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              ious opinions the number of rhodes scholar ships distributed throughout the world has varied since their origin but there have been 32 chosen from the united states each year since 1930 when informed of digilio's award dr w deming lewis president of the university and rhodes scholar from harvard in 1935 said mr digilio combines into one man the very educational philos ophy on which lehigh was found see digilio page 6 the only pennsylvanian select ed as a rhodes scholar is a stu dent at lehigh v rodger digilio digilio said he was really sur prised and shocked at being chos en for this great honor with so many other outstanding candidates being considered i was not very optimistic about my chances he said the rhodes scholarships were established under the v/ill of cecil rhodes an english adventurer after his death in 1902 the first scholarships were granted rhodes hoped to bring together at oxford students whose distinc tion of intellect and character would enable them to contribute to the life of a great university while drawing from their experi ence friendship and wisdom to sustain them in their careers he carefully stipulated that no student should be qualified or dis qualified because of race or relig faculty behind b&w film struggle continues v rodger dicilio dr w deming lewis will bs formally inaugurated as tenth president of the university on founder's day oct 10 1965 the new date replaces the april 24 date previously announced by the university the ceremony will theiefore be a major event of le high's centennial year which will be observed during the 1965-66 academic year lewis was installed as president at the founder's day exercises on oct 11 1964 immediately preceding the re cent holiday vacation the univer sity announced that lewis has been appointed by the secretary of the navy to a three-year term on the 15-member naval research advisory committee the com mittee a volunteer body consults and advises the chief of naval operations and the chief of naval research in washington d c lewis who was one of the first american scientists to work on the appollo mooncraft project and a charter member of the polaris command communica tions committee was associate with the bell system in engineer ing research and administration for 23 years before coming to lehigh last year by james f dulicai faculty approval of the brown and white's stance in the penn sylvania liquor control board film controversy action by the administration to have the roll of film returned and a reply to a student's letter to gov scranton lehigh prof picked as library advisor link is found in food chain of ocean life the discovery of a food link in the complex oceanic food chain a program lehigh participated in has been hailed one of 1964's top ten scientific advances the science service of washing ton d c saluted the work of ma rine scientists from lehigh yale and woods hole oceanographic institute which resuled in the dis covery of a population of organic and inorganic particles used as food by the sea's smallest crea tures the discovery solves a problem that has puzzled oceanographers for some time namely how the little beasties survived when it was previously believed that the ocean did not contain sufficient food for them the small organ isms are the basic food supply for all higher orders of marine life the particles were found cling ing to air bubbles see lehigh page 4 ing chairman of the liquor con trol board to robert g mcgough 65 in which fisher passed over mcgough's charges of unconstitu tionality " very frankly we have not been much impressed with the attempts to magnify a trifling in cident of the raid in order to mini mize or distract attention from the really tragic aspect of it namely the admitted illegality of the students in transporting the liquor from new jersey into pennsylvania the letter said mcgough told the brown and see support page 4 dr lawrence h gipson pro fessor emeritus of history and pulitder prize winning author was one of three historians re cently appointed as consulting historians by the library of con gress l quincy mum ford librarian of the library of congress an nounced dr gipson's appointment time reporter speaks tuesday were parts of the paper's continu ing struggle in the last two weeks president w deming lewis an nounced the faculty decision tues day he said that formal notifica tion of the approval of a variation of prof arthur l brody's original motion last month would be forth coming from prof ralph n van arnam secretary to the faculty according to one faculty mem ber the vote was nearly unani mous dr lewis indicated that the decision followed announcement that university counsel had inves tigated and indicated that there was a questionable seizure of property the university is making ef forts which justify you the brown and white in taking action he said adding that action is being taken to have the film returned through diplomatic means a reply by dean r fisher act safe at home — actually this fellow should have stayed home for when he got back to the campus after christmas vacation he found it and the pathways covered with glare ice the complete slippery story is on page 7 lawrence h cipson before the 4,000 delegates to the annual convention of the american historical association assembled in washington d c the appointment of the three historians who will serve three year terms marks the beginning of a new project undertaken by the library of congress the historians will serve three year terms judging the merit of histor ical pieces submitted for inclusion in the library collection serving with dr gipson will be dr avery o craven professor emeritus of american history at the university of chicago an authority on the history of amer ican cities dr gipson himself is an author ity in colonial history having writ ten numerous volumes on the sub ject his prize work the british empire before the american rev olution is comprised of fourteen volumes the tenth of which en titled the triumphant empire thunderclouds gather in the west was awarded the pulitzer prize in 1962 dr gipson was a rhodes scholar in 1907 with the first group sent to oxford university in england from the united states he came to lehigh in 1924 and was head of the history department until his retirement in 1946 he was also a professor of american history at the univer sity of oxford in 1951 and 1952 the two europes is the topic of a lecture which john scott special foreign correspondent for time magazine will present when he visits lehigh tuesday evening scott will also discuss his evalua tions of present soviet leadership and the chinesse nuclear detona tion scott's talks jointly sponsored by the residence halls council and the international relations department will commence at 8:15 p.m in the osbourne room uni versity center it will be open to the public without charge a time correspondent since 1941 when he reported pre-war japanese skullduggery scott be gan his roving analyses during see time page 7 bethlehem pa — friday january 8 1965 lehigh university brown and white v r digilio named a rhodes scholar 866-0331 vol 76 — no 23 lewis to be inaugurated in fall 65