Brown and White Vol. 70 no. 21

              yes vergil you crazy osterized freshman there is a santa claus at lehigh these words jolted us out of our self-induced hypnosis as we walked past the freshman quadrangle one recent frosty eve our curiosity aroused we bolted to the nearest window like most win dows in freshman dorms many of its panes were shattered inside a gaunt counselor sat huddled at a battered desk a lehigh six-footer scarf wrapped around his body the free end of the scarf was stuffed in a broken pane in a futile effort to keep out the cold which whistled through the room snow lay in drifts in the corners and under the bed through the gloom we perceived a freshman standing in the door to the hallway he had the forlorn look of all freshman and under his tattered sweatshirt we could see that he had wrapped his high school diploma around himself to keep warm in his hand he held part of a slide rule the cursor was missing evidently the counselor had uttered the words we first heard for he continued thus vergil i know that you are discouraged you are flunking all the quizzes you can't do the homework your girl is going with a moravian man and now the cursor of your slide rule is gone but be thou not discouraged vergil for behold the time of good cheer and brotherhood to all frosh draweth nigh come vergil seat yourself on my bony knee and i shall tell you the wondrous story of elmer the elf and his first christmas at lehigh and vergil seated himself on his counselor's bony knee with a gasp of pain and heard the story of elmer elmer the elf was tired he had been working hard in the physics lab for days his job was to cut up wave lengths and make them into brightly colored spectra which would be distribted to starving chil dren of the faculty on christmas day he had been used to cutting the wave lengtghs in a band saw but a band saw required electricity he used to get electricity by the bucket ful from doctor hyatt dr hyatt makes electricity by rubbing a piece of fur on a glass rod which is held over a bucket so that the electricity will drop in without spilling but doctor hyatt learned that one of santa's reindeer was getting old and bald so he gave his piece of fur to the deer vixen i think she was to cover up her bald spot because of all this elmer had to cut the wave lengths with a dull oscillo scope he found laying around elmer thought he might feel better see even page 5 orphans to be feted by 17 lu fraternities kids get gifts from st nick seventeen of lehigh's fraternities aave announced plans for a party for area orphans and underprivileged children each house sponsoring a party will entertain 10 to 30 children with games gifts and a visit from santa claus alpha chi rho is having a party tomorrow for 10 eight to 12-year-old orphans from the wiley house in bethlehem beta theta pi is giving a party tomorrow for 10 youngsters ages 6 to 9 who were selected by the sal vation army chi phi has planned a party for 10 young boys from a nearby orphan age delta chi gave a party at the allentown state mental institu tion on dec 12 for a group of mentally retarded boys ages 9 to 11 delta tau delta had a party on dec 7 for 10 children ages 8 to 12 from the wiley house kappa alpha was host on dec 13 to a group of children aged 10 to 14 from the wiley house lambda chi alpha will enter tain a group of 14 children selected by the salvation army tomorrow phi delta theta gave a party on dec 13 for a group of children from the wiley house phi gamma delta entertained a group of underprivileged children from the area dec 13 psi upsilon has a party on dec 13 for 25 children who were selected by the salvation army sigma nu is having a party on thursday for 30 members of the allentown boy's club who are 10 years old or younger sigma phi will entertain 20 chil dren selected by the salvation army thursday night on friday evening sigma phi see 17 page 10 get him wyatt just one of the happy kids that were feted by lehigh fraternities the horse looks like he's had it behind scholastic soys clergy religious preparation lags captains report 232 applications for senior plan seniors yesterday broke another record in their class gift campaign as 106 applications for insurance were turned into chairman eugene mercy at the captain's second report meeting this brings the total number of applications to 232 after the second meeting last year there were 156 applications in the year before there were 185 the 232 insurance policies will bring the university 69,600 in 1979 in signing for the policy the senior agrees to pay 14.80 each year for 20 years maturity value of the policy is 300 the 126 applications turned in last week by the captains also represent a record the class also set a record at the kick-off dinner when the largest number of workers in the 22-year his tory of class insurance appeared this year's campaign will close friday with another captain's report session at that meeting chairman gene mercy expects about 250 ap plications turned in see anti page 9 college tends to make some critical and reexam ine their faith and life as a whole which results in a temporary skepticism and in most cases a later un derstanding clue to this reexamination stated the rev john v peters of st peter's lutheran church pressure of academic work lack of religious at mosphere the general pattern of social and academic life and a break in contact between the church and the student were causes attributed to the student's religious relaxation according to members of the local clergy a close relationship between faith and in tellectual exercise seemed to be indicated by them several were moved to comment on the statement made by prof thomas haynes of the philosophy department in order to survive on the campus religion must be made intellectually as well as emotionally acceptable frosh ifc lists due on dec 19 freshmen are reminded by the interfraternity council to hand in their lists of dinner dates for the first week's rushing to the student activities office on or before dec 19 rushing will begin on friday march 13 editor's note : this is the concluding article in a three-part religion series by paul shock a poor foundation in their religious beliefs was a basic cause expressed by several clergymen in the lehigh vicinity of bethlehem for students falling away from their respective churches while at college that religious preparation is far behind the scholastic when the student faces the new experience of college seemed to be the consensus the rev b burns brodhead of fritz methodist church commented lehigh presents a challenge both intellectually and spiritually the problem is to measure-up spiritually to academic attain ments rabbi william frankel of brith sholom community center felt that the student while at tending college tends to grow skeptical of both home and religious teachings he added however that there is less anti-religious feeling among stu dents than was present at the turn of the century vol 70 — no 21 lehigh university brown and white un 6-0331 bethlehem pa tuesday december 16 1958 yes vergil there is osterized lu freshman learns all about santa everybody loves a christmas party lncluding these tots and miss pennsylvania rosalie samley miss p and phi delta theta entertained a group of city children at their annual christmas party 17 other fraternities did the same by richard durling see centerfold for the story behind death