Brown and White Vol. 36 no. 19

              lafayette stadium lafayettesmoker parade tonight tate pits smooth offense against maroon tomorrow scranton alumni discuss general campus problems a e buchanan and g.e doan talk to lehigh men tuesday lehigh line-up f rushong l.e w miller l.t a waldman l.g t ayre c a lehr r.g j kirkpatrick r.t s hall r.e r elliott l.h a davidowitz q j fritts r.h r vanßlarcom f.b lafayette line-up h houser l.e b miller ..-. l.t c sarni . . . l.g j kressler c j thompson r.g n soloff » r.t e sheriff r.e p shellenberg q m.wilson r.h a pursell l.h r guest f.b arts college will revise curricula fall art exhibit in faculty room memorial build'g three thousand feet of motion pictures depicting the life and acti vities of students at lehigh was taken last week pictures of the rutgers-lehigh game were also taken the picture was made under the auspices of an alumnus whose name is withheld it will be shown before the new york alumni association in that city at its meeting in the first part of january they will be shown here later the picture will chronicle the life of the students at lehigh and will include shots of the faculty all buildings freshman - sophomore rushes life in fraternities and dor mitories all kinds of athletic con tests customs of the students dances and all other activities which interest the students the picture has been in the making since last june when pictures were taken of graduation and spring sports after the picture has been shown in new york and bethlehem it will be sent to other alumni associations in all sections of the country to be shown before them and prospective freshmen later it will accompany men sent by the university to var ious preparatory schools and high schools to interest the men in com ing to lehigh the film will probably be trans ferred to 16 m.m width him so that any student or alumni may buy it for use on his own projector at home it will cost approximately 60 the continuity of the picture will be made by using subtitles to link the shots together in their proper sequence the alumnus hav ing these pictures taken spared no expense in getting a picture true to college life the following men were pledged to pi delta epsilon honorary jour nalistic fraternity during chapel ex ercises yesterday morning samuel garwood 2 years brown and white class editor of 1929 epi tome opinion editor of senior class book donald l wright editor-in-chief of 1930 epitome news editor 2 years associate edi tor of brown and white edward m blanchard circulation manager 3 years business staff brown and white and an drew horgan jr advertising man ager 3 years business staff of brown and white dean mcconn opened the pledg ing ceremony by telling the purpose and duties if pi delta epsilon he said the lehigh chapter is one of the most active of the fraternity the pledges were then announced by john a lyter president their initiation will be held about dec 10 » famous contemporary ar tists present 26 paintings after thanksgiving alumni directors to meet tonight seniors return after inspection pre-game enthusiasm will mount to the climax tonight when the en tire student body strengthened by returning alumni will strain their voices from the time they gather around the huge bonfire on the up per field until they have finished with the grand smoker pep meet ing and p-rade around the town freshmen have been carting wood to the upper field all day today for the huge bonfire which will col or the sky at 7 o'clock and freshmen will me the east wall of the crowded gym outfitted in their vari-colored pajamas after the smoker these same frosh will lead the parade around town the mayor of bethlehem has granted permission for the parade but a squad of motorcycle police will accompany the men the route is the traditional one — down new street across the toll bridge over to broad along broad to main and across tke hill-to-hill bridge and into town again the smoker itself will hark back to the traditional but it will be crowded with activity while frosh as well as upper classmen fill the gym with clouds of blue smoke okey okeson pat pazzetti and h d wilson 01 will vry out their calls for the old lehigh sipirit and they will be answered with the spir it as every lafayette smoker speak er since 1884 has been answered bosey reiter's name is not on the program but there will be small wonder if cries of bosey and woof woof pierce the smoke as though it would matter any how no school tomorrow dispels all worries for tonight and what may happen later tonight doth year passed by observatory the board of directors of the lehigh alumni association will hold their annual meeting at 8 p m friday in the memorial building during the session a large amount of old business held over during the past year will be brought up and discussed the lehigh-lafayette game will be discussed the al umni are always interested to know what progress the football team has made and ihey will be particularly so this year with austy tate as the new mentor according to a e buchanan jr executive secre tary of the alumni association the association also aided in procuring bill springsteen captain of the 1924 football team to speak to the student body at the smoker to be held at 7:30 p m friday in the gymnasium the december alumni bulletin will go to press shortly after the lafayette game and will be ready for circulation the first week in de cember in order that the student angle may be injected into the attempt to shake up the curricula of the arts college professor p m palmer head of the arts college and other university leaders working on the problem have selected a group of arts seniors who will report their ideas the committee of seniors which is representative of the various arts interests on the campus consists of m s barowsky chairman an drew lehr h w holt a j blythe and a j wiesner jr when lehigh adopted the major syste mseveral years ago it was re alized that a readjustment of the