Brown and White Vol. 36 no. 14

              a i of a hears dr g showerman pi delta epsilon to con sider innovation for lehigh eminent archeologist ad dresses local chapter of institute c m mcconn dean to the presidents and managers of student organizations i am in receipt from president richards of a letter which reads as follows i shall be much obliged if you will notify the various student clubs including the managers of athletic teams the brown and white the mustard and cheese the musical clubs etc that we propose to put a stop to the mutilation of university buildings through the post ing of notices of all sorts on places other than bulletin boards avail able for the purpose i desire particularly to stop the posting of no tices on the outside doors of university buildings and the deface ment of such doors through the painting of class numerals thereon this means of course that no placards or notices of any sort may be posted on the doors or walls of university buildings inside or out i am sending copies of this notice to the members of the faculty and am asking that if any teacher finds a placard or notice posted con trary to this regulation he shall tear it down and send it to me with a memorandum as to where he found it in any such cases the of fending organizatibn and its responsible head will naturally be sub ject to discipline - not that i assume that this is likely to happen except in rare cases i am sure that nearly everybody will be glad to cooperate in keeping the university buildings in the best possible condition sincerely yours burr considering change of policy m.e's will pledge to pi tau sigma at meeting thursday evening whitaker to speak november football num ber will appear within two weeks digging up ancient cities was the subject of dr grant shower man's lecture to the bethlehem chapter of the archeological insti tute of america at the home of dr charles r richards last friday evening the many steps to be taken in promoting an archeological expedi tion were classified by dr shower man as follows securing permis sion to excavate the land from the government which owns it pur chase of the site from the individ ual owner the organization of ex pidition and the securing of funds to finance it actual excavation and the determining of what is to be done with the materials found the scientific publication of the results the value to history and to civ ilization in general of the work of the archeologist was emphasized throughout the lecture slides pic turing the wor kof archeologists at troy nineveh corinth pompeii and herculaneum were also shown dr showerman also spoke of the summer school which he conducts in rome for the american acad emy this school is attended by many american teachers interest ed in ancient history classical lan guages and literature during the regular school year dr showerman is professor of classics at the uni versity of wisconsin he is the author of many books on archeolo gical subjects the most coveted scholastic hon or in engineering undergraduate circles pledging to tau beta pi was awarded to 13 seniors and two juniors yesterday morning at chap el exercises by president c r richards the following were the men so honored p middleton i e w.h salzenberg ch.e p h reeves e.e c w guyatt e e r m brick met w t odgers i e r g benner ch e a m henry e m e a pellizoni m e c f stanton ch e r h visco ch e l c crewe met l e ek holm met w w teneyck ch e l l jones i e the last two named are juniors selected from among the highest thirteen scholas tically of their class six of the men chosen are frater nity men five are unaffiliated with any living group and four are dorms men the chemical engin eers lead the group with five pledges in the list industrials and metallurgists follow with three apiece electricals have two of their number among the chosen and the miners and mechanicals are repre sented by one man each tau beta pi is the national hon orary engineering fraternity and was founded at lehigh in 1885 for the purpose of providing engineer ing colleges with an honorary so ciety equivalent to that of phi beta kappa in the liberal arts colleges elections are held semi-annually being based not only on scholastic averages alone but with at least one extra-curricular activity as an addi tional requirement in the spring the eligible list is composed of the highest eight of the junior class in the engineering colleges the fall election is from among the highest quarter of the senior engineers and in addition one or two outstanding juniors of the succeeding class are selected white to speak on subway work candidates report for debating team juries are slowly passing away from our american courts de clared laurence j ackerman 29 a charter member of the pre-legal society at a meeting of the society friday night in drown hall his talk was preceded by a business meeting during which the selection of a faculty advisor and a trip to the lehigh or the northampton county court were discussed the meeting ended with a discussion of the jury system in his paper entitled what is happening to the jury and some reasons why mr ackerman who is a major in political science showed that the most poignant trend in modern juridical procedure is the abolishment of juries from the courts of america the reasons for this trend are unsatisfactory ver dicts by ignorant prejudiced and bored jurors many of whom are serving because they could not get excused or because of unworthy motives the movement to abolish juries is meeting with favor with railroads and corporations who lose thousands of dollars annually in damage suits because of preju dices of a bourgeoise jury he con cluded by stating that compensa tion commissions which award damages to all who deserve them are better able to decide verdicts than an incompetent jury president p sydney p simons is making an effort to secure a faculty advisor as soon as possible