Brown and White Vol. 36 no. 30

              three to direct paper a further step in the reorganiza tion of the management of the brown and white was approved friday afternoon by the board of publications when it abolished the offices of editor-in-chief and man aging editor and established an ex ecutive committee of three officers to act as the governing body of the paper nineteen hundred and twenty eight will go down as one of the most noteworthy years in the annals of american shakespear eana declares dr robert m smith in his article a banner year for shakespeare folios which appeared in the herald tribune in two installments feb 10 and 11 in the issue of feb 10 dr smith states that during 1928 at least eight first folios of shakes peare have been acquired by american dealers at auctions and private sales the procession of first folios to this country has kept pace with the expanding wealth of ameriia and the demands of new and old millionaire book collec tors lee's ratio of 80 copies in private hands in america to 40 in england is now in need of radical revision dr smith further states that there are many copies of which lee had no record when lee published his census of 1902 he described 158 copies it is pos sible that a careful recount of copies would reach or perhaps exceed 200 the article contains a list of the recent acquirements by am erican and english collectors harvard university's collection includes more than half of the early edition of shakespeare's plays published before 1640 and 18 to 23 published between 1640 and 1703 according to dr smith new philadelphia station described new officers new officers of the brown and white who took office with the beginning of the second semes ter are robert p lentz news manager george h feakins editorial manager frank c murphey news editor walton forstall jr news editor carl claus jr sporting editor robert p lentz was elected news manager after donald l wright resigned the office to concentrate his attention on the epitome of which he is editor-in chief wright served as news editor of the brown and white during the past year recommendations for business manager circulation manager and advertising manager will be considered by the board of pub lications next week until then the present officers will act frederick mercur 26 and julius seligson 30 were honored by the united states lawn tennis asso ciation at its annual meeting satur day afternoon in boston by rank ing them seventh and ninth respec tively among the amateur tennis players of the united states with this achievement these two men have brought great distinction and recognition to their alma mater probably the main factor in mer cur's selection of seventh ranking player was in view of the fact that he had defeated bill tilden last summer at rye n v shortly aft er tilden returned from abroad fritz has also been playing con sistently good tennis during the past season seligson easily deserved ninth in the ranking for with his titles of intercollegiate lawn tennis cham pion and collegiate indoor cham pion combined with the fact that he has defeated van ryn of prince ton university several times during the past year and that he was awarded third in the ranking of the eastern lawn tennis association last december has become one of the main contenders in the east for the national crown although the fact that seligson ranked third in the eastern lawn tennis championships probably was the main cause for his national rating still his greatest individual achievement during the past year was undoubtedly his winning first place in the intercollegiate cham pionships when he defeated such men as ben gorchakoff john van ryn harris coggeshall and don nald crum before entering lehigh seligson won twice in succession the junior indoor championship while compet ing for the columbia grammar mer cur and seligson rank seventh and ninth in tennis school new york city in 1925 and 1926 during the next few weeks sel igson will defend his teifhis title in the third annual intercollegiate tennis tournament to be held in drill hall cornell university march 1 and 2 he with captain walter usher will make a strong bid for the doubles championship as well as the team championship which has been guarded so jeal ously by princeton courtmen in the past fifteen colleges have been invit ed to compete at cornell the list including cornell dartmouth ham ilton harvard michigan lehigh ohio state pennsylvania prince ton swarthmore syracuse wil liams and yale the prospects of lehigh's winning the team cham pionship however are greater than ever before and lehigh supporters are looking forward optimistically to the outcome of the event tilden rated first among the remaining selections made by the united states lawn tennis association for 1928 bill tilden ranked first for the ninth consecutive time establishing a new record the first ten chosen in the men's singles is as follows 1 william tilden philadelphia 2 francis t hunter new ro chelle n y 3 george m lott chicago 4 john f hennessey indian apolis 5 wilmer allison austin tex 6 john van ryn orange n j 7 frederick mercur bethlehem 8 john doeg santa monica cal 9 julius seligson new york city 10 frank x shields new york city