curricula would soon be neseccary now changes must be inaugurated the faculty has been working on the problem for some time and has encountered several obstacles the faculty expects the students to make suggestions which will contribute substantially in settling certain points the student com mittee intends to make a thorough investigation of feasible arts cur ricula and bearing in mind the re sources of the university will offer its solution of the problem the committee at present is out lining its work visits to other uni versities will be made and the points of view of students there as well as of lehigh men will be gathered professor miller speaks alpha kappa psi meets the honorary business society alpha kappa psi will hold a din ner meeting on monday evening at the delta upsilon house the names of twelve juniors with a high scholastic rating are to be present ed before the society at a future meeting soon after the thanksgiv ing holidays eight or nine of these men will be pledged tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the leopard stadium the clarion will sound its call for the annual battle of the le high valley tomorrow lehigh and lafayette clash in their sixty-second contest for gridiron supremacy the first game be tween the colleges was in 1884 and since that time only one year has passed without a meeting two and even three games each fall were included on the schedule at one time the out standing classic of the gridiron among the smaller colleges this annual feay between these two rivals ranks almost on a par with the more renowned series between the largest universities silence that ell has been the prevailing slogan on the lehigh campus this week it refers to the college bell on the lafayette cam pus which has tolled out the ma roon victories on the last four vis ts of the brown and white team to easton on each of these occa soins the lehigh rooters have been obliged to wend their way down college hill with the satirical peal of the bell tolling out its sad story with much the same effect as a fun eral diree lehigh determined the leopards are fresh from their victory over perm state on saturday and-are straining at the leash for tomorrow's game in spite of the rather mediocre season the brown and white team is one of the strongest that lehigh has sent to easton in many years and the tate machine will enter the game with the grim determination to end lafayette's long string of victories it has been nine long years since the brown and white has registered a victory over the maroon in fact the past four years have been par ticularly lean ones for lehigh since the brown and white elevens fail ed to score a single point in all this time the last lehigh tally against lafayette was a well-directed field goal by honey lewin in 1923 it has been seven years since the brown and white has crossed the maroon goal line but this has made the team of 1928 a1l the more determined to go down in gridiron history as the team which put the stop to this reign of lafayette su premacy season of upsets this has been a season character ized by more upsets than have ever been recorded since football came into its own in ' this particular series comparative scores have long ago been discarded in forecasting the outcome of a lehigh-lafayette game by dopesters and in spite of the fact that the brown and white eleven is the underdog in tomor row's fray the outcome is far from certain the lehigh team which faces the leopards tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the easton stadium is one of the strongest that the brown and white has sent against lafay ette in recent years with the rag ged points of the offense against rutgers last saturday ironed out lehigh will enter a potential chal lenge against lafayette's suorema cy tomorrow and if nothing more will give the maroon a good stiff fight smooth offense although the weather was not favorable on monday rain and a s ggy gridiron did not interfere with the plans of austy tate in launching the final drive for the closing classic agafnst the maroon tomorrow • the workouts this week were rather light and scrim mage was entirely eliminated for the first time during the entire sea son the major portion of the week was spent in smoothing the ragged edges of the new offense which was used for the first time agains rut gers wednesday a"nd thursday were spent in snappy signal drills and in perfecting a defense against the leopard plays the scrubs walked through the various offensive tac tics of the maroon for the varsity today practice was particularly light and the varsity closed the fi nal drill of the season earlier than usual bennett and elliot to play the tate machine is in excellent condition for tomorrow's tilt all the varsity players will be available bennett and elliott having recover ed from their injuries so that it seems more than likely that they will both see action in the game the morale among the players is continued on page three more than 100 town folks and students attended an open house of sayre observatory thursday evening its sixtieth anniversary the contours of the moon were viewed and prof john h ogburn explained its physical conditions the present observatory site was included in a gift of land by charles brodhead of bethlehem the build ing and equipment were given by robert h sayre a trustee of the pniversity instruments were placed in their positions at its com pletion in the middle of november 1868 and several days later the observatory was formally opened when a group of trustees the facul ty numbering six professors two demonstrators and six instructors and some friends of the university were invited to inspect the build ing at the time of construction the observatory was one of the best equipped in the eastern part of the united states the senior mechanical engineers returned wednesday evening from an inspection trip to new york city and vicinity they left bethlehem monday morning and went