several menibers of the faculty who have already been approached have re fused because they are too busy with other tasks or did not feel themselves competent the society considered a trip which is to be made in the near future either to the lehigh or the northampton county court the trip will be made in the afternoon so that it will not be necessary for the members to cut classes in order to attend the meeting ended with a heated discussion of the jury system in which all took part after various opinions of the jury system were given in a vote ior or against the jury system only two members supported it further business concerning a change of policy was discussed by the burr board at its meeting last wednesday in drown hall the point that was brought up dealt with the localizing of jokes in the future rather than continuing the present system of humorous pro duction however no definite ac tion was taken in connection with the matter the november issue the football number is now nearing comple tion and will appear november 15 the cover is now in the hands of the engraver and all material will soon be turned in to the printer on commenting on the first issue of the burr dean mcconn stated the first edition of the burr is very credible and i trust that through out the year it will maintain the same standards lehigh's chapter of pi delta ep silon may emulate the example of honorary journalistic fraternities of many other colleges and universities in all parts of the country and es tablish this year the tradition of an annual gridiron banquet the fra ternity will discuss preliminary plans for the staging of the first banquet wednesday evening when it meets at 7:45 o'clock in the brown and white room in drown hall gridiron banquets as held in other institutions are fashioned after the celebrated classic which forms a significant part of the social life of washington's newspaperdom bids are extended only to students and faculty menibers and friends of the university deemed deserving be cause of their activities and prom inence during the academic year in many places an invitation to the gridiron banquet is one of the most distinguished honors which a man can win in any year there are never any reporters present at a gridiron banquet al though the hosts are always jour nalists guests are placed on a fig urative gridiron and roasted for their misdeeds alleged and actual i nthi srespect a gridiron banquet at lehigh would be similar to the calculus cremation of former days members of the local faculty who have been guests at gridiron ban quets in other institutions testify to both the importance which the event enjoys on the social calendar and to the good fun which is perpe trated the hoaxes are not so uni que nor so successful as those for which the original banquet is fam ous but the occasion is always one on which all present meet on a level and air themselves freely election of new members to pi delta epsilon will be made at to morrow evening's meeting the membership is now 12 and consists of men who have won distinction for service on the editorial or bus iness side of one or more campus publications buchanan shows sleight-of-hand frosh organize newtonian club miss young almost hurt pledging to pi tau sigma na tional mechanical engineering hon orary will take place at the meet ing of the mechanical engineering society at 7:30 p m thursday in williams hall o b whitaker of the sperry gyroscope company of brooklyn will be the principal speaker and will illustrate his lecture with work ing gyroscopic models the lecture is expected to be of interest to many non-mechanical students all of whom are invited refreshments will be served after the meeting the sperry company is the man ufacturer of the now famous earth inductor compass which has helped make safer transoceanic and long distance ariplane flights the gyro scopic compass also manufactured by the sperry company is widely used on vessels to maintain a straight course and to prevent roll ing of ships in heavy seas prac tically all of the larger vessels are now equipped with this device phila alumni to hold smoker miss etta young stenographer in the civil department while on her way to work saturday narrow ly escaped serious injury when a piece of stone accidentally pushed from the scaffolding of the pack ard lab fell in the path directly behind her andrew e buchanan alumni secretary gave an exhibition of sleight-of-hand before the men's bible class of the first presbyter ian church of allentown last fri day evening his previous exhibi tion before the allentown four square club a few weeks previous was so well liked that he was called on for th,is second performance lazarus white president of the consulting firm of spencer white and prentis of new york and an authority on the subway construc tion will speak on the under-pin ning of buildings in subway con struction at the first meeting of the civil engineering society at 7:30 p m thursday nov 8 in the physics building mr white will be the second man to speak here in the last year on subway construction in new york city robert ridgway chief engineer of the board of transpor tation of that city spoke last fall at a meeting of the local chapter of the a s c e the interest aroused last year by mr ridgway should be supplemented by mr white lehigh men go home for today's election the faculty at its monthly meet ing yesterday approved three new metallurgy courses a new course in physical chemistry and the consol idation of mining 4 with mining 3 changes in the metallurgical me chanical and mining curricula were also ratified a faculty educational meeting was announced for 4 p m wednesday nov 12 and on behalf of the le high union dr v s babasinian stated that the union invited mem bers of the faculty to join on the same basis as the students for a fee of one dollar the three metallurgy courses ap proved are met 52 advanced metal lurgy