hanson to speak to radio society review appears causes comment pennsylvania r a i 1 r oad engineer tells of elec trical features the possibility of making class elections a red letter day on the campus in conjunction with the proposals that arcadia has been considering to create an honor sys tem in politics was discussed by omicron delta kappa at their meeting friday evening the discussion brought forth the following points for consideration 1 — the use of election articles and pictures in the brown and white all write ups for publication would be under arcadia supervision 2 — all day polling 3 — the inclusion of a lecture on campus politics dur ing freshman orientation week the committee on extensions re ported that the dean of lafayette college did not favor the installa tion of a chapter of o d k there he considered that the student council was adequate for the gov erning and advancement of student activities and that if o d k were installed at lafayette the same stu dents would run both societies the dean said however that if the knights of the round table a stu dent honorary society at lafayette petitioned for a chapter at the col lege the petition might possibly be granted the extension committee will discuss the matter with repre sentatives of knights of the round table the proposed plan would give numerals to only two assistant managers and the award of these numerals would be subject to the approval of the coach captain man ager and the team a petition for limiting numeral awards to assistant managers of freshman sports was passed by phi c.lub at its meeting held at the delta upsilon house friday eve ning the petition will be presented for action to the board of control at their next meeting in editorial limitation of individual student activities urged talks on photo electric cells and radio pros pecting scheduled r p more speaks on faust legend life and activities of george faustus dis cussed homecoming alumni on wash ington's birthday will witness in addition to the usual public speak ing contest and athletic contests the laying of the cornerstone of the new library president c r richards p m paine 91 librarian of the syracuse n y public library howard s leach librarian and walter r okeson will address the alumni during the ceremony each will tell the story of the library from his own particular angle the ex ercises will be held in drown hall immediately after luncheon and the actual placing of the cornerstone will be done after the address the program for the exercises follows 11:00 a m public speaking con movies — drown hall 1 00 p m — luncheon in the cafe est — chapel 12:30 p m showing of lehigh building and the new boiler teria 2:00 p m — laying of cornerstone the following addresses in drown hall 1 a history of the library at lehigh university by presi dent c r richards 2 the recent development of the library by howard s leach librarian 3 the place of the library in the life of the university by paul m paine librarian syr acuse public library 4 the financing of the recon struction of the library by walter r okeson secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees of the university 5 introduction of the architects messrs theodore visscher and james c burley 6 introduction of the contractor 7 presentation of the list of ma terials in the copper box which is to be deposited in the cor nerstone by mr a e buch anan • 8 the laying of the cornerstone 9 the alma mater led by the university band 3:00 p m lnspection of packard plant i 4:00 p m — varsity wrestling meet lehigh vs columbia at the gym no definite program has been outlined for the morning although practically all laboratories of the various departments are arranging exhibits the chemistry depart ment is planning to show its new coolidge tube in operation tests of various types of welding will be made in the welding laboratory in the basement of williams hall the new heating plant and boiler room in the warren a wilbur power house will be open for inspection prof w a slater will conduct several tests of materials in the fritz laboratory ' students are not fundamentally dishonest it is fear that prompts them to cheat fear of the parent and of the professor a perfect ad visory system is essential to correct cribbing maintained the rev fred t trafford when he presented the students side of the matter of cheating before the faculty educa tional club at its meeting yesterday afternoon in the physics lecture room a discussion on dishonesty in scholastic exercises presented from the point of view of the facul ty as well as from that of the stu dents brought out many diversified opinions dr percy hughes pres ident of the club stated that prof lamed of the carnegie foundation the speaker of the last meeting de clared a personal relation between teacher and pupil is the core of present-day college instruction many men brought before the dis cipline committee had not attended freshman week program and had not taken the psychological exam ination through action of the com mittee of the 65 cases tried by the committee in the past six semesters only 11 have been acquitted stu dents of mediocre grades are the most serious offenders and of these 60 per cent are freshmen 25 