Brown and White Vol. 36 no. 25

              university issues advisory booklet pamphlet describes en gineering qualifications and opportunities january 7 1929 editor of the brown and white dear sir very truly yours c r richards major general john a le jeune commandant of the united states marine corps has written to state that it is the de sire of the navy department to fill a limited number of vacan cies in the grade of second lieu tenant probationary for two years in the united states mar ine corps by appointment of col lege men who will graduate in 1929 who have the character at tributes required of an officer in the marine corps and who shall have completed the pre scribed course in the r o t c any member of the class who may be atracted by this oppor tunity should discuss the matter with colonel mccammon and se cure from him an application blank pre=legals elect six new members abolition of criminal jury debated at pre-vaca tion meeting records of attendance at chapel exercises are now posted in the alumni memorial building the chapel list is posted in the hall out side the dean's office and shows the number of times each student who is required to take chapel has at tended up to and including decem ber 19 attendance at chapel exercises is voluntary for juniors and seniors but required of freshmen and soph omores except that freshmen and sophomores who prefer to do so may elect one year of ethics or philosophy of religion two semes ter hours instead of chapel three attendances a week out of the possible total of five give a pass ing grade no credit hours are given for this required attendance but a letter-grade is placed on the report card based on the attendance records this semester a perfect record would be 75 attendances the number necessary for passing is 45 students having from 68 to 75 chapel slips to their credit will receive an a on their report card from 60 to 67 b from 53 to 59 c from 45 to 52 d and from 0 to 44 f course=societies study tunneling twenty-seven replies have been received to the questionnaire con cerning the elimination of political combinations sent to each living group by arthur lehr president of arcadia all but three of these re plies were in favor of abolishing politics 12 living groups have yet to be heard from the purpose of this questionnaire is to obtain information for the dis cussion of the question at the next arcadia meeting the follow ing is a copy of the letter mailed by lehr to each living group i am sending the following questionnaire to the head of each living group in an attempt to ob tain information for a discussion of the political situation on the cam pus at the next arcadia meeting will you fill out this questionnaire according to the wishes of your living group and send it to me im mediately i am or am not in favor of the plan as sponsored by the brown and white and will or will not agree not to enter into political combinations on condition that 90 percent of the living groups at le high agree to the same this is not a binding resolution the hree living groups opposed to the resolution at present are psi upsilon phi delta theta and alpha tau omega championships dick lewis was victorious in the 135-lb class and andy lehr annexed the 175-lb crown the contract for the packard lab was let to the builders of the al umni building early in march ac tual work was begun march 18 when workmen started to remove the trees from the site under the terms of the james ward packer will made public soon after the university was bequeathed about 1,000,000 the most important items of news in the fall grew out of the lafayette smoker and parade when bethlehem police arrested 16 stu dents a total of 220 was paid to the city in fines by eight students and the rest were release the lehigh football team won three and lost six games including the annual lafayette game the sophomores by winning the founder's day sports compelled the frosh to wear the black ties and dinks on sundays president w m lewis of lafayette the founder's day speaker was awarded an hon orary degree work on the new library eddi tion the second unitl in the greater lehigh plan was started early in september and the steel work was completed before the new year the news that lehigh ranked first among the engineering and business colleges and third in col leges of pennsylvania in the car negie tests coincided with the an nouncement that the rhodes schol arship for pennsylvania had been awarded to r max goepp 28 this is the first time that any lehigh man has won this high award the news of bosey reiter's ill ness and his slow fight back to health was the primary lehigh news of 1928 a search of the brown and white files revealed yesterday upon their return from the christmas holidays of 1927 le high men were shocked to hear that bosey was in a serious condition from a heart attack induced by ov erwork semi-weekly , notices told of his condition until february 19 when he left for miami his return to his campus home september 22 was hailed with joy and the news that bosey is now almost fully recovered lifts a load from lehigh men's minds the persistant overcoat thief who had troubled the university for many months was caught early in january thus making the campus safe for coats 6nce more after receiving the recommenda tion of arcadia and the sophomore council the student activities fee was passed for a period of two years by n the faculty this fee which insured universal brown and white subscription followed on the heels of the re-organization plan of he brown and white which had secured faculty sanction earlier in the year the ne wplan converted the brown and white staff into a class in journalism the death of bishop talbot feb 28 robbed the university of its most loyal supporters bishop tal bot was a member of the board of trustees for many years and he was influential in securing leonard hall for hte university in march the wrestling