morris state•l thnt people become fully adult nt the age of 30 nnd now thnt the f'olytec·hnir iR fully au y~ara old, it ran •h•dnre itl'lelf fully grown. He said "The Polytechnic is fully IJreparcd fo; its Christinn sen·f,,e to the world. Our Lonl wns 311 years old wl11m He began His public ministry. He had always been cloing good, but at 30 He begau ~otubllcly and with power to do good to shape the world. May this lK, a new dny for us, a great dnv of far re~ching ser.•ice to Puerto Rico and Lntin America. Mn\' v.·e read our destiny in the .stnrs ~t shine above the flares dropped by bombing plnnes and speak their lnngunge abo,·c the roar of ca'!non><. Mny we be w~lling to be bnptazed, tempted, misunder· ~tood. and even abused, as Jesus was, In or.lcr £hat we might acn·e to our fullest capacity!" In summing up the histon· of the in;;titution \t!ry briefly, D~. Morris ' rem.inded the large and interested nudaence that au years of ser.·icc can be broken into :lfi2,!1211 hours of · BPn·icll and li2.584,QOO students hours of life, .study, work, and phw on these beautiful 1\)lls of St. 1\lnrlhn. When • the PQiytechnic was 15 \'ears old it dropped its gmdt! 6Chool -;.nd when it was 21 it dropJ>NI lt11 high school. The INSULAH TRUSTEES 1\lEE'f life of the indi\'ldual student seems H ..morable Jamee R. BeH:r:ey. Presi· to be repeated in the history oi the •lent of the lloard of Trustees, enter· college. It will graduate t.:his year its talne•l at the Hotel Condado on Tues- 16th college class and at lthe fu II age day eveninl', l\larch 3rd, the Adminis· of 30 )'ears considers itself no'lll' full)• trativr. Committee of the Trustees matured with its 13 departments, Jts contJXJSCd of those who Jh..,. in Puerto. 2t faculty members, and a student Rico, namely, Judge Emil 11 del Toro body of 300 selected young people Cuebaa, Chief Ju~tice of the Supreme studring for the Bachelor's degree. Court: )Jr. Charle" R. Hartzell, TORRES SCHOLARSHIP of Hartzell. Kelly and Hartzell; Dr. Angel Archilla Cabrera. Director of A~' !\OUNCED the Presbyterian ~Ii~sion; and Hon. Samuel R. Quinones (Alumni Dean Irizar~· is plea!ted to announce Trustee), Speaker of the House of Re- that ~Ir. Carlos Torres of San Juan presentatives. The immediate occa,.ion has offered a loan ~holar&hip of for the meeting was the presenre of $100.00 per year for the ne~t four Dr. E. A. Odell. repre11enting the years nccortling to the following trustees in r\ew York, and the M.'tum plan. E.ach year, for the next four of President ~lorris from Xew York. yl!ars !\lr. Torres will contribute Dean triznrrr atli>nded the meeting $lOO.UO to the Rotary Loan Fund to also and reported on activities of the be lent to a worthy and necdv stud· lust few months. ent, who ~·ill r~pay the.loan as A deli~thtlul evening was spent soon aa he as eammg after graduation discussing the present program and and the n1oncr will be lent to another future plans or the institution. Action student and so on indefinitelr. In this was taken to request the Evangelical way Mr. Torres will help not one, but denominations of Puerto Rico to pro· many students for man)· years to \'ide echolarships for young people come--helping them that they mav be • or their number so that they might able to help others. The philosophy of the Polytechnic be able to develop a stronger leadership for their churches. Other matters is "to help studen~ to help themof business were dit~eussed, the most !lel\'es," as Dr. Irizarry expresses it, important of 'lll'hich "'as the plan of a so that the)' may become responsible continuing finance campaign on the citizens in a democracy. To quote our Island to secure funds for the further energetic Dean further, "We need !l'ore philanthropic friends to help us de\·elopment of tlhe institution. The trust~ea were so interested in m our program of student aelf~elp recent developmen~ and future plans and we are very grateful to Mr. Tothat the meeting lasted until 11 rres for setting the pace for other philanthropists in P. R. to follow." o'clock. l I Drawn and cut by Uomin.~eo l. Jtm;ado '41. The followi11g greetings were re· ceived on Founder's Dar from Mrt<. Harris, Dr. Harris, and Mr. Clarence Harris. These were all read in th~ course of the program. A special communication !rom Doim )lary to the graduate!! is printed among the Alumni Xew11 in St>anish. To lh~ Stu d~nl Pol) teehni( ln'llitu l~ With you "e walk the campus path;;. W.i th you we hear the morning bell; With you we plan the dail)' routine. With you exalt the Poly yell! With you we dream of deeper trend. With you we long for service wide: With )'QU we climb to rose hued heightsWith you in storm we dare to bide. With you we share the eventide, With you enjoy the 11etting sun; With you we feel the night come downWith you we leave our task undone. Love, .\~OTHER . F eb. 12, 1942, Dilley, Tuas. The above expresses exactly my own !~ling so d~pl)' and well I asked Mother to include me in the greeting to all my children and now grand· children and faculty of Poly. Cordially yours, J. Will Harris. Dear Friend,.: NMrly three year!l havP gone by <~ince 'll'C )eft )'OU. f suppose there are none of the students who know us. And yet 1 am sure that all of us think of Polytechnic as our home. We nrc a part of a great school. and I hope that we will always be proud of her. lt seems like only a fev.· months ago uilen Gen·asio. Ismael, Alvaro. Her· minio, Lorenzo, Felix, ~ito. FcliJle, Tomas. Eugenio. Ste\·e, Juan Domingo, <:eaar, Antonio, Popo, and a lot of other students built the boy'll old dormitory. 1 belie\·e that It occupies one of the be!!t spots of the campus. There is a leaning marit•ao tree on the edge of the terrace near the old building. When it was a young tree it was bent, almost to the ground. One day, Lorenzo pushed the tree up into the air and held it on his shoulder until 1 braced it with a forked pole. After a few years, the prop was re· moved but the tree continued to grow up in the air. So it is with our lives. After a few rears the Faculty leaves us to go alone. But. we continue to live on a higher plane than we had been on before. I hope that tree will be named. "Casiano Tree." Dona Mary is doing well here. She has many friends. She is teaching in the city of Dilley. She also has -450 beautiful chickens. She is working very hard. Some day we hope to visit you at San German. Sincerely, (Signed) Clar~~ Harris. PO LYGRAPH 2 Polygraph Published for the students, faculty, alumni and friends of the Polyte<.-hnic Institute. Subscription, 50 cents per yenr. Managing editor, Oacnr D. Irizarry with volunteer faculty nn•l student helpers. "PUERTO RICO EVANGELICO" PRESS, PONCE, P.R. E DITOR I AL - -W ANTED-T HE SPIRIT OF I N DUSTRY-- II The President's Column ~:======~ ll is good to b~ back on the hills of po11itivel;.• evil abou~ it. I have no Santa !\lartn. There are new face11 words str1>n1r enough to expresa my among tht> student!' who entered at humiliation. the seconcl S('ttH•ster and freshmen J anrs R Morri~. bees that I have not completely connected with names like Goclofredo Since his return Dr. Morris has Rodrfguez nnd l'nrisAtide Ramfrez de mndt• thrrt• addresses on the subject Arellano. There arc new '1\·orkers on "Puerto JUco in a World at War"-an the staff, new men on the fann- February 1" at the Union Church in e,·en new calves :md piggie:> to get San Juan, on Februan· 23 to the acquaintrcl with also. But the harde.>t I.a.tics ~ight of the I.ions Club of thing to get llt'(!Uaintcd with is this San GermAn. anti on Mol'l.'h 2 before world at wnr or which l'uerlu Rico is the l.ionR Club of Ponce. He urg('s lhe a vitnl purl. It cines something to tht> people of l'uert•l Hico to remnln loyal inside of yuu to look at the asn~mhlcd to the democratic ideal, to cling to the student boclr anti sar to yourself. Christian way d life, and to use "Doubtles 11ome of thPse handsome C\'Cry means to produce more foodboys will gh·e their lives for their stuffs on the Is:and in order to recountry and some of the:>e be:tUtiful lensc more boatn for dcJ~:nse acth·ity. ~rls will become widows of the fight for democracy-••...'' That hurts and R OTAUY LOA:\' FU .!'\D hurts. GHOW S After being away fi"e months I find ' ~!nee the last i~--ue (1 1 "'the Polymany impro\·ements in the Jl]antweed patchell turnf'd into lawns by grnph.'' graduates of ~everal years ;\lr. Palmer's industrial group, the ago have pni41 up old accounts to newly equipped nrt department office apply townrd this fund to the amount and work rooms, Wilson Cottage., of $91.00 nnd !ril•nds have sent gifta completed and occupied br our new a~ follows: The Aisquith Ohurch, Baltimore. minister and hill family, (nan1t'd for Dr. E. Graham \\'il!'on, St>cretnn· or Maryland. ns.oo. A frienu-I>etroit, our Board of Trustees and G~eral Michigan, $111.00. A Trustee. ~an Juan Se. 'etary of the Board of Xational $20.00. A friend. Alton, Ill. $100.00. ){.::;,ions of the Presbyterian Church). Lions Club of San Juan, $100.00. new livint:"·room furniture for Phrancr Total , 339.00. Counting all that graduates ha\'e Hall, fjsh gro'\\'ing rapidly in Lake pail! towartl their old notes (15 years Gil~trap. new oil·burning range inor more olu) the Rotary Loan Fund ~;talled in the cnllt'gc kitchen, ne\\' fields of banana trees nnd papayao has now rcnched the sum of $2,·173.57. (thc melon that groWR on a tree). Our goal is S6,000.00 by Septt•rnber new mu~k room equipped ...... and 1!l-12. Balntwc needed $2,526.4a. We thank both our gl!nerous friends and many more. our loyal L'Tftduatcs! 1 find a spirit too. an intangible something that is \'cry rl'al, a ,.-pirit 1 AND T HE LIGHTI:\G FU~D of deeper de,·otion to moral and In spite of blal'k-out- en•ry few spiritual \'&lues. In seven months of school on))• two students have been nights, the campus needs those lights. expelled for misconduct. A >'Jiirit of While Mrs. Morris has bren gh•ing gootl-will and eagemeRs to cooperate )e('tures on Puerto Rican Art in and near Xew York to help the fund, some can be observed everywhere. friend& have been sending gifts direct (This parngraph for students only) to ~an Gurman. On Founder'!! Oay But, for Ontl thing I praise you not somf' visiting graduates gave $9.00 toand find nl)'Relf nshamed for you ...... ward the ·fund, bringing the total rcthere are also new names scratched ceivt>d to S587.2l. Total amount neednnd rnl'\"etl on the new mahogany ed-$1,200.00. Balance to in11tnll the arm chairs in the classroom! If t;wear-lights. ~612.i9. in~ would help, J should be tempted to :.trs. ~!orris can be reached in Xew "cuss" and if tears would help, I York at 9!.1 Claremont Avenue, Telewould certainly weep. Why, oh why, phone 1\lon. 2-ilOO. Exten;.ion 321. do t'OIIege men and women re~pect She nnd the )!orris children. Janet beauty and order so little tney try to and ~hlrley, expect to remain in ~ew destroy them? Why do the future York until early June. leaders of l'ul'rto Rico seek the fame of the six )'l'ar old-leaving signs of When the intercollegiate track meet vandalism on our beautiful furniture? It is a disgusting kind of longing for at Marngiiez on )[arch 14 was rained fame. God pity us. Carelessness alone out nftt'r Nl•ven <'V('nts, Poly wn11 in Fecond place. canno~ explain it. There is something In other words, what we want is the \\-i ll to work. The g(!nius himgelf said that what other men called genius wns only two percent inspiration and ninety-eight percent perspiration. ''A little ~Jeep, a little slumber. A little folding of the hands in sleep," the wise men of old !'..'lid would bring poverty upon us like a 1:ohber. Whcrl•as a mere remnant of a cnptiYe people wrought a grent building, a city, a wall, a temple, "for the people had a mind to work." Whntcver greatness America may possess goes back to those that worked .............. . "-Courage was a part of it. -Foresight was a part of it. -Ingenuity was a part of it. But nine-tenths of the job was Work. Work. The will to work. And then more work. ·• America's success in lhe prl'~ent ~truggle of life and death will lJc won more by working than by fighting, more on the fanns and in the factories than nt the front, more in the kitchens and in the mine~ than out on thP sen. And here is where Puerto Rico can do the most. but we fear is doing the least. It could be said to thousands. ''Why stand ye idle nll the day?" Some answer. ''Why should we work when we can get relief'?" and others, "We don't feel like working......" and .still others "We belong to the Union ............ .. For the fir~t we have nothing but disgust, for the second nothing but pity, and for the last very little hope. It seems a little undemocratic, but if we can draft men to fight and die for the country, why can't we draft labor to work, earn and live for the country? The food short.'tge in this island grows dnily more critical and still there are long lines at relief stations. Why aren't these men planting and cultivating vegetables? And if we can wipe the cattle ticks out of Puerto Hico, then why not hook-worm? There is a medicine now that kills hook worms in one dose and it is not toxic. In some tests that w~.; have run recently we find approximately one-third of our college students hnve either hook-worm, trichuris or ascaris. lf thi!'. is r. true of college students then the percentage must be higher among the laboring people. One dose can cure over ninety percent of the infected without the nece:-;~ity of their mh;sing a meal or a day of work. 1 repeat, if cattle can be dipped for two yeat·s to v.ipe out the ticks, why can't one dose of medicine be ginm to ing more in Puerto mc.·m labor than the old fa:;hioned, wonderevery person in Puerto Rico to rid the island of the~c parasitic fully \'ictorious "will to. work." Shall we work or shall we starve? We ought to ''On bendcd scourges'? knees thank God for work," for it is through our labor that each And the unions ......... : no one denies labor the right to orof us can fight for liberty, truth, and democracy. ganize. but the purpose of unions seems all too often to encourage men not to work. At least it works out that way. Good workLet us turn relief lines into relief gardeners, the parasite men get organized and become poor workmen. We know it should ridden into the healthy, and the unions into organizations to teach not be thus, but it is! The virus of negative unionism is work- men how to produce better and work harder! l POLYGRA P H ALUMNI NE\\'S AND NOTES 3 WHAT DO GRADUATES OUADOR THINK? F.l I.cdo. Yamil Galib, graduat!o del 1'he following graduates were pres· la vida, nuestros hogares, nuestra es· Tnatituto Politecnico r fiscal interino ent on Founders' Day: cue Ia; y ;. que son estos sino Ia pat ria At the meeting of the Alumni Laura Irizarry de Bover. Dr. Jsmael mi"ma ~ i .l::!'e peclazo dP. tierra acari· Association on the afternoon of de Ia corte d~ distrito de !\tayagiiz, Velez, Dr. Jose Rodriguez and )frs. ciado por las tibias olas de nuestro Founder', Day, a very lively dis- diserto en los ejercidos conrnemoraRodr(gul'z, Jose Martinez, Luis Mur- mar Caribe! Luchemos nmigo~. por It• cusl!ion dl'veloped on the subject of th·os tie Ia Funclaci6n del l'olitecnico the day of Founder's Ony. The Fa- que tu,·ieron Iugar durante In mnilnphy, Laura Emmnnuelli. Selenia Pon· mas l!ngrado en Ia vida, el hogar, Ia culty had decided to celebrate it Sa· na (1\ t'l r•arnninfo del CO~I'gio. Rus ce de Lc6n, Sebastian Cabrer, Rev. escuela, r asi tldentlemos In patria. Muy cercn l'l!tnre de vo~:otro.,; en l's· turcla~'. Februar)' 2Sth. witll the palnbras fueron ffiU)' interesantes Lui!l Angel Toro, Rev. Juan Bidot, R.e\'. Diego Rico, Rev. Era!llliO Seda, te dia. Tan claramente con los ojos umlerstanding that tlle Jrraduatt'.S porque ella:: desbordaron los sentiRev. Remigio Perez, Rev. Alvuro Mo- del nlma, contemplo IM verdes coli· would be requested to decide whether mlentos mntluros y fonnndns de liD rale!', Lcdo. Yamil Galib. Jose A. Pl'·· I naS, las majestUOSilS paJrneraS, )OS ar• to celebrate the clay nn ~lurch 2ncl, estucliunte, yu en las luchns <'c Ia virez. Frank E. FoumiPr, Amanda Mar- boles copiosos de ,ombra prote<:tora. no matter what da\· of the week that da, que hn poclido cereiorarEe d" lo que day occurs or to relebrute it on the han clejado en cl cuatro :tfios d.:! estu· ti de Pi'rez, l\Iariu Guzmin, Consuelu Toda esa belleza es el Poly y nlgo mn dios en el Politc!cnico. nun; algo indecible que Oprime eJ l'O• Saturday nearest to )tnreh 2nd. ~ azario, .\tnrio ~tilfm. ~ cstor RodriEl joven oraclor :;eilal6 !'Us emocio1'11c discu~sion was so livelv indee'l, guez Escuclero. Ana Zel rna Arce, lsn· raz6n de gozo r penn a In vez. Quiero, aunque pobremente. expre· and opinions so e<!Uallr clhrl;led, that nel:l 111He un din como el que ce!ebrnbel Joaquina ~aznrio, Leonor Nazario, Angel !\1 . ::'llattos. \'fetor Irizarry, sar mi gratitud por el alto honor con· the group decided to submit the mat· bamos, emndones acopladns en un Raul Lara. Efi~enia Agruit, Osnldo ferido a mi e!'J)oso al dedicar un edi(i- ter to the wh(lle Alumni gl'OUII senticlo de tranquilidad, de p~enitud cio a su nombrr. Como bien todos le through the pagcoR of the l'olyf.fl'uph. dr obra y librcll clel retintin del clesMartinez, Rosario Rih·a. Whnt do you think? ~encl us a contl'llto natural en un ••studlante en All were welcoml' and enjoyc.-d the conat·rn. el es en e:'<.tremo scndllo y day- but where are the otller 99!1 humilde. f:,;toy segura que mu}' poco \'Ote immecliately on a penny post formnci6n. Su deuda con el Politecni· grat.lunte11 '! Hold l\lny 1fi for Alumni les habra es<'rito acerca cle su !lentir card! Shall we celebrate Founcler's co sc encuentrn ,;ujetll a d o.-. cxtrc· Day! Write it in red on your calendar en cuanto at honor que ~c le ha('t•. Day always on Murch :.!nd e\·en if it mos: unu el de 1:\ justicla y toleran· and be !lure to come back on thnt day. Permitidme aseguraos que !'e siente I falls in the middle of the Wl'ek. or ci:t (iltruda en 11u esplrltu; otro, In shall we celcbrnte the Snturclny mitxirua virtud de Ia ju;;ticia. !-ie le The chtss of l!l:li will celebrate its muy orgulloso. Cunndo recibio Ia carta de l.aurn. nenrest to :\larch 2nd? Send us b ocurre <JUl.! para muc:ho Ia to!ernncin 15th nnniver!lary on llay 16, the class emptYr.o a anorar aquellos dias penli· post card and \\rite us a comment nnda significa en Ia hora de guerra of 19:12 its lOth anniver,.;ary, and the que \'ivirnos, peru es d rnumrnto en class of l!l!J7 its 6th. The adminis· dos Pn el rrcuerdu. "Ese t>dificio," nw that we can quote in the next issue or que se siente miia Ia tlet'esidnd de In decia, "repre!'enta una grnn cosa. Aun the Polygraph. tration offers prizes to the class which While you arc sending us the post toleorancia para dar:e un sent:Jo moIs present in ( 1 l the greatest percen· veo aquello!' muchncho!', J>opo, Loral ul . ervicio nccesitullo por Ia pa· renzo, FcliJC, Herminio Don l'epe, y cnrtl. plea~e indit•ate any change in tnge and (:l) the largest number o( tria )' por cl mundo en general. AI gn· otros, forcejeando y Juchnndo COil )os ~·our at.ltlre!'!;: nnd tlle names and individuals. nnr Ia guerra, hay unn ohm grande pesados bloques. Hloque sobre bloque, Dr. Jose M. Rodriguez, )Jario :\lihi.n segiin levantaban cl edificio. constru· addres:tcs of any other grnduatf!ll ~n Ins mnnos de Ia juventutf: cstrucwhom you know to have C'hanged their and Amanda Marti de Perez are a ian sus propias ,·idas. Lcs anlmaba un nddres-es. The Polygraph has a hard turar Ia obra del nue\'o orden. Alli, committee for tlle class of 1927 which noble prop6sito-com;eguir su educa· time keeping its ncldresses up to date. I'll csn ebra, coluca Ia misi6n del lnshad 2:1 members. Frank F.. Fournier is ci6n. snlir de Ia ignorancin y el nu•· t!t~lto, pues ''?lnntin, lnl••rnncia y jus· Plea~e help us. chairman of the t•ommiltl'e of tht• dioambiente que les oprimill. Hoy me t1c1a se neces1tar6n pam lntegrar ele1 mentos suclto.s )' dispersos. class of '32 which had 39 members. and I satisfnce pensar que esas vidas son FV~DER'S DAY 0~ Nestor Rodriguez Escudero nn•l Se· Utiles Y ejercen innuencia COn!ltructi· 1. lle d6nde 1111ce e,<;:t fucnte cfc tolenin Ponce de Leon form the com- va en Ia socieda.t. 1Cuanto me nlegro MAUCH 2. lerancia r de justicia en In educnci6n mittee of the clnss of '3'i which had que el viejo edifirio no fuera derriha· I object to the cel~brntion nf de nuestro t·olegio '! :\'~«:c, nos rlke cl 20 memben. do! Es grato pensnr que aun presta Found,.r'!' on anv da \' other than jovl'n Yamil, •lei fundnmento rcliglo· servicio." )larch ~ purely !o~ sentimental so. <lc Ia orientaci6n ddinida bacia Felicitncioncl1 de los gradu~dos: E,..tos son los sentimientos cic Oln- rea!'ous. [( the founders themselves una cspiritualidnd. cosn nl'ceS3ria en "Tr:~bajo impreviRlo hoy llunco im· renc~> l.'n ('ttnnto n Ia ocusi6n que cr· did not dtange it. why shuuld we, tail'· Puerto Hit•cr, put's no huy C»cucln en posibilltanos ir aniversar o. Saludos lebran ustecies hoy. comers change it? As one of the old· IM islu donde se uunen rcligi6n }' tole· Facultnd ~ estu•liantes. E.xJto. ;Culmto de..'<eamus estar entre uste· est student:: anfl most distinguishc"l rancia. 1-':s obra. por ]o tanto, unicn en des! Admirur el a\'ance Jet Instiruto. almni has put it: '':\obody celebrates estns nuln~. y si fuese una cos<1 loHufnt>l (:nrdu Figut>roa, escuc·har Ins charlus amenns, hahlar de his birthday a day after or before." l gratia en otras instituciones, dejnrla,\ngt'lica n oble..." 1 mos cle lcner una misi6n. Entru el jo"Lnmt>nto no estar ho,· en el Poli- triunfos }' hasta clc penas <1Ue cuando For those who trulv ln\e their AI· ven cc•n unn ideolugia dcCini.w en po· son compnrtidas cesan de ser tan pe· rna :'!later any week dny I;: ju1't nl! tecnico como en aiios anteriores en lu ~ood a~ S1turln)' or Sunday for ' Utica )' en religion y aunquc co.ltrncelebracion del anivcrsario de su fun- sad:u. rm n In sustentndn por el colt.o;to, sa· i Que este din sen feliz paru todo;;! Homl.'coming. dnci6n. Para el lnstiluto mis mejoli6 cun eso11 idrules refinad11A y perI<:xito siempre para el Institute PoliVMez. lsmarl res deseos. Hoy me uno nl cucrpo de fecclonudos nl cnlnr de Ia tolernncin estu1linntes y compaiieros del Alumni teenico y su Facultad que tan habit· El esfuerzo y In energfn espiritunl r de Ia justicia rccibidns del ambienpara descnrle a csa nuestra eseuela mente le ·diril::'l'. ::;atudos cnrii'ioso;; pa· de cacln uno dA los grnduados es lo t!' clel profesuratlo y del est11diantado. aiios de continuo progruo y desarro- ra el e!lludinntndo, Ia A11ociacl6n de que eren Ia si~mificacion del dos de .'\.nalizo cl estadu <le las democracias y Grndundos, )' para mi queritln cla:-e en llo. de Ins podere.s nh,..olutus, exhortamlo particular. ::\landeme aunque sea. esc marzo. Si para las \ elehruciones dl'l (.'armelina Capo." aroma espL•c:ial del nuestro lech6n a;;a- dia de Ia fundad6n es factible reunir, a los 11ircctores del lnstltuto l'olitcc· Recibimos tambi~n una tarjetn mur do, a trnv~s de las brisas borinqueiias. en Iugar de cinco, veintiseb gradua· nico a afianzar csos principios de \'ados, no hay satisfacci6n mlui finn qut> lentin (ntegra, y de justicin y tole~ bonita y sujesti\'a de un grupo de exHasta Ia vista. adelnntnr In fet·hn, ya qup e::r un din estudinnte!l y grndundos que actualrnncin, y sobre lndo d~ fl•ligi6n. Cariiiosarnente, ferinclo exclusinu11ente ll:lra nosotr11s, mente cstudian en Ia Unlver~idad de .1::1 joven orador recibi6 aplausos )la r y Harri,, los que pertenecemos at lnstituto. E~ mU)' merecidos, y tanto los grnduadcs Puerto Rico que dice: materia sentimental que sln graclua- como &Ull antiguos 11rofe~ores nos Anniver11ary Congratulations RECOUDANDO do!! no hay 2 de mnrzo. y de los qut> sentlmo.s agradecidos a Ynmil }' orguAnolht>r Annlversar\'! nos visitnron el dia 28 de ft>hrero. so- llosus de haberlt• nyudndo n ufirmar A prop6,.ito dl'l Ani\ c.-r..ario. Another wish si~cere lo lreR tienen pusicionu indcpc•n· For happy hours, ;. Sabras tu. estucliante del presente, ' dientes. l'or lo tanto, nada dl'be tur- I sus p:tSo!l futuros. not just tQday. o recuerdas ui, cstudiante del pa:;a· bar nuev ro:; espiritus si gam,., • ~ r•· But through another ::t·ear!" do ............. . asistenda at alterur Ia rt•1·ha oportu Que en un liempo :\1r. Leker era namentP. Y solo vuestrn pre,t·n· .' ..\hlgail Ortiz, ':15. the first child of )largarita Rhera. Olga Irizarr), Ana ) f aria Ramirez, decano del colegio, decano de ,·aron~s pueue crear Ia scnsacion intcnsa ante a Pulytcchnic 11tudent to ~duatc J ulie Micht>li, &ther Garcia. interino, principal de Ia escuela su· el estudiantado de lo que fuc r es nr. from the College. and incidentally the perior. director interino del coro, ins· Harrill. daughter of the very first student en· Amt'rica llt>r nandez. tructor atiiWco, r maestro de psico· rollc•l in the Polytechnic on )larch 2, Laura c:. BoH•r. It ,\ . '27. logia y eduraci6n 1 1912, don Leopolda Ortiz, marri~d )1{1Felicitaci<mes do dona Man· Harris Que l\lr. \'elez era en un tiempo ximo Lucena on October 2~1. 1939 and al lnstituto Polite<-nlco y a I~ Asocia· mae.!