Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-01
Tech Boys Stirred by Hero
PrOfeSSOrJuSt From Front

Professor NJ. W. Yost, member
of the Technical High school faculty,
returned to the school yesterday aft
er having spent year in France and
after having been wounded in the
drive on Verdun. In going over the
top last September as a member of
the signal corps, the Tech tutor had
a narrow escape from death from
exploding Shrapnel. Only his pres
ence of mind in throwing himself
fiat upon the ground saved his life.
AS it was, Mr.. Yost lost the index
finger OF his left hand, received a
severe laceration of his right hand,
and received an injury to his left
eye. But for the skill of the sur
geons that member would have also
been lost.
AT the chapel exercises yesterday
morning Mr.. Yost received q hearty
ovation from the students, many of
whom received instruction from him,
in Latin prior to his entering the
service. DR.. Eager called upon the
instructor for his narrative, and for
the entire period the soldier-teacher
gave the Tech lads an insight of the
greatest and bloodiest of all wars.
While the teacher gave only a few
of the high spots of his experiences,
he added plenty of humor, which
he said was characteristic of the
"Yank.' He claimed that the fight
ers are just trifie superstitious in
that If a shell has your name la
peled ON 1t. 1t is sure to get YOU"
Mr.. Iost brought n ripple of
laughter from the student body when
he declared that soldier cannot be
good fighter unless he has his share
OF "cooties." After telling of his
trip across in the Leviathan, former
ly the Vaterland, the speaker took
his audience at once to the battle
front. He told how the artillery was
camouf1aged in the Argonne forest.
so that only the experienced eve
could tell that guns were ready to
talk"
The papers told about how the
Americans took a town. That made
us soldiers laugh, for what we really
TOOK was nothing more than pile of
stones, SO great was the devastation"
he declared. He explained that all
the churches, homes and chateau
are built of stone with practically
no wooden structures.
The bop, bop, bop" of the ma
chine guns was vividly told by the
speaker, who spoke of a "Yank" on
the cot next to him in the base hos
pltaI VINO had five machine gun bull
Iets in his leg, from his ankle to
MS Knee. The various kinds of fire
arms, hand grenades, barbed wire
FENCES, tanks and other instruments
OF warfare interested the student
oooy and the faculty for the entire
chapel period.
More Profs. Return
frofessor Joseph Leswing and
rroIessor Denton Albright have also
returned to Tech as instructors. The
TWO teachers were stationed at a
cdinp In the middle west, where they
were lnstructing soldiers. Three
other Tech tutors are in the service
and the student body is eager for
their return. Professor Ziegler is in
southern camp awaiting his dis
eharge. while Professor j. e. Belt is
located near Paris in Y. M. G..
work. lie does not expect to be able
10 return to teaching before the
opening of school next fall. T n
hehhlnger, freshman instructor of
Lhgllsh, was rushed to France early
iast tall as an interpreter. Little has
Deen heard from him. Prior to com
ing TO Tech and before the opening
OF the war, Mr. Renninger had trav.
eled through Germany, and because
OF MS knowledge of the people and |
the German language, he was used
as an Interpreter
Seniors to Entertain
members of the senior class will |
entertsin the school next Friday
morning at the chapel exercises Mn
sical ana literary numbers will fea- |
ture the entertainment.
Zowie! Baseball.
Baseball is TO be revived at Tech |
tour years ago the team Mad to dis
Dand. The reason was a good one.
Inc Maroon had such a consistently |
good nine that no other high school |
team wanted TO play Tech To get