Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 10

              futuristic decorations and broadway entertainers scheduled 20 dances on saturday 102 colleges accused local team lacks injuries while gervin end lost to opponents ; davidowitz and ware expected to share brunt of backfield work dean mcconn in commenting on the reflection cast on lehigh's athletic policy by the carnegie foundation asserted that ques tionable practices in the award ing of athletic scholarships at lehigh was abolished six years ago president c r richards is out of town so far as i know he said there is nothing of that sort here i will say however that what a man of my position doesn't know about such things may be everything but three years ago we abol ished all athletic scholarships n"o athletic prowess is taken into consideration when scholarships are awarded i know about this because these matters are handl ed by a faculty committee of which i am a member what some alumnus or group of alumni may offer some student to attend lehigh is beyond our knowledge we have no way of knowing these things and prob ably we could not stop it if we aside from the possibility of that sort of thing i believe le high is clean six years ago it may have been different un doubtedly it was did know of it lehigh's athletic policy was crit icized among those of over 100 oth er collegiate institutions in a report issued as a result of a three-year investigation of intercollegiate ath letics undertaken by the carnegie foundation lehigh's offense in policy was a minor one according to the report and consisted in the university's ap parent recognition of an athletic scholarship awarded by an alumnus to the student who is both an ex cellent scholar and athlete but who is unable to finance a college educa tion of the 130 colleges and secondary schools visited during the course of three and a half years only 28 were reported by the committee as be ing entirely free from subsidizing or recruiting athletes although le high did not escape entirely from the charge the committee in its re port commended the athletic offi cials and university officers for the stand which they have taken president lewis backs lafayette left to right f morhart j c button b riviere r garrett capt riley j s dey claims two-year-old car negie report now de fective smoker held tonight in preparation for the first pennsylvania - lehigh football game in 23 years a smoker will be held this evening at 7:30 in the lower gym following the pledging of three men by o d x chuck hess backfield coach captain hyde frosh football coach hymie goldman assistant football coach and d m petty 09 will make some remarks on the coming game with perm dr neil carothers will be master of ceremonies cheers and songs will complete the program two new cheers will be introduced at this smoker the band will be present at meeting which will be held un der the supervision of arcadia dr haff exhibits medical hays foundation's comment lehigh recently has made a significant and courageous change of policy respecting re cruiting and subsidizing the process entailed the exercise of much tact and patience on the part of the athletic officials and university officers and an admir able cooperation on the part of the alumni although officials at lehigh are too experienced in such matters to be overconfident nevertheless the results obtained encourage them automobiles and trains hereto fore the prevalent modes of trans portation among college students are to recede into the background tomorrow when five lehigh stu dents will fly to the lehigh-penn game at philadelphia those making the trip include f h morhart j c button jr robert garrett burt riviere and stanmore wilson on the return trip j stanley dey will take the place of wilson the trip will be made in a five from the allentown airport and pi loted by captain sidney riley an passenger cabin airplane chartered army reserve officer and winner 1 of second place in the philadelphia - cleveland air derby held last month capt riley has been in the air service since the beginning of the war and is considered one of the most experienced pilots in the country he is at present chief pilot of the allentown aviation corpor ation leaving at noon saturday the party will arrive at pitcairn field near philadelphia about one-half an hour later and proceed to the stadium by auto the return trip will be made early sunday morn ing barring inclement weather flights by lehigh students have also been planned for the prince ton and rutgers games planes will leave at noon on the day of the game and return immediately after the game further attempts are being made to form a flying club at lehigh the fundamental purpose of which will be to reduce as far as possible the cost of taking lessons and securing a license if plans materialize the club will be formed in conjunction with the allentown airport which will supply planes and instructors pre-medical society holds first meeting of year new library addition shelves rare books r o t c begins rifle practice fifteen men will be se lected from each com pany priceless volumes to be located in the treasure room dewey receives