of iron and steel and met 72 and 73 advanced physical metallur gy met 52 is a continuation of metallurgy 2 for seniors who have attained high standing and for grad uate students it will be taught first and second semesters 2 hours the prerequisite is metallurgy 2 met 72 is a broad course including advanced study in the fundamental fields with a review of the current literature as the study in each field is concluded it is a first semester course 2 hours prerequisites are metallurgy 30 and 31 met 73 is a continuation of met 72 changes in the senior year of met allurgical engineering will become effective with the class of 31 chem istry 98 physical chemistry 2 hours will replace bus 53 2 hours in the first semester and bus 56 business law 3 hours has been in serted in place of bus 8 advanced economics 3 hours in the mining curricula the order of bus 56 first semester and bus 25 second semester has been re versed and bus 40 industrial man agement will replace bus 30 mon ey and banking in the second sem ester of the senior year the mechanical engineering course will omit bus 11 account ing the first semester of the sen ior year and will insert either bus 25 corporation finance or bus 39 industrial management or bus 45 statistics bus 26 will be omitted the second semester of the senior year and either bus 18 accounting for engineers or bus 40 industrial management or bus 56 business law will be inserted harry p hammond assistant di rector of the wickenden investiga tion will be the speaker at the fac ulty educational meeting held un der the auspices of the society for the promotion of engineering edu cation at 4:05 p m monday nov 12 in the physics lecture room the topic of mr hammond's speech which will be illustrated is a survey of present tendencies in engineering education professor f v larkin will have charge of the program and professor m c stu art will lead the discussion which will follow the annual lehigh - lafayette smoker of the lehigh club of phil adelphia will be held at 6 o'clock thursday evening november 22 at bookbinder's on walnut street philadelphia the committee in charge consists of e w estes 20 chairman j j shepherd 21 and j mcßride 24 twelve men beside the members of delta omicron theta responded to the call for candidates for the debating team at a meeting of the society last evening some excel lent material is reported to be among the present aspirants for the team but still more men are need ed the meeting of the society next monday evening will be devoted to the gathering together of materials for the first of a proposed series of intercollegiate debates during the course of regular bus iness f j whitney was elected secretary-treasurer and it was de cided that hereafter meetings of the society will be held bi-monthly on the first and third mondays of the month the remainder of the meet ing was devoted to a discussion of the relative merits of the political candidates in todays elections and to a report by john r davey upon the proposed intercollegiate debat ing program lehigh students hear davey speak senior civils visit steel co demise of prof esty lamented by l v e c american math society to meet in packard lab a resolution attesting to our ap preciation of his knowledge and technical ability his christian and manly character and the club's sor row at his loss was adopted at the first meeting of the board of man agers of the engineer's club of the lehigh valley following the death of professor william esty of le high university senior civils visited the bethle hem steel mills friday afternoon in connection with their course in structural steel design the open hearth rolling mill and fabricating plants were viewed this is the first series of trips which the civils will take this term the next trip through the mills will be under the direction of professor bradley stoughton head of the metallurgi cal department the plant of the bethlehem fabricators will also be visited mcßride will address astronomical society weist is lehigh delegate at eta kappa nu meeting dr wheeler p davey profes sor of physical chemistry and in dustrial research at pennsylvania state college gave an address on what the chemist and the metal lurgist can learn from crystal structure studies thursday eve ning nov 1 the meeting was held in the gayley chemical lab arotory lafayette college many of the professors and stu dents from the lehigh chemical and metallurgical departments joined with those of lafayette in this meeting dr davey pointed out that the present knowledge of crystallo graphy is divided into two groups 1 what is known and 2 what is thought about what is known he also explained in a very technical way how by the use of the x-ray and the metal in powdered form the crystal structure and properties of the metal can be ascertained after the address opportunity of asking questions was afforded the american mathematical so ciety which met oct 27 1928 at columbia universit yhas accepted the invitation of president richards and the mathematics department to hoi dtheir mid-winter meeting at lehigh during the christmas holi days of 1929 the meeting will be the first of its kind to be held in the new packard laboratory it will also be the first time this so ciety has met at lehigh the addition to the library will be complete at the time and will aid in creating in the society a favor able impression of lehigh lehigh was represented at the recent meeting by professors t fort l l smail f m weida and dr w j trjitzinsky of our mathe matics department the purpose of the american mathematical society is to furth er mathematical research c r mcßride will address the ernest w brown astronomical so ciety at 4:15 p m wednesday nov 7 in room 28 packer hall he will speak on the zeeman effect in the spectrum and about his experiences at the leading observatories of the country michael s ebert ch.e 29 is president of the society all stu