Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 23

              working way through college does not pay asserts hutchins that there is something inherent ly splendid in working one's way through college is nothing more than a long cherished myth of am erican universities in the opinion of r m hutchins 30 year old pres ident of chicago university the high-pressure success mag azines have done their level best to validate this romance and it is gen erally held among the plain people he said the belief he declared is based mainly upon the ancient cal vinistic doctrine that in adversity there is victory that the fine edge of character needs something hard for it to sharpen against so it is argued that the boy who goes to college with his pockets empty and has to shake the furnace grates wipe dish es peddle papers mow lawns sell candy and what not to eke out a meager living in some mysterious way emerges an improvement over what he was when he entered people still believe he has got more out of college than his non working classmate because he has learned the value of the dollar learned not to despise hard work and so forth pres hutchins con tinued lehigh arranges fifteen debates what is consistently overlooked in these romantic tales is that col lege is not a place primarily for oxygen treatment of anaemic mor alities not a place primarily for learning in petty economics the ex act distance that a dollar bill may be stretched but is principally for the acquisition of a liberal educa tion he stated experience has shown him that the boy who is working inevitably finds that his work becomes his chief interest be cause that is what is more urgent more elemental and direct in its re wards as time passes he finds him self not a student doing a little work on the side but a wage earner doing a little studying on the side the working student has no time for his education which becomes a matter of machine-made mental pat terns a hasty memorization true education is an absorption from within slow and fragrant mel lowing was the president's opin ion but this mellowing takes leis ure and the working student from one end of the semester to the next never learns what leisure is team will debate kel logg pact and mach ine age gipson explains historical film statistics compiled by dean raymond walters of swarth more college show that 442,493 students are enrolled in the 226 colleges and universities on the approved list of the association of american universities this is an increase of one and one-half percent over figures for 1928 the grand total enrollment which includes part-time and summer-session students is 697,584 an increase of two per cent over last year forty-four percent of this total are enrolled in the 25 largest universities the figures reveal the university of california leads in full time en rollment having 17,242 students within its various branches col umbia university leads in the grand total attendance with 33,367 students fewer universities than last year report decreases in enroll ment dean walters stated he also added that such decreases were for the most part slight those colleges reporting in creased enrollment on the other hand were more numerous six ty-one institutions in the same classification as lehigh were in eluded in this group feakins injured in motor crash history department head gives background of peter stuyvesant students hear criminal cases pre-legal society attends murder trial at easton court bond police hold saupt driver of other car on 1,000 c e 9 — mechanics of materials 5 c e 20 — graphic statics ed 15 — practice teaching e e 6 — alternating currents e e 114 — electric stations engl 43 — reporting and writing lat 105 — satire math ill — advanced differential equations m e i—elementary1 — elementary machine design m e 19 — engineering laboratory phys 127 — intermediate laboratory psych i — general psychology 3 psych s—lntroduction5 — introduction to psychology psych 10 — principles of psychology 3 wednesday 8 a m jan 22 engl 48 — brown and white — sec b fr i—elementary1 — elementary french 2 fr 11 — intermediate french 3 fr 21 17 th and 18th cent fr lit 2 fr 93 — french oral composition m e 21 — engineering laboratory 4 span i—elementary1 — elementary spanish 4 span 11 — intermediate spanish 2 wednesday 2 p m jan 22 astr 2 general astronomy biol 4 embryology bus 3 economics sec ii bus 39 industrial management sec a bus 39 industrial man sec a 2 chem 7 chemical engineering e e 4 alternating currents sec b engl 52 sports writing f a i—appreciation1 appreciation of fine arts geol 4 general geology govt 51 american govt sec a 2 hist 7 english history lat lb—vergil lat 13 latin drama met 21 engineering metallurgy met 131 metallography mm 2 mining methods phys 160 modern physical theories continued on page four monday 8 a m jan 20 course no descriptive title bus 29 — money and banking engl o—composition0 — composition 5 engl i—composition1 — composition 5 engl 2 — composition 3 engl 3a — composition and literature 2 engl 4 — drama 4 engl 12 — argumentation and debate geol 114 — structural geology m e 114 — engineering laboratory phil 107 — philosophy seminar monday 2 p m jan 20 bus 3 — economics — sec 1 2 bus 49 — economics geography — sec.a**(2 bus 123 — investments chem 98 — physical chemistry chem 162 — advanced organic chemistry ed 7 — principles of h s teaching e e 4 — alternating currents — sec.a*«(2 e e 112 alternating current mach.