Brown and White Vol. 36 no. 4

              sixty percent of graduates give in last five years probation and dropping from university for ex cessive absences dean gives final enrollment data crowd watches team practice on friday afternoon interesting statistics re vealed by latest figures william mather lewis president of lafayette frosh organize to combat sophs work on the 1930 epitome is progressing rapidly and according to donald wright editor-in-chief plans which call for a completed book by house party time late in april seem certain of materializa tion the 1930 epitome will be the 54th issue of the volume and if present plans are any criterion will be the best of the fifty-four sev eral innovations never before seen in an epitome are considered as centainities these will particularly include the changes in the frater nity and organization sections and are of such a nature as to be dis tinctively different from previous issues well planned and clever are work will further enhance the attractiveness of the annual with the art motif of a character never before seen in lehigh circles and one which will be eagerly awaited sophomore competitors for the 1931 epitome staff are at the pres ent time canvassing the university for subscriptions to the 1930 epi tome and any sophomores who still wish to enter the competition for the business staff would be under no serious handicap should they start work within the next few days these men should get in touch with king paget kappa al pha lodge immediately the first pep meeting of the year was staged at 4:30 o'clock friday afternoon when the student body assembled at the flag pole and aft er an announcement by don roe concerning freshman class elections mached to the stadium preceeded by the band for a meeting of such im portance preceeding as it did the initiation of the football season the attendance was poor only half the freshman class was in evidence and about 200 from the other three classes as the crowd watched coach tate's team go through some snap py ball running the band under the leadership of gill kellet and bob baker marched around the field before taking places in the stands the lehigh musicians per formed creditably and were given a hearty reception as they passed the cheering section eddie . gott tommy chandler and carl boynton aided by his as sistants bill powell george turn bob herbruck bob lincoln and reed laird led the stands in yells the most conspicuous of which was the new university yell the cheering itself was a big improve ment over that of the previous week and was excellent in view of the number present support urged for penn state andy lehr president of the arcadia called a freshman meeting in drown hall on saturday after noon it was at first supposed that this meeting was for a re-election of officers since only 103 out of 430 voted in the previous election arcadia feeling a lack of support called the assembly as a spirit and pep meeting not as a re-election charles halstead had been pre viously elected frosh class president and no further action was taken fred trafford capt hyde and president halstead spoke each ap pealing for support of the class in the soph-frosh sports on found der's day climate laws follow courses during the past five years lehigh university has received more than 2,600,000 from its alumni in the form of gifts this does not include an additional million which was given by persons other than alumni in a drive for increased endowment the total gifts during the past year amounted to 350,000 about one third of this was added to endow ment during this five-year period close to sixty percent of the alumni have entered into the picture with con tributions ranging in size from a few dollars to a million the larg est single gift was made by the late james ward packard of warren ohio founder of the motor car company bearing his name it amounted to more than 1,200,000 in addition mr packard made substantial bequests in his will for his alma mater the gifts of mr packard put his class 1884 far in the lead in amounts of contributions by classes the next class is 1888 whose gifts approach 200,000 other classes well above the 100,000 mark are 1889 1899 and 1914 in the percentage of the members contributing the older classes as a whole rank well above the younger ones for the past year 1874 was the only class which could boast of one hundred percent in this respect several other classes were well above 75 percent including 81 83 84 91 94 and 95 the total number of aluinui con tributors during the past year was 2,476 out of about 5,000 alumni on record by means of this support le high has been able to undertake an ambitious building program dur ing this period prior to the start of the endowment campaign in 1923 approximately half a million dollars was given by alumni for the erection of the memorial building which was completed in 1925 this is considered one of the most mag nificent college buildings in the east among the other buildings which are planned for the near future are additional dormitories an auditor ium and a new infirmary nativity dances to open friday the annual reception and dance for episcopal students in bethle hem given by the pro-cathedral church of the nativity will be held at 8 o'clock friday evening oct 5 in the