\tro de biologia, principal, instrurbian y bajaban por un lado y los j6· becam~: the mother of ~h1ximo Leocion de Graduados. lor allHico, registrar, y t•onsl'jt•ro de venes por otro '! polda (numPtl for- Cather und gran•l· Amigos mfo~: los Seniors. todo de Ia escuela supeQue en el comcdor separahan de father) on last August 25. Abigail has En este dia tan significnth·o para rior" mesa n do!' tan pronto como &e gus· been working as a teacher in Yauco nueslra Alma Mater, de:;eo estnr cerQue el !ado norte del pon:h de taban 1 until this year, but is now at Coamo ca de ella y de vosntros. Nuestro:> es- Science HaH era exclusivnmente para Que Ia calle San Juan era "girls where her husband is a Rurnl f:lenlth piritua se sienten agitados e incierto!l las senoritas y el !ado !!Ur para lOll campus" y los \'Drones I!Olo, pasnban lnspc<'lor with the Sanitnry Depart· en esto::o tiempos turbulentoa de caos varones? por alii cuando habra llovido? men!. universal. Sentimos paz y consuelo Que Ins escalerns no se comunica· Que Don l'opo ern el orndor indisl'oly is proud to ba,·e n grandchild cuando nos acercamos a lo basico de ban por el medio y las senoritas supensable de todos los anivt!rsarios! in the family. I I P OLYG RA PH 4 PRESIDE NT OF TRUSTEES SEN DS GREETINGS INAUGURACION DE ''HARRIS HALL" THE SCIENCE CLUB DE LA VIDA DEL CAMPUS Es una tarde del Poltt&·nieo. En la pequefia sala de la biblioteca hay. un Uno de los aetas que tuvo mayor silencio extraiio. Grupos de estudaanlucidez durante la reciente celebraci6n tes trabajan con ahinco y empeiio. del "Dia de los Fundadores" fue Ia DetrAs del mostrador la bibliotecaria dedicatoria del nue,·o dormitorio pa- obser\'a mientras atiende a sus clien!tte:-<;:l~tt> for Founder'11 Day, 19-'2. ra varones al Sr. Clarence Harris. uno tes que llegan, ya a solicitar una node los fundadore:; y ex-,;cepresidente vela para distraerse du t1::tte el "week ~ On this thirtieth anni~·ersar~· of del lnlltituto Politecnico. :, t.be !oun.iing of l'olytechntc lnstatute end" o en buscn de alguna informaE!tte edificio fue el primer dormi- ci6n. Por Ia ventana que da a la of Puerto Rico, we may. we.II . be torio de varones, construido por los huerta cercnna entra una bri~n fresproud of the fact t.hiH the mstttutto~ estudiantes bajo Ia direcci6n de "Mr. ca que invita al sueiio mas que al eshas justified the hopes and dream." Clarence" ,. ultimamente reconstruirlo tudio. of its founder;< and thP fai~h. and toal bajo los a~spic ios de Ia Administruthey puL into it. It hns justafaed those Antes de decJclirme a ~uh:r las emd6n Xadonal rle Juventud (N.Y.A._) pinadas escaleras CJUC contlul·en a Ia things through sen·i<·c· to l'ucrt~ R_lEl Dr. Angel Archilla Cabrera, arru- biblioteca he sentido el llamado de Ia co and to the youUl of Puerto l~a~o Ill go pt'rsonal y ndmirador de "Mr. cama que desde Phraner llc~a envue_lboth the f'ducationnl ann .the sp~rtt~al Clarence". disert6 brillantemente sa- to en tentacione!'l de vngancaa. AI fm influen.:e it has hnd mad 111 contmumg bre la personnlidad, humildad, lateran- pospongo Ins d<'liriaR de una si~stll to have in our community. The greatcia y demus virtudes que adorna!' para acaririar los lihros o las p{tgmas est hope of Puerto Hico is in the ho~:s nl hmnennjeado. Record6 el Dr. Arclu- de algunn revil>tn. and g'rls who nre gc>ing out of lht!! lla su celo por Ins intert>ses de Ia esinstitution year nfler Y<'ar. . l\1 i mira tin se dt•nama t:ohre loN macuela, su cariilo paternal hacia los es- gazine!l. Busco algo dt> t"tltimn hora Our na ticm is ensrnge•l today an a lucliantes y Ia tlevoci6n hacia su holife an•l death struggle with the most que a Ia vcz ~en intP-resnntL•. A~n n~ gnr. Es un curaz6n todo lealtafl r powerful and brutal forces the world ha llegado La ~111 \'ll Democmc1a, 111 amor, todo snntidad y sencillez. Men- el Renertorio Amc·r~~nnn, ni Ia R<!\'ishas even :-ecn, prcci~ely to save t.he dono \'arias an{'Cdotas de ":\lr. Clakind of life that we stnnd _for _hen.~ ta Tberoamr.ricana-mis predilectas. renCl'" que a,·iyaron el recuerdo t!~} Alla Mhre una mP.s:-a han nhandonarlo freedom of the indlvirlual m hts relt.JU:\IOR CLASS amigo, que como todos saben. deJ.o el uniro cjemplar ce l'ucrtn Rico gion, in his S[IN~ch, in his work nuestro colegio en el 193~ para ret1- Ilustrado. Miro Ia portnda, leo el ed1· and in his thoughts : the kn~wledge The Junior Clns;; began its 11rogrnm that government is the c.rcattmt .anti of !'econd semester nctivitic:. by rarse a .,;u rancho en Tejas. Junto a torinl........ he suspendido ln lecturn, servant of the citizen, not the ~llt~cn sponsoring at the l'arCJue '!hf'ntre. on !m esposn e hijos. I habin que ~uspenderln. Una chien cle La audiencia aplaudi6 sinreramente ojo!' alti\'oS que se p:errlen en Ia lethe slaYe of t.he government. \\ e and Februarv lRth. the ghowm~ of the ' al Dr. Archilla por su amena charla. the thousands o( schools like ours, amu:;mg. movie "ln the .:-\a\y," picture jania, h3: llegaclo n n~e~tro lado: ~le frorn Puerto Uico ncrnss the brea•lth in which Dick Powell. Lou Costello. es conocrda. En ocaswne:< untenores of the continent and to Hnw~lii, ha,·e Hud Abbott. anrl the Ancirew gisters, DE LA PRATERNIDAD DE hemo!! enhebrado finn tertulin. Ya me ESTUDI A~TES EY . . ~~GE done our part as best we knew how ponl their hurnor and actinA' t~lent nt es grato su dr.cir stta\·c ac:ompaiiado for the pnst. The spirit arul fait~ we their best. The profit~ from thr~ t>how LICOS de gestos expre,.ivos. En sus palabrns have tried to inculcate will he e\·rdr-nt went to the iunrl for the water cooler l.a Fratemidad continti~ su lat5or demuestra honda pT<'ocupac:i6n por in t.hc present conflkt. With God's which hns been installer! in the Science dentro v fuera tiel Campus. Xos reu- las "cosa~ mas puras, mas nob:es. miis help we cannot fuil. nimos t'o•lus los domingos por Ia ma- finas·· como rcpetia ~larrero XavaHall. Dut we must look forwurcl to the The dass also initialed ancl organ- nnna para Ia celebraci6n de un ser- rro. No, no t'e put•cle continuur In Teegreat problems that !Jf':t<'C ''•!II hring ized a parade which met Dr. 1\~orris vicio dl! adon\ci6n. Ademiis seguimos turn. Ella nos ha mostrnclo uno;< pento a wnr-weary world. We wall all ~r upon his arrival from the Contment. visitnndo las iglesias cercanas par_a samientos de Constnncio Vigil-nutor us suffer from the rel'lult8 of t.h~s As frienrls know, Dr. Morris was gone colaborar con elias en Ia obra reh- de El Erial-que sintetizan su filosowar b•Jt we muRt bewnre of the l'Jllrrl for the first half of Lhe year on giosa. 1<:1 domingo 1 de Iebrero ·dsi- fia de 'l.'ida. Ya t<'nrmos un pretexto of hopelessness, rynicism an~ disil- business for the colleA'e and to h~>lp tamos In Primern Iglesia Presbiteria- para volver sobre algunos temns que lusionment that ton often 1nvadell l\1 rs. Morris and the t•hllclren get na de Aguadilla. El dla 15 visitam~s antes quedaron trun('os. J<;n udclante ~oples after great wars. WI' will bn ~ettled in 1'\ew York for a year's va- Ia Iglesia Presbiteriana de Cabo RoJo. Ia charla ha sido amena (siempre '\'icalled on to hc>ld fa11t to the faith cation. En nuestra secretaria tenemos invita- gilando a Miss Mosholder). Lu tardl! that is in us-faith in U'e BrotherThe time when the Juniors must ci6n de Ia Primera Iglesia Evangelic.a se ha ido con Ia rapidez de un pensahood of :\Inn and the Fatherhood of formally bid farewell to the parting Unida para estar con ellos en fecha! miento. A Ia hora de despedimos haGod: we will be called on to work Senior ~lass is drawing near; th~r<' cercana. cemos recuento. JY que co~a! Sin dar!or thost> things. nos cuenta, !rente a una ventana que fore, plans for the annual Junror· Founder's Day is a day of me_mo- Senior banquet have been started. ~t mira a In campifia, nos hemos reafirSOCIAL PROBLEMS OF ries. 1t is also a day of resolu~rons is our hope that from now on thrs mado en creencias ya casi relegadas: PUERTO RICO for the future. May we re-dedrcate farewell banq_u~t will become an e~ un soplo de optimismo inund6 nuesThe class in Social Problems of last tras almas mientras hurgabamos Ia ourselve!' this day to the tasks before tablished tradillon. semester has presented to the library conciencia de nuestro tiempo y busus, whether great or llmall. a neatly bound copy of theses wTitten cabamos los tesoros escondidos del coJa mt>-. n. lleverle). OF THE by me~1bers of the class. The !nfor- raz6n huntano. Desde el amor, (tema San Juan, I'. R., Feb. 28, 1!!42. mation contained in the theses 1s the ineludible entre estudiantes) Ia ami!<COLLEGE BOOKWORM result of clippings from the Puerto tad, Ia politica, y Ia religion, y tantas BOOKS AND BOOKS The Polytechnic library is doing its Rican prel's for the year 1941. The casas de las cuales sabemos muy poDo your book .:;helves contain book~t be,;t to keep up with the rapid trend object was to give a picture of the co hasta la broma sutil que va enwhich have outlived their usefulne~s of world events. Many of the new problems that were con~idere_d _of vu'elta en delicadezas espirituales. for you and which now. are merely books deal with developments in the sufficient interest to mer1t edttonal contribuyeron a hacer una tarde fecollecting dust? There 111 an opp~r international scene. John Gunther, a and feature article comment and dis- liz, a espaldas de ese tirano que e~ el tunity for them to. still h~ve a. Wtde reporter with a well established re- cussion. Besides the theses there is a reloj y de esa enemign que. es Ia prtsa. use. The Polytechntc l nRtatute 111 !11- putation, has recently publis?ed his dedication by the instructor of the Me dirijo a Phraner medttando. penways glad to receive u~e.d books ';htch lutest book, Inside Latin A mertca. The class,~ Or. Nathan H. Huffman, a pro- sando en nuestras limitaciones. Nos a re still in good condttton. The~ can library has received this one, as well logue by Alfredo Arehilla and a domina el tiempo, el espacio y Ia be sent by "book pol'Cl" for a cent and as his others, Inside Europe and In- photograJ>h of the class taken by misma gente. Y nosotros tan d6ciles. a half n pound (t.hree cents for ~he side Asia. Each is a vivid and readable Professor Chas. A. Leker. The bind- Por eso no me arrepiento de haberle a verage !li~P. book). Any good frciton interpretation of the people. and ing was done by Jose Eligio VcHez, a robado Ia tarde al estudio, ni de hnber and non-fiction is acceptable. Follow- politics which shape the destanaes of member of the class. hablado en In biblioteca, ni de haber ing is a list of suggestions: the world. As background reading for This is a very novel and interesting escrito estas Uneas tan tontas. Pero al developments in the Far East, the way to preserve for future classes the fin tan humanas. Van I'assen. DayH of Our Years. library offers: J a pan tlnma~ ked by fine work done by this class. Fisher. Men a nd Politi<'!'!. Ahara, una advertencia: usted pueHallett Abend and Orphans of the PaGlasgow. In ThiR Our Life. de hacer lo mismo pero no se acoscific (the Philippine lslands) by FloWain. Reaching for t he gta rs. tumbre. Pues un dfa puede recibir. el and scientific exploration will enjoy siguiente mensaje: "We gladly mnte rence Hom. Sheenn. ~ot Peace but a Sword. Recently acquired biographies are Caribbea n treasure and Living trea- you not to return." Hemingway. Farewell to Ar mR. X. Y. Z. He rnan Cortes and Christo pher Co- s ure by Ivan Sanderson, who has- both Gag. Growing Pain!!. lumbus. Both are the work of the written and illustrated these books Herring. Good Neighbors .• As the Polygra ph goe' to press, the eminent Spanish man of lett~rs, ~1- about his expeditions in the Caribbean Goetz. ~ei ghbors to the South. Alegria. Broad a nd Alien Is the vador de Madariaga, who wntes wtth area. A reprint edition of Audubon's annual Week of Spiritual Emphasi~ is equal skill in both Spanish and excellent paintings of Birds of Ame- being observed with full co-operat1on World. rica ought to stimulate an interest and great interest on the part of both Me rejowski. Romance of Leonardo English. students a nd faculty. Those who are interested in zoology in the birds on the campus. Da Vinci. We were delight<'il to receive from our beloved president, ~I.r. Beverley, the following greeting whtch wls read to the As~embly on Founder's Day. On January 19th, the Scienre Club elected new officers for the present semester. Miss ~Iaria Leonor Quintana was re-elected President. Other officers are: 1\lr. Andres Acosta, Vice-President; Mrs. Pura P. L<>ker, secretary: :\!iss Carmen Tuya, Tr:asurer; and 1\Ir. Rafael de Guzman. )Jr. Miguel Angel Lopez, Mr. Juan Acevedo, ex-officio board members. At the last meeting, on February 2nd Mr. Bo:vd B. Palmer gave an in' ter~sting talk on the work th~ Sdence Clubs all over the Americas nre doing in coopernlion with the Nation":) DPfcn!'e Program, and gave us l!lfortnation about new prohlenu; sctenre has :-olved and is trying to soh~ to aid the civilian population of naltomr at war. After his lecture, the group appointed a committee to draw-up plans for one or more proje('ts to be developed by the Cluh. New mem.bers who desire to belong to lhe Club will soon be presented and , initiated. l I I I OBSERVAT~O~S January 14,second 1938, class at thematter post Entered as office in San GermAn, Puerto Rico, under ~~ ~~~ of August 2 9 l p0LY GRApHl' MID.SPRING 1 ·-ISSU;;._______,~E POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF PUERTO RICO San German, P.R. " .. tp APRIL 20, 19-l2. VOLU~IE ~ ==================================~========================================= " ....... en plena y esplendida naluraleza." IMPORT.\!\T EDl C \TJO'.; AL CO~FERE'\CE ~l )DfER ~CHOOL:-> \ '.; '.;01 "\'CED To ans~ er the call of the nation for more College trained men and womt>n the Polytt>ehnic i.l> offering two summer l"l.'"sion-;. l. E'-peciall) for school teacherb, Ci'e ~eel-s. June 1 to July 4. 2. F~peciall:y for reg11lar -,tudt>nb. si'\. ~eel-:-., July 6 to August U. High :..chool graduate., of 1942 may enter at either bession and graduate in three calendar ~ear.... Pol.) technic entrance requirement« are 16 units of High School " orl. with a grad~ ind~:\: or 2.2:>. counting 2 for C and 3 for B. Write for sum m ~r bulletin ,.ith full information. On Saturday, April 11 , o''er twenty of the lending bu'!ine>~il and professional men of Puerto Rico gathered for a "pn'ladia" nnd a conft>r<'nCI.' on thl.' theme "Education for Thill Hour." The group was enthu~;ia ... tic over the program of character education at the Pol)"technic, and urged still further de,·elopment of the indu ... trial program. 11 famred the democratic ideal!> and pradice<~ of the college and suggested strengthening the program in ,·ariollS fields of education. lt is our !"incere hope that these men will continue to give us suggestions. and that they will interest other<~ in our program. "El ambiente invita aJ es tudio y al reposo veraniego.'' PHRANER IMPROVEMENTS MUSIC NOTES RELIGIOUS WEEK SUMMER COURSES "It's just like home now," said one of the boys, as he looked over the improvements in the dormitory. "When I first came into this building, it seemed so cold and cheerless: but now it is different." A little paint makes a big difference. The entrance and reception room were first painted. That called tor work on the first flight of the stair~ and side walls. There was no good place to stop and the hallways and east and west entrances were gone over. It did not seem fair to give the roomers on the first floor a clean hallway and leave those above without attention. So the work proceeded up to the third floor. Four mahogany chairs with carved leather seats and backs give a touch of elegance to the reception room. The leather carving was designed by Miss Carmen Archilla. Students in the craft department executed the design. The chairs were made in the carpenter shop under the supervision of "Don Popo." Mahogany benches supply additional seating. Two fluorescent tights were installed. The tiled floor was dyed and waxed. The feature that attracts major attention and calls forth exclamations of admiration is a decorative pannel, stencil technique, with tempra paints; subject matter-tropical plants around Casa Maria. This pannel was designed ad executed by Catalina Hernandez, :Mstagritos Sierra, Zaida Ramirez and (Continued on page 4. Col. 4.) 1\lusic Week is a national event celebrated during the first week of l\lny throughout the United States. Howe,·er, the festh·al at the Polytechnic lnstutite will begin this year on Saturday, ~fay 2. in order to coordinale with the an'lnnl May Day Festival of Music and Drama. The Program for the week is to in · cludP. a \'llr'ety of events begi nnin~~: w th a concen by the \\lasa Coral. On Sunday. May 3. will be presentee! the F irs t Annual Festi\'al of Sacred l\Iu~'c at the Presbyterian Church of San Gem1iin. ParticipanlS will include choirs and invited guests Crom surrounding towns as well as the Polytechnic Motet Choir and the choir of the host church. The following afternoon a group of music students will give a recital in the Borinquen Hall Salon. The event for Tuesday will be a music identification contest for all students who wish to participate and a prize will be awarded to the winner. Mr. and Mrs. Heth are planning to give a recital on Wednesday evening May 6. And on Thursday, the regular as&embly hour will feature the choir and soloists of the San German High School developed by Mr. Heth. The final event of the week wilt be an inter-dormitory sing on Friday night at the close of the social hour. The Music Club is assisting the Music Depanment in the organization and administration of these events, and the students are showing marke;l enthusiasm in preparing for the.oe events. Special religious services were held daily (except Saturday) during the w~ek of March 15 to 22. A number of stirring addresses brought inspiration to all, and the week was brought to a fine climax by a candle-lighting llervice held on Saturday evening. l\tan:h 22. Dr. Morris spoke on the subject of "Light" and called for new consecration in the Christian Life. Students then marched out each one lighting his candle from light pro,·ided by the pa!ltors and elders. All proceeded to the roof of the Science Building where the sen·ice was brought to an appropiate conclusion with the singing of the hymn, "Follow Thl' Gleam." At the other meetings during the week the school had the pri\·ilege of hearing addresses by Dr. T. G. Mowry of Aguadilla, Mr. C. J. Hansen of the U. S. 0 .• Aguadilla, the Rev. C. F. Boynton, re<."tor of St. Andrews', MayagUez, Dr. Jose Rodriguez Quinones of Arecibo, Dr. Angel Archilla Cabrera of l\layagi.iez, Dr. Huffman, some members of the Faculty and some students. A beautiful sunrise sen•ice was held at Casn Marin under the auspices of the Fratemidad Evangelica on Sunday morning, March 22. At 4 on that Sunday afternoon the Holy Communion was celebrated and one student was baptized and received into the membership of the Polytechnic Institute Church. As a result of the sen-ices a class of nearly thirty students was organized to study the meaning of the Christian Life. The necessity of accelarating the college program so that students may complete their training before they :1re called to military service, has imposed upon us the added responsibility of reorganizing the four year plan. Public school teachers are also faced with the requirement of summer school attendance. In order to Ratisfy these new demands. we are glad to announce that between June 1 and Jut~· 4th. the Polytechnic shall offer a five weeks summer session especially for teachers, and between July 6 and August 15 a six weeks session for regular students. At either session, students completing their high school training in May can enroll as first semester freshmen, instead of waiting until September to enter rollege. Expenses will range between $52.00 for teachers (5 weeks} and $66.00 for regular students (6 weeks} including tuition, general fees, and room and board for the entire term. This amount rioes not include books. The Department of Education witt accredit all courses offered on the same basis as those taken at the University of Puerto Rico or colleges on the Continent. The following are the offerings listed: Methods of High School Teaching; Secondary School Administration; Histor)' of Education; Interior Decoration; Leathercrafts; Integrated Science; General Botany, Literatura Espanola, Romanticismo. Fitologia EsContinued on pag~ 3, Col. 3.) l I POLYGRAPH 2 Polygraph Published for the students, faculty, alumni nnd friends of the Polytechnic Institute. Subscription, 50 cents per year. The President's Column Managing editor, Oscar B. Irizarry with volunteer faculty an•l student helpers. LESS RAI N, LESS GRASS. San German is sufferinf( the largest half, three fourths-Sure, ~he will eat and harde!\t drouth the older residents it!" have seen. :\lany sugar planters have ~ot one cow in our dairy ever "PUERTO RICO EVANGELICO'' PRESS, PO:!\CE. P. R. suffered heavy losses from cane fires tasted, smelled, or heard of pickled and from dried up cane. Cattle are glass before, but all are being edugrov.~ing thin for lack of grass. cated. Yes, it is working. As this is In NoYember 1940 we decided to ' written the mixture is hal! and half, build a large trench silo and fill it for the milk production has held almost an emergency. Now that the emer- to normal and the four beautiful TO HIGH SCHOOL SE NIORS AND COLLEGE FRESHl\lE!\ ' gency has arrived the silo is opened calves born last week are enNow that there is a shortage of 50,000 nurses and 10,000 and lo, the word comes from the "va- couraging their mothers to increas the queria" that the cows are temper- production of the whole dairy by at. doctors in the nation in addition to an almost equal shortage of amental. They don't like the pickled least 25"(. engineers, ministers, laboratory technicians, phy"icists, chemists, grass of the good year 1940. Now, if So goes college life. We had to electricians, and teachers-the U. S. Office of Education has re- the studl·nts won't eat carrots, YOU can educate the oxen to the electric fence reason with them, "~ee here, 'carrots -but we do not have to educate the quested the colleges to accelerate their programs so that students are strongest in vitamin A: their pigs to eat mangoes! From the way can graduate from college in less than four years. The Poly- mineral content exceeds that of they go for them, they must have technic has answered this ca11 by offering this summer two summer squasll, potatoes, and iiame. Many been born with mangoes under their people like carrots, becau1:1e they learn- tongues. In a week or two there will sessions (June 1 to July 4 and July 6 to August 15) so that students ed to eat them. Did you like your first be a big crop of mangoes for the may do four years work, by this plan, in three years or less. If the olive! Of course not. but you are very 110 Poly-pigs. We are trying also to educate the two-summer-session plan is successful this summer, it will become fond of olives now. You are missing somethmg by not eating carrots.......... boys of San German to the proper use a regular part of the Polytechnic program. Now take some of your plate...... eat of Lake Gilstrap. Afternoon after There a1·e several strong reasons why high school seniors a few bites. The next time they are afternoon we pass by the "ole and college f1·eshmen should make the sacrifice to finish college as served, eat a little more than this swimmin' hole" and repeat, "never time. Before \'OU know it vou will swim unless there is an older bo~· who early as possible. The first reason is a patriotic and altruistic one. ha\·e adde·i one more pleasure to your ran rescue you ...... the water is ~·enty Their nation needs them! Their nation needs hundreds of thousands eating...... that's right, carrots''! feet deep. Do not try to kill the fish, But ~·ou can't reason with a cow... .. they eat the mosquito larvae. Get more college men and women to take places of responsibility and "1 tell you they won't ent the sour proper bathing suits, keep language leadership, not only in the armed forces, but in all the other lines grass! You can't even reason with clean, don't swin with any skin of defense, auxiliaries, food production, civilian defense, mo1·ale, etc. Reina that give twenty quarts a da~· eruption, etc., et<:.'' On the surface it It would be selfish of high school seniors and college freshmen to or C:trmen that is such a pet. They looks as if educating cows and oxen just don't like it.'' would be much more difficult than say, "Well, I'm going to take it easy and have a good time in college. "Ah. bu· ~enor, we can educate the educating little boys, but even though I didn't start the war...... " This is no time for a good easy time; this cow! Why, out in Idaho chickens rows can't talk, they respond more is the time for sacrifice! If many can give theiT lives for us, we can won't eat corn at first-they have generously sometimes than the boys. been raised on wheat and will just I wonder why. give our strength and energy to our nation in this crisis! look at kernels of yellow corn and It could not be (could it?) that this But there is another reason fo1· finishing college as ~oon as walk away...... that's right! ~ow, we is like the tramp with the trained dog possible that is fairly selfish-just good common ~ense. !:\o one must mix a !<mall quantity of ~ilage s:•ving advice to the kennel fancier in with the fresh chopped grass and who was having difficulty teaching knows just how long the war will last, but most authorities prophe~y let the cow eat her fir~t olive (so to tricks to his blooded Spitz, "you see, a war of three years or more. If the war last only a year, the be- speak) by accident. We can increa~e to teach a dog tricks, you've got t.o ginning student who has studied for the whole twelve months has the mixture...... a fourth, n third. u know more than the dog does.'' EDITORIAL l I lost nothing; if he wishes he can shift to a slower pace and gradE~JOYS POLYGRAPH uate from coUege in 21 ~ years more. If the war lasts three year:;, 1 The Polygraph is del .ghted to reor so, many boys will reach military age and be called into sen·ice ceive letter:; like the following. Our before they can graduate from college unless they accele1·ate their answer to Miss Jason was that the Polygraph i~ sent free to all graduprograms and graduate in three years or less. ates and ea<'h year we request each Although the military does not call girls, jobs do. And ungraduate to make a <'Ontribution to the less this war is different from e\'ery other so far. there will follow school for !<ome special cause. Since it a time of 1·eadjustment which will make jobs scarce for the new our present project is the campu~ college graduate. Again it is just common sense to graduate as soon lighting fund, we have applied. her contribution toward thn l fund. Her as possibe and get started at one's job before the period of recon- letter reads as follow!'. "Polygraph struction comes. Po!vteC'hnic Institute A thousand college presidents meeting in Baltimore the San' German, P. R. first few days of this year agrf'ed that the college course should Gentlemen: Inclosed you w:ill find a check for be cut in time, hut not i n <tuali1 y. The only short cut recommended rive dollar:; ($5.00). Please use it to to high school senim·s and college freshmen is that of time in pay up my !lubscriptions to 'Tolyutilizing the \'acation periods for college work. Xo ~o-called ··short graph," and if there iP. some money coUt·:-es" will produce the leadership needed by the nation. Any left, plea!'e add it to the campus light ' fund. l">hort cut that Jowers the slmHiard of the work at this time would The 1.1chool's paper brings back be both a mistake for the indh·idual and an injury to the nation. memories of the days when there _The need now is not for partially trained doctors, dentists, min- I were only two boarding women students in the high school senior class. isters, and teachers but for more of the well-trained type we and ~lr. Clarence would give us a have had for years. rose to wear to church every Sunday. High :school seniors and college freshmen should face Thank you for continuing to send it to me on credit. these facts squarely, discuss them with theh· pm·ents, and deYours truly, cide. Grace _-\, J ason, '21." I ALIVE WITH ART It is amazing how much is being done in Art...... Don Crist6bal Ruiz 1\Iiss Huifman, and Mrs. Castillo ali had e."<hibits of their students' work on Founder:;' Day and all were truly remarkable. Scores of charcoal sketcheJ> of students by students and for students not only look like the subjects, but in some cases improve on the originals! Crafts and De~ign show unusual talent and leaderRhip. With so much of color, light, form, and movement on these busy, beautiful hills, it is no wonder thnt: students are inspired to draw and paint. The three exhibits were on Design, Sketching and Painting, and Arts and Crafts. HER~.