Brown and White Vol. 36 no. 37

              the doctor's dilemma " pleases large audi ence tuesday songs marches and class ical selections com pose program rhodes scholar will con tinue chemical research queens college details kept secret is satire of physicians seeks d phil degree travel fund started spring rally planned it appears that some students who in registering for the second semester stated that . they did not own nor have the use of a car in bethlehem have since ac quired them in every such case the student must register his car imme diately at the dean's office all that is necessary is to give the dean's secretary the following data the make the type i c touring sedan etc and the li cense number in giving out this notice dean c m mcconn declared that it will be especially advantageous for students to comply imme diately since any driver reported for breaking traffic regulations who is not registered will receive little sympathy old valued book in lehigh library room will be placed in new library treasure then cast aside his paper as though paris london and the rest of the world never existed as to the matter of which news paper dr carothers expressed ideas held by most liberal journal ists gives credit to tabloids of course dr carothers went on to say i don't suggest that a man should become one of these ask-me-another types but he cer tainly should read - carefully and analytically the news of the day for it contains stuff that is of great value for him through his fam iliarity with the world the college man helps himself socially and in tellectually he gets an insight into the world of finance industry pol itics arts and letters there is part of a liberal education in any good newspaper we have papers all the way from the new york times type to the tabloid and hearst type he said but this latter with all its vul garity and morbid scandal is ac complishing a big thing it is making a reading class out of a class that never before read continued on page 4 dr carothers do you think that the college man who is out of touch with the world of affairs is losing very much he is losing a valuable supple ment to the training which college affords him replied dr n c car others head of the college of bus iness administration what a man gets out of his college work is but a small part of his field and he can not afford to let this broad oppor tunity slip by fellows who cannot pursue col lege work according to dr caroth ers find that by careful analysis of the newspapers weeklies and di gests they can build up a substan tial store of knowledge and ob viously he pointed out if the col lege man takes advantage of this supplement he will greatly enhance the values of his college training danger of getting in rut there is great danger dr car others stated that the man who does not cultivate in his college years the habit of studying world affairs will find himself in a rut when he gets out such a man is apt to turn to the sport section or to the stock market section and several important questions de manding immediate consideration will crowd the program of the ar cadia meeting monday night one of the most important of these mat ters will be the discussion of the o d k plan for the abolition of campus political combines effected for the election of slated candi dates the establishment of an appropriation for the band of which it is proposed 20 per cent be obtained from the arcadia's quota of the student activities fee and the formation of programs for the col lege meetings april 10 and may 9 will also be brought up at the meet ing will vote on politics in an endeavor to thresh out a solution to a question that has long been troubling the college and at times threatened to precipitate a break between the various living groups the arcadia will vote on the plan offered by o d k faculty decide to give comedy filling a theatre engagement for the first time the lehigh univer sity band opened its three day booking thursday afternoon at the globe theatre the band com posed of 55 players of last season's field band is the feature act on the program the nine selections comprising the band's part of the performance consists of lehigh songs marches and classical selections these se lections were well received by the audience the money obtained will apply to a fund to take the band to football games away from home g j zbosoosky 07 manager of the globe theatre was very much pleased with the reception of the band at the first performance and said he believed such an act would do much to advertise lehigh the combined musical clubs of lehigh composed of the glee club symphony orchestra the quartet and several specialties have also re ceveided a booking at the globe theatre for march 11 12 and 13 perhaps 225 or 250 students faculty members and townspeople will receive bids to lehigh's first gridiron banquet to be sponsored early in may by pi delta epsilon honorary journalisti cfraternity no definite date for the event was set at the meeting of the fraternity last evening to discuss plans thomas brennan general chair man reports that a motive for the banquet has been decided upon and that the sub-committees are rapid ly completing routine details bids will be sent out about two weeks beforehand to individuals promin ent in campus activities pi delta will probably issue some sort of publication during house parties last yeat the fraternity edited the pictorial review and the year before issued a razz sheet this year's publication will prob ably be something different from either preceding one members of the fraternity met thursday afternoon with the board of publications to discuss the pro posal of establishing a joint sink ing fund for student publications and a change in the present system of remunerating officers no action was taken slaught speaks monday evening the importance of being earnest will produce wilde's lehigh students meet at easton nevin funk addresses combined meeting of engineering societies r.o.t.c