SEVEN HONORED WITH ENGINEERING "KEY"

The Gamma chapter of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity, an honorary engineering society corresponding to the Phi Beta Kappa in colleges of liberal arts, announced yesterday the election of seven of the ten highest ranking students from the Senior class in the Engineering School to the society. The men elected were: George Hay Bascom 4E.S. of Sparkill, N. Y., Robert Brandt 4E.S. of Jamaica Plain, Richard Jenney 4E.S. of Stony Brook, Bertram Wellman 4E.S. of Springfield and Charles Reimar Wohrman 4E.S. of Sarremaa Esthonia.

The society was chartered last June by the national organization which makes its headquarters at Knoxville, Tenn., after petitioning for more than a year. The 14 charter members elected officers just before the close of the college year with E. P. Nelson 5E.S. at president. The fraternity was founded in 1885 at Lehigh University to "foster a spirit of liberal culture in the Engineering Schools of America and to mark in a fitting manner those who have conferred honors upon their college by a high grade of scholarship as undergraduates or by other attainments as alumni."

Has Meny Prominent Members

Many of the most prominent men in the engineering profession are members of Tau Beta Pi, including Dr. S. W. Stratton, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and President M. L. Burton of the University of Michigan and many of the foremost practicing engineers in America. The society has an interesting key representing in its form the "bent" of a trestle, the most important section of that structure as far as the carrying of the load for which it was designed is concerned.

The announcement was also made of the election of an advisory board of four graduates. They are Albert Palmer '23 of Newton, elected for four years, Matthew Scott Bromwell '23 of Washington. D. C., elected for three years, Jean Georges Peter 1G.E. of Geneva, Switzerland, elected for two years, and Charles Weller '23 of Roxbury, elected for one year.

There are two elections of members every year, the first in a group of seven from the ten highest in the fall of the Senior year and the other election of six of the eight highest at the beginning of the second half of the third year from records furnished by the Dean's Office.