\~ ,\ L\. \ REZ ADDHEs-.Es CLASS The class in Rural Sociology had the great pleasure of a visit and most interesHng address b)· a consistent friend of the Institute, el Sr. Don Hernan Alvarez. His frequent e-xcursions to the rural "barrios" and h1s intimate contacts with the country people qualifies him to speak with authority on the social conditions of the rural zone. POLYGRAPH ..FOUNDERS DAY" DIA E~ Sl: 3 CIRCULO GAUTIER BE~ITEZ LAME~TO ANOXDIO MASA CORAL The morning of Thursda\' April 9 Con el prop6~ito de ir hac1endo JU!'· (Copiado de un cuaderno olvidadu en Los numeros y las fechas de lo!' me- ticia a nuestro!\ ''alore:; literarios y a the .:'\lasa Cural boarded th~ 'train Ia terraza) ses en el calendario son letra muerta Ia \'ez como demostracion de reconocic::tn; for a busy week end in the Capisin significado que cobran vida espi- miento a Ia fi~tUra intelel'lual cuyo l ''Por vngo me pasa tudo tal City. lincler i.he direction of Or. ritual nl asocinrse a nuestros recuer- nomb~e prest gia a nue:;tro Circulo, Ya frncasado cstO\' llover and arcompalned b~· ,\I rs. lleth do!l, nuestras experiencias non gmtas sus m1embros presentnron un homena- Lo umco (JUl me. !alta thf'y h:u.l a hea"y progran. inging at o gratas y a los acontecimientos diver· je sencillo a! poeta Jose Gnutier Be- Es que me bot••n hoy! t~c Ca11mo d(~ Puerto Rico Thur11clny sos de nue~tras vidal! y las de los de- nitez, en Ia a!IRmblea correspondiente "De ingles no Jli ni un pito n1ght. at the Univer!lay Auditurlu m milt~. f.'ri~ay n '!ht, and over broadcasting ul ultimo jueves de mann. En esa De quimica no hay que hablar stat1ons \\: .K.A.Q. and WS.F..L. early DO~ OE :'\IARZO no guarda rclaocasi6n \'arios estudiante!l clisertaron El ~spaiiol, me tiene al cuello Satu;tla~ Hf'n ng. Later Saturciay ci6n ninguna con aquellos que nunca sobre algunos aspectos de Ia \'ida y Ia • La botanica me va a matar! abrev,ron en Ia fuente prodiga cle obra del ilustrc ·cantor de nuel'tra tieen~mng they ~a\'C a c:oncert at the nuestro amado lnstituto l'olit&-.nko rra. Sc recitaron algunos de sus nuis "Heconozco que soy bruto Ca:::a de Espnfiu and completed the pero para aquellos que aprendimos a tour by 11inging at the l!nion Churth hellos poema,- y se coloc6 en Ia Biblio- AI menos consuelo eB!"... w . . . formamo!l y cultivamos alli, que sa· li..'Ca un cuadro del pc•cta dibujado por ( Hasta aqui llego cl au tor, on Sunday mornin~. Soloists with the dnmos un poco de nuestra !!ed inte- Oomingo Ro:;ado, bajo Ia clirt!<'ci6n de Y perd6neme el lector ~l nsa Coral were Gladys Castniler, Carlo:. c;artia, Rina de Toledo, nnd lectual y que fuimos neogido.!! con hos- don Crist6ba! Ruiz. Que a los versos del chamaco ~I rs. Eclwarcl L. Beth. Judging by th~ pitnliducl magna en el seno del nlma Yo le !'Ume con nrclor:) Certa men Lilt' ra rio mater, clos de mano no es dfa mils u enthuain11m with which all the pcrfnrmnnc:el! were received the tour was meno11 g~>melo a los demas en el en· :-.uc!ltro Circulo esta auapiciando most suc:ce!'!sful. lendnrio: DOR DE MARZO es el din un Certamen Literario como parte del Que no fue cosas de 1mbios en que vi6 lu1. por vez primera y co- Homenaje a Cervantes. I.os en!'Jl\'O!I El. no pnder razonar. S l 1 '\f.\11-:R CO l RSES............ noci6 Ia \'idn nuestro querido Poly y sobre el tema "La Dulcinea clel To.boSi no perdiern mi tiempo p. mota. Ethics, Far f :.!tlt!r lsrucs l..acste do~ de marzo no es posible susti- 110 en el espiritu del Quijote y en Ia ti~ America in Wo:ld Politics. F:n~lish tuirlo P<•r ningun otro dia: pues nin- obra maestra de Cen·antes" se estan En ch3rlas r enredos tontos l.1terature, Comed1es of Shakespeare 1{'\in otro din traeria las evocacione!! etltudiando para Ia acljutlicacion dt> Y no faltara a las clases Y 'lla:: ntencion prestara ......., College Algebra, Public School )J usic' que este trae a los que nutrimos nues· premios. )lusit• Appreciation, Educational l'sy~ tro inteleeto niH: porque ning\in otro ~· a estudiar mb rnc dedicara lmitacion chology, l'rindples of Sociology, f~lu din tiene atado a sus horas el bagaje Y usara Ia blblioteca Llegue nuestra invitacion para unir- Y mi tiempo aprove~·harn cntionnl Sociology. Rookbimling, Drawde recuerdos y aiioranzas que este tie· ing ~n~l S_ketching, General Zoology, ne y porque llobre todas las denuis l'le n nuestro Clrculo a todu11 los estu- En lecturas y C<'unciones......... . ClaslllfiC'Btlon of Gra!'.•es. R••nncirn!encon!lidcradonell 00~ DE MARZO v nn cliantes que teniendo aprobado- dos to, r_ntrnductwn to PhiloSOJlhy, l ntrootro fue el verdndero ilia de In fu~du nf1os de espaiiol con promt·clio de no Quiz:is el Ingles me entrara meno!l de C, quiernn colaborar <·on La qu(mira In (lasnrlu durtwn to World Politic!!, Child l'llycl6n de nuestro colegio. chology, Frl',hman Orientation, Adl'or el sentimiento de unidad que nosotros en las actividades culturales La botanica me gUfltarla Y el espnilol ........ i \'aya, ha!iltn me enn- vanced Orgamc Chemistr\', nnd ~oclal siempre anima los corazom•s de los que nuspiciamos. PuE.>den hncerlo memoraria! Ori~nL .. graduados en cse dia, ~iquiera !'ea, t·e- diante una solicitucl e!'Crita nl l'resilebremnll nuetltro anh·ersario de fun- clente o u Ia Secretarla. hay mAs de cuatro hijo::: ' ·h·iendo todad6n en su dfa ~· no tratemos de ,·aIMPRESIONES DE INDIERA dos en l'BsaR de dos habitaciones, una riar las cosas que en el espfritu .:iem· CL UB DE ARTE En !a maf,.:~:::t de: !tone.; a de febre- de las cuales hace las veces de sala pre pcrmaneccrin im·ariadas....... _ .. En Ia residencia de los E.>spo:;o!l Cnsro un jrrupo clc estudiantes de Ia cln- Y comedor durante el dfa y de dormil nt~z Ate\ edo de Campo". tlllo tuvo Iugar Ia reuni6n del Club se de Sociologfa Rural, at'ompailndos torio durante la noche • .Adjuntas. 1'. R., Marzo !?3, 1942, de Arte, el dia 26 cle mano. La asis- del Prof. Dr. :-:. Huffman y los e:>(li) En algunos hogare!l de aqucllos ten,.ia rue nutrida y reino gran entu- posos Brown 11ali6 rumbo al Barrio niiiitos hay (mcientes de tuberculosis UN GRAOUADO ESCRmE si~~mo por el proyet·to de embelll'ri· Tndiera Frfa, cle Subana Grande. Tra!! que st• rl.'siRton a sufrir din~"ll6!'1lit·o y El Dr. l\Iorrig ha recibitlo Ia .,f. m1ento <rue ~e esta llevundo a cabo en un intl're$8nlc viaje 8:\turado de ale- trntamicnto porque lm;isten creer ctue guiente carla de Jo!l~ Arncelio Car· In sale, del edificio l'hraner. F.l efec· grin estudinntil, cont!lmplando las be- Ia enfermedad no e~ contngio,.u. dona, un graduado de Ia clase de 1936 to dE'corath·o que han de surtir el co- llezas naturales, nRombriindonos unte (7) Los nli1os son hijos rle "ngre~ados.'' y posleriormente graduado del Semi- lorido clc Ia pintura y Ja, guim:tlda~ Ia profundidad de los precipicios v conario E\'ang(:lico en Rio Piedras. La dt! .semillas que adornan Ina pan'cles mentando las varindones de Ia 'tem(8) l.a nctitud de los pnclres hacla peratura, llcgnmos a Ia humilde es- j In escuela ell de cooperal'i6n dcntro beca a que Cardona hace referenda scrn muy agradablE.>. es una (JUe otorga todos los anos el Se dccidio iniciar lo-; miembros cl ,.·uelit., rural, que bajo Ia direcci6n de de sut1 limitadas po«ihilidades. "Union Seminary" a alg\in estudiante martes i de abril a In!! 5 de Ia tarde Ia Sr·a. Aida Pietrl se levanta en ' (91 Aclcmlls de Ia escueln rural hny extranjero. I-:1 lnstituto esti siempre en cuya oca!<i6n se celebr6 una fics- aquella-. montniiatl como llimbolo de do'l iglesias: una cat6lica y otra episcopal. buscando Ia oportunidad de :ayuclar a tecita y se di~utieron otras ncth·ida· chiliznci6n r progreso. IUS gTncluados. Durante lo!l ultimo!:\ ( 10) La.- unicas ncth·idatles recrcndes en perspecti\'a. Como nuestro intunis m{IJtimo con· th·M cle lu comunidad sc limitnn a aiio;; trcs graduado!l b a n recibido ~istia en conoccr cle certa los difebet·as de cambio con colegios nnwrirente;; aspectos {le In vida rural puer- bnlles. jugntlas de gaiJ(l, \'clorios, etc. A solicitucl ,Je !lU maestra los niiiicnno!:l y uno rc•cibi6 una de In FunduCARTA DE UN ANTIG UO torriquoiin, l'!tpecinlmcnte rn Ia montos cnnlaron nlj.,runns cancinnPS en inci6n Roc.·keft•Jier para estucliar cientana, despu6s dt• hnber intf'rrot:tndo a A LUlfNO cin~ hibliotecnrin!l. \'arios cnmpesinos qulcmes contestaron gles y espanol. Xosotro!> le contclltaEstimndo Dr. )!orris: ~uevamente Luis A. Graulnu ha e!lnuestra;; prcguntns c·un mut·ho intc:m?s mos cun los hinmos de nuestra Alma Ocsco expresnrle mi rna>' profundo cd : ·· • uno de los profesores del Po- Y tnaY<•r ~inccriclad, solicitamo:> de la 1\tuter. Uno de los muchat·hns exprcs6 agradccimicnto por todns aquella::: htecnico. En esta carta Grnulnu hnbla jo\·en profesvra nos permiticra inte- nuestrns irnpre>ioncs sobrc Ia obrn gestiones que usted realizara en pro cle !'U ,·ida en lm: E<:tados Unidos. He rrogarln en tomo u lo::: puntos mas que In escueln realiz.'l en Ia comunide mi candidntura. lo cual bizo posi- nqui algunos parrafos de su carta: importantes clc Ia vida social en ac,ue- dad. AI llnlir de aquella escucla observe ble l:\ t>ontinuncion de mis estudios en "Yn ve usted que estoy en In costa lla comunidad: en Ia que ella realiza cste ~eminario de Uni6n. Muchas grn- oeste del continente. A:-i><to a In Uni- su obra con paciencln franclscana. De Ia impresi6n profunda que en nos· cias por 611 considernci6n. verliidad de Los Angeles aunque me sus bnndadosus contcstaciones rcco~i otros hubin clcjado esta 'isita. l'cnse Lleguc n Xue\·a York de:::pues ile imagino que no ser:i por lnrgo tiem- mos aiJ.":"una informacl6n que con mas en lo mucho que nos quedn por reahaber comenzaclo laR clases, pero ya po pues espero que me llnmen n ller- o menos exnctilucl rcvela Ins condi- lizar en Puo'rto Rico en bene.Cicio del me estoy ajustnndo a! medio nmbiente. vir en el ejercito pronto ya, c1uc esto\· ciones de vida en In zona montniiosa hombre de ln n'Zadn. Por :n11 t•tunentnrlos cle nuestro grupo cornpr~ncH que He tcnido unn cordial bicnvenicla, clnsifi~·ndo en Ia se~·ci6n 1-A. Yo m~ de Ia isla. en los cstudiantes de estn gencrari6n ya que todos eslos j6\·enes me han clis- d.cciJlrc por Ia armncln yn c1ue cl mnr He nquf Ia informacion: no tod11 e:- Irivolidnrl .r diversi6n sino pe.ns:tdo todn clase de atenciones. )le lllempre me ha gu!tlado. (1) l.a profesora ascgurli que todos que aclemils hay preocupaci6n serin nll'gro em·ontrnrme entre estudinntes "Estoy muy a guRlo ron el dimu tilos GO niiios sufrinn tie uncinarial'i:;. del mundo entero y me pnrece que se por nuestras ungustins socinles y que Sus rostros lo a!irmahan por Ia exre- lie usfucrzan por conOC'er las cnusas realiza nctui el dicho bfblico de que en blo de cst.e e.stado y he guzado mucho. sh'B palidez. Cristo no bay jutlios. ni griegos, ni El '\iaje lo hic:imos en coche v 'isite de nuestros fiUlles para algU.n din ha(2) Solamcnte .1 nlnos estaban cnl- ccr su contribucion junto a aquello~ b6rbaros. AeA se vh·c en feliz camarn- junto con los otros dos nmhios, tre~ zados. pueblos de indios. Son muy interesanderia : csto es, una gran familia. que lut'hnn por un orden social donde tes sus modos de vida r ''erlos tnlba(3) Todos reeibt>n su almuerzo en Con una certeza inquebrantnble que jar es una delicia pues tienen un gus- el comedor cln Ia escuela. Casi nunca 11lc:unns no sigan \iviendo regalndan•entt' mlcntrns miles \iven muriendo. he de Ullar mi tiempo para aprovechar- to exquisito para con su trnbajo nr- pueden traer el centavo que deben No cludo <1ue para toc.los esta glrn me de mayorel! conocimientos para Ia tistico. pagar. IIO• 10iogica fuc grata y de inoh·iclables obra del Senor y reiterandole las gra"He conocido unns cuanlas artistns {4) Estudinn basta el tercer grado cxpcricncins en contacto con el dolor, cias por su gentilezn. de Hollywood pues por ser de Puerto y mur pocos puedrn continuar estu- In mi~<cria y las esperanza11 de nue!· Quedo fratemalment.e, Rico pude obtener un paso para \'isi- dios en el pueblo. tro~ h(•rmanos de Ia montaful. Ju...e A . Cardona. tar los estudios." I (5) En Ia mayorfu de sus hogares J . N. C. IUld ...................................................... l j I POLYGRAPH 4 FELICIDADES COSAS QUE DAN GANAS DE LLORAR Ji]lato d~larandos~le a Gladys de esa manera: "Tu juncal figura es fuente de mi in..:piracion, rauda madys." Tobi (Burrito) Loyola tratanclo cit' .,.. mantener In amist~cl cl~ Carn1en y Fi" na p:tra........ por s1 aca!'o. La lnli('ti(ICion que le \'an a rcga'ar a todas las pareja10 del l'ol) que dice en letras de "fuego r oro": Remember J ean Jacque~." , El libro que publico Jl.lundo CasliiiCJ titulado "DoC'e maneras rle pa~ar un Black Out" o "\'o sor hombero pero no apago fueJ:;os." El telegrama que rccibio J ipato que decin: "Impm;ible nceptur e~luche que en momento de romanticiAnw pt'liagudo me en"insl<>. Si no !'lahe!l rcmar, aprende y DESA I'ARJ<:CETE. La retirada l'Slratrgica dl' Fally Guzman. Jean Jac,,uer- saltundo ul lugo e imi· t.ando a Tarzan .... en lo del grito. Canncn Tuya y ~acky y .M other r Ferrer en un "cloble l'Oillprotni!lo." ~ehemia:o, ,:\feiC:ndez \ 'ela, Art'hilln y Joi'uc Castillo como "life !:avers'' en el lago. Los rebuzno~ (le Marcano en In rnasa. ":'iempreparado" Znpater hnciendo lindberg:< de care en el kiosko. El optimbmo JII'ATTL en materias de amor r Ia corresponclcnciu que lie· va con Frank pidicnclo conscjos. El llbro que recicntcmcntc publicaron CarlO!' Garcia, Gil Casanova y Victor Rodriguf.'z que se titula "Las Tristczas de un Restriction." El "proximo-futuro" matrimonio del "chavo y medio" con "nickel Barreto." La lluvia que impidi6 Ia conliuaci6n de los ju~gos atleticos intcrcolegiales. L Que le dijo Tobf a l\lu l<'l? -Quitate tu pa ponerme yo. ;, Que saben ustedes tie las llamadas telef6nicas entre Gil y Noelia '! i. Que dijo Gladys a Jipato' -B:ijale el ruego a los zapatos. ;. Que le dijo Fina Diaz a Carmen Arch ill a 7 - j i l Socorro, que me aho· go!!!! ;. Saben ustedes <tuicn es tre!l bases Coimbre 7 A ,·er i~enlo. ;. Que le dijo Colberg a Muiiiz Coim· bre 7-Rateo "single," nena. ;, Que le dijeron WI CaFBnova y Car· los Garcia a Mr. Torrcgrosa cuando les dieron Restriction, .. -jQue descansada vida Ia que huye del mundanal ruido! '-Sa ben ustedes qui en es lsolino? -l'regiintenle n Gladys Castniier. ;. Que It> dijo Flavio a Josefina Fa· Tage? -Sin tf Ia vida es nada. L Que le dijo Chegi.ii n Gladys cuando ella le pele6 por sus viajes a Ma· yagiiez? -1 Le vas a crt-er iniis a In gente que a mi! Quien dijo: ''Lily quicre decir Margarita t-n espafiol ?" 1. Que le dijo Elving Mendez a Li· llian Dusigo! -Te quiero el doble de lo que tu me quieres a mi. 1. Que dijo Jose!ina Rivera cuando su mama le neg6 el permiso para ir al baile dPl 7' -Mami, nunca me habin parecido tan interesante ni habia pen· sado tanto en el como ahora. ;. Saben ustedes que Melendez le tie· ne prohibido a Nehemias venir a interrumpirlo cuando habla con Ana T. Fabregas! M i~tras tanto ella sus pi· ra por un flor6n. z l lleg6 un miembro de Ia facultad y cuAB ABSURDO Despues de haber estado en el Poly riosamente le pregunt6 In soluci6n. por el espacio de dos afios he podido AI encontrarse ante el dilema de exver que aquf, como en todas partes, presar su estrategia militnr o incuexist!.' lo que en ingles se llama "social rrir en Ia burla de sus oyentes. dijo que para sacar a los alemane!l, italiaim~ility," o tonterias, tanto en los nos y japone!:es de su $itio ~erfn nevarones como en las mujeres. Son innumerables las veces que he cesario "caerles a tiro limpio." j\'avisto a un estudiante lanzar la coli- ya con Ia estrategia de f.'ste tipo! Otro tipo, tambien ilogico y estiilin, alin encendida, sin preocuparse si esta puede ocasionnr un fuego que pido, es el que se distingue. o se quiere distinguir del grupo .:;iendo au1laz destruya alguno que otro edificio. Son muchas Ins veces que he oido e indisciplinado con el fin de ganarse n compaiieros expresarse en el senti· Ia adminraci6n de los timidos. Son do de que "es de hombre el embria- pocos. por suerte, pero vnr 1 o ~ los que ~tarse" )' que, quien no lo haga con Ia 1 faltan el respeto n una companera con fr•·qucncia qut> ellos creen razonable, , palabras gro!'era,; y estupidns, para reflcju caracteristicas propins de mu- que de cl se diga: "1Ese si qut> es un PARA QUE DIGA~ ''a1·6n!" jer. En fin, bastan los ejemplos pnt·a deAunque no sea del agrado general es Se tnmbicn de muchos que sienten necesario que unos estudiantes digan cierto placer morboso r estupido en mostrar que son mucha~< las imbeciliahora desde las columnns del Poly- ~'1linr un nutom6vil a velocidad peli· dades. idioieces y boberiaa que t·omegraph, lo que tantas veccs ha repetido gro!la porquc "eso es de \'arones", sin temos diariltmentc, n pesut· de que soDr. Morris durante cuatro aiios-"Qut• lcne1· en cucnta que los viandantes 11on mos estudiantes de C'olpgin con preno destruyan Ia propiedad del colegio padrl's de familias y que muchos de suncion de rl!prt>sentat· In rremn de Ia incrustando sus "preciosos" nombr!'s ellos son merecedores de nuestra mas cultura. Glad)-. Ca~taiier. Pn las sillas y en las palmas qui.' em- alta estimncion y cariiio. Son muchos bellecen el Campus. Si por nueo.trn lo:; que ~e exprP!"an en el sentido de cond icion de estudiante~;-por deiini· que ,·er "saltar a un caminante,'' con UN PADRE ESCRIBE cion-"seres arrancados''-no pode- Ia Forpre,;a y el susto retratados en el La admmistracion del Politccnico mos contribuir al progreso material y I rostro cuando supnan In bocina en se regocija al recibir Crase~; dl' aliento estetico de nuestra Alma Mater, tam- forma ~ubita r estrepitosa, es un de los padres de nuestro~ estudiantes poco debemos insistir en perjudicar ...!'port." bienes donados por personas bondado· Ot ra~ !levan Ia boberia, tonteria, y mll)· particularmente a~radecemos ~as que estan interesadas en el bienimbecilidnd o estupidez al extremo de una carta que hemos recibido del pa· estar de nuestra ju~ventud. plantarse ante un espejo y estar hora:: dre de dos jovenes que cursan l1U pri· Comprendemos que ese af:in de ~ra contemplando~e. peinandose o hacien- mer ano en e!':te pJanteJ r que lee CO· bar nombres e iniciales puede re~pon dose bucles. conscientes de sus atrac- mo sigue: "Ha sido una grata :sorpresn PI sader a un deseo de atraer Ia atenci6n tivo!l fi:;icoR. He \'i::oto casos df.' "nar· de los demas o tambien al noble fin cisismo exngerado" en nuestro plan- ber que se encuentrn usted nuevami.'nde perpetuarse en Ia memoria de Ia ' tel, en cuyo caso mas se ha ocupado te entre sus mu~:hachos que tant_, lo posteridad. Para lograr tales objeto~ el indh·iduo de su apariencia fisica quieren y estimnn, y para nosotros, lc;; padres. mas grato nun. hay variadas formas de activdad hu- que de loR mismos estudios. Reciba usted, en uni6n n los suvos, mana que ofrecen recompensas mayoTambien se de muchos que, a Ia mi mas cordial saluda. · res a quienes a elias se consagran. \'OZ de "baile," pierden los estribos y Tengo entendldo que en su ausl!n· Ademas recuerden lo que decia son capaces de romper una "restricShakespeare de los que incurrian en tion" impuesta por el decano para cia, el Dr. Irizarry hizo una labor practicas de tan mal gusto y de Lan asislir al citndo bailecito. Y hay mu- meritorin y le congratulo por habetlo seleccionado para sustituirle en tus escaso refinamiento. chos que irian todns las noches de Ia vacaciones. Personalmente ful muy scmana a bailes, a despecho de su es: • cordialmente atendido por el en mi Llegue hasta los miemhros de Ia tado de salud, del cansancio y de sus ultima y reciente visita al plantel." Clase Senior nuestra felicitaci6n por recursos econ6micos. Otras personas manifiestan su vani· Ia feliz idea de iniciar un fondo proDR. W. 0. BROWN Secci6n de Libros Puert.orriqueiios en dad aparentando grandes conocimien· grandes despliegues de pedantetos, Dr. W. 0. Brown, of Howard Uninuestra biblioteca. Es necesario reunir para las generaciones estudianti· ria, injustificados e il6gicos, con el versity, with his wife and child, has les del futuro las diversas produccio- unico fin de impresionar a los oyentes been a guest on the campus for a nes nativas. Ya nadie duda de que !t' de hacerse de cierta fama que les month. He is on leave of absence from his university duties with a ,;ew of en Puerto Rico se esta formando una distinga del grupo. Otro tipo muy peculiar en el "Cam- making a research in relation to the literatura. A reunir pues, es<ts obras, apro\'echando el paso inicial dado por pus" del Poly es el que llamamos "es- social conditions of the island. He has tratega." Este resuelve todos los pro- lectured various times to a number of Ia clase del 42. blemas, especialmente los de Ia ac- sociology classes and addressed the tual guerra, con muchisima facilidad, assembly March 5 on the subject: The Sugerimos que los estudiantes se sobrepasando con su habilidad los co- Present Interest in Latin America. interesen por ofrecer colaboraciones nocimientos de "estrategia" de Sir para el Polygraph. Lean los canjes Archibald Wave!, Adolph Hitler o que se reciben de otros colegios. Tra- McArthur. El otro dia, oia a uno expli- PHRA NER ............. ten de imprimirle a nuestro peri6dico car, con lujo de detalles, Ia forma en Dolores Quetell, under the direction of un espiritu colegial. Vengan opiniones que se "acabarfa Ia guerra actual en Mrs. Maria P. de Castillo. The committee charged with the de los estudiantes. el termino de dos semanas." En eso responsibility for designing and executing these improvements was comTertulias........ Nadie duda que alposed of Edward Heth, Mrs. Maria guna parte del presupuesto de tiempo y los j6venes a Borinquen. Marcano, P. de Castillo and Miss Helen Huff. quien respnlda !a idea, dice que es de los estudiantes es dedicada a terman. The Administration most gentulias. Aunque algunos las crean in- para que hagan ejercicios y Vicens erously and enthusiastically has supnecesarias, nosotros opinamos que alega que es para que no se ahoguen ported the committee, without which pueden convertirse en un medio de en el lngo. support, the improvements could not • divulgaci6n de cultura y conocimien· have been realized. Mr. Rafael Cruz lo. Para que nadie tenga que ver con el Prensn Disociadn.......... Los Seniors supervised the painting and repair merito de estos "bull sessions" reco- estaban todos en Ia parada. Como work. The boys rooming in the buildmendamos que los estudiantes se pre· siempre muy puntuales. Entre los pre· ing are showing nn increasing interest ocupen por asuntos de interes gene- sentes est.aba el Trio de los Gabanes. in the landscaping about the building. ral y de provecho publico. Esos coWith their cooperation, Phraner Hall • • • rrillos del "porch" pueden ser Ia cu· bids fair to become one of the most Perdonen la seriedad de Ia columna de una gran idea ........ na, pues acabamos de recibir un attractive spots on the campus. "please see me" de Tesoreria r no The committee takes this opportunSonando............"' La noche antes de estamos seguro de poder seguir es- ity to thank all that have cooperated, Founders sone que Ia Facultad habia cribiendo para ustedes en mayo. both those above named and many decidido cambin las ninas a Phraner E. S. y X. others, for their generous cooperation. Jacobo Calder, Jr., Senior de 194041 y quien fue llamado al sen•icio en dicho ano, nos escribe desde el Campamento Tortuguero r nos informa haber contraido matrimonio con Ia senorita Hilda T. Lopez de Lares en no· viembre de 1941. En mayo de 1941 Calder fuc ascendido a Segundo Teniente r tenemo~ entendido que ha sido recomendado para un nue,·o ascenso, a primer Teniente esta vez. • Mucha.<; felicidade:; desf.'amos a Jacobito en su nuevo estado \' mucho cxito en su cauera militar. · .. ~ . . .. • • .. l 5 1 ~::::~~ a 4,se:;;~ ~~s~h:n;~:~ office in San Gcrmtin, Puerto Rico, under the net of August 24, HH2. l p0LY GRApH l _ SENIOISRSU -C ELASS l ------------------------~ POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF PUERTO RICO San German, P. R. VOLU.~I E \~ ~lAy 20, 1942 Who Can Remember? 1. * When Poly had military t raining'? X 2. When Ha rris Hall first built '? was IC :3. This h a nd~om e base-ball team ? 4. NEW DATES FOR SUMMEH SESSIO~S Since the last i.-suo.: O• the Polygraph. new l nform:~tion from the De· partment of Educntion hnR III..'CC9· sitated new date;; for the summer sessions. The first se:<!'ion has b<-en moved up to May 25-.Junt> 27, and public school teachers have been gi\·cn permission to excuse thcmsE>h:e~ from the final few day11 uf school to enter the summer se!'~icm. Hes.ri~;tralion may be on Saturday, May 2:l, or br mail. High School Seniors muy also enroll to begin their college course br special permission from their principals. The second session of five weeks begins June 29 and end!\ August l , in time for teachers to take up the new year's work. Teachers who wish to attend this session will need permiSSion from the Department of Education to substitute ::! u m mer School for the month of activities. There are reduced tuition rates for teachers at both sessions. There are good selection~ of courses offered for both sessions: public school teachers rna): complete as many as 12 semester hours in the two sess ions, and regular stucients may hasten t heir graduation dates br at· t ending school in the summe r. CO:\Dl E~CE)IE~ T This band t hat makes us a.shamed toda) ? PROGRAM The S.xteenlh Annual Commencement Program will be held on .l\lonciav. M:w 18, at 10:30 A. ~r.. at the m~nume~tal steps, with the Re,·. Charles Boynton, Rector of ~t. Andrews )Ii~sion. Mayagliez, as the speaker. Thirty seniors will receive their diplomas and four others will graduate at the end of the summer !'cssion. At the same program, the Hon. James R. Beverley, ex-governor of Puerto Rico, will receive the honorary Doctor of Laws degree. This will be the fourth honorary degree granted by the Polytechnic in its entire history. The Baccalaureate Service will be held Sunday, May 17, with the Rev. Enrique Rivera. pastor of t he Santurce Presbyterian Church, delivering the 1 sermon. Alumnj Day will be celebrated, Saturday, l\tay 16, with th ree classes in special r eunion&-the first college class ('27) will celebrate its fifteenth anniversary, the class of '32 its tenth, and the class of '37 its fifth. Class dinners are to be held in the e,·ening and the annual alumni meeting in the afternoon at 2:30. The annual Heyi( Continued on Page 2, Col. 1.) FACULTY ;\lEMBER HONORED In a poster contest open to th~ nrtisti of Puerto Rico and sponsored by the Committee of Education and Propaganda of Ch·il Defen~e fifty posters were submitted. Of this number the two submitted bv ~I rs. Maria Luisa Penne de Castiilo, instructor of Design and History of Art. rec·eived second prize and honorable mention. One poster, featuring the key workers for defense, was executed in !!palter technique on a red background wilh the words " El Esfuerzo de Todos Para Ia Victoria de Todos." (The effort of all for the victory of all) . The second poster featured a farm with plantings of native vegetables, in pictorial technique, illustrating the phase " lntensificar el Cultivo es Defender Ia Pntria" (To intensify planting is to defend the countr')'.) The Polytechnic I nstitute is proud of the triunmph of one of the mem- bers of its growing art department. The Polygraph extends to Mrs. Castillo hea rty congratulations. Helen Huffman. I GIFT TO THE H \!'