Brown and White Vol. 36 no. 23

              students to relate exper iences with local police bulletin lehigh university will not close for fhe christmas holidays before wednesday dec 19 as announced in the university cal endar declared dean c m mc conn in answer to the rumor that spread of the influenza epi demic might force the discontin uance of classes after saturday chairman tom brennan collecting ideas for first event of kind here in 20 years the students of lehigh will all be wheeled to classes in baby carriages and will weigh no more than a feather this is a conclusion that may be drawn from statistic recently compiled from the last four classes entering lehigh the average age of the class of 1928 is 21.78 years the age of the classes following for the next three years decreases annually 1929—20.79 1930—20.01 1931—18.96 this alone is peculiar but when it is known that the average weight also decreases from 146.98 lbs in the class of 1928 to 142.32 lbs in the class of 1931 the foregoing conclusion is even better shown however the average height for three years starting in 1928 to 1930 increases fourteen hundredths of an inch further consideration of the statistics show that the average age of all students in the university in sept 1927 was 20.03 years the height was 68.50 in weight was 143.70 lbs at the end of the college year in june 1928 6,429 patients had re ceived treatement at the medical dispensary of which 1,357 received surgical dressings 4,450 medical treatments were given while only 442 visited the dispensary for advice in march of that year 1125 students received treatment which was more than any other month of the year only four contagious diseases were recorded during the year they were — one case of diptheria one case of scarlet fever five cases of mumps and four cases of german measles the physiotherapy department treated 6,780 persons during the year making a total of 13,029 treatments given by the health service petition compels city to demand lowering of brodhead tracks but the same order was made in 1921 1925 and 1927 t fort lectures to cosmos club times year book presents part of paper for thomas brennan general chair man of lehigh's first gridiron ban quet announces that the affair to be held early in may will resemble closely both the annual classic of washington d c newspaper cor respondents for the capital's official dom and gridiron banquets given at other colleges and universities in all parts of the country tion of a gridiron banquet at le er a ? re c i alea l ' c me ting of pi delta epsilon horrorary jour nalistic fraternity monday eve ning john lyter president re ported several conferences with men who have participated in grid iron banquets in other institutions whom he met at the pi delta epsil on convention last week at atlan ta ga at practically every midwestern university a bid to the gridiron banquet is considered about the highest honor that a student can receive during an academic year fraternities compete for places at the banquet table the local chap ter of pi delta epsilon is corres ponding with other chapters which have sponsored gridiron banquets in the attempt to secure ideas ap plicable here about 250 bids will probably be extended for the may affair there are never any reporters present at a gridiron banquet and all roasting is accepted as such by those who attend m'intosh speaks to civil society a new and unique explanation for the hardness of high speed steel was forwarded by fred c a h lantsberry president of the le high university metallurgical so ciety last evening in the chandler chemical building mr lantsberry said that the hardness was due to colloidal pre cipitation and then reviewed the old crucible processes in use for many years in england for making high speed steels which were dis covered by f w taylor and maunsel white for the bethlehem steel company american ger man and english processes were contrasted and mr lantsberry in 1 dicated that germany was far be hind both the united states and england in the metallurgy of high speed steels the labor situation in england was discussed and england was shown to be a comparatively old country as far as the conditions in the united states were concerned the english caste system and class distinction was held to be respon sible for the existing unfavorable labor conditions here mr lants berry introduced the element of hu mor and complimented the united states by saying that the best thing that he had ever done in his lif ewas to marry an american wo man he accused england of be ing over-taxed stating that he had had to work five months of one year to pay taxes england is be ginning to see our view of things though so far as labor is concerned the english worker has just lately begun to realize that a restriction on his amount of labor is not for his own good and only increases his burden his attitude has been too conservative in the past he must change for his own protection and good continued on page four a typical scene within the steel works was very vividly portrayed crucibles containing the metal to be melted are placed on a coke bed in a false floor and a temperature hot enough to melt the metal is maintained by a natural draught the pre-legal society will de bate the subject resolved that the criminal jury should be abol ished the debate will be held at 7:30 p m tuesday december 18 in drown hall kenneth k kost 31 will present the affirma tive and daniel s ettlinger 31 the negative side of the question sydney p simons 29 president of the society will speak on the recent changes in the divorce laws mr sirhons and emanuel g scob lionko 31 will relate their exper iences during the recent student riot new members will be admit ted to the society and an open for um will follow the debate on the abolishment of the jury system is the outcome of the talk given at the last meeting