Brown and White Vol. 35 no. 39

              noted sociologist speaks at college lecture march 22 prospects bright for reten tion of title season ends with 7 victories lyter and adams succeed gilmore and fearn side irwin-leighton co contractors for memorial building will begin excavation this month pick final cast for spring play pamphlet edited by dr richards dr a j todd of north western u will talk on science and civilization the creaking chair to be given march 24 — tick ets now on sale what about college gives questions and ans wers for new students brown and white wrestlers carry the standards of an en thusiastic lehigh student body to princeton today in search of a second intercollegiate wrestl ing championship although cornell yale and perm state are entering formidable teams seven victories in e"ight starts and the high scoring honors of the league make lehigh's chances for a championship look bright editor's note : a series of ex tracts from pres richard's pamphlet will appear in these columns the wrestlers team of great expectations departed at 7 30 last night for the in tercollegiate matches at princeton amid songs and cheers of the entire student body which gathered at tay lor gymnasium led by the university band the cast for the creaking chair spring production of the mustard and cheese was selected wednesday night in the final tryout the two casts which have been competing both presented the entire play and the committee selected the best members from each cast the successful candidates were : male characters holly .". w w holt latter h h bellringer cutting j c kelly hart g e oiler jr henley g c scott speed f shoemaker bates r lincoln female characters anita j r lee rose h s sahm sylvia , j k ahlberg mrs carruthers .... w lummis tickets for the show are now being sold by members of the club ; seats in the first ten rows costing 1.50 and all others 1.00 after tuesday these tickets may be exchanged at drown hall or young's drug store for reserved seat tickets dr arthur james todd will address the student body in a regular scheduled college lecture march 22 in the packer mem orial chapel his topic will be science and civilization dr todd is head of the de partment of sociology at north western university he is af filiated with numerous organ izations throughout the united states among which are the american sociological society and the society of criminal law and criminology he is also associate editor of the journal of criminal law and criminology he was the di rector of child labor and proba tion officer in san francisco during the years 1903-1906 his recent literary works are theories of social progress democracy and reconstruc tion and the primitive fam ily as an educational agency professor todd comes to le high by recommendation of thomas burke 28 who re quested the lecture committee to extend an invitation to this not ed sociologist burke declared that while attending an inter collegiate conference in the west he heard dr todd deliv er an exceptional address to the assembled body and would not hesitate to recommend his abil ity to lecture on topics which would satisfy lehigh men tau beta pi to elect tubby miller who is favored to win the heavyweight title cyurtexy globe-times changes proposed to constitution reorganization of the brown and white wednesday resulted in the following elections editor-in-chief john lyter managing editor william b adams new editors d l wright a j wiesner jr bus manager m c muntrick cir manager e m blanchard adv manager .... a b horgan these officers have taken over their duties immediately they were elected under the new plan whereby the board of pub lications acts on recommenda tions made by the outgoing edi tor-in-chief managing editor and the instructor in journal ism paul g gilmore and george w fearnside as seniors retired from their positions as editor in-chief and managing editor under the new plan the po sition of advertising manager within the business department has been created hitherto this position was included in the du ties of the business manager members of the board re quested of j covert editor-in chief of the burr the submis sion of a plan of reorganization for the comic acting upon the recommendation of covert it was decided not to fill the va cancy of advertising manager of the burr ipi delta epsilon's plan of distribution of dividends of the burr was approved as amended by the members of the staff an important meeting will be held next wednesday for the purpose of discussing the stu dents activities fee wrestling delegates discuss addition of graduate members arts professors study curriculum soph cabinet favors activities fee a pamphlet called what about comge will soon be published by president c r richards the pamphlet con tains 13 questions and their ans wers on facts about college and is written to help students who are thinking of going to college and who are wondering what college is like and what it wijl do for them should a boy aspire to go to college he answers it as fol lows : the pafhphlet will be distrib uted to prospective college men lehigh students who have friends thinking of attending college will soon be able to ob tain copies for their friends and for themselves at the presiden's offic president jlichards will greatly appreciate lehigh stud ents sending these pamphlets to their friends the first of president rich ards questions is yes if he has the requisite mental capacity for college work and a reasonable definite purpose in securing higher edu cation together with ambition health and sufficient funds it should be kept in mind that less than one half of the boys who complete high school or preparatory school work are good college risks and that for various reasons from one half to two-thirds of those who enter college fail to graduate plans for the forthcoming election of juniors were dis cussed at a meeting of tau beta pi national engineering honorary wednesday evening in drown hall at the next meeting which will be held be fore the spring vacation the new members will be selected from a group of approximately twenty-five eligible men who rank in the first eighth of their class l j paradiso proves unique theorem eta sigma phi elects officers at march meeting the contract for the new james ward packer electrical and mechanical laboratory was awarded by the board of trus tees of lehigh university to the irwin-leighton co philadel phia contractors for 852,200 at a meeting in new