announces new promotions mathematics p r o f c ssor visits lehigh on lec ture tour student officers are as signed to spring commands proposed o d k plan the proposal to eliminate pol itics incorporates four essential points 1 an honor system whereby living groups pledge themselves not to enter into any combina tion for the exchange of votes 2 election articles and pic tures censored by the arcadia to be placed on campus bulletin boards and printed in the brown and white 3 all-day polling under ar cadia supervision 4 proper orientation of new men on honor system in politics during freshman week among the rare books of the lehigh library and the one which will hold the place of honor in the new library treasure room is a small time worn manuscript dated 1262 a d it has the distinction of being the oldest book in the le high collection the book written in very clear black letter gothic latin with re markable care is in an excellent condition for its age it is bound in yellow pig skin which puts to shame many of our present volumes and its parchment pages were held together by brass clasps now brok en off h s leach the lehigh librar ian does not know who the author was but he is of the opinion that it was written by some monk be cause the monks were the most im portant writers of the time and be cause the contents are largely ser mons the volume according to mr leach will be put aside for ancient reference use or for one who wish es to translate it for language re search the book was purchased from a dealer of rare manuscripts in 1884 for 25 since then the value has increased to far above 100 since there is at this time no other known copy prom prices arranged by junior committee student support of the band has been advocated for some time with the band's expenses to be defrayed partly by an appropriation from the arcadia's share of the activities fee and an attempt will be made to bring matters to a head with the proposal to vote 20 per cent tow ard the defrayal of the cost of the band's trips next season the third event on the evenings program will involve discussing in detail the programs for the coming college meetings at which letters will be awarded to varsity players members of the junior class will be tapped for various honoraries and cheer leaders chosen for the en suing year , ralph max goepp lehigh's first rhodes scholar will sail for queens college oxford university the latter part of next summer he is a member of the committee which will suggest the boat for all rhodes scholars to take having been graduated with the degree of ch.e he will take the scientific course at queens college specializing in chemistry the scholarships are tenable for two years subject to renewal if the con duct an ddiligence of the scholar have bee nsatisfactory provided that he completes the first three years satisfactorily goepp would like to work for the new rearch de gree of d.phil similar to the am erican ph.d degree classifies schools there is a fundamental classifica tion of all undergraduate work at oxford into the pass school on the one hand and the honor school on the other the undergraduates of the pass school who number about one fourth of the student body go to the university for experience self culture development and so cial life and indicentally for a cer tain amount of knowledge the honor schools me one of which goepp will be a scholar are vastly superior in method standard and subject matter they represent high standards of specialized study vacations misnomers the method of instruction is the lecture and tutorial systems com bined consisting of three terms of eight weeks each during which the students devote much time to ath letics and social activities a six weeks vocation at christmas and another at easter are the periods in which a consiredable amount of reading and research work is done during a four months summer va cation the students are expected to travel two examinations are held throughout the three year course one in the middle and the final at the end of the three years at present goepp is studying chemistry under the new jersey zinc company's fellowship doing research work in the drying of oils he will resign from the fellowship which is tenable for twenty months at the end of this term but will probably continue his work in the chemistry department here during the summer up to the time he sails for england patriotic society hears librarian lehigh to debate with cedar crest oscar wilde's the importance of being earnest will be produced sometime late in april or early in may by the faculty dramatic club in accordance with a decision reach ed by the members of the club at their regular bi-weekly meeting at the home of professor r w hall tryouts for parts in the play will be held at 7:30 tomorrow night at the home of dean c m mcconn this play is familiar to all those who have taken eng 4 being in cluded in dr r m smith's types of farce comedy this play is in the finest of wilde's style and abounds in clever and humorous situations the plot depends on an old standby that of mistaken iden tity but is developed in an entirely fresh and original manner the play presented at the meet ing was anatol by the german playwright schnitzler and con sisted of a series of seven sketches presenting the armourous adven tures of anatol played by hallett hammatt instructor in mathematics and the efforts of his iriend max played by professor c d mac dougall head of the journalism de partment to extricate him from va rious difficulties will resume drill monday march 18 the price of tickets for the jun ior prom were fixed and the bud get of the prom committee ap proved at a meeting of the faculty committee on students clubs last tuesday tickets will be 5 for couples and 3 for stags the cost of stag tickets was lowered the tickets having cost 4 previously the budget does not contemplate any profit by the committee mem bers this year the surplus will be used in procuring better entertain ment for the