Brown and White Vol. 35 no. 49

              would aid athletics program completed displays first folio automatic rifle victims recover strauss allows 8 hits this concession coming as it does four days after america had electrified the disarmament com mission by removing some of her naval demands thus eliminating to a large degree the naval issue which appeared a big obstacle to the suc cess of the disarmament conven tion reveals the united states a strong advocate of world peace robert baird jr and philip davis two sophomores acciden tally wounded by an automatic rifle during an m s & t class are rapidly improving according to reports from st luke's hos pital both are expected to re sume their classes toward the end of the week ipenser or according to dr riley the best tribute of milton to virgil is in his suse or imitation of virgil in dr riley has decided after con sidering all of milton's direct ref erence to virgil's position for granted and does not attempt to de tract from it dr riley offers this as a solution for the reason why milton who knew virgil so well fails to praise him as he does horn he further in an article entitled milton's tribute to virgil which appeared in the april issue of studies in philology dr edgar h riley de scribed the very marked difference in temperament between the two poets milton and virgil which caused milton's reference to virgil to be casual his pastorial poetry and in his great epic paradise lost virgil's mm fluence upon milton was fundamen tal and enduring and milton has left no meagre biographia litera ria no critical account of his stu dies models and sources of inspir ation - declares dr rilev refer ing to the two poets continues dr on s upon minded each was attracted by phil osop y ana science each eager to secure fame for himself and his country by a great poem he felt divinely impelled to write vir gins epic was founded upon pietas riley both epics were works of profound scholarship and a most painstaking and conscious art harris and miller lead in hitting for home • team prelegals will hear f.cbecker pi delt protests salary abolition lehifih military corps inspected student soldiers pass in review before maj patch this move was made by america to promote speedy action on the part of the commission it was done to encourage a conciliatory spirit all around it is a recommen dation that all other powers having concessions to make should follow suit this country in short laid her cards frankly on the table and directly appealed to the others to do the same lectures thursday on the lawyer and his relations to society journalistic fraternity ini tiates ten at hotel bethlehem newspaper comment on the tea cup tempest referred to in our column of two weeks ago has been facetious and not a little severe we couldn't resist clipping a little excerpt from the new york evening post which may show in what light the country views the struggle of mrs gann for social honors a bullheaded vice president goaded by an ambitious woman can stir up all kinds of a mess mrs gann is not set in the seats of the mighty by decree of her own coun try but by the amused complais ance of courteous foreigners will this memory spoil the fun of the vice presidentess as she looks down from the head of one of those jolly-diplomatic dinners past six frozen-faced ambassadors to where her unrated husband hides at the foot of the board we devoutly hope so the u s government officers who inspect the m s and t de partment once a year found the le high r o t c unit in fine order no report has been given as yet concerning the general out-come of the inspection the final rating of our school in military science will not be known until later the inspectors began their exam ination at 9 o'clock yesterday morn ing they first held a short con ference with regular army officers at lehigh at 10 a m the officers met at the armory where they gave a thorough inspection of the unit in regard to the physical facili ties of instruction the property in use personnel organization and the administration of instruction the big scare came at 4 p m when the drill and main inspection commenced the band completed the military array and as it led the way into the lower field the inspec tion began in full swing several outsiders and students witnessed the performance as the companies passed in review before the inspec tors that bacon wrote shakespeare's plays is an absurdity declared dr robert m smith professor of eng lish in his lecture on shakespeare last evening at drown hall dr smith was strong in his de nunciation of the baconians and further added the baconians are principally interested in propagan da and notoriety the minds and interests of the two men were as far apart as the moon and sun he said dr smith gave numerous quota tions from contemporaries who re fer to bacon and shakespeare as two different men were , these contemporaries all liars when they referred to shakes peare questioned dr smith if we study the methods of composi tion used by the two men we can distinguish the difference dr smith scoffed at those who attempt to prove from an examina tion of the first folios that bacon wrote shakespeare's plays he said there are over 20,000 typo graphical errors in the first folio he added we know that five of shakespeare's plays were stolen and printed and at least six others were printed without his name a survey of the ranks of the baconians will show that they are composed of men unqualified to cast judgment up on shakespeare's works declared dr smith however he continued i will say one thing for the baconians — they do show marvelous industry dr smith declared that critics who claim that shakespeare was a londan lawyer