Brown and White Vol. 36 no. 2

              unusual works to give degrees many defer pay bosey returns to his campusi home bosey reiter to partially resume du ties as head of de partment the fervent plea for the aid of the 15,000 made homeless by the hurricane that ravaged the west indies and the eastern coast of florida last sunday night made in chapel last friday by fred trafford was answered by a collection of 99.75 at the door as the men passed out encouraged by the showing of the first appeal mr trafford acting for the union made an appeal to the various living groups in order to reach the men who had not contributed in chapel as yet not all of the living groups have answered the appeal but the returns to date are estimated at about 170 many men living down town were not reached by the canvass and it is hoped that they will bring their contribution to fred traf ford's office sometime before thursday noon there is no minimum which may be subscribed for there is an immediate need for mon ey to supply food clothing shelter and medical attention to the thousands of persons made destitute by this great catastrophe a picture of this grief stricken desolate and corpse-strewn area if only in the imagination should appeal to the humane in anyone according to mr trafford and he makes the appeal that each and every one of lehigh's 1500 students contribute something to this worthy cause even it be only the price of a ticket to the theatre contributions will be received in his office until thursday noon and it is requested that all living groups respond sooner if pos sible willis 28 drowns while saving boy lehigh men were at encampments r.o.t.c students enjoy summer camps lost m st lawrence four days after graduation as the iin and confusion of rushing season end'd at noon sat urday drown hallonce more re turned to her sturfd pose of quiet orderliness after passing through one of the most arried of all her experiences alays a martyr to the cause of theunavoidable pres ent system of nhing she seems to have been sijected to more this year than e;r before as the freshnn arrived they were doled out j the various fra ternities or hous in drown hall and those who tayed sometimes only remained f one or possibly two nights an then they too would go to sor fraternity or find a room in town but always when indecision overok them they would return tidrown hall and fred trafford o straighten out heir difficultie when the deind for her rooms exceeded the 9ply cots had to be provided a facilities created that had neverefore been in ex istence with the limited con fines of her per stories she housed and cid for more than 100 students ring the re-exam period and fnman week and now that it isll over and most of the men ye secured places elsewhere shean truthfully say that she hasz-fold the standard of tolerant 1 i icient service be n in 1907 i plans for the annual founder's day exercises to be held wednes day october 3 while still incom plete will parallel closely those of former years as is customary no classes will be held throughput the day giving both faculty and students an opportunity to parti cipate in all scheduled activities the morning exercises will be gin with an academic procession of faculty guests and candidates for degrees from the flagpole to the chapel where the rev d wil mot gateson will open the services with prayer following an organ solo by t edgar shields an ad dress will be given by president william mather lewis of lafay ette college degrees will then be awarded to those members of the class of 1928 who did not receive their sheepskins in june and honorary degrees given two distinguished ed ucators whose names will not be announced until the day of the exercises distribution of prizes and honors to students for excel lence in scholarship during the past year will be made at this time including an award of five hun dred dollars to dudley lee har ley 31 whose essay on the place of chemistry in the national de fense was judged best of all those submitted in a national contest held among american colleges by the american chemical society following the benediction and the recessional to the flagpole where the alma mater will be sung the board of trustees will adjourn to the bethlehem club for lunch where all unfinished business from last june will be concluded in the afternoon the freshman and sophomore classes will engage in their annual five-event riot to determine the necessity of a dink on sundays the inter-class foot ball game will begin the battle while a tug of war rope-tying and pants-tearing contests will be wag ed during the intermission and the inter-class relay race will conclude the program mail is acumulating fred traffop wishes to call the attention of th sjtudent body and particulary of ejhmen to the fact that unclaimedmail is accumulat ing in his offi at a rate soon to become burdeiome and desires that all who ink that they may have mail ther get it at the ear liest possible oment he urges that all freshen who accepted bids to the vaous fraternities go to the post ofle and give the au thorities their ew address so that their mail wi be sent to them promptly houses stage many dances figures concerning student loan and scholarships for the collegiat year 1927-28 have been compile recently and made public by n m emery the most reputable author ties on college administration ac cording to dr emery ha agreed that a university has don its part when it has provided fi nancial assistance for 10 per cen of its student body during th past collegiate year 199 lehigh students have been the recipients of financial aid through scholar