Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 12

              vol xxxvii no 1 2 gridiron team set for mules brown and white bethlehem pa friday november i 1929 famous orchestra plays here tonight price five cents house party girls color campus gala festivities will mark week-end of house parties senior ball at gym tonight tea dance to start week-end program prom dances and game are main events scheduled peggy english will en tertain at ball with latest songs pollack band playing tea dance today at 5 complete staff of decora tors prepare for dance tonight ben pollack and enter tainers will be lead ing orchestra social functions of the week end will commence with a tea dance sponsored by the combin ed musical clubs at five o'clock this afternoon in drown hall following this will come the senior ball at ten o'clock tonight immediately after the muh lenberg game saturday the mus tard and cheese club will hold a tea dance saturday night house party will be brought to a close with the house dances among several well-known or chestras scheduled to play dur ing the week-end are those of ben pollack who will play at the senior ball and ken kitch en of east orange who will furnish the music at the mustard and cheese dance professor crum traces early law zeta chi admitted to pi kappa alpha classes to be excused three assemblies propos ed for next seven months arcadia desires three college meetings a year tate pointing for future games does not un derestimate rivals may start reserves coaches expect comfor table victory over muhlenberg chaperon tickets to the senior ball must be obtained from george feakins delta tau del ta 1936 between six and seven o'clock this evening no tickets will be available at a later hour the ball will commence at ten p m chaperons must get dance tickets week-end guests arriving today gives development to per iod of fall of roman empire hall discusses business writing approximately 350 girls from 1 9 states here tonight petition rights were giv en during summer to local asserts that business writing teaches exactness peggy english internationally famous blues singer will be the fea tured entertainer for the senior ball tonight according to an announce ment made by the committee yes terday miss english who is open in the starring role of the new shu bert revue november 15 has just finished a three weeks engage ment at the paramount theatre in new york city and has also sung at the ambassador's club in lon don definite assurance has also been received from ben pollack that he will be on hand with his full or chestra and that no breakdowns will occur on the way four new pollack victor recordings appeared last wednesday and will be featur ed at the ball they include sweet heart we need each other you're always in my arms you made me love you and where the sweet forget-me-nots re member subscriptions for the dance will be five dollars per couple and three dollars and a half for stags the committee for the dance includes george feakins thomas callan and jack o'connell a complete staff of interior dec orators is at work in the gymnas ium and promise a number of in novations in that line as was an nounced previously the dance will run from 10 p m until 3 a m in stead of from 9 p m until 2 a m enough favors have been obtained to supply all couples attending german society elects eleven deutscher verein will in itiate new men on no vember 8 the supreme council of pi kappa alpha granted a charter of mem bership to zeta chi local fraternity at lehigh last saturday zeta chi was granted the right to petition for a charter to the national organiza tion in july 1929 the granting of a charter marks the passing of a local fraternity that has been in existence at lehigh since 1924 it was founded in that year as the seal club the name was later changed to lehigh ivy club and finally to zeta chi fra ternity the national fraternity pi kappa alpha was founded at the univer sity of virginia march 1 1868 un til 1909 its policy of expansion was confined strictly to the south but since that year it has established chapters in the north and west at present pi kappa alpha has 70 active chapters 7 inactive and 73 alumni chapters its total mem bership is 18,000 nearby colleges having a chapter of pi kappa alpha are new york university syracuse university rut gers college pennsylvania state college cornell university and the university of pennsylvania pi kappa alpha is represented among the faculty of lehigh by professor george d harmon of the beta pi chapter of the univer sity of pennsylvania installation will probably take place this fall roman law and its development from the beginning of history to the fall of the roman empire was discussed by dr earl l crum as sociate professor of latin at an opening meeting of the pre legal society wednesday evening in packard laboratory early roman law was in the hands