Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 4

              ercises forty-eight receive scho lastic honors at ex promotes cane habit many prizes awarded scholastic cups given dr whitney gives ad ress on melioration of matter pi lambda phi fraternity wins two scholar ship cups iness five months ago harry sold his restaurant and decided to take it easy confining his activities solely to selling confections in taylor stadium so popular were harry's pea nuts that often he sold 100 pounds at a game it was necessary for him to start putting up his peanuts in bags on wednesday for satur day's game but that was in the good old days when his fruits were delivered in shells university regulations now forbid the sale of shell enclosed peanuts within the stadium because of the labor in volved in cleaning up after a game and so harry now delivers em al ready shelled and salted harry plies pealed peanuts to pensive patron prospects harry the peanut peddler pro pels packages of pennate peanuts into the pensile palms of prodigu ous peanut punchers — perfectly no matter where his customers may sit in the stands at any game dead shot harry always gets his man and his flashing right never misses a returning nickel the con fection-vending harry ruthardt has been selling peanuts to lehigh stu dents for 29 years he will tell you how for the past 15 years students and faculty mem bers have gathered in his picture bedecked lunch room on fouth street to discuss collegiate affairs while eating the coming of fra ternities however injured his bus bidwell leach speak to lions fake student greek preys on lafayette physics and universities are subjects of speeches alpha kappa psi honorary bus iness fraternity held its first meet ing of the year last night at the al pha chi rho house a motion to increase the mem bership from 20 to 25 of whom not more than 14 can be seniors was acted upon favorably and final ac tion deferred scholastic averages of eligible juniors and seniors will be review ed and checked at a special meeting to be held at 1 p m next tuesday in prof carother's office and elec tion of new men will be held in the near future election requirements include a scholastic standing in the first third of either of the two up per classes in business character and personality will be held on thursday of every third week a report of robert jones chapter delegate to the bi ennial convention in denver was also read and approved at the meet ing a thief posing as a college student robbed three fraternity houses at lafayette college the thief gained entrance to them through knowledge of the hand shakes and signs of the fraterni ties he remained at each of the fraternities several hours and when the members went out the intruder searched their rooms for valuables one fraternity report ed a loss of 95 in cash and two others a loss of 25 each macdougall wed graduation day library receives gift of lehigh professor the limitation of student activi ties the political situation and the carrying of canes by seniors were discussed by omicron delta kappa last evening and committees were appointed to work on each idea the political situations at other colleges will be investigated by the o d k committee and data col lected on the forming of perman ent combines when sufficient data has been obtained a plan will be evolved and submitted for consid eration the committee on the limitation of student activities will consider the feasibility of presenting the same plan that was offered last year or a revised one to the ar cadia last year the arcadia re jected the plan for limiting activi ties mainly because the plan had not received enough publicity a suggestion that the present sen ior class start the habit of seniors carrying some neat but distinguish able cane at college functions on sundays or at special events was made if such a habit is started o d k will support the plan for mak ing the idea become a custom o d k will also endeavor to further their plan of forming o d k_,circles at lafayette rutgers and muhlenberg bride wasa s laboratory technician at phila delphia hospital the alumni fund recently be came the greater by one thousand dollars the gift of professor t e butterfield of the mechanical en gineering department professor butterfield made it known that he would like the mon ey to be used for the new lucy packer linderman library once again a series of community concerts are ready to begin the first a group of three will be pre sented tomorrow evening october 5 in the libert high school au ditorium and will include eugene o'neill's play marco millions which was accepted so favorably on broadway those who attended the last con cert held in the spring were given the opportunity to choose what par ticular form of entertainment they most desired for the present course the majority indicated that it be a play sigmund spaeth managing director therefore presented to the executive board at a meeting held recently in the hotel bethlehem several different programs includ ing mr o'neill's play which was selected unanimously as the most appropriate artists will appear the barrere little symphony with maria kurenko soprano and albert spalding violinist and har old bauer pianist will also be pre sented on saturday evening the committee on ticket selling postulates that 1200 subscriptions are already assured a general rush for tickets is anticipated during the remainder of this week students in terested should present their appli cations to dean mcconn and fac ulty members should see mrs s s seifert tickets for all three con certs may be obtained for five dol lars research scored by dr johnston lehigh war ace