Brown and White Vol. 35 no. 42

              joint chapter meeting will be held with lafayette eminent doctor addresses club on life of med ical students w.c durant gives book seligson gets major l illustrated lecture initiation april 10th stage crew wanted the grave of the unknown worker who fell off the scaf folding during the erection of the chapel in 1885 is still un molsted according to jack har tegan superintendent of the power plant the grave is about three yards south of the trench opposite the wooden telephone pole between the chapel and christmas : saucon hall there is a slight depression in the ground at this spot now and hartegan says the sod sinks slightly every spring although the excavation for the 250 pound steam main to run from the power station to the packard engineering lab oratory failed to unearth a skel eton as predicted by the night watchman or any other relic of interest to archeologists a foun tain was produced in front of hyphen hall friday morning when the gasoline shovel broke a water pipe which the shovel operator declared was not shown on paper dr.howetalksto chemical society a compact black box set upon the magazine rack in the brown and white room in christmas saucon hall attracted the at tention of the first assistant news editor to enter the room he looked at it curiously it was provided with several myster ious black dials a,nd looked greatly like a radio set at tached to the box was a note bearing the following legend for our dear professor this is i slight reimbursement for all the many articles which have dis appeared from this roo m signed the black hand now the assistant news editor knew that articles ranging from a typewriter cover to a pencil sharpener had been pilfered by some culprit but he was taking no chances on becoming the leading figure in a bomb mys tery he gave the bix a push nothing happened he pushed it again no result taking his life in his hands tie cautiously lifted the lid inside was a maze of wires and tubes he dropped the lid and hastily jumped back there was a loud bang it was merely another assistant news editor entering they went into consultation and decided that isn't in anyone's department wiest's report is prize winner describes advances in chemistry at meeting in allentown lehigh chapter of phi beta kap pa announces the pledging of the following men gordon new irving h schwab august j wiesner jr thomas j brennan harold c eschenlaur samuel garwood john i kirkpatrick walter s usher michael s ebert planton middleton kenneth m simpson clarence l snavely bids were issued march 14 and acceptance had to be made by wed nesday the phi beta kappa initiation will be wednesday april 10 and the following day the lehigh chap ter will have a joint meeting with the lafayette chapter at easton the council in charge of the sel ection of men consists of profes sor m s brown president dean albert rowe moravian college nat emery vice president lehigh university professors j e stock er r p more and r b cowin of the lehigh faculty presents paper on kly donograph to a.i.e,e the lehigh library has recently been given several collections of books the most noteworthy being a 50 volume collection given by mrs j s baldwin the widow of the late j s baldwin a graduate of lehigh this collection is com posed of several valuable sets of 19th century american drama and short story the library has also received a book entitled law observance edited by w c durant this vol ume sent to the library by the edi tor contains the essays which were judged the best during the recent 25,000 prohibition essay contest sponsored by mr durant the prominent detroit auto manufac turer h s leach librarian ex plained that since the book gives a cross section of public opinion it will be much used by the eng lish department and also the de bating society numerous important journals and periodicals have also been donat ed noteworthy among these are several bound volumes of early electrical and mechanical engineer ing journals bequeathed to lehigh by the late franklin p stahr 78 the library has further added to its set of lehigh periodicals by ob taining a few missing copies of the alumni bulletin published in the late 80s » debaters match withcedarcrest four dances held during past week debate with schuylkill cancelled because of illness the only reason for anyone's studying medicine is to be of ser vice to mankind declared dr w a pearson dean of hahnemann medical school in an address to the robert w hall pre-medical society last evening the young man of today should choose with greatest care the line for which he thinks he is best suit ed said dr pearson the speaker intimated that a young man con templating the study of medicine should take an introspective inven tory of his natural abilities he ex plained that a good doctor should be sympathetic able honest and of a pleasing personality dr pearson lamented the enter ing of the medical profession for mercenary purposes adding that a doctor should not consider anything but his profession the 80 medical schools in the country are overwhelmed with ap plications said dean pearson the mortality in these medical schools averages from 15 to 20 per cent in spite of this seemingly great sup ply our needs are barely supplied by these schools he concluded at the end of the lecture a film was shown depicting the life of a medical student from the time he enters the medical school until the completion of his internship the film covered thoroughly every phase of the life of a medical stu dent preceding the lecture was a brief business session in which it was de cided to hold the annual society banquet in hotel bethlehem early in may plans were also complet ed for a clinic at the allentown general hospital this morning three fraternities join in giving miami triad dance saturday bethlehem