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moted were the Alumni Fund, started in 1924, and alumni participation in student recruiting. The Techni-Forum was a development of this latter interest, a program in which principals, science instructors, and guidance counselors were invited to come to Boynton Hill to make their own appraisal of the Institute.

Publicity had been a divided load shunted from person to person for many years. In the old days the very word had been avoided as sounding too commercial, but in 1925 Charles J. Adams, the professor of English, had been appointed with candor "to direct publicity." An excellent speaker with a brilliant repertoire of stories, he developed a series of radio broadcasts, announcements, and lectures. It was he who conceived the idea of a Tech's Founders Day to be observed each year on November 11.

When Professor Swan inherited the task of public relations, he continued the observance of placing wreaths in Rural Cemetery, where all the founders of Tech (with the exception of John Boynton ) had been buried. Then the group of school officials and student leaders climbed the long hills to the little town of Mason, New Hampshire, there to place on Mr. Boynton's memorial stone a memento of a school's ever-growing gratitude. Renaming the yearbook the Peddler was a by-product of this emphasis on history, and thus grew the legend of John Boynton as a peddler--a romantic, but nevertheless exaggerated impression.

In the redistribution of departments after the War, English (which now was headed by Edwin Higginbottom) and Mathematics (under Raymond K. Morley) both moved to Stratton, "or the old M. E. Building." By this time both departments had acquired new status, the first for its inclusion of literature as well as composition, the second for its higher and deeper technical applications.

Professor Morley, who had been the Sinclair professor of Mathematics since 1921, provided a good bridge from the old to the new approach. He was entirely familiar with the old and undisturbed by the new. With either one it was impossible to count the pieces of chalk as they broke off into the waste-basket from Professor Morley's restless fingers while he lectured. This scholarly professor, with his helpful way of translating the abstract into the tangible, produced an understandable set of models which were envied and imitated by mathematics teachers across the country.

Meanwhile the Mechanical Engineering Department was stretching comfortably in its new quarters, the Higgins Laboratories, where in 1949 Gleason H. MacCullough, an acknowledged expert in applied mechanics, had succeeded Francis W. Roys, who was becoming increasingly active in administrative duties. Almost half of the degrees granted by Worcester Tech were from this department of Mechanical Engineering. The new laboratories, their own best testimony to the development of mechanical engineering, provided space for experimentation in heat transfer, lub-