york tues day evening the irwin-jleighton co were the contractors for the alumni memorial building excava tion is to be started this month the . cornerstone to be laid al umni day june 9 and the build ing is to be ready for occupan cy june 1 1929 the contract price covers only the actual appropriations for erection and architects fees university officials hope that much of the construction mater ial and fixtures will be donated so that the remainder of the money may be used to buy equipment which will make the laboratory the best of its kind the 1,000,000 gift of james ward packard made possible the erection of the building mr packard manufacturer of pack ard automobiles graduated from lehigh in 1884 construction must be complet ed by june 1929 so that the me chanical and electrical depart ments can occupy the building in order that williams v hall and the physics building can be re modelled during the summer when reorganization is complet ed the physics and metallurgy departments will occupy the physics building and the chem istry department will occupy all of the chemistry building the new laboratory will also ne cessitate a new 75-horse-power steam-heating plant contracts for the erection of which have already been awarded the new building which is to resemble the collegiate gothic type of the present alumni memorial building will be of native stone trimmed with in diana limestone it will face on packard avenue between new street and brodhead avenue the laboratory will fill a long felt want according to univer sity officials the auditorium situated on the first floor has a seating capacity of 600 pres ident richards expects that this auditorium will be the meeting place of every engineering so ciety in the lehigh valley the sophomore cabinet went on record in favor of the stu dent activities fee as presented by arcadia to the faculty at a regular meeting wednesday night at the same meeting it was decided to withdraw a petition for a tea dance march 24 in fa vor of sword and crescent who also petitioned for that date the cabinet set tentative dates for a dance saturday april 14 and for a smoker monday eve ning march 26 the council of the college of arts and science has undertak en a survey of the college for the purpose of determining what changes in the curriculum are desirable to meet the de mands of the majors and at the same time ensure an op portunity for distribution of students in the courses the committee appointed to study the matter consists of professor philip m palmer head of the arts college tom linson fort percy hughes robert m smith and charles c bidwell it is expected that it will take at least a year to complete this comprehensive survey forum will discuss campus activities amendment to the constitu tion of the eastern intercolle giate wrestling association was made saturday when graduate delegates met at princeton and voted to alter the personnel of the executive committee so as to include one graduate represen tative for each university the new policy will be recommended to the various boards of con trol for approval j g petriken graduate-man ager represented lehigh at the convention individual members will be appointed by their boards and retain membershi psubject only to the choice of their appoin tees graduate members will have a vote in the executive committee of the association general fee and debate plans will be included preliminary work for the construction of the new pack ard building started yesterday when workmen started to re move the large trees which were standing on the site prof gipson helps write dictionary professor l j paradiso proved a theorem never before established in the subject of functions of a real variable be fore the members of the math ematics research and journal society at the regular thursday meeting the theory of functions of a real variable is a critical study of the foundations of calculus including the general properties of functions professor para diso's original theorem dealt with a special property of gen eral functions and as far as is known is unique the meeting was well attend ed by members of the mathe matics department march 22 is the date of the next meeting contributes articles on prominent men of this locality trustees appoint w a slater director of fritz laboratory the lehigh chapter of eta sigma phi at its march meet ing elected alvin b lewis as president sydney p simons first and second vice-president stephen b toth recording sec retary franklin h kissner corresponding secretary ; mur ray w schulman treasurer and frederick leitner ser geant-at-arms a committee was appointed to revise the constitution of the collegium romanum in order to make it compatible with the na tional constitution of eta sig ma phi a proposed trip to new york in the spring was discussed which would include visits to the various museums of particular interest to classical students contracts a warded for heating plant dean summarizes notable alumni monuments — a pamphlet on the achievements of lehigh alumni has just been published by dean c m mcconn this pamphlet is a revision of a similar pamphlet published in 1923 the names and posi tions of notable lehigh alumni are given with a statement of the special work they have done in their respective fields the pamphlet will be sent to prospective students as an ad vertisement for lehigh dean mcconn states this kind of advertising circular is likely to attract the men we want it stresses the educational value of the work at lehigh we hope this will bring the better type of students that we want contracts for the installation of three new boilers and stok ers in the power house which is to be remodelled in order to meet the demands of the new packard engineering labora tory were awarded to the bab cock and wilcox company new york and the combustion en gineering company new york at a meeting of the board of trustees held in philadelphia last tuesday the work of remodeling the power house will commence in june and will be finished in time for the opening of college next september the new boil ers are to have a capacity of three hundred boiler horse-pow er each developing steam at 250 pounds per square inch pressure without superheat the boilers are to be of the straight tube cross drum type the stokers are to be of the coxe chain grate type an in vention of eckley b coxe don or of the mining building in the meet which starts this afternoon continues during the evening and concludes