club donates 8,000 about 30 lehigh chemists in cluding both faculty and graduates heard an illustrated lecture given by dr h e howe editor of in dustrial and engineering chemistry at a meeting of the lehigh valley section of the american chemical society last week at hotel amer icus allentown dr howe displayed samples of synthetc materials new alloys and coatings including the chromium plate the usage of which is increas ing rapidly he pointed out the value of pyrax glass as an insula tor for high power transmission pyrax is a product of the chemical laboratory dr howe also advocat ed the substitution of sodium mal ate for the ordinary table salt so dium chloride concluding the meeting a mo tion was passed by the society awarding three full memberships in the american chemical society each year to the three highest standing students at the end of their junior year one from each of the following three universities lehigh muhlenberg and lafayette work started on steam line seventy men appeared for the first try-out for the bad man the spring production of mustard and cheese sunday afternoon and evening in drown hall the great number of men competing for parts in the cast prevented j r o'neil of the perrin producers of new york who is to direct the produc tion from selecting a final cast the play will be presented for the first time at house party sat urday april 20 in drown hall a tea dance given by mustard and cheese will follow this presenta tion the second presentation will probably be given at wilkes-barre april 23 may 2 the play will be given in philadelphia and a pres entation at york is under consid eration the bad man which was writ ten by porter emerson brown was first presented in 1920 at the comedy theatre new york city it was holbrook blynn's greatest starring vehicle the scene of the story is laid at the ranch of gilbert jones near the mexican border gilbert a veteran of the world war is living with his invalid un tie henry smith they are having a hard time avoiding the clutches of old jasper hardy who has a mortgage on the ranch and is threatening to foreclose angela his daughter is in love with every man who comes around although red giddings a cowboy is des perately in love with her morgan pell an american financier whose god is the dollar and his wife lu cia visit the ranch and lucia im mediately falls for gilbert jones into this complicated situation comes pancho lopez a mixture of robin hood and pancho villa pancho with the aid of his lieuten ants speed up the action of the play so much that texas rangers are needed to bring quiet and pancho ends the play by recrossing the bor der despite the fact that many tried out the business staff and stage crew are still incomplete the scenery is to be made by lehigh men with artistic ability are need ed any one who wishes to try out for any of these positions confer with any officer of mustard and cheese new course offered by math department a scientific paper by h g wiest e e 29 on the klydono graph tied for first prize with one by otto e mier u of p on the cathode ray oscillograph at the meeting of the student branch of the a i e e held last week in philadelphia the klydono graph 1 is a surge voltage recorder measuring and recording surges on high tension voltage lines which are due to lightning or switching oper ations wiest illustrated his talk with slides and told of experiments at lehigh and practical applica tions by the pennsylvania power and light company there were 160 men at the meet ing from drexel pennsylvania haverford swarthmore princeton lafayette delaware and lehigh lehigh was represented by about 40 senior electricals and professors n s hibshmann j l beaver s.s seyfert and h d gruber in the morning a technical ses sion was held and in the afternoon the fox locust theatre was visit ed and the movietone apparatus in spected the moore school of the university of pennsylvania was also inspected later in the after noon stunts were held at the meeting held that evening and a b achilles and roger taylor gave humorous sketches about 75 students and faculty members were present when the lehigh debaters faced the cedar crest team friday evening miss sarah biddle miss marian fritch miss muriel horton and miss char lotte kob alternate contended with the lehigh team decision was not rendered both sides maintain ing their arguments well the match with schuylkill col lege scheduled for friday evening was cancelled because of the unex pected illness of edward j stack lehigh debater the brown and white team had planned to uphold the negative side of the question resolved that the present jury system be abolished every effort was made by pro fessor myron j luch and manag er robert many to obtain a sub stitute for stack it was found however that the new team would be unable to arrive in schuylkill until 9:30 o'clock saturday eve ning because of this difficulty the engagement was cancelled pi delt to print bouse party hints men proposed for new review staff everything from the awarding of freshman and varsity numerals and letters in the winter sports and the election of managers and assistant managers to the decision to buy a suitable trophy for the champion ship wrestling team was considered yesterday by the board of control major l's were given to the fol lowing members of the eastern in tercollegiate championship wrestl ing team captain lehr phillips lewis letowt benner landis and miller manager quinlan was granted a major letter while con rath freshman manager received the smaller l in recognition of his having won the e c s a championship in the 200 yard breast-stroke peliz zoni was given a major letter while minor l's went to captain webbe cushman jenkins pickslay greene blood and hertzler varsity man ager holt and freshman manager fimian will wear small letters the