Brown and White Vol. 31 no. 32

              bethlehem pa friday february 15 1924 a i e e members witness tests vol xxxi no 32 dr bull will | shoot r 0 t c price five cents arts and science meeting tonight at 7.45 inferology born at moravian england cuba and australia to be represented at famous carnival some points about new move ment which has just been started high voltage demonstration causes now little amount of mystery and awe other students also enabled to take typhoid preventive without charge horn warns when ready first inoculation feb 23 60 colleges already signed subject drawing comment here's a good one on sigma nu's • - a i « < : t ast saturday the whole sigma nu house bit beautifully on a joke ; s •*** played on them by two of their brothers h k stuhl and n c ; • carter ! before the final examinations stahl bet carter that if he carter ! • passed calculus stahl would do an unusual thing in one of the prominent \ • store windows down town oddly enough calculus was the only thing | • carter passed and of coarse the rust of the brothers twitted the gam 1 ; biers about not carrying out their rafdi wager foreseeing the poßßlbtll j 5 ties of a huge hoax the two recalcitrant brothers set 12 o'clock on satur ' j i day in dick colby's show room window as the time and place for the ; s paying off of the debt ! ! so neatly was the joke planaed that nearly thirty sigma nu's and ; ! many other students were on hand at the appointed hour a shiver ran ; i through the crowd as stahl and carter stood in the window apparently : ! • ready to perform a most daring act of unconvontlonatuy instead the i ; crowd was greeted by placards saying you poor fish — you bit right j and now walk up the hill the spectators and especially the j ■ sigma nu's who had missed luncheon were astounded as they slowly j |; realized that the tables were turned and that they were the victims of ; | ; the neatest joke played on the campus in many years ; frosh wrestlers to meet baltimore city college new basketball league project serious obstacles encountered in formation of new pact between colleges meeting last saturday meeting to be featured by reading of two student papers the arts and science club will hold its regular meeting to night at 7.45 in drown hall at which time student papers will be the feature of the meeting r a heckert 24 president of the society will deliver a talk upon the world's present political situation which will deal with many of the interest ing up-to-date problems that are facing the world at large c c gorgas 26 will also read a student paper on the interest ing topic of the economic in terpretation of the constitution of the united states it is the hope of the president of the so ciety that these two readings will result in a general debate in which all those present will take part this is the second tinile this season that the regular meeting has been featured by student papers and it is the earnest desire of the officers of the society that in the future many more papers on the topics of the present day will be offer ed to the club for discussion and debate everyone who is inter ested in the papers which are to be delivered friday is cordial ly invited to attend r r society to hold meeting new york engineer to talk before local organization on locomotives speaker knows his subject feated blair will present powerful array saturday yearling mat team which de in the absence of the varsity wrestling team at yale the freshman team will meet balti more city college saturday 3 p m at taylor gym it is cer tain to be an excellent meet as the city college boasts a strong team that will give the lehigh frosh a tussle in every bout this will be the second meet for the freshman who defeated blair 18 to 8 previously in the season tryouts were held last tuesday and wednesday but all places were not decided upon the probable line-up in class es tried will be reed 115 puonds kent 125 pounds kei ler 158 pounds evans 175 pounds there are several con tenders for the other classes and it is expected that the freshmen grapplers will present a powerful and well balanced team the student body and b pecially the freshman class is strongly urged to support the team as the frosh present an unusually strong line-up this season tau bete pi held meeting last monday in the near future several in novations will be introduced the nature of which cannot now be disclosed the tau beta pi society held its regular meeting monday at seven-thirty the society has been making active efforts to see the dean relative to the com parison of marks it is the inten tion of the society to have the marks made more accessible in order that the standing of the fraternities and living groups may be published this will also determine the winner of the phi sigma kappa scholarship cup radio meeting at lafayette on friday evening there will be an especially interesting meeting of the railroad society of lehigh university in the physics lecture room at 8 p m mr james partington chief estimating engineer of the am erican locomotive works new york will be the speaker of the evening and as he has been actively connected with the lo comotive industry for almost tv/enty years a very interesting talk is anticipated the subject of the address is to be engi neering and the locomotive mr partington began his ca reer as a special apprentice at the pittsburgh locomotive works and soon became engaged in the designing of locomotives p.fl a draftsman and later as chief draftsman from this po sition ho soon was advanced tc p?s].s"uit mechanical engineer working in the estimating de partment he has been employ ed in this department with his present concern for the