\ DI('RAFT8 DEPAHT:\IE~T The Handicrafts Department i!< pll'ased to announce thl' reception of the ~:tift of a Jar$te loom. The rinnor is Dr. Nathan H. Huffman. Plans :for the loom were submitted to a San German cabinet maker who execute•! them to the entire satisfadion of the de· partment at a cost of thirty tiollars. A loom of this size brought from the Continent would have cost at lea~t eighty dollars. It i~ quite sturdy and well finishtJd and will serve for mnny years. The six pedals give infinite possibilities of pattert1 variation. It is onlv within the lMt few weeks that students have begun to use the loom. Thev are thrilled at the di!1covery of the possibilities represented by this craft. Weaving is one of the most ancient of the crafts and after being neglected for two or t hree generations is being revived. During the commencement week there will be an exhibition of the first finished products of our new loom. In t he name of Dr. ;\forris and the Faculty, the Polygraph wi!'hes to express a hea rty thank you to Dr. Huffman for his generosity and thoughtfulness. POLYGRAPH 2 Polygraph Publillhed for the students, faculty, alumni and friends of the Polytechnic Institute. The President's Column ~Ianaging editors this edition, Jorge X. Cintr6n and Jorge Melendez Vela, seniors. We draw to the close of another is producin~~: a fair crop of vanilla school year-only to begin school beans, and the increa!'ed enrollments again after a week in order to answer of three and four years ago have our nation's call for an accelerated expressed themselves in the largest "PUERTO RICO EVANGELICO" PRESS, PONCE, P.R. program. This program- is to permit da!':s the Polytechnic has graduated students to graduate in three calendar in ten years, the largc.>~t cla!'s since years and begin their productive the education\\! law of 1932 which all service one full year sooner. but killed the little struggling college. It has been a good year and, in spite All graduates seem to be employed of the unsettled world conditions, a and many are rising rapidly into Las despedidas todas son tristes porque en elias tratamos year of steady progress. Although places of responsibilit:r' and leaderde evoca1· todo el recuerdo de un pasado. Quisieramos alterar Ia the Polytechnic is well represented in ship. Out of twenty-five faculty the armed forces, only a few stud- members, only thr('C nrc not rc.>turning marcha del tiempo. VolYer atras por las rutas del calendario. Gus- ents have dropped school before the next year. These thrE'e will be retar y gozar de todo lo grato que ya pertenece al ayer. Sin embar- end of the semester to enlist; the placed and there will probably be, at go, el momento que vivimos, la bora del mundo, pide ~crificio young men seem to realize that the least, two new uclditions to strengthen nation needs well prepared men in the 1 existing departments. de emocion y afirmacion de voluntades. Ante una parbda, ante service and that the highest patriotAs the year nears its end, our un terminar no vamos a asumir poses romanticas. Mas bien, he- i!lm is expressed in continuing to pre- greatest problem seems to be edumos de imprimir al instante un sentido de comienzo, de continua- ' pare themselves until the nation calls 'l cational supplies and equipment. Ship' them. ping gives priority quite properly to cion. Jt has been a year of progress foodstuffs, but students must have Ya esta fuera de Iugar aquella expresion de que al graduar- along several lines. Wilson Cottage textbooks and lahoratorr supplies. We nos salimos de Ia Yida de Ia escuela para entrar en la escuela de has been built, Lake Gilstrap and a r e exceedingly furtunate t h at, Hall have been dedicated. although we are far from the source Ia vida. Xunca hemos estado fuera de la \'ida. Como estudiantes Harris Phraner Hall has been re-decorated of supplies. we have the tropical outhemos asistido durante cuatro afios a las aulas del Instituto Po- and beautified by the addition of doors for a Biolog)' laboratory and litecnico de Puerto Rico con Ia conciencia de que no eramos seres portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Phraner the people of Puerto Rico for Psypainted by Don Crist6bal Ruiz. A chology and Sociology laboratories aislados en el pequeito mundito intelectual de estas lomas. Sino Department of Music has been launch- and we have teachers who are original que a diario asociabamos Ia conferencia o la recitacion del salon ed with fine bt>ginnings and hopeful enough to conduct their clas!'es "\\ith de clase con la vida circundante en todas sus manifestaciones. prospects, the Art Department has limited supplies. We must fight the been expanded, the library has ndded war with our imaginations and our Esa actitud de estudiantes vitalmente interesados en los grandes about a thousand new volumes, the initiath·e, our courage, and our firm problemas de nuestro tiempo, preocupados poT los val~res eter- food producing program has been will. We shall fight it. with all we nos, prestos a solidarizarnos con las causas mas justas, fue abo- pushed, 550 tons of cane have been have. J arvis ~. Morris. nada fecundamente por las orientaciones de nuestros directo- harvested, the newly purchased farm Subscription, 50 cents per year. E DITOR I AL res espirituales, quienes por encima de las limitaciones de credos y doctrinas robustecieron nuestra fe en la vida y sobre todo en Ia vida abundante, creadora y victoriosa. Por eso al terminar nuestros afios de colegio, al recibir unos creditos, un diploma y un titulo, no sentimos sorpresa alguna en nuestro espiriiu. No nos ha extraiiado el reto del momento a todas las juventudes que valen. Estamos preparados para la vida fatigosa que requiera esta hora de Ia humanidad. N'o sabemos mucho. Comenzamos a aprendet·. Quizas sabemos en parte donde buscar los conocimientos; demasiado poco para hacer una contribuci6n efectiva. Sin embargo, hay algo mas. Llevamos fe creadora. Fe en el Cristianismo como doctrina 6nica que puede ensefiarnos a vivir. Fe en Ja democracia como panacea a los conflictos de esta humanidad sufrida ...... en Ja democracia en sus aspectos politicos, economicos y sociales. Fe en Ia Democracia como Ultima esperanza de justicia autentica y abundante paTa nuestro pueblo. Llevamos fe porque somos cristianos-eatolicos y protestantes-y como tales confiamos en las posibilidades latentes que hay en la personalidad humana. Cada compafiero de esta clase del 42 es depositario de todo lo bueno y lo bello que Dios ha creado. En unos mas que en oiros. En iodos hay cltispa creadora. Chispa que sera antorcha de nuestro ideal por Ia vida. Compaiicros, al leer estas lineas ya estaremos camino de nuestros hogares. Leedlas recordando los momentos de alegria asi como los momentos duros. "En el dolor nos hacemos". Vayamos a los nuevos combatcs del diario vivir peleando valientemente, cayendo del !ado de la verdad y de la justicia, para que asi Ja esperanza que nuestros maestros y nuestra Alma Mater ha depositado en nosotros sea fuerza creadora que nos impulse a Ia victoria. (Continued from Page 1.) man Oratorica . 1 contest will take place r friends are cordially in\·ited to attend the same evening at 8:15. the special programs of commenceAll graduates, fom1er students, and ment week. PARENTS HELP PRESIDENT IS ADOPTED We are most grateful to the The Webb Horton Memorial Church parents of the students for the of Middletown, New York, has voted splendid manner in which they have j to adopt Dr. Jarvi!! S. Morris as their responded to our call for help. Due to missionary and to pay an extra the present war situation, the cost of $500.00 this fiscal year to the Board food has increased so that it has been · of :-Jational Mi11sions to appl~· toward difficult to meet e..xpenses in the Dr. Morris' salan·. This makes the operation of the dining room. Un- fourth church to ·take a special inwilling to raise the student fees at terest in the Polytechnic in the form this late date, we appealed to the of support for Dr. Morris-West End parents to help us with a gift Church, of :1\ew York City; Rye of ten dollars per student. The re- 1 Church, Rye, ~. Y., Hollis Church, sponse has been most generous. One Hollis, L. I; and now Webb Horton parent writes as follows: )Iemorial. More than two thirds of Dr. "Dear Dr. Morris: Morris' salary is now being paid by Some weeks ago I received a letter these churches and the Polytechnic inviting me to cooperate by sending can apply just that much of its a check to the Polytechnic Institute, a limited funds toward other helpful little check which might go far if parts of the program. added to many other little checks. The Rev. Harold C. DeWindt, PasI was not in a position then to send J tor of Webb Horton Memorial Church, any money; but to-day I am very and Mrs. DeWindt, had all thc.>ir plans pleased to be able to help, even in the made to visit l'uerto Rico and the minute way in which I am doing it. Polytechnic when the war broke out Enclosed you will find a check for and made the trip impossible. Mr. ten dollars, which, though a small DeWindt, one of the most brilliant quantity, you may be sure, is sent young ministers in the Synod of New with the utmost interest and with the York, is active on the Committees of noblest purpose. the highc.>r courts of the church and I shall be very happy to hear news is leading his strong congregation that you have been successful, very into greater growth and service. successful, in thi~; worthy campaign -as successful as the Polytechnic 1 GRACIAS has always been in its achieYements:· The following is the list of parents AI terminar el aiio, los editores del who have contributed to this date: ''Polygraph'' pecarfnmos de ingratos Lcdo. Luis Antonio Rosario, Jose si no expresaramos nuestro sincero H. Ace,·edo, Rafael Aguilo, Felipe agradecimiento a los volunt.arios que L6pez Lugo, L u i s E. Iturrino, todos los meses nos ayudaron a preDomingo Cummings, Lorenzo !\Iu- parar el peri6dico. Sin su ayuda no hu(Continued on page 3, Col. 2.) biera sido posible hacerlo. Gracias. I I I l I POLYGRAPH MUSIC WEEK CO~GRA TULATIONS The week of Mny 3-9 wns filled with numeroUB events in celebration of )!usic: Wei•k. Thl" first day marked the inau~n~rntion of the Annual Festival of Sacred Music with a ma11sed choir of over a hundred ain.ll'erl' from surrounding towns participating nt the Presbyterian Church of San Germlm. The event was rect>ived v•ith much enthusiasm. and promises to become a strong force toward the development of music in the·e\·angeliral chur!:hes of Puerto Rico. On ~londay a group of music students gave a recital which included, in addition to piano and vocal !IO!o:;, a group of original rompositions prepared by the ciRf;ll in Music Theory. On Tue!lday evening a number of students took part in the Music Identification Contest. The winner was Robustiano Snntiago. The )1n~ta Cnrnl gave a concert on Wednesday night at the Parque Theater, and on Thursday morning the newly orgnnil.f'<i choir of the San Germ!n High School. and also the Polytechnic Vel"t'e Speaking Choir performed during the aas•·rnbly hour. Ouring the social hour at Borinquen Hall the students entertained themselves with music by partiripating in the "Everybody Sing." On Saturday the Music Club celebrated with a pirnic a!l a fitting dose to an active week. We were glad to receive the wed· ding announcement of :\Ii~s Carmen H. Cardona '39 to Mr. Adam D. Heffelfinger, J r. The wedding took place in San &!bastian last April 18. The Polygraph and Faculty joinll Carmen's many friends in wishing her joy and happiness In the renrs to rome. THANK YOU LADIES The f'arulty Woml•n's Club at itll last meeting voted to contribute $76.00 toward the redecorating and equipping of the Social Hall, a large room in the ba~· · rnenl n( the un!inisheli portion of the Dining Hall. A good social hftll has long bcl·n nce•led and the ladies have chosen a worthy work. All lhe campus family will receive benefit from their generosity. Parents Help ....... AL UM~INEWS In \'isitlng the JLgh ~hools. President )lorrill and Dean l rizarr)' have · seen recently the following graduates and former students, busily engaged in high school teaching and super'islon. Clmdida Rosa Mel~ndez, '32, who is now Mrs. Alfonso Suro, teaching Soc1ftl &ie11res in Conm<l High School; lRrnel Pinnell, '32, Principal, Ponce; High School: Octavio Rodriguez, '22. Principal Salinas High School: Pedro P. Cnsablnncn, '27, Principal Dayam6n High School: Jose Gonzalez Cardona, '2i, and Jua.n 0. Jarbon, '33. teaching, ~tanati High School; .Maria Diez, '38, teaching at Vega Baja High School: Rosa Aviles de Oli\'er, '21, teaehing Arecibo High Srhool; Aidn !\lejf:~, ' :J5, teaching, Yauco High School: Jose D. Ace\'edo. '29, (High School) and his sister Armida T. Acevedo, '32, teaching in the elementary ~hool in Barrio Obrero. Sanlurce: Charles Miner, Jr.. '36, teaching, Humacao High School. J UDGE TRAVIESO IMPUESSED 1 let. )1. A. Gonzalez. Eduardo Tuyu, Dr. R. Hivera Aulet, Lcdo. l<'ernantlo Zapater, Rafael Ranllrcz TorJ'<'!I. Kf'· tt) Benwnutt., Octavio Rodriguez S.· rra, Julin G. Mnestre, Hosalinn G. Vda. tie Platti. Jos~ Pilar <:onzalcz Castr'l. Joz>c A. Fabregns. Dr. Antonio Mmi1z, Federico Rodriguez, Aur·ora C. \'da. dl• Cnlrler6n, Merretles Velez Vda. de J o· ve, Antonio Slin~·hez, l>r. Carlos M. Garda. Cesar A. Palmer, Jose Blanro, Jo~e Rnm6n Perez. Charles A. Leker, Tomas Tirado, Angel Velez, Rclo. M. K ~tartfnez, Lui11a :'tfartinez, ~Iatt•u Orraca. J uan M. Herrero, S. ~1ornlcs S:~lgado, Joaqufn Are\·edo. Emilio Dlaz, Dr. Laureano Trclles, Oscar Hiwra To rres, Juana Quinones de Perez. Hedor F. Honda, :\lanuel G. Ma· tto:;, Antonio Jimenez, Candido Alon· llo, Yanucl T. Guillan, Herminio Gon· znlez. Cicio Cordero de Ramirez, Er· nesto :\tari, Angel E. l'cgnrra. ) t onsc· rrnte Rosado. Ctlrmelo Quetcl, Franclaco Lugo, Joaquin Diaz, J os(. Secundino Ramirez. Manuel ~untos. Domingo Soto, Luis Rn~adn. Guillermina G. Vela. de Armn•r.. Eduardo Alvarez Lenndri, Ht1nt6n S. Torres, Damian {'.l>rdero Hey, ~hria L G. de Archilln, Gabriel Reyes, Anton:o Gonzalez. Quinlin Rnmirez, Jr., Domingo Colin· :· ·, Ana Luisa T·•rn \'cb. Ah·nrez. Jose Couto, J. A. Antungiorgl, Pablo Bonilla, Margarn Figueroa \'da. dc Luyo, Aurelio Hnmirez Quiiionell, Ritn Ac.1. .a Ortiz. Lcopoldo Toro, Angel Ortiz St·pulveda, Jaime R Perit'lis, Alfonso Quinones, Adolfo Grana, Gonzalo Gonzhlez, Erasmo C. ~antiago, Bartolo nlaz, Domingo Ace\·eclo, Her· minio Flores, Pedro Hivera Molinu, Ana :\larfn J. de Gonznlez. Sara Sflnrhez, Martin Mnldonado, Miguel ~o riega, Frnnci!.'CR ::'\forma, Richurd Torre!; Acosta. The total amount collected ill $900.00. We are hoping that more contributions will come in to rallle the amount to $12110.00. II I I Friends of the l'olytet·hnic will be interested in what n dilltinguishcd Puerto Rit'an like Judge Tra\icso says about the school. The folluwlng letter Wll!l written in reply to Dr. Morris' expression or thanks !or hill !'plendicl address at the unveiling of Oon Crls· t6bal Ruiz'!l painting at the College the beauty or at~ campus, its build· ingll anti the fine work you and the Allsembly Hall. The letter reach: members of your fnc:ully nrc doing ''Dear Dr. Morris: l thank you most cordially for your Cor our boys nnd girls-for l'uerto very kind letter of the 16th. in!>tant. Rico. But what impressed me more It hns m:uic me feel very happy and deeply ill the feeling of freedom, proud to h<'ar that my oratoricnl lienee. anti idenli1un which one experefforts received the approval or llUCh iences while visiting the institution, men as your goodsel!, Judge del Toro, and which one sees reflectetl by the and J im Beverley. All that 1 can say Ctu:es of teachers and eludents. With best wishes !or the sucress ot is that whatever I said to the Students and friends of the Pol)·technic cnme your work and (or your personal wel1 fare. from my heart. The Pol)·technic made a great imSincerely yours, ~lartin Tra' ieso." proaaion on me. 1 had no idea about 1 3 Y. CIRCCLO GACTIER BENITEZ ~1. C. A. La YMCA ha ofr!!cldo durante el Fie-.ta de Ia Lengua. El 23 de abril nile- un t•umero variado de actividades (aniversario de Ia muerte d·· Cenan- j n sus mlcmbros. Varios prof'e~tore~t han les) el Clrl·ulo Gautier Benlte~ celebr6 dictado ronfen•ncia:; llobre problemas Ia Fiesta de Ia Lengua en h"nor a: in- tie Ia ju\·enturl ofreeiendo lal! soludomortal autor del Qu:Jot•·· Con Ia coln- ncs cristiana~. Uemos celebrndo doa boruci6n de Ia Mnsu Cural que canto "~·amp-rin•s" lJUe rel'lullaron muy divarlos roman\·es ;. de algunos estu· \'t•rtidoll. Adem:is noll rcunimo;; dudiantes prescntamos a"'tfl el estudinn- rante varios jueves en el domtitorio tndo un sencillo progrnn1a que aspira· pnra celebrar algunos flcrvi\•iuM devoba conmemorar tan impurtnnte Cecha cionales. de Ia literatura espanola. 1':;; nuestro deseo que al regrc.o de ~l eda lln Cervante'l. La ~tedalla Cersus bugnres ludus los so\'ios \·engan vantes enviada por el lnstituto de las tlispuestos a luch:tr por que nue. trn Espnnas para ser entregadu al estu- organizaci6n sea mas fuertt! pam que diante cJe espaiiol que e~ribieee el me· asl puedu prcstnr m{u; sen·ido. jor ensayo sobre aiSttiO ASJX'clo de Ia vida o de Ia obra de Cervantes, cuY. W. C. A. rrespondio al joven Jor!(e N. Cintron curo trabajo Cue prernludo pur el juDurant£ est~ I!Cmestre nuestra orrado. gunizari6n ba l'Umplido con su plan 'ueva Directi,a. Con el prop6sito de activiclades, el cual result6 del d• a· • ierar ll\:; actividades de nuestro agrado tie totlus. Hl'lllos ten'd:> los cin·ulo desde el print'ipio del pr6:-.imc trallicionules "t·:unp-fires." Allenu\s cul"t'o procedimos a elegir Ia nueva varias confere.ncias 50bre temas relidirecth·a. que finalnwntc qucdo inte- giosos y •le cultura general. grntla de Ia manern siguiente: La nueva diret'livu clecta en Ia ull're!!identa, Ro!la .1\I, Agui16: \'ire- tima reunjon es Ia siguiente: Prcslprcllidente, Rafael Alvarez: sccretaria, denta, Ethel Sepulveda: Vicepre'<idenLucila l'ericlis; tesorerus, Catalina tu, Eleonnr Tirado; Serretnrln, Ma rin Hernandez ( Uor in<JUen). Joa<Juln IIPr· Adela Gonzalez; 'fesorcra. Gloria Marnandez ( l'hraner). \'ocales, Rafael a tinez. 1 Rive ra. Elving Mentll'z, Carmen Av\•Los nucvos di t·l•ctort>s de In organillanet. J osefina Dlaz. Consejeros, Sru. zaci6n son miembros ncth·os que seguLaura G. Bover, Sra. Maria de Santu- 1 ramente colocarnn en lu1,'11r de distinllnno, Dr. l,uis Santullano. Miembr~>ll i ci6n el numbre de Ia Y. W. C. A. Atlehonorarior;, Don C. Ruiz y csposa. 1 mns exhortamos a tO<IOS los j6vencs que deseen gozar de \'Crdadera E'Jtp:ln· CA~JES DE LAS ESCUELAS ai6n espiritual n Ia vez que beneficinrse con nuestras artividadcll recreuSUPERIORES ti\·as, a que se afilien u Ia Y.W. lnduUnsta nUt!lltra mesa d~: redacci6n dnblemente sus convicciunes sc afirhan llegado \'arias rC\'illtas de tliferPn- marlin y luchnrlin ron j6vcnes que tes e~uelas superiores de Ia i!lla. l'or SUI!fuut con un orden de vida t'rilltia· su fuctura r por los interesante!< es- no en lo lrulividu!tl y en lo !locial. critoll que traen podernoll meclir el cs· .ha Per ..ida Jusino. Cucrzo cultural que estan realiznndu nuelltros cornpaneros. ="OTA DEL CLUB DE An'fE l.n publicaci6n de un peri6tlico o rc· vibtll c.studinntil es tnren dura y difl1':1 Club tie Arte cerrad. su tuio de cil. l':s necesario obtener las simpatin!l actividutlcll con un banquete. Dos inlde Ia facultad ~· luego la cooperaclon cinciones para nuevos miembroll se economica del comercio de lu comuni- hun llevudo a cabo durante el aiio. dad, para cntonces di~ttribuir los ejem· .\t ucho!' dt' los miembros inicin\los se plarc:: casi gratuitnmcnte. A eso se han retirado del srupo )' otrnll \"ecea suman Ius aprietos de un •lirectur en no han rumplido con lm1 debcrcs del bu~a de coluboradores cunndo solo Club. Contrario n lo que esta nctitud faltan minutos para que la edici6n en- haec SUJJOner, es el l'olitknit'o uno tre en pnm11a. tie los pocos sitios en Puert•• JUco Comprendiendo el significado tlr. tlonde ron maynr esmero se <'Ulth·a el e.sas nventurns del periodismo estu- nrte. Si p:1san1os Ia '·lsta por el decJinntil, nos complacemos en dar ror- Jirtrtamento de Arte cncontramos a dial bienvenidn a nuestros colega11. Don Cristobal Huiz con sus mnJmifi· Entre otros mencionaremoll Ia re\·ist.a cos paisajcs y retratOil. a lliu Huff''Jurnacao" publicada en la escuela su· man haciendo mara\·illas en Handiperior de Humacao; "Ho~tos" de Ia crafts y n ~tr11. Castillo eoscnando Ia escuela superior de ~tayagiiex, y "Nos- lllswria del A rte y hat•iendo magnifiotros", tl'! Ia e5euela superior de Cabo cos trabnjos·en olros ramos. Rojo. l.a ultimn reuni6n se celebr6 en Ia Exitos les de11eamos a nuestro:. ~·o tcrraza de Costello Hall. Alii se dis1 IE>gns de las c~uelns superlores ~~~ cuti6 algo sobre Ia influt>ncln tie In I Puerto Rico. guerra en el arte. En los alrcdedoJ'C!I I de In terraza hay bellfsimoll pnisajes II MINISTEIUAL UETREAT que invitan a dibujurlos y si no se Th·· l;> "t.~pal clergymen of Puer- puede, a admlrarlos. Llevados por esto Wcu will hold a retreat on the l'ol~· to se hicieron algunos dibujos de difetel·hnic Campus from May 26 to May rentes a~tpectos, del p:~isaje. Los dibu29 with Bishop Charles U. Colmore joll pasaron a un jurado para ller juzdirecting the program. The con- gados siendo la ~rta. Gcnoveva Hnmfferences will be held in the logia of rez Ia que mejor y mi111 rapitlnmente Casa .Marla, above the t'lllnpus. and logr6 captar Ia realiilad ~· bclleza del the clergy will have rooms in Harr:s paitaje. ~:n vlspe ras lie un nuevo uno, el Hall and take their meals in the lowe r Club de Arte imita al estudiantado a dininf{ room. The Polytechnic v.·elcomes to rtll una mayor compreosion en su lnteres campus these representatives of the nrtfstico ya que tan buenas oportunlChurch and trust!! that their retreat dncles nos ofrece el t'olegio. ~lanuel .M artin. will be all they hope. I l P OL YGRA PH ~LAB H AS J>ensando en In~ ]tOCtltl th:b que le a los Seniors ~:n e:;tos lugares, 11 alguno~ •le ellos t•ara itar su,; palnhra,; de oespedidll parn el Alntn Mater y lo' compaii1~ro!' '91e se quedan. Algunos--duro es decirl0-6e ncgnron n complncer mi petici6n. Quizlls su curiiio por el colel(io S"ol tanto que no pue<i:ln I'X pre•rse en unns lineus. Otros, muy ge:Derc-::ns, me entregaron olt':Unns Hn<'aS que expresan cl afecto n In lnstituci6n v n los f·ompaiicros. A•1dr&! Acosta: "J>cspu1>s de trc.:; aiio e <'stud;o en Pl lnslituto l'olit.ecn: o. Mlo puedn pensnr rn la In><· tituci6n que uclem ~s de haLl'r cle~(ler tado mb inquietudes !•ulturnlcs, PS ta.Jn:,·('n rt~spunsahlt• de Ins fuctort!S mils lmportnlllf'll dt> 111 l c·nrlit'lel'.'' Joscfina FnrngP: ".S'cmpre n•rvrdare el Pvly. En el hP pm:ado parte cle mi juventud y ya cuandu se~ viejn n·· cord 11~ acjuellos bucnns tiempns jun· to R lis profesoreS r compni\eroll.'' 1'"1 i:'!( Angel Ro.iriguez: ·•Jnmas 110· d~ tlhidar nucstrn Aim!.\ Mater. JlUf'S en ella he pnsario los dins mits felices de mi ''ida, junto n mis compniiero!l de ('Studios que siempre recordarc con eariiio." Hoberto l'ernltn: "EI Poly me hn abi<'rto la brechn de un huen pon·enir. L!evo cl recucrdo de ln ~lnsa Coni y de ntis nctividmles dcpurtivns. Y me my con mil }JUntos.'' H:dn Rivero: "Tcrmino para cmpezar. Ahora mr. voy a tratar de apllear tantas lecciones tle voluntad y dl' bellezn espiritunl que lll'rnos aprcndl· do en cuatro tdifls de vidn politutcnsc. Solnn1cnte digo: )luchnchos, l1n&tn el 2 de mn r :w." L'gia QuliioJH•a: "lie PSiudirulu lo necc ;:'l!'lu, rnra '••z 1111' l'l'rdi una jira, nun ·a h1.' fnltuclo al c·int• lu!l viernes me llc\'n d"s rlt•chitnK y mm·hi~i mos rcrut•rdos ........'' Alfredo y .llruni: El l'oly nos ha enseiiado aquelln lel'cion del misti('(t esp:liiol- j Que descansadn vida Ia ric! que huye del mundnnnl ruido! l'or ,,so nosotros harcmos un nid11 tlc amores para recordar r scgulr vlvienrlo como en lo.:; dias del Poly.'' Fla\•io Ah·nrez: "Aunqu~ al terminar mi bachillerato me pensnba ir para Sirin, he decidido fJUCdarmc en Puerto Rico para ,·olwr el 2 d~> mnrso a revh'ir los momentos del l'orch y denuis instantes de nuestro proJtra- ma.'' PARA QCE DIGAN DE DESPEDIDA Juan 0. Herrero: "AI dejar el Poly solo digo-Si sc estaran recordando elias de mi como yo de elias...". No confundnn, me refiern a In!: usijl'natura.s .•.....•'"' • Genoveva Ramirez: "EI l'oly contribuyo a que yo gul\tase m{u; del arte y de la1:1 cienciu~. Jlrometo 1wr un graduado leal a mi Almu 1\tat<•r." Genovcvn Veler.: "1<:1 l'oly hoy !lignifica mucho en In edurnri6n tie nue~ tro pais. Maii.ana sera lo que sus graduados de:~een. A nosotros tot·a poDer ~n alto su nombre." Eligio \'eJez: "Me parN·e que lo que sintamos por nuestro colcgio debE'mos expresnrlo a tran!s de nuestras actuac:iones en Ia vida proft'sional y en las actividaoes de nuestra comunidad. El tiempo dini.'' Jorge N. Cintron F igueroa: "Conor.co el Poly de~;de sus cafetales r cai'iaftl'ales hasta Ia biblioteca. Desde primer ailo vengo saltando de sitio en aitio, al extrerno de conocer bastante DE ESTUDIANTES EYANGELICOS FR ATE R ~ IOAD Reguramente ya hay por esos lugares del Poly \'arios estudinntes haciendo uso del paiiuelo para l'ecar las la~rimas que produce Ill partida. Termina un aiio mas de vida escolar. Un grupo de jovenes recib<on un titulo de Barhiller en Arte~ y c'errnn un periodo de su educacion. El Politccnico Ianza por el mundo una nue,·a clnse gratiuada. Conocemos n to1los lm; miembro~ que Ia integr:m. J,os hay muy talentosos y rt!lipunsnhle~. l.o~ hav muv indinados a In \'ida facil sin muchos. :mcrifkios. En conjnnto ofreccn e::peranz.llii de grande:~ r.·:-tli:r.ncione:.. Todos llevan el optimismu y cl entusinstno de Ia juventud. "Pttra que Dignn'' les dire IJUP al g-ruduur:;e comienzu !!U n•sponsabiliclad para con el t·oledn. El diploma nu autoriza el olvido. El emplen no jusli fica Ia aus!'ncia. Es justo r de JH'r· snnas de espiritu noble SPguir hll'han· do JJur cl engrandecimiento cit• h\ lnstilttci6n que rlurnntc cuatro aftoll oriento todos lo.