Brown and White Vol. 35 no. 44

              six speakers de schwinitz president emery puts up bail tea dance friday tate and larkin speak after the gingham girl he went bac kto the role of actor and was the feature comedian in two musical comedy success cuddle up and around the world re view then i went with adrian perrin of perrin producers in that end of the stage game and i'm still there during his stage work he cort tinuedwith his schooling and at 18 having finished high school he came east doing juvenile leads and light comedy in stock companies after four years of stock he landed on broadway at wallacks in three doors a mystery melodrama three doors was not a great hit and when it closed mr o'neill be came stage manager for poli en terprises a musical comedy com pany while stage manager for the gingham girl a musical comedy hit in 1924 he played the colonial theatre in bethlehem redish-blonde hair mr o'neill don't seem more than 30 years old and yet if he is 30 he has spent two-thirds of his life on the stage making his debut in an all-star re vival of salvation nell in den ver colorado when he was ten year old he was the infant prodigy of elitch garden's stock company one of the most famous stock com panies in the country coach o'neillwell pleased with support of bad man by robert b sax j r o'neill coach of the mus tard and cheese show the bad man had just finished announcing to the members of the cast that there would be rehearsals over the week-end then amid the groans of his listeners turned to the writer and said hell they don't mean that they'll come up here then at\d work hard that's orte thing i've especially noticed here at le high — everyone seems so ready to help and cooperate after directing professionals continued mr o'neill — and with them you have to be a soft-soap ar tist — it's a pleasure to work with these men and to be able to feel that i have their wholehearted sup port then to meet on the campus and have as my friends men that have been turned down for parts in the show and to know that they too are behind me — well it certain ly makes me feel awfully good i've been in new york on bus iness a few times lately and each time i've looked forward to com ing back while i'me here de clared the coach i can drop the stiffness ihave to affect while i'm away i can be myself and enjoy myself and it's all because the men around here have made me feel that i'm one of them despite his mustache and sparse banquet season is here and the usual accidents are along with it the latest casualty re ports include broken bones and innumerable bruises sprains cuts and abrasions so far the freshman class has about tied the sophomores in accidents max carlin a soph omore of 214 summit street while battling freshmen on wednesday fell into a gasoline station service pit and met with what may prove to be a very se rious injury he is under ex amination at st luke's hospital for an injured back a e weiner a freshman of the phi sigma delta fraternity received a multiple fracture of the right leg at the hands of a person or persons unknown while engaging sophomores wednes day on third street dr r c bull of the lehigh health service states that he has about lost count of ban daged hands and fingers but he believes that an even greater rush for first aid will strike the dispensary during the next few days after the ■ usual freshman roundup staged by the revenge ful sophomores eleven men became phi beta kappas at the initiation meeting of the fraternity on wednesday after noon in christmas-saucon hall the initiates are gordon g new irving h schwab august j wies ner jr thomas j brennan harold c eshenlaur samuel gerwood walter s usher michael s ebert planton middleton kenneth m simpson clarence l snavely john i kirkpatrick who was one of the twelve pledged on march 25 was unable to be present but will be in itiated later a joint meeting with the lafay ette chapter occurred at 7 p m the following day at the pamphlet club in easton professor lainge dean of the graduate school of chicago university was the speaker of the evening new officers elected were the rev dr paul de schwinitz presi dent dean albert rau of moravian college vice president prof p m palmer secretary prof r b co win treasurer review praises dr smith's book council rules on initiations college meeting welcomes bosey prof barigh writes fav orably in american year book harry w frantz to lecture here united press correspon dent was on hoover good will trip austie tate outlines plans for sub-fresh man day fraternities vote to avoid conflict with athletic contests most of the sophomores finally got to their banquet held at 11 p.m yesterday in the americus hotel in allentown but they reached their goal only after escaping from various bonds clashes between groups of the two classes took place frequently from wednesday on and many strange and inter esting tales have been heard two sophomores are supposed to have been placed on a freight car in the lehigh valley yards that was eventually going to boston e f evers vice president of the sophomore class escaped from his captors with handcuffs on in new ark n j he fell into the hands of the police who telegraphed his house in bethlehem psi upsilon to verify evers story that he wasn't an escaped convict frantz stutz was captured hand cuqed and sipirited away to read ing he managed to work his way back to bethlehem with his hand cuffs still fast after the bethle hem police failed in an attempt to unlock the fetters he had them sawed off at a local garage the speakers at the banquet were prof f v larkin coach a a tate dean g b curtis and fred trafford evers was the toastmaster he is supposed to have been re captured in another fight held out side of the gym at about 5 p m yesterday when the frosh captured several of the athletes who were just leaving the gym junior banquet held wednesday speakers emphasize re sponsibilities as seniors and graduates with the great occasion but a week off plans for spring house party are rapidly