world's esteem plans for the senior ball have been going forward rapidly in the past few weeks under the manage ment of the committee the decor ations for the dance will be left in the hands of an allentown con cern they will be futuristic in de sign somewhat on the order of the decoration for the last junior prom singer to entertain the names of the entertainers have not been definitely announced yet but will be made public by the end of the week the committee hopes to secure peggy english noted blues singer and devilla o'rourke a popular dancing team miss english has been featured in many broadway productions in the last few years and wih be starred this year in a schubert production to open november 15 devilla and o'rourke formerly entertained in the well known silver slipper night club with specialty and ballroom dancing ben pollack to play as previously announced ben pollack and his park central or chestra will furnish the music this orchestra is nationally known and has frequently played at college functions they were very well re ceived at the last princeton prom they appeared last year in the mu sical comedy success hello dad dy which had a long run on broadway they will open in anoth er show in a few weeks twenty-seven living groups will hold house parties next week-end on saturday night 20 individual dances will be given at the various houses about town the orchestras for these dances are being import ed from over a large area the tendency to have but one house giving a saturday night dance without combining with oth er houses is very pronounced this year those houses combining are as follows sigma nu and beta theta pi at sigma nu chi phi and sig ma chi at chi phi sigma phi del ta phi and kappa alpha at sigma phi phi gamma delta and phi del ta theta at phi delta theta al pha tau omega and sigma phi ep silon at alpha tau omega lambda chi alpha and delta upsilon at delta upsilon professor f c becker at tends celebrations giv en educator tomorrow's spectacle on franklin field will terminate the 23 year interval of penn-lehigh football inactivity tomorrow will mark the beginning of a new era in the gridiron history of the two ancient ri vals before the autumn sun descends in the west behind the tall hos tile bleachers of franklin stadium it will be known whether or not coach lou young and his charges underestimated the football ability of austy's south mountaineers and whether or not the wiseacres who bet even money on perm to win by a margin of 20 points are really as discreet as they would have us believe before that fateful sun sinks to morrow afternoon lehigh's undergraduate body will bemoan the team's ill fortune or celebrate victory as only lehigh men can the revival of the classic brings to the red and blue stronghold a powerful aggregation of vindictive invaders anxious to wipe out the memory of the 32-6 defeat in 1906 far be it from tate to withhold from his men the emotion stirring qualities of a factor like this when eleven brown-jersied athletes re sume battle with a pennsylvania team at two o'clock tomorrow aft ernoon they will have firmly fixed in their minds very definite and viv id pictures of that last defeat but that is not all-lurking around those unpleasant memories will be the insatiable thirst for blood revenge and victory such is the psychology of football coaches more than a thousand lehigh students will find their way to the quaker city to support their repre sentatives on the field rooming houses fraternities and dormitories will entertain few occupants for their saturday evening meal alum ni and many lehigh partisans are expected to tender a warm welcome to the bethlehem warriors gervin fractures arm as the eve of battle draws near dixie gervin's right elbow is found to be ailing with torn ligaments for x-ray examinations have shown the injured arm to be fractured it has been stated that gervin will not play football for many days to come gervin's position at end is not an easy one for young to fill perm lacks good wing men almost entire ly last year's freshman ends are not available neville has left col lege and olsen was at the begin ning of the season shifted to a tackle position consequently coach young has been hot after a good substitute all week we shall see tomorrow of success decided to fav or him in his pursuits mulvihill talks to civil society city planning was sub ject of discussion at the meeting president mather lewis of la fayette admitted in an interview thursday that conditions named in the carnegie report were true in the past but that for the last two years the policy of the maroon has changed president lewis stated that nine men of outstanding prep school athletic reputations had tried to enter lafayette this year but were refused as they did not meas ure up to the college's standards the text of the president's letter was as follows the carnegie foundation has rendered a distinct service to the cause of higher education in this report on american college athlet ics this report brings into the open matters which have previously been backstairs gossip the evils which it attacks are real evils and intend ed to blind eyes of students