- momt·ntos de su ,;,1:1, "Para que dignn" sale por ultima \'CZ. ~i alguien <JUiere ~l!guir dicicn lo, el Polygraph cede gust ..samcnt,. Ia columna a quien qu iera sacrifirnr nl~'11nos minuws y dedicarlos a nuc!'tro peri6dico. • • • T.a Cla~e Junior h:ibilmcntc presiJit!a por el c;otu•liante lsmael F. 7.a· pater e:<tablet·e un prccedcntc honroso en Ia historia del Poly. l'or prlmcrn ,·ez una clase graduanda tie nuestro colegio recibe la dh;tind6n cle scr dcspeditln. con un banquete que en su lwnt•r ufrece In Cla,;e Junior. L:1 illPa es feliz r mcrE'I:e que H' c1m1mgre cnmo una trauicion en el Campus. ~ues tra felicitacion J•ara Zapater y !1U tlin:'unica gente. l Al lt·rnLnar el quinto aii.o de vida Ia F. F.. E. ,:e siente satisfecha por Ia labor que ha poclido realizar dentro y fuera del Campus del Polih~cnico. Hemo11 continuado las reuniones dominkales para rulti\·ar Ia de\·ocion y el espiritu religiMo enirc los estudiantes. Ademas visitruno:; como en aiim; unteriores, vnrias iglesias de Ia parte occidental cle Ia bola. I::speranws de nucstros miembros Ia mayor <'nntiriad rie cnoperacion parn sus iglesial' locale!! durante las vacnciom•:-~. Demuestt·en n sus congye){lll'ioth~h IJUC en el l'oly adem:i.s de ret•lbir una l'tluead6n lib,)ral. los estudinnles nus relnciunamo!l con los prohlernn~ sodales y religiosos de nuestro pu••hl11. \' que Nil'mpre podemos llevar clt•l Alma l\lal!·t' algo 11uevo y bueno que t·on!l'ihuyn al progreso rlc: Ia Cau- * * , F:thel ha rcnunrindo a Ins ~lh•iones l't•dagii~it·as. Ahora rolaborn con Artiga~ Pn estudios profundos de malcnuiticas avanzadns. .. .. .. Arrhilla esta gordito.......... "' En lo~ uli.imos oias hemo:< salutlatlo a los jovenes \\.illie Santana-hoy todo un ~argento--<:asndo. y a Jorge Arbona de Ia Torre quien volvern a su ,·ida de estudiante durante el curso cle verano. Arbona trabajaba hnsta ahora en Aguadilla. • • • Los Seniors Iegan su espiritu riinamico, su amor al colegio r su retahila de presidentes a los Juniors. bien estos lugares tan privilegiados por Ia naluraleza. AI partir llevo In esperanza de no ser mal ngradecido <·omo algunos que olvidan todo el bien que aqui recibieron. Y salgo con los mil puntas, como Peralta .......'' Jorge Melendez Vela: "Llevo impresiones muy gratas del l'olit~niro. AI partir no quiero decir adi6s, .s ino hasta luego. porque se que imperativos espirituales me traeran por estos sitios frecuentemente. Por el camino de Ia vida s'empre me acompaiiara inP~pirandome, Ia hermosa vision de estas colinas donde radica el Alma Mater, forjadora de caracteres integros y de voluntades inflexiblE's." l DESDE UN RI~CO~ DE LA CANCH_\ 1. Plegaria de Carmin ~anto" al acostarse: "Dio~ mio, te pido de todo rorazon que no haya Jlasajes para lo~ Estados Unidos." 2. i. I.e!< ,g ustarra l'ahcr quten es :\lau ~ Dirijase a Jo~!!finn Hivera 30;> B. :t Pablo Gu:mlin:a ,. Andre~ Aco:"· ta son muy nfines E';t sus preferencia_c;. Asi lo <'anfirmn Ia !::;rtn. U. ~1. 0. 4. :\uestro reportern cle !:: Mal'a nos informa que la nusendn con m(lti\'O de los cnndt!rtos en la Cnpital trajo varios "make-ups". Que •'Ntt;;sten Cummings y Cnlladtt. 5. F. I>. tlic:e a 'T'oby: "En mi \'ida hay tan solo un amnr, y esc :unnr eres lu". ~~n cl r.spndo H• ngita el espiritu de ~ymcuse. li. ;\largarita Alvarez tii<'•': "De la~ ~a. cienciaH he aprendidn Bllul'll{• tie c1ue "BLO<.'J\: P" DINl'\ER E~ EL en la \'ariedad esta el gusto." 7. Coimbrc clio un hataz(l dcsocuPOLITEC~TCO pando las tres baSI'S........ Los muchne,ho!< nt](·ta!l que tan alto R. C. A. Je cants a Finn Diaz.......... pu!!:cron el nnmhre del f'nlitccnico en las justn~ intercolef!ialc,; pa:.aons r ''Odi11r tl, ,,a,la importa, bdiame.'' 9. (.. ~. h· dire a Dnrian: "Accrcate en In~ olimpiad11s de Ia "Victoria." junto a los otro~ que romponian los miis, y :: .<\" y mfts. Pero mucho m{ts." l'quipos de pelnta y lmloncesto reci111. Oe G. C. a Chegiii: ''\'en, mi bi<'ron los trofeo!' r.reditivos t.le sus coraz6n te llamu. i ay! descspernda· trlunfos rieporth•os en el "Block P" mente.'' Dinner que como en nftos :mteriores 11. De :;\lis~ Dt'JIOT 11ara Fall ........ celcbro ln instituciiin el sabado 9 rle •·Te quiero y es imposible segulr villlll\'(1, ,.i~ndo ::in tu qucrcr." r;l banquete que ya sc e:;t:i. hacien12. ()e Orlanclo n L. P.: "Ohiclame. clo t radkonnl en cl l'olit~··ni··o rue rie<licn•lo ul Sr. J. 'P. Ja:<on cuyo amor yo bien Fe que no puetlo. no puedt• pur t•l Dcporle le ha !Je,·a•ln a reali- quererte, olvit.lnme.·• 1a. Gil Cnsnno,·u 11 su X ........ "Iluznr sm1 m;~yorc!' esfucrzo,- en pro del jiLo a! oido: "Sitbt•lo bien, que ;;in ti mi~mu. El Sr..Jusnn nl hacer uso de Ia pa- pereceria el lutir del cornzon.'' luhra t~vn frafCR de reconocimiento 11. Fla\'io nl partir hacin EE. UC. n:ua el I 'olit~cnico por su labor tle- le dice n Fofi: "Yo me voy pero \'uelporli\':1 y t'Xhorto ,1 nuestros mucba- vo otru \'ez, a huscar lo que dl'jo al l'hnr a jugar ..:iempre caballerosa y partir." IHIIJ'ianwnte. 15. Roun• hn vueltn una vez rnrrs. El J>r. Santulluno que actu6 mu:-· Que hnble Hnydee. hahihnente d" maestro de ceremo16. Despucs de presencinr n Ia d!snins, present6 a otros oradores, entre tancin una prolongadn di~cusi6n-sin el!os a Dr. :,\lorris. RAez Garcia. Pre!!illentc rlc In Al<ociarion Atlctica, Dr. oir nat!a-nuestro corre!lpon~ul se Irizarry. Sr. -'f. Aviles, e Ismael Za- acel'l'n a David y a Lidia y le,; dire: pater. quienes pre!'entaron sendos tro- ;, T ienen algunas mnnifestaciones para el Poligrnph? ~Ju;.· l'impati<·o~ nos feos a diferf'nte~ atletas. El diS<"ur,.o de clausura e!\tuvo 'l uicen: "Xo nada, nada; ~61o una amiscargn del Lcdo. Amador Ramirez Sil- tad." 17. Carmen Tuyn entre sucii.os deva ctulen hizo una peroracion muy inl:ipirada en torno a los Deportes des- cia: "Gladys, Gladys ......... Ia del Matacanoo la importancia de estos en el tienzo." ciesarrollo ric una sociedad sana y 18. Aida Jovet cambio el bate por el bal6n.... lliaggi. llllla. Hecibicron trofeos especiales por su 19. Axa Jusino dire: "De todos los labor deporti\'a de este aiio, Antonio libros, In Biblia; y denlro de csta. el \'itzqUE'Z, Humberto Sainz, Flavio Al- libro de ~chemins." varez y Cabanas. 20. El Presidente de los l'residentes. Desput)s de la comida hubo una ja- Don Marcos Cruet de Cayey, quien se rann en Uorinquen Hall. como dispone a substituir a Melendez en las rulminaci6n brillante del "Block P" pr6ximas eleccionell, espera outener ... Dinner de 19·12 que auspiciara con "A" plus en lng!Cs........... . tnn rotunda exito In W. A. A. 21. Herminia Arce Re dispone n publicar varios ncr6sticos que le inRpira N. Y. A. h npresiona Visitante. una musa de Ia Mass........ T. A. T. A. DeRpues de una visita reciente a T. A. T. A. los tallC'res de ln N.Y. A. Don Antonio 22. T'or prescripci6n medica Mulet .:'lfatos, se expres6 asl: "La visits me se pintani el pelo de colorao: Camouprooujo ~ran satisfaccion, pues soy flage, Mimetismo o Adnplacion ...... un fervoroso creyente en Ia suficiencia 23. El tiburon de Carlos Garcra tiepropia. Un problema que confrontamos hoy es Ia rarencia de esa suficiencia. · ne tiburoncito!l. 24. M. C. A. dice a l\1. S.: "Vamos Creo que cuando un hombre no puede ponerse de pie, debe darsele Ia mano: a separarnos, Ia vida lo quiere asi.'' pero una VE'z puesto de pie, debe de25. A Ia nina de los "ojos peneja~e ·que siga solo. Celebro que Ia trantes que se pierden en Ia lejanfa" labor de estos jovenes se encamine a le sugerimos que se decida. Son tres, y dos se graduan. ese fin." J anuary 14, 1938, at the post EnteredinasSan se&n-d clau matter office German, Puerto Rico, under the act of August 24, 1912. [ - l,. p0LY GRApH l_ _____. SUMMER SCHOOL ISSUE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF PUERTO RICO San GermAn, P. R. YOLl L'! E \1Zt J ULY 20, 19 12. ~· 6 Who Can Remember? ' 1. The fi r~t class room building where the carpenter s hop is now? 2. These stalwm·t fellows h~ fore t h e n ew science Hall? :l. The impres...;ive offi ce of the v ice- pre~ident ? &iJ. •1. One of the first boys' dormitorit':;'! ' P LEASE USE Am MAIL WE ARE SORRY. BUT IT'S THE WAR The war gets blamed for all kinds of things.......... some people even blame their bad dispositions and their bad colds on the war. B~t it really is the truth that the Polygraph appears this time on this kind of paper becaul!e of the war and the shortage of 1.1hipping space to get paper to Puerto Rico. W hen we realize that some of the noblest. words of history were written on rough, old papyrus and that that flimsy writing material endured for centuries, we are not ashamed to offer our humble l··j ournalistic efforts on this paper, far superior to that on which wu written. "J esus saith, 'Raise the stone and thou shalt find me, cleave the wood and there am I' ". ( From papyrus fragment found at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt.) , A g:oud many sh;pments for which we waited in vain can only serve the fillh now. A hundred fifty sacks of cattle and poultry feed, four barrels of dishc,.; for lhe dining room, colored slides of student activities, and 10,000 reprints from ''Women and l\Iissionll" of a short article, these and several other badly needed items are now at the bottom of the sea. The Library has a growing list of current maga· zines that have' just never arri\'ed. We try to imagine a hammerhead :;hark rE-ading our Atlan tic Monthly somewhere in the Atlantic while he takes his breakfast of Michigan State Ration N• 2 from one of our green band dinner plates, and we get cold comfort from the picture. lt jolts us a little •to know that many first class letters have also been lost and when we get to thinking that in them there may be some checks and money orders that can do no octopus or sea-urchin a bit of good, we are made bold to urge you to send all important communications by air mail. Air mail to Puerto Rico costa ten cents Per half-ounce, but a pretty big check with its accompanying letter may weigh less than half an ounce. We once receive a check for $25,000, yes, we did, and it positively did not weigh mo re tan ·half an ou.nce! POLYTECHNIC ACCELERATES PROGRAM At the call of the nation Polytechnic has accelerated its program by of· fcring two summer sessions of five weeks each. Because of the difficulty in predicting enrollments, the faculty generouslr agreed to teach on a sa· lary scale based on the actual number of 1.1tudent:; enrolled. The, war it has worked out . with 116 student." in thCJ Cirat session and 150 in the second, the faculty w i II receive slightIr larp;er salaries than in former summer sessions for about double the teaching. Faculty members feel that this is their contribution to the war effor t of the nation. By having the two summer sessions twice as many students are being served as in former years and a great many will find it possible to graduate at Chr istmas 1942 instead of in May 1943. W ith the two session plan it is possible for the average student to finish college in three calendar years and the bright student to complete his work in one semester less than three years. Of the 160 enrolled in the second summer session, 53 are public school teachers, and 47 are Polytechnic graduates or former students who returned only f or the s ummer. FALL TERM OPE NS AUGUST 17. , Large Enrollment Expected The Polytechnic will begin its twentieth year of college work with the Freshman registration and orientation program on August 17. Other students will register on August 19. From the advanced reg· istration in the Registrar's orticc it appears that there will be a larger enrollment lhan in former years and a probability that well qualified studenta shall have to be refused admission fo r lack of room. We sug&'est that all who are in· terested in the Polyte<:hnic tor next year apply at once in order not to be eliminated for lack of room. I POLYGRAPH 2 Polygraph Published for the students, faculty, alumni and friends of the Polytechnic Institute. Subscription, 50 cents per year. Blanche Kellogg·--Rest in Peace Editor this edition: Mrs. Lydia Quinones de Gregory ·with the help of olhers. \ "PUERTO RICO EVAI'\GELICO" PRESS, PONCE, P.R. • NEW STREAllLINED CATALOGUE SEED Al\1> ,PIG BUSINESS Stewart Farms of the Polytechnic have been having conspicous success in raising Puerto Rican sweet corn. a variety developed at the Federal Jo;xperimental Station in 1\layagUez a few years ago, and in raising papaya with seeds from selected plants. The farms have also developed its own strain of hardy. well-dispositioned. Hampshire pigs; Mr. Aviles. the manager, a n d President Morris thought that these products ought. to be shared with others farmers and gardeners of Puerto Rico and therefore. advertised seed and little pigs for sale in the local paper. So many orders began pouring in that some customers have had to be asked to wait a few weeks for the supplies to · be replenished. None of the favorite northern sweet corns like Country Gentlemen and Golden Bant.am produce well, if at all, in Puerto Rico for the curious reason that the tropical days are not long enough. These corns, like caulifower and potatoes, like the sL'{teen and eight.een hour days of the far ~orth. The Puerto Ricnn sweet com, however produces excellent crops here in about 80 days, since it was developed out of the acclimated field corn. The seed are offered at fifteen cents a packet or fifty cents a pound. For sPveral years the papayas of Puerto Rico have suffered n. scourgE>, , known as . "bunchy-top:• from which FUNDS KEEP GROWING the plant begins to die at the cr0"\"\'11. ::\Ir. Frnncisco Castillo. the Bursar, The plant pathologists have not gotreports that through small gifts of ten to the botton or it yet, but think alumni. churches, faculty members, that it is a ''irus disease scattered by and friends. the special funds con- an insect. For several years the Polvtinue to grow. The campus lightinp; technic lost 98 per cent of its papa)·a fund for which $1,2HO was needed has plants from this disease, but one plant reached $G24.46. This will be held showed strong 1·esistance to it. Sec(! until the war is over when electrical from that one were planted and more equipment will no longer be so vital than half of the resulting plants produced heavily without contracting .the in •lefense. The Chapel Funcl hns grown by U1e disease. Seeds taken from this second same means to $179.98. A chapel is generation, . resistant to disease, are one of the most urgent needs of the being sold at fifteen cents a packet or growing student body, but again it forty cents an ounce. It is the hope would be impossible to build until the that ultimately a completely resistant war i~ o,·er. F-riends may, however, mriety will be developed. So fa.r the continue to send gifts for that day of trees that haYe resisted the disease peace and reconstruction. have also produced very aromatic and The Student Rotary Loan Fund ha~ ,·cry s'>veet. fruit. Papaya is becoming reached $3,342.82 of the goal of $5,000 so popular a fruit for ice ('Teans. set last year. This is urgent now and drinks, and condiments in the United cannot wait until the war is over. The States, that the scientist who could very fact of the war makes training purify the strains and develop true for· vouth more nece~sary and college types that would resist this destructcour'ses more expensive and more dfr- ive "bunchy-top" would make a great ficult for the bright but poor students. contribution to society. The N. Y. A. has withdrawn itS scholarships entirely and althou;;h there have been run)ors that Congress '~ill appropriate funds to be dis- students and therefore appeal to all tributed through the U. S. Office alumni and former students, to all oi' Education to poor and worthy friends and supporters to send gifts college students, nothing yet has been for this very necessary fund in this critical hour. Gifts of whatever dedone. The Polytechnic must take care of nomination are welcome...... and please ita present roll of fine, struggling use air mail! The 1942 catalogue. just off the press, has been reduced in siz~ by the omission of the student regtster for last y~.>ar, by a new system of course numbers ami symbols to reduce cou~e descriptions, and by a general shortening of all descriptiYe material. Althou~rh il is not the full catalogue the .Polytechnic usually issues the offici.' is willing to ~end copies' lO those who wish one for information or reference, knowing that recipients will understand the necessity of every possible saving in shipping spl.U'e at this critical hour. The catalogue lh•ts new courses to be offered in Art, :\1usic, Health Education, History, Chemistry. Education. and English. several of which are of particular interest and value at the present time such as History of the Far Eal't, Physical Chemjl>try. and Fir~t Aid and Home Nur~ing. The faculty register oi last year reveals niae teachers with the Doctor's de~ee, ei~ht with Master's, :five with the Bachelor's plus advanced work toward the Masters, and only two with Bachelor's degree only, Total number of courses offered per semester a1·e approximately thirty by holders of Doctor's degrees, thirty by holders of Master's degrees, and twelve by holders of Bachelor's degree. It is odd that the first reported war casualty on Puerto Ri~o should be the only Evangelical girls' high school in the Island. Blanche Kellogg Institute, for twenty years a blessing to over a hundred young women each year, has been taken over by the Insular Government, Department of Interior. and the Congregational and Christian Board of Missions will receive a reported $140,000. Where dies the school, typewriters will click and "politicos" will pass to and fro. In defense of government. it must be said that if this he encroachment in the name of the war. it was first suggested and warmly courted by the Mission Board, which failed even to take the lrouble to answer several oU1er offers from private individuals, church agencies, and private institutions. This last is what we cannot understand, we who merely live here in ' Puerto Rico where nearly 300,000 children can never go to school, for there are not schools enough, and where a Christian education is available .for less than 2'1~ of the 6M,IlOO children of school age. When we heard that Blanche Kellogg might close we offered to operate it under co-operative control with lhe Mission Board, for a 20',{ budget reduction from the North each year until it could hecome entirely self-supporting. This offer was put in writing and followed, up with several letters, hut to this hour we have not received a def~ite or official "yes" or ·•no." The Doard can do what it will with its own and who can say it nay? But a school belongs to society quite as much as to a founder or a supporter, and the constituency should be heard! Teachers, :::tudents, parents, g r a d u a t e s, friends, prominent educators, a :former governor of Puerto Rico, the FACULTY After nearly a year in New York, ~Irs. Morris returned on June 29 via Cuba. Haiti, Santo Domingo, and PanAmel'ican planes. She was "oii-loaded" (new word coinage, series of 1942) three times, but finally arrived leaving the children to continue their schooling in the States with relatives. On June 26 Dean Irizarry left by plane for .Miami with his son Kenwood to place him in the Reconstruction Home for Spastics and sufferer!' from Infantile Paralysis in Ithaca, N. Y. and to attend a meeting of a committee of the National , Education Association of which he is a member, in Washington. Dr. Irizarry will also interview prospective staff members for ne.:\:t year and confer with Dean Tyler of the UniYersity of Chicago about the expansion of the Poly- Commissioner of Education of Puerto Rico, the Association of Evangelical Churches, besides ourselves, flooded the Board with letters, suggesting, offering help, pleading, begging, not to let Blanche Kellogg die. But .Blanche Kellogg is dead. died oi that strangest disease known to man, the very opposite of contagion and fever, namely, lack of contact and cold, impractical tbeor,·. ~ ·' Everybody who spoke out in Puerto Rico said Blanche Kellogg should not die; they said it was needed. needed desperately, that it had served well and was serving well, but the 1\cw York Board did not listen. Blanche Kellogg died. the first war ca ... ualty at the hands of its own parents! Vague suggestions of its resurrection in another place. at a later unspecified time. in a different form (it must be "functional" and not "classical" the representatives of the Board say), with a difft!rent staff...... cannot satisfy. Something else, somewhere else. some other time can be named Blanche Kellogg, but that is not a r~.>:'jurrertion; that is a namesake, nothing more. 1\Iy personal indlgnat.ion rises from the facts that (1) the Congregational Board never answered my offer given in all good fnith. and (2) that the representatives of tlle ~oard reported to others that we wanted to make of Blanche Kellogg a school for "the aristocracy". For goodness sakes! Ave Maria! Yes and, God forbid! We want the friends of the Polytechnic far and wide to know th~t we did all in our power to save the institution. We do not know what else we could have done. They just paid no attention to us. Blanche Kellogg, rest in peace? Janis K ~lorris. GOINGS-0~ techn1c's program in Education for next rear. He expects t.o return the latter part of July. Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Heth of the Music Depattment are spending the summer at the Presbyterian Fellow;;hip House in Aguaclilla de\'eloping choirs among the U. S. soldiers stationed there :md assisting with the valuable work of the center among the American boys far from their homes. They will be back ou the campus for the regular year, beginning August 17. Dr. and :\frs. George M. Robison and Miss Grace Gamble left by plane during the last week, of May, after only one year at San German. Mrs. Robison's health and that of her family in the North made the change advisable. JEntered anuary as 14,second 1938, class at thematter post office in San German, Pu.e rto Rico, under the act of August 24, 1912. l p0LY GRApH l SEPTEl\'IBER ISSUE 1 POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF PUERTO RICO San German, P. R. VOLU~lE vx( x• SEPTE:UBER 20, 1942. GREETINGS FROM DEAN OF WOME ~ 'VINNING THE WAR AT HOME . r·G~i~~~~~~ ·;~~~~ I Freshmen, whose brave new beginning is also mine: Sophomores and Juniors. who rest me from the guesswork of strangeness nnd the anxiely of impending loss; Seniors, survivors o f the tempests of adolescence and mariners-in-waiting for stronger seasTo all of you, heart's welcome! To all of you, my wishes for your best achievements! Mary Alice La mar. Dean o! Women. • e 0 • • e e • e Over one hundred boys are housed in Phraner. •This means that some rooms intended for t;\vo occupants have three, and so.me meant for one have two. :'llevertheless, il is a happy family. Especially are the students happy during the last few minutes before menls. It mav be that the thought of something t~ fill a hungry stomach is what puts them in a festive mood, or !t mny be the thought of the social hour to be enjoyed after the evenin~t meal in Borinquen Hall. Of course, there are some moments not so pleasant. There is the thought of daily inspection. It is such a bother to have to make one's bed. hang up the clothes, ant! get the room ready for Inspection every morning. Although s impa tica, the house mother, at times, has a serious look on her face. In conspiracy with the dean of men, she might make life unpleasant for a careless student. All in all, it gives a better impression to have one's room in order. Furthermore, that "A" on the inspection slip looks good. Speaking of unpleasant moments, there is nothing quite so annoying as when a boy goes out without his key to have the wind b1ows shut his door. He begs a friend to report to the house mother that he is locked out of his room. She replies: "Well, tell him, if he comes down, I will give him a duplicate key."-"But Miss, no puede." A number of fathers and mothers came to help their sons a rrange their rooms, hang curtains over the clothes-closet, and show the boys how to make up a bed. Some of the beautifu l, band-embroidered sheets are enough t o m a k e Miss Huffman en vious, but to find no sheets at all results in unpleasant interviews. One of the articles required of the student, by the Administra tion are sheets f or the bed. (Continued on page 2, Col. 3.) DEAN OF MEN Young men, salute. We welcome you. The Faculty, and Seniors too. The Junior~ all and Sophomores, Our latch keys hang outside our doors. Ye Freshmen, Fresh, renew our life, You add more zest and sometimes strife. But with it all we live anew So once again, We welcome you! Charles A. Leeker. Dean of Men. It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. • • • Ml LARGE E NROLLMENT PHRANER HALL CROWDE D 7. -~ NEW TEACHERS ARRIVE •••••••••• • • •• • WE' LL EAT YOUR BANANAS You Eat Our Potatoes. Two stories come to us from the U. S. A.-one is of four bananas seen on a fruit stand wrapped in celophnne and priced at 10 cents each-and the other. of people who stopped their car to stare al a whole bunch of bananas in a store window. What. is happening to make bananas so scarce for our American readers is happening to make potatoes just as scarce for us. We found a few potatoes in the market the other day at sLxteen cents per pound and bought them all, not to eat, but to plant, in the hope that we can produce a few more down here where potatoes do very poorly. The experts tell us it is because of the short tropical days and the warm tropical nights. Potatoes like Maine and Idaho weather with long bright summer . days and chill nights. But bananas do well here and they are a standard substitute for potatoes. Ve.ry starchy when green, they are boiled, mashed, fried, in fact served in almost every way potatoes are. Cream of banana soup is not half bad and green bananas do not taste like ripe bananas at all. The standard price for green ones here is thirty-five cents per hundred and choice ripe ones retail for a cent apiece. There are dozens of varieties: from the finger bananas t hat are best f ried ripe to the eighteen inch plantains that can be cooked in a dozen ways. The Polytechnic has large plantings of plantains-Monte Cristo's, and D·wa rfs, and some J ohnsons, and other varieties. One three acre planting of August 1941 wit h a bout eighteen hundred trees is producing now and should produce about a RECITAL PLANNED FOR SEPTEMBER Mr. William J. Hasselman, bassbaritone of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, now stationed at Borinquen Field, will be the first artist to appear in a series of musical recitals to be held this year at the Polytechnic Institute. 