of the priests declared dr crum when the republic was formed the interest of the people led them to send a commission to greece to study the laws of that country the result of the labors of this commission was the well known twelve tables of roman law these tables were a part of the law from 450 b c to 534 a.d the first additions made to these tables were the edicts of the prae tor urbanis since a new praetor was elected yearly the number of these edicts grew and were known as the ius civils these edicts ap plied only to roman citizens russel c mauch district attor ney of northampton county will speak at the next meeting of the society on november 13 when the empire wos formed the emperors got control of the law making machinery justinian had the laws codified during his reign in the sixth century the justinian code was composed of the twelve tables the edicts of the praetors and emperors and the laws which developed from precedents in the various courts the justinian code lasted until the fall of the roman empire and left its traces on the laws of western nations even down to the present prof explains ramon theory arcadia petitioned the faculty to hold three college meetings during this collegiate year the petition re quests that all eleven o'clock classes be excused on thursday november 14 wednesday april 9 and thurs day may 18 the reasons for making this re quest are that at the present time no regular daylight hour is set aside for college meetings and that college meetings are necessary for the proper recognition of extra cur ricular activities the peition reads as follows that the faculty excuse all classes laboratory periods and other uni versity exercises that normally would be held at eleven o'clock on the following three dates thurs day november 14 wednesday april 9 and thursday may 18 the arcadia wishes to hold three college meetings at these times the reasons for making these re quests are as follows college meetings are necessary if proper recognition is to be given to achievements in extra curricula ac tivities athletic certificates are awarded once in the fall for the spring sports of the preceding year and again in the spring for the pre ceding fall and winter honorary societies hold traditional tapping or pledging alumni prizes and cups and prizes for the winners of inter fraternity contests are awarded election of cheerleaders and le high union officers are also held there is at present no regular daylight hour set aside for college meetings in making this request the ar cadia is fully aware of the difficulty in scheduling classes and wishes to cooperate by only holding three meetings during the 1929-30 scho lastic year thereby crowding all these events itno three hours it is the opinion of the arcadia that these gatherings afford oppor tunities for establishing more inti mate contact between the faculty and the student body in view of this belief the arcadia extends an invitation to the members of the faculty to attend these meetings business writing is an avocation and not an occunpation said s ro land hall of easton sales manager for the charis corporation of al lentown who gave an informal talk on writing as an acovation for business men and engineers wednesday evening in packard lab oratory auditorium mr hall wso conducted an ad vertising agency of his own at easton and previous to that was advertising manager for the alpha portland cement company and the victor talking machine company and was also a director in the de partment of advertising and sales manship for the international cor respondence schools mr hall be gan fiction writing at 19 but was not successful he then became easton correspondent for richmond and washington papers before se lecting business writing as a pro fession mr hall stated that business writing covers advertisement writ ing report writing house organ editing and sales and service let ters he pointed out that business writing in the engineering field has greatly developed in the past de cade and that newspapers now of fer a good field for engineering sub jects as do popular science maga zines the general electric com pany alone now publishes hundreds of booklets each year in the inter est of tis products and the alpha portland cement company publish es alpha aids of which mr hall was editor in the interest of port land cement lehigh makes her preliminary try for the football championship of the lehigh valley by meeting the muhlenberg mules on taylor field tomorrow afternoon although muhlenberg has been practically eliminated from the race by a 23-0 defeat at easton in the season's opener the mules have an improved and determined eleven the change of coaches at muh lenberg at the end of the 1928 sea son has apparently aided the foot ball team george holstrum the new cardinal and gray head coach has welded together a unit which has defeated juniata