past fourteen years besides his reg ular work he has taken an ac tive part in the affairs of the ameriran society of mechanic engineers and held an impor tant position on the board that drafted the locomotive boi'er codo on friday evening mr part ington intends to speak on the subject of engineering in era and more particularly on locomotives in order to make his address more nteresting and complete a number of slides will be shown illustrating <■>; gineoring progress in locomotive design and construction lehigh valley radio fans have been invited to be the guests of the lafayette college radio club here on the night of febru ary 28 when o w eschbach electrical engineer with the bell telephone company at philadel phia will give an illustrated lec tur in pardee auditorium here on some phase of radio com munication invitations have been extended through the bethlehem and allentown radio clubs the easton electrical educational association and to the students of lehigh univer sity the lecture being given r.nder the auspices of the laf ayette college radio club will be open without charge to all interested in radio wesleyan elects swim captain the swimming team of wes leyan university has elected richard b maxwell of winona minn captain of the 1924 team since 1913 voltages in excess of 1,000,000 have been made to perform spectacular phenomena under the control of a man's finger at the high voltage lab oratory of the westinghouse electric company recently flashing sigzag arcs and high potential surges were included in the demonstrations which were witnessed by mem bers of the american institute of electrical engineers and some visiting engineers of other countries the feature of the demonstra tions was the forming of a 42 foot arc at a potential of 1,000 000 volts this was the largest controlled arc ever made artifi cially and it set a world's rec ord for laboratory work the length of the arc the tremend ous voltage behind it and the deep roar that accompanied , it combined to produce a peculiar feeling of awe at the mighty electrical forces under the con trol of a man's finger manifes tations of high voltages of elec tricity produce a sensation which witnesses find hard to de fine following the forming 1 of the arc there was a demonstration of the efficiency of the horn gap a 15-foot horn ' was con structed and an arc was induced at a potential of 200,000 volts the arc rose slowly due to the hot air produced with a tearing noise to the end of the horn blew out and immediately re-es tablished at the base it rose again and again until the circuit was opened this self-extin guishing feature is used daily on power systems to relieve sur ges and lightning strokes this is a spectacular test and is an exhibition that witnesses do not soon forget the next test were insulator ilashovers in these tests a dry insulator post built up of sev eral units was flashed over a potential of 800,000 volts fol lowing this the column was cov ered with a heavy water spray to approximate conditions dur ing a torrential rainstorm and it flashed over a potential of 650,000 volts showing the wet insulator to be over 80 percent as efficient as the dry insulator this was a remarkably high ra tio and attributed to excellent design in visiting the high voltage laboratory of the westinghouse company the delegates saw one of the finest laboratories of its kind in the world the labora tory contains two mammoth transformers one having a rat ing of 1,000,000 volts 1,000 kv a other million-volt sets use two or more transformers to produce this supervoltage there is also a half-million volt trans former in the laboratory which is used for making smaller tests the control equipment is an out standing development in the el ectrical industry the complete transformer equipment with switches motors and generators is directly under the hand of a single operator stationed at the laboratory the remote control is used throughout to eliminate any possibility of accident by handling these high voltages a system of horns warns everyone when to expect the test and in this way also danger of acci dents is minimized the chance that lehigh uni versity will become affiliated with an intercollegiate basket ball league amounts to a cer tainty according to edwin f scheetz 24 manager of basket ball who with coach baldwin represented the university at a meeting of various colleges and universities throughout the mid dle atlantic states held at the university of pennsylvania last saturday the meeting was held for the purpose of ascertaining the sen timent in regard to the forma tion of such a league the col leges represented were franklin and marshall haverford johns hopkins lehigh lafayette rutgers and the university of pennsylvania stevens was also invited but was unable to be represented although favorable to such a project it was agreed that play should be on the basis of the intercol legiate league that is that one game be played at home and one away with each of the mem bers of the league all with the exception of johns hopkins and swarthmore are at present pro vided with facilities for staging games and providing for spec tators and these expect to be adequately provided for in the course of the coming year muh lenburg was not considered be cause of this lack of accomoda tions the representatives of rut gers lafayette and swarth more were strongly in favor of a six-club league while the others were in favor of an eight-club league if necessary lehigh rutgers lafayette and swarthmore were all opposed to allowing perm to enter its ju nior varsity as although perm stated its intention of playing the regular varsity whenever possible this would be unsatis