parish house on the corner of third and wyandotte streets invitations are being sent to all students who have registered in the dean's office as belonging to the episcopal church music will be furnished by the lehigh criterions and the girls of nativity bishop thorpe st luke's hospital and moravian seminary have been in vited following this private dance of oct 5 there will be regular weekly open dances in nativity parish for all students starting friday oct 12 students desiring to attend will secure cards of invi tation through fred trafford frosh must appear before soph council president c r richards has urged all members of the faculty to vote favorably on the proposed 8,000,000 bond issue providing for new buildings and their equipment for pennsylvania state college this issue will be submitted to the people at the general election on november 6 1928 a bulletin published and distrib uted by organizations of alumni friends and parents of students in state college sets forth the needs of the institution and the purposes for which the money realized from the proposed bond issue will be ap propriated the most important uses to which the money will be put are building new classrooms laboratories and dormitories re modeling and enlarging inadequate buildings advancing vital scienti fic research work juniors to stage smoker thurs the initial exercises in the 1928 celebration of founder's day will begin tomorrow morning 11 o'clock in packer memorial church com mencing with the academic proces sion from alumni memorial hall and ending with the recessional march to the flag pole led by the university band the plans as they are formulated are almost identical with those of other years the following freshmen are noti fied to appear without fail before the sophomore council at 8:30 wednesday evening oct 3 sprace lilly boquet fairchild l h miller petize kaleda fitz gibbon varzisi kaplus rawn friedman baumister marks da vis feisner behney schwartz schankweiler ware arcadia dance tonight the ramblers will provide the syncopation for the annual foun der's day hop sponsored by the arcadia this evening from 8:30 to midnight in drown hall obser vance of the curfew rule will be waived for freshmen attending the dance and preparations have been to make this the first large dance of the college term a success in every respect in doing so the pop ular chaperones dr and mrs bull and prof and mrs carothers have been invited and the tax will be 75c for stags and 1.00 for couples juniors to sponsor football tea dance soph smoker held for pep meeting crawling out of the ruins of foot ball decay the new lehigh team with a new coach new uniforms and new life slipped impressively into the 1928 season on a rain soaked taylor field saturday by outscoring st john's college of brooklyn n y with a pair of touchdowns 13-0 not since the brown and white whipped rutgers 14-0 at new brunswick november 1926 had lehigh had the situation so well in hand arthur davidowitz brilliant le high ball carrier of last year and roland cowboy elliott scintil lating little sophomore quarter back slipped by the st john tackl es and around the ends in splendid sequence davidowitz finished up a strong lehigh attack by crossing the goal line in the middle of the second quarter for the first score of the year and elliott carried the ball over on the fourth quarter the final whistle killed lehigh's chance for a third touchdown bob bennett had raced through the crimson defense for 20 yards to the 19 yard line just as the game ended because of the soggy condition of the field coach austy tate elect ed to battle st john's with straight football the forward pass as far as lehigh was concerned was shelved although st john's resort ed to this risky means of attack re peatedly tackling and punting improved noticeable in lehigh's play was the strength shown in two depart ments of the game which last year constituted chronic weaknesses the defense was characteristic by hard low tackling that last season was so infrequent as to evoke cheers from lehigh cohorts when prac ticed saturday it was the thing foe a tate-trained man to do pur vis levitz and dewey trantum were particularly effective in get ting their man in the open levitz's play at tackje was the best exhibi tion by a lehigh man in recent memory shifting tubby miller to the backfield proved to be a strate gic move for the big fullback the only brown and white man to play the entire game backed the line ad mirably besides gaining ground the few times he was called on to carry the ball the kicking too was praise worthy the kickoffs executed by jack levitz were as good as any seen on taylor field last fall even the punting was improved elliott's boots showed a likeness to those of his mentor chuck hess and what was more he was consistent har ris did not do as well in the second half in that he could not control the direction of the slippery pig skin davidowitz makes first score hindered considerably by a wet ball during the first part of the game which consisted mainly of an exchange of punts the brown and white offense swung into action at the start of the second quarter lee right halfback for st john's threw a pass into cowboy elliott's arms davidowitz was unable to get started on the first play and cow hoy elliott stood ready