Brown and White Vol. 35 no. 35

              by vanquishing the weak franklin and marshall quintet 48-23 in the fourth and final middle atlantic states confer ence game wednesday night the lehigh varsity basketball in honor of the memory of bishop talbot the college flag was at half-mast during the week all classes were dismissed at two o'clock on thursday to allow students to attend his funeral many clergymen attend services lehigh's campus this week mourned the passing of bishop ethelbert talbot friend of 30 years and university trustee the flag flying at half-mast tuesday morning was the first premonition to the student bcftly of its loss wednesday after noon and evening as the body lay in state at the nativity cathedral students joined with the church dignitaries from throughout the country in ex pression of respect thursday afternoon university classes were dismissed at two o'clock two lehigh tennis lumin aries past and present were ranked among the first 20 in the recently published national lists of the united states lawn tennis association when fritz mercur ex-'27 was awarded 15th position and julius selig son 30 was placed at 19th in the country mercur former brown and white star advanced three steps higher than his rating for the 1926 season and is now seeking new laurels in indoor competi tion seligson who will be elig ible for intercollegiate competi tion for the first time this year dropped from 15th place in the 1926 ratings to his present po sition principally because he had not completed in all the im portant tournaments of the past season the new ratings were distinc tive because of the invasion of so much young blood into the elite of veteran courtmen five among the first 20 george m lott jr john van ryn john doeg julius seligson and clif ford marsh are still in college and arnold w jones lewis n white cranston w holman and fritz mercur were all in collegiate competition not more than three years ago musical clubs play at liberty high honorary chapel service he who would be great serves and service does not demand a reward this ideal of bishop ethelbert talbot was quoted by fred trafford at the special chapel service held wednesday in honor of bishop talbot mr trafford in speaking to the students said that he was a man known from california to florida who had risen from a school teacher to pre siding bishop of the episco pal church his mission was to prepare for the kingdom of heaven here on earth eulogies of bishop talbot have been offered throughout the nation but none express deeper feeling than those of close associates in bethlehem to allow students to attend the services the morning of june 5 and the afternoon of june 6 were set as tentative dates awaiting approval of the faculty for comprehensive examinations for sophomores by the engineering council wednesday comprehensive exams will be given in mathematics and draw ing june 5 and chemistry and physics june 6 these will probably be the only comprehen sives since the term ends a week before the time of these exams the council feels that there will be ample time for a cursory review of the various subjects results of the comprehensives will be sent to students soon af ter the exam period the coun cil decided that there will be no re-exams i n comprehensives and that every sophomore will be required therefore to take the exams at the dates set sophomores will be permitted to continue in the engineering curricula only if a consideration of the college record grades the aptitude records turned in by each teacher and results of the comprehensives is favorable failure in the comprehensives whi in all probability forbid continuation in engineering if however college record grades and aptitude records are high a certificate showing that the first two years of work at le high have been successfully completed will be given the student the comprehensives are an innovation this year at lehigh they purpose to determine the fitness of men for their curri cula and to apply a more rigid selection of engineers the en gineering council has been working on the new system since the fall of last year delegates honor manager of burr schmid elected secretary for association of college comics a home concert will be given by the combined musical clubs at liberty high school on march 21 according to a state ment made by irving l finn manager of the clubs today in accordance with a revision of the previous program the sym phony orchestra has been re hearsing several new selections which it is hoped will attract the students to the concert in bethlehem plans are being made to play at bishopthorpe manor and ce dar crest college during march dean c m mcconn has given the clubs permission to make a barnstorming tour on april 21 which will include such cities as ridgewood patterson newark and east orange cyanide club will receive tankmen consistent with their new re ception policy cyanide has laid plans to receive preparatory and high school teams that will com pete in the p.i.a.a swimming meet at lehigh saturday march 10 liberty high and the strong wilmington delaware team twice holder of national inter scholastic honors have entered the meet cyanide's new plan was in