1\Ir. Hasselman has selected a number of familar songs which should be of special interest to the students. Among those to be heard are the popular "Shortnin' Bread," nnd "Old Man River." The event is scheduled for late September. We are eage-r to have Mr. Hasselman ·with us and are anticipating his recital with much pleasure. hundred thousand bananas an d twenty thousand plantains. All of these cannot be consumed in the student dining hall and some will have to be sold in the local market, but a surprisingly large amount can be consumed by the students, faculty families, and workers' families. F'or one meal in the dining hall they need f rom two hundred fifty to four hundred bananas and from a hundred fifty to three hundred plantains. Ripe bananas can be used for breakfast and sliced with other fruits for a dinner dessert; cooked ones can be served in ronny ways once or twice a day. With rice {we use a hundred pounds at a meal), the old Puerto Rican standby, worth nearly four times what it cost a year ago, we are very fortunate to have so good a supply of bananas. We do, however, miss the potatoes, and wish we could trade places with most of you about two da ys in the week. After two weeks of struggling for passage on Pan American planes l\11ss Viola Dunbar of Boulder, Colorado, arrived to take up her duties in the Englisli Department. Dr. Dunbar receivedt her Bachelor's degree from Illinois U n i " e r .s i t y and her Master's and Doctor's degrees in English Literature from Northwestern. During last year she was Humanities Librarian and Assistant Professor of Bibliography at the University of Celorado, Boulder, Colorado. Dr. Dunbar is teaching the Freshman sections of English Composition, one course in Preparatory E n g I i s h, and one advanced course in Romantic Movement. Dr. Dunbar's home town is in West Chicago, Illinois. Miss Margaret Saliva, who graduated Magna Cum Laude at the University of Puerto Rico, has her Master's degree in Mathematics from Columbia University, and has completed all her resident requirements for her Doctor's degree, is teaching courses in Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus. Miss ,Saliva is working on her Doctor's thesis now on the subject of "Mathematics Teaching in Puerto Rico." She is the daughter of Mrs. Blanca M. Saliva, matron of Carlota Matienzo, the girl's dormitory at the University of Puerto Rico, and is a member of t he Saliva family of Mayagliez. SCHOLARSHIPS A generous layman belonging to one of the Presbyterian Chul'Ches in Philadelphia offers ten schola rships of $50.00 eaeh to those P resbyterian students in Polytechnic Institute who give proof of having mastered the Westminster S h o r t e r Ca techism. (This catechism is a concise statement of the belief of the Presbyterian Church.) Competitions are now being held to determine who are to be the recipients of these scholarships. POLYGRA P H 2 Polygraph Published for the students, faculty, alumni and friends of the Polytechnic Institute. Subscription, 50 cents per year. The President's Column Editor this edition: 0. B. Irizarry with volunteer help from Faculty and student body. "PUERTO RICO EVANGELICO" PRESS, PONCE, P.R. EDITORIAL In his labor day address a few days ago, President Roosevelt payed high tribut~ to the gallantry with which our men are giving their lives on bloody battle fields across the seas. They are gallantly dying because we at home are counting on them to save our property, our cultural heritage, and our way of living. Then he added: "Have not these men the right to be counting on us? How are we playing our part back home in \\-'inning this war? The answer is, we are not doing enough." As college men we should be the first to heed the President's call for a greater effot·t. It seems that in spite of the shortage of vital commodities such as rubber, gasoline, wheat, flour, meat, and building materials, all of which are already interfering disagreably with the routine of our daily living, we are still somewhat apathetic toward the seriousness of the situation. Here on the campus we still waste as much paper on classroom notes, we deface the .walls of our buildings, we mistreat plumbing and electrical fixtures, and we are careless about a great many items where economy should be essential. Outside the campus, we still waste food. We spend even more money than in the past for luxuries and amusements because money is more plentiful through higher wages on war construction projects. We make little effort to convert our farms into sources of food supplies. Many individuals already engaged in useful occupations like school teaching, farming, and government service, have rushed to national defense jobs attracted more by fatter pay checks. than by a serious desire to sacrifice f o r the country. There is an unhealthy opportunism in this matter of working for national defense which will undoubtedly result in dangerous social discontent after the war. The cause of this apathy, opp01·tunism, and lack of appreciation of the real issues involved, may be found in the absence, heretofore, of some clear and honest statement about the purpose and objectives of the ·war-a statement which would be thoroughly understandable to the common man: a creed which would fire his heart and ideals to the extent of his being willing to die for it. Fortunately, this need has been filled. On May the 8th., VicePresident Wallace delivered an address before the members and guests of the Free World Association on the subject of "The Price of Free World Victory." In this address, recognized as one of the greatest utterances on the war aims of the United Nations, the Vice-President succeeded in putting in simple, direct, impressive language, a common man's c1·eed for victory and peace. Mr. Wallace does not regard this war as merely .another imperialistic war. He regards it as an interruption, by the Satanic ambition of Hitler, of the long march of freedom for the common man which started 150 years ago with the American Revolution in 1775, and continued subsequently with the French Revolution of 1792, the Latin-American Revolutions of the Bolivarian era, the German Revolution of 1848, and the Russian Revolution of 1918. "Each," he says, "spoke for the common man in terms of blood in the battle field. Some went to excess. But the significant thing is that the people groped their way to the light. More of them learned to think and work together." He believes that the Four Freedoms enunciated by President Roosevelt "are the very core of the revolution for which the United Nations have taken ·their stand". "We who live in the United ON FILLING THE BREACH We came upon the charcoal pit in the banana grove flaming vividly. The "carbonero" had gone away for a few minutes and the embers had burst into flame through the mound of earth. Two students passing by saw the loss and began filling the breach with earth. Soon the flames were smothered and we went on our way thinking of other breaches lhat have been or must be filled. A college on the way for lhree weeks almost without textbooks was cause for dismay...... no doubt about that! But everybody realized that no one was at fault but our enemies of the A..xis,. The teachers, the library, and the 'students themselves did everything possible to solve the textbook problem. The office sent an appeal to graduates and fonner students of the last two years to sell their used books to the bookstore. Fortunately, just as this appeal began to be answered a large convoy reached San Juan bringing the first regular mail for more than six weeks. It took three trips of the station wagon , to bring the Polytechnic mail trom the local post office, and most of the books arrived. But the laboratory equipment and supplies for Biology and Chemistry classes ordered more than six months ago haye not arrived. Some classes have had to be t:hanged, and some supplies have been obtained locally. For the time being this breach has been filled ........ and we are fortunate to have twelve months per year of Puerto Rican flora and fauna to draw upon for Biology classes in case no more supplies come through for the duration. With the gasoline rationed almost to nothing the ox carts become more useful Everyday they are seen on the farm and campus roads hauling grass, wood, seeds, fertilizer, produce garbage, everything for a community of over three hundred persons. When the truck tires are worn out and there is no gasoline, we shall be fortunate to have a dozen strong oxen and four or five carts to fill the breach. The enemy has made breaches in our faculty, books, supplies, equipment, food stuffs. but so far we have always been able to fill them with first class substitutes. These are small sacrifices lo pay for our part of winning the war. To date, as far as we know, none of our graduates or former students have lost their Lives in the armed forces, although there are more than a hundred in the service. Their supreme sacrifice wm be a harder sacrifice for us to bear. Jarvis S. ~lorris. (Continued from page 1.) This year, before enrollment day, room assignments were made. Naturally, the students were not all satisfied with their room-mates. Before coming, many had picked roommates from their home town. They were sure they could study "mejor con fulnno." They were pacified, however, when informed that the assignment was only temporary, to as sure them all a place to sleep the first night or two. Eventually, they were allowed to select their room-mates and the shift was made with far less trouble than had been anticipated. The athletic program is a prime example. \Vith so many men being called to armed service we began the year without an athletic coach, but the students have not been dismayed. Instead they have made suggestions and are following them out with our full approval. Each team, basket-ball, base-ball, and track, has its captain who is also serving as coach and each has it.s manager who is taking care of the equipment. There is a spirit of cooperation and good will lhat will probably result in just as good teams as formerly and with the roung men learning more than ever about re:;ponsibility and real team-play. States," he adds, "may think there is nothing very revolutionary about freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and freedom from the feat· of secret police. But when we begin to think about the significance elf freedom from want for the average man, then we know that the revolution of the past 150 years has not been completed, either in the United States or in any other nation in the world. We know that this revolution can not stop until freedom from want has actually been attained." If you feel the need of some clear-cut statement of war objectives to quicken your sense of obligaton to fight at home for victory over Hitlerism, read Mr. Wallace's address. You might not agree with everything that he has to say, he may sound like another dreamer. But the fact remains that this is the time to plan for peace, and in so doing, to exercise not only practical f1tatemanship and common sense, but also a deep sense of moral perception. Mr. Wallace exercises the latter. As Dorothy Thompson says, he appeals to the morality of mankind, not to "morale" ........ There is a hard clear streak of Biblical righteousness in Henry Wallace, greatly needed in this war. With it goes humaneness and mercy." I POLYGRAPH • ALU)INI NEWS Ronaldo Sanabria, a former student whom many of us remember is now workins:: as a radio inspector for the Western Electic Company in Chicago. During the evenings he works as a laboratory technician in the American Tele\;sior. Laboratiories, Inc., a national research, manufal~turing, and training organization. Ronaldo has made quite a specialty of tele\·ision and is rapidly becoming an expert in the (ield. Mr. Octavio Rodriguez '21, has been promoted to tht> principalship o! the Guayama High School. Praxedes Norat ':38. has begun his• medical training \\'ith a govornment 1:1cholarship. Arturo Cintron •ao, graduated this Spring from the Lnw School at Rio Piedras. Carlos 1\l. Finch' ·lll, hns just received a !:1Cholarshlp from the Government of Puerto Rico to continue his medical training in MPharry ::\tpdical College in ~ashville, Tennessct'. Aida D'Andrea' 41, has returned !rom Rollins College, Florida, and has become an English teacher in the Salinas High School. Julie Michelli '41, is v.·orking with the Department of Health, in Ponce. Augusto Quinone!' '41, is working in the office of the Department of Labor at MayagUez. Alicia Vivas '42, is taking additional v.·ork in thl' School of Educ· ation at the University of Puerto Rico. She can be rE>ached by mail in care of the Hogar Mas6nico. Juan E. Acevedo '42, v.~ll soon enter the laboratories at the School of Tropical Medicine for premedical training. Andres Acosta '42, has begun his studies at the Hahneman Medical College under the auspices of a government scholarship. Fla\·io Alvarez '42, has joined the staff of the Elementarv Schools in Utuado. · Carmen Archilla '42, has joined the staff of the Junior High School in Xaranjito. Jorge Xehemias Cintron '42, may be reached at ~e public schools at Yabucoa. in care of Box 116. Olga Couto '·12, Carmen Sanchez '42. and .Mirtha Santana '42, have been fortunate enough to secure teaching positions in the ~ame l'Chool. All three arc tcal·hing in a Second Unit School in Yauco. Alfredo Archilla '42, is stud>'ing Law at the University of Puerto ~i co. Josefina Calder6n '42, and JoRefina Farage '42 are both complt!ling courses in Education at the University of Puerto Rico. Jorge Melendez Vela, '42, has joined the office staff at Losey Field Air Base, Ponce. Roberto Peralta '42, ia teaching in the Sabalos Second Unit School at Mayagiiez. Ligia Quinones '42, is ~·aching at the Lapas Second Unit in ~:alinas. liarfa L. Quintana '42, can be reached at Orocovis, where she is teaching in the public schools. Hilda Rivera '42, is also teaching in the Patillas Second Unit. Jeafu; M. Rodriguez '42, has become a teacher in Patillas. Clara Luz Saliva '42, now Mrs. Julio Lergier, ia teaching integrated sciences at Asenjo ' Junior High School in Santurce. "ALERS WRITES FROM HOWARD UNIVERSITY" Classmates and friends will be interested in reading the following letter from Arturo Alers to Dr. ) lorris. We quote as follows: "Dear Dr. Morris: "Xearly two years have pns~!!ed since 1 left Puerto Rico. During that time I have taken ad\·antage of every opportunity to further my experiences with the mighty civilization of thiR country. 1 have come in contact with new ideas, new people, new customs, new culture. I have observed anrl learned a little of the North American pattern of life. from g um chewinll and blank s taring in the ~ew York subways to the inspired speeches in the Congressional Hnll of the Capitol at Washington; neverthPiess, my four or five years "en el Poly"· still remain as the most satisfactory experiences in my life. "\\'e are onlv four "Politutos" nt Howard: one ~f us. 'Mercado, was there only for one vear; but even now he is complaining -of what he calls "Ia mala suerte de haber estado en el Phraner un solo aiiito." Quite often the boys hold "bull session!!" and try to discuss all sorts of problems.......... but if we "J>olitutos'' are present, you may be sure that right in the middle of the most interesting conversation. Pacheco will say: "Aier:::, te acuerdas de aquella cacho de ma!<a coral que teniamos y del Dr. Bon•r enfogonado porque loR tenore~ no entonaban"? And then Braulio will perform an imitation of :\lr. Leker or Or. Bover; and I arid: "Boy!, do you remember our athletic field, ami that hot sun. and Torregrosa nashing n signal to "Finchito" to "bunt'' and afterwards shouting to him-"Mano, mano, Fincho. mano !" and Finchito trying to run fast but staying practically in the same place. while mo\'ing his long arms at a dangerouH velocity. "0! course the other Puerto Ricans (from the U. P. R.) and the Americans want to know what it i!' all about. So we have to repeat in our "golet English" all about the "Comite de media noche," "las botellas de Phraner.'' "las nueve argollas a Ia tiniversidad" (the fellows from the U. P. R. here at Howard still are wondering bow that was possible), ''Ia masa", "el plan industrial," "las muchachas bonitas." etc.. etc. "Well. it is 7:50 P. ~I. and at eight all lights will go out tonight for a ten hour practice blackout, and I need to mail this letter now ........ "My very best wishes for the continous success of "el Poly'; and to you, its director, good health and inspiration." Very truly yours, Arturo E. Alent. ' 5 • • • •••••••••••••• $ • 0 0 • 4 Teodolinda Perez '42, has joined the staff of the Elementary Schools in Lajas. Sofia Valdespino '42, is working in the Second Unit School of Arroyo. She writes expressing her desire to change v.;th any teacher now working in Guayama. Her borne is in this city. Bebin Velez '42, is teaching in the Second Unit of Guardarraya, Patillas. Cecilia Velez '42, is teaching in the Junior High School at El Rosario Second Unit, San German. J ose E. Velez '42, has become a teacher in the public schools of Lares. 3 LETTER FROM ALICIA JIMENEZ Alicia Jimenez, (Yrs. Guy Cole) writes of a pleasant journey to Olden, Texas, where !lhe feeb very much at home with her husband'.s family. She found friendly people to guide her enjoymenL of New Orleans' quaintness and charm, has lik~d making new acquaintances, helping them to know something of Puerto Rico, and learning rapid!~· to understand and use English idioms. to mnke woolen shirts and sweaters for the 'l'e.xas "blizzard!<," and to laugh with those who are nmused at her speech. Alicia expecls to study this year at ~orth Texas State Teachers College in Denton. Her letters reflect the happiness of her marriage, and her gift for iriendshi p and adaptability. UAI"AEL GUZ)U~ WRITES "As you already knllw, I was accepted at Georgetown ~tedical School !or ne..xt March. Meanwhile I am taking three subjects at the College: Embriology. Comparative Anatomy, and Human Physiology. Believe me, they are making me work .......... "I have a picture of you all (faculty) including Mother, taken by .Mr. Lcker at Casa Maria. It is lovely. There is something in its atmosphere thnt makes it so real and human. Maybe it was the tension of the moment: a year's work just O\'er. the saying goodb)·e to friends; the uncertainty of the near future-1 guess every one of you must have felt exactly the same way in~ide. It is an excellent picture-{ love it- How distnntly I see the dny in which I can fill my lungs with the fragrant air of the "Colinas de Santa Marta" und sing a tune at the top of my voice! And then hear it ring and slowly die awn:v over the soft contour of the terrain!'' Those of us who were here in summer remember how Rafael made "Auld Lang Syne" ring as a farewell to us. Hafael may be reached at 3420 P. St.. N. W. Wnshington. D. C. NEHEMIAS CL~TRON ESCRIBE Reproducimos, por to interesante, parrafos de Ia carta que Nehemias Cintron escribe a uno de sus amigos en el "campus.'' "1-:n cuanto a mi, qutzas sabras que estoy "trabajando" en Ia Junior High del barrio Limones de Yabucoa. 1-:nseiio aritmetica, ciencia general. tres claaes de Problemas Personales y de Ia Comunidad y unn sola clase de espanol. Ya veras que he tenido que quemur las naves de mis sueilos. El trabajo no es dificil pero sr demasiado. Ocho clases diarias que requieren planes escritos...... y yo sin metodos ni practi~. Por lo de metodos-tu sabes que nunca los he tenido. Mas ya veo que hay que organizarse. Sobre todo, estoy aprendiendo a cumplir 6rdenes y a seguir direcciones." "Durante los fines de semana me voy a mi hogar. Muy cerca vive Bebin quien trabaja en Ia Unidad de Guardarraya. Hilda Rivera y Colonia estan en Patillas en otra Unidad. F ifa Valdeapino en Arroyo; Ligia Quinones en Lapaa, de Salinas. Aida D' Andrea en Ia High de Salinas." IT KEEPS ON GROWI ~G Thl' Student Rotary Loan Fund continues to grow anti to tlate has renched the total of $3,83fl.fl4, which i~ $1.179.06 short of our goal of $5,000, Every week, howe\·er, sees !'ome gro\\1h in the fund. One profe~!lor and hie; wife decided to give $5.00 per month so that a loan could be ~iven to a certain 11tudent. A vi5itor !rom another college staff sent $61).110 toward the fund. A trustee has been giving $5.00 or more per month for the lnst three years. A graduate is now helping a second student to the e.xtent of $5.00 per month by way or the Rotnry Loan Fund and the l'olytechnic Institute Presbyterian Church not only gave $101l.UO last Yl'ar to the fund, but budgeted another $lllli.OO a1h·unce this year. One cines (1941) plans tc give $1UO.OCI this year to huve a scholarship of its own. The l\len's Athletic As:.ocintion is contributing to the fund so that some mone)' can be lent to some worth)· nthlctes. Thus fMulty trustees, graduntes, "'isitors, and even student ors,.rnnizations are helping in the cause. We in\'ite others to participate In this nece~sary phllantropy a~d arc hnppy to accept gifts of whntC\'Cr Size. The fund is so planned and administered that the loans will be repaid upon grnduat,on and the money thus be used over and O\'er again. The notes. guaranteed by a responllible citizen, bear only 4% interest, enough, it is estimated, to cover cost of administration. To date 22 students have been and nre being helped by the fund. THANKS The Chemistry Department received the following letter: ''At the suggestion of Mr. Juan Col6n Bonet. one of your alumni who is locatetl here at Syracuse Univer~ity, we are sending you by l'ureel l'ost a set of samples representative or a number of products manufactured by the Soh·a}· Process Company...... We trust that you will find them of interest in your classroom work." The Chemistry Department v.·as indeed glad to receive this addition to itt< collection. We wish to e..~press our thanks not only to Juan Col6n for his thoughtfulness and continued interest in the development of the Chemistry Department, but also to the Solvay Process Company, which makes the gilt possible. We hope that Juan will not be the last of our Chemistry graduates to answer the plea for assistance from our graduates which we issued in the Polygraph last Christmas Sea!'on. Let us hear from others. COl'GRATULATIOr-;s We congratulate Lieut. Arcadio Torres '31 on his promotion to a Captainc}· and Pedro Nestor Perez, for his assignment to Fort Henning's Officers Training School. Sooooooicioo;i idiiooioCCUS "Ya hemos tenido Ia oportunldad de reunimos en diferentes sitios. El tema ha sido el Poly. Estando en una asamblea de maestros en Guayama, !ormamos un grupo de 10 graduados del Poly. Luego tuvimos un almuerzo. Todoa muy interesadoa en saber el paradero de loa otroa. A Ia ,·erdad que el Poly ae prolonga en el espiritu de aus graduadoa." POLY GRAPH 4 MISCELANEA DEPORTIVA THE COLLEGE BOO~ORM SPEAKS Por B um berto Sainz. I A.o the college Bookworm (Lepisma, if you want a formal introduction). 1 am probably the best authority on the library of the Polytechnic Institute. I've become acquainted with more books and obset'Ved more event:: than any professor or student. During my years of experience I have come to the conclusion that the library is one of the most popular pla('es (Jn the campus; at least everybody goes there. and the best students ore the most frequent patrons. So let that be a word of advice to the new student!':. In fact, I can go Hl far all to say that lhe library is the center of the acanemic life of the school. a sort of "laborator:,:'' where you find your equipment con~<tantly at hand. I onl·e heard a librarian say that the purpose of a library is "to supply the right book to the right reader at the right time." That is just what the pr.ople behind the desk try to dn. From my clo:;e ast'oci:ttion ·with librarians for many year~; I found them to be very nice people. s:n('(l I am a rather aged Bookworm, I have :>een a Jot of changes take r~ace in the Polytechnic library. I've watched it grow from a small colle~tion of books l'helved in store boxe.. to the present library which has really outgrown its half of the thir,l floor of the ScienC'e Hall. Books come in so fast that 1 don't have time f(IT all of tht>m. Why, just this tmm•ne1· a Jot of books came from Blan!.'he Kellogg Institute. They were most!~· fiction, but there was also an A mt>rican Encyclopedia. It wasn't so long ago that some friends of the schonl sent two other sets of encvcloped:as. and I haven't even gotten through them yet. My. this business of getting an education never stops! Ten years ago when 1 was a young fellow I thought l had read all the boob• there were. Sitodrepa Panicea, one of my Bookworm friends, says that he has lived in C\'en larger librnri.,~. lie must know everything! Did you know that the Carnegie Endflwment for lntemational Peace ha!' sent as a gift u group of new boo);~ for the "International Mind'' shelf? They're really good reading, especially if you want to have an intelliz-ent approach lo world events. The shelf is in a mo.ch better location now-just across from the desk You can't miss it. Before 1 leave you this time, I war.· to pass on a thought which 1 !'ound in a book by that ad~rable English writer. Aldous Huxley. "Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full. !