Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 2

              history appreciation and harmony of music is given applicants must show 75 instead of 65 in examinations athletic schedules rati fied and managerships of sports announced to cut frosh class freshmen will elect first class president cinema used in study scholarships will be pre sented highest rank ing students to inclose press box 77 men are honored the first break in the curfew rule requiring all freshmen to be off the streets by 7 p m will be next tuesday with the annual founder's da yhop by a special dispensation freshmen will be allowed out if they attend this dance though for no other pur pose the dance is sponsored by the arcadia and the committee is completing plans to make it even better than those of the past few years the successes of which were proven by the numbers present the name of the orchestro which was to fur nish the music for this affair is unavailable but excellent music is promised vice president of general electric company is speaker r.o.t.c appoints student officers promotions also given in army's new pro gram the class of 33 will hold its first meeting at noon monday sept 30 in packard laboratory at which a temporary president will be elected and plans for participation in foun der's day sports made the meet ing will be supervised by the ar cadia which also has set wednes day oct 9 for the nomination of permanent freshman class officers and cabinet members the freshman cabinet consists of 15 members six of whom are the regular class officers and the re maining nine representatives of the representatives six are elected with the class officers and three ap pointed by the cabinet local musicals for lehigh men 1929-30 community concerts seek subscriptions for department of mechanical engineer ing at rutgers university said professor larkin when i became head of the department i found the iaboratory in the form designed and built by professor r c heck who had been a major figure in the de sign of the power house and labor atory as it still existed until last year i cannot speak too highly of the skill the ingenuity and the exhaustless energy of professor heck he was able and vigorous as he has been a prolific writer with the small funds at his command and with the equipment then possessed by the university he worked wonders it was his ge nius that made the old laboratory what it was it contained a dearth of practical commercial apparatus much of the equipment present was the work of his own hands there was a good range of material for making tests on steam engines steam traps injectors and boiler fed pumps at the flme i was placed in charge the work on instruments was handled in our own labora tories while large tests were con ducted at the industries in the vi cinity of bethlehem this arrange ment made possible a wide range of equipment since the advent of the large electrical power systems much of our outside facilities have been cut down even though the plans for the new laboratory call for a full line of instruments and continued on page four a change that may affect to a marked degree the enrollment of next year's freshman class was made at a recent meeting of the faculty at the meeting they raised the entrance requirements of all new york students by ten percent previous to this rule which went into effect this summer all men en tering lehigh from new york high schools were accepted upon the marks made in their final examina tions these final examinations for graduation from high schools are made up and corrected by the board of regents of the university of the state of new york the student in order to graduate must make at least a 65 on these regent examina tions previously all students making a grade of 65 were admitted to le high without conditions however beginning with this year's fresh man class and from now on all students coming from the high schools in the state of new york must have made at least a grade of 75 percent in their regents ex amination before they will be con sidered for admission to lehigh in all its newness the packard laboratory stands out boldly among the older buildings of the campus while the old wilbur laboratory rests secluded and forgotten — al ready a thing of the past — empty rooms and old sandstone robbed of its machinery barren of tools instruments and equipment it awaits whatever fate a forgetting university may thrust upon it no more will it beckon to the student to enter its doors and search for or prove that which he may the building and its builder are now history but let us look back ward to the time when it was the thing of its day let us look back ward to the time when the cease less efforts of professor robert c heck created an engineering labor atory out of practically nothing his tools were ingenuity and per severance his materials — anything that could be procured let us not condemn it for its in efficiency it has a story a romance behind it let us not forget the old in our praise for the new professor fred v larkin head of the department of mechanical en gineering has painted a picture of the strife the work and the dreams of robert c heck 93 who was as sistant professor of mechanical en gineering at the time the wilbur engineering laboratory and power house were constructed in 1902 and 1907 and who is now head of the wife divorces former teacher library gets books as gifts from alumni unusual translation by pres hoover among lot mayer awarded latin medalion physics instructor spurns wife after receiving college degrees with the opening of the fall term several new courses have been added to the rosters of the departments among these addi tions is a three hour credit course in the history appreciation and har mony of music these courses which will be continued during the second semester are being taught by t edgar