augurated last saturday when the cornell swimming team and the gettysburg basketball team came here gelhaar painting will be displayed fred c schmid business manager of the burr was elect ed secretary by the 60 dele gates representing about 25 colleges who attended the con vention of the association of college comics held at hotel lafayette atlantic city last week schmid has been actively af filiated with the burr since his freshman year he is a mem ber of pi delta epsilon honor ary journalistic fraternity j a covert editor-in-chief of the burr accompanied schmid other officers elected were g manning princeton tiger pres ident and b brisbee brown jug treasurer the national spread of ac quaintances which the late bish op ethelbert talbot made dur ing the many years of faithful duty to the cause he loved best was recognized at his funeral when hundreds of visitors at tended the services prominent clergymen thru out the east payed tribute to their late leader more than one hundred and fifty ministers of the episcopal church and other denominations were in atten dance among the visiting bishops were the rt rev john gar ner murray d d of kew york bishop of maryland and presiding bishop of the episco pal church in america the rt rev thomas j garland d d of philadelphia bishop of penn sylvania the rt rev arthur c thomson of portsmouth va bishop-coadjutor of south ern virginia the rt rev james henry darlington d d of harrisburg bishop of har risburg the rt rev albon w knight d d of trenton n j bishop-coadjutor of new jer sey and the rt rev nathaniel s thomas of philadelphia for mer bishop of wyoming following is the list of the honorary pallbearers vestry of church of the na tivity a s gruver constan tine collins robert e wilbur william l estes jr quincy bent charles h mercer frank g hoch claude n wyant her bert j hartzog and john ar thur frick wardens dr n m emery r p hutchinson clerical james f ware john h griffith james b may r m merriman r a weath erly laymen f m kirby e g mercur c j smith t archer morgan a n cleaver officials and friends : dean h w diller dean e g m holmes arch-deacon h p wal ter rev a t reasoner hor ace dey lentz hunter eckert rodney a mercur esq law rence b jones esq leonard peckitt f m eshelman rich ard ruddle i f hoyt charles a mills h e bishop h e atkins john w codding h h mitchell n h hiller h a butler w h worrilow dr w l estes dr f j dever dr w p walker dr w l estes jr c m schwab represented by mr grace if away dr charles russ richards of le high university a c dodson w radford coyle g reginald radford eldredge p wilbur joseph mcgarr dudley c ry man public speaking forum has meeting captain w b billmeybr who will play his last game for lehigh at eastou tomorrow team clinched the championship for the second successive year coach ken shroyer's men were no match for roy geary's sharpshooters who outplayed the home team in every depart ment though hampered by a strange court although lehigh won from the blue and white by a wide margin the team did not dis play the smooth finesse that characterized its play in the victories over rutgers and get tysburg last week the nar row court in biesecker gymnas ium militated against an effec tive offense and only uncanny shooting and close following the ball were responsible for the size of the lehigh total fine defensive work by the brown and white representatives lim ited f and m to six field goals during the 40 minutes of play but the close guarding on the small floor together with strict officiating made the game seem rough because the home play ers capitalized their opportuni ties from the foul line more fre quently than the visitors cag ing 11 out of 20 free throws they almost doubled their score lehigh was woefully weak in this phase of play and account ed for only eight points on 20 shots from the 15-foot mark shroyer's proteges started auspiciously pete kehn netted an unusual shot from the cor ner and cole gave his team a three-point lead by sinking one of two fouls a brilliant one hand toss by bennett followed by a side-court flip that carom ed off the backboard into the net directed by bob many gave lehigh a lead which nev er was relinquished the first ten minutes of play during which the blue and white used the five^man defense was close as indicated by the score 12-6 shroyer's strategy in instruct ing his men to play man-for man failed the game became faster and lehigh's scoring op portunities on the narrow court more frequent the half ended 22-7 dorms in triple tie freshman cabinet plans for dance professor gelhaar has had ex hibitions at princeton and po cono manor and has been in strumental in encouraging art in bethlehem paintings by professor emil gelhaar formerly a member of the lehigh faculty and also of moravian seminary will be placed on exhibition at hotel bethlehem during the week be ginning march 3 pre-meds meet this triple tie will be broken next week when section b meets price hall a triple tie now exists in the inter-dorm basketball league between sections b c and price hall as the result of the games played last night in tay lor gymnasium section b de feated e by the overwhelming score of 37 to 9 ; price hall won from section d 23 