new air service president met society hears need of more trained met allurgists many teachers leave faculty courtesy of globe-times dr willis whitney must solve war is russell's plea eminent british scientist addresses large audi ience at easton professor c c bidwell head of the physics department in a talk before the - lions club at their weekly meeting at hotel bethlehem last wednesday noon explained how the discovery of electrons re sulted in the development of the electric light bulb and the more re cent developments in the radio tube television and talkies professor bidwell explained in simple terms the principles involved in the electric bulb and its descen dants after explaining the prin ciples he demonstrated them by the use of a revolving perforated disc which allowed varying inten sities of light to fall on a photo electric cell to the cell was at tached a loud speaker which emit ted all the notes of an octave very clearly professor bidwell played home sweet home as an ex ample talk on colleges librarian h s leach also spoke at the meeting he gave a three minute talk entitled our univer sities the second in a series of talks on our town a college or university is made up of individ uals faculty and students said mr leach it is no better or worse than the sum total of the abilities of those individuals he gave a brief outline of the history of local colleges referring particularly to the cosmopolitanism of lehigh uni versity by reason of its widespread drawing power for both students and faculty curtis d macdougall assistant professor of journalism was mar ried commencement day last june at richland center wis to miss elizabeth pier mrs macdougall last year was head laboratory tech nician in a philadelphia hospital and for two years before that held a similar position in louisville ky she is a graduate of the university of wisconsin this year she is working for a master's degree in bacteriology at lehigh during the summer prof mac dougall was editor of the daily northwestern of northwestern university evanston 111 and taught courses in journalism in the medill school of journalism george schoenhut editorial manager of the brown and white conducted a column for the paper and took courses at northwestern professor and mrs macdougall hiked east from ripon wis via kentucky tennessee and virginia covering 1,800 miles college debaters meet to select question frosh make bow at founders hop professor macdougall to repre sent lehigh at harrisburg lehigh university honored two of the most eminent scientists in the country at the annual founder's day exercises held wednesday morning in the packer memorial chapel the two men were dr willis whitney vice president and director of the research laboratories of the general electric company and dr john johnston director of research for the united states steel corporation exercises began at 11 o'clock with an opening hymn and a pray er delivered by the rev d wilmot gateson the usual academic pro cession from the memorial build ing was made impossible by the heavy rain the main address was given by dr whitney whose sub ject was melioration of matter in developing his subject dr whitney combined personal exper ience scientific observation and a background of intensive study to point out to his audience the im portance of the development and improvement of the mind he traced flic mental growth of man from pre historic days concluded that he has progressed but half way in his po tential development and challeng ed him to continue his mastery of mind and matter the speaker emphasized the im portance of education in the ad vance of civilization and hinted at the contributions of science in this respect education a necessity dr whitney illustrated his points with a series of personal experiences that added interest to his address richards awards degrees at the conclusion of the address the honorary degrees were confer red dr whitney received the de gree of doctor of laws and dr johnston received the degree of doctor of science in presenting dr whitney to president richards professor j w barker gave an ac count of the noted scientist's achievements which include honor ary degrees from many colleges and universities as well as membersship in the united states naval con sulting board the united states bureau of standards and in the na tional research council dr whit ney has also been awarded the willard gibbs medal the chandler medal and the perkins medal his work in radio at the general elec tric company is known all over the country the exercises closed with the singing of the alma mater one masters and 24 baccalaureate degrees were conferred by presi dent richards cyril d jensen was given the degree of master of sci ence dean mcconn then read the names of prize-winners and honor students for the past year two scholarship cups one given by the phi sigma kappa fraternity and the other by the trustees of the university were both awarded to pi lambda phi fraternity for hav ing obtained the highest scholastic standing during the past year of any fraternity or living group senior class book is well under way the small amount of research work begun in the american steel industry and the lack of men to in augurate the much needed research program was one of the several im portant topics discussed at the first meeting of the 1929 season of the lehigh metallurgical society on tuesday evening october 1 the meeting was held in the new metal lurgical hall in williams hall dr john johnston one of the foremost scientists of this country and director of research for the united states steel corporation who was guest of the society open ed the discussion