per cent sophomores 10 per cent jun iors and only 5 per cent seniors men capable of good work gen erally but who are forced to take courses in which they are unfit those of unformed character a few with definite intentions of cheating men subject to mental disturbances and those who have not a definite idea of what college requires of them break the regulations a strict hard-boiled attitude in proc tering is the remedy for offenders according to prof hughes we have no honor system here and the faculty owes the honest stu dents a square deal in handling the dishonest ones mr trafford said the complaints brought him show that the under graduates are not dishonest but that unfortunate circumstances drive them to cheat close marking of the work ultimatums given them by their parents weak personali ties of their instructors an over loading of work and the parents insistance that they take courses unsuited to them are the outstand ing causes for abusing the rules continued on page 4 dean c m mcconn who has done much personally to break down the last reason for complaint charged that a laxness in the whole american community encour ages dishonesty corrupt politics and shady business transactions are tate and mcconn talk before junior smoker industries plan senior interviews the legend which forms the basis for goeth's masterpiece and thru goethe for gounod's opera goes back to the xvi century was de scribed by prof r p more of the department of german last eve ning in drown hall his lecture was one of the series by faculty members prof more traced the early ten dency to make collections of faust tales and explained that the tales were probably first written by an unknown writer in latin about 1570 between 1500 and 1540 there lived and travelled in germany a man sometimes known as george faus tus and sometimes as john faus tus who claimed all kinds of pow er as necromancer he was un doubtedly a faker who took full ad vantage of the credulity of his age to live by his wits but the belief in sorcery in the possibility of pur chasing the service of the devil at the price of one's soul was very real in that century and faust al though of course condemned was commonly accepted at his own valu ation even by the learned the mid-winter issue of the le high review came off the press saturday and is apparently giving rise to a good deal of comment the examination period interfered with plans for bringing the issue out earlier and as a result some of the comments failed to take at the proper time the review argues for limitation af activities urging that immediate action be taken since the editorial was written omicron delta kappa has gone ahead with discussion of the prob lem and has formulated a tentative plan in the direction of limitation r max goepp rhodes scholar and last year's editor of the lehigh review has contributed an article called free white and twenty one in which he cleverly writes of a few phases of youth's triumphs in the world today john m blackmar has unearthed a wealth of material on wrestling at lehigh and has presented an article similar to lehigh's football past which appeared in the last issue of the review other articles in the mid-winter issue are thomas hardy by r p black college by dean mc conn how to get by at nothing a year by j j somerville and chemistry in relation to national defense by d l harley the review can be purchased at the supply bureau at the cafeteria in drown hall and at young's drug store alpha kappa psi will initiate eleven men chemical society meet the three chief factors considered before it was decided to electrify the pensylvania railroad at philadel phia were desirability of electrifca tion extent of electrification and source of obtaining electricity ac cording to j l minick chief assis tant electrical engineer of the penn sylvania railroad who spoke at the electrical engineering society meeting on feb 8 s it was decided to build a new undeground station near the site of the old broad st station because of the habit of the commuters in getting off near city hall the fact that this new sta tion was underground made electri fication necessary it was estimated to be cheaper by two mills per kilo watt hour to buy power directly from the philadelphia electric co than to generate it themselves mr menick stated it was neces sary to tear down the buildings in an area 15 squares long and 2 squares wide some of these build ings to be replaced by office build ings directly over the subway the improvements have been estimated to cost somewhere between so to 80 millions and the electrification would cost between 2 and 3 millions a novel point brought out by mr minick was that due to rapidly changing railroad improvements a new station would have to be built in 1965 leon k sowers 29 presented a paper on visualising alternating current effects demonstrating on the oscillograph the effects of re sistance capacity and inductance in a circuit balloting for officers for the com ing year was held from the follow ing eligible juniors p a bard r a baker e s brotzman s c diehl s a kuntz h f singer b o steinert t f strawn e h weiss w p wills j d wood ward and j e zeaser while refreshments were being served prof n s hibshman gave