to 13 and section c defeated a 47 to 19 impressive simplicity marked the last rites bestowed upon the late rt rev ethelbert talbot d d li d retired bishop of the diocese of bethlehem and former presiding bishop of the epsicopal church in america who was buried from the pro cathedral church of the nativ ity yesterday afternoon inter ment took place in nisky hill cemetery where bishop talbot was laid at rest aside the tomb of his wife who died eight years ago amid the many beautiful floral tributes blended the grandeur of the picturesque cathedral which was inadequate for the capacity crowd thou sands of persons in all walks of life moved reverently past the bier of the late bishop as he reposed in his clerical robes in state in the sanctuary of the church wednesday and thurs day during this time members of psi upsilon fraternity of which the late bishop was a member and the students of leonard hall formed the guard of honor throughout the long vigils with the auditorium filled and hundreds of friends forming hu man walls the procession was carried out as arranged the full vested choir met the offi ciating clergy at the main door of the church and proceeded up the main aisle led by the cruci fer while t edgar shields was playing a funeral march on the grand pipe organ then follow ed the pallbearers comprising friends the vest~y of the church and wardens of trintiy church bethlehem north side ; lay members of the standing committee lay officials of the diocese of bethlehem deans of convocation the rev a t reasoner warden of leonard hall fountain hill clerical members of the standing com mittee students of leonard hall students and faculty of the philadelphia divinity school and clergy in canonical order expressive of the wish of bishop talbot were the cere monies which were plain in conception but majestic in feel ing the regular burial ser vice of the church was used af ter the opening sentences were read by presiding bishop mur ray the choir chanted the 46th and 121 st psalms dean d wilmot gateson of the pro cathedral church of the na tivity read the fifteenth chap ter of i corinthians from the 20th verse to the end of the chapter as the lesson the reading was followed by the singing of the hymn the saints of god their conflict pass bishop talbot's favorite hymn sun of my soul thou saviour dear was sung with the entire audience on bended knees bishop murray pro nounced the benediction while the triumphant recessional hymn the strife is o'er was being sung the officiating cler gy and honorary pallbearers re tired from the chancel at the grave in nisky hill cemetery the committal service was in charge of arch-deacon walter the prayers were read by the rev john talbot ward a nephew of the late bishop talbot and rector of st mary's church at burlington n j while the benediction was pro nounced by bishop murray the masonic service was in charge of the officers of the h stanley goodwin lodge no 648 f & a m dr richard's statement president charles r rich ards who was closely associat ed with bishop talbot on the board of trustees said the death of bishop ethelbert tal bot removes from the board of trustees one of the university's most devoted friends and ser vants coming to bethlehem in 1897 he was elected a corpor ate member of the board of trustees the following year so that he served in this capacity for exactly thirty years in all his relations with the university bishop talbot was attentive to the duties of his trusteeship and he was tre mendously interested in all of the institution's worthwhile ac tivities probably no o t h er member of the board was so punctilious about attendance at meetings of the board of trus tees as he this devotion to duty however was character istic of the bishop's whole life his service to mankind his charming personality and his genial interest in everything that came under his notice en deared him to those who had the privilege of his friendship the bishop was always in terested in education as a young man he founded the st james military academy at ma con mo and after coming to bethlehem he organized leon ard hall thereafter he did everything in his power to en courage the graduates of that institution to continue their training at lehigh because of his belief in the value of education bishop tal bot was always interested in the affairs of college students he was one of the most useful members of the board of direc tors of the old y m c a now the lehigh union and he took a friendly interest in the af fairs of the local chapter of his fraternity psi upsilon and in the students who were affiiliat ed with his church the pass ing of bishop talbot is there fore a real loss to lehigh and to lehigh students with the engagement of an imported orchestra the merry makers the freshman cabinet has completed plans for a tea dance to be held march 10 in drown hall girls from fern sem and bishopthorpe will be guests of the class the pro ceeds of the dance will be oised to help pay expenses of the class banquet in may the brown-eyed susan as the official flower and black and gold as the official colors have been selected by the cabinet the new public speaking forum will continue its discus sion on