team completed a highly successful sea son by winning two first and three second places in the intercollegiate although all senior ballots for the senior section of the epitome were due yesterday there are still a large number which have not been hand ed to the editors the editorial board has decided that all copy will be sent to the printers january 31 ; any ballots not received by that date will not be included in the book in addition the editors have an nounced that all assesments must be paid by the end of january any senior who has not paid his assessment by that date will not have his picture and write-up in the epitome any seniors who are doubtful of graduation in june should immediately communicate with the editors all students who have snap shots of athletic events teams liv ing group sports campus incidents — any representative pictures of the campus — should send them to one of the members of the staff the senior class book committee with the respective departments is as follows j a lyter editor-in chief t m brennan and s u phares assistant editors j m blackmar and r b sax business department j conrath civil and electrical engineering w o heil man chemical engineering and en gineering physics w b adams mining and industrial engineering a l roberts metallurgical and mechanical engineering faculty approves spring schedules house=party date not decided upon flu situation is vastly improved classic society hears dr messer w h ramsey to address civil and mining en gineering groups baseball and lacrosse get o.k university reg ulations changed only six new cases of grippe have been re ported since christmas dartmouth professor lec tures on greek and ro man theatres interf raternity council hears report of na tional delegate in the short two weeks of christ mas vacation the appearance of the packard lab and the addition to the university library has changed greatly construction work on the packard lab is up to schedule and the building has been completely roofed before the winter snows as was planned last summer during the past weeks the building has been outfitted with windows sky lights have been placed over most of the labs and steam has been turned into some of the pipes the machine and electrical lab is the most nearly completed room of all a 10 ton-20 foot span h p crane arranged for tests has been installed on trolleys running between the balconies of this laboratory balcoties extending up two stories from the ground floor will be utilized for machines illustrating principles of mechanics kinematics and machine design glass roofing extending the length of the room will insure natural light for classes working in the drawing rooms the rooms are at present lined with ter ra-cotta furring and are ready for the 334 tons of wall plaster which it is estimated will be required to cover them from the outside the building ap pears to be very near completion since the fall months were devoted to getting the building in such shape that the workmen could spend the winter months at the task of creat ing laboratories classrooms and offices from bare unfinished rooms during the vacation the scaffold ing was removed and a full force of workmen is busy on the interior a smaller shift works at night and on sundays there is of course a tremendous amount of work yet to be done the inside of the building must be plastered and painted floors must be laid throughout electrical wiring installed and equipment placed in the various rooms what was two weeks ago a few steel girders and beams has devel oped into the steel structure of a large building which gives a better idea of the shape and dimenstions of lehigh's new library the verti cal steel girders are already in po sition with crosspieces and roof beams being riveted to them at present brodhead tracks finally removed after all the flu ' epidemic in bethlehem isn't dr bull of the lehigh health bureau announced today that there have been only two real cases of influenza reported in bethlehem both these cases were town people and they were treated at the st luke's hospital there have been many cases of grippe at lehigh and many people suspected them as being influenza according to dr bull there were 25 cases reported from the begin ning of the semester to thanksgiv ing holidays from thanksgiving to christmas there were 104 cases reported since school has re opened however there have been six cases attended to some of the afflicted students went home but most of the cases were not severe and the patients recuperated rap idly ■ w h ramsay resident engin eer of the lehigh valley railroad will address the combined meeting of the student branches of the min ing and civil engineering societies thursday evening at 7:30 in the physics lecture room on the drivink of the muscenetcong tun nel in addition to the talk by mr ramsay there will be a film showing the driving of the cas cade tunnel loaned through the courtesy of the e i du pont nem ours & co of wilmington dela ware the muscenetcong tunnel as it will be described by mr ramsay is the old for the accommodation of through traffic in both directions the old tunnel was driven in 1874 with henry s drinker later presi dent of the university as one of the engineers in charge of the work and is historic as being the first tunnel in the united states to be driven by mechanical methods the cascade tunnel is tfle long est and most recently completed tunnel in the united states exceed ing in length the moffatt tunnel in colorado by one and three quarters miles the pre-legal society admitted six new members and debated the question resolved that the criminal jury be abolished at a meeting tuesday evening decem ber 17 in drown hall the new member's are:.e e muskoff 30 d d hendlin 30 j mayer 31 s r snitkin 31 t s such 32 and d s sawyer 32 the debate which was given in an informal manner revealed the importance of the jury question at the present time