The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-24
Hasten to explain"
Their Action.
BIG FOUR OPPOSED.
But Finally Prevail With
Their Explanation.

The fine Italian hand Of the Tech
faculty, so the members OF the senior
class say. displayed itself from be-
meath the cloth yesterday, when a ma
jority Of the class, at the dictates of
the Big -Four" as they are termed, at
a hurry call" meeting. voted to EEK
plain" its action of last Monday in
aooiishing class day, as exclusively an
nounCed in The Spy.
A large minority of the class, resent
ms the alleged faculty interference af-
ter the primal action had once been
taken. protested in strong terms against
The proposition to explain the previous
action OF the class. but fear of the fac
ulty on the one hand and a desire to
please on the other. finally triumphed,
and the minority went down TO defeat
Like the Spartan band of yore
Taking counsel unto themselves, four
OF the prominent men Of the class who
are termed the Big Four" held a
preliminary meeting of their own yes
terday. in which the plan TO explain"
the action of Mondays meeting, was
outlined
The Big Four comprises Harry e
Scott, Z. f. Gould, president Of the
class, Charles Z. Evaleth and Arthur
;. Van Ostrand. the four together IN
officially representing their divisions IN
the chemical, mechanical, electrical and
civil engineering departments at the
institute.
In star chamber session. it was. il
is claimed, decided to have the class
vote TO explain its sction Of Monday.
Each one OF the Big Four was relied
upon 10 fix his division. and see that
the plan was carried cut A state
ment was prepared, and it was hoped
TO rush this through the class. without
change, but the scheme failed. After
Mr.. Scott had written the statement
with its approval by the other three
Of the combine. notice was given out
at the lecture hour at 10 O'Clock that q
class meeting would be held at II
o'clock in the regular place.
Many members Of the class at that
time did not know what the meeting
was for. and as one Of the Big -Four
said last evening, il was intended to
have the statement ready so that the
class could vote for it.
After the meeting had been called by
President Gould, Mr.. Scott. as chair
man Of the steering committee, moved
that il be adopted as presented. The
other three men Of the Big four" who
had been told to fix their divisions ans
wered the call TO arms, but notwith-
standing the suddsnness with which
the move was made. some Of the dough-
" members Of the opposition rose
quickly 10 their feet. and then began
d discussion that lasted for more than
half an hour, over the various clauses Of
the statement. which was TO be given
TO the Spy to explain" that the action
Of the class Monday was not due to the
fact Of faculty Indifference but purely
from the fact that it would save sx-
psnses.
The Big four" tried to rally their
forces TO explain" their action Of Mon
day but the opposition continued firm,
and refused 70 accept the machine die
tation. One opponent spoke forcefully
before the class saying that it was en-
tirely wrong TO call the attention Of the
public to the class day question again.
The action had been taken and any
attempts 10 explain would surely be
nisconstrued, and appear in false
light Even if the action OF the class
had been wrong, it was still worse to
call the puolig's attention 70 IT..
During the debate. and mitch to the
regret Of the machine. clause afte<
clause of the original statement was
cut out, and none substituted.
The explanation, as amended aud
finally passed, was as follows:
owing to a misunderstanding which
may arise from the report of our re-
cent class meeting. concerning class
day exercises al the Worcester Poly
teCnic Institute. the class Of 90 makes
the following statement
THAT the question Of class day exer-
Cises was decided without any discus
sion of the relations between the facuI-
ty and the students. The nOu-attend-
ance OF the faculty. as alluded to in the
report, was mentioned in the meeting
as an argument to prove that the ex-
/ erCises were purely a class affair
Edward F. Gould. President.
Harry A Clark Vice President.