companionate marriage next monday night the dis cussion of the subject made popular by judge ben lindsey was commenced at the first forum last monday night in the office of professor myron j luch the forum is primarily for students in public speaking courses but is open to the pub lic last monday night there were 20 in attendance the meetings are conducted to discuss interesting social and economic problems ; they will be held throughout the rest of the year in dr luch's office be tween 7 and 8 o'clock every monday night , a new chapter of sigma xi national honorary research so ciety was formally installed with 42 charter members of the lehigh faculty thursday after noon by dean george b peg ram of columbia university national treasurer of the frater nity following the installa tion meeting charter members of the chapter with other mem bers who reside in the lehigh valley attended the formal in stallation dinner at the hotel bethlehem with dr charles russ richards acting as toast master addresses were made by dean pegram donald b pren tice dean of lafayette college professor b l miller profes sor bradley stoughton and pro fessor james s long ten of the » 42 charter mem bers of the lehigh chapter were initiated into the society thurs day of the others 26 were al ready members and six were as sociates of other chapters the petition for a lehigh chapter was granted by a unanimous vote of the representatives of the various chapters at the de cember 1927 convention in nashville term of the amer ican association for the ad vancement of science the society of the sigma xi was organized at cornell uni versity in 1885 to encourage or iginal investigation in pure and applied science the standards of eligibility for membership in the society are the most rigor ous of any of the numerous hon orary organizations full mem bership is open to only gradu ate students and members of faculty or alumni who have made significant contributions to the advancement of scienti fic knowledge through the pub lication of results of original re search undergraduate students are eligible only to associate membership on the basis of great promise for achievement in scientific research five years after graduation associ ate members become eligible to membership provided within that period they have published the results of original investi gations dr richards in his letter of petition to the council of the sigma xi society said lehigh university is definitely com mitted to the promotion of sci entific research through the or ganization of its institute of re search and it is ready there fore to offer encouragement to the development of every avail able agency that will stimulate the spirit of research and schol arly achievement among the members of its staff consistent with policy according to dr richards the granting of a chapter of the society to lehigh univer sity is a very direct recogni tion of the development at the university of the spirit of re search that followed the found ing of the institute of research in 1924 ' it should be noted that the publications of the in stitute are already beginning to attract widespread attention dr richards declared guests at the dinner all mem bers of sigma xi were dean d b prentice lynn perry pro fessor of civil engineering ; mor land king professor of electri cal engineering of lafayette college s s redfield of the ingersoll-rand co easton dr r w bachman allentown arthur gray phillip joynt of the bethlehem steel co c weiss structural engineer bethlehem charter members of the new chapter are as follows v s babasinian professor of organ ic chemistry paul l bayley associate professor of physics william bender instructor in physics charles c bidwell professor of physics hugh c blodgett instructor in psychol ogy thomas e butterfield continued on page four bishop sterrett's statement the rt rev frank w ster rett successor to bishop talbot continued on page two john longacre president of the pre-medical society gave an interesting talk on medical operations before members of the society last week when dr leibert of philadelphia sched uled speaker failed to appear the annual banquet of th c society will be held at the end of march or the beginning of april nick borrelli muhlenberg's all-around athlete at last has admitted that he will become a member of connie mack's athletics immediately after his graduation frank sullivan coach of the princeton swimming and wat er polo teams resigned recently the resignation was accepted lehigh university bethlehem pa friday march 2 1928 brown and white defeats f and m two lehigh netmen get high-ranking ol xxxv no 35 brown and white price five cents mercur and sullivan are honored by u s ten nis association sigma xi comes to university university joins with city in episcopal funeral rites for bishop ethelbert talbot varsity clinches conference with 48 to 23 yictory wednesday night research honorary frater nity installed on campus comprehensivesset for june 5 and 6 friends of deceased ex press regrets at his passing services held thursday afternoon in nativity church engineering council plans await approval of faculty member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first