Brown and White Vol. 35 no. 2

              price five cents military unit now comprises six companies three professors and sev eral assistants as well as instructors added reorganization was made necessary by increased enrollment team shows future promise lehigh gridders show strong defense in uneventful game lose several chances to score in early periods bestowal of degrees will also mark annual ceremonies almost half of freshman class pledged to fraternities 182 men from all classes included — 254 bids given successful rushing season no promotions no classes notice all sophomores and jun iors desiring to compete for the managerial department of the lehigh review report in the brown and white room wednesday afternoon at four o'clock band the band as yet has not filled its quota those wish ing to join should get in touch with charles fox man ager all competitors for drum major should also see fox speaking course established here lehigh review to have four issues many men enrolled in new oratorical classes original plan to publish monthly abandoned at recent meeting the program for founder's day on wednesday october 5 includes a unique chapel exer cise in the morning at eleven o'clock an all-around athletic match between the freshmen and sophomores in the after noon and a meeting of the board of trustees later in the day in accordance with a tra dition no classes will be held on the day set aside to honor the founder of lehigh university asa packer everyone however is expected to lend his support to the day's activities the morning exercises in packer memorial church con sist of graduations speeches and the conferring of honorary degrees twenty men who did not graduate in june with the class of 1927 will receive diplo mas at this time several dis tinguished lehigh men will re ceive honorary degrees the program calls for musical num bers by mr shields the reg ular academic procession and the prelude after which the in vocation and prayer will be giv en by the chaplain dr karl t compton professor of physics at princeton university will talk on cooperation in scien tific research after the ad dress all the bachelors and hon orary degrees will be conferred followed by the recessional march to the flag pole the founder's day sports in the afternoon should be a big drawing card for the entire stu dent body the freshmen are scheduled to meet the sopho mores on taylor field in five events these events are the football game the relay race the rope-tying contest the tug of war and the pants tearing contest if the freshmen win the majority of these events they will be allowed to go with out their dinks on sunday in previous years the freshmen have won most of these battles winning last year by an over continued on page four at the initial r o t c drill held yesterday afternoon on the upper field attention was cen tered primarily upon the organ ization of the two battalions following the assignment of cadet officers to their various commands which was authoriz ed in special orders from major mccammon professor of mili tary science and tactics the companies were enrolled and given instructions concerning the work of the season for five years out of the last six the lehigh unit has won a distinguished college rating an honor awarded only a limit ed number of college organiza tions in each military district this record retained last year in spite of the unfavorable weather under which the re view was held must be unbrok en with such an attitude the newly assigned cadet officers took up their duties this season the corps includes 335 sophomores and 445 fresh men an increase of from 75 to 100 the increase is to be ac counted for by the particularly large number of sophomores who have come up from their first year add to this sum the 88 seniors and juniors who are taking advanced training and are serving as student officers and the total personnel and offi cers is brought to 868 the larg est figure ever reached at le high continued on page four the corps has been divided into two battalions where last season there was only one three companies made up of sophomores comprise the first battalion the machine gun company not being included in the second battalion the three companies are made of fresh men all cadet officers now handling these companies hold the uniform rank of second lieu tenant promotions will be made during the next month after each officer has given a demon stration of his ability and merit freshmen week is very successful scabbard & blade plans meeting program friday evening is intended to introduce military unit new men become ac quainted with surround ings and show interest lehigh opened its gridiron season last saturday by play ing st john's college of brook lyn to a scoreless tie in taylor stadium the game was rath er uneventful neither team showed a strong offense on the defense the brown and white showed a marked super iority as the contest was play ed under a blistering sun both teams were handicapped and evidently distressed it was a cleanly-played game no penal ties for roughness being in flicted at all the home team started the game with a rush by gaining twice through the line a punt and a recovered fumble placed them in a position to score on the twenty-five yard line how ever st john's took the ball on an intercepted pass two attempts to gain through the line were thrown for losses the ball continued to zigzag back and forth in the brook lyn team's territory during the first half lehigh lost three opportunities to score in the second half st john's threatened to score twice blei intercepted a forward pass and had a seemingly clear field for a touchdown but he was over taken and tackled from the rear by johnston again the visitors almost scored when they fumbled a forward pass in the last few minutes of play on lehigh's goal line both teams resorted to the aerial attack to a great extent although the lehigh line re pulsed most of their opponent's plunges it showed a weakness in savage offensive charging the tackling was quite poor in some stages of the game how ever the diversity of plays and their excellence as shown by the team's attempts gave evidence of a future offensive strength in last saturday's game the brown and white team secured more first downs than did the st john's eleven continued on page two it must be considered that the lehigh gridders are compara tively new and inexperienced there are but three letter men in the whole squad the team