Brown and White Vol. 36 no. 22

              kirkpatrick i s second perm choice brennan loses in new york first in lehigh history to receive rhodes award prof cowin conducted formal pledging in chapel fine arts classes select cape nesbich " by chaeterton lehigh review junior and sophomores in terested in competition for the editorial board of the lehigh re view should immediately get in touch with a j wiesner jr 318 w packer avenue phone 1275-j at least four men will be appointed to the board soon after the christmas holidays rhodes scholar for the first time a lehigh man has brought distinction both to him self and his college by winning a cecil rhodes scholarship to ox ford university sixteen initiated into tau beta pi quintet will open season tomorrow on home court pi delta epsilon holds initiation stroudsburg state teach ers college to offer in itial opposition c r richards b l mil ler and h g harvey speak at banquet consider purchase of printing press and lim itation of activities alpha kappa psi honorary bus iness fraternity has added to its roll ten seuiors and juniors who have achieved distinction in the business college professor r b cowin who is an honorary mem ber and assistant head of the bus iness college conducted the formal pledging in chapel in his speech professor cowin gave a brief re sume and history of the organiza tion the men pledged were r b hatzler w s usher r s bennett g c l barnes j j somerville f s barker r h lewis r v jones g h keak ins e a staub arcadia settles traction damages r max goepp at the initiation banquet of pi delta epsilon held last evening at the hotel bethlehem four men were initiated and the society discussed a proposed limitation of publication activities for any student and the suggested establishment of a sink ing fund for the purchase of a uni versity printing press the plan proposed by the board of publications to limit the num ber of positions on publications that can be held by one man and the idea of combining the sinking funds of all publications to purchase a university printing press the fra ternity was favorably rceeived but definite action was deferred to a later date tom brennan was appointed chairman of the committee for the coming gridiron banquet and bill adams was appointed chairman of a committee for the pi cmta epsil on house party attraction prof w c macdougall faculty advisor and member of the fraternity at tended the banquet tomorrow witnesses the opening of what should be one of the most successful schedules of the year when the basketball team takes the court against the state teachers college of stroudsburg this is the first of five games to be played before the christmas holidays of which three are included in the trip to northern new york state at the beginning of the vacation ■• continued on page three the squad has been practicing hard and faithfully since the mid dle of november and is in fine con dition for its opener since thanks giving it has been considerably re inforced through the addition of several football men bennett har ris and many who last year was second to schaef of perm as high scorer among the colleges of the east there are five lettermen in school so that it does not seem to be asking too much to expect a highly successful season which in cludes games with army navy and c c n v as high lights in ad dition to the usual series with la fayette and rutgers this is the first , gajne for the normal school boys as well as the lehigh team so that little can be capt hyde's work honored by frosh the result of the vote by mem bers of classes in fine arts on the paintings in the current exhibit of works by contemporary american artists faculty room alumni mem orial building was overwhelmingly in favor of cape nesbich by c k chaeterton it is a new england village scene with a typical group of white and yellow buildings with their defense of huge spreading elms the whole is saturated with golden sunlight which streams through the trees into the grass and road and upon the group of children playing there mr chat terton is one of the younger mem bers of the group and is making considerable impression with his striking canvasses the exhibition is open until wed nesday december 12 when the paintings will be returned to the associated dealers in american paintings from ferargill kraush aar and macbeth galleries in new york indian summer by emil gel haar of bethlehem which has caused so much favorable comment by visitors took second prize art critics have suggested that this painting of a group of trees in rich autumn colors standing out in ef fective manner from the distant range of blue hills may be likened to a symphonic poem striking va rious beautiful and harmonious chords but all related to a deep central theme the next exhibit will be of work by prof g a howland's students in freehand drawing shortly after the christmas holidays noted englishman to address mets two large additions are donated from private collections the lehigh library has been en riched by 877 books since nov 1 of these books 561 are from the li brary of the late major a b de saulles donated by his son and daughter charles a h desaulles and mrs a desaulles mcclintock biographies and memoirs constitute the major part of the collection which will be added to the history and english literature departments of the library miss katherine convers presented the second collection of 112 vol umes which were selected from her own library of the remaining 198 new books acquired during novem ber 67 are devoted to the study of literature several books explain ing modern theories of religion are expected by the librarian to ap peal to students concerned with re ligious life the proposed design of the in ternal combustion engine labora tory for the james ward packard laboratory by b h jennings in structor in mechanical engineering describes the proposed general de sign of the engine laboratory and the kind of equipment to be used an accompanying volume pro posed design of the steam equip ment of the packard building by j a king formerly instructor in mechanical engineering now teach ing at the university of kansas explains in detail the proposed de sign of steam equipment and the place it will occupy in the new