Brown and White Vol. 36 no. 1

              college year begins hope warranted by grid nucleus m'conn publishes book on colleges president richards delivers opening address in chapel outlook brightest in three years — no scar city of material new professors are introduced at convocation new republic announc es college or kinder garten by local dean president richards an nounces many faculty changes dr william esty present probationers not affected — seniors to be considered separately brown and white wants more men new rules govern men on probation vol xxxvi no 1 the sixty-second scholastic year at lehigh univer sity was officially opened wednesday afternoon sep tember 19 1928 in packer memorial chapel when dr c r richards president of the university spoke to stu dents and faculty members of the institution on the part which broader education is playing in this mechanized age greets college | prof esty dies suddenly july 6 of heart attack head of electrical engin eering s tr i c k c n on motor trip registration in english 48 rown and white is still open to 11 students in authorizing the perse last year the faculty ruled lat it should be considered extra urricular even though one hour i english credit be granted a imester that is any student may ect the course in addition to oth s on his roster no matter what fey total the course may be meated each semester for credit ad the credits thus earned sub stuted for other electives at the dcretion of curricula heads editors of the brown and white foe for a large registration of fifehinen who were unaware of tl regulation when registering cay this week enrollment in the cose constitutes membership on th staff of the brown and white tl work of the course consists ofjeporting and writing news for th'paper taught 27 years lhigh welcomes new frosh class dr c r richards college or kindergarten dean c m mcconn's latest book came off the press saturday the book expresses dean mc conn's ideas as a new republic publication on the present system of college education it is a book of opinion and not one of scholar ship the dean states he dis cusses the aspects of modern col lege life curriculum coeducation activities athletics and professors the modern college is called a su per kindergarten and the propos ed college is referred to as the real college the real college has the utopian aspect of college life and in the dean's opinion is the type needed the dean wrote this book dur ing the spring and summer of 1927 during the spring he was only able to write four chapters so when college closed for the sum mer and before he could be shift ed to some other work he went to ne w york locked himself in a hotel room and turned out a chap ter a day for ten days o^ntation week for 31ass of 32 opens sept 11 summer session sets new record with 466 students alumni building offices changed dr n emery announces financial success for 1928 school offices formerly occupied by the dean registrar and bursar in the south wing of the main floor of the alumni memorial building have been renovated and the entire space is now being used by the dean and registrar with the ap pointment of mr george b cur tis formerly assistant dean to the position of associate dean and reg istrar separate offices have been established for the dean and the registrar the business offices are now concentrated in the north wing of the ground floor opposite the sup ply bureau dr natt m emery vice president and tiic buft>ai are located here the offices formerly occupied by dr emery on the sec ond floor are now being used as the faculty committee room the faculty room on the main floor has been given over to the use of students as a reading room while the construction work is in progress at the library students have access to reference books newspapers and magazines in this room faculty meetings will be held in the lecture rooms of var ious buildings on the campus all juniors are requested to turn in a list of their activities for cyanide club to fred traf ford before monday september 24 with 13 lette<-men back and last year's undefeated freshman team practically intact lehigh's foot ball prospects for the coming sea son are better than they have been for the past two or three years and in spite of the fact that lehigh is faced with an un usually hard schedule coaches and men are optimistic about the chances of the brown and white eleven a week ago last monday 85 candidates answered coach austy tate's first call for practice and since that time the candidates have been going through an in tensive training program during the first few days the men were allowed to practice dressed in track suits because of the hot weather but during the past week full uniforms were required and scrimmages have been regular oc currences tomorrow 22 men who have been selected by the coaches will play a regular game officated by central board officials and while it is yet too early to definitely make any selection of the team the showing made by the men in tomorrow's game will probably have a great deal to do with the choice of the 11 men who will start against st john's college this will be austy's policy throughout the year there will be no regularly assigned varsity team but those men who show up best in the scrimmages immediately preceeding a game will be the ones to start in that particular game davidowitz brilliant as ever in the recent scrimmages dav idowitz and bob vanßlarcom two start backs of last year's team have made spectacular runs and proved themselves consistant ground gainers tubby miller veteran lineman whom austy shifted from the line to full back in spring practice has shown promise and will no doubt see ac tion in that position there is a fight for quarterback with cow boy elliott star freshman back of last year being a little in the lead but both porky flynn last year's veteran and h.