have not taken into account the numerous legal mis takes in his plays we have records of what shakespeare did every year from 1589 o his death he continued dr smith exhibited one of the first folios of shakespeare that is now in the university library frosh will burn dinks on may 11 university women receive officers the plan that o d x senior honorary fraternity has devised for the limitation of activities and which it intends to present to ar cadia tomorrow evening and later to divide activities into three groups maximum major and minor un der the plan maximum activities count 12 points major six points and minor three points no man may carry more than a total of 18 points of activities at one time a committee of the fraternity working with dean max mcconn claims that the proposal will in crease the efficiency of the organ izations affected benefit athletics by improving scholarship and broaden the educational scope of the activity the plan if approved by the faculty will go into effect sept 1930 maximum group 12 points var sity athletic squads mgrs and assts cast and chorus of m & c show brown and white — editorial manager business manager news manager news editors sporting ed itor circulation manager and adver tising manager epitonie — editor in chief business manager review — editor in chief business manager burr — editor in chief business manager and advertising manager chairman senior year book major group 6 points brown and white — assistant news and sporting editors and department heads burr — managing editor and circulation manager epitome — ath letic fraternity and organization editors and opinion editor review managing editor mustard and cheese — president and business manager minor during time of in activity musical clubs — president and business manager minor group 3 points mustard and cheese — travel manager and stage manager and program editor band — leader and business manag er musical clubs — participants in concerts heads of living groups president of senior class president arcadia president lehigh union president interfraternity council chairman interfraternity council athletic committee burr — assistant editors members of d o t de bating teams frank c becker instructor of philosophy will speak on the lawyer and his relation to so ciety thursday 8 p m in coppee hall this lecture is sponsored by the pre-legal societ yand will be the first one given under the direc tion of the new officers of the so ciety mr becker who will become as sistant-professor of philosophy on september 1 is well-qualified to speak on his chosen subject for two years at the university of cal ifornia and for two additional years at the university of illinois mr becker was an instructor of philos ophy he then went to western reserve as an assistant professor of philosophy during these years he speacialized in political philosophy he has also maintained close rela tions with the law school at col umbia university where he lectured for one year on the same subject this year mr becker has again been selected to give the capacity test for lehigh students who wish to enter the columbia law school and he will give this test on may 11th the lecture which will serve as a climax of the society's work for the year will be an attraction not only for many lehigh students but also for many students from lafay ette and muhlenberg students who are studying law and sociology 200 students present at first college sing under a cloudless sky and before a large sub-freshman day crowd in taylor field last saturday le high's rampant baseball nine mak ing its firts home appearance of the year turned just another game into glorious brown and white ath letic history by coming from behind to down the army 6-5 in eleven innings mort strauss silenced the west point infantry while the bats of bob harris and win miller spelled doom to the cadet pitching staff twice lehigh pulled the game out of the fire by the home run route and army's circuit clout in the tenth inning with a man on base made the cadets so sure of the victory that they started pack ing up their bats the bethlehem boys were in a hitting mood and made the going rough for stribling the cadet twirl er he retired after win miller lifted the ball over the fence in the eighth frame harris hits hard the home team sprung a surprise by shoving its murderer's row to the tail end of the batting order robert suitcase harris and win miller who starred on petrikin's last year freshman brigade and who now bats eighth and ninth on the adams nine caused army hearts tcr falter with their vigorous lambast ing of the horsehide bob harris enjoyed a perfect day at the bat until the final in ning the long boy hit a home run the first time up connected for a three-bagger in the fourth inning singled in the sixth eighth and tenth and with the bases loaded in the eleventh skied out to left field win miller the other member of the home run duo helped the le high cause materially in every ses sion but the fourth in which inning he grounded out to third miller singled in the second walked in the sixth hit a home run scoring har continued on page four professors and wives pres ent at large annual reception junior class to elect tomorrow harry miller lehigh alumnus leads songs — geo motter plays bailey to speak to electricals pi delta epsilon unanimously protested the action of the board of publications to eliminate the sal aries of undergraduate journalists at a banquet in hotel bethlehem last evening the fraternity re quested the board to withhold ac tion until more definite plans are made for the disposal of the joint sinking fund probably will be used to help buy a press pi delta epsilon will also rec ommend