lab oratory the following books are expected f to be of special interest to college students undergraduates by edwards social problems of today by dow our poets of today by cook and whither mankind by beard christmas burr out soon high speed steels to be topic of european metallurgist following the formal initiation of 16 men thursday evening in drown hall tau beta pi held its initiation banquet in the hotel bethlehem president c r rich ards dr b l miller head of the department of geology h g har vey 09 commercial manager of the pennsylvania edison company and prof bradley stoughton were the speakers c l snavely pres ident of the fraternity was toast master president c r richards spoke of the new book that he and prof stoughton are writing entitled what about engineering which will consist of a series of questions and answers dr miller reviewed the life of edward higginson williams jr founder of tau beta pi and donor of williams hall dr williams was graduated from yale in 72 took post graduate work at lehigh and became a professor here dr miller also discussed the question of pure science versus applied sci ence the 16 initiates were r g ben ner r m brick l c crewe l e eckholm c w guyatt a m henfy l l jones p middleton t odgers e a pelizzoni p h reeves w h salzenburgh c f stanton w w ten eyke r s taylor and r a visco edward mcgovern last year's president at tended the banquet lehigh will have physics society cfiems to have banquet friday the consideration and payment of a 51 account itemizing alleged damages received to the property of the lehigh valley transit co on the evening before the lehigh lafayette game comprised the ma jor business transacted by arcadia last evening the bill fully itemized was pre sented by a representative of the traction company against the 16 ar rested students when they were brought before aledrman frank kaehler for a hearing last week in order to avoid the legal complica tions which might have resulted from refusing to pay the bill dean mcconn gave his personal check to cancel the debt arcadia was convinced from the nature of the testimony that the arrested students against whom the bill was charged caused little of the alleged damage and felt that since the identity of all the students causing the damage was unoknwn that the bill should be paid out of arcadia funds dr bidwell's plan ac cepted by students and faculty tommy ayre selected junior vice president annual xmas dinner to be held at reformed church material for the christmas num ber of the lehigh burr which will make its appearance before the hol idays was received at the regular semi-monthly meeting on the board last wednesday night in drown hall the board also passed a rule that a member absent from two consec utive meetings will be dropped from the board plans were laid for the mid-term number to be published about the middle of january it will contain jokes pertinent to the subject of general interest at that time — exams because of vacation no board meeting will be held december 19 the next regular meeting being scheduled for wednesday jan 9 in drown hall tommy ayre center and letter man on the varsity fotball team has been elected by the officers of the junior class to succeed dick john son as vice president of the class johnson has been obliged to resign from college owing to the sickness of his father r max goepp jr son of dr and mrs r max goepp 4047 pine street philadelphia and a gradu ate of the class of 1928 is the man to so honor himself and his alma mater along with 31 other american college youths these men were chosen from a total group of 398 applicants of which 27 were from pennsylvania goepp was named the pennsylva nia recipient sunday by dr frank aydelotte president of swarth more college and american secre tary of the rhodes trustees john i kirkpatrick football captain of last season was second choice in pennsylvania while thomas m brennan the other lehigh candi date was among the finalists for the award from new york state after graduating from lehigh last june a magn cum laude and with special honors in chemistry and as the holder of the williams senior prize in chemistry goepp became connected with the ne mours co but soon left them to join the new jersey zinc company this fall he received the new jer sey zinc research fellowship and is now doing research work in the de partment of chemistry for his mas ter's degree he is a member of the honorary arts fraternity phi beta kappa a member of the honorary engineer ing fraternity tau beta pi and the journalist cfraternity pi delta epsilon and was recently elected to associate membership in the sci entific research fraternity sigma xi as an undergraduate he was active as a journalist being the editor-in-chief of the lehigh re view an associate editor of the brown and white and a member of the epitome staff and senior class book committee he was also a member of the alexander hamil ton club and the chemical so ciety at one time secretary of the latter the musical clubs and band continued on page four recently announced results of the carnegie comprehensive exam inations given to all seniors in the pennsylvania colleges may 7 and 8 1928 place lehigh first among all engineering colleges first among the colleges of business administra tion third in the colleges which present courses in arts andscience and with a general rating of fourth among the 49 colleges and univer sities which gave the tests at the recent atlantic city meeting of the association of col leges and secondary schools of the middle atlantic states and mary land dr learned of the carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching and dr wood of col umbia university discussed the re sults of the college achievement test given in the pennsylvania col leges the results as presented were reduced to graphical form so that it is possible at a glance to comprehend the relative standing of the various colleges and of var ious auxiliary studies based thereon while the results of the test are confidential the president of each college has been notified of the placing of his own institution it is gratifying to note that in 49 col leges which gave the test lehigh stands fourth in the total score it is even more interesting