dickinson and lebanon valley and lost to lafayeytte and ursinus muhlen berk was surprised by ursinus last saturday when the collegeville ele ven won 9-7 on a fluke play close to the end of the game there is a sen timent in allentown this week that lehigh is in for a similar surprise saturday afternoon new line-up for mules new faces will predominate in the muhlenberg line-up which will be sent against lehigh tomorrow afternoon battalin gerber and majerick are the backfield finds of 1929 majerick was slightly injured in the ursinus battle but returned this week carney and weber are again playing regular positions be hind the line minka is the veteran star of the mule's line playing at guard and has none other than beanie borelli as a running mate in the other guard position the elev en as a whole was pronounced ex perienced by herb mccracken la fayette coach after the game at easton team without injuries austy tate's team came thru the hard perm game without in jury the lehigh coaches howev er are faced with the problem of putting a seasoned and dependable team against princeton rutgers and lafayette on the three follow ing saturdays the coaches have been combating the spirit of over confidence which has spread thru the squad after the pennsylvania contest for tate does not consider the muhlenberg team a weak op ponent this week pinckney was moved to halfback the battle between fritts and nora has not yet been settled davidowitz is undoubtedly a fixture at quarterback and van blarcom has an edge on the other beckfield condidates the probable line-up lehigh muhlenberg elkin le giltner miller lt weiner beachler lg minka mclernon c gernard blackmar rg borelli haas rt sobel many re smith davidowitz qb carney ware rhb weber nora lhb battalin van blarcom fb gerber eleven new members were elect ed to deutscher verein at the first meeting of the society october 17 in coppee hall they are a david owitz w g alcorn r c braun t r hindson m friedman c r lowenstein h mayer m metzger i schaffer w h schaub w r toeplitz these men were selected from those having completed work in the first part of goethe's faust and who have maintained an aver age of b in the first two years of german the formal initiation of members will take place at the reg ular meeting friday november 8 at the butztown hotel professor p m palmer will have charge of the initiation the mathematics journal and research club will meet at 4 o'clock november 1 in room 31 of packer hall r j van arnam will speak on spectroscopis observation of stars math club to meet review out with enlarged edition m e society to meet the publications committee of the american society of mechanical engineers of which professor f v larkin is a member will meet at lehigh november 16 to transact regular business and also to inspect the new packard laboratory hughes at columbia dr percy hughes of the psy chology department is attending the exercises for the 175 th anniversary of columbia university being held in new york this week the long-waited annual fall house parties will be officially ushered in this afternoon with a tea dance sponsored by the lehigh musical club following in rapid succession will be the senior ball tonight the football game tomorrow with muh lenberg followed by a tea dance in the upper gym and finally and probably the most anticipated the fraternity dances in the evening the lehigh ramblers will play at the musical club tea dance this afternoon in drown hall the dance will begin at 5 and last until 7 al though many of the guests will not have arrived it is nevertheless ex pected that a large crowd will at tend chaperons will be dean and mrs mcconn and professor and mrs long tickets not reserved this evening ben pollack and his park central orchestra will be the main attraction at the annual sen ior ball to be held in the upper gym at 10 o'clock contrary to custom there will be no reserved seats for the football game tomorrow when lehigh plays muhlenberg on tay lor field guest tickets may be pur chased at the gates immediately after the game the procession will go to the upper gym to attend the second tea dance of the week-end given by the mustard and cheese club ken kitchen's orchestra from east orange will furnish the mu sic chaperons for the affair will be dr and mrs fedko and fred trafford probably the most enjoyable ev ent of the house party will be the fraternity dances tomorrow night the tendency for each house to have a dance of its own is every pronounced this year for the most part the combinations include only two houses houses giving dances and their orchestras are as follows sigma nu and beta theta pi at sigma nu — art zellers chi phi and sigma chi at chi phi — walter wooley's band sigma phi delta phi and kappa alpha at sigma phi — the frolick ers phi gamma delta and phi delta theta at phi delta theta sid ste venson's band alpha tau omega and