that commencing in 1931 the epitome and the year book be combined as one publication either junior or senior a committee con sisting of j a lyter samuel gar wood and r f pflueger was ap pointed to draw up and submit de finite plans for the next meeting of the fraternity which will be held in the fall officers for the coming year elected at the banquet are donald wright president robert lentz vice-president king paget secre tary john coneen treasurer prof c d macdougall of the de partment of journalism outlined the achievements of the society in the past and stated an agenda for the coming year john maxwell assis tant editor of the lehigh alumni bulletin and a e buchanan sec retary of the alumni association also spoke the formal initiation of ten pledges was held before the ban quet those initiated were r p lentz t f storm george fea kens king paget donald stabler e j jones gabriel ondeck l a brettuer and george schoenhut a e buchanan was initiated as an honorary member order of ahepa will award essey prizes defended as a laudable and sin cere attempt at upholding the coun try's law by some prohibitionist and denounced by still other drys as plain murder the debate raged hotly dividing the house into fac tions irrespective of political or liquidistic leanings a dance will follow presentation on may 8 at the americus recent developments in electrical utility sys tems is topic tornadoes which swept over south central georgia and parts of south carolina friday afternoon and evening have killed 90 injured over 500 and destroyed over 1,250,000 in property descending from a clear sky and without the usual preliminary warning of twist ing clouds the tornado struck first near macon ga then leaped to cochran where it passed within a quarter-mile of the business section and then swung toward dexter and chester almost simultaneously another storm swept a corner of south carolina centering around spartansburg and pelzer the first college sing of the year was inaugurated when approximate ly 200 students gathered at drown hall sunday afternoon although inclement weather obviously caused a smaller attendance than was ex pected fred trafford was well pleased with the showing tom brennan was master of cer emonies and introduced harry mil ler lehigh alumnus who led the songs george motter the band di rector furnished the music on the piano all of the songs the fav orites of every lehigh man were sung and just before the end miller taught the students an old one that was unknown to the present day students the plan to have some of the campus leaders tell of the outside activities on the campus was aban doned refreshments were served by the wives of the faculty the date of moving-up day the day of all days for the freshman has been set for saturday may 11 by the committee in charge familiar to everyone in this tra ditional day when the frosh are no longer required to wear the marks of degradation the dink tie and socks likewise the junior comes into his own he will receive a cane from some present senior what matters it if he had just bought the cane so that it could be given to him for it shows that the long road is nearing its end seniors will wear white hats sim ilar to the ones worn last year the price of the hats is not definite as yet however they will probably be bought from tom bass the juniors are requested to buy canes and give them to some senior so that on may 11 they may have them returned by the senior as in the past the sophomores will wear flow ing brown ties the freshmen will begin mon day may 6 cutting sections from their dinks and on saturday the tra ditional bonfire will destroy all fur ther remnants w j priestley guest at stoughton dinner the lehigh chapter number 60 order of ahepa will have a presen tation of essays and an awarding of prizes wednesday evening may 8 at 8 o'clock in the rainbow ball room of the americus hotel al lentown a dance will follow the presentation students desiring in vitations may obtain them from phillippus mosescu 312 south st cloud street allentown the society offered several prizes for the best essay written upon hellenic contribution to civiliza tion the first prize was won by a lehigh student but the society is withholding his name until after the presentation m i t prof plans to combat hurricanes newly elected officers of the le high university woman's club were formally introduced at the annual spring reception held last friday evening in drown hall the affair including many professors admin having about 160 persons present was exceptionally well attended istrative officers and their wives mrs charles r richards wife of the president of the university and mrs natt m emery headed the receiving committee those elected for this year are mrs m j luch president mrs p m palmer first vice president mrs c m mcconn second vice president mrs frank weida treasurer mrs f a brad ford recording secretary mrs george harmon corresponding sec retary and mrs robert m hall chairman of the committee for ar rangement of affairs dancing was enjoyed until 12 p m after the formal reception had been concluded and the refresh ments had been served music was furnished by a lehigh orchestra the sixty-first annual commence ment exercises at lehigh university will be held from friday june 7 to tuesday june 11 the rev harry emerson fosdick s t d l l d pastor of the park ave nue baptist church new york city will deliver the commence ment address alumni day saturday june 8 will be featured by the annual par ade of the reunion classes each class dressed in colorful costumes will march from the memorial building to taylor stadium to wit ness a baseball game between le high and villanova college at 1 o"clock