-isfhnli captain-elect and phil angeles a former wesleyan back and varsity baseball catcher have been fight ing hard for the position angeles in particular has been outstand ing and has made some very spec tacular end runs bob bennett fhe only three-letterman in col lege and perce lehr have been showing considerable promise as backfield men together with dick lattig jim fritts bob harris f°2b winner of the phi club cup lamb and jones of last year's freshman team ends constitute problem continued on page four on the line there are a number of regulars from last year back again captain jack kirkpatrick is in his old position at right tackle professor wflliam esty for 27 years a member of the department of electrical engineering at lehigh and for 24 years its head died suddenly this summer while mak ing a trip to the summer home of dr and mrs w p walker of this city on july 6 professor esty left by motor and while driving through pocono lake re serve his automobile stalled pro fessor esty left the car and walked several hundred feet to a nearby garage just as he arrived at the garage he collapsed and was dead before anyone could reach hi s side professor esty's death was a shock to his many friends at the university and throughout the city of bethlehem many students and faculty members heard the news for the first time upon re turning this week recognized as a man of brilliance and of a friendly nature he held a warm spot in the life of every associate and student who knew him professor esty was born in am hurst july 9 1868 and was the eldest son in the family he pre pared for college at amhurst high school and after taking the de grees of master of arts at am hurst and bachelor of science at the massachusetts institute of technology he was for eight years a member of the faculty at the university of illinois in 1901 he came to lehigh as an assistant professor of engineering he be came professor in 1903 and since that time was head of the electri cal engineering department he was the author of many books on electrical subjects among them are alternating cur rent machinery dynamo labor atory manual and dynamo and motors he was also co-author of elements of electrical engin eering professor esty was a fellow of the american associa tion for the advancement of sci ence a member of the society for the promotion of engineering ed ucation and a fellow of the am erican institute of electrical en continued on page four lehigh this year under the di rection of dr n m emery con ducted the largest and most prof itable summer school session since the inauguration of the summer school plan in 1889 four hundred and sixty-six students were en rolled in the two sessions which were taught by a staff of 46 in structors and seven student assis tants as in previous years two ses sions were held one to supply re in riw engineering curricula and the other to offer optional courses to those who wished to make up deficiencies or to teachers who desired to take courses toward their master's de grees in the first session there were 267 students in the required courses of assaying coal gas and oil analysis and surveying thir teen instructors and seven student assistants were in charge of this session while 33 members of the faculty taught the 247 students pursuing the 90 courses of the secon dsession the total enroll ment for both sessions was 466 less the duplications of those in the second session the total enroll the first included in these were 41 new students 26 women stu dents and 21 graduate students that the last summer school was the best that has ever been held is apparent when the figures of the several years are compared this year the total enrollment was 466 while last year it was 446 in 26 it was 336 and in 25 it was 282 and while the summer sessions are never held for profit and are bud getted only on an even basis this year the income was 900 in ex cess of the 25,000 expenditures by abolishing the old rustica tion rules whereby a student who flunked out of college was out per manently the faculty at its first-ses sion last week introduced a system which will enable a man to de termine within one year whether or not he is qualified for college work heretofore a man dropped from the university has been obliged to remain out for one semester hereafter the second chance will come immediately under the new rules which are quoted below though a man will not be placed on probation quite as easily as before failure to meet the terms of probation will be far more severe the status of any student placed on probation in june 1929 will not be altered under the new progress rules but any probationer will be dropped as heretofore if he fails four hours made up of two or more courses any student so dropped will on request be informed of the conditions under which he may return as heretofore no students now in good stand ing or not now on probation will be dropped in february 1929 except first semester freshmen who pass fewer than six hours as pro vided in rule 1 all students other than students now on probation are subject to the provision of the new rules with respect to their continuation in col lege for the second semester be ginning february 1929 in other words the new rules at the close of the first semester 1928-1929 will determine whether or not students are placed on pro bation and in the case of fresh men determine whether or not they are dropped for poor scholar ship any students dropped from the university in june 1929 except first semester freshmen under rule 1 will be dropped perman ently the new rules are as follows 1 a first semester freshman who passes fewer than 5 hours shall be dropped from the'univer sitv in such a case the student may be readmitted on probation after the lapse of one semester provided he passes entrance exam inations as follows for arts and science or business administra tion english 3 units algebra 4 units plane geometry 1 