of the general topic research in the steel indus try there is a dearth of trained col lege metallurgists said dr john ston not only for research but also for production dr johnston expressed a feeling that there were no more fruitful po sitions available today and for many years to come than those in the metallurgical field besides dr johnston those prominent in the metallurgical field who took part in the discussions were john m sylvester superin tendent of the bethlehem steel company r h irons president of the central iron and steel com pany and professor bradley stoughton head of the metallur gical department of lehigh univer sity the problem discussed besides the one above mentioned concerned the blast furnace open hearth pro cess of steel manufacture and the bessemer process for the production of steel the meeting was attended by many university students and friends from the neighboring indus trial plants city monarch club hear prof h.g turner in hotel bethlehem traces history of coal at dinner lehigh will be represented at the meeting of the intercollegiate de bating society which will take place at 2 p m october 12 in the perm harris hotel harrisburg pa the purpose of this meeting is to select the question that is to be debated among the various colleges and universities of the state for the coming year prof c d mac dougall coach of the debating team will represent lehigh at this convention debating at lehigh has received quite an impetus due to many as pirants for forensic honors who have attended the debating class this class which is conducted by prof macdougall is spending the major portion of its time at the be ginning of the semester in learning th elements of argumentation and debate freshmen are eligible for debat ing and should if interested in speaking attend the regular meet ings of the class which are held at 7:30 p m mondays and 4 p m thursdays forty-eight lehigh students re ceived scholastic honors at the founder's day exercises in the packer memorial chapel wednes day the pi lambda phi fraternity succeeded in capturing both the phi sigma kappa scholarship cup and the trustees scholarship cup for attaining the highest sopho more record john clewell mertz was awarded the wilbur scholar ship of 200 this prize the donor of which is rollin h wilbur le high 85 is considered one of the highest honors at the university the two alumni prizes for excel lency in industrial engineering and civil engineering went to willard arison maccalla and robert ed gar gohl respectively various other honors denoting expediency in english science for eign languages public speaking and mathematics were announced the following is a list of the awards wilbur prizes freshman year mathematics first prize 15 wil liam cronk elmore montour falls n v second prize 10 david lew is mac adam upper darby eng lish 15 benjamin rabinowitz scranton german 15 clinton al bert feissner eckley french 15 wilton altman bethlehem wilbur prizes sophomore year mathematics 10 harry charles kelly wilkes-barre english 10 clyde albert harding pen argyl physics 10 john edwin freehafer reading william's freshman prizes in oral composition first prize 40 david davis freeport n v second prize 15 henry perm krusen freehold n j william's sophomore prizes in english composition first prize 50 dudley lee harley martinsburg w va second prize 25 clyde al bert harding pen argyl third prize 15 kenneth karl kost gary ind william's junior prizes in eng lish composition first prize 40 lloyd garrison wilson new york n v second prize 15 gabriel martin ondeck hazleton alumni prizes in public speaking first prize 25 laurence justin ackerman far rockaway n v thomas webster matchett pas saic n j second prize 15 philip cornelius lewis tenaflly n j erwin frederic underwood new port r i third prize 10 carl harry herbert krott reading ar thur alan sullivan tenafly n j loomis prizes in public speaking courses 10 and 11 first prizes 15 each william frederick powell jr upper darby raymond lecount roper richmond hill n v er win frederic underwood newport r i second prizes 10 each geo denison patterson huntington w va louis posnak bayonne n j harold aloysius seward parkers burg w va course 14 first prize 25 sydney raymond snitkin new york n v second prize 15 har ry stothoff jenkins bethlehem omicron delta kappa prizes freshman theme contest first prize 15 david lewis mac adam up per darby second prizes 5 each george cass hutchirrson jr se wickley metallurgical engineering prize continued on page four william h chandler chemistry prizes freshman year 25 charles byron slichter reading sopho more year 25 john clewell mertz allentown junior year 25 carl richard woll philadelphia sophomore council becomes organized coming events ralph a o'neill 20 the only lehigh ace who survived the world war has achieved recognition in commercial aviation by his selec tion as president of the newly or ganized seven-day air service be ■ tween new york and buenos aires which will commence operations in the near future o'neill has been chief of the air service in mexico for several years and is considered one of the ablest men in his field today he will be assisted by john k montgomery as vice president and wilson reynolds secretary and assistant general manager the company has its headquarters in the graybar building new york city organized by a group of well known bankers and industrial lead ers the uew york rio & buenos aires line inc has had its shares fully subscribed and within a few weeks will operate a passenger ex press and airmail transport service between new york and buenos aires along the atlantic coasts of both north and south america a