before the parade the al umni will have luncheon at the ar mory pres c r richards reception to tne members of the graduating class and their families the trustees faculty alumni and friends of the university will be held monday afternoon june 10 in drown hall the reception formerly was held in the evening class day exercises will be held monday afternoon the . prophecy for the graduating class will be read and in accordance with tradition each senior will snap off the stem of a long pipe the detailed program though not definitely decided upon will prob ably be as follows friday june 7 daylight saving time 12:00 p m meeting of the board of the alumni association bethlehem club 7:00 p m alumni dinner fif tieth reunion of the class of 1879 ball room hotel bethlehem din ner for the wives of the alumni and faculty hotel bethlehem 3:00 p m parade of the reunion classes saturday june 8 10:30 a m an nual meeting of the alumni associ ation in the auditorium of the james ward laboratory of electrical and mechanical engineering 1 00 p m alumni luncheton in the armory 3:00 p tn baseball game between lehigh and villanova 7:00 p m reunion banquets sunday june 9 10:45 a m acad emic procession from the alumni memorial building 1 1 00 a m baccalaureate sermon by the right reverend charles fiske a 8 d d s t d l h d ll d bishop of central new york in the packer memorial building admission by ticket un til 11 o'clock monday june 10 10 a m meet ing of the board of trustees at the alumni memorial building 2:00 p m class day exercises university campus 9:00 p m senior ball drown hall 4:00 p m president c r rich ards reception of the graduating classes and their families the trus tees alumni faculty and friends of the university in drown hall tuesday june 11 10:45 a m academic procession from the al umni memorial building 11:00 a m commencement exer cises in packer memorial church address by the reverend harry emerson fosdick a 8 a m d d s t d ll d professor of practical theology union theolo gical seminary and pastor of the park avenue baptist church new york city confering of degrees awarding of commission in the of ficers reserve corps admission by ticket until 11 o'clock many prominent technical men present at meeting — lehigh students attend w s franklin formerly at lehigh suggests using dynamite to moisten the air campus events of the week lehhih will hear famous war ace raymond bailey assistant elec trical engineer of the philadelphia electric company will present an illustrated paper recenet devel opments in the electric utility systems at a meeting of the elec trical engineering society thurs day may 2 at 7:30 p m in the physics lecture room mr bail ey is an active member of the a i e e and at the present time is the secretary of the middle eastern di vision of the institute he has done considerable work on engineering publications having aided the work of the national electric association in the publication of the relay handbook he also assisted prof j l beaver in writing his book the elements of alternating cur rents roger s taylor e e 29 will deliver the student paper of the evening on some of his summer experiences as a cadet engineer in the philadelphia electric company after the meeting refreshments will be served and as an additional feature cigars are to take the place of cigarettes returning from her first trip un der the newly announced anti-vol stead policy the leviathan's voy age was termed mildly wet by her captain nearly 2,000 worth of liquor was consumed but no pas sengers were reported intoxicated on the westbound journey the east bound trips will be dry officers said except for liquor the passeng ers take on board themselves or that which may be sold by bootleg gers among the crew according to official reports 112 bottles and half bottles of various liquors left unsold in the eight serving bars thursday night were thrown over board before the liner reached new york beer and light wines were reported as the most popular bev erages candidates for offices in the class of 1930 election held from 11 a m to 2 p m tomorrow at trafford's office represent two groups one group favors dcx bullard for president tom ayres vice president bob bennett secretary perc lehr treasurer ned twigger sergeant at arms and george vaughan historian supporting these men are al pha chi rho a t o kappa sig ma phi delta theta sigma nu phi sigma delta phi sigma kappa pi lambda phi sigma phi epsil on sigma alpha mv theta delta chi zeta chi theta xi taylor hall howard hall phi beta delta bullard is junior class president the other group favors bill mil ler for president jim heilman vice president king paget treasurer robert hesbuck secretary f j whitney sergeant at arms robert lincoln historian ■ supporting these candidates un der the lehigh independent ticket are beta theta pi taylor hall chi phi chi psi price hall delta phi warren square sigma chi delta tau delta lambda chi al pha phi gamma delta theta kap pa phi kappa alpha and psi up silon miller is an officer in the class of 1929 pi tau sigma taps three more juniors a suggestion for the combating of hurricanes such as recently oc cured at porto rico and florida was made by prof w s franklin of m i t former lehigh profes sor of physics he advises a line of 20 or 30 huge steel funnels each containing a ton or more of gun powder extending across southern florida and the bahamas when a hurricane threatens he would ex plode the powder having the result ant column of warm moist air smo ther the storm university library receives new books baltimore and ohio railroad pres ents volumes by e hunger ford and h l doherty professor r h tanner to deliver lecture a dinner in honor of william j priestley 