shields the arts college has added five new courses ancient history and latin drama a new course in oral spanish composition is under the spanish department a three hour credit course in art criticism and analysis rfes been opened to stu dents by the fine arts department films to be shown sohpomores will be eligible for the course in american colonial history which is offered by the de parfment of history and govern ment this course up to this time has been ocered only to juniors and seniors in connection with this subject films of the chronicles of american plays will be shown the theory of function of a com plex variable and quantum mechn ics and relativity are two new courses presented by the mathemat ics department professor l l smail will teach the former course while the latter subject will be un der the charge of professor k w lamson these courses are for graduate students only new chemistry course a new course of the graduate chemistry department at lehigh is being given by professor h v an derson who has recently returned from a year's study at the univer sity of illinois both lecture and laboratory instruction will be given in the application of radiation meth ods mainly x-ray methods to chemical and industrial chemical problems by the addtiion of 2 new jour nalism courses to be followed by two other courses the second sem ester it is now possible to secure a major in journalism the courses are sport writing and editorial writing the english department is offer ing a three hour course in 20th century literature epitome plans for next issue two additional men to be elected at next meeting of board the sophomore latin prize was awarded to hyman mayer at the initial meeting of eta sigma phi honorary latin fraternity at the home of dr h w wright mon day evening sept 23 the award is a sterling medal with a grecian teacher and scholar depicted on the obverse and an inscription in greek and latin on the reverse it is giv en by eta sigma phi to the stu dent making the highest grade in sophomore latin and will be presented by the dean on founder's day new men were elected to mem bership e a collins d h haff s kaplus w c warner e f underwood j j magyar and lloyd wilson it was decided to provide togas for the pledges to wear on the campus prior to their initiation into the society the business meeting closed with the election of hyman mayer to fill the office of vice president made vacant when j castiello transfer red to franklin and marshall col lege following the business meeting the candidates were introduced to the members by dr wright head of the department of latin dr e l crumm and r h crumm new members of the latin department were also introduced at a special meeting of the board of athletic control held last mon day william tubby miller foot ball captain and heavyweight cham pion of the eastern intercollegiate wrestling association was elected chairman of the board announcements of managerships and assistant managerships of sev eral varsity and freshman sports and the ratification of schedules were among the important matters brought before the board the press box at taylor field will be inclosed for the newswriters it was also decided to use the upper field for parking purposes during home games this field however will be used only when weather permits otherwise the damage to the field would be too great it was hinted at the meeting that there is a strong possibility of le high being host to the national collegiate athletic association this meet will probably be held in the east as it was held in the middle west last season william sheridan wrestling coach here at lehigh is one of the officating referees dr neil carothers was reappoint ed coach of tennis thus far his success with lehigh teams has been apparent new managers and assistant man agers were announced as follows varsity cross country l n bloom manager varsity soccer j w mccartney jr assistant man ager varsity baseball l seiden manager h w ruggles and s h condit assistant managers var sity lacrosse r p lentz manager e a fay and a m mcneil assis tant managers varsity tennis j l day manager varsity track l s kuntz manager t d hargan and j w schroeder assistant manag ers freshman baseball f s sing er manager freshman track g l dehuff manager schedules were ratified as fol lows : swimming jan 11 — west point away jan 18 — lafayette away feb 15 — rutgers at home feb 22 c c of n v at home mar i—delaware,1 — delaware at home mar b—n.8 — n y university away mar 15 — intercollegiates wrestling jan 11 — syracuse away jan 18 — princeton at home feb b—pennsylvania,8 — pennsylvania away feb 12 — lafayette at home feb 15 — navy away feb 22 yale away mar i—cornell,1 — cornell at home mar b—columbia,8 — columbia away mar 14-15 — intercollegiates at cornell basketball dec 11 — stroudsburg at home dec 14 — gettysburg away jan b—ursinus,8 — ursinus away jan 11 — swarthmore at home jan 15 — haverford away jan 18 — villanova at home feb s—navy,5 — navy away continued on page three hundreds of new books have been added to the lehigh library during the summer months these books include two valuable gifts presented by former lehigh stu dents edgar b cahn 22 presented the library with the patron's edition of a 12 volume history of america published by the veterans of for eign wars this edition concerns itself with american history from 1900 to 1925 robert honeyman jr class of 20 is the donor of agricola's de re metallica this book was trans lated by president herbert hoov er and mrs hoover the book is not fully bound but is in the mint state and contains the autograph of president hoover it is to be placed along with other rare books in the new treasure room which is now under construction alumnus gives book henry c mercer doylestown pa honorary alumnus of lehigh university has recently presented a number of his pamphlets