Brown and White Vol. 36 no. 13

              old time smoker thurs day cheers team to harvard experimentation on dams subject of new profes sor's talk p f stauffer had been assistant here for 37 years alex hamilton consen sus attracts two-thirds of student body lehigh to meet 6 debate teams lthigh's first offcial debating team has made tentative plans to meet boston university temple university loyola college of chicago and carleton college next spring and muhlenberg and lafayette this fall in a series of dual debates all sophomores juniors and seniors who wish to try for the team will meet at 7:30 o'clock monday evening in christmas-saucon hall as a preliminary to find out the num ber of men turning out and to get a line on the material the number of opponents to be listed depends on the number of fellows responding to this first call reprinted from l'hila record — bill dietrich captain of the football eleven at frankford high school and rated the best or one of the best schoolboy backs in the city will enter lehigh university that's news but not the entire story that centralizes around the stern unyielding father who had the absolutely novel idea that a boy went to college to get an education at least that is the idyll that is recited at south bethlehem nowa days bill the youngster has been stormed by the zealous alumni of many colleges and universities asking him to matriculate at their revered institutions to all of these bill listened with deference sound-minded youngster keen-witted kid he decided that one of the best ways to reach a decision was to talk matters over with the old man so he approached the subject with true filial decorum before he got fairly started according to the tale that is told the father broke in as follows bill you're going to college you're going there not to play football but to obtain an education therefore william you'll go to lehigh new cover design for lehigh review so make the most of that state mater — or alma maters for she g meanwhile bill's acquisition h more gleeful the big boy from i home seat of bunker hill if you wi and get students who can stick to 1 several weeks first issue to appear in merit ye scouts from other almas oes as she lies as made coach austin tate a bit costing — or rawther charlestown ish — is trying to swallow his wrath heir studies without flunking music association has wide program student societes seeking speakers season to see mischa el man elizabeth reth berg and others here p d e and robert blake corresponding with prominent men the funeral of peter f stauffer retired lehigh assistant-librarian who died on october 26 of general weakness due to advanced age was held last tuesday afternoon inter ment was made in the family plot in the easton heights cemetery at easton mr stauffer who was over 78 years old at the time of his death was born in lower saucon on jan uary 1 1850 at the age of 17 he began his teaching carreer which was to last for 20 years in the pub lic schools of the old borough of south bethlehem from march 25 1887 to august 31 1924 mr stauffer served as assis tant librarian at lehigh in those 37 years he met many of the lehigh students whom he learned to know quite intimately during his library service he handled and helped to catalogue thousands of volumes of every description and character ac quiring a keen insight into the lit erature that was being sought for by the students and faculty he was retired on pension in 1924 through the efforts of the carnegie founda tion frosh grid squad plays muhlenberg hyde works hard to whip yearling eleven into shape new directory already printed lehigh is for hoover such is the inevitable conclusion after the tabulation of the presidential straw vote conducted this week on the campus by the alexander hamilton society revealed that the republi can nominee is a 3-1 favorite over his most dangerous rival al smith winning the town group all the dormitories and all but four of the fraternities herbert hoover re ceived about 75 per cent of the 1027 votes cast he tallied 750 to 241 for the democratic candidate twenty-eight undergraduates speci fied thomas the socialist as their choice among the others who re ceived votes are will rogers the beverly hills mayor who is his own publicity manager varney of the prohibition party foster labor candidate and reynolds the indus trialist rogers has four support ers while each of the other three men has only one at lehigh result coincides with forecast the results of the election con cur with what was expected of le high asa packer's engineering col leges together with the business school were deemed strong enough numerically to elect the engineer economist furthermore inasmuch as more than half of the student body are residents of pennsylvania which is one of the strongholds of the g o p speculators on the out come of the lehigh consensus felt sure of a hoover majority continued on page four at one of the best smokers ever held in taylor gym the lehigh football team was given a rousing send off to harvard a much larg er gathering than has been preval ent this year was on hand to cheer the team fred trafford first speaker of the afternoon emphasized the fact that a new team under a new coach was doing more than had been ex pected of it and asked that the un wavering support of the entire uni versity be maintained okey okeson czar of eastern football traced