<ignificant and interesting." Well ~tated, isn't il-but you must , know how. -Lepisma. Good-bye, MISS DUNBAR GIVES IMPRESSIONS A sked by the Polygraph how she enjoyed her trip to Puerto Rico and to gh·e her impressions of the island, Miss Viola Dunbar, our new English professor, made the following statement: Although this is supposed to be an age of speed and a shrinking globe, Este aiio por primera vez en Ia historia del !natituto Politecnico los estudiatJtes han asumido el • Jiderato de Ia cosa depofliva. Ha sido digna de loa Ia seriedad t'On que los muchachos han asumido Ia responsabilidad. La pregunta que intriga a las huestes deporivas del lnstituto es i. bajo el liderato actual, permanece.: ra el Politecnico en el sitial que en afios anteriores estuvo? Creo que si lol't muchachos aceptan como buenos "sports'' el liderato de las personas a cuyo cargo estil el entrenamiento de los distintos equipos y se someten fielmente a las disciplinas impuestas por estos, el Polittknico, como en aiios anteriores, estara dignamente rcpresentado. La organizaci6n tal y ,·omo ha sido sl'fialada es como sigue: Base Ball: Antonio Vazquez, coneh; Miguel Angel Pereira. mana~ter. Rasket Ball: Gil Casanovas, coach; Guillermo Armaiz, capitan: Jean Jacques Sosa, manager. En base ball, hemos present'iado los primeros "try-outs" y practicas, y ha sido motivo de satisfacci6n para mi el ver en nuestro equipo, Ullo alin "championable." Contamos este afio, como en anos anteriores, con el mejor "staff" de "pitchers" y esta \'ez con Wembi en Ia rereptoria. ~o es mi deseo sentar plaza de augur, pero si deseo augurnr resonantes triunfo!l a nuestro equipo. Entre los que se perfilan como los mds probables candidatos a vestir nue11tro uniforme se encuentran: Antonio Vaz.quez. Joaquin Becerril, Ram6n Cabanas, Guillermo Mullet, Antonio Aromi, Dorian Lugo, Amador Alcover, Humberto Sainz. Victor Rodriguez, Jose Manuel Bayona, Hector Lespier. Rafael Ramirez (Escambr6n), Chachi Chapel, Mundo l\Ialdonado, Prepa Avila y otros cuyos nombres no recuerdo. . En basket ball, si bien es verdad que carecemos de los servicios del hombre !lave de nuestro equipo, que eru A.niceto Gonzalez, contamos con los servicios de otras columnas que son vitales. Este aiio. como el pasado, presentaremos dos equipos: "Varsity'' y "Junior." En ambos equipos contamos con estrellas indiscutibles como lo son: Gil Casano,•as, Humberto Torres. Ignacio Ramos, Jintiro Armaiz, Lito Ramirez, Amador Alcover, Guillermo Mullet, Dorian Lugo. Chachi Chapel, Valenta Guzman, y otros. Entre las nuevas I it took me over two weeks to get from Boulder, Colorado, to the Polvtechnic Institute ·of Puerto Ric·o. There were delays at Washington, Miami, Santiago, and Port-au-Prince. Sometimes I wondered if it were really worth so such trouble, but my doubts ceased with my arrival. J t is stimulating to be in a place where so much is new. The scenery, of course,· impressed me at once. The mountains are fantastic-! have never seen any shaped like these. The tropical flora is exotic. brilliant, and more luxurious than in California or Florida. The different manners and traditions represented here add to the interest. I am looking forward to seeing as much of the Island as I can. adquisiciones se encuentran : Arquelio Ramirez, Pedro Hemlmdez, Sambalin Jr., Jose Hernandez (Criollo) y otros. Sobre pista y campo, tendremos algo mas definido que decir mas tarde. Solo deseo en estas lineas exhortar a los muchaehos a que participen en las competencias de "cross-country." En Cuanto a Ping-Pong, dest>.ues de ,-arios cambios de impre:>JOnes con los miembrM de Ia directiva tie Ia Socicdad Allctica, ocordamos celebrar un rampeonato e..xtramural. Solo habra una catP.goria y el vencedor !'era declarado campe6n de este deporte para el aiio 1942-43. Se le adjudicara el premio "Charles A. Leker." De este campeonato se scleccionar:ln los primeros cuatro miembros para automaticamenle formar el equipo "Varsity," el cual sera el primero en participar en competencias intercolegiales. Fue n<!uerdo de Ia directiva incluir una categoria femenina para Ia cual recabaruos Ia cooperaci6n de In Decans de Senoritas. Mis~ Mary Alice Lamar, quien, como siempre, 'respondi6 con simpaticb entusiasmo. Nuestras sinceras gracias a tan distinguida y altruists damn. En cuanto a las priicticas del "freethrow," hemos estado muy ocupados durante estos ultimos dias, recabando Ia cooperaci6n de distintos entusiastas deportivos del Campus en pos de una medalla para este deporte. Fina Diaz ha ofrecido su cooperaci6n. Alia vcremos. A su debido tiempo llamarcmos a inscripci6n. La ''\VAA." Hemos visto a su presidenta, Rafaela Rivera, muy acth•a atendiendo 1 a s clases de Educaci6n Fisica Femenina. Rafaela ha prometido toda su cooperaci6n a esta columna y no dudamos Ia tendremos, pues conocemos ya por el pasado su pujante espiritu como deportista. Entre las miembros de la "WAA" que mayor cooperaci6n estill} dando al desarrollo y desenvolvimiento deportivo del Colegio, se encuentran su Presidents, Rafaela Rivera. Ia siempre activa Gladys Byron, Finn Diaz. Mirtha Palmer y varias pipiolas cuyos nombres no he, aprendido todavia por ser nuevas en el "campus." Rumores Hace dias en el peri6dico semanal "La Torre," que publica Ia Universidad de Puerto Rico, en una de sus columnas deportivas, y con gran sorpresa para mf, lei que se nos ha tenido muy bajo en sus cillculos. Deseo dejar claro, que a pesar de que carecemos de un "coach" debido a la emergencia de guerra, no vamos a rehuir nuestra participaci6n en las competencias intercolegiales. La Administraci6n del Colegio nos p:restara todo su apoyo y ayuda. OPPORTUNITIES FOR ART MAJORS The Art Department is greatly encouraged by the success of some of our students who received their majors in art. Geno\'eva Ramirez, president, and Hilda Rivera, secretary of the a rt club 1940-41, are teaching native crafts in the town of Patillas. Ligia Quiiiones has been given the CLASSES ELECT OFFICERS On August 27, the four colle~e classes met in their appointed rooms and elected their officers for ·t he year, as follows: T he Senior ClaPs. President, lsmael Zapater, who distinguished himself last year as an outstanding leader in the Junior Class: \'ice-President. Marfa Teresa Platti, who was widelv known for her interest in club and 'class acti\'itie~; Secretary, Justo Barea, Jr.. k11own amon~ the students as a newspaper sports reporter: Treasurer, Edmun1o Castillo, known for his prominent carreer as u trackman: and "voc~l." Humberto Satnz, outstanding hurdles and relay man. Dr. Velez was elected Sponsor. The J unior Class. President, Josu6 Castillo, w h o graduated from the I'once High School, where he served a~ secretarv of the Sophomere class: Vice-President, Jose Artigas, from Adjunt."ts lli~th Rchool where he was vice-president of his graduating class: Serretary-trea!'iurer. Elsa Couto, from Fnsenada, who graduated from the Blanche Kellogg High School, where she presided over both the Junior and Senior clal'lses; Honorary :\1embers: Rafael Alvarez, from Ponce: Rafael Yicens, from Jayuya; Carmen Diez, from Las Marias; Aida Jove, from Arecibo; and Rosa 1\1. Aguil6. from Jayuya. Dr. Luis Santullano, was elected Sponsor. The Sophomore Claf'S President, cesar F. Ramos Munet· Vice-President, Joaquin Hernandez; Secretary, Cal"lllin Santos; Treasurer, Rosa M. Orrca; and Honorary Members: Raul Maldonado. Anarch Agosto, and Guillermo Mulct. Professor Boyd B. Paln1er was elected Sponsor. The Freshman Class President, Milton Pab6n, from Ponce High School, where he presided over the Sophomore Class and was outstanding in literary and dramatic circles; Vice-J>resident, Emesto Veg~, from the Yauc<t and Mayagtiez H1gh Schools, where he was president of the Junior Class and active in literary circles; Secretary, Ana Luisa Durand from Ponce High School; and Treasurer, Melly Totti, from San German High School, where she was secretary of the Senior Class. Dr. Fromm was elected Sponsor. .. .......... . opportunity to correlate art with English and Spanish in one of the public schools of Salinas. Mirtha Santana teaches art in one of the second units of Yauco together with her sister, Olga Couto. Marla Cristina Lugo, Class Dec. 1941, shows progress and enthusiasm in the Industrial Arts Department of the Minilla; second unit school, where she has a newly equipped room to start her second year of native crafts. Art had been a forgotten subject in our pub1ic schools, but .i t is coming to life aga..' with the need of a well rounded edut..ation and the proper use of leisure ti.rre. We need mo ·re real art teachers, to awaken the creative talent of the youth of Puerto Rico, and the Polytechnic is leading the campaign with our first art majors of 1942. January 14, 1938, at the post Entered as second cla11 matter oUice in San German, Puerto Rico, under the act of August 24, 1912. VOL UME Yl = 1 ---, NEW CLASS TO BE AD:\tiTTEU To as recc>nl high school graduates and those who will graduate at Chri11trnns this year. the Polytechnic will admit n section of (21i to :tO) fresh· me.n on .January 7. Wllh the present nccclcmtctl Jlrogmm,, • which includo)S two summer sessions, students who enter in January 1943 cnn graduate in December Hl45. With the present shortage of tt>ncbers, physicians, ministers, and technicians, nnd with the nge or military service be ng lowered, tl is ad\'is:able Cor all young people to finish college at th!! earliest possible dutt'. Those interested may ~·rite for catalogue and npplicntion blanks. p0LyGRApH OCTOHEU 20. 1942. N• S GOD BLESS THE AMERICAS .. EL LCDO. CARLOS J. TOHUES HACE DONA1'.1YO • La Fncultnd y ostudinntcs del MStituto Polit&nlco dcsenn expQillllr nl distinguido amigo, l.cdo. Carlos J. Torres. de Snn Junn. S\1 mns sincero ngradecimil•nto por cl donaUvo de quinlentos d61nres que con fechn del 28 de septiembre de 1942 contrlbuyern nl "Students Rotnry l.oan Fund." 1-;1 Lc:do. Torres escribe asf: ''l~stimndos amlgos: • En cl numero del Polygraph c.o1 rrespondicnte al 20 de scptiembrc de 1942, lcf In intcrcsnnte infom1nci6n en relnci6n con el crccimlcnto del "Student Rotary Loan Fund." Deduzco por dichn informnci6n que la nspirnei6n de cse Colcgio es que dic.ho .fondo llBciendn a Ia sumn de $5,000.00 ' con cuyo montnntc ustedes creen que podrMI ayudar a una gmn cnntidnd de estudinntcs pobros a sufragar sus e-tudios, y que pnrn llcgnr n lu meta \de vuestrns aspirneioncs unic.amentc lcs fnltn recibir donacioncs asCut und drawn by It l glc~ia,.. ' lt. cel\,dcntes a $1,179.06. Como soy de los absolutamente convencidos de que Ia labor renlizada por eSt! Culegio cs de Ins' que ma)'O· DH. THF.l.LES SPEAKS TO res bencCicios apoa a te P-1 STUDfo;~TS les ncompnfio ndjunto mi cheque por Ia sumn de $fiiiii,OO JIRrn scr cngrosndo Dr. Laureano Trelles, resident en dicho fondo y nsf ll)'Udarles en In 11hrsician at the San Gcrrnnn Ho.spi- labor que rcprcscntn el :rcunir una tnl, noltlressNI the students on the sub- ranlidaci mns o rnenos importnnte en ject or "Common Tropical Disc:t<>es,'' un pals como cl nuestro donde sc with special reference to 'Puerto Rico. haec tan dirtcll· el c:onseguir toda la lie gtwe u vo:>ry grnphic de!l<:ription of cooperucion que unn instituc16n cothe nature, de,·elopment and spread- mo Ia ,·uestra neccsita. ing or such discnses ns malaria, tuMu)' atentamcntc, ber<'Uinsls, and S)'llhilis, which appear Curios J . Torres!' .. to be responsible for the highest percentage or mortality among our Sin·a el cjemplo del I.cdo. Torres people. como e~timulo:L a nucstros amlgos de The student bod)' was deeply im- Puerto Rico. uomo sc deduce de dipressed \\;th the necessity for pre-• cha carta. neccsitnmos In suma de \'Cntive measures and the need of n $679.06 pnrn completar los $G,OOO.OO strong educational campaign in our que nos fnltn para este afio. Nuestra schools to enlighten pupils and par- e,-pernnza cs que hn:rn otros nmigos ents ns to the devastating oCfects que esten dispucl!tos a demostrar Ia of these plagues. misma generosidnd que nuestro buen We tak~ this opportunity to ex- amigo Torres. prei!S to Dr. Trelles, not only our gratitude, but also our prniEe for the E~ BUSCA Dfl;l. GUA~ KHAN masterCul presentation of the ,;ob.Dccla asi el Uiuri•• de Colon: "Jueject. ves 11 de octubre. Navcg6 al Ouesuduestc: tu,•le.ron mucha mar m!s que en todo el \'iajc hnblan tenido. Viewhich are, in part, embodied in the ron purdelas y un junco verde junto budget of $..~35.1)0 which has been a In nao, y tomaron otro pallllo laudoptf'd. 0\'er and above the items brndo, n lo que pnrec[a un hierro, y included in the ll('CClunts of the pre- un l~Cdazo de cnrla y otrn yerba que ceding • )'eur tho .following increases Mce en tierra y una tnblnta".---· are to be noted: $100.00 as our share Seiiales eran estos de hallnrsc proxiin paying for land for a camp ground ma Ia costn. El Almlrante ordena for l~resbyterian young people, (every montar buena guarda y promcte a Presbyterian Church in the island sus hombres un regnlo, que hoy nos is making a sacriflcal contribution to hace sonreir: "nl que le dijese primethis rausc) and $100 towards a fund to ro que vela tierra le darla fuego un provide Polytechnic .Institute with a jub6n de scdn." AI slguiente din, 12 new chapel. (In the meantime this de octubre de 1492, Col6n desembar$100.00 is to be lent to the Student ca en In isleta llnmada Gunnahani. Rotary Loan Fund.) Increases re- Habla descubierto un continente igquired for the efficient maintenance norado, el Nuevo Mundo. Pero Criaof our locnl ,..·ork go to make up the t6bal Col6n no advle.rte la extraonli(Continued oa page 4. Col. 3.) (Contlnued on pare 4, Col. 1.) I l ··--------------------------+ · SL.'\GER HB CE IVI~.S: HEAHTY I ISSUE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF PUERTO RICO San German, P. R. I APPLAUSE SENIOR CLA~S PUESBYTERI\~ CHURCH The re•·ital by ;:\lr. Willinm J. HasNEWS selman, hnss-barltune, on SeJil•'mber 21, in the Assembh· Hnll, wns well The Polytechnic ln., •• ;..ute PreJ;byallendt~d ROll Wll8 receivod wiih \'ig• terinn Chureh enle!'l; a new year of on\liS IIJlpluuse and t>nthuoinsli<· ex- ,. l~fe u!1d nt·~ivit}·.. ':llger fo~ a. tlnepel' pression!' or appreciation. The pro- smccnty m rehg10u.s thmkmg nml gram begon with t1 gl'oUp or two for n faith that 11hall show Itself sacred ..onge. followed by Wagner's vital by lhe way in whi,·h it purifies The En•ning :-.tar, and 'l'he T•·,u nnd controls our attitudes anol conGrenadier::. b\' Schubert..\Irs. Edward <luct. The weekly chapel services are Heth, who n"ssistecl as tl<'companist, being held, as formerly, on .:\Iondays, then played three compositions from Wednesdays and Fridays. Sunday the works of l.iszt, Chopin, nnd Rnvel. School clnsse~. in which a stu•ly of The progrnm closed \\ith a group of the book of Romans is being made, w-ell imo• n spirituals. As nn encore meet immediately after supper each Mr. Hnssclmnn sang in Spanish the ~undny evening, alter which the popular Canc:.ii•n de {'uba. ;.tudc.nts gather in the auditorium for It was a rnrc opportunity for us to dhine worship. During the yenr 1941-42, $G21.00 hcnr such a \'Oice nnd we wish to express our appreciation to Mr. Has- were raised by the Church. or this selman nnd to the officials of Borin- amount. $100.00 went into a •student qucm Field for making It possible for rotary loan fund, whereby neetly J<tudents received loans \\'hich they him to come. promise to pay back to the lnstitutc Arrangements nrc being mnde to after graduation (these sums ·t hen to have one special musical Jlrogrnrn of be lent again to other sturlents). this sort cnch month. The next re- Another $100.00 was gi\"en to tho citRl will be given by )tills Florenc-e work of the Presbyterian Church in Da\·is, pianist from Washington, D. the U. S. A. for it:; program of be.ncC.. and following this we shnll henr \'olent and mil'sionari acthity at in :-.;'ovember a program or violin home and nbrond. It is to be rt'cnlled music pln)·ecl by Manuel L6p('z. in this connection that Polytechnic Institute came into being because Dr. Hnrris and others had been sent CONGRATULATIONS to Puerto Rico as part of such a proarram of national and world evanFin.~t Li('utenant Arcntlio Torres '31, was promoted to a captaincy last gelization by the Presbyterian April, acconling to the offical an- C h u r e h. Bene\'olent contributions nouncement on promotions b)· the were further made to \'Rrious other Puerto Rican Department. Pedro Nes- causes. tor Perez, who "lll'as with us in 1939-· Approximately $200.041 were spent 40, was selected to attend the Officers for the maintenance or our churc.h Training School at Fort Benning, here and Cor the campus roli&ious Georgia. where he is now undergoing program. his training. Our hearty congratDuring the emuing year we are ulations! • imPelled to stri\"e for n.ew goals, POLYGRAPH 2 Polygraph Published for the students, fa· culty, alumni and friends of the Polytechnic Institute. Subscription, 50 cents per year. , The President's Column Editor this edition: The Clns11 of '43, I!lmael Zapater, President, Dr. I. \ic:'lez, Sponsor. , "PUERTO RICO EVA~'lGELICO" PRESS. PONCE, P. R. E DITORI A L Busquemos paz y tranquilidad de espiritu, y meditemos por algunos instantes sobre las cosas elevadas, nobles, y puras que forman parte del mundo religioso, esfera inicial dondc se p~rificn la grandeza humana. En nuestras meditaciones encontraremos que, generalmentc, para Ia juventud del presente, Ia existencia humana esta sujeta a una bueM vida, a una vida de divet·siones: peliculas, bailes, programas de radio, etc. Ambicionamos una vida placentera, con el menor sufrimicnto y esfuerzo posiblc de nuestras capacidades fisicas y mentales. Sin embargo, hay mucha indiferencia y degpreocupacion hacia lo espiritual, hacia todo aquello que em·uelve una relacion directa o indirecta con Dios, Y es de lamentarse esa indiferencia, porque Ia actual crisis mundial requiere una gran dosis de abnegacion y Ia mayo•· unidad espiritual posible, para asi sentir un aliciente interno, que nos,cle fuena y valor para luchar frentc al enemigo, fisica y moralmente. Esta nctitud o filosofin religiosa, quiza, ha sido el producto de Ia complejidad de la vida en nuestra 'era, o el residuo de una revoluci6n het:erogenea en el orden ~ocial, industrial y politico. No hay justificaci6n a)guna por pru·te nuestra, para que prevalezea en no~otros esa apatia fria como el hielo hacia lo espiritual, porque de ln mismn mane1~ que aspiramos a la mejor vida material, asi mismo deberinmos cultivar en el e~piritu esa chispa de inspiracion dh·inn que ynce latente en nuest1·as ahnas. El doctor Carl Jung de Zurich, uno de los psiqt.Uatras mas grandes de la actualidad, dice sobre este particular: "Every one of my patients in the second half of life-that is to say, over 35-fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given their followers; and none of them has· really been healed who did not regain his religious outlook". .Aunque parezca increible y raro, las democracias no han realizado ningun esfuerzo supremo para darle Ia importancia suficiente nl elemento espiritual-n Ia religion de nuestros conciudadanos. Sin embargo, Ia grandeza de un pueblo no consiste unicamente en sus bi~nes matcrialcs: su grandeza consiste en el scntido harmonico del progreso material. en los valores intrinsecos de los id<'ales espiritualcs. No dcbemos oh·idar que el l~mbre moderno no puede desviarse con impunidad de los principios cristianos. Su naturaleza es rcligio::>a. Todo aquel que hace el luibito de Ia oracion sincera, experimenta un cambio notol'io en su vida y en su yo interno. La religion imprime en no~otros tranquilidad, serenidad, satisfacci6n de espiritu; enl'iquece nuestras Yidas, y nos dirige al mayor acercamiento a nuestro Dios. La fe religiosa di6 a un Cr·istobal Colon valor ..Y esperanza para uni.r a la historia universal las paginas gloriosas del descubrimiento de America. Nuestra fe sincera en los att·ibutos divinos de Cristo y en el poder milagroso de su gracia, puede r·esultar en el descubrimiento feliz de un nuevo mundo mas alla del horizonte de nuestras vidas. • Ismael Zapater Hernandez '43. I DISCOVER AMERICA H was not in fourteen ninety two, vice. 1\fy four years in a small Presbut in nineteen hundred two that I byterian College were a constant revfirst discovered America and, like elation t.o me, 110 much so that in Columbus, 1 did not know it was spite of a great conflict within myAmerica at first and for some time self. J finally chose the mini;;try for thereafter. America was an even a profession. newer world to me thnn it was to It took a year of liVing abroad to Columbus; he had merely come from bring me to tht~ discovery or AmerSpain, but I had come somewhere ica as a nation of moralitv. The from out of eternity and, as tradition strikin.r contrast between both ~ocial hns it. 1 was the ugliest baby e,·er and personal morality in Europe and born in the iamily. E'·en my grand- in the United States made me apmother could find nothing compli- preciate my country all the more. mentary to say about me and fell ·And now it has takt'n a world rn· back on "Well, he's a nice baby!" ta11trophe to bring ml! and most of That initial discovery of mine was m)' contemporaries to the discovery the beginning of a long series of of America as the "Lnnd of the personal disco,·eries. I remember FrE"e." \\'e ha\'e given n great deal when I fir;:t discovered that it wa~ of lip sen·ice to democrac)· and freea competitive America ...... they cut off dom, but now we are discovering my curl,; and sent me to school where thut that is not enough. America the older boys bent me and cha10ed me needs our hearts' sen·ice and we rchome with stones regularly. It was jokc to give it, kno'\\>ing for the first cold comfort that I could outspcll tilnu really that, unless we combine and out-figure them...... they were those dbcovcries of mine (and many and 1 did not know how to yours): (1) the will to fight, (2) th~ fight. Dut I learned. One <lf the ideal of Un!'elfillh sen·ice, and (3) the happiest days of my childhood was de,·otion to real moralit\·, into our the one in which I overheard one bor r war effort, yea 'into all ~ur efforts, sa)' to another in a whisper. "You'd i the \\'orld shall drift into another dark better lea,·e that Jarvis ~lorrls alone. I age and those who choose to be inHe's a fighter!" sects rather than m. en shall rule the It was not until I reached college 1world. And thus shall freedom be that I discovered that it was an al- t lost. unless we all discover tl!e Amertruistic America. People hnd always ica that ought to be, as well as the been kind to me, but I had never America that is. worth working :for, come under the influence of an insti· worth dring fvr, and worth· li\·ing tution so dedicated to Christian ser- for. Jarvi;; 8. ~Jorris l I CONFERENCIA DEL DR. CHARDON El Dr. Carlos E. Chardon. Dirt~ tor del lnstituto de Agricultura Tro· pica!, dict6 una intere.sante confer;mcia al esturuantndo y Facultad del In11tituto Polittknico, congregados en nl!amblea el dia .1• de oc:tubre. Oi:;r:rt6 el Dr. Cbard6n alrededor de Ia vida del "celebre r mnlogrado naturalists neogranadino," don FranciS<'o Jose de Caldas, presentandolo como Ia ma11 grande figura cientlfica de su epoca en Ia America del Sur, culminand,p sus trabajos en una t.eorfa de Ia varinrion de las especies: animn· le~ r vegetaJe.q d~>bido a la influencia del clima, lo cual lo ~etiala como prcrursor del dan,·inismo. :\uestro compntriota, don Jose Ju. !ian Acosta, fuc uno de lo:< primero" en recono<·er lor; valores en Ia \'ida de Caldas y dcdico mucho de su tiempo a "desagraviar su sombra sublime," desenterrandola del olvido ,. dimdola a conocer al mundo. • 'Encontrnmos en Caldas un ejemplo del hombre de ingenio, que no DPcesita vivir en medio dP lo!l adclantos de ln ciencia para adquirir conocimientos e ideas que resultarfan en el desarrollo de esa misma ciencia. En el triunfa Ia "sed insnciable de saber, el amor a Ia snbidurfa" sobrc las in· conveniencias del ambiente y los atrasos de la cpoca. En su trabajo "Del influjo del elirna sobre los seres organjzados," publicado en 1808. Caldns sostiene que "11e observa y se toea el influjo del clima sobre Ia constitucion y sobre Ia moral del hombre." Asi como cl climu ticne su efecto sobre el cuerpo humnno, ejerce influencia tambien sobre su espiritu; "obrando sobrc su espiritu, obra sobre sus polenciu; obrando .>obre sus po!••ncias, obra sobrc sus indinadones, y por consiguiente sobre 11us virtudes v sus vicios." Esto lo e.scribia Caldas un afio antes de ]a publicaci6n de la "Philosophie Zoologiquc" de Lan1arck, donde cste cxponia que "Ins especJes varian con la vnrinci6n de Ia~ influencias exlemas.'' Se titme constancia de que no bubo correspondencia algona entre Caldas y I.amnrck. Si bubo al· guna influencia externa, fu6 quizas por medio de las obras de Buffon, quien en li61 sospechaba ya Ia trans!ormaci6n de las espccies por loa "cambios en In tierra y el mar, los favores o desfavores de Ia naturaleza, Ia alimentacion, ...... el clima........ " Asi vemos con1o Caldas presentaba, 51 afios ntrns, lo que Darwin luego proclum6 en "El Origen de las Especies." Si Caldas fue algo relegado al olvido como hombre de cienda. ha pasado a Ia historia por su martirologio al ser !usilado como traidor a su Jl:t.• tria, tret:: anos antes de Ia libertad de Colombia, al unirse nl rnovimiento libertador. Queda Ia figura y ejemplo de Caldas vivo en nucstrn mente, como llabio y como patriota, y mas alin conto hombre de espiritu de invcstigaclon ereadora que se supo sobreponer a todo·ohsUiculo de orden material. POLY GRAPH AL U l\INI Herminio Aree. who thumbed a ride to l'hiladelphia on a Convoy through the help of the Red Cross, writes that he hns been admitted into ~he ~ledic:tl School of Temple univer~lty in the class that begins in April. 1943. In the meantime. Herminio b working and getting acquainted with the queer ways or the l'hilndelphians. His address is 1912 N. Park Ave., Philndelphin. 1\lr. and Mrs. Juun l'orez Cruz announced the birth oi a daughter, Ivetle Perez Chiesu, i lbs., 10 oz., on July 12, in the Presbyterian Hospital at ~an Juan. Mr. Perez i~ teaching Industrial Work nt the University or Puerto Hiro. (J. Perez. ·ao.) .\ntonio Rin-nt, II. S .• '17, is l)ro· fes~or of history at the UniverAity of Puerto Rico. Rafael Limeres, H. ~. '19, is the Principal of the San German High School. F.dgardo Biaggi, H. S.. '22, is the Principal of the Bajnclero Second Unit in Arccibo. ~tavio R. Rodriguez, H. S. '22, is thf' Principal of the Guuyarna High Sc',•>Ol. \ .llentina Rnhr Moustclier, H. S. '32, i!' a visiting teacher in the l'nlo Hineado Second Unit in &rranquitas. Pedro 1'. Casablanca '27, is the Principal of the Bayamon High School. ;\lario ;\lillin '27, is the Superintendent of Schools in Marlcno. Ildefonso Pratts Velez '27, is the I'rineipal of th\! Asomanle ·Second Unit in Aibonito. Frnnciseo Leon Saez '28, is the Principal of the Buc:u-ubone~ Second Unit in :'\tnricao. Sergio Mendez neynes '28, is the Principal ur the Juncal Second Unit in San Sebastinn. Oscar fi. Porrnta '20, is Assistant I'rt•fessor of Education nt the. Un!,·ersitr of Puerto Rico. Blanca Quilichinl '2!>, is teaching in the Elementan· Model School at the Unh·ersity or'Puerto Rico. Uli:;es A. Toro '2!>, is a visiting teacher in the l'ahnarejo Second Unit in Lnjas. Carmen I •. Garda de Hodrigucz '30. is a visiting teacher in the Adams Second Unit in Agun!filla. Luis F. lturrino Brusl '30, is tho Principal or the Hnto Arriba Second Unit in San Sebastian. •Juan Ortega Mendez '30, is n \'i.siting teacher in the Hnto ATriba S~· .. ond Unit in San Seb.'lsthin. Sarah \'idnl ':Ill, is u \'isiting teacheer in the elemc.ntnry schools of :'\In~ yagi:iez. Mercedes Buyron ':ll, is the Principal of the Pas to Second Unit · in Guayanllln. Lolitu Lliniis '41. ill teaching in a San German rural school. Juan S. Bravo '31, ia the Principal of the 'M ora Sl'l'ond Unit in lsabela. Antonio Hernandez. '31, is the Principal of the Borinquen Second Unit in Ag-uadilla. Laura :'\1. Luigd •:n, ill a visiting teacher in the Angeles Second Unit in Utuado. Eulalia Mornles '31, is the Principal of the 'Monte Grande ~ond Unit in Cabo Rojo. Carmelina Cap6 '31, is professor of Home Economics at the Universit..,. o! Puerto Rico. • NElVS . Efigenia Pratts Velez '31, is the Principal of the Pitahaya Second Unit in Arroyo. Matilde Torres '31, is the Principal of the Sabana Eneas Second Uni\ m San German. Edio Rio~ Arcelay '32, is the Principal of the Santa Catalina Set-ontl Unit in Coamo. Rosa )1. Cesanf 32. is a visiting teacher in the elementarr schools in Aguarlilla. Joaquina Figueroa '32, i.<: the J>rincipal of the Lapa~ &>\!ond Unit in Salinus. Cecilia Gonzalez de D!lviln '32, is the l'dncipal of the Corral Yicjo Se· cond Unit in Ponce. Israel Pinnell ':J2. is the Principal o£ the Pom·e Righ School. Victor Raul Quliiones '!12, iA teach· ing bi()Jogy at the University of Put•rto Rico. Mntilde Rivera Easterday •a2, is n visiting teacher in 'Monte Grande Second Unit in Cnbo Rojo. Ho!'B Adelina Quesada de Quevedo ';: :. s a visitinl!: teacher in the Cocos Se<·ond Unit in Quebradillas. Tomasa ~ledina '34, i;; a \·isiting teacher in Borinquen Second Unit in Aguadilla. Ramon Ramirez LOpez '34, is instructor of psychology at the University of Puerto Rico. Maria Luisa Garces de Lc6n '3G, is n visiting teacher in the Yaurel &>cnnd Unit in Arroyo. I.uz La~sise de Sanchez. is a \'i;:-iting teacher in S!lbalos Second U11it in ~lnyagtiez. Carmen Y. Rivera ~a:1:ario '36, is a \·isiting teacher in the elementarv schools in Ponce. · Judith Acevedo Ufret ':l7, is a \'isiting teacher in the Sabana Eneas Second Unit in San <Jermim. \'ictoria Rodriguez Forteza '37, is a visitinp, ·.eacher in the Juncul Second Uni~ in San Sebosti:in. Camelis Veva '38, is a visiting teacher in the l'atillas Second Unit. 1-:figenia. Agrnit '39, is a visiting teacher in the Piedra Gorda Second Unit in Cnmuy. Eu~enia D. D'Acostn '39, is u visitin~ teacher in the Annseo Second Unit. Lydia Velez '29, is a vi~<iting teach· er in the Corral \'i~>in Second Unit in Ponce. Pilar Rodriguez Santana 'oll. is n Yisitin~ teacher " tl·, Camuv Second Unit. · Rnm6n Al~rty Ruiz. a former stud.