however to note that lehigh's senior engin eers stood first in the list of the en gineering students in the eight in stitutions having fully organized engineering curricula and that the students in lehigh's college of bus iness administration stood first among students in this field among the eight colleges having fully or ganized curricula in that subject lehigh students in the college of arts and science stood third among the arts students in the list of 40 colleges of the state giving a b de grees the achievement test favored those students who were pursuing courses in the liberal arts as a ■ consequence the total scores made by engineering and business ad ministration students fell somewhat below those made by arts students for this reason and in view of the fact that the arts men at lehigh numbered approximately 25 percent of the total group taking the exam ination the university total score dropped to fourth place despite the fact that it stood first in engineer ing first in business administration and third in arts despite the fact that the test slightly favored the arts students the median scores for the different groups of students varied less than might have been anticipated in this connection it is interesting to note that the highest recorded score made by any senior in the state was given to r max goepp jr who received the degree of bach elor of science in chemistry at le high last june and who has just been awarded a rhodes scholar ship from the state of pennsylva nia among the various studies that were made as a result of this test it is interesting to note that the highest total scores were obtained by those seniors who were 18 years of age and that the total score de creased with each succeeding year until it reached a minimum for those who were 24 years of age for those who were beyond 24 years the results were slightly higher but not nearly so high as those obtained by the very young continued on page four lyter attends national pi delta epspsilon meet scabbard and blade initiates nine men bethlehem will be particularly in terested in the lecture on high speed steels to be given by fred c a h lantsberry president william jessop & sons ltd manu facturers of alloy steels suffield england before the lehigh metal lurgical society at 8 p m thurs day at the wm chandler chemi cal laboratory because high speed or tool steels were invented and discovered by f w taylor and maunsel white at the bethlehem plant of the bethlehem steel co in speaking of high speed steel prof bradley stoughton head of the department of metallurgical en gineering explained it has not only revolutionized the machine shop practice of the world but it is made and used in every civilized country mr lantsberry is one of the highest authorities on this sub ject and is familiar with english american and german practices mr lantsberry is in america on a business visit to the new york office of the corporation of which he is the hea,d and is studying the development and production of tool steel in this country thursday and friday mr lants berry will inspection the bethleherr steel plant under the direction o dr stoughton and officials of thf company during the two days mr lants berry will be in bethlehem he will be the house guest of prof and mrs bradley stoughton . special smoker held austy tate speaks in recognition of his work as coach of the freshman football team captain frederick w hyde was made an honorary member of the class of 1932 at a smoker held in his honor friday night in drown hall this is more than i expected said captain hyde when he spoke to the freshmen i shall always look back to this night the freshman coach then thanked the scrubs for their faithful work dur ing the season and those men who stayed with the squad even though they never played a game he ad vised the frosh to use moderation in all things work recreation and outside activities declaring that participation in outside activities was necessary to get the full bene fit from college varsity coach austy tate stated that athletics at lehigh are not getting as much support as at other colleges the students and alumni of lehigh are not giving the support that they should to the problem of securing athletes for lehigh tate said good athletes who are good scholars and who can pay their own way are needed here and the alumni are not getting them he proposed that the card system of listing high and prep school men who may come to le high should be built up by the stu dents and alumni cards were dis tributed to be used by the frosh for this purpose tate pointed out that this year was the second time in six years that the freshman team was not beaten by the lafayette yearlings prof beaver to speak at electrical meeting the chemical society will hold its annual christmas banquet at 6 p m friday dec 14 in the so ciety rooms of the reformed church on center street between broad and market in former years the banquet was held in the physical chemistry laboratory and the greater part of the preparations carried on by the student members this year however the increased membership makes it necessary to change the place of the banquet and to assign the preparation of the food to the ladies auxiliary of the church the old tradition of using chemical ware as food utensils will necessarily be dropped on this oc casion the banquet proper will be sup plemented by entertainment given by the students the most notable and certain of these will be the ap pearance of the chemical santa clause who emerged from the fire place when he is sure the last echo of after dinner speeches has died away he will have a bag with him containing gifts which he will distribute along with humerous anecdotes to the faculty members and to the junior and senior chem icals the students will endeavor to have santa feel at home with ap propriate yuletide decorations in the society rooms west point men visit lehigh university pierce 70 will speak on mining in russia john a lyter returned yester day from the national convention of pi delta epsilon honorary journal istic fraternity held at georgia tech from wednesday until satur day seventy delegates represent ing 35 chapters were present the convention banquet with the dean and president of