prom a joint meeting of anthracite lehigh valley section the lafay ette student branch and the lehigh student branch of the american so ciety of mechanical engineers was held at pardee hall lafayette col lege nevin e funk operating manager and chief engineer of the philadelphia electric co was the chief speaker of the evening mr funk presented a paper entitled power which covered the most recent developments in this line the future of the subject and the pro posed extensions to the conowingo and richmond stations both of which are unique in design profes sor f v larkin of lehigh dis cussed the paper presented and of fered some new angles for thought this is the first time that a com bined meeting has been attempted in the history of the society as a result of the success of this meeting joint meetings are being planned for the future the lehigh student group was represented not only by seniors but also by members of the three lower classes prior to the meeting the execu tive committee of the society had dinner with mr funk and presi dent william mather lewis and dean donald b prentice of lafay ette at the hotel easton the din ner was informal and no particular subject was discussed h e slaught professor of math ematics at the university of chi cago and well known lecturer will speak on how men learned to count at eight o'clock monday evening in the physics lecture room the meeting held under the aus pices of the lehigh university mathematics club will be open to the public prof slaught who comes to le high highly recommended by prof t s fort head of the mathematics department has on his schedule of lectures lafayette swarthmore haverford and rutgers and will lecture on the same subject at each of these schools he will go to la fayette from here prof slaught has done much work in the field of mathematics and has been editor and co-author of a series of text books his reputation as a lectur er is excellent and prof fort urges that the students attend this meet ing and make it a success upon his arrival here monday prof slaught will lunch with the faculty of the mathematics de partment and will later be the guest of the newtonian society of ficers at dinner in drown hall the lecture on shakespeare to be given by dr robert m smith on monday night was postponed until april 29 mcclintock lectures on bitulithic roads vaccination notices sent out this week dr learned not dead c e mcclintock lectured to the senior civil engineers tuesday morning on bitufninous mixtures as used in highway construc tion a bitulithic pavement over a con cret ebase makes the best highway stated mr mcclintock who repre sents fhe warren brothers com pany of boston the speaker used moving pictures and slides to illus trate his talk a general discussion of roads and roadbeds followed the lecture % more college men entering movies delta omicron theta has accept ed the challenges of two more col leges to debate the jury question in the near future dickinson and cedar crest are the new challeng ers the debate with union sched uled for tonight has been cancelled because of a conflict in dates with lafayette many was elected man ager of debates and p a moser s h landy revere beasley and david marks were elected to mem bership in the socitey students interested in the ques tion resolved that censorship of the representative arts should be abolished delivered their pre liminary speeches and a team con sisting of willard brown erwin underwood revere beasley and david marks alternate was chosen to represent lehigh on this sub ject the censorship question will be debated with temple on march 14 and with neighboring colleges at a later date negotiations for fu ture debates are also pending with muhlenberg and moravian colleges the days of peace are over once more the student army of lehigh will be mobilized on monday march 18 at 4 p m all r o t c students are to report to their re spective companies in uniform and with rifles on the upper field be hind taylor gym the companies will be formed with company a at the center of the west end of the field compan ies b and e aligned parallel to the north side company g at the center of the east end and com panies c and f on the south side of the field the company rosters are posted in the vestibule of the armory the drills from now on will be conduct ed with the express desire of pre senting an excellent military or ganization during the month of april by emanuel honig the plight of a doctor who could not decide which of two patients to save from death was portrayed be fore a large bethlehem audience at liberty high school last tuesday evening when the new york thea tre guild players presented george bernard shaw's the doctor's di lemma the last of four perfor mances of the community concert association this season shaw's sparkling humor and cun ning satire makes highly enjoyable entertainment of what would oth erwise be little more than a hack neyed debate on hedonism the plot is old and not plausible but it is made interesting by the unusual characters engaged in the action can cure only ten the doctor's dilemma arises when he discovers that he can use his newly discovered cure for tubercu losis for only ten patients whereas he has 11 cases on his hands the problem then resolves itself into de ciding which of the patients is least worthy of being saved sir colen so ridgeon the puzzled doctor narrows the choice to two cases the first is a struggling physician of reputable moral integrity and the second a talented young artist louis dudedat because of his interest in the ar tist's wife jennifer an interest which is not wholly professional sir ridgeon is almost swayed to dudedat's side however subse quent developments reveal that louis is somewhat of a scoundrel unhindered by moral scruples he has centered his life upon his art worshipping it as his sole god sir ridgeon decides when sir ridgeon perceives the true character of louis and when he discovers that he has married jennifer illegally he