kenneth k kost speaking for the affirmative empha sized the slowness and partiality of juries which prevent the defendant from receiving the speedy and im partial trial to which he is entitled by article vi of the constitution daniel s ettlinger taking the neg ative side stressed the place of juries as a means by which the common people can exercise their rights and defend themselves in the courts he showed the connection of juries with democracy and unded by mentioning the evils of the pro posed criminal commissions no rebuttals were given but the par tisans of both sides expressed their opinions in the forum which follow ed the meeting the admittance of the six new members is in line with the policy of the society to extend membership to all pre-legal students who take an interest in it the equal divi sion of the six men among the three lower classes helps to make the society truly representative of the pre-legal students of the university sydney simons president post poned his talk on the recent changes in the divorce laws un til the january meeting because of the final examinations which will prevent the other members from preparihg a suitable talk city prepares to combat epidemic packer hall bell starts on spree lehigh men elected officers of a c s motions to hold spring house party over the week-end of april 20 and to consider the advisability of having a three-day party instead of the usual two-day affair were tabled until the next meeting of the interfraternity council february 4 by that body at its meeting last night no discussion was offered on the two mptions as opinions of the various fraternities on the sub ject was unknown the report of r b johnston del egate to the national interfraternity council conference held novem ber 30-december 1 in new york was read reports of the other delegates as given to the confer ence again confirmed the lehigh method of rushing as being the best where deferred pledging is not feasible and said that co-operative buying among fraternities had not proved successful in the institu tions where it had been tried the petition of phi sigma delta for membership in the interfrater nity council was denied dues for the year were collected by the treasurer neither cranmer nor railroad can explain nine minute concert varsity baseball and lacrosse schedules were approved and sev eral changes in the rules and reg ulations of the university were passed at the monthly meeting of the faculty yesterday the entry of the tennis tea mnito the indoor in tercollegiate tournament on friday march 1 and saturday march 2 at cornell university was also ap proved a new rule having to do with military science and tactics was adopted so that no credit will be given for prior service in citizens military training camps the following rules were repeal ed rule 8 all cases of applicants who have not met the entrance re quirements in full are passed on by the committee on admissions rule 95 at the end of the first year all freshmen who have failed in first-year subjects with a grade e may and those who have failed with a grade of f must repeat such courses in the summer session rule 32 — all students in the col lege of arts and science must give notice of their choice of electives for any semester to the director of the college on or before the 15th of december or the isth of may of the semester preceding students who fail to give notice of their electives will be assigned work by the director of the college bethlehem converts sec tion of hospital into wards for flu cases three topics draw arcadia attention editorial lauds jensen's research the tracks of the bethlehem transit co on brodhead avenue and summit street were torn up december 27 and the thoroughfare greatly improved by the city this work was under the direction of mayor yeakle who took such ac tion because of protests on the part of residents and officials of the uni versity who filed similar petitions in 1921 1925 and 1927 the removal of these tracks is of utmost advantage to the university because it improves the campus ap proach without this menace traf fice during the athletic contests will also be greatly facilitated at pres ent the trolleys can enter the city only as far as carlton avenue and summit street seven blocks from the former terminus at fourth and new streets the heavy demand among prep aratory school principals and stu dents for copies of the pamphlet how about college issued by the university last year has led to the preparation of a similar pamphlet on how about engineering by president richards three thou sand copies will be distributed to secondary schools in pennsylvania new york delaware new jersey maryland and the district of col umbia the aim of the new booklet is to present a complete and unbiased discussion of the qualifications ne cessary for entering an engineering course the kinds of work taken up after graduation probable earnings in the future over-crowding in en gineering fields and opportunities for advancement many false im pressions of the profession both over and under-estimating the pos sibilities offered by it are discussed and corrected written in question and answer form the booklet begins with a classification of the engineering curricula and their place in indus try a few excerpts from the ma terial presented are question what is engineering answer while . the term has been variously described its best definition is that formulated by the federal american engineering so cieties as follows engineering is the science of controlling the forces and of utilizing the materials of na ture for the benefit of man and the art of organizing and directing hu man activities in connection there with q what qualifications are essen tial to success in engineering a a thorough knowledge of the principles of mathematical and phy sical science and their application to engineering work to which should be added the ability to write and speak