the similarity in the football records of harvard and lehigh pointing out that saturday would mark the deviation of one of the two football curves and until last saturday harvard hadn't won a major game for five years let's see that it is our curve that takes the upward trend he con cluded amidst a wild outburst coach austy tate then told the students that he was glad to see that the old lehigh fighting spirit was so apparent a team that fights is never licked said austy and that's what we have lets keep it a fighting team right through november improving with each game until we meet the boys from down the river and then we'll make it a lehigh day the team is going to be met at the station by the entire student body at 11 a m sunday morning after the smoker the students led by the band paraded to the sta tion where cheers and songs kept the ears of the team ringing until the train pulled out for the new england city and john harvard the lehigh review dressed anew in a cover of black on green will be off the press within several weeks according to a j wiesner jr editor-in-chief this is to be the first issue this year of the review and as such is being planned to meet with the approval of the students the table of contents offers a variety of in teresting articles in addition to two short stories and some poetry the contents this first quarter come from both faculty and stu dents the editors were able to ob tain permission from the new re public to reprint chapter two of dean mcconn's book college or kindergarten which has had a fav orable reception the editors of the review are an xious to come into contact with men on the campus who are inter ested in writing for the review the lehigh review is published quarterly and appeals to the student and faculty interests the business staff of the maga zine is soliciting subscriptions jos eph conrath theta kappa phi is business manager class inspects factory booklet contains all im portant campus in formation sergeant newcomb to be replaced by gasda five concerts all to be held in the auditorium of the liberty high school have been scheduled by the community concert association of bethlehem for their winter pro gram late in november the flonzaley quartet will begin the series to be followed by elizabeth rethberg soprano of the metropolitan opera company mischa elman violinist the new york theatre guild in the doctor's dilemma a play by g b shaw and dr sigmund spaeth with an assisting artist the concerts will end late in april a large number of lehigh stu dents have already become mem bers of the association and an invi tation has been extended by the club to any others to join with the exception of the bach festival this is the first time students have been offered an opportunity to hear such artists this afternoon the class in indus trial management watched the man ufacture of steel cylinders at the easton plant of the taylor whar ton steel co one of the leading eastern producers of steel cylin ders the process consists in punch ing the cylinders from a block of steel by means of a hydraulic press there were fifty students in the party headed by professor f v larkin mechanics to hear aeronautics talk pi delta epsilon honorary jour nalistic society will try to secure one of the country's prominent jour nalists for a college lecture in the near future the members decided wednesday at a meeting in drown hall the society intending to take ad vantage of the offer of the lecture committee to work in conjunction with any society in bringing speak ers here will try to get one of the following men hey wood broun grantland rice oswald g villard karl bickle silas bent edward bok or walter lippmann robert blake society philosophy honorary is also carrying on cor respondence with prominent speak ers in the effort to bring one here the faculty agreed to abolish com pulsory lectures last year believing that it would be more valuable to bring prominent men here who had a direct appeal even though it may be only to a more limited group pi delta epsilon is considering several new men for membership in the society election will be held wednesday evening in drown hall maxwell marries irma c cressman red cross will hold annual campaign soon sergt h j newcomb will be re placed by sergt g gasda as soon as all arrangements have been com pleted sergt newcomb wishes to enter business and it was at his own request that the change was made sergt gasda has been the recruit ing officer in this district for some time he has requested the detail and will probably receive it the sergeant is an old soldier with a commendable record and he will be an asset to the r o t c staff o b whitaker of sperry co to address mem bers the lehigh chapter of the so ciety of sigma xi heard a lecture by professor w a slater on dams at its first meeting of the fall term last tuesday at 8 p m in drown hall and elected 13 lehigh men as associate members those elected were m s ebert c e echolm r m goepp jr e s greiner w e harvey c a keeler e w mc govern c t oswald h h reich ard w h salzenberg f a scott w t sproul and h s stanley the lehigh chapter of the organ ization was inaugurated here last year with professor v s babasin ian as president professor l l smail as secretary and professor c c bidwell as treasurer for the express purpose of encouraging re search in pure science after professor bradley stough ton made a