refuses to take the case and turns it over to anoth er physician knowing full well that no one but himself can effect the louis dies insisting that his mode of life is the only true one but re vealing by his action that his art his wife and his friends have been only an aura at glory in which he might bask jennifer weds another in the last act sir ridgeon re veals that besides permitting the death of louis because he loved jennifer he was also motivated by the realization that should louis continue to live jennifer would dis cover his infidelity and would prob ably kill herself jennifer never discovers her husband's immorality and believes that his death has cut short the life of a great soul how ever she marries a stranger leaving sir ridgeon a disinterested mur derer sir ridgeon's colleagues provide much humor and are an excellent medium for shaw to satirize the medical profession each presumes himself to be the originaj source of all medical wisdom and each knows nothing their parts are excellently and realistically acted shaw's ability illustrated shaw's ability to play with his audience is well illustrated in this play he has the rare ability of building up an admirable character then pricking it like a bubble to the mystification of his audience his plot is often impossible he does not trouble himself to explain why only ten men can be saved nor to make a satisfactory lover of the doctor it might seriously be charged against him that he does not explain a doctor's moral justi fication for killing a patient this week all men who have not been vaccinated or whose vaccina tions have not taken will be noti fied of the fact by the dean those receiving notices must report to the dispensary monday march 11 where vaccinations will be given from 9 to 12 a m and 2 to 5 p m any man who is not sure about his vaccination record should call at dr bull's office and check up this applies especially to men who because of a change of address will not receive notice from the dean all those whose vaccination records are incomplete after easter will be barred from spring sports until the matter is adjusted dr wood to address educational club student janitor has high rating officers not leaving sophomores will hold tea dance tomorrow due to the similarity in sound the name of dr w s learned as sistant secretary of the carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching has been confused with that of dr r j leonard director of the school of education at teachers college columbia uni versity who recently met instant death when he jumped of fell from the window of his ninth-story apart ment in new york city dr learned is still quite alive during a visit to lehigh last fall dr learned in a speech before the faculty educational on oc tober 8 explained that the purpose of the present work of the carne gie foundation is to reach the in dividual student learning his likes dislikes aptitudes and shortcom ings and to eliminate the method ical routine of the present system of mental training the relation of patriotic so cieties to libraries was the topic of a speech given by h s leach librarian of lehigh university be fore the society of the sons of the american revolution thursday evening at the hotel bethlehem following a dinner in the uni versity room for the members of the local chapter and their wives mr leach spoke laying particular emphasis on the preservation of his torical manuscrips and pamphlets which have immediate bearing upon our war of independence he said we have in our library quite a number of significant old records and sheets of propaganda many of which deal with the revo lution in this very section of the country we have obtained these old prints largely from private li brary bequests of old lehigh alumni several of the interesting pamph lets referred to by mr leach are collection of incidents relating to the dispute of great britain and america 1777 by almon the case of great britain and america 1769 by butler and what think ye of congress now 1775 by chandler dr hadzsits speaks on ancient magic essay contest ends by order of lt col e e mc cammon capt r q whitten has issued a bulletin announcing the promotion and assignments of the student officer of the lehigh r o t c this order does not change any previous arrangement of the drill organization except as speci fically noted therefore students will report to their previously as signed companies when drill be gins the order follows to be majors g l schoen to ist bn l b nason to 2nd bn to be captains f r forte co a g h cross co b r b sax co c a m henry co e j d fenner co f a lehr co g e f baker unas signed to be ist lieutenants w j ur ban co a j mclachlin co b j k ahlberg co f to be ist lieutenants j e ja cobi co b r s taylor co c r g kieffner co c h a sterner co g p kratz co g to be 2nd lieutenants g sickles co a h b sames co b g c dorsett co b r c davis co c j r caskey co c r l myers co e a b morgan co e j t neath co f l e jordan co f h s engart co f a c landis co g e w dehm co g p m zimmer man to bn staff ist bn l c beck to bn staff ist bn p j horvath to bn staff 2nd bn to be ist sergeants g c scott co a d l bower co b w f powell co c e m koch co e d b atkins co f w e blackmar co g to be pltn sergeants i schermer co a a l rose co a e h noedel co a h g fair child co b p l whims co b g c vaughn co b j d dickerson co c g w king co c w h geib co c r s white co c h e datwyl er co e c e oiler co e m kramer co e d o burg er co e f k paget co f w w lowry co f d p johnson co f h f allen co f e n small co g w c lohmeyer co g d epstein co g j e nolan co g by order of lieut colonel e e mccammon r q whitten captain inf dol adjutant dave fluharty's orchestra will furnish the music for the sophomore tea dance to be held from 4:30 to 6 o'clock saturday afternoon dr and mrs w t fedko have been invited as chaperons subscription will be 1 stag or couple robert harris john cush ing francis evers and john har rison compose the dance commit tee the brown and