direct ly to the plant of babcock and wil cox co at bayonne n j the world's largest manufacturers of boilers after the inspection lun cheon was served at the plant in the afternoon the singer manufac turing co at elizabethport the maker of the singer sewing machine was visited tuesday the durant motor car co at north elizabeth and the bayway refinery of the standard oil co of new jersey were inspect ed and new processes in manufac turing were explained by special guides furnished by the corpora tions the engineers visited the mer chants refrigerating co and the kips bay station of the new york steam corp in new york city wednesday the steam plant was of special interest as it is one of the largest in new york and supplies steam to buildings and industries for miles around professor e s ault was in charge of the trip headquarters were at the hotel pennsylvania bethlehem hears famed violinist a e buchanan 18 secretary of the alumni association and gilbert e doan 19 professor of rneta-lrar gical engineering represented the campus at the annual pre-lafayette meeting of the lehigh alumni club tuesday in scranton new additions to the engineering curri culum recent building improve ments and the present football sit uation at lehigh were the princi pal topics discussed mr buchanan secretary of the alumni association took his au dience on an imaginary tour of the campus stopping in each of the uni versity buildings to discuss new de velopments the prospects of beat ing lafayette awakened the most interest but no false hopes were raised the club was eager to know why there was not something to be done to improve our chances of winning in the future mr buch anan pointed out that sending good students to lehigh who were also good football players was the best means a lively discussion followed in which attempts were made by alum ni to understand the underlying causes of the loss of the essential close-knit lehigh spirit particularly in the last five or six years could the trouble be in the student body itself was it due to the football situation primarily what could be done to restore the loyalty of the student body to lehigh's institu tions upon suggestion of cadwal lader evans 01 a number of the members decided to come to the university earlier on the day of the games and to attempt to discover the cause of the change of spirit among the student body professor doan discussed the in crease in material assets of the or ganization due to alumni contribu tion and support the changes in the engineering curricula to supply the liberal education which should pre cede specialization in engineering or in any other professional field and , finally the increase in faculty members and their activity in re search with its stimulating effect upon the student as well as the in crease in the world's store of knowledge by the university's con tribution professor b l miller will give an illustrated talk on his observations while in the orient at seven-thirty monday evening at the south side presbyterian church prof miller travelled through japan china and india on a tour of the world during his leave of absence from the uni versity in 1927 library construction speeds up steel structure begun the annual fall exhibition of paintings by contemporary artists will open thanksgiving and con tinue until december 12 as the faculty room in aluminum mem orial hall in which the exhibits will be held is now used as a read ing room by the library the public is invited to attend the exhibition sundays and during the thanks giving recess the room will then be open from 4 to 6 p m and from 7to9p m daily students and faculty however may visit the ex hibit during regular library hours on any day while the university is i nsession the exhibit will include 26 pictures this year's exhibit promises to rival in interest the one of french impressionism held last spring among the outstanding paintings is tiptoeing youth by arthur b davis painted a few years ago at west point it represents a group of nude figures treated in the misty dream-enshadowed manner which gives to davies paintings a half mystical effect john sloan is rep resented by a typical work called the great white way which as the title indicates wassuggested by the night rights of new york re cently an anonymous european col lector purchased 20 of sloan's paintings at a price which is seldom paid for contemporary work a black eyed elfish child by rob ert henri is another painting one of childe hassaun's famous flag decarated street scenes will be shown chauncey m ryden is char acteristically represented by a painting of a rain soaked bit of country side a gay springtime im pression of central park by pow ell an unusual painting of street life by lucions and an interesting painting by jonas lie are includ ed coming events mail tuberculosis seals lafayette smoker and parade first lehigh review comes off press tomorrow brown and maroon ball meeting of board of directors of alumni association 8 p m friday — memorial building lehigh-lafayette soccer 10:30 a m saturday at easton 62nd annual lehigh-lafayette football game 2:00 p itl saturday at easton mischa elman in his concert here wednesday evening more than jus tified the attempt of the bethlehem community concert association to bring famous artists here from the*>opening number mr elman ac companied by marcel mcgoll held his audience with his beauty of ex pression and the clear resonant tone of his violin he excelled particul arly in the use of harmonic mr mcgoll was very good as accom panist giving distinct execution and never protruding himself the tuberculosis society will start its drive for the sale of seals november 30 the day after thanks giving students upon their re turn from vacation will be greeted by a letter from the local society containing seals to the value of one dollar the sale of seals has in creased yearly and the society in tends to make tljis year continue to show an increase replies