to punt sam hall was slow in snapping the continued on page three roberts receives 400 scholarship fourteen hundred and seventy seven students had enrolled at the close of the registration period at 5 p m monday of this total 405 are wearing black ties and dinks 396 are sophomores 302 juniors 272 seniors 101 repeaters and one special student the present senior class entered with 460 freshmen 355 became sophomores this number was cut to 296 in the junior year and there now remain 272 seniors the class of 30 the largest class that ever entered lehigh entered 531 strong 389 became sophomores and the present junior class now numbers 302 the class of 31 started with 425 freshmen and has been cut to 396 sophomores the students in attendance this year distributed by curricula with comparative figures for 1927 are as follows curricula 1927 1928 arts 357 335 business ad 356 - 331 chem 8 9 ch e 76 98 c e 124 119 e e 137 123 eng 282 274 eng phys 9 13 i e 56 58 m e 64 54 met e 19 30 min e 26 33 the decreased enrollment by col leges for all students arts decreased 22 business decreased 25 engineering increased 9 the decreased enrollment by col leges for new students ' arts decreased 6 business decreased 1 * engineering decreased 5 the total decrease in new stu dents is 22 this decrease is due to more severe entrance require ments and a more strict enforce ment of these requirements the new students admitted with advanced standing this year num ber 39 as against 42 in 1927 60 in 1926 88 in 1925 64 in 1924 and 33 in 1923 this falling off during the past two years is undoubtedly due to the university policy of not ad mitting students who have flunk ed out of other institutions the new students represent 20 states and five foreign countries as against 23 states and territories and four foreign countries in 1927 there are 24 fewer men from the territory outside pennsylvania new york and new jersey than last year the following table shows the geographical distribution of new students with comparative figures for 1927 and 1928 states 1927 1928 pa n y and n j 389 390 other states 70 50 foreign countries 8 5 totals 467 445 miners see new tunnel the general construction of the new tunnel on the musquinetung railroad in new jersey was in spected by the senior mining en gineers saturday september 29 the junior class will meet as a body for the firsf time this year at a smoker at 8:15 p m thursday oct 4 in drown hall an unusual entertainment and good speakers have been secured by the commit tee in charge of arrangements austy tate captain hyde and fred trafford will make short ad dresses and by a special arrange ment with the globe theatre an exceptionally good entertainment will be offered the usual eats drinks and smokes will be pro vided the following changes were act ed upon at a regular meeting of the faculty monday afternoon in the physics lecture room 1 a new cut-probation rule was approved 2 slight changes were made in the cross country and freshman football schedules 3 new members were elected to faculty committees to replace those members absent on leave 4 the number of subjects accept able for admission was increased the new cut-probation rule which was adopted is as follows a student who persistently ab sents himself from any course shall be warned by the dean the warn ing given will ordinarily specify very narrow cut limit within which the student must keep for the re mainder of the semester if the student then oversteps this limit he shall be dropped from the univer sity forthwith a student dropped under this rule may apply to the committee on standing of students for read mission at the beginning of any subsequent semester every such application shall be considered by the committee on its individual merits a varsity cross country meet with new york university on october 13 was approved and a cross coun try meet between lehigh and la fayette freshmen was authorized although no date was set if the coaches so desire the freshman football team instead of the junior varsity has been authorized to play allentown prep professor a a diefenderfer was elected to succeed professor h v anderson on the committee on ad missions and professor bradley stoughton was elected to succeed professor t e butterfield on the committee on honorary degrees professors anderson and butter field are absent on leave the faculty approved that the list of subjects acceptable for ad mission as elective subjects page 26 of the register for 1927-28 be extended by the addition of the following english 4th unit french 4th unit german 4th unit spanish 4th unit physics 2nd unit chemistry 2nd unit biology 2nd unit business law or 1 unit inter algebra or 1 unit the faculty also approved that the following subjects be segregat ed from the general list of elec tive subjects as a supplementary list from which not more than two units may be accepted physiology and hygiene % or 1 unit manual training or 1 unit freehand drawing % unit mechanical drawing % unit bookkeeping stenography and typewriting 1 or 2 units the reason for this change is that many high schools and prep schools require that a student take four years of one of these subjects for graduation but formerly the student was allowed to offer only three of these credits as entrance credits the climatic laws