dents interested in astronomy are invited twenty freshmen who were sel ected by the department of mathe matics attended the first meeting of the newtonian society thursday evening nov 1 in packer hall prof f m weida addressed the society and outlined its purpose a short business session was held during which officers were elected prof weida who was selected as the club faculty advisor stated that the aim of this freshman mathemat ics club was to create interest in mathematics and to encourage stu dents to become more familiar with the faculty the society was or ganized last fall by present sopho mores members are selected for their interest and promise in the field of mathematics during the course of the year various topics will be discussed and each member is expected to take part in the dis cussions at tjpe next meeting thursday nov 15 edward rosenbaum will speak on the life of newton dav id macadam will outline the his tory of logarithms : and irving schultze will discuss briefly the his tory of trigonometry the officers elected were ed ward douglas president courtney seabrook vice-president and treas urer robert schneider secretary wilton altman publicity agent and prof f m weida faculty ad visor the society will hold bi monthly meetings cummings to address miners and geologists h d wiest president of the le high chapter of eta kappa nu elec trical honorary fraternity attended the national convention of the so ciety nov 2 and nov 3 at minnea polis the convention was held un der the direction of the omicron chapter at the university of min nesota delegates return from convention before a crowd of approximately 35,000 the lehigh team dis played a brilliant game of defen sive football for the first half of the game against harvard at cambridge saturday after a decisive stand in the first two quarters with the mid-time score at 6-0 lehigh's line crumbled before the steam-roller onslaught of the crimson team which submerged the visitors under a 39-0 score the brown and white team which entered the game with the betting odds against them and har vard's desire to win without the use of their first team began to exhibit a defensive game that threatened to hold the cambridge boys to a scoreless tie after an exchange of punts the harvard second string backs carried the ball to lehigh's 4-yard line the steel team did not yield an inch to the powerful at tack of those crimson clad men and after four unsuccessful at tempts it was lehigh's ball cow boy elliott kicked out of danger and with the ball in mid-field har vard started another march which was stopped by the brown and white warriors on their own 20 yard line a short kick by elliott kept harvard in lehigh territory horween was not taking chances and rushed in his eight first team men who were slated for a rest saturday the appearance of cap tain french and guaranaccia gave new life to the harvard team with them carried the ball to le high's 14-yard line guaranaccia scored on the next play by an off tackle cut back just as the whistle for half-time blew score mounts horween again started his sec ond team but this time with better returns after an exchange of kicks gilligan made a first down on lehigh's 6-yard line and on the next two rushes batchelder crashed over for the second score of the game again putman ran back the kick-off to the center of the field and a pass from gilligen to hugu ley gave harvard the ball on le high's 20-yard line after six rushes batchelder carried the ball over for his second score of the day gilligan scored the next two touchdowns after run-backs by put man and forward passes to burns harvard's last score was made by greely after a beautiful 23-yard ru in which he dodged half the le high team for harvard the play ing of putman gilligan and batchelder was most oustanding sensational sporadically the bulwarks of lehigh's defense were tubby miller algernon waldman and tommy ayre art davidowitz displayed wonderful ability in broken field running and if more men had been taken out on kicks davidowitz's runbacks would have been the feature of the game his individual offensive ef forts elicited much favorable com ment in the stands band shows well the lehigh band was one of the outstanding exhibitions of the aft ernoon they created a very pro pitious impression when they issued forth in their new uniforms and dis played that ability in marching only credited to those colleges with mil itary training the band retained the favorable opinion throughout the long dark wet afternoon and never were too tired to add snappy music to incourage the team that was fighting as never before this year the line-up harvard lehigh burns le many alcock lt miller parkinson lg waldman gildea c ayres cunningham rg lehr robinson rt haas prior re kirkpatrick e putnam qb elliott gilligan lh bennett batchelder rh davidowitz huguley fb fritts score by periods harvard 0 6 21 12—39 lehigh 0 0 0 o—o touchdowns — guaranaccia bat chelder 2 gilligan 2 greely points after touchdowns — putnam drop kick gilligan 2 drop kicks substitutions — harvard w tick nor for cunningham cunningham for w ticknor movius fcjr cun ningham b ticknor for gildea gildea for b ticknor richards for gildea trainor for parkinson par kinson for trainor shaw for par kinson barrette for alcock al cock for barrett clark for robin son robinson for clark crawford for e putnam e putnam for crawford s putnam for e put nam french for batchelder batch elder for french potter for batch continued on page four coming events pi delta epsilon will meet at 7:45 p m wednesday in the brown and white room in drown hall ernest w brown astronomical society will meet at 4:15 p m wednesday in room 38 packer hall lecture committee will meet at 4:15 p m thursday in the committee room c e society will meet at 7:30 p m thursday in the physics building m e society will meet at 7:30 p m thursday in williams hall mining and geological society