board ordered minor letters for the following members of the basketball team captain hesse many schultz bennett schaub baker and nemitz small letters will be worn by manager bob my ers and freshman manager snavely herbuck will manage the 1929-30 wrestling team while storm will be freshman manager the board de cedided assistant managers elected are fuller and murphey the next basketball team will be managed by whitney with simon son as the freshman manager gregg and baird are assistant man agers hill is the board's selection for swimming manager while rohrs will manage the yearlings cress well and drukker are assistant man agers whitehead and sames cross country and track men have the board's permission to enter the perm relays while billy sheridan is allowed to take a team to the middle atlantics a a u wrestl ing tournament philadelphia in recognition of the champion ship he won at cornell recently the board approved of a major l for seligson in considering recommendations for freshman numerals the board approved the following freshman wrestling britton sawyer shaw mears yates an gie and rothenberg freshman basketball issel hal sted katz schultz peabody kauf mann platsky isecovitz nora candidates for assistant manager banister simes tilles persons spath and boyd freshman swimming hoyt brennesholtz fluck ross leven son and snyder frosh preparing for sophomores leh gh students were entertained at four dances held over the last week-end miss alice lewis and alvin lewis 29 entertained 100 couples at a dance friday evening at the saucon vajley country club a supper was served after the dance in the dining room which was dec orated with flowers suggestive of the season sword and crescent senior hon orary society gave a tea dance saturday afternoon in drown hall white brothers ginger band play ed and prof and mrs f c bart lett and fred trafford chaperoned the 75 couples present the phi gamma delta dance was held saturday evening at the chapter house music was furnished by art zeller and his merrymak ers the chaperones were prof h c brown and mr and mrs j j gasdaska the miami triad composed of the phi delta theta beta theta pi and the sigma chi fraternities held the largest dance of the week end saturday evening at hotel bethlehem white brothers ging er band furnished the music the chaperones were dr and mrs c r richards dean and mrs c m mcconn and dr and mrs r c bull a scholarship endowment o f 8,000 in the name of the lehigh home alumni club was appropriat ed by the executive committee of that organization last tuesday eve ning at a meeting at the saucon valley country club the club will nominate the candidate for the scholarship any high school or preparatory school student will be eligible for the scholarship but preferably those from lehigh valley the nomina tion will be subject to the appro val of the committee on scholar ships and loans the scholarship will be awarded on the same basis that the univer sity now awards six free and ten deferred scholarships to freshmen students namely that the candidate is in need of financial assistance that he has attained an average scholastic record which placed him in the highest third of his class in the high school or preparatory school from which he was gradu ated and that his character are such as to give promise that he will profit by a college education the fund will be raised by solici tation of the members of the club and not by a special campaign the money will be depqsited with the university cincinnati alumni see lehigh cinema math club petitions national fraternity riggs and distler baltimore contractors have recently begun the installation of a six inch 250-lb high pressure steam line from the power house to the packard lab oratory the tiles which have been stacked in front of christmas-sau con hall for the past few months will be used in this line at present the contractors are constructing an 800 foot trench from the wilbur power house to the chapel in which to lay the pipes the remaining distance from the chapel to the laboratory will not have to be dug up as there is an old tunnel there which can be used three expansion bends and five anchor pits will be employed in the new line these it is believed will take care of all expansion along the line it is estimated that three weeks will be required for the com pletion of the work a new course has been an nounced by the mathematics de partment to be known as math 219 selected topics in quantum mechanics and relativity the new course will be taught by assistant professor k w lamson and will consist of newton's equa tions lagrange equations ham ilton's equations hamilton's par tial differential equation the wave equation of optics schrodinger's work with incidental introduction of characteristic functions of sec ond order ordinary differential equations the hydrogen atom in the normal state and perturbed state the theory of the stark-effect in the new mechanics the work of dirac and others the relativity part of the course will be of the conventional type first semester 3 math 220 will follow the second semester and will be a continuation of math 219 second semester 3 april 8 set as date of senior banquet the following men wil 1 be rec ommended to the board of publi cations to fill the offices of the le high review g m ondeck edi tor-in-chief b j friedman man aging editor e j jones business manager d b stabler advertising manager and a j allison circu lation manager these men will be considered and passed upon by the board of publications april 5 the third number of the review appeared today this is the last number to be published under the direction of the old officers the next number of the review will appear early in may miller is delegate to geology congress the 43 members of the lehigh university mathematics club are petitioning the