by lawrence j ackerman 29 the open forum held after this talk showed the interest which the fu ture lawyers had in this question when president simons speaks on the new divorce laws he will dis cuss an important question since not only the legal side but also the mor al side enters into the matter mr simons and mr scoblionko will tell of their experiences during the student riot november 23 and of their experiences with the police and judicial departments of beth lehem mr simons was arrested when he went to the police station to bail out a friend but was later released mr scoblionko is a wit ness for irving siegel 31 who is taking his case to a higher court men who have manifested their interest in the society by attending meetings and entering into the dis cussion in the open forum which is 6ne of the features of all meet ings will be taken in as full mem bers the pre-legal society is open to all lehigh men freshmen included who intend to follow the legal profession membership can be secured only by attending meet ings and taking an active part in the affairs of the society and concrete explains superiority of sheet piling over wood brennan is o.d.k delegate to west dr j s long addresses philadelphia clubs predicting that every communi ty would soon have a flying field of its own and that airplanes together with automobiles as mechanical missionaires would create an inter national language w b stout vice president of the stout metal airplane corporation addressed an audience of nearly 400 at % gather ing of the engineer's club of le high valley tuesday night in drown hall contrary to the general belief air travel is monotonous and with out any particular thrill the engines used in modern air planes are dependable and many have run over hundreds of hours without a single break most passengers sleep after the first thrill wears off these were some of the outstand ing remarks made by mr stout which surprised and interested his large audience , a description of the beautiful flight that he made with mrs lind bergh from detroit to mexico city over the mississippi valley and the plains of arizona where were buried the remains of a civil ization that is incalculably ancient thrilled the audience america is 30 percent ahead of europe in the development of air craft and air fields the air service between new york and chicago is 95 percent efficient regarding sche dules and other rputes are not far behind announced mr stout he also commented on the parallel de velopment of radio and aircraft and the parallel development of the tel egraph and the railrdad he preferred metal to wood for construction purposes because of the more exact calculations pos sible with the metal professor f v larkin as chair man of the committee on speakers introduced mr stout previous to the address a dinner was held in drown hall which was attended by 90 members a short i business meeting followed to dis pose of a committee report for the object of co-ordinating the efforts of the anthracite engineers asso ciation of northwestern pennsylva nia and the engineers club of the lehigh valley a plan for accom plishing this wasread by mark r woodward chairman of the com mittee this received the unani mous approval of the society boy scout troop no 2 of beth lehem were guests of the engineers and greatly helped by acting as ush ers and providing extra chairs for the crowd cornell man lectures to physicists monday dr j l long of the chemistry department gave a talk last evening before the federation of paint and varnish clubs at the hotel ritten house in philadelphia he spoke on research in drying oils the club is composed of superin tendents foremen and general managers of production plants in the philadelphia district this meeting was also a meeting of em ployers the purpose of which was to plea for more research on the part of the employers in chemical plants there was a dinner before the lecture thomas m brennan president of the omicron kappa delta was elected delegate to attend the na tional convention of the society to be held at the university of ala barfla february 1 and 2 at this time he hopes to bring up the dis cussion of politics and the limita tion of activities three seniors were elected to the society at its meeting wednesday evening the names of these men will be disclosed in chapel tues day morning at which time pledg ing will be held president charles r richards will make the opening address success crowned the efforts of the basketball team in its initial en counter wednesday when it hum bled the state teachers college by the score of 38-28 scoring six field goals and making good four out of seven attempts from the foul line the playing of earl nemetz of last year's frosh team at guard was par ticularly favorable he scored three baskets and played an exceptionally good floor game the game from the lehigh stand point was not very impressive as the teachers were considerably troublesome throughout the first three of the four ten-minute quar ters it was not until the last per iod that the brown and white quin tet could secure a safe margin all during the first half the game was nip and tuck lehigh would go to the front by a scant one or two points only to have the defense weakened enough to allow the stroudsburg attack led by captain rundle tie the count or go into the lead with lehigh sporting a four point advantage at the close of the first half the teachers broke thru to score two baskets and tie the score at 17-17 as the gong sounded the team played as if it missed the leadership of captain harry hesse who was unable to start the game due to a severe cold he did enter the game however near the cose and scored a useful field goal trom under the basket three sophomores ma.de the de but on the lehigh court and show ed that they undoubtedly will give the last year's regulars a stiff tussle fo rtheir respective