factory because of perm's posi tion in the intercollegiate lea gue another possible difficulty is the now strained relations be tween rutgers and stevens due to a criticism on the part of stevens of decisions in a recent basketball game played there this unfortunate occurrence se vers all athletic relations be tween two institutions long hay ing had keen rivalry and will be a serious difficulty in the way of the proposed league manager scheetz will submit a report of the meeting to the athletic committee for its in formation and approval and to govern the university's action in the next meeting which is to be held in the latter part of this month there are many people who are vague in their conception and understanding of inferolo gy a new movement which has a if acted considerable comment in college circles and which had its origin in moravian college bothlehem pi inferology is l ot as the word implies at first glance a study of the lower world one might ail it the science of getting down to the fundamental ti*uths of knowledge a person wrn en deavors by logical reasoning and common sense to discover hie why and wherefore of facts and ia so doing woiks for the com mon good x\y betterment of a social group or organization is put ing into practice inferology the problems of the day for ex ample are dia nosed by infer ences drawn from the induct"ye and deductive processes if these inferences prove to be correct and if they prove to be the fundamental truths and facts then the meaning of the word inferology is self-explanatory its deriviation is from both the latin and the greek the first part comes from the latin verb infero meaning to bear in or to infer and the sec ond part is derived from the greek noun logos meaning a word by which inward thought is expressed or the study of euphony will not permit one to say inferencology hence we have in the word inferology the study of inferences the fundamental purpose of inferology is to interest the stu dent in such a way that he will not only secure a greater am ount of knowledge for himself but also push his college to the front and thus achieve a double purpose as stated in the consti tution of inferology its aims are to establish a more per fect school spirit in all colleges and universities to form a more perfect bond of fellowship be tween such institutions to pro mote the general amusement of all students in such a way that they by the hard school of ex perience may learn such knowl edge that the class room can never give and to secure the advantages of inferology to all students in all colleges and un iversities these advantages are many inferology teaches the student to get down to bed rock it gives him a driving force that spurs him on to do better scholastic work and also to get into col lege activities it develops in the student a desire to do something biff in his college for his col lege it is indeed a great driv ing force but how does inferology ac complish all of this what is the method the answer to both of these questions is simple infer ology uses a rewarding good work method and punishes poor work by the awarding of degrees on the credit point system there are in all colleges cer tain hard working students who do more for their respective in stitutions of learning than the average student in that college is a'vare of the student who | performs a lot of big spectacu lar deeds foe his alma matei gets credit for so doing but the studsnt who is in a small way j doing his part and doing it i well receives little or nothing in recognition of his efforts in iferology rights this wrong by i rewarding every student for ev jery little thing he might do for his school in most colleges there are honorary organiza tions and fraternities but all of j these am limited inferology has 110 politics shows no favorisrr ar/s rests every man alike tha continued on page 4 column if the military department has announced that members of the r o t c who are to attend camp this summer will receive their typhoid innoculation in the near future this is a proce dure which most students look forward to with fear and tremb ling but find that anticipation has been much worst than real ization typhoid inoculation was dev eloped in this countiy about 1911 up to that time typhoid fever had been the scourge of all military camps and all large groups of people everywhere during the summer of 1911 there was a mobilization camp at san antonio texas twelve thousand men were ordered to that place and kept there for eight months under canvas in order to make a test of the ty phoid vaccine which had been developed by dr frederic f russell of the medical corps of the army the war department issued orders that every man or dered to this camp must receive the typhoid inoculation as a result these men stayed in a southern camp for eight months and not one case of typhoid fe ver developed v-t was the first time in the hiltory of the world that so large a number of men had been congregated at one place without a very great num ber of typhoid fever cases this record started the whole world to studying inoculation as a means of preventing typhoid fever which had been known as the scourge of all armies since the beginning of mankind by the time the world war began practically all nations were us ing this inoculation and the his tory of this war shows almost no typhoid fever typhoid inoculation is requir ed in some schools and universi ties and in some industrial groups the record of typhus cases in these schools and groups has dropped to nothing following the spanish amer ican war when typhoid killed many more than bullets a board of medical officers studied the typhoid situation