chapters of pi mv epsilon fraternity the national honorary mathematics society that lehigh university be granted a charter for a chapter of pi mv ep silon six members of the faculty are included one of which tomlinson fort is at present vice-director general of the scientific fraternity the motion picture of lehigh's campus was presented in conjunc tion with a short talk on the his tory of improvements made on the campus in the last few years fri day before the cincinnati alumni club cincinnati 0 by professor j l beaver a e buchanan alumni secre tary explained the movie to some of the older graduates who had not been back to see the progress that has been made in the greater le high plan the cincinnati alumni club has only been formed a short time but during its life the 40 members have been very active electricals offered positions in edison co bach festival held in chapel may 13-14-15 the members of the class of 1932 were advised to cooperate in order to make their banquet a success by fred trafford captain f w hyde and president charles f halsted jr at a smoker held fri day evening in drown hall the lehigh quartet gave selections and pretzels and root beer were served captain hyde gave reminscences of his early days at lehigh when the frosh were men and the soph omores were out of luck the army captain freshman football coach and honorary member of the class of 32 advised the men to co operate with the cabinet to make the banquet season a success fred trafford the veteran of many a class banquet declared it was im possible to talk to hotel men with out cash and asked the men to pay their dues as soon as convenient the freshmen were warned by president halsted about the traps which sophomores are accustomed to set for unwary frosh and were asked to organize groups which would make possible 100 per cent attendance at their own banquet and which would prevent many sophomores from getting to theirs tau beta pi planning for spring election the senior class will hold its banquet april 8 at hotel bethle hem the banquet committee com posed of j m blackmar chairman c m schwitter c l snavely and j g conrath has secured gordon new the lehigh quartet and a five piece band from lafayette as entertainers the speakers will be president c r richards dean c m mcconn prof p m palmer prof bradley stoughton prof j s long prof n carothers and fred trafford tickets for the banquet will sell for 1.50 and must be secured from the committee or from any class officer before april 6 class of 1930 notice r o lerch and n j cranmer senior electrieals have been offered positions in the new york edison company by e j rutan repre sentative of the company who inter viewed the senior electricals last tuesday this corporation is also considering the applications of sev eral other seniors lerch and kramer were employed last sum mer by this company in the test ing department r w johnson of the leeds and northrup manufacturing com pany also interviewed the senior electricals wednesday and is con sidering the applications of several men the church-going season easter lest we forget is upon us again it is one of the christians most de lightful seasons for they mostly the she-christians get praise and give it at the same time with one eye closed in a prayer of praise the other eye is open casting about to see how many other open eyes are praising their easter rig-out however not everybody is able to enjoy this easter season our dixie land for instance is strug gling under the ravages of flood and wind and mexicans even though most of them probably don't know why are killing each other off in all ferociousness and the happiness of a good many homes has been invaded dur ing the past week by airplane acci dents the crash of the huge tri motored sightseeing plane in new ark killed 14 persons and now four fliers are missing as a result of a miami-to-new york race with a train * * * fortunately the time for more oceanic flights is not quite with us or the list of casualties would prob ably fill much of this column france < spent palm sunday in mourning she suffered the loss of her admirable marshal foch gen eralissimo of the allied forces in the world war marshal foch died at the age of 77 venerated by the people he guarded during the harrassing times of 1918 he was accorded funeral rights which have been accorded no other man since victor hugo the rites were sim ple but made impressive by the tri butes of all nations * * * and still they fighf in mexico while president portes gils paces the floor of the great room in which many a mexican president before him paced in nervous anxiety portes gils claims that the peo ple are not fighting for religion for he says the priests may come back at any time if they will reg ister with the state as any other profession must do the mexican president charges the mexican press as being false propagandists he claims the rebels fail to realize that what they are fighting for is merely to enable a group of men outside the government to get in side but what they are told is that they are fighting for religion and against an autocratic govern ment the mexicans have never learned how to handle two or more political parties two or more parties to them is the signal for another shooting fest * * * at the same time that herbert hoover is pushing his law enforce ment program ahead which inci dentally he says is not to be in the style of a fanatic movement more lawyers combines are being form ed to oppose the jones law which imposes upon volsted violators a sentence of five years in prison or 10,000 fine or both in new york city another committee similar to that headed by frederic r coud ert is being formed camden mount veryion and other cities are doing likewise they all feel that the law is a violation of the consti tution * * * what hoover is after is a