ships deferred tuition loans and direct loans it is obvious from a study of these figures that le high is granting loans to consid erably more than 10 per cent of its student body lehigh university offers annual ly 24 free scholarships of which six are awarded to freshmen and the remaining 18 are distributed over the rest of the university in an effort to be of further assis tance to worthy students the uni versity extends to 76 of them the privilege of deferring the payment of their tuition until five years have elapsed in addition to this last source of loans the university has accumulated over a period oi — 40 years endowment loan funds totaling 231,589.88 the return from the investment of these funds is offered to worthy students in the form of loans secured by notes given jointly by the students and their parents " during the past fis cal year deferred tuition loans and direct loans involving 6>^j were made to studetfi the granting of loans and schol arships is administered by the com mittee on scholarships and loans consisting of dr n m emery chairman dean c m mcconn and w r qkeson petitions from students who have an aver age below c are discarded at the outset each remaining petition for a loan is carefully considered in an effort to bring to light two points first are the applicant's financial circumstances of such a nature as to warrant assistance second is the petitioner of such character and ability as to give the granting committee grounds for anticipating his success in college and following his graduation these questions being satisfactor ily answered some form of assis tance will be developed by dr emery and the members of his committee . fall brings to lehigh new stu dents whose faces are unfamiliar and it also brings back this fall one known to lehigh men young and old but which has been miss ing from the campus since last winter bosey is back he will again ride down to his stronghold in taylor gym in the familiar ford as was his custom before sickness took him and mrs reiter to florida in search of a more fav orable climate for regaining lost strength his cheerful smile and friendly disposition will again wel come the new men to the gymna sium the popular professor of physi cal education and his wife returned saturday evening from their cot tage at beachwood kennebunk port maine where they stayed since their return last spring from the sunny south a lazy summer of fishing and puttering about dif fered greatly from the strenuous vacations which he enjoyed when in better health bosey maintains that the atlantic ocean fish keep ctote to florida or at least away from maine for his luck during the winter months far exceeded the summer's catch he returned brown as a berry and a picture of good health but unfortunately his condition has reached a state which he describes as a plateau one in which he feels capable of accomplishing great things as he used to but which he cannot carry through recovery comes slowly doctors prescribe another year of taking things easy before he can resume his duties as active head of the department and a few hours each day in his office will be the ex tent of his activities old students will miss greatly his inspiring fight talks at the football smokers during the fall but the strain is too great ior one with a weakened heart and they must be satisfied to recall and retell those of former years features of rushing sea son entertain freshmen postpon tea dance the junior ass tea dance to be given after t st john's game has been posoned one week and will be given aturday oct 6 librarian howard s leach who is now valiantly holding forth in the midst of chaos takes great satisfaction in reporting a recent gift to the library about two weeks ago robert honeyman iv wha was grad ated from lehigh in 1920 and is now located in new york city presented to the library a collec tion of scientific books the gift consists of 14 volumes all of which are quite rare none of the books were previously on catalogue in the library perhaps the most interesting book donated by mr honeyman is a copy of darwin's famous or igin of species the sixth chapter of which contains a page in the great scientist's own handwriting this is indeed a rare item and one of the great interest because of the importance of this revolu tionary book it will give lehigh one more rarity for exhibition purposes other items of the gift include a greek and latin edition of aesop's fables 1550 a third edition of newton's principles of mathematics 1729 three works of robert boyle which are bound together 168 2 bonnycastle's mensuration 1787 thomas white's peripatetical institutions 1656 euclid 1763 wingate's ar ithmetick 1713 mandey's me chanick 1792 emerson's me chanics 1754 castlemain's eng lish globe 1696 petrucci's pro domo apoligetico 1677 and last ly a rare bret hart pharaphh-1 eji titled a pliocene skull with hu morous illustrations by e m schaeffer m d the petrucci volume has the added historical value of bearing an amorial branding stamp which indicates that at one time it prob ably belonged to joannes joseph comes de wildenstern these books are not only of great interest and historical value but also possess scientific value this value is in evidence by the fact that one of the professors from the mathematical department who is writing a book of his own has requested an early cataloguing of several of mr honeyman's gifts mr leach states that many of these items will bear further study and will be added to a collection of literary rarities which will be placed next year in the treasure room of the reconstructed li brary coal producers meet at