should be made promptly president richards yesterday re vealed that the l'niversity will at tempt the construction of a new unit of dormitories a large auditor ium a hospital a metallurgy build ing and a big addition to the athlete plant as part of its building pro gram for the next decade this brings the prophetic vision of a greater lehigh which has been the aim and object of the un ceasing and tireless efforts of uni versity leaders for many years a step nearer reality president richards considers the greatest need of the university now that the electrical laboratory and a site has been chosen and plans are already well under way for the erection c the dormitories which the library are hearing completion according to these plans four sep arate structures will be built on the slope behind price hall extending almost to the lookout under present conditions of the 1500 students now enrolled in school 600 are accommodated in fraternity houses 171 in dormitories almost 200 in their own homes in the nearby vicinity and the remain ing 600 in private rooming houses about bethlehem although at present finances ne cessary for this project are not in sight it is hoped that the actual building will not be delayed too long as was the case with the packard lab plans are being drawn in the hope that someone in terested in the welfare and growth of lehigh will be willing to fin ance the project the alumni fund established two years ago will not be able to pay for any of this since it is being usedto cover part of the expenses for the library more over by an agreement made at that time with the alumni no drive for endowments will be launched will build on hill if these plans are followed the four buildings will be erected suc cessively one above the other on the hill overlooking the campus and valley each building is to be di vided into sections of 40 men as was done at taylor hall living quar ters will be arranged in suites of three rooms one study and two sleeping rooms and if possible each suite will be equipped with a pri vate lavatory it is planned to fit each smaller section with a living room modeled after those of the most elaborate fraternity houses and perhaps with a dining room as yet president richards has not solved the problem of provid ing meals to . dormitories some years ago this was tried in the building now used as the armory but which was then known as the commons and was used for a din ing hall however because too few students patronized the hall it ev entually had to be closed yet if 600 more men are taken into the campus this problem would have to be settled equip technical plant the past program in regard to building has been to first equip the technical plant efficiently it is only because the buildings now under construction and the repairs to the present buildings have some what accomplished this that this program has been changed to em brace the construction of proper liv ing quarters for students as soon as this is disposed of however a further attempt will be made to place other needed buildings on the campus an adequate auditorium with a seating capacity of several thousand is much to be desired the chapel is inadequate for many cer emonies which occur thoughout the year such as commencement or founder's day , much talk has been current con cerning an addition to the medical • facilities of the university through the erection of a hospital although president richards is in accord with this project the fact that the main tenance of such a plant will entail a large yearly expense makes him hesitant about predicting how soon this building can be built at least 250,000 will be needed for the con struction of a suitable hospital and an additional 25,000 will be needed each year to defray running ex penses president richards is also at tempting to start favorable action towards the building of a metallur gy building although this depart ment will undoubtedly be benefitted by moving to williams hall it would be much more advisable to provide a separate building for it because of the proximity of the continued on page four construction work on the new ad dition to the lehigh library is now thoroughly under way and is speeding toward completion ground was broken for opera tions september 7 john horeus superintendent of construction ex plained today that the work is more than one-tenth finished and com pletion of the building is expected to be arrived at by february 1930 15 months after the start there have been from 50 to 100 men on the job every day the foundation was completed monday and the steel girders are now being set up the new addi tion and the renovated old portion of the library will be modern in every detail and will compare fav orably with larger college libraries it will be in gothic architecture similar to tjie alumni memorial and james ward packard buildings there will be three stories and basement providing stack rooms reading rooms cataloguing and file rooms art and seminar rooms the space for books will be increased from 180,000 vol to 600,000 vol brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday november 23 1928 vol xxxvi no 1 9 price five cents president outlines elaborate program for new buildings sixty-second grid classic raises lehighi lafayette enthusiasm to high pitch weather report fair weather for the lafayette game was the prediction of dr benjamin l miller this morn ing dr miller based his con clusions on a steadily rising bar ometer which will undoubtedly insure blue skies tomorrow a slight fall in temperature is also predicted this change will however be appreciated by both spectators and players alike construction of dormitories to be first step five other buildings including hospital auditorium field house met lab and vivarium being considered movie of campus taken last week will be shown before new york alumni association pi delta epsilon pledges four men member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first