brief address to the prospective members concerning the object of the society president babasinian had them take the sigma xi pledge as an example of the nature of the scientific work usually done at these meetings w a slater re search professor of engineering ma terials lehigh university spoke on the testing of a concrete arch dam 60 feet high and two feet thick professor slater who came to le high last june from the bureau of standards washington d c was in charge of the construction of the stevenson creek dam an experi ment costing nearly 110,000 this experiment was sponsored by the engineers foundation of new york city which encourages and supports projects of this nature the professor in discussing his experiment said that it was built only for experimental purposes — having no practical value whatev er it is 140 feet long built of solid concrete and stretches in bow fashion across a canyon of the same length being fastened by means of abutements to the walls of the can yon the convex side facing the wa ter the dam is two feet thick from the 30 foot to the 60 foot level the lower part widening to seven and a half feet at the base the lecture was illustrated with many slides and graphs that showed the results of the strains deflections opening of cracks and stresses in the abute ments motion pictures of the construction and testing of the dam were shown harvey experiments on corrosion-fatigue white to address civils on subways ceremonies held wednes day in valley forge chapel captain f w hyde is working hard with his team this week in or der to get them into shape for the game with the muhlenberg frosh on saturday the lehigh fresh men emerged from last week's de feat by rutgers without any inju ries and all the men are in fine con dition it is hoped that elkins will be recovered from his hip in juries which have kept him out two weeks several changes have been made in the line-up charley halsted is still running the team after his ability displayed last week issel is playing left tackle and j engle has been shifted to a guard muhlenberg has a strong team this year having won a game with trenton state normal 25-0 tied ursinus 0-0 and held perkiomen to 13-0 the probable line-ups will be muhlenberg lehigh lenker le clark sobel lt issel greenberg ilg bijou vincent c hutchinson parillo rg engle riedy rt myers giltner re swartz carney qb halsted quick lh zivites majercik rh litzer savago fb kleppert wilber e harvey met e 26 is now research assistant in the met allurgical engineering department and candidate for the degree of m s as part requirement for this de gree he will continue research on the corrosion-fatigue of metals in which he had 15 month's experience at the naval experiment station at annapolis corrosion-fatigue re search is an examination of the fail ure of metals when subjected to al ternating or repeated stresses under conditions productive of rust and corrosion drama club reads and so to bed the civil engineering society will meet at 7:30 o'clock thursday evening november 8 in the phys ics building lazarus white will give an illustrated lecture on the underpinning of buildings in new york city subway construction mr white is president of spencer white prentis consulting engin eers and a leading authority on subway construction he has play ed an important part in all the sub ways that have been built in new york since the war lehigh men send 553 laundry bags weekly t,he annual student directory ap peared last wednesday this is the earliest this useful little booklet has ever been published in appearance and contents it is practically the same as last year it is of the same size as last year and has the same number of pages a new listing in the directory is that of graduate students other than those who are members of the faculty the rest of the directory is much the same as last year there being listings of commitees of the faculty and listings of trustees faculty and administrative officers with their addresses telephone numbers and office hours the main portion of the booklet is taken up with the directory of students where every student is listed with his curriculum scholastic standing local address and telephone number and his home address names of married students this year are marked in the rear of the book the usual listing of student living groups is given here every living group is alphabetically listed with its ad dress head and telephone number following this there is a list of campus organizations with their of ficers class officers are next list ed a general athletic directory completes the listings the price of the student direc tory is fifty cents it is on sale at the supply bureau and at the bur sar's office the american red cross will hold its annual drive for member ship between armistice day nov 11 and thanksgiving day nov 29 in former years the presidents of arcadia and lehigh union have acted jointly as roll-call chairmen it is hoped that they will continue their efforts in so worthy a cause this year the red cross is recog nized as a very worthy organiza tion and although the student body recently contributed to the hurri cane relief fund the results accom plished in this instance should urge them to further contributions the american red cross is al ways ready for instantaneous ser vice not only in major catastro phies such as the mississippi flood and the florida hurricane