several humorous syetches including a parody on the shrooting of dan mcgrew the manufacture of toxic gases will be discussed by george m hebbard stellar chemistry by michael s ebert and process ing silk by james o whitaker at the chemical society meeting at 7:30 p m thursday february 14 there will be eats and smokes for everyone all members of the chemical society are urged to at tend tau beta pi to found memorial r l hanson assistant professor of physics will deliver an illustrat ed lecture on photo electric cells and their applications and o f ritz mann instructor in physics will discuss prospecting by radio illus trating methods of locating ore bodies by radio waves at a public meeting of the radio society 7:30 p m thursday feb 14 in the phy sics lecture room - prof hanson will probably ex plain the television applications of the photo electric cell and demon strate his apparatus for transmitting music over light waves this ap paratus consists of a revolving disc pierced with holes in the periphery through which light waves are pass ed various frequencies and inten sities of light oscillations are re ceived on the other side of the disc by a cell which transmits corres ponding electrical oscillations thru a vacuum tube this amplifying the current the current is then pass ed through a loud speaker which emits the sounds prof ritzmann in his demonstra tion will attempt to locate pieces of metal around the laboratory by ra dio waves members of the radio society the operators of station w3aeq have recently rebuilt their transmitter and have changed the circuit from a tuned plate tuned grid to a hart ly circuit the new transmitter is steadier easier to tune and pro duces clearer signals than the old one the range of the station has been increased from a 400 to a 1,000 mile radius with the microphone hhey received a report several weeks ago that they were heard in oregon the station wishes to announce that if any one in the vicinity of bethlehem receives w3aeq in the broadcast band members of the sta tion will try to eliminate the inter ference by adjusting such sets diamond gives speech to society at nativity austy tate dean c m mc conn and m e berchard allen town were speakers at the junior class smoker friday evening feb 8 in drown hall plans for a tea dance banquet and the junior prom were discussed refresh ments were served and smokes were distributed austy told several humorous foot ball stories and announced that the scholastic average of the present football team was better than ever before dean mcconn said that the present senior class was one of the best in history of the school and expressed the hope that the junior class might even outclass the pres ent campus leaders mr berchard entertained with several impersona tions of the collegiate type of stu dents the junior prom will be held on friday april 19 in the gym which will be appropriately decorated a popular orchestra is to be selected and unique favors will be distribut ed tickets for the junior banquet which will be held at the hotel bethlehem will be sold within a few weeks it was also announced that the class is sponsoring a tea dance saturday feb 16 following the yale wrestling meet in drown hall to discuss relativity two seniors and nine juniors will be formally initiated into alpha kap"pa psi honorary business fra ternity at 6 p m wednesday at hotel bethlehem professors neil carothers and roy b cowin and associate dean george b curtis faculty members of the fraternity will speak the initiates are r hertzler w s usher f s barker g h fea kins g c l bond r s bennett r b jones r h lewis w e rotthaus j j somerville and e a staub campus events of the week several large corporations have announced their intentions of hold ing interviews with lehigh seniors who desire positions in these cor porations upon graduation the bell system will be repre sented by w p wattles from feb 18 to 21 the westinghouse elec and mfg co will have their rep resentative mr kottman at le high feb 20 sixty men will be selected by the radio corporation of america from 1929 technical graduates upon the recommendation of the radio cor poration's student engineering committee it will be impossible for the radio corporation to hold interviews so all applications must be made by mail applications may be obtained from the heads of de partments proposals have been made by the general electric co to seven sen ior electricals to take positions in their company as a result of the interviews held last week the men whom these proposals were made are r s taylor c w guyatt d c gilbert w e connor j l van nort n j kramer and a b horgan relativity will be discussed when the mathematics club meets at 7:30 o'clock wednesday evening in room 1 packer hall professor k w lamson of the mathematics department will be the principal speaker while several talks will be given by students dr stephen p jones who has been tacking graduate work at har vard is now filling the position left vacant by the resignation of meri dith burrill in the geology depart ment mr burrill is now contin uing his graduate work at clark university members of the executive com mittee will be equal to each other in authority one of the trio will have charge