lehigh band picks officers at meeting friday practce contest reveals vealth of grid material tate stajs full game scrimmage before large crowd saturday afternoon francis macleod willis who received his degree in civil engin eering last june was drowned four days later on his twenty-first birthday after having rescued a small boy from the icy waters of the st lawrence river near rock port ontario willis who was visiting harry p wilbur jr for merly of the class of 1928 lived in richmond va while willis was assisting his host in moving a barge-load of furniture from rockport to one of the tnousand islands a small boy who was riding with him fell ov erboard although willis was ful ly clothed he immediately jumped in after him and wilbur who was piloting the motor boat which was towing the barge cut the tow line and went back to pick them up both willis and the boy were under the water when wilbur reached the spot he dove into the water and took the boy from willis arms and swimming back to the boat climbed aboard in a state of exhaustion when wil lis failed to appear on the sur face of the water which was 200 feet deep it was evident that he was a victim of cramps due to the effect of the icy water every possible means of search was utilized but the body was not recovered until 5.30 a m june 28 twelve days after the unfortunate mishap when it was found by harry wilbur and ryan fort 29 interment was made on the after noon of june 30 in the cemetery of the presbyterian church at paisypany new jersey willis was an alumnus of mc guire's university school and was a very active member of the class of 1928 he was a member of the freshman wrestling team and won the frosh wrestling cup in 1925 in his sophomore and junior years he was a member of the varsity wrestling squad in his senior year he was manager of frosh football and manager of frosh track he was a member of the 1928 sophomore cabinet phi club scabbard and blade tau beta pi and sigma phi fraternities freshman nominations the band's opening meeting — attended by 85 including many of last year's solo men was held last friday officers elected were r a baker leader r p black manager and f w emhardt li brarian candidates for drum-ma jor as well as instruments were declared welcome the organiza tion hopes to make its first appear ance in new uniforms on found er's day and to be present at all home games in addition to home games the band hopes with the support of the student body to attend the games at harvard princeton and lafayette new england alumni have expressed a strong desire that the band attend the harvard game and a concert trip to cover several of the new england states is also being considered miners offered new course lehigh university was the meet ing place sept 17 for a confer ence of chief executives of all larg er anthracite producers with some of the leading scieatists of the country in a discussion of research problems the course of future anthracite research activities have been very largejy determined at these meetings with dr a c fieldner chief chemist united states bureau of mines dr hen ry kreisinger research engineer combustion engineering corpora tion prof s w parr university of illinois president of the amer ican society and dr c r rich ards president of lehigh univer sity automatic operation of anthra cite burning devices ash handling gassification of coal and other top ics were discussed with the dis tinguished engineers the meet ing with s d warringer in the chair was arranged by alan c dodson chairman of the merchan dising committee of the anthra cite operators conference sophomore council meeting among courses to be offered at lehigh for the first time is one to be given by dr b l miller in geological investigation open to seniors in the department of min ing engineering this course is de signed to make an intensive geo logic study of the lehigh valley a study of registration statistics shows that more sophomores have registered for mining engineering this term than in any other term for the past eight years sophomores will make plans for defeating the freshmen founder's day at a meeting of the sophomore council in drown hall at 8:3.0 o'clock wednesday evening a sophomore representative from every organized living group should be present at this meeting nominations for the temporary presidency of the freshman class were held at a very poorly attend ed meeting yesterday at noon in packer hall elections will be held all day tomorrow in fred trafford's office in drown hall — the polls being open from 8 a m to noon and from 1 to 4 o'clock the follownig 14 men were nom inated dick roll john angle pat reilly charles halstead wilson van reese george hutchinson tom nora mac cooper donald drake george harris henry kru sen steve cunningham ru s s burke graham mac donald prof esty's technical library given lehigh glee club meets october 4 twelve days of strenuous rush ing came to a close at noon sat urday when fraternity bids were delivered to freshmen in fred trafford's office nearly three hun dred freshmen filed into the office of the lehigh union secretary to peer into their envelopes many faces clearly registered disappoint ment but many more were very obviously overjoyed after the freshmen received the bids there followed a six hour per iod of silence enforced by the in terfraternity council during which no fraternity men undergraduate or alumnus was allowed to speak to freshmen at the close of this period men who wished to accept a bid reported to the respective houses bids which were reject ed were signed and turned in to fred trafford of the 257 bids given out only 