08 vice president of the electro metallurgical company was given thursday evening at the home of prof bradley stoughton head of the department of metal lurgy guests were j m sylvest er superintendent of the lehigh plant of the bethlehem steel co a d shankland superintendent of mills in the open hearth h c bigge superintendent of the tool department b franklin shepherd metallurgist of the ingersoll-rand company phillipsburg j heber parker vice president of the car penter steel company r h de long metallurgist of the carpenter steel company professors w e harvey gilbert doan and allison butts lehigh senior metallurgists and graduate students archaelogist will discuss greek mythology meeting sponsored by eta sigma phi the lehigh chapter of pi tau sigma national mechanical engin eering honorary pledged three members of the junior class tues day afternoon in williams hall miles s christman john w dailey and harry s keller were the men chosen council to elect notice freshmen freshmen are requested to turn in a complete list of athletic activities to fred trafford at drown hall or to any member of the phi club before 4 p m friday the minotaur and its labyrinth will be title of a lecture to be given by prof rollin h tanner of the archaeological institute of amer ica 8 p m wednesday may 31 in drown hall the lecture will be held under the auspices of eta sig ma phi and is open to the public texas guinan famed as a night club entertainer never as a talkie actress recently saw the furnish ings and paraphernalia of her club intime moved to the sidewalk by city officials on a court order to add insult to injury marshall ken nedy had a retort ready for tex when he entered the club when asked the nature of his business marshall replied and then he moved all the trap pings to the curb i am probably the last sucker to step in here i am the marshall i am going to give the little girl a great big hand major george a vaughn presi dent of the eastern aeronautical corporation and commander of the 27th division air service new york national guard will speak on aviation from the commercial viewpoint at an open meeting of scabbard and blade to be held at 7:45 tomorrow evening at the ar mory during the world war major vaughn was the fourth ranking ace of the american air forces since the death of two higher ranking aces since then he is now ranked second eddie rickenbacker being the only living ace placed above him if good weather permits major vaughn together with lieutenant byron e gates of mitchell field l 1 will go by plane to the al lentown flying field where they will be met by representatives of scabbard and blade who will es cort them to bethlehem the interfraternity council will elect officers for the coming year at 7:30 thursday evening following this at 8 the new ar cadia will elect its new officers 8:00 p m open meeting of the pre-legal society lecture room coppee hall dr frank c beck er will speak on the lawyer and his relations to society 8:00 p m arcadia elections drown hall friday 4:00 p m varsity tennis vs swarthmore friday 8:00 p m engineers club of the lehigh valley and american chemical society lehigh valley section joint meeting drown hall preceded by dinner at ho tel bethlehem at 6 p m saturday 1 30 p m freshman baseball vs west philadelphia high school 3:30 p m varsity lacrosse vs stevens institute 3:30 p m meeting of the north ampton county educational club drown hall dinner at 6p m 8:00 p m oratorical contest be tween lehigh and ten other eas tern pennsylvania colle g c s drown hall the library has just received two volumes of a book the story of the baltimore and ohio by ed ward hungerford the books were presented to the library by the bal timore and ohio railroad and will be a valuable source of information for railroad study six volumes of the principles and ideas of doher ty men by henry l doherty were also presented wednesday 4:00 p m varsity track vs swarth more 7:30 p m radio society open meeting w g nelson former radio operator on the s s le viathan speaking on experiences on the high seas election of officers for next year 7:30 p m scabbard and blade open meeting drown hall ma jor g a vaughn and lieut b e gates speaking on aeronaut tics 8:15 p m the minotor and its labyrinth prof rollin tanner drown hall thursday 9:00 a m illustrated lecture con crete roads by l p bailey of the portland cement association room 12 packer hall 7:30 p m final meeting of the electrical engineering society recent developments in the public utility systems illustrat ed lecture physics lecture room 7:30 p m interfraternity council's elections drown hall brown and white vol xxxv no 49 milton and virgil compared temperamentally by riley fosdick to speak atcommencement exercises june ii smith discusses shakespeare at college lecture price five cents o.d.k.will place activities plan before arcadia ball team downs west pointers 6-5 in eleven innings rev charles e fiske to deliver baccalaureate sermon proposal aims at greater efficiency and higher scholarships denies that stratford poet was ever a lon don lawyer an important step towards ulti mate world disarmament was made friday april 26 by hugh s gib son ambassador to switzerland and american delegate to the prepara tory disarmament commission at geneva he announced that amer ica would agree to adopt the ma jority view on armies assuming a strictly neutral position and speci fically withdrawing her previous strong objections to excluding trained reserves from army effec tives heavy hitting by lehigh men decides saturday game world news — disarmament — aftermath of the teacup tempest — southern tornadoes — leviathan mildly wet — texas boomerang w h b all the lehigh news first