total distance of approximately 8,000 miles it will follow the route blazed last year by col lindbergh in his goodwill flight to south america the planes to be used by the cor poration including consolidated commodores with 20 - passenger carrying capacity sikorsky amphi bians with eight-passenger capacity and trimotor fords with accommo dations for 14 are now in operation in south america prior to the in guration of the regular service the corporation will operate in itially on the basis of one weekly trip in each direction trips cover ing a period of seven days and rep resenting a saving of eleven days over the fastest regular service now available between new york and buenos aires eventually officials of the corporation expect to reduce the time required for the trip to four days and increase the service to include three round trips weekly bases and fueling stations as well as passenger accommodations are now in the process of completion and o'neill who has just com pleted a detailed flying survey of the entire route has announced that the inauguration will take place within a few weeks stoughton honored work on the senior class book is well under way with the assign ment of committee members to the various departments by this new arrangement each curriculum is as signed to a member who is respon sible for the men taking that course the arts and science college will be under the charge of brettner and lentz college of business adminis tration e blackmar and r chap man chemical engineering and chemistry allison civil engineer ing n wilde electrical engineer ing j heilman mechanical engin eering e oiler industrial engin eering atkins metallurgical and mining engineering tucker engin eering physics k paget don wright is chairman of the commit tee forty-one members of the 1928 29 faculty including one professor and eight assistant professors re signed during the summer accord ing to statistics furnished by pres ident c r richards colonel e e mccammon of the military science and tactjcs department was the professor who resigned the list of resignations follows f c anderson instructor in elec trical engineering d e anthony assistant professor of economics w s bailey instructor in mechan ical engineering j c clark in structor in physics w r couch instructor in physics a g crafts instructor in physics j g earle instructor in mechanical engineer ing h h friend graduate assis tant in physics r w gilbert grad uate assistant in german m s gjesdahl instructor in mechanical engineering r m goepp jr new jersey zinc company research bel low r l hanson assistant pro fessor of physics c r hauser n structor in chemistry c p heil man instructor in psychology ora i hickey recorder john paul jones assistant professor of econo mics stephen b jones instructor in geology j p karbler instructor in physics r b k'burg student chemistry foundation fellow w.w kittelberger archer-daniels - mid land company and william o goodrich company research fellow e e mccammon professor of military science and tactics e w mcgovern student chemistry foun dation fellow r e martin assis tant professor of physics r b morris instructor in civil engineer ing s c nevins archer-daniels - midland company and w o good rich company research fellow har ris c palmer instructor in phy sics a f pauli assistant profes sor of latin m picard assistant professor of philosophy whiton powell assistant professor of ac countancy h h reichard assis tant in physics o f ritzmann in structor in physics j h rodman assistant professor of military sci ence and tactics f l santee in structor in latin l k scott ar cher-daniels-midland company and w o goodrich company research fellow w t sproul graduate as sistant in physics w j sette graduate assistant in physics j.m thompson graduate assistant in mathematics lawrence washing ton instructor in mechanical engin eering caroline e wetzel nurse in charge of the dispensary w h withers instructor in economics e zimmerman archer-danielsmid land company and w o goodrich company research assistant erratum after jan 1 1930 men who have an eng degree may ex change it for a b s there is no choice however as stated in last issue of brown and white for those who receive a degree after that date they must have a b s western civilization if it is to sur vive must find a solution for war and a way to curb production for profit instead of use bertrand rus sell last evening told a packed par dee auditorium at lafayette college easton about three score lehigh faculty members and students heard the eminent british scientist and philosopher discuss civilization and the machine the speaker weighed the advan tages of industrial civilization with the evils we are today living in a heyday of machinery he declared and then forecast a future with more expensive power to replace the relatively cheap oil and coal which will be consumed before many generations the speech contained many of the ideas which russell has ex pressed in icarus why men fight and prospects of indus trial civilization although he did not mention the word socialism his plea against imperialism was that of the socialist we have in telligent people doing the bidding of stupid people today merely be cause the stupid people possess money which is power he assert ed newspapermen as a class he contended are conscientious and scrupulous they become cynical when forced to prostitute them selves to their papers which are owned and run by men not so con scientious and scrupulous russell scored the happy opti mism which the average man feels regarding the natural resources of the world the mechanical atge can not last he contended whatever substitutes for