berths bob harris varsity football player started the game at guard and showed that with more experience he will prove a reliable understudy for either tiny macus or harry hesse howie schaub entered the game near the close and per formed creditably the outstanding playing of the newcomers was achieved by nemetz eddie blackmar , a junior and varsity tackle two years ago saw service at a guard position during the last of the first half the second game of the season tomorrow evening with hahneman medical school should find an im proved brown and white team on the court wednesday's line-up lehigh teachers college schultz rf sartin many lf rundle marcus c secove harris lg dries bennett rg zimmerman lehigh substitutions — nemetz for harris blackmar for bennett mid lam for marcus bennett for black mar marcus for midlam schaub for schultz scoring — field goals many 6 nemetz 3 schultz 2 mar cus 1 hesse 1 bennett 1 schaub 1 rundle 5 zimmerman 2 v price 4 foul goals — many 4 schultz 1 marcus 1 bennett 2 runkle 2 secove 1 zimmerman 2 dries 1 referee maguire umpire flan nagan prof.beaver gives electricals talk after a preliminary discourse which described the general nature of research in mathematics prof t fort at the regular meeting of the cosmos club last tuesday evening spoke of the meaning of the various mathematical terms as understood bythe mathematician and told how they are used he explained the different concepts of infinity and the imaginary emphasizing their value and use to the scientists the first part of prof fort's ad dress was taken directly from a pa per which he is preparing for pub lication in the american year book of the new york times called a review of research in mathematics in the year 1928 the year book consists of a review of all develop ments in the fields of art science and literature which have taken place in the preceeding year it will be ready for publication on january first prof w a slater research pro fessor in the department of civil engineering was elected to member ship in the club in place of prof fort who according to custom re signs after having presented his pa per the next meeting of the cos mos club will take place after the christmas holidays the mathematics club holds its next meeting january 9 three student papers were pre sented to members of the mathe matics club last wednesday after noon a smith ch.e 30 outlined the uses of mathematics in physical chemistry pointing out just how the chemist insures accuracy in his work by means of easeful calcula tion c w granacher c e 29 discussed the number pi giving something of its history and use and r serber e e 30 described huygene's principle many sr ballots not yet returned apparently the epidemic which is now spreading through the country and has already forced the closing of several colleges has not yet as sumed serious proportions at le high this much was learned yes terday when dr r c bull direc tor of the students health service revealed actual figures of the num ber of cases of the disease thus far discovered according to dr bull but 18 cases of actual influenza and but 19 cases of what might develop into influenza have been reported since the outbreak of the sickness on december 3 however colds are quite prevalent and although esti mations are impossible it would not seem unlikely that almost half the students have been thus af flicted numerous rvtm o r s circulated about the campus from every source have wildly exaggerated con ditions practically the entire stu dent body has held the opinion that over 150 cases of the disease have been discovered and that should the epidemic fail to subside school would be stopped after sat urday indeed at one time on wednesday it was reported that the health authorities had already closed the school in no case has a serious outbreak threatened the 18 men who were found to have influenza were advis ed to go home and the others were tld to go to bed under no condi tions is it feared that an epidemic stage will be reached either at le high or in the surrounding vicin ity the dean also revoked all per mits for house dances over the week-end on the grounds that under present circumstances the crowded conditions which these create could be dangerous to the welfare of the participants other districts however are not so fortunate many of the larger schools in these stricken districts have already closed or are planning to close those known definitely to have closed are carnegit tech pittsburgh sewanee sewanee term culver military academy culver ind the university of mis souri columbia mo the seminary of st therese near montreal que bec and levis college quebec rumors that syracuse colgate and cornell are planning similar moves though not yet confirmed are nev ertheless considered fairly authen tic u s surgeon general h s cumming however advised against closing schools except in rural dis tricts close contacts in the cities are unavoidable whether the indi vidual is in school or not he said the surgeon general estimates that there are now about 200,000 cases of influenza in the country he has already called together a board of strategy to plan steps to curb the spread of the disease although he has expressed the opinion that this epidemic is certainly not so serious as was the one in 1918 go to bed the moment colds and feverishness develops advised dr bull nothing is more dangerous either to yourself or to others than to remain afoot when symptoms of severe colds or grippe are found dr bull especially stressed the fact that all students with colds should report to the health service for ex amination without delay professor f k richtmeyer of cornell university will deliver a lecture on x-ray satellites before the physics seminar december 17 at 2:45 p m and will also speak to the physics club on some impres sions in europe at 8 o'clock that evening to which the public is in