does it render service but also in individ ual cases there is a red cross nurse in every needy district ready to help families in trouble free of charge or at very low costs for such services as these funds sup plied by annual membership dues are necessary babes in toyland presented by y.w.c.a o b whitaker of 1 the sperry gyroscope co of brooklyn new york will be the principal speaker at the first regular meeting of the mechanical engineering society at 7:30 o'clock thursday evening no vember 8 in williams hall the sperry co is the manufac turer of the much heard of earth in ductor compass this compass makes airplane direction certain and has played an important part in the transatlantic and other long distance air plane flights they also manu facture the sperry gyroscopic com pass which makes it possible to sail a ship on a perfectly straight course for days without a helmsman at the wheel and the balancing gyroscope which keeps a ship from rolling in a heavy sea this lecture will be illustrated by many working models and should be of great interest to many men on the campus a new system of holding the meetings will be inaug urated this year everybody is in vited to the lecture and freshman mechanicals are especially urged to attend refreshments will be served following the meeting with the cheers of the student body ringing in their ears 29 brown and white football players left bethlehem last night at 6:20 bound for cambridge mass to meet a powerful crimson team in the har vard stadium tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 this is the first time in many years that lehigh has met johnny harvard in this sport and although the reports from the cam bridge camp indicate that coach hodween's men are confident of success the tate machine is out to win cerning harvard the lehigh team arrived in bos ton this morning at 7:15 and was not idle during the day this after noon from 2 to 3 o'clock the men went through a light but thorough signal drill in the harvard sta dium the brown and white men will leave for home shortly after midnight saturday arriving here at 11:20 sunday morning coaches discount rumors con persistant rumors circulated rap idly around football circles this week that coach horwen would start the second team against le high tomorrow and save his first string stars for the latter games with perm holy cross and yale however no harvard varsity man will leave cambridge this week and no doubt will see action before the game is over austy and his assis tants are taking no stock in these reports since several of the crim son players who played against dartmouth last week are on the starting line-up for tomorrow and as at lehigh there is very little dis tinction between a first and second team guarnaccia ' the crimson back who together with french starred in the dartmouth game wilj be on the field when the opening whistle blows harvard has a powerful team harvard this season has the strongest team it has had in many years and last week humbled the powerful dartmouth eleven by a score of 19-7 the harvard offense is particularly efficient and in last week's game french and guarnac cia ripped through the green line time after time for substantial gains the crimson forward wall is made up of experienced players and averages in weight about the same as that of the brown and white team the new england team also has an effective aerial attack and to lehigh this is the most dreaded part of the harvard offense during the practices this week austy drilled the men persistently on forward pass defense and the brown and white team seems to have improv ed considerably in checking this particular type of attack on wed nesday the varsity teams had a de fensive scrimmage against the scrubs who put on the harvard plays the scrubs scored three touchdowns and for a time it ap peared as though the brown and white defense was hopelessly weak against the crimson plays twice lamb one of austy's freshman backs of last year whirled around end for gains that resulted in touch downs the third score was made by virtue of a completed forward pass by galvin to lamb the following day the varsity again has a session in defense against the horween attack and much improvement was shown the tate machine knows exactly what to expect when it lines up against harvard tomorrow the brown and white line-up will be the same as that which started against muhlenberg on saturday with the exception of van blarcom bob bennett is replacing van in the backfield two varsity men out for season according to the reports from the lehigh camp two varsity play ers will be lost for the remainder of the season they are purvis and jack levitz purvis who has continued on page four j b fagan's farce and so to bed depicting a fictitious episode in the life of samuel pepys the author of the famous diary was read by members of the faculty dramatic club wednesday evening professor e h riley president read the part of pepys with mrs r m smith reading mrs pepys and mrs p m palmer imperson ating mrs knight the famous singer prof john toohey was humphreys several other mem bers of the club participated in the reading the club will read henrik ibsen's rosmcrholm november 14 intramural statistics compiled for 1927-1928 freshman cabinet elections tuesday freshman will elect cabinet members from the following list of men at noon tuesday in drown hall notices are