Brown and White Vol. 64 no. 51

              award degree to allen astin rains tops fall scl president whitaker is shown conversing with the recipients of three honorary degrees conferred at the graduation dr alfred blalock is at left dr allen v astin and dr g rowland collins at right bishop condemns conformity hysteria the signing of contracts for five major attractions on the 1953-54 student concerts-lecture series was announced last week additional programs for the university's major series open to the public will be booked for next spring claude raines stage and screen actor who has won major awards for his appearance on broadway and hollywood will will appear in the opening pro gram october 16 ethel waters another screen and stage favor ite will offer a program of songs and sketches from the theatrical productions in which she has starred in the past two decades see waters page 2 and 72 advanced students in the graduate school dr collins told a packed crowd in grace hall that in an all-out war econo my by virtue of necessity we usually assent to some shift to ward statism for the short-run conflict in a prolonged armed peace the same temptation could also entice us we can be completely defeated without firing a single shot if our economic solvency is permitted to run down the drain of any ruinous inflation and if the free and indi vidualistic character of our economy should by chance be lost in some sharp swing toward coercive stat ism he pointed out five freedoms americans enjoy as 1 a reason able freedom in the choice of goods services and occupations 2 a rea sonable freedom to acquire hold and bequeath property 3 a reason able freedom to earn disposable in comes that will provide a decent amount of true discretionary pur chasing power 4 a reasonable freedom to transform invention and discovery into innovation and to hitch innovation to capital and 5 a reasonable freedom to advance in economic station on independent and honorable terms these are the priceless eco nomic freedoms that must be preserved from the heavy hand of the state if they are to be long enjoyed dr collins con cluded the degrees were conferred upon the seniors and graduate school re cipients of degrees by president martin d whitaker previous to the commencement exercises the uni versity's reserve officer training see collins page 4 a dean from new york univer sity a pioneer in the development of radios and a leading surgeon re ceived honorary degrees at the 85th commencement exercises in grace hall last week recipient of an honorary de gree of doctor of laws was dean g rowland collins of the graduate school of business administration at new york university dr collins delivered the commencement address au thor of seven books collins has served on the faculty at nyu for the past 31 years he has served as editor of publica tions for the united states depart ment of agriculture as chairman of the food marketing research council of the port of new york authority and as economic consultant for in vestors diversified services doctorates in science were see astin page 3 the essence of a democracy is that it encourages the individual to be himself the rt rev frederick warnecke bishop of the church of the nativity cathedral told seniors and their guests baccalaureate sun day in packer chapel in a democracy the common life is enriched by differences this fundamental philosophy is also that of our hebrew-chris tian religious tradition he said it is tragic that today even as we fight communism something of its spirit of fear of the individual has crept into our life it is the thought less hysteria that would impose a pallid brainwashed uniformity on free americans this poison has infiltrated much of our life it is seen on the college campuses in the decline of liberal groups in caution in faculty utter ances and in the fear of joining any thing that may get you into any trouble but the right of any one of us to take an advanced liberal po sition is the life-blood of demo cracy it is its growing edge he added religion is a relationship be tween man and god over that two way street in one direction moves man's commitment of self to a pow er greater than himself but also over that street comes strength from god to man for basic in our he brew-christian faith is our belief that god is not an impersonal dis tant unknowable first cause but a concerned father who wills to speak and to work with his earthly sons and daughters seen in this way religious ex see warnecke page 4 new home for sigma chi plans for the construction of a new housing unit costing 140,000 on the campus were announced last month by elmer w glick treasurer of the university when completed approximately february 1 1954 the new building will be rented to sigma chi fraternity a substantial portion of the funds for the new building has been donated to the university by alumni and friends to provide living accommodations for students on the campus the building was de signed by charles h bauer summit n.j architect who was gradu ated from lehigh in 1930 the first floor of the new unit will house a recreation room storage rooms five study rooms and a sleeping room the second floor will have a modernly equipped kitchen dining room living room nine study rooms and a large sleeping room the building will be of brick construction 100 principals meet here today a meeting of the secondary school principals from eastern pennsylvan ia began this morning at 9 a.m and will continue through tomorrow according to dr harold p thomas director of the summer school the topic of the meetings is arm chair exploration of the universe prof frank e myers of the physics department will speak before the 100 principals tonight the meetings will take place in drown hall rev fuessle succeeds bean as chaplain the rev raymond e fuessle has been named as lehigh's new chap lain starting in the fall semester ac cording to dr martin d whitaker president of the university rev fuessle will join the staff after having served as chaplain at bard college annandale-on hudson n.y for the past four years he is a graduate of new york university with the class of 1930 and received his bache lor of divinity degree from vir ginia episcopal theological seminary alexandria va in 1933 he has been rector of the church of the resurrection greenwood s.c st alban's church washing tn d.c and christ church macon ga he has also served as dean of the episcopal theological seminary porto alegre brazil 200 teachers reverse roles teachers from five states started classes in the graduate department of the education department yester day according to dr harold p thomas director of the summer school two hundred teachers from new york new jersey pennsylvania delaware and maryland are attend ing the first six-week session which will be followed by a three week post-session represented are teach ers from kindergarten through high school and school administrators eight visiting teachers from penn sylvania and new jersey will be in structing full time it says here showers to quell weekend heat although there is no prospect of a general cooling-off period in sight the showers expected by this week end should offer some small relief to those now suffering from the heat wave which has enveloped the le high valley the high and low tem peratures for the first two days of the summer sessifl^ollow high low monday 87 68 tn«f«ay 86 64 plans have been completed for the new housing unit shown above present schedule calls for the house to be ready by feb 1 1954 at a cost of 140,000 the structure will be rented to sigma chi fraternity volume 64 — number 51 summer brown and white thursday june 25 1953 lehigh university bethlehem pa tree society in jeopardy collins to 53 a dual dilemna of national sol vency versus national security over laid upon economic instability ver sus economic growth lies ahead dur ing an armed peace dr g rowland collins dean of the graduate school of business administration at new york university told lehigh graduates and their guests at the 85th commencement exercises before 476 graduating seniors