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              dr j burke severs distinguished professor and head of the de p rtmcnt of english will present ihe first address of this year's senior lecture series tonight at eight o'clock in the osbourne room of the university center a recognized authority on chaucer and middle english literature dr severs will speak on new grain out of old fields chaucer's narrative art ihi lecture series is co-sponsored by the senior class and omicron l.lta kappa senior leadership honorary further lectures will be pre sented during this and next semester under the same sponsorship dr severs head of the english department since 1951 was named distinguished professor in 1959 in 1946 he received the haskins medal oi the medieval academy of america for his book the literary rela tionships of chaucer's clerkes sic tale he received a 1000 award from the american council of learned societies a 500 award of the scroll and key society of yale the rev r h thomas p.m to 4:00 p.m will end wi'h an informal discussion and coffee in the faculty lounge an announcement regarding ths visit of the rev mr thomes noted that the lectures sessions should be of interest to many members of the university com munity particularly since the corps is interested in persons having degrees rather than under graduates peace corps representative the rev richard h thomas will visit the campus tuesday and wednesday oct 24-25 to hold talks and discussions with members of the university community who have an interest in the activities of the corps the appearance of the rev mr thomas coincides with a nation wide program conducted by the government sponsored corps for the purpose of explaining the wcrk and opportunities of the or ganization rev thomas is currently the chip c:iii for mrthcdist s udents at princeton university md is : an official member of the fence corps recruitment te:.m for 10g1 . his icheduic will begin with a jec.ure entitled the concept of hs peace corps at 8:30 p.m tuesday in room 403 of the uni versity center from 9:00 a.m to 11:00 a.m wednesday morning mr themes will hold individual conferences with students or faculty in room 203 of the uc a luncheon at 12 a.m will fol low during which he will address faculty and staff members in the osbourne room individual con ferences in room 203 from 2:00 prof j burke severs walters and hoffman wms top debaters heart attack at 56 dr s b ewing dies at home college and in 1959 was given the 2000 hill man award by lehigh for his achievements and service to the university serving as both secretary and chairman of the chaucer group of the modern language association since 1945 severs has also been general editor of the chaucer library sponsored by the group dr severs is currently a con sultant to the editorial committee for publications of the modern language association a graduate of rutgers . univer sity severs joined the lehigh faculty in 1927 he received his master of arts degree from prince ton university and his doclcrate in philosophy from yale see dr ewing page 7 ? hopkins university from 1930-36 assistant professor at the univer siiy of kentucky 1936-38 and aft sistant professor at washington a.id jefferson college washing ton pa 1938-42 during world war ii he was an agent in the counter intelligence corps u.s army and headed the english department of the u.s sigma xi lecture set edward david to speak epitome pix postponed freshmen rodger walter and ed hoffman last night captured first prize — 200 plus a silver loving cup for their living group dravo c-l — in the finals of the williams in tramural debate contest terry carroll 63 and ralph hilton 63 representing theta chi were runners up for the second prize of 100 of the twenty-five teams origin ally in the competitoin last mon day the field was narrowed to three two-man teams on wednes day when the walter-hoffman team defeated the price hall entry of robert krotzer 64 and chris snyder 64 in the semi-finals carroll and hilton had automatic ally passed on to the finals be cause they had the highest total of points in the preceding three rounds of debate krotzer-snyder as third place see heroism page 7 senior epitome pictures will not be taken oct 23 and 24 as pre viously announced future dates will be announced soon in the brown and white dr edward e david jr of the bell telephone laboratories will present a lecture entitled some basic processes in human communi cation thursday oct 26 the lecture sponsored by sigma xi will be held at 8 p.m in the osbourne room of the university center dr david will speak on and demonstrate the basis for developing an electronic larynx he will also discuss properties of speech in relation to the field of human communication he is presently director of visual and acoustics research at the bell telephone laboratories in which capacity he is concerned with the perception and coding of sensory information and with human in formation processing dr david's bock on the new physics and physiology of speech com munication entitled man's world of sound was published in 1958 in 1960 a second book waves and the ear appeared prof s blaine ewing dr s blame ewing associate professor of english died at his home tuesday evening of a heart a tack he was 56 dr ewing had been a member of the facuuy since 1543 2nd an associate professor since 1947 , a founder and charter member of the pennsylvania ccuncil of teachers of english which siaried in 1956 ewing served as its presi dent during 1959-60 and at the time of his death was a perma nent members of ihe board of directors and member of the pro gram committee dr ewing served for three years rs chatfm n of general siudic an idvisity pjfition concerned with ihe humanities program taken by students in he college cf engin eering an authority en john ford ewing was author cf stirionian melancholy in the plays of john ford published by the princeton university press and had many articles and reviews publ : shed in learned journals in addition to renaissance drama he was a specialist in linguistics a«d liter ary criticism prior to joining the faculty he was an instructor at the johns frosh parents 1 weekend begins tonight prof j burke severs to speak on chaucer vol 73 no 10 bethlehem pa friday oct 20 1961 11:00 a.m these are to acquaint parents with their son's curricu lum his faculty and its objectives question periods will follow each program glenn j christensen dean of the college of arts and science outlined plans for a panel discus sion by faculty members to dis cuss the organization of the college majors distribution requirement end accelerated programs and the intellectual development of the individual student residence halls council will sponsor a tea from 4:00 to 6:00 or the third floor of the u.c faculty and administration members will be present the university's movie watch man on the mountain will be the highlight of the evening program the movie will be shown continu ously from 7:00 to 9:00 in the os bourns room the 23-minute film depicts the development of lehigh and presents the university's role in higher education for the convenience of parents see frosh page 4 first packard auto in packard lab oratory and art displays in thfe alumni memorial building drown hall and the university center parents will also be able to visit the bethlehem steel research laboratory on south mountain a special parents day luncheon will be held in grace hall from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m following the luncheon will be the lehigh-rutgers freshman foot ball game kicking off at 2:30 a special freshman band will play for the event no tickets are re quired for the game ths freshman parents weekend program will begin tonight with the first senior lecture series and he rutgers-lehigh freshman foot ball game dm j burke severs distin guished professor of english and heal of the english department willspeak in the osbourne room of the university center at 8 to night oft new grain out of old fields chaucer's narrative art convocations of the three col leges will be held tomorrow at the college of arts and sciences including arts-engineers i will meet in the osbourne room of the university center the college of business administration will meet in the student lounge of drown hall and the college of engin eering will meet in packard lab auditorium campus exhibits will include the ahmes to einstein exhibit of mathematics books in the rare book room of the library the world's largest universal testing machine in fritz laboratory the lgp-30 computer laboratory and peace corps rep to recruit here brown and white