and al umni to the essential purpose of col lege education and of college sport lafayette college admits the cor rectness of some of the statements made concerning aid given by alum ni to athletics here in fairness to the college however the fact should be stressed that the carnegie investigators were here more than two years ago we would welcome their return at this time to observe the consistent effort being made by the administration and faculty to improve conditions no entrance concessions are made to athletes wishing to enter lafayette at least nine football players of outstanding preparatory school reputation who presented certificates of graduation from accredited schools were re fused admission to lafayette this year because they did not measure up to other standards set by the col lege in the registrar's files are nu merous letters received during the summer from school athlete or high school principals asking if the col lege gives scholarships to athletes the answer was invariably in the continued on page 4 coming events dr charles a haff of north ampton guest of the r w hall pre-medical society gave a re markable exhibition of x-ray pho tographs at the society's first meet ing this year held in williams hall at 8 o'clock last evening these pho tographs made in dr haff's own hospital in northampton were all made under his supervision to show unusual conditions of fracture and organic congestion the doctor is an honorary member of the so ciety and for the past three years has attended one or more of the regular meetings discuss joint disease an added feature of the evening was a discussion of the baffling joint disease arthritis by michel farrel instructor in bacteriology and mrs c d macdougall grad uate research investigator in bacter iology mrs macdougall mr far rel and dr stanley thomas have just returned from the philadelphia county medical association sym posium on arthritis held last mon day in philadelphia the speakers outlined the symptoms and results of the disease and explained present theories on the causes of the afflic tion lehigh is at present doing bac teriological research on the mi crobes causing arthritis letters and records of lehigh pre-medical graduates now in med ical schools were read and discuss ed by the pre-meds new members were also welcomed the meeting after the addresses was turned over to an informal discussion followed by refreshments six are pledged to eta kappa nu the treasure room the most beautiful room in the new library will occupy the east wing of the new extension finished in the style of an old english library it will house the priceless books of the university's library shelves encased with glass and reaching from the floor to the ceil ing will extend around the room part of the shelves will be paneled this with the massive ceiling beams and paneled bays will give the trea sure room of the library the appear ance of an early english library several finely upholstered chairs will be placed in the corners of the room priceless books of the library among them six shakesperian vol umes original manuscripts valued at 60,000 will be placed in the treasure room other books to be placed in the room are 10 volumes of ptolomy printed from 1475 to 1600 90 english books published before 1640 three volumes of hak luyt published between 1599 and 1600 four books of the hour a first edition of agricula-de re meticala 17 incunabulas and a number of old bibles the oldest of which was written in latin and published in 1488 among the bibles is one pub lished in english in 1583.a collec tion of letters written by the pres idents of the united states from george washington to herbert hoover is 1 in the possession of the library librarian h s leach and his as sistants in the next two weeks will repair and place in the extension of the library many of the old books now stored in the basement petitions due monday civilization would collapse without engineering stated frances j mulvihill chief of the city planning and municipal engin eering bureau state department of internal affairs at harrisburg pa in his address before the engineers club of the lehigh valley in drown hall at 8 o'clock monday evening the engineers club on this occasion met with the local branch of american society of civ il engineers city planning was the subject of discussion among those present many councilmen and other city of ficials of cities in the lehigh val ley were in attendance arrange ments for the meeting were made by r l fox bethlehem city en gineer and m o fuller secretary of the local civil society speaker summarizes the speaker further added mu nicipalities having these things need not waste their time in the battle for smoke stacks or scrambling for industries mr mulvihill in offering many suggestive aids to engineers and city officials said capable plan ning would stabilize land values end civic shortsightness help the people to more light air and sun shine with better communications and more unified developments fraternities which intend to have house parties and have not yet pre sented petitions to dean c m mc conn must do so not later than monday october 28 on the