unit and latin german french or span ish 2 units for engineering eng lish 3 units algebra 1 units plane geometry 1 unit solid ge ometry l a unit and plane trig onometry hk unit 2 a first semester freshman who passes 6 hours but fewer than 11 hours shall be put on probation 3 any student other than a first semester freshman who passes fewer than 12 hours shall be put on probation 4 any student placed on pro bation shall be dropped perman ently if he fails four hours made up of two or more courses 5 rule no 4 is not applied automatically to students who have attained classification of seniors the cases of seniors will be con sidered individually by the commit tee on standing of students 6 any student who is put on probation a second time shall re main on probation throughout the remainder of his course irving a.seidl'3l died last friday work on new lab is well advanced members of phi sigma delta fraternity attend new york funeral excavation work begun last week ; move reading room sjcches especially prepared for fresiian consumption were deliv ered,ach day last week to about 500 kshmen by lehigh profes sorsid executives at the third ann»l freshman week confer ence icoming frosh were told how te stamp lehigh could bestb placed upon them biie the much rushed fresh man aild fairly set his foot on lentasoi he was snatched up by cyanic club or other organiza tions own around given a home and tnrtained the first assembly tuesday mornir at 1 1 o'clock was devot ed to nouncing the program for the v fred trafford intro duced mi brennan to the class of 52xjinouncement was made thatjuiue w.-cu&s — u3ui vie 4»fiv ilege olrcting chapel philosophy of religi or ethics the singing at this ogram was under the di rection t edgar shields chap el orgst and college cheers were induced by the cheer lead ers t afternoon's program con sisted oollege singing and cheer ing iring the meeting tom brennantroduced union and cy anide itbers later in the aft ernoon | frosh were divided into groups lich toured the campus in cars rnished by different or ganizatit dr c r richards was wehied at the evening as semblj fe reviewed the history of leiig dr nt carothers head of the departing of business administra tion spokwednesday morning on bankng • the talk was both humodustnd interesting he il lustrated he drawing of bad checks y,tupid men and women dr s.'c hughes spoke in the afterixxn n new methods to study an mcconn talked on rods aead he pointed out stumuif locks to freshmen and advised lo they could be avoided wate ft okeson secretary told ii hi thursday morning as semblj abut lehigh's illustrous alumn lia talk on lehigh un iversirh ad what has been ac complihtby alumni in the bus iness a^dscial world he told of the nunctof concerns in which lehigh je were represented in the ev<rhsdean mcconn spoke on frattiits fred t"ifford spoke friday morning iii how you would de fine a mh the rev mr traf ford stjtd that christianity is making ni supreme whereas fighting my and later money used to 11 c chief attributes for success t finished by giving christ's ttstion of a man he who wo f greatest serves fridsy iijt's assembly was oc cupied wiipeeches by different college acies men executives of all thejding college organ izations sph as well as the pres tdents of i three classes ad dressed thist year men bishop frank st«ri of the episcopal diocese oi thlehem was the speaker s&tay morning sat urday nigr smoker included fencing tumg and wrestling by lewis and meen seniors and letowt a jar captain fred hyde coach freshman football tubby m jack kirkpatrick captain of ball bob adams coach of b,all and assistant football coacand fred trafford were the sp«rs dr richards pointed out that regardless of what our profes sional pessimists may claim broad er education is developing man's moral and spiritual nature as rap ily as science is developing indus try and a mechanized age pres ident richards has an abiding be lief that this and future genera tions will continue to meet suc cessfully the changing and often difficult physical mental and spir itual readjustments that expanding knowledge and invention and the consequent changing world entail education that will develop both the soul and the mind is the best panacea that i am able to sug gest for the amelioration of human ills extracts from dr richard's ad dress follows lehigh university was organized sixty-two years ago as a polytech nic college and she has therefore been and will continue to be an important factor in the develop ment of industry and the mechan ized age in which we live her sons have played a prominent part in the industrial and scientific life of the nation and they have been responsible for many of the ad vances that have been made in the manufacture of steel and other ma terials of construction in the de velopment of automobiles and ma chinery of all kinds and in the discovery of new or improved me chanical electrical mining and chemical processes the changes in the conditions of civilized life that have resulted from the devel opments in science invention and industry during the brief period since the founding of the univer sity have been without a parallel in history in fact these changes are in certain respects as_j£real_-is ii<>-i winch had previously been made since the time that primitive man appeared upon the earth each generation from the begin ing has had its own problems to solve and in its own way often a bungling way perhaps it has solved them i have an abiding belief that this and future generations will continue to meet successfully the changing and often difficult physical mental and spiritual re adjustments that expanding knowl edge and invention and the con sequent changing world entail i recognize that these readjustments in the future will often be difficult and painful as have been those of the past but however harrowing they may be they will be made the oft repeated