georgia tech as speakers saturday even ing in the georgian terrace hotel officially closed the meeting perm state will be host to the convention next year saturnalia will be eta sigma phi topic the formal initiation of the new members of scabbard and blade was held at 5 p m yesterday in the armory while the informal in itiation was held saturday the in itiates were e m bachtell g h cross a c landis c l snavely and j t neath seniors and j d dickerson w e blackmar r t gadd and g e oiler of the junior class these men were chosen on the basis of their standing in the military department and upon their college records the pledges assembled at the armory at 1:30 p m saturday wearing the complete uniform and pack of a soldier from there they pitched camp and cooked supper there they were met by the mem . bers of the scabbard and blade who issued further instructions the in itiates then marched to the look out where they encamped for the night col c c carter professor of natural and experimental philoso phy and lt col c l fenton professor of chemistry and electric ity of the united states military academy at west point who are visiting various educational institu tions inspected the university sat urday december 8 they were es corted by dr c r richards and prof r j fogg after the party completed the tour of inspection they had lun cheon at the bethlehem club with professors c c bidwell j s long v s babasinian and s s seyfert •• professor j l beaver will speak on my five nights in gay paree 1 ' at the meeting of the electrical en gineering society 7:30 p m thurs day december 13 in the physics lecture hall h g weist jr 29 will present a student paper and demonstration on parallel resonance phenom ena weist's paper will be the first of a series of student papers competing for a 5 prize for the best talk ice cream cakes and smokes will be served in the seminar room after the meeting freshmen are invited to attend these meetings the saturnalia a famous roman festival celebrated in december will be described by members of eta sigma phi at its meeting at 7:30 p m friday dec 14 in drown hall j h pierce 10 will give an il lustrated lecture on economic conditions in russia at 7:45 p m friday in the geology lecture room williams hall he will deal par ticularly with mining conditions in russia pierce has spent considerable time in russia studying mining con ditions for the soviet government he has visited many continental and english mines the public is invited to attend a proposal by dr c c bidwell head of the physics department to establish a physics society at le high was unanimously adopted by a group of students and faculty members interested in physics at a meeting held last friday afternoon in the physics building it was de cided that this organization should be similar to the other student en gineering societies on the campus in membership requirements aims and functions membership will be extended to students who are ma joring in physics to _ engineering physicists and to members of the faculty who are interested at the meeting m k simpson was elected temporary chairman and committees appointed to draw up the constitution of the society and to make definite plans on how the club should operate and func tion in connection with the physics department in discussing the aims of the club it was suggested that when the so ciety was permanently established it petition the faculty for permis sion to establish an honorary phy sics fraternity s p s here the membership would be bestowed as an honor to students who are dis tinguished in the physics depart ment and in college activities fur thermore it was hoped that the student physics society eventually would unite with the junior section of the american physics society in agreement with the policy of the club set forth at the friday meeting regular programs will be sponsored dr richtmeyer of cor nell university will speak at the first meeting 7:30 p m monday dec 17 the speaker is the author of several books on the modern theory of electricity and has re cently returned from an extended tour abroad where he investigated foreign scientific methods and de velopments brown and white tuesday december 11 1928 lehigh university bethlehem pa goepp wins scholarship carnegie exams rate lehigh first vol xxxvi no 22 price five cents engineers and business men highest in state arts third library acquires many new books ranked first in general average among 49 colleges best painting in art exhibit wins student approval alpha kappa psi elects ten men to membership all seniors are requested to hand in a list of their activities to any member of omicron del ta kappa before s p m wed coming events art exhibit the exhibition of paintings in the faculty room of the alumni memorial building will be open until wednesday tonight — 6:00 p m prof t fort will address the cosmos club in drown hall 8:00 p m william b stout aeronautical engineer of the ford motor company will speak at a meeting of the engin eers club of the lehigh valley in drown hall wednesday — 7:30 p m mathematics club meets in room 31 packer hall 7:30 p m varsity basketball vs stroudsburg state normal 7:30 p m ed mcc ulman will address the civil engineering society on the method of floating bonds to cover the cost of engineering projects in the physics , building thursday — 7:30 p m the mechanical engineering society will meet in williams hall 7:30 p m prof t fort will speak to the newtonian society in room 31 packer hall 8:00 p m fred c landsberry president of william jessop and sons inc sheffield england will speak on high speed steels before the lehigh metallurgical society inthe metallurgical lecture room chandler chemical laboratory 8:00 p m under the northern lights by capt donald mac millan arctic explorer with motion pictures in lib erty high school auditorium admission charged friday 7:30 p m eta sigma phi meets in drown hall to describe the * saturnalia a famous festival celebrated by the ro mans in december i 7:45 p m j h pierce will give an illustrated lecture on econ omic condition in russia in the geology lecture room williams hall saturday — 7:00 p m varsity basketball vs hahnemann medical college member 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