will meet at 7:45 p m thursday in the geology lecture room in williams hall c e webbe and e a pelizzone returned sunday evening from chi cago where they attended the na tional convention of pi tau sigma the convention which was held at armour institute consisted of three sessions friday morning friday afternoon and saturday morning two members of each chapter at tended the convention at present there are nine chapters located at the following schools university of illinois university of wisconsin purdue university university of minnesota armour institute uni versity of missouri perm state university of cincinatti and le high university morgue department wants old brown and whites in order to complete the files of the brown and white and to establish firmly the department of the paper known as the mor gue numerous back copies of the brown and white are needed any person who has any back copies of the brown and white no matter how old or how re cent which they wish to donate may put them in the large box outside the staff room in the basement of christmas - saucon hall dicates that herbert hoover re publican nominee is the choice of most college men these results are consistent with the tabluations of several national magazines which attempted to estimate the entire popular vote of the country the literary digest's vote has been va riously interpreted but generally conceded to mean a preference for the republican ticket the poll conducted by the nation resulted in an overwhelming victory for governor smith with norman tho mas socialist candidate also ahead of secretary hoover readers of the nation however probably do not represent as true a cross sec tion of the american voting public as those reached by the digest's canvass pennsylvania voter sare display ing interest in not only the national election but also in state politics it is probable that most men will vote straight party tickets upon the recommendation of president c r richards lehigh men are expected to support the proposed amendment which stipulates a money grant to the pennsylvania state college the amendment calling for aid for forest preservation and also that giving money to penal and insane institutions are commanding atten tion radio sets in local dormitories and fraternity houses will be busy this evening as the returns come in the straw vote sponsored last week by the alexander hamilton club in dicates that lehigh students wheth er of legal age or not have a keen interest in the outcome of the elec tion which is conceded as being one of the most significant in years the brown and white has received word of no unusual bets having been made locally but queer appear ances and antics on the campus next wek may be attributable to the elec tion the around the campus col umn will give honorable mention to all students who dispatch their election obligations creditably estimate of the number of homes in this and adjoining states which are being gladdened today by vis its from lehigh university upper classmen of legal age varies from 50 to 200 if all men eligible to ex ercise the franchise in the presiden tial election take advantage of the opportunity the university will be represented at the polls by about ten percent of its student body be fore they close at 7 o'clock this evening by faculty action all ab sences incurred by men absenting themselves to vote are excusable the exodus from the campus be gan monday when several students who have reached their majority and faculty members whose homes are in the vicinity departed to be on hand to cast their ballots t with the early comers in their respective dis tricts the number of students who re turned to their homes today how ever is not equivalent to the total votes being cast by local men many voters made arrangements with their home boards before re turning to bethlehem in september and have voted by mail during the past week others who labored un der the erroneous impression that they would be able to vote in beth lehem have been able to rectify their errors since the announcement over a month ago that residence in a fraternity house or dormitory is not legal still others unfortunately will lose their votes either through negligence or inability to make ne cessary arrangements several straw votes and a na tionwide poll by college humor in the problem of the student vote has been a potent one on many campuses this fall at princeton students rioted when refused the privelege of voting in that city and were supported unsuccessfully in their demands by the faculty poli tical writers have stressed the fact that a large percentage of the elig ible voters is being practically dis franchised by the existing law v l cummings head geologist of the bethlehem steel co will be the speaker at the meeting of the mining and geological society at 7:45 o'clock thursday evening no vember 8 in the geology lecture room in williams hall his topic will be raw materials of the steel industry mr cummings has recently vis ited chile venezuela and new foundland and should prove to be a most interesting speaker at the december meeting of the society f h pierce who has been connected with the soviet govern ment for several years will deliver an illustrated lecture on the coal industry in russia brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday november 6 1928 tau beta pi pledges 15 vol xxxvi no 1 4 pre-legals hear jury system is being abolished faculty approves changes in three senior curricula crimson tide swamps lehigh at cambridge by 39-0 score price five cents corporations favor com pensation committee ac cording to ackerman gridiron banquet may be planned mechanicals metallurgists and miners affected by action thirteen seniors and two juniors are selected by honorary harvard held to lone tally in gallant first half stand mutilation of buildings to cease member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first