on arch aeology to the library his latest work ancient carpentet's tools which was included in his gift is receiving widespread attention and praise from critics > at present the newer accessions and recatologuing the library of continued on page four an extension of time for the re ceiving of subscriptions to tjie beth lehem community concerts asso ciation for the 1929-30 season has been granted to lehigh students and faculty members next monday morning has been set as the final date dean c m mcconn will receive subscriptions from students while mrs s s seyfert chairman of the lehigh university faculty commit tee will receive faculty applica tions the price is 5 for a season ticket four numbers given the program which the associa tion is offering will include either three or four numbers and will probably include a play a new york production — eugene o'neill's marco millions is being consid ered one of the leading symphony orchestras and one of the leading metropolitan singers according to mrs seyfert last year people from lehigh univer sity composed more than half of the attendance at the recitals she fur ther stated that this year's enroll ment from lehigh is expected to be much larger than that of last year spaeth in charge sigmund spaeth who spoke here last october on music is managing director of the national organization miss fay hancock the assistant director is now in bethlehem helping with the organ ization for the 1929-30 season the program will be determined as soon as possible after member ship is complete and will be an nounced immediately thereafter officers of the bethlehem com munity concerts association are r s taylor president mrs eu gene g grace vice president francis dykes treasurer a h buck secretary and mrs r k laros chairman of the advisory council melioration by matter will be the address given by willis rodney whitney ph.d d.sc d.ch vice president and director of the re search laboratories general elec tric company at the founder's day exercises to be held 11 a m oct 2 in the chapel forty-two sopho mores will be awarded freshman honors and 35 juniors will receive sophomore honors the following are the prizes which will be awarded wilbur prizes for freshmen two in mathe matics one each in english ger man and french williams prizes two freshman prizes in oral com position three sophomore prizes in oral composition two junior prizes in oral composition metallurgical prize one for soph omores william h chandler chemistry prizes one for freshmen one for sophomores one for juniors alumni prizes in public speak ing two first two second two third alumni junior prizes one in s in dustrial engineering one in civil engineering o d k freshman theme con test first and second tau beta pi prize including a slide-rule to the highest technical freshman wilbur scholarship of 200 to best sophomore record phi sigma kappa scholarship cup to the fraternity having the high est scholarship average trustees scholarship cup to the highest living group in scholarship eta sigma phi medal to the stu dent who has done the finest work in sophomore latin the following is a copy of the ex ercises in detail organ prelude t edgar shields a.a.g.o march elgar hymn 445 o god our help in ages past reading of scriptures ecclesiasticus xliv:i-5 prayer very rev d wilmot gateson a.b londonerry air . organ solo arr by lemare address melioration by matter willis rodney whitney ph.d d.sc d.ch announcement of prizes & honors vice president and director of the research laboratories general electric company conferring of degrees benediction organ postlude alma mater led by the university band postlude shelley recessional march to the flag pole lehigh review soon to make appearance berlin psychologist discusses children new departments to be created in improved edition with the awarding of the con tract for engraving to the bureau of engraving inc of minneapolis minn and the printing contract to the abbey printing company of east orange n j plans for the 1931 epitome have taken definite shape neither of these companies held contracts for work in last year's book mccaa will have charge of the photography two additional men will be elect ed by the board at the next meet ing to fill the places left vacant by the resignation of two members elected last spring the results of this decision will be presented to the board of publications at its next meeting art work in the new book is to be changed introducing a subject which will be significant and yet in keeping with lehigh's status as an engineering school miller revises book professor b l miller spent the summer working in the pennsylva nia department of geology he did field work for this department in connection with the revision of his previously republished volume the limestones of pennsylvania pro fessor milter was assisted in this work by dr l w fisher a grad uate of lehigh university and head of department of geology at bates college dr bradford wil lard another graduate also assis ted professor miller in this work phi beta delta pledges phi beta delta announces the pledging of sidney miller 33 new ark n j alfred lipsky 33 troy n y david glotzer 32 n.y.c samuel neuman 33 nutley n.j and gerald halbriech 33 n.y.c a pledge dance will be given in the house on the evening of sep tember 28 illustrates talk on infant behav ior with moving pictures mrs bertha ritzman was grant ed a divorce from otto f ritzman instructor of physics at lehigh university last year in the chicago courts on charges of cruelty she asserted that ritzman spurned her afftctions after he had received de grees in several colleges that she had sent him through mrs ritzman was a stenograph er when they were married on june 7 1923 and gave her earnings to her husband so that he might con tinue his education her reward came when ritzman was awarded his masters degree at