correctly an understand ing of men an dthe manner of hand ling them a knowledge of the econ omic laws which affect the engin eering industries and of the finan cing of these industries and per sonal characteristics that include character good judgment accuracy loyalty imagination courage and that indefinable quality called personality a few years ago some 7,000 en gineers in answer to a question naire expressed the belief that qualities of character are more im portant than all else it would seem obvious however that a man can not qualify as an engineer no mat ter what his personal qualifications may be without ' technical engin eering knowledge and skill q ahe there too many engineers a no one of the professions or vocations is represented by too many second and third raters in the national industrial con continued on page four in building their theartes the romans used as mortar a cement which was as hard and durable as the stone itself said dr w s messer head of the latin and greek departments at dartmouth in his lecture greek and roman theatres before the members of eta sigma phi friday evening in drown hall the seats of greek theatres the speaker said were almost invar iably carved out of the side of a hill and formed a section of a bowl greater than a semi-circle across the open end stood a scene building which was always a separate unit all acting and dancing took place on a circular piece of packed earth in the middle of the theatre romans however because of the scarcity of suitable hills from which to carve theatres were forced to build up from the ground their knowledge of the use of cement and the arch * dr messer stated enabled them to build structures which surpassed those of the greeks the roman theatre differ ed from the greek in that its form was exactly semi-circular and the scene building was joined with the stadium in addition a raised stage stood in front of the scene building and the section where the acting took place in the greek theatre was used for the seating of the nobil ity two theatres were often to gether one large and open and the other smaller and enclosed three fraternities hold conventions dr h a neville and prof c w simmons of the chemical depart ment were elected chairman and vice-chairman respectively of the lehigh valley section of the am erican chemical society at the re cent meeting in gayley laboratory lafayette college prof simmons also was appointed editor of the lo cal society monthly the octagon plans were approved at the meeting for printing a larger oc tagon which will cover the society's current news more fully hardy to address sigma xi society welding methods engineering news-record praises his article on neither the night watchman or j c cranmer superintendent of buildings and grounds could ex plain why the packer hall bell clamored continuously for nine minutes last saturday night the fire department telephoned section b taylor hall to inquire what the trouble was but no one knew the lehigh valley railroad which controls the ringing of the bell by electrical connections from its general office on brighton street does not know what caused the bell to toll it has been ringing ac cording to schedule over since its little spree as though nothing had been amiss faculty dramatic club to read play tomorrow arcadia will discuss the political situation on the campus the possi bility of creating a fund in the stu dent activities fee for the band and the advisability of petitioning the faculty for certain hours for hold ing college meetings at its meeting next monday january 14 in the past college meetings were held at 11 a m on several thurs days throughout the year the discussion of campus politics will center about the replies to the questionnaire on the breaking up of political combinations sent by arthur lehr president to each liv ing group it will be proposed to provide a band fund by reducing arcadia dues and creating a fee equal to this reduction in the stu dent activities fee for the band chemists will hear dr wherry thursday professor g h hardy of ox ford university england will give a lecture on mathematical logic before the local chapter of sigma xi this evening at 8 p m in the physics lecture room professor hardy who is savilian professor of geometry at oxford university is now in residence at princeton university as visiting professor professor hardy was honored by the american mathe matical society when he was asked to give the gibbs lecture at the annual meeting of the american association for the advancement of science in new york during the christmas holidays this lecture is always the major event of the pro gram of these annual meetings o d k initiates three wednesday the royal family by george kaufman and edna ferber is the play which will be read by the faculty dramatic club at its meet ing at professor robert w hall's residence tomorrow evening at 7:30 henry schenck will conduct the reading of the play the royal family was one of the oustanding plays produced on broadway in 1928 it deals with the off-stage life of a family of ac tors recounting their struggles to give up their profession and their failure to break themselves away from the spell of the footlights the national convention of the fraternity to be held at the uni versity of alabama has been post poned until march 1 formal initiation of john m blackmar edward f baker and charles webbe into the omicron delta kappa honorary fraternity will be held in drown hall at 7:30 p m wednesday fencing club there will be a meeting of the fencing club at 8 p m thurs day in drown hall bethlehem is taking measures to prevent the further spread of in fluenza within the city two sec tions of saint luke's hospital have been converted into wards to be used exclusively for cases of the expected epidemic and one build ing of the former bethlehem pre paratory school has been heated and cleaned so that 75 beds might accommodate