•nt. i~ the Principal of the Angelea SN-c>nd Unit in Utuado, Francisco A. Becerrn, n former student, is the Principal of the Isabeln High School. Abelnrdo Diar. Alfaro, •:m, i11 n vi~iting teacher in the BnYam6n Sc• cond Unit in Cidra. Blisa Fantauzzi. e.-..:-•:u is now Principal of the Montana Seconcl Unit in Aguadilln. ' l\laria Dolores Faria, n former student. is the Principal of the Santa Rosa Second Unit in Laj;u;, Angel R. Feliberty, a fonnl'r student, is th•' Sur•·rintend\!nt of Schools in Cabo Rojo. Rafael Marcano ex-'31, is the J>rincipnl of the Quebrada Honda Second Unit in San Lorenzo. Salvador Morales Salgado. a former student. is Sut)('rintendent of Schools in San Germli.n. zSABIA USTED ? que al Caudillo le dieron el primer "dropped"? que a )lulet le dicen el "lindo de las dos fo.ceta5!" que Dorian se le\-ant6 a las sei:de Ia manana a "llorar'!" que )fundo y l\tulet han encontrado un nuevo uso parn Ins capas de agua? <tue Finn D!az lion) porque a Tobi lo llarnaron para cl ejercito! ( Y eso, que :fue ;;ulo para el examen medico, que cuando............ ) que Eh.inf.! )lendez se atrevio a builnr en Borinquen? que Valento y Gogo no le hablan a Elvlng, todo por el clicho:;o lunar? IJUP. una Rerioritn llornba porque no encontrnba un 1oven "nice" y que bailarn bien, para el baile de Ia sororidnd? ttue hay trcs chittuitinas (de In m:is· mn estatum) que bu!'<'nn un hombre, pcro c>!'tilo "home type 'I" que me informrm que en Borinqucm torlas las noches se "atacan" \'arias morndorus del tercer pi so~ ( ;.l.ns ronoccs. I•!C:tor?) J que Jipato lc pidio "one finger out of twenty'' n Gladys Barron? (El pobre tU\'O que retirnrse como bucn gitano.) I)Ue luego, el mi~mo Jipato. firmo un trntado de no &J.!l'e!li6n con Gindrs y Milngritos cle .. referee!" que cierta noche el viejito Armaiz se cny6 de Ia cnma? que Chnchi Chapel puso un tele~rn mn H su cnsa para que lo vinieran a ver jugar pclota, "caliente?" que Chupcl jucga balonce!'lo, pelotn, y le gusta el "picolino ?" que J>uig toda\·ia diseute que esw "mellOR gordo" (y no mas flaco) <jUC Jenn J llCtJUCS? ( l'obrc fresco, no sc conforma con ~u finn nnatomfn.) que JoRue. .Melender., \' Alvarez fUtlrCIJl U 1\iuyagilez y :;e escribieron unn cum cnrln uno. dirigida al Polv? (Ave Mnrin!!!!!) • tJUe a Artigns lc dicen "Hitler?" C)UC ciertas senoritas de Borinquen. se dispulan un hombre por apuestas? ( 1lluena y nueva tecnit•a!) n quicn sc rc.feria Colberg cuando clccln: "'l'ohi, yn amo a esa mujer?" cu{mdo cs que "T'' le habln a •·F"? que Sainz y Rllfael hnbian conseguldo lo que C)Uerf:m? que Finn n!az prepnroba su ''trousseau"! que n Jean Jacques lo "pande6'' el sol...... como a los \'olantine" '! que Tobf ern despedido de soltero. pcro sollnznba Jlor "Xnranjitos ?'' que Jipnto y el Caudillo se batian por "In Dulcinea" con "tacones" de lres pulgatia!l? que Noelia soliclto ingreso en las "ruerzas armadas?" que Chnbe, l:tadys 13., l\lirtha, Finn y Rafnela son "futuras m.adrin:ts7" c1ue har "Mn11a Coral de Hist~ri cns" en Horinquc>n ~ cJUe Ia W. A. S. era de toda!l ~ que Sainz. Dorian, Jipato........ ernn el "sentir" de toclas? que el Pol~·. siempre el l'olr. y 110lo el l'oly, era, es y sera nuestro lema? Franciseo Pag{m Romero, a former student, is Superintendent of Schools in Patillas. Angela E. Soto. a former student, is the Principal of the El Rosario Sl't'ond Unit in San German. 3 HISTOUY CL UB On Saturday night, October 3, the History Club celebrnted the initiation of pledgees at the home of :Uiss Linda. l'eraiU!.. The festivities were in charge of Miss Per a 1 t a, Miss Aida Jove, and Mr. Pe,Jro J.;. Muniz, who acted as master of ceremonies. After the formal part of the program was over, the members shiff4!t] their activities to an C\'enlng or social enjo)•ment. The Initiation ceremonies enclecl \\•ith a dance in whieh old members und pledgees participated. 'I'he officers o! the Club wish to express the.ir 11im•ere thanks to Mr. and Mrs. l'eralta for their kindness ancl ho~pit:tl'ty. ENGLISH CLUB NEWS The Eng:1j;h Club held nn inforor its twelve new members on the C\'enin~ of September :111, at the home of Professor and Mrs.. Palmer. After clisplarlng lheir spccml talents and proviug that they are up to the standards required by the Engli11h Club. lht• follmving student.:; were welcomed into the organization: Misses Isabel Oppenheimer. Gloria Silva, Delia l\1 artinez Josephine Vazquez. Olga Santana: Raquel Rodriguez, Gloria Noriega, and Me.-:srs. Emmanuel Bcrr)', Enu;mo L. Bernier, Jean Jacques Sosa, Juan A. Chapel, nnd Rafael Cruz. The fomml initiation wus held on October J 7 in the new Recreation Hall. • mal initiatiun EVANGELICAL F lt ATEHNITY At the I-egular meeting helcl the twentieth of September, the E\'nhgclical t••rnter'nit)' cleclecl new officers. William llaclilln wns elected President; Domingo I. l(nsado, VieePrraicient; E. Gonzalez, Treasurer: and Gloria Sih•u, Aseistant . Treasurer. Juun l\larcano, Rnfacl Escudero nnd Josue Custillo were ar1pointed e.~·officio members of the Board. The Frnlf'mit)' initiated the year's activities with n \'isit to the United Brethren Church of Yauco. Due to the rationing of gasoline many or the activities will be limited this year to churches in the surrounding communities. THA~K ~ The Chemistr) Oci1artment was glarl to receive further donations. Our :>incerest thanks go to the following :friencls: Miss Lamar, for several dozens or l}ottles: l\lr. Montalvo, for repairing the water still; Jorge Arbona '4a. for several pieces of chemirnl glns11wnre: \'il·tor ltodriguPz Cnbrora, :for two s:unples of minernls; ancl to Juan .Acevcclo '42, for •a sample nf pyrilo, for assistance in preparing specimen~ for the collection of organic rhemicals, unci for help in drawing a mnp showing distribution of organic ruw mntcrials. ENTER SEMINAHY Luz llerminio Perez. of this venr'a graduating class. ancl Jose Daniel Rodriguez Platn, who was n member of the Junior Class Jut year, have matriculatecl in the E\'nngelicnl Seminary at Rio l'iedras 1thls year ns candidates for the Christian ministry. The present senior class hns two other candidates !or the Presbyterian mini!"try, Franklin Montalvo and Pablo Fernandez. PO LY GRA PH 4 ATALAYA ARTS CLUB On Scptem~r !1, the Arts Club met under th(' spon11orship of ProCessors Huffman, Castillo, and Ruiz to plan the nctivltie!' fur thf! year, electing offlct~rs and initiating the new members. The followin~ students were elected officers for the year: l're~ide.nt, Carml'n Tuya: \'ice-President. Rafael lglesb.s; Secretary, Carmen A\·ellanel: 'frea~;urer, T1ominp:u l. Rosadn, and Jtepol'lter, Lino 1~. Rocldguez. Giltn 1\lcorcu, 'fomnshn Cordt•ro, und Emmr~ Collado, were llppointed to lend nr:d plan the social activities for the year. En Bu:oca del narin novcclnd t•ntunccs y, aunque nos oxt:roiit', tampocn le intcresahn. Con ra?.l•n se hn dicho (]Ue el descubrimlcnto tic America fuc un nccidentc glor O"O en el esfnrzado cmpefio de Col6n, ra qne cl solo busenb3 r apetccfn unn ruta c1ue lc l!c\•asc al •'n 60iindo pars del Grnn Khan, con sus riquc ..as mar.willosas en CSJlCCias, en sedns. I'll htlo:l nunca gounlos por In };spniia y In Europa •lcl siglo XV, del alboreante XVl ......... . Pur eso Colon, firtnc l.'n el prop6sito, :nsistc mfls tarde en nveriii;UOr esc paso hnda el lej;mo Oriente: pero sc '•' ndelanta el ('81Jaiiol Hodrig(l de Bnstidns, cunndo en 1501. desembnrt'n en Puerto Delio. Bnstidns---escrihen !<'rank A. Gnu!U' y Charles Car) en "The Story of f'nnama""was. as were nthcr C.'>JIIorcrs of the time senrdtil'lg for tlu~ sccn1t strait, so h:q ,.:sit fits in with the conceit thnt the early discoverers of the Isthmus were 't he fathers uf tlw modern canal idea:• l~sos otro~ exp!orndurc;;, a quienes se n1urlc, crnn tamhicn l:'s(utiio'e~: :.e llrunnbnn Ojeda y \'nsco Nunez de Bnlbon. ll:ilboa es el verdadcro y nnimoso explorndor de Ins durns tierras del Jstmo, que el vence .:on Un centenar de hombre:' agucrridofl, cuando el 25 de t~cptiembre de 1518 se extasla, dellde Ins cumbro.>s de Cnlcdonia, ante In magnifkf'ncia del Occrmo l'ncifico. Cuntro rlias despucs. con un ge.sto ~o lo permitido en aquellos ticm}JO!l de hc.r6 ens ambicionc~. Unlboa nlza su CSila•la y toma posesi6n, en nombre del Rey, de todns Ins tierra& banadas por aquclJa-; aguas sin fin. La ruta caledoni:mn, c.xplornda por Hallma, ern Ia mas rortn para Ia union dc los do!l mares, pero era tambien In mils dificultosa; .de ahi que sc hayu preferido otrn trn1.ado para la rea11U1Ci6n del €anal. Ello no quitn merito alguno a In 'isi6n y a Ia no supcrada intrepldcz de Rquellos hombres: risi6n aun aeentuada en Heman Corte~, qul£>..n yn en 1523 proponia a Carlos V Ia conl:'truccion de Ia importan te via, comunicadura de dos o.~eanos. Vemos as! eslrechamente relacionados el ayer y cl hoy. la clarividencia de los elipaiioles del sigfo XVl y la renlizncion de sus sueiios en nuestra centuria, por obra del poder norteamericano. Yn el Canal de Panama une los dos anchos mnrea; yn Ia America de!l('ubierta por Col6n ha reallzado In nmbici6n glorio!la del Almirante, nbriendo el camino bacia el Oriente, hacia aquellos dominios del Gran Khan, donde ahora brama Ia guerra. Lui• Santa1lano. DEPORTIV A TO~ITA ~L\RTI~ EZ WRITE$ Por B umber to Sainz. Dear Dr. Morris: Could you imagine the inseparabll! El tiempo sigue su marcha, y al POLY VAR~IT\' m:ugen del tiempo, lol! acontecimien- Player F.G. 1-'.S. Pts. room-mates Gloty and me workirog every da,.- on our daily clus plans, tos deporti\'OS contintiun desnrrolh\n- Tintiro Armaiz a o 6 an1l interrupting our work quite ofdosc pesc a los obs-u\culos que rnu- LitO Ramirez (I 0 0 ten "•ith jokes and remembrance!> of chns vecel! tenemos que confrontar. Gil C'..nsano,·as 4 2 10 old times~ Well, 'it is so........ El sabaclo 19 de septiembre, en el Humberto Torres (Best We both live at Cl\ll)''s. She works Pnrque Atletico Hcylman, y ante scorer Poly) 6 3 15 at Piedra ~rda, Camuy; and J work una nutridn concurrent:in, quedo inau- Amador AlcO\·er 4 2 1(1 at Cocos, Quehrndillaa. Cloty comes gurncla la tempornda ric hrishul pnrn Dorian Lugo fi 2 12 home every day in the big green bn~ el aiio 1942-~i. 1-;l'e dia, lo mas ~(· ChHt'hi Chapel (I 0 0 oi the town. lccto de nuestra~ bcllus damitas se (;(•ffO Rnmos 0 2 She seems delighted with her work, di6 rita en nuestro jl81"1JUC para prcwhich consil'ts mostly of the tearhing senciar y alent:lr n los nue~troJ::. Los 55 of English to the Junior High School "Tigres" del Poly sc enfrcntnron al CLCU CATOLICO students, besides general and ::ocial magnifico conjunto sangermeilo "San l'unchito Chri~;tlan 1 1 • sciences to the !lth grade. Gcrmlm Star;:." El cquipo ,·isitante, Orsini 1 1 hadcndo nlarde dt• sus espectncularcs 1 ~I nchote 1 n 2 Gencml and soda! sciences nre on jugnclas, venci6 u nucst l"tlfl lllUI•hachos. Ma r·cham· I n 2 my progrum ton, with two I'. C. 1'. Bnterfas por cl l'olr fueron: Cat- ' Vlllulobo~ II .I and somq Spanish. We work hard...... cher, Wcmbi: Pitchers, Gnlmfins. Mu- Blnggi (best S. game) 8 6 but we havt! lots of fun too. lct, Alrovcr y Becerril. Por los visi- l•'inclo 2 'i 7 I'm including my l'mall contritnntcs: Crttt'her, Chn~:,'llln: Pitchers, Tnny Hurtado 1 l 3 bution for the montb of :;;eptember. Ncr)·, Popeye y lleto. Nuestro Coach With my best wishes for Mn;. e.nvi6 por tre~ e.ntnulas a cada uno 1 40 l\lorris, I an~. de nuestro~ lanudorcs, pars asi JlO· Mann~cr Scorer en ambos jucgos, Trul,.· yours, ller cleterminar Ins dcficieneins que ,J, J. So.,a. Toiiita .!\1artine;.. I POLY JUNIOR poclrinn Sl'r fatalrs t•n Ia ~er:e ia-. tercoleginl. Po• it. I' C F s H l't,;;, m snh.~d() 2!1 ric !ICpliembro voh·io- I \'l'la"' (' r . .• •. .• . . WAC ron a In carga nuestros muchachos. Au e:'il0 ~ ~ ~ \ 1 'l'he Women's Athletic Club, on the Durante la noehc de csta misma fe- 1 l\t:u ni~ht of the 18th. of September. pn:rhn ~· en la espaciosa cnnchn de Ia ~~f c. ~ 1 3 0 &l'nted 11 play and rnusic:nl progrnm Eseuela ~uperior, (]Ucd6 inaugurada I B11 • c. 0 in the main Auditorium. Tht- program In temporada de bnloncesto. Xues- • t'rz:'ICr c G 0 1 was open to the public and all the tros "'figrcs," quiencs ~on campco-l ~~~ r~r 0 '2 0 0 11tudcnts of the Collc~e. ncs intl'l"l'oleginlt•s paw el ailo l!lH\ UI~I .• d rg () I 42, se enfrentaron nl roloso sanger- •. · ernan ez, Th~ numbers we1·c ,·aried and of I meiio "!'nn GermC.n Athletics," cam- })b~~htc.-t dS. 1 1g 3 3 9 high quality. Hosita Hodrlguez new:! peones insularcs parn el niio l!l42. Los · cman ez lg 0 II II as m»ster of ceremonies. C'nrlos B. Ti6, promi»ing young pianist, opened que prescnciaron est«' juego fucron 20 1 te!ltigos de un \'crdadcro espcctaculn the progr.1m with two selections by PAR~!AGIA MARTI:\ l'uerlo 'Rican rompost:!rs. Gladys Cusdeportivo entre jugarlorcs cnmpeones. rf 3 2 tagncr san.~ "l.n Villnnelle,'' by Eva AI final de cste dcsafio. para nos- Jlnll6n co A lf II 0 clcl Aqua and a tluet with Dr. B. Bootros no hubo vPncPtlorcs ni vcncidos. 1f 1 ] \"l't' from the musical t•omedy "Lui~u T:rlunf'o el deportc. l'nt• parte de Ins A nireto n 2 4 Jo'ernnnda." :\tiss Rnfucla Rivera, ns tigre!:', sc di;:tin~n~ieron rodos nue~- Junior (I 1 Johny c 1 Dona lnes, and Victor Gonzalez as trns mm·hnchos. Los que mayor nu· :{ rg 1 1 Don Junn, presl•nted the "Scene of mero de cnnal;tos anotnron pnrn nu€'s- 'J'oto I 'ietri 0 4 1~ thll Sofa'' from the famous play Don tro equi119 fueron Gil Casanovas, quien Coche (i lg 3 0 Juan Tenorio. anot6 ln respctnblc friolcrn de '19 F. Ramirez tnntos, y nuel'tro cspcctacular "cenJuan Marcano acted all master of 30 tro" Humberto Torres, quicn estuvo ceremonies for the second part of the Coach, Paquillo Moya. mu~· arertado. llemf1s esta .>enalar Jlrngrnm, introdut'in~t to the audience Es motivo de comcntnrio In decidi- musical numbc1·s by .lunn A. ChapP.!, qut; todos los miemhros e.s tu,·ieron a In ultura de ~u bien rncrecidn famn. da cooperaci6n tJUC tuvo del el'tudian- grncsto \'ega. and J .. rge Gonzalc7., tndo Ia ~ociedad Atletka en SD ulti- and himself imper:;onnung :;ome of our l·~slo y las hazanas del pnsn.do han conn•rtitlu a nuc.~tro cquipo "Vnrsi· ma actl\'idnd. De parte de In directi- faculty members. These boys disty'' en el orgullo de todos los estu- ,.a mo es grnto expre!larlcs nue.-.tro Jllnyed unusual talent in their perdinntes. 1-:n el juego preliminar nues- mns profundo ngrndecimiento a to- formance and the audienee rewarded fn• cquipo "Junior" se cnfrento a! daB las personas que sin ninguna cor- them with entbusiastk applause recquipo de In "Guardia R·tadual." t:lp",;a <'noperar"ll a) exito de esta. peatedly. The Polygrnphs' Staff conCuando t•l silbnto di6 fin al juegq In Ln ~ ueva Secr£'1aria de Ia Sociedad gratulates the W. A. C. Atl•Hicn nnulaciim ~e int'linal>n pesarlamente en favor de los milit.arcs. Nucstra mli;; En un cambio de lmpresion~ 11ue CIRCULO DU. HARRIS sinrern felieitaci6n 11 los militarc~<. El vicmes 2 de octubre \·olvieron Ultimamente !IO!llUVil'ron ]OS mielll• On the twelfth of ~eptcmber, Mr. nuestros muchnchos n invadir la can- bros de la directiva, acordaron nom- and Mrs. Charles A. I.cker, \\ith their chn du Ia Escuela Superior. Elita \'ez brnr pam Ia secretnrin a una senori- usual hospitalit)', offered their house tu\•ieron como contrinC'antcs al po- ta. Dicha re~ponsnbilldnd :fue asig- to the members of the "Cireulo Dr. tcnte cquipo marag{ieznno "Club Ca- nada a nuestra distinguida compafie· Harris.'' The number of students lblico.'' Nuestros jugndores, !lin Iugar Ta l sabrl O,Ppenheimer. Le deseamos attending was unusually large, thus a dudas, volvieron a haccr nlarde de ~xllo a Ia Srta. Oppenheimer. lending to the festivities of the evensus comblnaciones t:ientificas que- se ing the atmosphere of a real Spanish caracterizan por el juego rapido, lo "fiesta." The dnte for the initiation (Cont inued from Jlage 1, Col. 3.) mismo de defensi\'a como tie ofensiof the new members was set for ~p va. Como en Ia \'CZ anterior. vohi6 additional amount of our new bu,l~t••l. tcmber 26. The followin~ officer:. el "Junior'' a enfrentarse a otro po- Any non-resident memberli or friends were elected to lead the group during te.nte cquipo l'angermeiio que respon- who wish to be identified with us in the year: President. Hafael Guzman: de al nombre de "Farmacia Martin.'' the ropport of these various causes Vice-President, Ann \'elia Rh·era: Loa juegos de Ia noche tU\'ieron el mav write to the Treasurer of the Secretary, Dora Lugo: Reporter, JusChurch, Dr. Ismael Velez. siguientf! resultado: to Bar£>a, Jr.; Treasurer, Joffre Vivoni. Hilda Segarra, Gloria Bliez, Rosa M. Orraca, and Aida \'. Rodriguez, .A POL OG Y were elected Honorary Members. We regret that, due to lack of spaoc, it was not possible to print all Miss Maria E. L6pez was elected articles and news items brought to the editors. They w ill be published in the !'resident Emeritus and 'Profes!'lor Charles A. Leker, adviser. No\'ember issue. We appreciate your splendid cooperation.-The Staff. l I I I T 1 ° POLYGRAPH JIOLTIIICIIIOC Di&IIJ\J& 1W roD'IO JUCX) .. a. ..... .. CHRISTMAS •GREETINGS Polygraph Published for the students, faeulty, alumni and friends of the Polytechnic: Iutltute. Subscription, 50 eenta per year. Editor this edition: 0. B. lrinrry with '\'Olunteer help from Faculty and student body. "PUERTo RICO EVANGELIOO" PRESS, PONCE, P. R. EDITORIA L In every violent crisis of human history youth has been in the vanguard of the struggle. Possessed with physical vigor and intense emotional drive. youth is the first to be swept into the maelstrom at the crest of every wave of violence. But this daring and audacity so easily ignited in times of war. for instance, have the very opposite reaction in times of peace. Youth is cold and indifferent toward those spiritual and moral values for which man strives in his peaceful struggle to attain justice and happiness. What is the cause of this frigid response to the cha11enge of ideals? As educ.ators we may legitimately ask: Is it that education has failed in its mission to sensitize the student to the wide disparities of human circumstance in the existing social order? We believe not; the evidence seems to indicate that progress has been made in that direction. We have observed in the corridors of universities and colleges from Venezuela to Canada, and most eminently in Puerto Hico, that politics and economics are the favorite subjects of discussion of students in their serious moments of com·ersntion. We believe, however, that we have failed to cultivate in the student impulses to do something tangible and constructive about those social deficiencies which appear to need immediate attention. ln this connection, we have obsen·ed that these discussions in coN·idors and street corners result invariably in a mere flow of words which strain and unbalance youthful emotions, but seldom lead the student to do an act of social welfare to better the situation. Hundreds of street urchins around him may need help in theil' play habits or hundreds of illiterate adults may need some one to teach t hem hqw to rend and wl'itc, but he personally is not willing to do anything about it. Be wants the government. his political advel'saries or his friends to do it-he has done his duty by voicing his righteous indignation I Unless youth learns to act and make the humanitarianism he advocates his personal possession, the concept of social justice will long remain just an interesting subjed of disc:ussion. We are in the midst of the Christmas season. As a student you have little money for gifts; but you have more to give in social service than the average citizen. Are you ready to make SERVICE your Christmas gift? MR. AND MRS. HARRI S HA \'E...... posing view of the country side for mnes around. "Dimensions: enti re 27x76: lh·ing room 25xl4: kitchen 14xl2; library 14xl2: two bed rooms l4x25: each bed room has a private bath. " Permanency can he envlslont>tl when you consider the substance of which it is built: steel casement windows, tile floors, reinfort·ed concrete walls, reinforced concrete and tile beams and slabs in the roof. The oDly wood is that in doors and door f rames; the house is ,.,·armed by three heatilators, giving uniform heat ,.,ith ample ventilation. The kltc.hen is electrically equipped, and furni&hed with steel cabineta. "Within are at.ractive, apadous rooma, especially the living room: aide feature ia Dr. Harris' den, with gun, boots and spurs: here he has trophies of the hunt. wildcat skin, deer skin with mounted head lying on tile from Mexico, S)"tnbolic of his active life." The home is furnished with an· tiques mostly from the West Indies and Central American countries. It is interesting to notice that among these furnishings are included an old fashioned cupboard of Puerto Riean cedar, a painting of Lorna Vista (the presidents' residence at the Pol)·technic Institute, where Dr. and Mrs. Harris lh•ed for thirty )>ears), a paint· ing of the historic Porta Coeli con· vent in San German, and paper weights made from wood of the recentlr repalced Martin Pefia Bridge in San J uan. built in old colonial days by Ponce de Le6n. The Polygraph and Polytechnic The President's Column SEE HOW THEY WORK ED ! therefore, breed mosquitos. &wersl Elsewhere in these pages yow will thousands of nati,·e terms \\'ere plantsee a factual acoount of "Clean-Up- ed in four shaded areas that needed Day" which we celebrated Saturday, ocautifying, about two hundred arml>ecember 6, but I wish to gh·e .some chairs in Marquis Science Hall were I irnpre11sion11. Every faculty and staff I washed and sandpapered to remo'-e I member seemed to ha,·e heen impres- mat ks and &cratches, and the fh'l! sed by the spirit and good will with largest buildings of the campus were which the students worked. In the re- given a thorough cleaining. In ports that came to my desk on the addition several unsightly weedactivities of the day almost every patches \\'ere cut along the campus grounp lender added: "They all did reads. Something else was accomplished excellent work". or some such word of that cu·e cannot ~ppreciatlon of praise for his group. J.'ir11t of all: no single individual beauty and cleanliness engendered in seemed to LT)' to shirk the respon- the students, pride in tho work ac· sibility and the pleasure of the day. complished, sense of responsibility, LesR than ten out of O\'er three both of the i ndividual and of the hundred actually did not report and group, for the prupe,rtr of the instinearl)' all of thesc were excused be- tution, and practice in t'ooperati\'e e(fort for which no mone)' was refore hand for some good reason. As to what was accompli11hed. I ceived. estimate that no less than fh·e million Some remarked, "This Is something destructh·e termites were destroyed we ought to do e\'ery year'' or by fin'. At least a hundred nests with "el'err semester." All in all, the day an estimated population of 50,000 was so successful it looks as though "c01nejenes" on an average were an institution has been instituted and burned. Probably a half million mos- a tradition has been established. War quito lan·ae were destroyed and or no war. the good of ''Clean-Upbreeding places for millions more were Day" can readil)' be seen and most eliminated by the systematic ~art'h certainly should be repeated at in· for the t'ollection of containers that 1 ten'llls. could hold a few drops of water and, Jan is S. Morrill. I DI~NER AT MAYAG UEZ Saturda)·, ~0\·ember 2 Dr. Xelson Perea, and MessJII!. Miguel A . Garcia M~ndez and Amador Ramirez Silva sponsored n luncheon at the Ma:;al(liez Rainbow Club. at whkh time 1 President Morris and Il<'an l rizarr)' were given the opportunity of explaining tu the guests the educational program that the Polytechnic is trying to develop. The luncheon \'l.'as attended by fourteen I>( the most prominent citizens of the Ma)'llgiiez region. During the discussion of educational issues, it was e'ident that the need of teaching youth, the ,·alue of doing manual labor. the urgency of reSJ)Onsibility, and the reality of moral and spiritual values interested them most. Many 'iewed the educatIonal problem of Puerto Rico as a vital factor in determining a sane attitude toward the true functions of democratic go\'ernment. The feeling of in~ecurity, confusion, and lack of discipline which no,.,· pre\'ails among our people was a souree of common concern to these men. Dr. :Morris was greatly encouraged by their outlook on the present situation, and by the fact that the group went as far as sugp;esting the addition to the curriculum of the Polytechnic an up-to-date course specifically on current social and economic problems of Puerto Rico. The)' felt the need was so urgent that a committee "·as appointed to study the possibility of raising funds to pa)' the cost of web a course. I 1 friends are happ:r to hear the good news and wish Dr. and .Mrs. Harris loag years of jo)' and contentment in their new home. CHRI STMA S i\ CTI\' IT Y.......... the studenttl gave of their time to decorate the Auditorium for chapel ser.-lc:cs. The work was done by' the Art Appreciation Classes under the direction of Mrs. .Marla l'enne de Castillo. Thi>! stuclents were divided into group11 of three and each group was nssigned to prepare an imitation of a stained glas11 window. l'icturea of famous cathedral windo\\•a were studied and imitstions of these designs were reproduced. The panes were made of colored cellophane paper cut and strectched so carefully that they gave the impression of real glass windows. It is remarkable to notice how much these sim11lt• decorations have contributed to create an atmosph~re of worship in an auditorium which was never intended for chapel ser\icea. We can not help but think that a real church building "·ould improve greatly our religious senices. If some good friend would only make us that gift! r>uring the two-weeks period between December 7th and 18th the devotionals were conducted by Mlaa Helen Huffman and .Mrs. Morris. Mia Huffman chose as her theme the gro\\ing use of art as a medium of expression of religious emoti(lnS. Domingo Rosado prepared a design of the "Annunciation" which was moat effective. Mrs. Moms ehose as her theme the "Birthday of the King." In the first sen·ice &he spoke on the meaning and significance of Chrilt· mas: on the second she took as her text "Glory to God In the highest, ancl on earth, peace, good will toward men," and on the third day ahl spoke on our greatest gift to oar fellowmen as Christiana: that il, service.