sigma phi epsilon at alpha tau omega — george white's ginger band lambda chi alpha and delta up silon at delta upsilon — ken kitch en's orchestra delta tau delta john fisher and his ambassadors alpha chi rho dinner dance — clayton jago's revellers theta xi — art zeller's band phi sigma kappa — the cardinals sigma alpha mu — sheriff-wana maker's band psi upsilon — howard lantn's or chestra chi psi — the artizens zeta chi — at hotel allen with the syncopaters theta kappa phi—clifton club band phi sigma delta — lenox hill hotel orchestra to test truck motor a general motors company sleeve valve truck engine to be used in the internal combustion lab oratory of the new packard labor atory arrived last week it is be ing set up for tests together with several other motor car engine units fort gives math speech general theory of factorial series was the subject of an ad dress by professor tomlinson fort before the american mathematical society at its october meeting held saturday at columbia university other members of the mathematics department attending were l l smail f m weida and w j trjitzinsky biographical sketches of edison faraday maxwell bell heavyside and leonard de vinci will be given in electrical engineering seminar from 9 to 11 o'clock tuesday to give biographies came the dawn features burr seven houses support first dance of interfraternity council in 1919 dusty volumes are transposed from old library to new addition with a cover of two tone brown and considerably enlarged in all de partments the first number of the review was placed on sale yester day an article entitled nicky and arbel delves into some early his tory to explain the origin of house parties blaming the frolic on elves and fairies l g wilson 30 tells of the experiences of an american traveler in soviet russia while e a honig 31 deals with the rise of some early lehigh traditions hobo a humorous short story by irving schultz 32 and short po ems complete the contents orientating ourselves with the cosmos by maurice rosalsky 32 containing some concepts of man and the universe is included under the science department criticism of modern drama and literary re view are included in this issue no impressive ceremony marked the moving of the dusty bundled volumes from the floor of the old library reading room to the shelves of the new building human forms in rolled up shirt sleeves toiled incessantly from morning until evening tugging and lifting volume after volume and placing them upon a carrier final ly pushing down the ramp into the new building a glance into the two large rooms above the reading room and the two rooms below revealed a most modern method of shelving books especially designed steel book stacks arranged in parallel rows directory published the new student directory may be purchased at the supply bureau or the bursar's office for 50 cents lehigh's co-educational popula tion is increasing rapidly every hour as more and more girls arrive in bethlehem to attend the festivities of house party week-end ap proximately 350 girls from all parts of the united states will enjoy dancing at the senior ball to the dance tunes of ben pollack's or chestra the number of guests en tertained at each of the different fraternities will vary from four to 33 following is a list of the guests alpha chi rho the misses virginia ruggles kingston catherine koffel bethlehem ida kreuter queen's village n v ; regina martin ridgewood n j josephine bentson gar wood n j clemtnine gibson swarth more adalisa bronstein allentown kath ryn bergstresser hellertown emily law ry ventnar n j ; caroline ronaldson new haven conn ethyle heldenberg bethlehem loraine van loon altamont n v mildred seeath bethlehem frances c d miller southampton l i helen ackerman allentown kathrine fastenrath richmond hill n v ; evelyn e horton brooklyn n v ernestine neiss phila delphia may holtzinger allentown lillian robinson ocean grove n j bobie bor ian philadelphia helen pfeiffer new york n v agnes leiberman allentown marion mcconnon new london conn catherine donaldson newark n j ; gwendolyn cleimner philadelphia kitty licata brooklyn n v edna bilau phi adelphia mary louise redfong bethlehem chaperons mr and mrs laurence b kingham east orange n j ; mr stewart b mead alpha tau omega the misses edna stahl williamsport luclla george west chester josephine bair harrisburg mary palmer philadel phia marjorie stengel newark n j ; mary adelaide conderman hornwell n.y ; agnes o'connell phillipsburg n j ; jane smith st louis mo ; dorothy outten dover delaware ruth foley long island n v ; anita fooks philadelphia marjo rie wright allentown ernestine mohr bethlehem gertrude datwlyer long is land n v ; frances challis swickley mary reynolds phillipsburg n j ; cath erine petrikin bethlehem martha ander son keyport n j brida astreger nor folk va beta theta pi the misses janice edson reading helen