pennsylvania state college she then sent her husband through the california in stitute of technology where he re ceived his doctors degree fails to keep promise while he was in college she told superior judge b s williams her husband continually painted a pic ture of a life of ease for her when he was established in his career mrs ritzman claimed that her hus band as a professor berated over very trivial matters and scorned her lack of a college education claim ing that a professor's helpmate should be of his intellectual plane the couple separated on july 22 1928 after ritzman according to his wife had beaten and kicked her as a result of a small argument mr ritzman then went to chicago and enrolled at the university of chi cago this move she claimed was not to win the physics professor back but to obtain an education which she had always wanted she now plans to be teacher alimony was not asked by mrs ritzman it would look as if i were trying to obtain some of the money i had spent to educate my former hus band she explained mrs ritzman was given to cus tody of their five year old son rob ert william movie of columbus to be shown tonight visual education film presented as experiment in dressed up in a new cover de sign the new improved and en larged lehigh review will make its appearance the latter part of oc tober this year's magazine according to plans will be of broader scope than its predecessors the feature department which has been inactive in the past is to be revived and presented in a pleasing fashion a criticism of the modern drama will be included the remaining depart ments will be enlarged all men interested in writing edi torials for the review should at tend a meeting to be held at 7:30 p m monday in drown hall the promotions to officers and non-commissioned officers in the lehigh reserve officers training corps for the current year have been made the new officers of the m s & t staff are lt col m h thom linson and capt p l sadler with the exception of these new officers the staff of the department will be the same as last year awaiting the approval of presi dent c r richards for promotion assignments in the infantry unit are the following company a company commander second lieutenant j h auten first ser geant t w matchett first plat oon second lieutenant d l bow er sergeant l s billman and sergeant w m mayberry 2nd platoon second lieutenant h f allen sergeant w a furman ser geant h k murray third platoon second lieutenant w h geib sergeant t d hargan sergeant g j merritt company b company com mander second lieutenant j d dickerson first sergeant n a oppenheim first platoon second lieutenant g w king sergeant f r veale sergeant r e hoast er second platoon second lieu tenant f k paget sergeant p j weimer sergeant c a rosen crans third platoon second lieu tenant i schermer second lieu tenant e n small sergeant c t bishop sergeant g t durman company c company com mander second lieutenant w f powell first sergeant c h krott first platoon second lieutenant w w lowry sergeant f g smith sergeant j w mccartney second platoon second lieuten ant d b atkins sergeant j l weysser sergeant w seeburger third platoon second lieutenant d o burger second lieutenant j e nolen sergeant l j stack sergeant j p kimball company e company com mander second lieutenant g e olier first sergeant f j schaum burg first platoon second lieu tenant e h noedel sergeant h j lockhart second platoon sec ond lieutenant m kramer ser geant f a stutz sergeant r h harris third platoon second lieutenant p l whims sergeant e t meyers sergeant g c van duson company f company com mander second lieutenant w e blackmar first sergeant c r krone first platoon second lieu tenant a l rose sergeant j f danser sergeant f d hargan second platoon second lieutenant m p pohnson sergeant r mo tion sergeant t w tiedeken third platoon second lieutenant e m koch sergeant f w gadd sergeant p w regar sergeant f r scott company g company com mander second lieutenant g c vaughan first sergeant c w pimper first platoon second lieutenant h e datwyler ser geant k w glace sergeant o d davidson second platoon second lieutenant d epstein sergeant b m davis sergeant s h condit third platoon second lieutenant w f mealey sergeant j r an derson sergeant a a sanna coming events new burr to appear in good standing again issue published on october 5 will contain a theatrical review the university public is invited to attend a showing of the first of the yale historical chronicles of american photoplays entitled col umbus to be given this year on the lehigh campus these plays are being presented in connection with the course in colonial history as an experiment in the field of visual education as applied to work of col lege grade the photoplays it may be explained are being utilized in a number of the leading universi ties of the country the showing will take place in the james ward packard labora tory auditorium at 7:30 this eve ning an informal lecture will ac company the presentation of the film stimulus - response methods of analyzing human behavior must give place in part to historical pre sentation of a sequence of events according to dr kurt lewin pro fessor of psychology at the univer sity of berlin in an illustrated lec ture monday afternoon in the phy sics building dr lewin in inter preting important principles of modern psychology further stated that with various psychological forces acting on an individual he is transformed into a complex pat tern of behavior in this way dr lewin attempted to explain the ex treme restlessness so marked in children and the moments of em barrassment common to all the films used by dr lewin were prepared in the psychological institute of berlin and are similar to others now being prepared at yale with these and other data psychologists hope to throw new night upon the foundations of