show down what is wrong with the prohibition situation is the question he wants to answer and to solve hoover is continuing with what has been called his inventory of the law enforcement situation he is forming a commission to find the results of nine years under prohibi tion and with large sums of mon ey at his command he is pushing law enforcement ♦ * * the papers this week carry strange headlines over one col umn we read that the income and corporation tax receipts are mil lions higher than last year while another headline tells us that there is fear for the government's credit the paradox is too muddled for us * * * headed by borah the same group that opposed wilson's idealistic schemes are now fighting to de cline the invitation to the world court obtained for us through elihu root's efforts although the united states under the root plan would possess a privileged stand in that she could withdraw from the court in the event of an irreconcil able difference in regard to an ad visory opinion borah insists on the isolation policy * * * germany is to pay 420,000,000 a year in reparations a sum 180,000 000 less than under the original dawes plan of payment although germany has not yet accepted the feeling is that she could not have expected anything more liberal than this a list of men eligible for tau beta pi election was brought be fore the meeting of the society held thursday evening in drown hall the election of new men to mem bership will be held after the eas ter vacation a report of the dance which was held in hotel bethle hem march 9 was read a plan for the publishing of a pa per offering advice to students and their feminine friends at house par ty time was presented by john lyter pi delta epsilon representa tive at the board of publications meeting yesterday afternoon the plan which was discussed and sanc tioned by the board is to be one of a series of annual honorary jour nalistic society heretofore these publications have been severely criticized because of content mat ter and this year's paper which is to be wholly different from those of former years will test whether or not the publication is as yet be yond criticism proceeds from the sale of the paper the price of which has not been determined as yet will be turned over to the pi delta epsilon treasury discussion was also held as to the advisability of giving mone tary compensation to officers of the various university publications de cision was finally reached to the ef fect that 25 per cent of all proceeds should go to a sinking fund in the year 1929 so per cent in the year 1930 75 per cent in 1930 and in 1932 the entire total should go to the fund this means that in 1932 all university publications will be run on a strictly amateur basis no compensation whatsoever being al lowed the board also passed upon the brown and white budget and the lehigh review budget for the year beginning february 1929 and end ing february 1930 the next meet ing of the board of publications will be held monday april 8 at 3:00 p m gilbert e doan professor of metallurgical engineering has late ly been appointed to the committee on pressure vessels established by the american welding society un der the direction of the national research council this commit tee works in cooperation with the boilers code committee of the am erican society of mechanical en gineers prominence in industrial applications of welding develop ments from the new laboratory and the prominence of the university in the welding symposiums was to a large degree responsible for doc tor doan's appointment doctor doan is also a member of the committee on fundamental investigations in welding the last thing done by the com mittee on pressure vessels was the adoption of a formula for determin ing the working of fibre stresses in welded tanks arrangements are being com pleted for the annual bach festival which will be held in packer chap el may 13 14 and is details of the program for this year's festi val are being withheld from the public the festival which is v held in commemoration of bach the ger man composer draws visitors from all parts of the country the choir which presents bach's compositions is famous throughouf the world and bach is known as one of the great est composers of all times members of the class of 1930 are asked to return banquet cards to tom ayres phi sigma kappa house before the vacation begins this is necessary so hotel reserva tions may be made prof b l miller has been sel ected by the geological society of america as an official delegate to the international geological con gress to convene at pretoria south africa during the summer months the congress serves as a medium for the exchange of ideas of geolo gists of all nations since it is large ly attended by representatives from every civilized nation the con gress meets every three years in some portion of the world the last session which was also attended by prof miller was held at mad rid spain in 1926 at that time excursions were made to various parts of spain and spanish mor occo this year's congress will hold its sessions in pretoria but excursions before and after the sessions will be made to the various mining re gions and sections of geological in terest in south africa these in clude diamond mines the rand gold mines the rhodesian copper deposits and the victoria falls brown and white excavation fails to unearth old grave black hand repays brown and white old collections of valued books giventolibrary athletic board selects winter sport managers pearson speaks to robt.w.hall pre=med society tryout for m c showis success many applicants lehigh chapter phi beta kappa pledges twelve missing copies of old alumni bulletins received final cast will be pick ed after easter vacation freshmen and varsity teams awarded insignia all the lehigh news first