patients there the siege began an the west coast leaving california and grad ually moving eastward finally it reached philadelphia the epidemic of 1918 which spread over the country with such disastrous and devastating effects was brought about by three very definite reasons the severe cold of that winter combined with an in adequate coal supply helped spread the disease with astounding rapid ity but perhaps the greatest fac tor which caused the affliction to spread was the population's wor riment and uneasiness for the men fighting at that time in france the present situation however is not aided by these circumstances the weather has been mild the coal supply is plentiful the male pop ulation is at home and during the intervening 11 years medical sci ence has advanced with almost in conceivable speed dr thomas of the biology department states that there should be no great alarm as only one half of one percent of the total cases have resulted in death nevertheless it is advisable ac cording to dr thomas to take such precautions as washing the hands before eating keeping away fro mcrowded places taking fre quent baths and drinking water the lehigh chemcial society will hold its first meeting of the new year at 7:30 p m thursday in chandler laboratory dr edgar t wherry speaker of the evening will address the society on the sub ject sell reactions on plants dr wherry a member of the u s bureau of chemistry has ad drsessed the society at previous meetings the meeting will be fol lowed by the customary social hour when frefreshments will be served a paper recently read to the american welding society by prof cyril d jensen department of civ il engineering has received favor able comment in an editorial in the engineering-news-record prof jensen's paper the prac ticibility of inspecting welds with accuracy deals with results of ex periments conducted by prof jen sen and senior students last year the editors of the engineering news-record commend prof jen sen for his curiosity in looking for a method which meets the needs of the welding profession the edi torial follows in part continued on page four " it is in part true that as some welding enthusiasts charge the engineers who oppose structural welding on the grounds that it cannot be properly inspected over look the fact that inspection in no field is perfect — that mechanical or physical determinations are at best only fragmentary evidence but at the same time welding engin eers often forget that proof of sat isfactory inspection methods lies wholly with them at least to date their activity in furthering methods of inspection have not been partic ularly evident however at a re phi delta theta chi phi and sigma alpha mu were among the national greek letter fraternities which held their annual conventions during the christmas holidays the lehigh chapters of these fraterni ties sent representatives to their re spective conventions l c crewe jr represented eta chapter of phi delta theta at their convention in nashville tenn dec 26 to 29 inclusive the psi chapter of chi phi was represented at their annual conven tion at the schroeder hotel mil waukee wis dec 28 and 29 i>y john conneen robert herbruck and john waterman all these men served on various committees of the day the sigma kappa chapter of sig ma alpha mu was awarded the founders cup at their convention at the william penn hotel pitts burgh dec 29 30 and 31 this cup is given yearly to that chapter of the fraternity which leads in scholarship fraternal spirit organization and efficiency among the 35 chapters of the fra ternity the founders cup was held by the cornell chapter last year melville liberman and julius seligson represented the lehigh chapter at the convention lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday january 8 1929 dean posts all chapel records activities fee and police biggest news of past year price five cents packard building work progresses vol xxxvi no 25 epitome editors request ballots students oppose campus politics all seniors must pay as sessments before january 3 1 . roofing completed and steam turned on li brary rises list of attendances on memorial building bul letin board freshman tea dance brown and white the initial social activity of the freshman class a tea dance will be held after the syracuse wrestling meet saturday from 4 to 7 o'clock in drown hall dave fluharty's lehigh six will furnish the music and ef forts are being made to have the girls from bishopthorpe and fern sem present the tax will be one dollar 21 out of 27 living groups disapprove of election-combines coming events i tonight : 8 p m professor g h hardy distinguished mathematician of oxford university england will speak before the lehigh chap ter of sigma xi on mathematical logic in the physics lecture room the public is invited wednesday 7:30 p m meeting of the mathematics club in packer h,all 7:30 p m varsity basketball vs ursinus taylor gymnasium 7:30 p m faculty dramatic club will meet at prof robert w hall's residence thursday 8:00 a m lecture by thaddeus merriman c e 97 chief en gineer of the board of water supply new york city in room 12 packer hall 7:30 p m dr edgar t wherry of the bureau of chemistry washington d c will speak on soil reaction and plant • growth at a meeting of the l u student chemical society in the main lecture room of the chemical laboratory 7:30 p m professor l l smail will give a talk on the geo metric application of complex numbers at the meeting of the newtonian society in room 37 packer hall 7:30 p m the mining and civil engineering societies will hear w h ramsey on the driving of the muscentecong tunnel in the physics lecture room 8:00 p m meeting of the fencing club in drown hall saturday : 3:00 p m freshman swimming vs reading high school 4:00 p m freshman tea dance in drown hall 7:30 p m varsity wrestling vs syracuse all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association