nearing comple tion most of the necessary peti tions have been passed upon and the general program has been map ped out under the supervision of the interfrateruity council com mittee composed of red crewe s p coates and j r davey festivities will open four o'clock friday afternoon with the scab bard and blade tea dance in drown hall which will continue untill seven o'clock to the rythm of the london criterions the evening will be delightfully taken up by the junior prom every effort has been expended by the committee to make this dance well worthy of the name tom storm chairman of the committee has been particularly fortunate in securing mckinney's cotton pick ers from detroit a band reputed to be among the best in the coun try and one that boasts of many entertaining features and vocal re frains mustard and cheese club has planned to furnish the entertain ment for saturday afternoon with a play followed by a tea dance the bad man a three act comedy drama is a gripping tale of the far west a unique feature will be the introduction of appropriate music during the high points of the play the bad man had a very success ful run in new york in 1920 with holbrook blinn taking the lead the greater number of the fra ternities are adhering to the tra ditional house dances on saturday evening the following houses have combined to hold open dances sigma chi at chi phi lambda chi alpha at theta xi phi delta theta at phi gamma delta beta theta pi at sigma nu kappa sigma at alpha tau omega kappa alpha and delta phi at sigma phi houses holding individual closed dances are chi psi delta tau delta theta kappa phi alpha chi rho sigma phi epsilon and phi beta delta theta delta chi is holding an open dance festivities will come to a close at three o'clock sunday afternoon high pressure steam discussed by orrok that its constituent fraternities will not allow their informal initi ations to interfere with initiates tak ing part in university athletic con tests and will as far as possible arrange their formal initiation so they will not conflict with sched udel contests was a motion passed by the interfraternity council at its meeting wednesday evening the above action was taken in repl yto requests made by the graduate manager of athletics and several of the coaches that the fra ternities should take some step to relieve the situation that prevailed during the early part of the year several of the teams were seriously handicapped at various times by having some of their men inacces sible due to fraternity initiations a challenge was received from lafayette to a bridge tournament between the two winning fraternity teams of the two colleges a dance will be given by the in terfraternity council on friday evening april 26 in drown hall heinlein addresses r w blake society a unique timing device for speak ers was one of the high lights of the senior banquet held at the ho tel bethlehem monday evening at the end of five minutes each speak er was interrupted by the ringing of an alarm clock of the six speak ers dean charles m mcconn was the only one who concluded his speech in the alloted time an ex cellent meal short speeches and good entertainment contributed to a very successful evening pop ular music was furnished during the dinner by the lafayette gen erals a five-piece orchestra fol lowing the dinner gordon new ac companied at the piano by george f motter sang la paloma in spanish and mailman blues president leonard c crewe acting as toastmaster introduced each speaker with appropriate hu mor professor bradley stough ton in a very amusing talk said that although he realized that the class of 29 was the best ever to be graduated from lehigh he wouldn't ruin the following speak ers talks by admitting it taking his cue from professor stoughton dr neil carothers said that from the point of view of the college of business administration the pres ent class was unquestionably the best to be graduated during his six years at lehigh in another hu morous talk prof james s long stressed the importance in life of making no matrimonial errors of keeping good health and of doing individual work during the intermission that fol lowed at this time between the speeches the lehigh glee club quartet composed of richard s raup first tenor thomas r price second tenor john s harrison first bass and edward j jones second base rendered ah sweet mystery of life and i can't give you anything but love g f motter again accompanying at the piano following these selections prof philip m palmer spoke on the importance of tolerance and of developing an appreciation of liter ature dean mcconn stated that of all the freshman periods of life the freshman period in col lege is unquestionably the most difficult to pass through in the final speech of the eve ning dr charles r richards aft er reading the preface to the uni versity pamphlet monuments pointed out that the final test of a college is the achievements of its graduates the banquet was con cluded by the singing of the alma mater the rev fred trafford who was also scheduled to speak was unable to do so on account of illres9 the committee in charge of the banquet was composed of j c m schwitter c l snavely and j m blackmar chairman just like old times said vice president n m emery after he had been called away from a con ference with the fire insurance ad justers who were settling the dam ages to the physics building in the recent fire to bail out leonard klein 31 football man and joel rothenberg 32 frosh heavyweight wrestler and member of the mus tard and^cheese show cast who had been settling in the middle of mar ket street klein's right to attend the sophomore banquet according to the interested by standers the contest to decide the banquet season supremacy between the pi lambda phi sophs and frosh was cheduled after lunch on wed nesday notwithstanding the offi cial starting time of twelve hours later the battlefield selected was the lawn in front of the house and everything was going fine until un expected reinforcements in