vited he will be the first speaker of the club which is organizing this evening at 7:30 professor richtmeyer is a well known authority on x-ray theory and has just completed a year's tour in european universities he was especially interested in the methods and research facilities at gottigen in berlin and at the up silon university in sweden spend ing several months at the latter leach lists prominent contemporary writers the methods and uses of sheet piling as compared with wood and reinforced concrete in the building of coffer-dams and bulkheading were described by r j mclntosh piling engineer of the bethlehem steel co in his talk at the civil society meeting held the phy sics building wednesday evening mr mclntosh showed many speci mens of sheet steel piles and ex plained how the lock joints acted under strain and under water pres sure he showed many slides show ing the driving operations and the varied uses of sheet piling the strength and the lasting qualities of different types of piling under the action of salt water was discussed at the close of the talk mr mclntosh also told of the meth od used to ' raise the battleship maine which was sunk in the har bor at havana cuba in 1898 the next meeting of the society will be held january 10 at which time mr ramsey of the lehigh valley railroad co will speak on the tunneling operations in the sec ond musconetcong tunnel under musconetcong mountain several reels showing the blasting opera tions have been loaned by the du pont powder co to illustrate the talk it was announced at the meeting that members of the society may obtain charms by paying their dues and the price of the charm alumni bulletin talks of maroon mrs myers speaks on early moravian habits final abatement of the nuisance of the trolley tracks on brodhead avenue and summit street is ex pected as the result of t a resolution passed by the city council at its meeting monday morning this resolution orders the bethlehem traction company which operates the trolleys on these tracks to fix its rails and to pave between the rails and 18 inches on each side thereof this action comes as the result of a petition presented to the coun cil by the residents of these streets this petition to which are at tached the names of 52 signers in cluding president richards and other university officials claimed that the trolley tracks on these streets extend almost seven inches above the roadbed and thereby con stitute a distinct menace to motor ists and pedestrians enough ' policemen will be on hand if this becomes necessary said the mayor to see that there is no interference in tearing up the rails the resolution adopted ordered the city solicitor to notify the trac tion company that it must do the work by december 27 of this year or the city will order the rails torn up the paving must be done eith er with concrete if the weather permits or with such other mater ials as the council would agree to the condition of the trolley tracks particularly at the intersec tion of warren square has been un satisfactory since the city first laid the concrete pavement on brod head avenue motorists in nego tiating the crossing have often bumped their cars against the pro truding rails so hazardous are conditions that most autoists drive up the left side of the street rather than risk the crossing at warren square last year the city station ed a policeman on brodhead ave nue to arrest all drivers doing this but so numerous were the com plaints of the offenders that the city was forced to discontinue its action — an admission that condi tions were too bad to expect the obedience of ordinary traffic reg ulations the drastic action taken by the council is explained by the fact that similar orders to remedy con ditions were neglected by the trol ley company resolutions issued in 192 i 1925 and 1927 demanded that the tracks be lowered to the correct grades but for some unexplained reasons were never carried out the relaying of these tracks will be of special benefit to students of the university who have been among the greatest sufferers of the nuisance since most trouble is en countered in crossing the tracks at the entrance to the campus in fact several accidents have oc curred at this point in the past year traffic conditions during big sport events at the school will also be bettered by the repairs publications board discusses problems departing from the technical to stress the scenic interest of euro pean travel prof beaver of the e e department entertained a large group of electricals at their meet held in the physics building last evening punctuated with humorous sallies from the realm of the interborough rapid transit to the field of art and culture his tal kkept the men on edge throughout from england to belgium and thence through germany to france and paris he carried his listeners with the aid of slides and pictures of interior views which i know you boys will appreciate so as not to entirely separate the students from the electrical at mosphere horace g wiest deliv ered a student paper on parallel resonance phenomena with the aid of a parallel inductive and re actance circuit he showed clearly the resonant phenomena of the two opposing forces questions of students concerning the theory involved were then answered notices all football men who have not yet handed in their equipment are urged to do so before christmas vacation austy tate requests all football men who are not out for other sports to report for boxing imme diately after the christmas holidays the new issue of the alumni bulletin in addition to the usual ar ticles of the magazine contains an account of lehigh's relations with lafayette and a story on the work of the health department during the last year the lafayette article deals with the traditions between the two col leges and facts concerning the an nual football game the following is a