of the business affairs of the paper and will bear the title of business manager a second mem ber will direct the news gathering and writing and will be known as the news manager the third officer will be called editorial manager and will supervise the editorial policy and page object is two fold the object of the change is two fold first to equalize the honor at tached to the major offices on the brown and white and second to establish more cooperation between the business news and editorial de partments of the paper the execu tive committee shall exist without a chairman unless its chooses to elect one of its own members all matters pertaining to changes of policy of the paper upon which the edior in chief formerly had the fi nal decision will be determined jointly by the three members con stituting the executive committee members of the executive com mittee will hold office for one year their terms beginning with the sec ond semester news editors and the sporting editor shall be elected anew etch semester according to a rule passed several weeks ago to write constitution one of the first acts of the exec utive commitee it is expected will be the writing of a new constitu tion for the brown and white since the beginning of its reorgan ization a year ago the paper has ex isted partly under the old constitu tion and partly under rules which the board of publications has passed fro mtime to time john a lyter and william b adams retiring editor-in-chief an dmanager editor who are remaining in the brown and white organization as ex-of ficio members of the editorial coun cil have expressed their willingness to cooperate in the work of writing the constitution the idea of the executive committee originated with mr lyter since its organization into a class a year ago the brown and white has grown rapidly in size and influ ence its further growth into a six or eight page paper regularly or in to a tri-weekly is retarded only by unsufficient funds it is a mistak en idea that the proceeds of the student activities fee has placed the paper on a sound financial basis a debt of four years standing is still about 1,000 the added revenue from the activities fee this year was used to increase the number of columns from seven to eight and to substitute 8 point for 10 point type enrollment in the brown and white course this semester totals close to 100 men according to pro fessor c d macdougall instruc tor the organization of the paper into departments and beats makes necessary an enrollment that large says professor macdougall in or der to do the job adequately there are still some vacancies and men interested are encouraged to register for the course english 49 tau beta pi decided to establish a fund for the erection of a mem orial to dr e h williams jr donor of williams hall and found er of tau beta pi at an informal dinner meeting thursday evening at the butztown hotel the frater nity planned to hold the formal invi tation dance march 9 at the hotel bethlehem the memorial to dr williams will be given at the celebration of the soth anniversary of tau beta pi in 1935 when the national con vention of the honorary fraternity will be held at lehigh a sum of 250 was voted for the fund and it will be added to as the means of the fraternity permit the speakers at the dinner were professors b l miller j l beav er n b hibshman and bradley stoughton juniors list activities cyanide will meet 7:30 p m friday feb 15 in drown hall to elect two new members all juniors should submit a list of their activities to clarence lehr at the a t o house or to rob ert bennett at the theta chi house before 4 p m thursday introductory bows are apt to be stiff and awkward when you are not in the habit of making them while this is not exactly an intro ductory bow and while one is not exactly needed we feel called upon for a word of explanation for various reasons men on the campus are quite out of touch with the rest of the world even the arts men strange as it may seem declare they are too rushed to fol low the dailies unless it be for the sports the engineers we believe are truthful then too here in beth lehem we are all but buried and we are so far from new york that a reputable daily costs five cents a minor though potent reason so that when wet get back to civ ilization we are often surprised to find that the rest of the world has been busy too of course after we are enlightened we may be inclined to think that it is much ado about nothing reference being made to campaign speeches world peace ef forts and a lot of other things but none the less we feel that forewarn ing is forearming and so there is the reason for this column of type we shall at tempt to set forth in as few words as a man trained in the arts col lege can the outstanding events in the news if for some reason you cannot read the daily papers and yet would like to get in brief form an idea of what they are doing back in civilization perhaps this may help and so we take the plunge * * ♦ a scane of the news horizon puts our country naturally so prob ably way up in the foreground next month silent cal moves out and civil engineer herbert moves in and from all that can be gleaned of the not-much-more-talkative hoover