the form of sigma chi kappa sigma and sigma phi epsilon frosh arrived then right merrily did the conflict rage spreading over the sidewalk and right into the middle of mar ket street then to the surprise of the crowd officer 44 known in offi cial circles as earl borman dough ty 32-year old myrmidon of the lo cal police force who had meanwhile arrived on the scene jingling his handcuffs instead of arresting ev eryone in sight just told the bat tlers to move off the street and be came an interested bystander him self suddenly as if possessed with an idea earl went into the pi lam house and called for the blue-bug gy perhaps the real reason was that he thought the boys were play ing too rough because he was heard to say to one triumphant frosh who was on top of a pile if you break his fingers i'll break your neck knowing that the turmoil v^as on its way most of the tied-up were carried away to parts unknown to start a long treck back home see ing that his intended victims were escaping before his very eyes earl courageously brandished his six shoeter and notwithstanding the most unkind remarks of the onlook ers saved klein and rothenberg for the ride in the hurry-up wagon when interviewed earl said some lady came running up to me and said there was a big fight go ing on and that she was afraid to cross the street i ran up and stopped the fight there were too many for me to handle alone so i only arrested those two that was his story and he stuck to it there was some question about the charge against the men which was disorderly conduct because the lady had complained that they were obstructing traffic however ser geant ryan upheld his minion and doctor emery deposited 12.50 bail for each man the hearing is set for next wednesday morning be fore alderman spurgeon g sigley tau beta pi pledges five men in chapel president hoover's good will trip to south america which rais ed the question of alleged censor ship of news and the new presi dent's attitude toward the press will be described at an open col lege lecture wednesday evening by harry w frantz united press staff correspondent who two months ago completed the trip around south america with hoover the lecture is scheduled for 8 o'clock in drown hall mr frantz comes to the lehigh campus under the auspices of pi delta epsilon and with the cooper ation of the united press it is a part of the three-fold purpose of pi delta epsilon to annually bring a speaker of journalistic repute to each college in which a chapter is located *• arrangements have been com pleted to accommodate all mem bers of undergraduate publications students of journalism and such other students faculty members and townspeople as may be inter ested mr frantz's talk will not be technical and should be of gen eral appeal touching as it does on current events it is hoped that an open forum will follow the lecture mr frantz is described by karl a bickel president of the united press as one of the leading spe cialists on foregn news in the united states a graduate of stan ford university and a very interest ing man mr frantz has spent considerable time in south america with general pershing dr wood will speak before faculty club motter writes songs for the bad man declaring that power caused the difference between the height of the peaks of past civilization and those of the present george a or rok traced the development of mod ern high pressure steam systems to the mechanical engineers last evening in williams hall mr or rok continued by crediting the united states with using more than twice as much power per inhabi tant than any other country in the world the lecture was illustrated by slides the more power we use per in habitant the richer we will be he said the yearly increase in the rate of power used is too great to measure with these and like statements mr orrok predicted greater american prosperity thru the use of mechanical and electrical slaves bosey reiter spoke to the stu dent body for the first time since his illness at the college meeting at 11 a m wednesday in the low er gym and his characteristic en thusiasm and fight were brimming over but it is still necessary that he go a little easy he expressed his great pleasure in being with us again l c crewe president of the sen ior class f c bartlett assistant professor of physical education and bosey awarded letters earned last year a a tate congratulat ed the student body on the sincere attitude they were showing tow ards lehigh and explained that the object of sub-freshman day is to interest fellows in lehigh who are good students good athletes and financially capable of availing them selves of a college education f t trafford said that the spir it of lehigh was fine he urged everyone to attend the college sing to be held sunday april 28 on the campus north of drown hall tate 4old of the plans for the banquet to ec held in the evening in the hotel bethlehem for the sub freshmen each living group will be sent one five dollar ticket which will entitle one member of the liv ing group or fraternity and one of the sub-freshmen to attend the ban quet this has been done so that all the living groups will be repre sented at the banquet as many more tickets for two dollars and one half may be purchased as de sired president richards and grantland rice the sports writer will probably be the speakers tate also urged all interested in foot ball to come out for spring prac tice and to keep up in their studies final cast chosen for faculty play dr c p heinlein will talk on the approach to musical esthet ics at the meeting of the robert w blake society at 7:45 tonight in coppee hall and will demonstrate his talk with a performance on the piano dr heinlein who is espe cially interested in this field has written several articles on musical esthetics new members and officers will be elected for the coming year and the details of the yearly trip to princeton will be discussed the robert w blake society has gone to princeton every year for the past five years the trip