power are discovered will be more expensive and less useful wars will result when oil and coal become scarce in the next war he asserted london and paris will be wiped out within two days this is a con solation to citizens of both coun tries for it doesn't matter so much how much one nation loses so long as the enemy loses an approximate amount industrialism has made life more interesting the speaker admitted and could we convert our power into useful channels our way of liv ing would be good our intelli gence has grown but our emotions have not kept pace he explained saturday october 5 1 00 p m varsity soccer vs st johns at home 3:00 p m varsity football vs pennsylvania military college at taylor field 4:00 p m tea dance drown hall 7:30 p m marco millions by eugene o'neill at liberty high tuesday october 8 4 p m candidates for assistant manager of soccer report to lehigh field 7:30 p m university women's cil meeting drown hall 7:30 p m pi delta epsilon meeting drown hall club meeting at y w c a 7:30 p m interfraternity coun monday october 7 the history of coal from the car boniferous age to the time it is ut ilized for fuel was the subject of a talk by asst prof h g turner at the weekly dinner of the mon arch club held at the hotel beth lehem wednesday night profes sor turner illustrated his talk with lantern slides starting with the geologic be ginnings of coal the speaker told his audience how coal was formed by the accumulation of leaves dead trees ferns and other vegetation and through the millions of years slowly was pressed with the appli cation of heat into the various types of coal professor turner stated that even today fossilized stumps of trees and impressions of ferns are found in mines he illustrated this point with several slides the lan tern being operated by e o hart man the next meeting of the mon arch club will be held at 6:15 p.m october 8 in packard laboratory freshmen of all kinds were pre sented to lehigh valley society at the founder's day hop tuesday evening in drown hall once again the founder's day hop goes down in the annals of le high as the auspicious beginning of a successful social season the dance held yearly by the arcadia drew many students and a number of returning adumni it was not un common to see the brothers in bond immerge from their little fraternity gatherings with pledges in tow presenting them first to one fair damsel and then another undoubtedly it was the fresh man's first big night he was giv en his first insight on lehigh so ciety and bethlehem girls he felt his way about slowly even timidly at the outset only to gather mo mentum with the fleeting time to soothing yet enervating or chestral utterances he mingled with smoother and slightly more pol ished upper classmen and danced contentedly with the allentown bethlehem fair sex some of the young ladies blew in from butztown but these were unfortunately overshadowed and outnumbered by those of the sterl ing allentown-bethlehem combina tion and consequently neglected by our newest and greenest class art mickley of hotel traylor fame out did himself endeavoring to drive away the gray clouds which hov ered over the sad almost beautiful heads of butztown's unhappy square sex but butztown did not remain un avenged for long er the evening was half over one of her cinder ellas heaved a brass slipper at a 110-ppund freshman because he said she had banjo eyes when the hall was relit the chaperons declared the battle a draw this turned out to be a very sagatious bit of diplo macy inasmuch as it quelled the riot and satisfied the bethlehem - allentown - butztown delegations everybody considered the party successful because the chaperons were so well mannered president john angle of the sophomore council requests all living groups that have not al ready elected representatives to the council to do so at once in order that they may be repre sented at the next meeting which will be announced in the brown and white a request is also made that members of the sophomore class shall take the names of any freshman breaking regulations and report them to a council member so that the offender may be brought before the council meeting » freshmen are warned to watch all bulletin boards for the list of names of those wanted by the council no excuse will be ac cepted for absence from these meetings the grasseli medal of the so ciety of chemical indutry has been awarded to the directer of the cur riculum of metallurgical engineer ing at lehigh professor bradley stoughton professor stoughton was awarded this honor as a re sult of his paper on light struc tural alloys presented before the society in 1925 the presentation will be made at new york city in november at which time professor stoughton will present another paper to the society president to entertain the annual reception given by charles russ richards president of lehigh university for the trustees and faculty members will be held at his home 8 p m tuesday oc tober 8 i brown and white vol xxxvii no 4 bethlehem pa friday october 4 1929 alpha kappa psi will elect new i men this month o.d.k discusses lehigh politics and activities price five cents eugene o'neill's marco millions at liberty high receives degrees twenty-tour baccalaureate degrees presented grads at founders day exercises community concerts pres ent first number to morrow night committtees to investigate forming of permanent combines consider proposal to in crease membership to twenty-five drs johnston and whit ney awarded honor ary degrees meeting next tuesday dean sells tickets courtesy of globe-times dr john johnston member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first