tomor row afternoon cornell looms as the greatest hindrance to le high titular hopes yale and perm state appear to have the next strongest combinations and princeton and syracuse are doped to split some points nei ther columbia nor perm will se siously threaten victories over syracuse princeton columbia navy yale lafayette and perm and a defeat by cornell is the en viable record which billy sher idan's proteges take with them to tiger town in the eight dual meets the n^atmen have amassed a total of 151 1-2 points as compared to 64 1-2 for the opponents high scoring honors of 33 points go to andy lehr bill heilman and tubby miller come close on his heels with 31 and 30 points two former champions okun syracuse 115 pounder and miller yale twice 158 pound champion are the sole defenders of their titles but ten other place-winners of last year will appear on the mats today and tomorrow all three 115 pound point winners of the 1927 fracas at perm are again competing and if the present year's records are a criterion okun will no longer have the crown tomorrow night eddie mcgovern lehigh and josephson cornell have both defeated okun during the past season and the dopesters pick these two as finalists bodgan perm and liggett perm state are the 1927 sec ond and third place winners who seek the diadem vacated by the graduation of jimmy reed brown and white 125 pounder none of the previous 135 pound finalists are entered mcdonald perm haying graduated and captain bill heilman and dodd of yale having moved to the next higher division where they lo<sm as the most possible fin alists one of the greatest battles of the meet is forecast when cap tain miller of yale and captain graham of princeton meet for the 158 title these two rank pre-eminent in their class with stanley cornell as the other likely place winner seasonal records point to stafford cornell and art lehr brown and white high scorer as the pick of the 175 pound ers lehr suffered his only de feat of the year at the hands of stafford in the dual meet patterson syracuse heavy weight titleholder encountered scholastic difficulties and will not defend his crown blunt of yale who was second choice last year will undoubtedly stack up against tubby miller le high's only undefeated grappler for the title the officials of the bouts who are the same as selected last year are w e cann eliza beth y m c a coach of the olympic wrestling team in 1924 dave detar perm state 158 pound intercollegiate cham pion w w ashby perm the alternate will be roy martin eau syracuse dr lawrence henry gipson head of the history and govern ment department has been ac corded the special privilege of contributing articles concerning the lives of eminent americans who have lived in this section of the country to the new am erican biographical dictionary these men include such eminent figures as henry coppee first president of lehigh doctor clewell president of moravian seminary in its primitive stage bishop ettwein and dr ed ward de schweinitz the great leaders of the moravian church professor gipson has the hon or of collaborating in a work which is being attempted for the first time in america its purpose is to produce a diction ary which will compare with the best biographical series of the old world this project was made possible through the ben eficence of the editor of the new york times who contrib uted the sum of 800,000 the council of learned societies is promoting the affair with the cooperative efforts of numerous distinguished men the student activities fee project which has been the subject of animated discussion on the campus since it was first propogated will be dis cussed at the meeting of the public speaking forum to be held at seven o'clock next mon day evening in christmas saucon hall members of the forum will also bring with them ideas about companionate mar riage gathered from various members of the female sex with whom they have conversed so that an unbiased opinion re garding this question may be drawn the possible formation of a club to encourage literary dis cussion and debate will be re viewed plans for the organiz ation of such a society have been progressing for some time under the direction of profes sor myron j luch of the eng lish department possibilities of the later affiiliation with a honorary literary fraternity will also be considered the public speaking forum has until now functioned as the only purely literary society at lehigh but its narrower scope and more limited membership have made it inadequate to meet the needs of the college as the advisibility of forming a new club will largely depend on the amount of interest shown all students are urged to attend w a slater courtesy globe-times he was made a research fel low in the engineering experi ment station at illinois in 1908 subsequently he was appointed a research assistant and later research assistant professor of theoretical and applied mechan continued on page four willis appleford slater for merly engineer physicist in the bureau of standards washing ton d c and chief of the sec tion on masonry construction was elected research professor of engineering materials and director of the fritz engineer ing laboratory in the depart ment of civil engineering by the board of trustees of le high university at a meeting tuesday march 13 with this appointment the university hopes to undertake an intensive program of scien tific research in the materials of engineering in order to ex tend the present knowledge of such materials for the benefit of engineers contractors and manufacturers as more pre cise data concerning the prop erties of materials become avail able it is possible to decrease the costs of engineering struc tures of all kinds and to in crease their safety professor slater holds the de grees of bachelor of science master of science and civil en gineer from the university of illinois after several years of practical engineering experience the electrical engineering meet scheduled for tonight has been postponed cyril d jensen instructor in civil engineering inspected the welding plant of the wilson wire and metal company at hoboken n j last monday undefeated brown and white vol xxxv no 39 packard lab contract awarded by trustees lehigh university bethlehem pa friday march 16 1928 wrestlers seek championship at intercollegiates today price five cents brown and white elects officers under new plan member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first