of nature ap parently follow certain courses of fered at lehigh according to the view held by senior chemicals tak ing the course in engineering lab oratory those who took this course during the hot months of the summer found their work confined to testing boilers and engines but now that cooler weather has come the first plant to be inspected is the refrigeration plant of the lehigh and new england terminal ware house in west bethlehem one of the most interesting tests run this summer was that of the gas producer in the wilbur lab which had not been in operation for over fifteen years the fact that the pro ducer exploded but five times dur ing the entire test is indicative of its success an excursion was also made to the coke works of the bethlehem steel plant and tests were run on the huge steam engines whic hoperate the exhaust fans for the coke ovens other plants vis ited and tested were the lucken bach flour mill the power plant of st luke's hospital and an old brewery the trip to the brewery was a mere inspection however while the power plant of the hospi tal was so distant from all the oth er buildings of the hospital except the isolation ward that everyone at tended to their work the junior class will give a tea dance saturday oct 6 in drown hall after the p m c game from 4to 7 p m music will be furnished by dave fluharty's or chestra dcx bullard junior class presi dent in speaking of the coming dance said we want this dance to be a success every member of the junior class should attend and do his best to bring his friends journalism classes visit news plant diversified interests occupy seven here as research fellows phi club will elect new men next monday the trip was under the supervi sion of dr b l miller of the ge ology department and professor howard eckfeldt of the mining de partment the sophomore smoker heldjsst evening in drown hall which*was planned in order to arouse class spirit for the founder's day sports failed to draw a good percentage of the class the few that were there however were aroused to enthus iasm by the exhortations of fred trafford and president lyons it was requested that all sopho mores cooperate to insure a more strict enforcement of freshman reg ulations that is now apparent — de feat of the frosh tomorrow being emphasized as one of the best ways to establish class superiority and stricter jurisdiction phi club held the initial meeting of the year at the theta delta chi house last evening the chief rea son for the meeting was to summar ize the names of members of the class of 1931 who are eligible for membership in the club eligibility in the club to be based as usual on athletic ability displayed last year in freshman sports the voting will take place next monday night at a meeting to be held at the sigma nu house what actually happens in the production of a city newspaper was vividly demonstrated to classes in reporting and writing and news editing when they made a trip through the bethlehem globe times plant last friday afternoon the trip was led by curtis d mac dougall assistant professor of journalism all departments of the globe-times plant were visited and the employees questioned freely the students greatly appreciated the willingness with which the globe-times staff answered their many questions and especially the time given them by harold b far quhar editor who's who includes other lehigh men the list published in the last issue of the brown and white of lehigh faculty members whose names appear in the cur rent issue of who's who was incomplete the following men are also listed in who's who benjamin leroy miller ph.d head of the department of geol ogy tomlinson fort ph.d head of the department of mathemat ics william edward roberts m.e 29 has received a 400 scholarship from lehigh he has been work ing at the bethlehem steel mills on a regular eight hour shift for the last three years in addition to performing his engineering studies satisfactorily last year he attain ed an average of over c roberts upon graduating from high school in slatington pa worked as a laborer at the steel mills after working there fof two years he met prof f v larkin who is the head of the loop course at the mills during the sum mer and arranged to secure a night shift so that he might attend le high during the day while at col lege he has not only supported him self but has helped to support his family roberts applied for a deferred tu ition scholarship but instead was granted a 400 scholarship which covers his tuition the money to be paid from the income of the mer cur scholarship fund he intends to finish his course in june having one hour more than is necessary for graduation the gumnasium the library and all university offices will be closed during founder's day exercises wednesday oct 3 mutilation must stop president c r richards has requested faculty members to co operate in preventing students from mutilating university build ings dr richards urges that notices be posted on bulletin boards instead of on the doors and walls of buildings janitors of the various buildings have been told to tear down any signs or notices which are not posted on bulletin boards the presi dent also asked that any class which paints its numerals on the door of a building be forced to pay for repainting the