assertion that in this mechanized age man has lost his soul and that he has be come a mere cog in a vast ma chine that will engulf him is pure hokum it is man's lot to work to live never in history has his work been easier or the condi tions of his living more favorable this mechanized age has lighten ed the burden of labor even though in every case it may not have increased its interest and the development of automatic machines and mass production has made it possible to convert more effective ly than heretofore the unintelli gent and mentally deficient into useful and self-respecting members of society granted that as yet man has not made as effective use of his new freedom as might be desired and that he is for the mo ment dazzled by the toys that sci ence has placed in his hands i have no fear of his self-destruc tion but every hope that his soul will catch up with the advances in the material world if indeed it has actually ever lagged behind to this end may i repeat my belief that education will develop both the soul and the mina is the best panacea that i am able to suggest for the amelioration of human ills to you young men who repre sent the student body of lehigh university and particularly to those of you who are here for the first time i desire to emphasize again what has been said many times before that the university is doing everything in its power to offer you the best that education affords with the hope that if you avail yourselves of it you may be come better prepared to live richer and more effective lives and to make real contributions to the fur ther progress of the race the university however can do little for you without your whole-heart ed cooperation for after all edu cation cannot be acquired like a new suit of clothes but only by persistent personal effort the university does not educate you it merely aids you to better edu cate yourselves sophomores all sophomore competitors or those interested in entering the competition for th 5u staff of the 1931 epitome ar lftguested to meet at 7:30 ko^a b^r evening in the burr^^hjj hall the return of members of the phi sigma delta fraternity last week was saddened by word from new york that a brother irving a seidl 19 died friday sep tember 14 following an eight days illness from spinal meningitis fourteen members of the frater nity attended the funeral services monday morning in riverside memorial chapel new york city rabbi price officated and inter ment was in mt carmel cemetery the fraternity also sent a large floral , offering irving seidl entered lehigh as a freshman a year ago he was enrolled in the college of arts and science and intended returning to bethlehem this week to continue his work as a sophomore during the summer he attended the sum mer session of columbia univer sity mr seidl was taken ill after playing golf in the rain he was a capable golfer and had won sev eral tournaments at the westches ter biltmore links a cold devel oped from his exposure and it lead to meningitis from which he died at the mt sinai hospital within a week his parents mr and mrs bernard seidl and a sis ter geraldine all of new york city survive him at lehigh mr seidl was prom inent in mustard and cheese ac tivities he was a member of the second cast of the creaking chair last spring he was a member of the freshman^^^^l ball squad was a graduate of >^| where there was only a large excavation last june when college closed there now stands the new james ward packard laboratory fast nearing completion the con tractors irwin-leighton company expect to finish construction by next may the equipment will be transferred into the laboratory during the summer and the build ing will be ready for occupancy by the departments of mechanical and electrical engineering next fall , ■ . h . although construction was hin dered considerably during the sum mer by the heavy rains much progress has been made all of the steel work has been erected the external stone work has prog ressed to the third floor and the pouring of the floors is almost fin ished it is expected that the ex ternal stone work and roofing will be finished before any heavy snows so that the interior work can be carried on during the win ter there are at present 200 men working on the construction and as yet no serious accidents have been reported the childs-miati co company of bethlehem has been quarrying near the children's home on the back road to al i lentown and are the subcontrac tors for the stone work thi sub rontractor for the plumbing heat ng and ventilation work is the riggs-distiler company of lalti lore the foundation work and he trenches tunnels and pits are jeing done by hoch and corn any of allentown while ike \ fcnollman-spidel compajo-f of washington d c is feing the ireproofing of the floors faculty changes were announced and new members of the faculty introduced by president c r richards at the opening of the academic year last wednesday in packer memorial chapel a complete list of all faculty changes follows six assistant professors 14 in structors seven assistant instruc tors and four holders of fellow ships have been added to th e teaching staff in addition three professors have returned from leaves of absence dr w t fed ko has been appointed to assist dr c r bull in student health service thirty t wo resignations were accepted and four leaves of absence were granted thirteen promotions which were approved last year were again announced by the president assistant professors donald elliott anthony a b stanford univ 22 a m cor nell univ 23 ph.d stanford univ 28 assistant professor of economics dr anthony served as teaching fellow in economics for two years at the university of california and for one year at stanford university from septem ber 1926 to june 1928 he was in structor at the university of ne vada ward l bishop a b earl ham college 23 a m univ of illinois 24 ph.d