is composed mainly of juniors and sophomores ; of the former but four have seen any varsity service the line is one of the heaviest in the east averaging well over 190 pounds despite its weight it is quite fast and shifty and should develop into a powerful offensive and defen sive machine the backfield is new and light in weight simes is the only one who has seen varsity service the loss of what was to many freshmen one of the most important events of their college life took place at noon last saturday when the fraternity rushing season came to an end and the bids were given out some few experienced disappointment but for the most part they went away rejoicing after the 254 bids had been delivered one freshman received five and sev eral were recipients of four bids of the 254 bids given out 182 had been accepted up until sunday evening when the following list was compiled : alpha chi rho : william van dergrift burlington n j ; charles dorworth bellefonte ; robert decker elizabeth n.j ; john roeder richmond hill long island walter tomlin son arlington n j ; ward tracy new york franz meier royersford chi psi william h wagner milwaukee wis ; stanley r saunders pontiac mich ; wil liam a pratt stanton va ; wilbur s waite loup city ne braska henry t newhard fullertown ; addison wnnlpy brooklyn n v robert s chess crafton lloyd d sim onson hazleton n j ; john s harrison oakmont ; william e herman york vernon bond miami florida james d boyd bayonne n j cole man stewart windsor conn ; john w hamp stanton va . alpha tau omega clarence butler philadelphia ; louis thompson williamsport mal come metzger bethlehem wil liam teneyck washington d c ; robert motion madison n j ; gary beachler pitts burg george raymond flush ing n v ; alex macelroy flushing n v cole frantz kingston chi phi charles williams yonkers n v neff kehler columbia ; mason mcneil phil adelphia samuel fuller pitts burg robert enscoe port washington n v ; jean mon tencourt cranford n j ; john hoover philadelphia delta phi john anderson media john cushing stan ford conn ; robert zulke morristown n j ; edward winchester grand rapids mich ; robert baird lans down delta tau delta frederick zabriskie hackensack n j ; daniel geary springfield mass ; john hays montclair n j ; frederick morhard washington d c ; edward lee porto rica harry bloods worth lansdown delia upsuon c j bishop scranton ; thomas claus jr springfield n j roland el liott bethlehem e h enslin wilkes-barre ; e a fay cran ford n j c r lattig beth continued on page four three fine arts courses founded enrollment nears that of last year among the many new courses that have been estab lished this year at lehigh is the public speaking course to be given by the english depart ment this course is known as english ten and eleven eng lish ten is given the first sem ester and ourse eleven the sec ond semester these courses are only for a limited number of men who are interested in pub lic speaking and wish to fol low the oral composition of the freshman year with a special study of the oration the public address formal and informal impromptu speaking and prep aration for the junior orator ical contest the first few months of the course will be devoted to train ing the voice and body and to acquire certain gestures at present there are two sections taking this course each sec tion contains about a dozen men and meets three periods a week the first hour of each period is devoted to short impromptu speeches of about two or three minutes duration the train ing of the voice and body will be stressed mostly the first sem ester the majority of the time during the second semester will be taken up with speeches and lectures these speeches and lectures are to last at least for ty minutes a special study will be made of the uses and methods of gaining effective ness a special study will also be made of the psychological side of public speaking through this course it is hoped to give the men training for the pub lic speaking exercises to be held on feb 22 these exer cises are held under the aus pices of the alumni associa tion and many valuable prizes are offered if this course in public speaking is a success the eng lish department hopes to estab lish a course in argumentation and debate this course would train the men in the art of planning and delivering a de bate there has not been a course in argumentation and debate for about fifteen years at lehigh after this course is established the department hopes to start a debating team to compete with our old rivals lafayette and muhlenberg ffty-one new faculty mem bers were introduced at lehigh when the formal opening exer cises were held in packer mem orial church this number rep resents an enlargement of sev enteen upon the teaching force of last year which totalled 132 the greatest turn-over ap pears in the department of physics where eleven new mem bers have been elected one of these dr charles c bidwell is professor and head of the de partment in addition the new force includes an associate pro fessor three assistant profes sors three instructors and three assistants there was an increase of six in this depart ment while the new names on the roll of the english department are numerous they fall far short of the physics depart ment changes six new instruc tors have taken up their work under dr r m smith head of that department one of these c d macdougall intro duces an additional course that of journalism this depart ment has been increased to the extent of two more instructors than were serving last term the department of chemis try with a new assistant pro fessor three new instructors and three assistants has had a considerable turn-over how ever the staff has been enlarg ed only to the extent of one as sistant three graduates of last year's class have returned however as fellows in chemis try the fifty-one new men have been distributed throughout the various ranks so that every di vision of the faculty has been augmented three are full title professors two being de partment heads in addition to dr bidwell they are dr tom linson fort who now heads the department of mathematics and dr herbert m diamond of the department of econo mics following are the names of all new members of the faculty their previous teaching rec ords and preparation are also given the physics and economics departments divide the two as sociate professors while engin eering courses win six of the ten assistant professors thir teen of the twenty-four