158 had been accepted by sunday evening when the following list was compiled while the number of bids delivered is somewhat larg er than that of other years the number accepted is lower than be fore this may be due perhaps to the reluctance of some fresh men to plunge too hastily into fraternity life the list of men who are now proudly displaying pledge pins follows alpha chi rho gordon jones irvington n j edwin ross phila ; charles marks yonkers n y allen hal bert queens l i martin butz iloomsburg pa george brum ach reading pa arno duncan reading pa alexander walters montclair n j benjamin whit meyer bethlehem pa harry os bourne newark n j edward schadt forest hills n y alpha tau omega carl giegerich bayside l i walter civardi bayside l i donald clifford brooklyn n y mark hoover pottstown thomas price kingston beta theta pi arnold w nelson westerley saten island n y george l yates bartlesville okla william j jackel mckeesport henry wittmer glenshaw foss f swee ny nutley n j william fader sewickley wilson van reese freeport long island n y dal ton wood wilmington del james e duncan washington pa napoleon purvis freeport long island n y chi phi theodore mommers baltimore md ; george watson cranford n j morton van loon albany n y chi psi george n beckwith pittsburgh ralph c benson brooklyn n y charles c burgess jr pitts burgh john e butterly scranton robert c dakin scranton wil liam m eyster york merle j graham pittsburgh frank mc cluskey jr easton harry a mears greensburg george h ril ey hagerstown md donald saw yer bethlehem w henry sim coe trenton n j delta phi john bindley pittsburgh h kedward murray philadelphia albert jacobs overbrook graem macdonald new york city delta tau delta russell burk newark n j george knecht newark n j stanmore wilson east orange n j carl hull east orange n j henry klippert mountain home lawson miller newburgh n y john button maplewood n j allen ware glassboro n.j delta upsilon samuel bailey glendale ohio edward b hildum plainfield n j william lownie buffalo n.y henry j forsyth buffalo n y herman moorhead buffalo n.y louis l brennesholtz buffalo n y john m ogden east orange n j donald y widdowfield clarks green william c elmore montour falls n y frederick cunningham bethlehem kappa sigma edward smith warren ohio robert voitt warren ohio lambda chi alpha douglas davidson wilmington del john gilmer big stone gap va ; george h mcclasky canton ohio edward mccrea passaic n j o jackson pearre baltimore md richard f wagner wee hawken n j phi delta pi william b glasby new haven continued on page four the glee club will hold its first trial for candidates october 4 in drown hall candidates for the quartette are especially wanted election of officers has not been held and will probably take place at that time a concert trip through new jersey is almost cer "^ tain and a tour of new england h^kand canada is thought possible the varsit eleven barely suc ceeded in dtating austy tate's second strinjteam by the close score of 13 12 in the practice game playedast saturday after noon on tayr field for the pur pose of givi the coaches some idea as to io would start the initial 1928 ame against st john's the irsity was designat ed as the brm team and the sec ond string m<as the white team the game w featured by spec tacular runs bob bennett jim fritts cowb elliott bob har ris and phil ngeles these five men broke ay time after time and brought he spectators of which there re a good number to their feetith their beautiful broken field is bob van blar com anotherack on one occa sion broke fee and ran about 80 yards for touchdown only to be recallebecause a member of his tea mwpenalized for hold ing tubby iller played an ex cellent game a defensive back and will likeisee action in this position diclattig one of last year's freshm backs showed up well and at o time succeeded in crashing throi the brown line to block a pi art davidowitz appeared to tin his usual form and gained sund consistently when given thall but austy ap parently seemsatisfied with last year's star bcarrier and took him out beforhe half had been called the siring made by the backs was ye promising indi cating that tl is no lack of good backfielaaterial this sea son the line showed up very well with the exception of the pivot men bad passes were frequent and they resulted in fumble after fumble captain jack kirkpatrick and jack levitz played the entire game at tackle and both men seem assured of their positions art lehr and red waldman played the guard positions on the brown team while fran evers and gil king one of the bulwarks of the 1927 j v line were the guards on the white team all four men are pretty evenly matched but waldman and lehr at present seem to be the most probable men for the position the ends with the exception of art landis did not appear to be as good in their respective positions as the other men of the squad and austy tried many flankmen during the game as this position is causing the coaches quite a bit of worry ray bechler former bellefonte star and one of the most promising tackles was shifted to a wing position and played right end on the brown team for the first half the game as a whole was very loosely played penalties and fum bles were too numerous to keep count of but this might have been caused by the extremely hot weather and might also be attri buted to the fact that the men were mpre or less excited since this game meant quite a bit as to whether or not they would start in the st john's game then again it was the first real game of the season and the combina tions haven't been working to continued on page four sophomores get