white wishes to correct a mistake made in previous issues in the announcement that captains hyde and taber would be transferred at the end of this year to other duty the war department has extended the details of these two officers for an additional year at lehigh both officers who are popular with the students have been inconvenienced by premature farewells and good wishes and they ask that the flowers be reserved un til later the prize essay contest sponsor ed by the new republic and the lehigh chapter of the order of ahepa allentown ended yesterday with only one paper entered from lehigh according to an announce ment by professor c v goodwin the topic is hellenic contributions to civilization and the prizes will total 200 sweeping out the buildings of the university of illinois by night and attending the college of com merce by day has in no way cramp ed the scholastic standing of s w specthrrie according to dean c m tompson of the college of commerce the dean says that he is the most brilliant student that ever attended the college specthrie has received ninety-four hours of a's and two hours of c's he will graduated in june after ftiree regular college years and two summer sessions besides working as janitor he has also help ed to support his parents civils will meet wed dr benjamin j wood of the carnegie foundation who spoke be fore the faculty educational club october 8 has been invited to ad dress the club again at its meeting at 4 o'clock monday afternoon in the physics lecture room when on his previous visit ac companying dr w s learned also of the carnegie foundation dr wood spoke on the importance of the intelligent handling of stu dents on the part of professors a teacher should learn to know his men their capabilities and their weaknesses dr wood asserted at that time campus events of the week seniors offered jobs seniors interviewed daily the silent dromo claims more college men as actors a re cent survey of the paramount stu dio disclosed the fact that twelve of the leading actors are univer sity or college men the colleges and universities represented by the paramount actors are cornell from whence graduated adolphe men jou university of pennsylvania which contributed richard arlen and the university of kansas which charles buddy rogers claims as his alma mater gary cooper graduated from grinnel lane chandler hails from montana wesleyan william austin and clive brook are graduates of dulwick college in england and jack luden matriculated at john's hopkins richard dix is a grad uate of the university of minne sota and george bancroft received his education at the naval acad emy the senior mechanical engineers were interviewed yesterday by j s beamensderfer of the york ice machinery corporation and by f a pope of the worthington pump and machinery corporation mr beamensderfer and mr pope have been here in previous years the biology of sewage dispos al will be the topic presented by dr william rudolfs chief of the new jersey department of sewage disposal at the civil engineering society meet march 14 in the physics building this will be a comined meeting of the local chapter of the amer ican society of civil engineers and the lehigh and lafayette student societies friday 8:00 p m — public lecture under auspices of eta sigma phi in coppee hall prof g d haz sits will speak on a chapter in ancient magic saturday 2:30 p m — varsity wrestling vs university of pennsylvania in taylor gymnasium 4:30-6:00 p m — sophomore class tea dance in drown hall monday 4:00 p m — faculty educational club meets in physics lecture room 7:3-0 p m — arcadia meets in drown hall 8:00 p m prof h e slaught will give a public lecture on how men learned to count in the physics lecture room under the auspices of the lehigh univer sity mathematics club a collegiate sunday school has been started at the utah agricul tural college which opens later than the rest in the city so that the students may take advantage of the one chance in the week to sleep late dr george depew hazsists pro fessor of latin at the university of pennsylvania will lecture on an cient magic at 8 o'clock this eve ning in coppee hall students faculty and public are invited to at tend the lecture witl be held un der the auspices of eta sigma phi beginning next year dr dadz sits will be the annual visiting pro fessor to the classical school of the american academy in rome he is now editing a series of volumes on our debt to greece in rome over so volumes of the series have been published each of which is concerned with a different phase of the topic the foremost european and american scholars have con tributed to this series these volumes are not technical and are in the university library mr w c bowen personnel manager of the international tele phone corporation will spend march 12 and 13 at lehigh inter viewing seniors who may be in terested in positions with that com pany thos einterested may make contact with mr bowen on the above days through either profes sors seyfert larkin or carothers felix warner of the university of south dakota is a young man who might rightly be termed an out of town student he is joint own er of a three passenger biplane and usese his mode of transportation to attend his early class every mon day morning he lives sixty miles from the university but with his plane he is able to get to his eight o'clock class and still find time to get his breakfast lehigh university bethlehem pa operators of cars must be registered friday march 8 1929 carothers says students should read daily papers price five cents vol xxxvi no 37 brown and white community club entertained by theater guild pi delta epsilon meets to draft gridiron banquet university band plays at globe for three days many problems before arcadia monday evening by a j wiesner ralph m goepp enters oxford next summer journalists also plan to publish house party sheet to discuss plan for abol ition of political com 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