other hand the lehigh mentor has busied his squad with intensive secret practice sessions every man is in excellent physi cal condition bob many who has been out with injuries for almost two weeks will probably start at end while the perm team prac ticed under the shelter of cavalry armory away from the driving wind and rain tuesday tate's grid ders braved the storm as they un derwent a quelling scrimmage it is interesting to notice that in the first four games played this year 25 percent of the passes thrown against the quakers were completed this season more than fifty percent of their opponents ov erhead offense has worked lehigh has a passing team this year and an attack in that department should penetrate pennsylvania territory lehigh eleven strong with a scoring combination like davidowitz ware and nora le high need fear no college football eleven miller blackmar and evers can hold their own agairfst all kinds of opposition ends of the elkin issel rushong and many type are far above the average col lege wingman lehigh right now has one of the best all lehigh teams her football teams are on the in cline it will take more than a me diocre perm eleven to stop lehigh tomorrow comparative scores thought not always authentic prove quite conclusively that the battle will be a close one the probable line-up pennsylvania lehigh raffle le many utz capt lt miller olexy lg beachler warren c mclernon magai rg blackmar morris rt evers riblett re elkin master lh nora gentle rh ware wilner q davidowitz gette fb vanßlarcom dr doan to return lehigh university was represent ed by professor f c becker of the philosophy psychology and education department at the cele bration given at columbia univer sity october 18 and 19 in honor of dr john dewey who recently became 70 years of age at the cele bration professor becker who was a former pupil of dr dewey pre sented a message of congratula tion and appreciation from lehigh university public acclaims dewey it was a great public acclaima tion for one whose achievements have been those of a leader of thought the auditorium in which these meetings were held could not hold the 2,000 or more who came to celebrate dr dewey's achieve ments and to acknowledge the debt which education in america and the world owes to his ideas many attend banquet at the friday evening meeting devoted to dr dewey's service to education j pierpont graves new york state commissioner of edu cation presided professor ralph barton perry of harvard presided at the saturday morning meeting which commemorated dr dewey's achievements in philosophy on saturday afternoon a birthday din ner was held in the grand ballroom of the hotel astor professor james rowland angell of yale presided addresses were made by jane adams of hull house and by james harvey robinson a few remarks by president angell in cluded the remark that to read the list of governments organizations institutions and individuals who had sent messages of congratula tion and appreciation would take most of the afternoon this dinner was attended by 3,000 individuals who came from all parts of the country and represented every im portant educational institution winston churchill chancellor of the exechequer during the baldwin ministry visited bethlehem wed nesday as the guest of charles m schwab scholarship awarded in spite of this favorable com ment because of the fact that le high has one scholarship which dis tinctly intends to aid an athlete the university was not mentioned along with the 28 other colleges this scholarship is the one created years ago by c w parkhurst of phila delphia a graduated of lehigh in the class of 93 mr parkhurst is a firm believer in the value of ath letics and the scholarship which bears his name provides tuition for some lehigh student who is both a good scholar and an athlete and who would not be able to otherwise get a college education cowboy el liott was the beneficiary of this re ward last year when he transferred to west point this summer mr parkhurst chose harold grande a freshman as the holder of the schol arship for this year the report entitled american college athletics is the first com prehensive study of conditions of intercollegiate athletics and its ef fect on the undergraduate body bursting like a bombshell in the middle of the football season it has become the center of a storm of comments because while the com mittee has not made any attempt to rate the various colleges according to the severity of the offense names of colleges and secondary schools are used freely as examples of spe cific practices w and j charges severe the charge brought against the various colleges varied from the light one which was made against lehigh to the more serious one di rected against washington and jef ferson in this particular case the committee reported that — in an extreme case of subsidizing alumni and business men made contribu tions ranging from 10 to nearly 1,000 annually to a fund aggregat ing from 25,000 to 50,000 a year from this the college expenses of all the football players were paid and additional sums termed pay checks were disbursed to leading performers four ways are generally