into college activities now a good opportunity awaits you because more men are wanted in the competition for the business staff of the 1931 epitome there will be a meeting of the competi tors at 7:30 friday evening in drown hall members of the class of 19 3 2 were given their first taste of le high social life during rushing season dances were the most popular form of entertainment in the ten days devoted to rushing seven fraternities gave dances for their freshman guests teas and bridge parties were given by four houses these social functions gave many freshmen their first opportunity to meet the girls of this vicinity the first dance of the season was given by alpha chi rho on friday september 14 the dance was held in the evening at the le high country club saturday september 15 was the time of greatest activity alpha tau ome ga gave a dance at the chapter house on saturday evening last ing from 8:30 p m until midnight the chi psi lodge was the scene of a bridge party also given on saturday evening phi sigma kap pa entertained many guests with a dance at the house which lasted from 8:30 p m until 12 o'clock saturday night delta phi and sigma nu each entertained with teas sunday afternoon september 16 these affairs were held in the respective houses lambda chi alpha chose monday as the best time to have a dance at the chap ter house on the following eve ning sigma chi gave its annual rushing season dance which last ed until 1 o'clock the season for rushing dances was closed wed nesday evening with parties at two houses theta xi and sigma phi epsilon the theta xi dance was held in their new home on dela ware avenue the dances held during freshman week work in very well with the idea of the orientation period some social connections outside the col lege are very necessary for the freshman's happiness and many are made at these rushing season functions mrs william esty wife of the former head of the electrical en gineering department who died this summer has given professor es ty's technical library to lehigh university this library includes two volumes on faraday's works just one big happy family en joying a glorious six weeks at the expense of good old uncle sam whether or not that expresses the sentiments of all those who were there the thirty lehigh men who attended the r o tv c summer camp at fort leonard wood maryland found the six weeks at least interesting the record made by lehigh men this summer is quite enviable for not only were they members of company a which won the camp inter-com pany competition for the best com pany but they had among their ranks the champion fighter of the company and the best shot in camp julian dickerson won the prize for high scofe in rifle marks manship the only man in camp to qualify as an expert rifleman the other schools represented in company a were university of pennsylvania drexel institute perm state and the university of california the camp day began at 5:30 in the morning which was probably one of the main reasons that took enjoying and glorious out of the above quotation reville and roll call came at 5:45 followed by breakfast at 6 after breakfast the cots were made up and the tent areas cleaned for inspection which would come later in the morning at seven o'clock assem bly was blown and ranks were formed for physical exercises which next to the • early rising hour came in for the most grip ping and growling on the part of the cadets admitted though jump ing around and swinging arms seemed highly unnecessary espe cially right after breakfast it was good for discipline then from 7:30 until noon close order drill tent pitching lectures on the dif ferent phases of army life and ad ministration and field and combat problems occupied the time re call at noon was sweet music aft er parading around the drill field in the sand and sun or crawling through bramble bushes and brooks to attack the enemy aft er lunch at 1 30 more enemies were chased or retreated from un til recall at 3:30 from then un til retreat at 5:15 there was noth ing to do except clean rifles wash clothes and if possible catch up on back sleep mess call was blown at 5:30 and after supper until 7 there were volley ball games and horse shoe pitching matches at seven o'clock all roads led to the movies the chief attraction of which were the remarks passed by the audience and the piano play er whose knowledge of music con sisted in playing ramona in many flats tatoo at 9 call to quarters at 10:45 and taps at 11 were superfluous and unnecessary bugle calls because no one was awake to hear them social activities there were however many brighter sides of camp life re call at noon on wednesdays and saturdays meant leave from the cantonment until reville the next morning or over the week end the camp was very conveniently situated between baltimore and washington so that at such times as passes could be secured the continued on page four brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday september 25 1928 " " back again vol xxxvi no 2 fraternity pledges are announced price five cents scholarship fund assists ten percent of students rushing season ends 158 men accept bids valuable books added to library as alumnus gift frosh are boused by fred trafford dr.william lewis will be speaker on founder's day program oct 3 to ap proximate those of other years send aid to hurricane zone invitations given saturday after twelve active days dr n m emery pub lishes statistics of loan committee robert honeyman 20 donates 14 scientific volumes drown hall returns to normal after rushing member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first