quotation taken from a leading magazine and used in the story the season of tradition is here we have the traditional game the traditional spirit the traditional riv al the traditional fight and tradi tionally the old south bell peals out the victory of lafayette the activity of the health de partment is featured in a story giv ing the the details of its work which concerns the number of men treated the amount of medicine given out and statistics on the na ture of the ailments administered to mrs j upton myers told how the moravians celebrated christ mas in bethlehem's early days and described their christmas customs before the university women's club tuesday afternoon in drown hall it was decided by the executive board and the chairman of commit tees to hold a business meeting im mediately preceding each regular monthly meeting of the club fol lowing mrs myers address tea was served to members of the faculty and the administrative officers of the university the committee in charge of the meeting was composed of mrs s a becker chairman mrs allison butts vice chairman mrs e s ault mrs r c blake mrs max imilian clay mrs william fox mrs k w lamson mrs a r miller mrs max peterson mrs j h stoughton and mrs r q whit ten the announced time for the return of all senior class ballots decem ber 10 has passed with a large num ber of ballots not returned this date was set to give the committtee time to read and correct the ballots before the final dummy was made for the printer the preliminary dummy has already been made with space left for all those to whom ballots were given the final dummy will be completed during january however and all those who have not returned their ballots nor paid their assesment will not go in the present epitome the men who have not turned back ballots but who desire to en ter the senior section of the epi tome should work on their ballots over the vacation and be prepared to return them when school re sumes after the christmas holidays the final date for paying the assess ment is january 10 over 225 men have been photographed by mc caa although there may be a few late seniors who have not made appointments as yet all men who have failed to have their picture taken must make an appointment without delay as pictures coming in late cannot be used the m»n who wish to use old photographs should turn them into lyter chair man of the senior class book committee immediately who are the living american fiction writers who have attained such enduring reputation to war rant the purchase of their entire published works by a college li brary was the query put to the members of eastern college li brarians by howard s leach li brarian of lehigh in a lecture on the purchase of fiction for a col lege library mr leach read his list of con temporary american and british authors whose works belong in a college library his contained the names of three women the authors were booth tarkington ernest poole meredith nicholson ham lin garland dorothy canfield fish er edith wharton and willa cather mr leach hinted that college professors are stricter than librar ians for after presenting his list to professor r m smith director of english the number fell to three two being women — willa cather edith wharton and hamlin gar land two recommendations of pi delta epsilon will be considered at the meeting of the board of publica tions to review the accounts of stu dent publications next monday at 4:30 in the memorial building the establishment of a sinking fund for all four publications with the purpose of acquiring a printing es tablishment and the limitation of major offices on publications brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday december 14 1928 the age and weight of lehigh students is approaching zero flu situation not serious vol xxxvi no 23 quintet takes initial game price five cents englishman tells met society about high speed steel w.b stout offers many predictions for the airplane pre-legalsdebate on jury question state teachers bow 38 28 bob many high scorer addresses 400 at meeting of lehigh valley engineers only 18 men have been sent home epidemic serious elsewhere though f.c.a.h lantsberry at tributes hardness to colloidal precipitation gridiron banquet planned for may coming events tonight 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 7:45 p m j h pierce will give an illustrated lecture on econ omic conditions in russia in the geology lecture . room williams hall 6:00 p m sword and crescent meeting at the sigma phi house to discuss class politics saturday — 7:00 p m varsity basketball vs hahnemann medical college in taylor gymnasium monday — 2:45 p m open talk in physics lecture room by prof f k richtmeyer of cornell university before the physics seminar on x-ray satellites 4:00 p m meeting of the board of publications in the alumni memorial building 4:00 p m monthly meeting of the faculty educational club in the physics lecture room will discuss how the honor , spirit can be established here 7:30 p m meeting of delta omicron theta in the english lec ture room debates on censorship and juries 7:30 p m meeting of the alexander hamilton club in coppee hall to discuss the world court 8:00 p m physics club meeting in the physics lecture room address by prof f k richtmeyer of cornell uni versityi on some impressions of europe tuesday 7:45 a m omicron delta kappa tapping of pledges in chapel 7:30 p tn pre-legal society meeting in drown hall the top ics for discussion are recent changes in the divorce law and resolved that the criminal jury should be abolished wednesday — 9:00 p m the exhibition of paintings in the faculty room of the alumni memorial building will end coming — jan 4 eta sigma phi meeting prof w s messer of dart mouth college will give an illustrated lecture on the • greek and roman theatre member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first