wilson staten island n v ; larry rolfe wayne mary ellen rheutan richmond va ; betty kirkwood flushing n v bar bara palmer bayside l 1 n v ; louise garnette new york city virginia chewn ing philadelphia evelyn mays reading vera wallace freeport l 1 n v ; helen campbell flushing n v betty hollins flushing n v billie taplor philadel phia bobbie scott philadelphia polly pepper philadelphia molly groman beth lehem miriam reiss brooklyn n v ; edna heath binghampton n v ; betty murden peeskill n v ; edith hess bethlehem virginia buckman bethlehem virginia thurman baltimore md ; rose cullum detroit mich ann beard old orchard me alice greenlaw louisville ky ; mary mascher new york city chi phi continued on page four the misses dorothy gleason south orange n j ; margaret keyser german chaperons dr and mrs j w baker dr and mrs h a neville came the dawn a short story by louis bloom 31 is one of the features of the house party num ber of the burr which was deliv ered today the story centers around long worth clarkenridge brithwaite or dinarily a non-combatant in the an nual fray who finds himself in the center of a whirl when the house president's girl is put in his cus tody this story is the first attempt of wee burro in this field and oth ers will follow in succeeding issues according to present plans a calen dar of campus events is the other addition these changes are part of the program for the enlargement of the burr the next issue the lafayette number will be delivered nov 22 and will be devoted entirely to le high's annual gridiron classic professor max peterson of the physics department presented an outline of the classical theory of scattering of light by transparent media at the first of the series of four physics seminar meetings de voted to the ramon effect held monday this theory predicts that light will be scattered by a nominally ho mogeneous transparent substance in a fashion similar to the scattering produced by very small suspended particles such as smoke or mist this scattering being greatest for the shortest wavelengths robs these from a beam such as direct sunlight causing the setting sun to appear red and the clear sky to look blue that the blue of the sky is not sole ly due to dust or mist in the at mosphere but as well to scattering by air molecules themselves was explained by the fact that any me dium containing a finite number of particles molecules continually has minute local fluctations of tempera ture refractive index and other properties and these local distur bances act in the moments of their existence like suspended particles of a foreign material scattering light according to similar rules among other phenomena this theory ac counts for the blue color of the sea and the atmosphere and a number of special optical properties of sub stances in critical states where due to abnormally large fluctua tions the scattering is much en hanced stand in the center of the rooms with aisles of ample dimension be tween them the walls are lined with wide shelves reserved for the storage of bound newspapers per iodicals and catalogues the shelves of the new building will hold 300,000 volumes the entire atmosphere with the modern green fireproof steel shelv ing gives an air of completeness and efficiency the slate floors cov ered with extra heavy inlaid rubber insure dryness and silence the library now possesses more bound newspapers than does any other library in pennsylvania and also more than the new princeton library flowered hats long skirts and narrow trousers were the vogue when lehigh students held their first organized house party decem ber 6 1919 the newly formed in terfraternity council's dance on that date was sopnsored by seven fra ternities alpha tau omega beta theta pi chi psi delta tau delta sigma phi sigma nu and phi delta theta all students whether fraternity members or not were in vited to the dance the sophomore cotillion then an old established social event was held on the evening before the in terfraternity dance and was open to all students except freshmen who had their own dance the same evening at the delta tau delta house the cotillion was an elabor ate affair there were 24 dances and four extras four of the first 24 were moonlight dances supper was served between the eleventh and twelfth dances and the last dance was enlivened by the throwing of streamers and confetti both the interfraternity dance and the cotillion were held in drown hall the interfraternity dance was informal lasting from 8 to 11:45 and the cotillion was for mal lasting from 9 to 1 30 herz berg's orchestra of philadelphia played for both of these dances honey boy's jazz orchestra of easton played for the freshman dance some fraternities had individual house parties before this time but not until 1919 did they have an or iginal house party member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first