from the standpoint of sanitation they reduced the amount of typhoid in the army by sanitary meas ures but were never able to en tirely stamp it out general rus sell's work culminating in 1911 gave the necessary additional protection to absolutely stamp out the disease since the beginning of the r i o t c camps each student who attends camp has been required to be vaccinated before going to the camp or immediately upon arrival the vaccine is furnish ed by the medical department of the army and is made at the army medical school in wash ington according to the direc tions of general russell the vaccine is given in three doses usually one week apart each dose causes more or less reac tion usually taking the form of a little headache and a moder ately sore arm the acute symp toms however pass off usually in twenty-four hours and in the very marked cases in forty-eight to seventy-two hours the vac cine now used gives protection against typhoid fever and the two principal para-typhoid fev evs since the beginning of the r o t c camps there has not been a student who has had the vaccine who has developed the disease major patch and doctor bull are co-operating this year in the giving of this vaccine to the r o t c students and announce that they will make it available bpirit of inferology is indeed democratic continued on page j column i princeton may row on hudson according to maxwell steven son chairman of the intercol legiate rowing association princeton has been invited to take part in the 1924 races of the association held annually on the hudson the stewads of the i r a are trying to make this legatta an open championship and have invited many colleges outside of the organisation's membership pennsylvania's thirtieth an nual relay race carnival will this year be finer than ever cambridge university england has sent word that they will be represented w r bristowe the captain of the cambridge team wrote that as yet they had not decided on what distance they will choose it is probable how ever that they will decided on the two mile distance as they have in college mountain ex champion half miler of england and lowe both of whom have run the half mile in 1 minute 55 seconds it is also said that griffiths who won the british half mile championship last july is at cambridge if he is there cambridge should have a won derful two mile relay team cambridge will compete in one of the medley relay champion ships on friday april 25 the first day of the meeting ttu means that their great athlete abrahams will accompany the team abrahams has done 9 4-5 seconds for 100 yards 21 4-5 seconds for the 220 yards 49 3-5 seconds for the quarter and 23 feet 8 3-5 inches for the broad jump he won three events in the cambridge-oxford harvard yale meet last july and is one of the greatest track athletes in the world pennsylvania has also invited eric liddell of ed inboro university scotland the british 100 yards and 220 yards champion to compete at the carnival liddell holds the brit ish records for the above dis tance at 9 7-10 seconds and 21 3-5 seconds respectively if he accepts his meeting with the best of our college sprinters will be of the keenest interest the university of havana cuba is sending up a team to the carnival cuba is not strong in track athletics and they will be put in a class race occidental college of the pacific slope has also stated that they will have a team in the quarter half and one mile relay championships occidental has a very strong squad of sprinters and will be hard to beat in these events canada will also be represented thus with canada cuba eng land and colleges as far west as california represented half of the globe will be interested in the results of pennsylvania's great carnival it is probable also that australia will send a college team these men being on their way to the olympic games in paris next july the invitations to the carnival have been out only a week and already more than sixty col leges have sent word that they will be on hand it joqks as if last year's record when 112 col leges competed at the carnival will be broken as many colleges ar still to be heard from the invitations to the schools will go out this week judging by the early inquiries more schools than ever will attend last year there were over 450 schools represented it is going to be very difficult to handle the games in the two days allotea to them the carnival will be of es pecial importance this year be cause of the keen competition for the olympic team that will represent this country in paris this year the relay carnival will give the college athletes of the entire country a chance to show their ability and the re sults will no doubt have a bear ing on the utilmate decision of the olympic committee in choosing the american team any schools or colleges desir ing to attend the carnival may do so as all are invited by writ ing to the manager of the car nival george w orten 3301 walnut street philadelphia pa ai has the fever governor smith of new york has taken a leaf from secretary mellon's notebook and is advo cating a 25 percent reduction in the new york state income tax this may have an important political significance four american universities will send tennis teams to eng land this year the combined teams of yale and harvard will be followed by the combined teams of princeton and leland stanford combinations oxford and cambridge will be played and also several well-known english clubs notice ■ the regular meeting of the i burr board will be held to • j night at 7.30 o'clock brown and white many to compete at penn relays i » _ f patronize our advertisers t ttiii''r r f > '^""^" let us respect our campus