used by colleges according to the commit tee in subsidizing athletes — jobs and work of various kinds loans schol arships and miscellaneous assis tance the first method is the one which is used by the vast majority and the work given to the athletes are mere sinecures and the men are paid out of all proportion to the value of the services rendered in regard to the matter of loans the committee states—"unfortun ately it appears that the notes of the athletes are collectable in com partively few instances even when the fund is administered through a local bank in order to create a sense of responsibility on the part of the continued on page 4 tonight 7:30 p m perm pep meeting and smoker lower gymnasium 8:15 p m combined meeting of the lehigh valley section a i m e and the lehigh mining and ge ology society packard auditor ium mr j h pierce of stuart james and cooke inc will speak and show films on russia saturday oct 26 12:30 p m freshman football vs rutgers taylor field 1 30 p m soccer vs pennsylvania monday oct 28 river field philadelphia 2:00 p m varsity football vs pennsylvania franklin field philadelphia 3:00 p m cross country vs johns hopkins bethlehem 4:15 p m meeting of the council of the college of arts and sci ence coppee hall 7:30 p m complex numbers and quadratic equations will be discussed at a meeting of the newtonian society room 208 packard laboratory new mem bers to be taken in dr gilbert e doan who is on a leave of absence will return to le high some time next week dr doan has been at the united states naval laboratory in washington d c completing a research on welding richards to speak president richards will speak to the philadelphia alumni club to morrow after the perm game guest lists wanted all living groups are requested to turn in a list of their house party guests and chaperons for publication in the brown and white to room bl in christmas saucon hall by the end of the week competition for places on the riflle team of each company of the r o t c was begun wednes day and will extend to november 30th when eight men will be select ed to represent the company in in ter-company competition scheduled for december 1-21 intercollegiate matches will be held between jan uary 1 and april 16 1930 a squad of no more than fifteen men will be selected in each com pany for training and practice dur ing the period extending from oc tober 23 to november 30 1929 the company officers under the super vision of the regular army instruc tor with the company will select the squad including experienced freshmen and will instruct each man of this squad so that he un derstands the fundamentals of rifle marksmanship viz positions sight ing trigger squeeze and safety pre cautions before he is allowed to fire in the tryouts for the company team all r o t c students ex cept the reserve officers attached to each company are eligible this type of instruction may be given at any convenient time at the option of the student company commander pick company teams from the above squad in each company a company team consist ing of eight men will be selected to represent the company in the in ter-company competitions firing for the tryouts will be limited to the number of rounds and in the positions given below for inter company competitions the hours for the tryouts will be as per the following schedule a c 0 25 oct 8 15 22 nov b c 0 29 oct 5 19 26 nov c co l 4 12 20 nov e c 0 28 oct 11 18 25 nov f c 0 23 30 oct 6 13 nov g c 0 31 oct 7 14 21 nov a list showing the names of the eight men who will comprise each company team will be filed with captain whitten before decem ber 1 in the inter-company competi tions each individual will fire ten shots at each of the following po sitions — prone standing kneeling and siting these scores will be fired by the individuals during their vacant periods between the hours of 1 p m and 4 p m monday to friday inclusive and from 8 a m to 12 noon saturday six new pledges to eta kappa nu honorary electrical engineering fraternity were announced at a meeting of the electrical engineer ing society held last evening in the society's room in the new packard laboratory b o steinert president of the society conducted the meet ing the following were pledged e m heely c p king f g pot ter f j whitney e p sorden and j m bibsey a large lehigh banner was pre sented to the society by mrs esty in memory of her husband who was a former head of the electrical en gineering department professor beaver made the formal presenta tion of the banner to the society professor barker gave a short talk outlining the purpose of the teas which he and mrs barker plan to give each month to the members of the electrical department students to fly to penn game tomorrow brown and white vol xxxvii no 1 0 bethlehem pa friday october 25 1929 price five cents foundation commends lehigh lehigh ready for penn mcconn comments on carnegie report prom committee finishing plans for senior ball athletic policy is criticized by carnegie report two elevens will meet first time in 23 years one questionable schol arship university's only offense merpber intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first