this year will be made to hear p c more for mer editor of the nation and widely known writer and scholar lecture on art and architecture the lecture will have some bearing on the exhibition of paintings now be ing displayed in the memorial building may 3 is the tentative date set for the trip the variant issues of shakes peaper's second folio a most scholarly study of the collected plays of shakespeare by professor r m smith of lehigh has re ceived considerable favorable com ment in the american yearbook this great literary journal which undertakes to review literary acti vities for the past year recognizes professor smith's work as of great importance by devoting to it a re view article in its all too limited space the yearbook says rob ert m smith's variant issues of shakespeare's second folio and milton's first published poem is the first adequate description of the nine variant issues of the second folio this review is by professor a c barigh of the university of pennsylvania the review is not the only publi cation which has spoken praise for professor smith's book for a ed ward newton philadelphia manu facturer of electrical equipment considered by critics as one of the world's greatest rare book collec tors devotes quite some space to it in his latest book this book collecting game mr newton as well as many other followers of rare books considers professor smith's publication of the greatest impor tance in identifying rare shakes perian folios the first four issues being valued at many thousands of dollars professor smith has also published a book on the first folio which is also a criterion for rare book collectors and is now prepar ing a publication on the third edi tion which will probably be sent to press the first of next year it is interesting to note that the lehigh library has an unusual col lection of rare shakesperian folios a fine copy of each edition first escond third and fourth is in the care of the librarian h s leach who is planning to place them in the treasure room of the new li brary now under construction the lehigh group was bought in the late 80's by professor w h chandler then director of the li brary at private rare book auctions the first edition published in 1623 was purchased for 685 the second edition of 1632 came for 250 the continued on page 4 tau beta pi pledged five juniors monday morning in chapel the pledges are willard a maccalla i e arthur l smith ch e bentley o steinert e e lee c boyer c e and edward s brotz man e e prof b l miller gave a short talk on the general subject of awards and on the founding of the society in 1885 immediately fol lowing five of last year's members placed the brown and white pledge button on the lapels of the new men and amid general congratula tions from all the members pres ent the informal initiation will be given on thursday evening april 25 in drown hall the next eve ning the formal initiation will take place followed by a banquet at the hotel bethlehem miller talks in n y sophomores wanted dean mcconn on trip two sophomores are wanted by the mustard and cheese for assis tant property managers in its pro duction of the bad man candi dates should call paul hickman at alpha chi rho prof b l miller head of the department of geology will address the new york metallurgical club thursday evening april 17 he will speak on the formation of the primary and secondary min erals dr babasinian will tell romance of match-head dr benjamin j wood of colum bia university statistician of the carnegie foundation and widely known authority on secondary and higher education will address the faculty educational club at its meeting monday dr wood who was scheduled to speak to the fac ulty educational club last month but was prevented from doing so will talk on special placement examinations dr wood will meet the heads of the chemistry english business and mathematics departments to discuss the preparation and use of placement tests in those depart ments and will present the practi cal aspects of the use of the tests the speaker is not making his first appearance before the club having previously spoken at a meet ing in october 1928 at that time dr wood urged the faculty to re alize the importance of thoroughly knowing the students he stated that a teacher should learn the ca pabilities and weaknesses of the men and to pass this information along as the student progresses though not a musical comedy the plot of the bad man which centers around life on the mexi can border lends itself to music and accordingly george motter at the request of j r o'neill coach of the play has composed several songs for the production motter is musical director of the show the costumes for the play are be ing made by tains in new york city practices will be held sat urday evening sunday afternoon and evening and monday after noon and evening the philadelphia lehigh club is sponsoring a performance of the bad man on the evening of may 2 in the ball room of the bellevue stratford moriz bernstein pub licity agent and john mckay chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements were in bethlehem wednesday to confer with the managers of the mustard and cheese on the program pos ters and general publicity work to be undertaken in philadelphia journalists to""have election tomorrow dean max mcconn left for washington d c tuesday to at tend a meeting of the association of the deans of men the dean spoke before the baltimore lehigh club tuesday night and will re turn to lehigh monday final selections for the cast of oscar wilde's the importance of being earnest to be presented by the faculty dramatic club are as follows algernon montchieff j.m toohy john worthing m p syd ney brown the rev canon chas uble d d henry schenck lane a manservant lawrence washing ton lady bracknell mrs r m smith hon gwendolyn fairfax mrs sydney brown cecily car dew miss elizabeth b hay and miss prism a governess mrs p.a lambert arrangements are being made to have reynolds evans a profession al actor formerly of