there is going to be a good deal of damage done to the present white house system of patronage hoover though he is not letting many words drop is planning a complete reorganization his cab inet will be entirely hooverized just who the ten men are who will sit around him there is no way of determining henry l stimson governor-general of the phillipines is to succeed kellogg as secretary of state and andrew mellon will remain secretary of the treasury but as for the other posts there are about 200 names to choose from and one guess is almost as good as another * * * except that a good many may be eliminated by hoov er's determination to disregard re publican patronage ♦ * ♦ the work of the seventieth con gress has roused interest world wide and indeed it may the two bills preparing for peace and war went by in very nearly the same breath united states has signed the world peace pact and united states is going to build 15 cruisers and an airplane carrier * * ♦ you may make your own inter pretation of this if you are in the r o t c we won't be so silly as to ask you here are the words of two wits on the subject — we can say no more — arthur brisbane says the new shipbuilding program to cost 274 000,000 spread over three years is called extravagance that the na tion can't afford a nation that can afford to spend a billion dollars yearly on cigarettes cigars and smoking tobacco should be able to spend twenty-five percent of that amount in three years to be able to smoke cigarettes in safety of course we might add incidentally arthur brisbane writes for willie randolph hearst and is not as free as heywood broun who writes aft er hearing senator tyson declare that we should go ahead building without waiting because it will soon be impossible to reach an agreement with britain or japan to stop build ing ♦ * * in other words if a man desires to be abstemious he must first begin by guzzling rum for if he isn't al ready drinking how on earth can he stop drinking accordingly the cause of disarmament is to be pro moted by loading ourselves down with weapons that will give us something to drop this seventieth congress of ours will never get through the huge problems that remain a thought occurs here — if you want something to read read the congressional record but little harm there a lot of unfinished business will help herbert hoover to keep one of his easily-made campaign promises he said he was so earnest in his inten tions to help the farmer that he would call a special session it looks as though he will have to * ♦ ♦ continued on page 4 mussolini and pope pius between them and with the aid of several others have succeeded in accom plishing something that many statesmen before them have contriv ed to do and failed the roman question if paper is to be believed has been settled the vatican now has the freedom of an independent state and state ackonweldges can on law along with the validity of marriage by the church without the necessity of an extra civil cere mony that is all this will probably result you never can be certain sophom6re competitors for the business staff of the epitome will meet 4 p m thursday in drown hall sophs for epitome st paul's society is a member of the national student council of the episcopal church although its membership is not restricted to episcopalians its members are all lehigh students and it is a recog nized college activity dr h m diamond professor of economics spoke on the costs and returns of religion at the monthly meeting of st paul's society at na tivity church on sonday evening he selected his topic from his book on religion and the common wealth aboot 20 members at tended the meeting and joined in prayer and songs after prof dia mond's remarks miners attention please get in touch with prof eckfeldt concerning meeting at lafayette friday night wednesday noon — mustard and cheese pic ture at mccaa's 4:00 p m — astronomical society meeting room 38 packer hall 4:15 p m — lacrosse meeting tro phy room 6:00 p m — alpha kappa psi ini tiation hotel bethlehem 7:30 p m — mathematics club meeting packer hall thursday noon — alpha kappa psi picture at mccaa's 7:30 p m — mechanical engineer ing society meeting williams hall 7:30 p m — radio society meeting physics lecture room 7:30 p m — chemical society meet ing chemistry building friday 7:30 p m — cyanide meeting drown hall 7:30 p m — alexander hamilton society reorganization drown hall saturday 4:30 p m — junior tea dance drown hall brown and white introductory bow — herbert hoover c e — war-peace preparations — rome — federal reserve a j w vol xxxvi no 30 lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday february 12 1929 price five cents brown and white editors elected under new plan smith publishes article on shakespeare folios o.d k discusses campus politics and elections alumni return for mid=winter reunion events faculty discusses exam dishonesty among students program includes laying of cornerstone of new library the many reasons for cheating are brought out positions of editor in - chief and managing editor abolished petition to limit numerals to frosh assistant managers seek maroon chapter ceremony at 2 p m trafford gives case all the lehigh news first