univ of illin ois 28 assistant professor of economics dr bishop was a member of the staff of the college of commerce and business admin istration of the university of il linois for five years maximilian clay captain u.s.a assistant professor of military science and tactics adolph frederick pauli a b univ of illinois 16 ph.d ijni-i o f illinois 21 a-r»istaat professor of latin and acting head of the department dr pauli was instructor in latin and greek at the university of michi gan during 1921-22 and instructor and assistant professor of latin at dartmouth college from sep tember 1922 to june 1928 whiton powell a b cornell univ 24 m s 25 ph.d 28 as sistant professor of accountancy professor powell served as in structor in accounting at cornell from 1924 to 1927 during 1927-28 he was extension instructor in marketing robert q whitten captain u s.a assistant professor of mili tary science and tactics instructors edgar bennett bloom a b hiram college 23 m s ohio state univ 26 ph.d ohio state univ 28 instructor in chemis try and columbia carbon re search fellow dr bloom was assistant in general chemistry at the ohio state university from 1924 to 1928 john goldsborough earle m e lehigh univ 27 instructor in mechanical engineering since graduation mr earle has been en gaged in practical work hallett barker hammatt a b univ of california 24 a m harvard university instructor in mathematics mr hammatt was instructor in mathematics at har vard university during 1925-26 wilber edward harvey met.e lehigh univ 27 instructor in metallurgical engineering during 1927-28 mr harvey served as junior metallurgist at the naval experiment station at annapolis md christian paul heinlein a b johns hopkins univ 23 ph.d johns hopkins univ 27 in structor in psychology dr hein lein was assistant in psychology at johns hopkins university for two years and during the past year conducte dexperimental inves tigations in psychology at johns hopkins under the auspices of the national research council carl arthur keeler a b univ of ' california 23 instructor in mathematics mr keeler was as sistant in mathematics at the un iversity of oregon during 1924 teaching fellow at the university of california in 1927-28 and assis tant in the summer session of 1928 russell benjamin parks a b albion college 27 a m uni versity of michigan 28 instruc tor in english otto frederick ritzmann b s perm state college 22 m s in physics perm state 24 instruc tor in physics mr ritzmann was instructor in physics at the penn sylvania state college from 1922 to 1924 teaching felfow in phys ics at the california institute of technology from 1924 to 1927 and assistant professor of physics at the michigan college of mines from sept 1927 to june 1928 henry schenk a b cornell univ 24 m a columbia univ 28 instructor in english eugene kulse sloane a.b.(qj state univ a.\f 25 ohir^flen continued on pate^h bullet locates june raduates leo hortot with the new york telephi co in the new york office oat company joe bent is a ca engineer in t h c employ of t general electric company ciiuing his study of bridges georfearnside is work ing for the ix contracting co in ptttsburg t clinger is also out on the crn part of the state working oil city for the pennsoil co another step towards a greater lehigh was taken a week from last monday when excavation for the foundations of the new library building were started the esti mated cost of the building is 600.000 of which 500,000 has al ready been subscribed by alumni the appropriations were started by ten alumni each of whom pledged 25,000 they were h h mcclintic 88 c d marshall 88 w c dickertnan 96 e g grace 99 c m schwab 14 h c trexler 15 f r dravo 87 a r clancy 03 e g johnson 07 and samuel warriner 90 the 25,000 gifts are to be made by five pay ments extending over a period of five years the contract for the construction was let august 1 to jacob and young of new york new library made possible by gifts totalling 500,000 the old part will then be remod eled and it is expected to have all the work done by the following november the two towers on the library will be torn down this ne cessitates the removal of over 10,000 volumes f books which were stored in the towers tem porary shelves have been built in the old reading room for these books the new reading room will run the entire length of the new por tion and will be panelled in oak part of the old reading room will be remodelled into a large lobby the new lobby and hall will be faced with travertine stone in ad dition to a new reading room and additional stacks there will be an art gallery a browsing room a map room and seminar rooms for the different departments a board fence is being built around the construction and a boardwalk will be built along the west side of the fence connecting packer hall and the library walk the new part of the library is to be finished by august 1 1929 librarian howard s leach states that on account of build ing the new library it is realized that everyone using it will be in convenienced to some extent dtir ing the coming year a study hall for reserve books used in collateral reading and for the current num bers of about 150 periodicals has been arranged in the faculty room of the alumni memorial building hrere most of the studying for class room work will be done it will be necessary however for readers wishing to borrow books for outside use or students and faculty using the library for study in general books to come to the library as usual using the newly constructed bridge to the tempor ary entrance in the second story at the back of the library the librarian bespeaks the patience of all its patrons and also their co operation in making the best of a trying situation brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday sfptf.mrrr 21 1978 iffi&^q price five cents member intercollegiate newspaper association all the s lehigh news \ first