door the address this year is to be given by dr william mather lew is president of lafayette college who has chosen as his theme founders and foundations fol lowing the address of dr lewis there will be degrees conferred up on 25 seniors who failed for one reason or another to get their dip lomas in june the names of the two men who are to receive hon orary degrees will not be disclosed until the degrees are conferred upon them following the confer ring of degrees announcements of prizes and honors will be made the following candidates for de grees will receive their diplomas master of arts elizabeth mary lorsbach ph.b muhlenberg college allentown robert landis mohr b s juni ata college coopersburg maebelle stuart walker a b moravian college for women . wytheville va bachelor of arts martin lawrence browne brook lyn n x john scott inglis scranton frederick belden jester dallas tex henry mercur beth lehem gilbert miller bethlehem malcolm weeks robinson bethle hem leo paley brooklyn n y bachelor of science in business administration louis frank bruning jr greens burg carl oscar carlson grant wood n j harrison whitting ham conrad new york n y curtis vaughn converse athens selwyn horace turner mobile ala chemical engineer harold herbert romig reading civil engineer paul frederick geisenderfer bethlehem electrical engineer charles ignatius brady jr brooklyn n y john v gibb haddon heights n j bachelor of science in industrial engineering harold kleist dotter carlisle mechanical engineer stanley louis favinger philadel phia august ernest schickendanz jr hillside n j marvin harold werley allentown metallurgical engineer peer dudahl neilson elyria o frosh-soph sports precisely at 1 30 p m the fresh man-sophomore football game will begin which will in part determine the class athletic supremacy dur ing the halves there will be a rope tying contest between the two classes the class that succeeds in tying up and capturing the most men will be given one point in the final score upon the completion of the football game there will be a tug-o-war between fifty of the abl est freshmen and an equal number of sophomores following this con test teams made up of an equal number of the two classes will clash in the pants tearing contest at sometime during the afternoon each class will be represented in a relay race the class winning a majority of the five events will be judged by the arcadia to be the winner should the freshmen win the sophomores will make conces sions to them to the extent that they will not be required to wear their dinks on sunday this priv ilege was not granted to the fresh men last year so the honor is ex pected to be keenly contested to morrow in organizing his class for the events temporary president hal stead of the freshmen has placed a member of his class in direct charge of each event hi sappoint ments are continued on page four wilson vanßees pants tearing contest george h riley relay race russell burke tying up con test thomas nora tug of war glee club tryouts for the glee club and quartet will be held this thurs day night 7:30 drown hall tenors are in special demand a pianist is also wanted chemical research fellows are richard b k'burg ch.e l u.'2b and edward mcgovern ch.e l u 28 the former is studying the phenoma in the setting of cement and plaster and the latter the cal orimetric study of the system of calcium nitrate and water the work done last year under the student fellowship resulted in some of the best developments of a complicated hydrate system ac complished in the sphere of physi cal chemistry this year it is pro posed to investigate the energy re lations between various hydrates of calcium nitrate this latter study will have far reaching applications to numerous other hydrates both natural and manufactured which oc cur as mineral or factory products the new chemical research fel lows are engaged in a diversity of investigations both theoretical and practical john d long a bylles by memorial fellow is engaged in studying the engineering constants of gas washing towers r max goepp 28 b s in chemistry is a new jersey zinc co fellow who is investigating unsaturated com plexes in drying oils the subject of f b bloom's research is de position of carbon from flames there are two archer-daniels-mid land-goodrich research assistants miss helen chataway ph.d mc gill 26 whose subject is oxidation transformations in linseed oil and e k zimmerman m s l u 28 whose subject is the colloid chem istry of linseed oil the student founder's day speaker vol no xxxvi no 4 lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday october 2 1928 price five cents twenty-four get degrees wednesday alumni donations total 2,(100,000 work progressing on 1930 epitome tate machine shows power to defeat brooklyn team symphony orchestra all those interested in playing in the symphony orchestra re port at 7:30 p m wednesday in drown hall with instruments brown and white wins opening game from st john's president william m lewis of lafayette will speak at founder's day exercises freshman-sophomore sports occupy afternoon brown and white students assemble to cheer gridmen innovations to make book distinctive soph com petitors wanted faculty approves new cut ruling member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first