posted on the bulletin boards town group elect two h boggs a cook m gable h gaetjens a sobel g hottle j lippincott h satter dorm group elect two schuy ler rosenbaum fisher fezell fraternity group elect five p riley s bijou d drake r burke h persons g ma<don ald d widdowfield c jones j mcmillan h forsythe i mum mers h cassman r mattuw h feyling p meyers c ace g hutchinson j botton w civardi a weltman h more head f fisher c hall h houston m van loan i the probable starting line-up for tomorrow's game lehigh harvard f rushong le prior w miller lt potter a waldman lg cunningham t ayre c gildea a lehr rg robinson f haas rt alcock j kirkpatrick re burns r elliott qb crawford a davidowitz hb batchelder j fritts h8 guarnaccia r bennett f8 e putnam statistics concerning the intra mural sports of the past season have recently been compiled by the department of physical education last year there were in all 50 sep arate intramural contests held in volving a total expenditure of 282.00 lehigh students send home on the average 553 suit cases of laundry every week for which the bethlehem post office collects about 102.56 in fees according to postmaster w h thatcher of the south bethlehem post office the post office is well equipped to handle this number provided the yare not all brought in just before closing time the parcel post window closes at 7 o'clock and at that time there are usually a large number of freshmen in line to mail from one to four laundry bags mr thatcher suggested that students of the university send their freshmen down a little earlier to avoid conjesting the post of fice at closing time mr thatcher has done much to speed up the special delivery mail of the students previously it was necessary that a special de livery letter be delivered only to the person to whom it was addressed this meant that in some cases the student would not receive his let ter until a half day late because he had been in class when the mes senger had tried to deliver it it is now possible through the efforts of mr thatcher for a student to have his letter delivered even though he is not present to receive it personally students have ofte nlost packages or letters in the mail and have complained to the post office in tracing the article the post office usually sends the student a blank form to be filled out with the de scription of the article and to be returned to the post office as soon as possible mr thatcher states that because the students are lax in returning these forms the investigation is delayed making it harder for the department to trace the article john w maxwell jr 26 assis tant secretary of the lehigh alum ni association was married to miss irma claire cressman of bethle hem wednesday morning in the valley forge memorial chapel at valley forge by the rev d w herbert burk immediately following the cere mony the wedding party left for philadelphia where they breakfast ed at the hotel pennsylvania mr and mrs maxwell then left for a honeymoon in new england they will be at home after december is at 209 east packer aye miss cressman was given away by her father mr f p cressman her sister miss gertrude cress man was the maid of honor wil liam c brown of philadelphia a life-long friend of the groom was the best man mr maxwell was particularly ac tive while an undergraduate at le high besides working for his de gree of b s in business johnny was editor-in-chief of the brown and white editor-in-chief of the epitome chairman of the senior class book committee and a mem ber of the burr business staff be cause of his journalistic record he was chosen president of pi delta epsilon national journalistic hon orary for his work in athletics he holds letters in track and cross country other activities include student secretaryship of the y m c a before that organization became the present lehigh union he was president and a charter member of the lehigh chapter of omicron delta kappa and was also a mem ber of the oldest senior honorary sword and crescent in a setting of fairyland babes in toyland was presented by the y w c a last evening in liberty high school the play was fea tured by numerous songs and dances the performance will be repeated tonight and a special mat inee will be given on saturday morning miss sarah derhammer as june and david hottell as allen take the principal roles the cast in cludes about 250 people and is di rected by miss june lytee lake the misses miriam roehig mar jorie fink flemming and virginia schindel assisted in coaching the dances lehigh university bethlehem pa friday november 2 1928 vol xxxvi no 1 3 price five cents football team to meet harvard hardest fight of season finds tate squad ready hoover looms over smith on the campus football star to come here for an educa tion students to meet squad at station 11 o'clock sunday straw vote shows republican to be 3 to 1 favorite brown and white slater addresses sigma xi student members elected retired librarian dies of old age 29 men left last night for boston — levitz and purvis laid up meet the team the football team will arrive inßethlehem from the harvard game at 11:10 sunday morning at the lehigh valley station the cheer leaders will be on hand when the team gets in and all students are requested to ap pear at the station for a short welcome « everybody out to meet them win or lose member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first