walter hamp den's company who has acted in the importance of being earn est to come here the first week of may to coach the play will in all probability be presented fri day may 17 to mining society graduate talks whether or not early mining ex perience should be obtained abroad will be discussed by h d keiser in a lecture before the mining so ciety at 7:30 friday evening in the geology lecture room williams hall mr keiser who is assistant edi tor of the engineering and mining journal graduated from lehigh in 16 a film entitled the wonders of anthracite showing the handling of anthracite from the time it leaves the mines until it reaches the con sumer will be shown at this meet ing through the courtesy of the le high coal and navigation com pany the meeting is open to the public campus events of the week a four-piece orchestra entertained the class of 1930 at its annual ban quet wednesday evening in the ho tel bethlehem about 100 men were present speeches were delivered by mem bers of the faculty after the meal president richards declared that every alumnus and student should have an ambition to make the phy sical plant and the scholastic achievements of his college second to none in the courftry the pres ident desires a new dormitory built just below the look out to house 600 a hospital for the students and eventually to replace the old build ings on the campus with buildings definitely designed for the purpose for which they are to be used he stated that the average salary of a teacher in college is 2,900 per year while the average salary at lehigh was 3,200 but he desired this av erage raised prof neil carothers said that the new system to be adopted next year would weed out all the in compentent freshmen and accord ingly the tragedies entailed in flunking out upper classmen would be lessened prof carothers re ferred to the tuxedos worn by dean g b curtis and prof j s long as drive urself suits c d macdougall assistant pro fessor of journalism mentioned four types of course crabbers first the man who always raises his hand and is ready to answer any question the prof may ask second the man who goes up after class and tries to impress his personality on the teacher third the man who makes special efforts to get acquainted with his professor outside of school and fourth the fellow whose chief purpose in coming to college and in studying is to obtain high grades prof macdougall maintained that a man should avoid all four of these methods but on the other hand he should not be timid but should give natural expression to himself prof long spoke on the front iers that we strike upon graduation including the business world and the problem of marriage a a tate related several ateletic jokes dean curtis said that a happy life included four things work play friends and health refund chemistry fees freshmen who did not sign over their first semester chemis try laboratory fee refunds to the research fund can obtain checks for the same at the bur sar's office monday 3:00 p m board of trustees meet in the alumni memorial build ing 4:00 p m meeting of the faculty educational club in the chemis try lecture room dr b j wood wil speak on special placement examinations 8:00 p m college lecture in drown hall dr v s babasinian will speak on the history of the match-head banquet at hotel the banquet for the sub-ffesh men at which grantland rice is expected to speak will be hefd at hotel bethlehem and not at saucon valley country club as stated in the last issue of the brown and white today 7:30 p m meeting of the mining society in the geology lecture room williams hall h d keis er will speak 7:45 p m meeting of the robert w blake society the approach to musical esthetics will be the subject of an address by c p heinlein saturday 4:00 p m meeting of pi delta ep silon in drown hall senior notice all seniors who have not as yet placed orders for commence ment exercise invitations and announcements and class day programs should get in touch immediately with arthur rob erts phi delta theta michael bollman section b taylor hall or edwin gott chi phi class day programs are soc each and commencement announcements and invitations are 10c each pi delta epsilon will hold a meeting tomorrow afternon at four o'clock in drown hall to elect new men and to perfect plans for the coming gridiron banquet to be held april 29 it will be mod elled on the gridiron banquet held yearly in washington d c and prominent bethlehem city officials have been invited tom brennan is chairman of the banquet commit tee doctor v s babasinian of the chemistry department is the speak er at the next college lecture to be held at 8 p m monday april 15 in drown hall his subject will be the history of the match-head doctor babasinian will go into some detail concerning the modern match-head its composition and the changes therein upon ignition he will tell of the difficulties that had to be overcome to perfect the modern match from the time when the prehensile man lit his substi tute for a lucky with two rather large stones he will go quite deeply into the romance as well as the science of the development of the match-head telling how fire was feted used to fight disease and to destroy witch es he will delve into the mystery attendant upon fire in the fine days of long ago a mystery that was perhaps as great and intimate as any according to the doctor lehigh university bethlehem pa friday april 12 1929 vol xxxv no 44 brown and white sophomores begin banquet offensive price five cents seniors attend final banquet monday evening phi beta kappa initiates eleven into membership spring parties claim 47 hours of coming week alarm clocks used to warn speakers of time limit two jailed for staging class battle in the street battling classes tie in scoring accidents new officers also are also elected at meet ing wednesday mckinney's cotton pick ers will play for jun ior prom midnight feast at amer cus hotel well at tended by 3 1 . member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first