Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-26
BULLETINS SPECIAL YALE LETTER
Annual Inspection Trips of Seniors Mechanical and Eec- trica Courses-Yale Week at Exposition Born Co., ing to Michigan.

New Haven, March 25.-The annual inspection trips of the seniors of the Sheffield Scientific school in the cleo trfcal and the mechanical engineering courses started this week and will ex- tend until the Easter recess, which will begin April 1st. The electrical engi- neers left New Haven Tuesday even- ing for New York. Remaining in New York Tuesday night, they proceeded to Pittsburg on Wednesday. Other places which the schedule includes are East Pittsburg, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, New
 4ork, Newark, Harrison and Brooklyn.
 The social features of the trip will be luncheon at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and a dinner with the Westinghouse Yale club at the Fort Pitt hotel in Pittsburg. The party consists of 30 students and is under the supervision of Professor Scott and R. P. Winton of the electrical depart ment. This is the fourth annual in spection trip of the seniors. and the visits this year cover wide range. Tie plants visited include three phases in the practical application of electrici- ty; plants which manufacture cleo plants where this apparatus is used to generate and distribute electricity, and plants. including a battleship, where this electricity is put to practical purposes.
 The mechanical engineers left New Haven Wednesday morning for Hart ford. They then continued their tour, which will consist of visits to plants in Springfield, Chicopee Falls, Worcester, Providence, New York and Philadel- phia. About 25 plants will be visited in all. and each visit is to count as a recitation. The social features of the trip will be a joint smoker with the senior mechanical engineers of Brown university in Providence and lunch ecns at Hartford and New York as guests of the Travellers Insurance company and the New York Edison company. For the visits on next Mon- dey in New York, the mechanical en- gineers and the electrical engineers will join forces. The mechanical en- gineering party is under the direction
 of Professor Roe and H. L. Seward
 Professor Breckenridge will join the party for several of the visits. The mechanical engineering trips were first
 started at Shelf 30 years ago, but were
 discontinued for number of years. Since they were resumed in 1910 there
 has been a steady growth in interest ard numbers. In 1910 there were 29 I there were 55, and this year there are 1 78.
 Acting in conjunction with the au- thorities of the Panama Pacific inter ma sional exposition, the Yale Alumni set aside the week beginning Monday, July 12, during the exposition, to be known as Yale week. Arrangements are being made to welcome the officers and the graduates of the university who have signifed their desire to visit the exposition during Yale week. Pres ident Hadley will be in San Francisco at the meeting of the association of American colleges. One hundred and fifty rooms have been engaged by the association for the Yale men. Mayor Rice Of New Haven is also planning for a New Haven day at the exposi- ton, and it has been scheduled to
 come during Yale week. In reference to this plan. Mayor Rice has stated that the exhibition will contain a large l number of displays both of local and widespread interest and that a pro-
 gramme of special events for the day is being considered.