hu man and animal behavior sophomore meeting the class of 1932 will hold a meeting at 12 noon monday september 30 in the packer lec ture room all sophomores are requested to attend attention juniors all juniors are requested to hand in a list of activities for cyanide to fred trafford by wednesday oct 2 by action of the faculty in re moving his check rein burro will graze again on his accustomed pas ture after his year of lean fare he will canter out october 5 resplen dent with new harness and trap pings which will include a theatri cal review where current photo plays will be criticised the second issue will appear oc tober 25 in time for house parties this issue will be prepared espe cially for the guests psychological exams a meeting of all freshmen will be held in packer hall at 7 p m oc tober 8 the psychological examin ations results will be announced arrangements will be made at this time to test freshmen who missed the required examination friday tonite 7:30 p m showing of yale histor ical photoplay columbus packard auditorium saturday 4:00 p m varsity football johns hopkins 12 noon freshman class meeting monday packard lab 12 noon sophomore class meeting drown hall 4:00 p m meeting of men inter ested in lehigh review drown hall two department heads are among the new members appearing on the 1929-30 faculty dr joseph w barker former professor of elec trical engineering at massachusetts institute of technology will head the electrical department the oth er new department head is lt col matthew h thomlinson who will head the military science and tac tice department seventeen mem bers of the old faculty have been promoted to higher position professors joseph warren barker b.s in promoted to higher positions technology 16 m.s 25 profes sor and head of the department of electrical engineering and director of the curriculum in electrical en gineering before coming to lehigh he was a professor in the depart ment of electrical engineering in charge of the administrative respon sibilities connected with all under graduate instruction and of certain outside relations maintained by the institute with technical industries associate professor earl leverne crum a.b st matthew henry thomlinson lt col infantry u s a profes sor and head of the department of military science and tactics from 1915 to 1918 he was instructor in the department of tactics at west point in 1920 he was detailed to the general service schools at fort leavenworth from which he was graduated the following year since he was graduated from the army war college at washington in 1926 he has been in the office of the chief of infantry of the general staff of the army consin from 1927 to 1929 during the summers he was engaged in field research for the national bu reau of economic research austin rogers frey b.s mas sachusetts institute of technology 20 m.a harvard univ 24 ph.d 29 assistant professor of physics in 1923 professor frey was instructor in physics at wil liams college and from 1925 to 1929 instructor at harvard harry albert haring jr a.b yale univ 22 m.a 23 ph.d 25 assistant professor of econo mics dr haring served as instruc tor in economics at yale university during 1925-1926 and as assistant professor of economics at the uni versity of north carolina from 1926 to june 1929 charles rozier larkin b.a 23 univ of virginia m.a 25 ph.d 29 assistant professor of physics in 1923 dr larkin served as in structor in physics at the univer sity of virginia from 1923 to iv2b he was instructor in mathematics and during 1928-1929 research as sociate in physics norman mac donald b a queen's university 13 m.a harvard univ 24 assistant pro fessor of history during 1928-1929 professor mac donald studied in scotland theodore mead newcomb a b oberlin college 24 a.m col umbia univ 25 ph.d columbia 29 assistant professor of educa tional psychology while pursuing graduate study at columbia dr newcomb served as assistant in ed ucational psychology continued on page four promotions and appointments swell 1929-30 university teaching staff john's college 13 a.m johns hopkins 16 ph.d new york university 24 associate profes sor of latin dr crum served as instructor in classics at the univer sity of rochester from 1916 to 1918 as assistant professor of latin and greek at new york university from 1923 to 1927 and as assistant professor at the state university of lowa since 1927 research assistant professor frederick creedy a c.g.i city and guilds college london 06 research assistant professor of elec trical engineering mr creedy is the inventor of a c commutator motors cascade and multispeed in duction motors converting appar atus and electric arc welders assistant professors charles edward . berger b.s pennsylvania state college 16 m s assistant professor of phy sics from 1924 to 1927 professor berger was assistant professor of physics at the university of mary land robert dominick billinger ch.e lehigh univ 21 m.s 25 ph.d univ of cincinnati 29 as sistant professor of chemical en gineering from 1923 to 1926 dr billinger was instructor in chemis try at lehigh and since sept 1927 he has been instructor in organic chemistry and qualitative analysis at the university of cincinnati * elmer clark bratt a b uni versity of nebraska 25 a m 26 assistant professor of econo mics mr bratt was a teaching fel low at the university of califor nia during 1926-27 and assistant in economics at the university of wis brown and white vol xxxvii no 2 curfew suspended for annual dance college offers new courses in art department bethlehem pa friday september 27 1929 priced-five cl faculty raises entrance grade in n y regents miller elected as chairman at board meeting professor larkin tells of equipping laboratory by george w thomas academic prizes will be awarded on founder's day member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first