instruc tors are teaching subjects in ei ther the business or liberal arts colleges chemistry and phys ics claim six of the nine assis tants the others going to the german mathematics and me chanical engineering depart ments charles c bidwell comes to lehigh from cornell university where he has been a professor for several years he succeeds professor macnutt as head of the department of physics dr bidwell received his a b de gree at the university of roch ester in 1904 and his doctor ate from cornell thirteen years ago after spending three years in a commercial position he in structed in a new jersey high school from which he went to cornell university during the past two years when on leave of absence from that institution he served as acting head of the department of physics at un continued on page three notice important senior class meeting will be held thurs day at twelve o'clock in cop pee hall to discuss senior class book at a recent meeting of the editors of the lehigh review it was decided to change the original plan that of publish ing the magazine monthly to one which would more closely follow the type of other colle giate literary magazines name ly as a quarterly this step has been taken only after it was discovered that the board can not successfully publish eight or nine issues to do this would require almost one hundred per cent support from the student body in regards to both sub scriptions and articles conse quently the members feel that the magazine would present a far greater appeal to the cam pus if four sixty-page issues were published for the benefit of the new men at lehigh it may be re called that the review made its initial appearance last may a june number followed meeting with the equivalent success which was accorded the preced ing one both numbers contain ed interesting articles written by lehigh faculty members and students two pages of pic tures were devoted to each is sue the magazine received splendid support from the stu dents of whom approximately nine hundred subscribed although a student publica tion in embryo strength the magazine was conceived by sev eral members of the faculty it was their plan to institute a source of this nature which would enable many splendid ar ticles to be placed before the students articles stories and poems will gratefully be accept ed by the editors who wish to impress the contributors that their work will be published if it proves to be of a suitable na ture the support of the junior class members in entering the business competition has been so poor only four men enter ing that the review wishes to announce that members of the sophomore class are eligible for the managerial positions there is plenty of time for any sopho more or junior to enter this competition and still be on a fair basis with the few men who originally started there will be a meeting of all compet itors new or old in the brown and white room at four o'clock on wednesday afternoon every man who wishes to gain some practical business experience will find the association with the magazine to be of splendid use continued on page four in addition to the many fine features which predominated the past two issues the board will present some others dur three courses under the head of fine arts have been estab lished this year they are ap preciation of fine art history of architecture and freehand drawing in the course of the appreciation of fine art a study of famous painters and sculptors and their works will be made in the history of architecture most of the time will be devoted to studying the different styles of architecture with special emphasis on the gothic btyle the class in free hand drawing will spend most of its time in the drawing room instead of studying the theory these courses are under the di rection of prof howland the results of freshman week conducted by the lehigh union are already evident when one notices that the frosh for the most part are traveling about the campus with a pretty good idea where they are go ing the new men seem to be acquainted with the buildings on the campus and likewise to know a bit of lehigh tradi tions songs and cheers the freshmen in the numer ous addresses that were given them gained some very valuable advice which will help them to get a good start not only were they instructed about their studies but they also were ad dressed one evening by a num ber of leading men in the col lege concerning extra-curricular activities thus they learned the value of outside interests and have already shown an in terest in them continued on page four not only was freshman week a great help to the yearlings but it also helped out in rush ing by enabling all the frater the enrollment for the fall term at lehigh up to noon on saturday sept 24 was 1472 students this figure is very close to the figure for the same date last year when a total of 1478 men had been registered this figure is not the final one for the university ac cording to predictions made by the dean the full quota for the university 1500 men will in all probability be reached when registration is closed for the semester notice competition is now open for drum major of the band entrants should report at the armory at 4:00 p m wed nesday at a meeting of scabbard and blade to be held this eve ning in the armory plans will be made for the first open meet ing of the season it is ex pected that this meeting will be scheduled for friday in previous years scabbard and blade national honorary military society open only to senior students has offered a series of open meetings that have been well received by the students and that have served to stimulate interest in r 0 t c the tentative program for fri day evening provided no chang es of importance are made this evening calls for music short talks by the officers of scabbard and blade and on ac count of the war experiences of one of the officers just which one has not yet been decided g m hebbard commanding company a in the recently or ganized r 0 t c unit is captain of scabbard and blade for the present year t g pierson is first lieutenant and j a lutz is second lieutenant w f palm is first sergeant bethlehem pa tuesday september 27 1927 st john's holds brown and white to scoreless tie vol xxxv no 2 lehigh brown and white dr compton is to be speaker for founder's day faculty changes are numerous large number of freshmen accept fraternity bids correct your brown and white address say hello everybody