*(2 engl 48 — brown and white — sec e engl 123 — shakespeare geol i—mineralogy1 — mineralogy geol 115 — geologic methods hift 25 european history lat 33 — caesar math 122 — advanced analytic mechanics m e 2 — elementary heat engines 2 met 21 engineering met sec a 2 phys 122 light psych 16 — applied psychology tuesday 8 a m jan 21 math i trigonometry 3 math 2 algebra 3 math 3 — analytic geometry 2 math 41 — mathematics of finance 3 mil i—basic1 — basic i for those not taking ** mil 3 basic ii math 1 2 3 or 41 ** tuesday 2 p m jan 21 biol 52 — bacteriology chem 41 — quantitative analysis conf chem 44 — quantitative analysis conf chem 48 — quantitative analysis conf a j wiesner terms college wet nurse members of the pre-legal so ciety visited the northampton coun ty court at easton thursday to gain practical experience in the methods used in trying criminal cases in the morning the students at tended a session presided over by president judge stewart in which a jury was being paneled to try nor man clause 15 accused of first de gree murder they saw the methods used in choosing a jury and also heard the indictment mitigated to first degree manslaughter because of the difficulty of getting jurors who had no conscientious scruples against capital punishment for so young a boy in the afternoon the group at tended the session of judge stotz's court and heard testimony in a case involving the birth of an illegiti mate child the accused youth was found guilty and sentenced to pay the girl's medical expenses and 3.50 each week until the child is 7 the remainder of the afternoon was spent in listening to testimony in the clause case and in inspecting the county jail through the cour tesy of warden bentz and in meet ing various judges and attorneys the pre-legals were joined in the visit by a number of lafayette college students who asked their aid in forming a similar society at lafayette three dances held saturday band is rehearsing for proposed tour article included in sym posium the student speaks out all economic signs indicate that fhe united states will escape any prolonged period of excessive de pression and stagnant trade prof neil carothers head of the depart ment of business administration told his audience at the conference of the anthracite cooperative con vention held last week at the ho tel sterling in wilkes-barre more than 100 delegates representing mine owners the mine workers union and the business interests of the anthracite region were present professor carothers addressed the conference on the subject of the present industrial situation and the prospects for the coming year with special reference to the effects of the recent collapse in the stock mar ket on the industry and trade of the anthracite region in referring to the causes of the stock market pan ic he said the recent collapse was the inevitable and necessary result of two years of frenzied stock gambling of unwise extension of retail credit of too rapid develop ment of badly managed investment trusts culminating in a general lev el of stock prices out of all ra tional accord with the earning pow er of the corporations behind the stocks conditions optimistic president hoover sent his best wishes to the convention and pledged the cooperation of the de partment of commerce to any pro gram to encourage prosperity in referring to the future pro fessor carothers continued we are in better condition than in any previous period of declining indus try versus deflated stock values there are four features in particular which give us grounds for opti mism first we have a sound effi cient and resourceful banking sys tem that is prepared to stand any strain we shall not have any gen eral breakdown in money credit or banks second the great improve ment in retail merchandising meth ods in the last ten years which are known incorrectly as hand-to-mouth buying and which are in fact mere ly the application of sound account ing methods to inventory and turn over has meant that their tempor ary decline in trade finds few mer chants facing that most tragic cause of failures and bankruptcies over loaded shelves and great quantities of unsaleable and unpaid-for mer chandise third the recession in stock gambling has relieved billions of dollars from wall street opera tions for enterprise and finally we have a government that is not su pinely surrendering to panic and depression but instead is galvaniz ing the basic industries of the coun try into action to maintain business at normal levels this year than ever shields calls organization better noted orchestra to play dec 18 police are still holding ralph saupt driver of the cab which col lided with the car of george h feakins 30 editor in chief of the brown and white shortly after midnight last wednesday at sixth and tilghman streets allentown saupt who is in the employ of the quick service cab company own ers of the cab is being held on a 1,000 bond pending the outcome of feakins injuries feakins whose condition is no longer regarded as serious is in the sacred heart hospital in allentown where he was removed directly aft er the accident by patrolman mich ael deßerer the only witness phy sicians described his injuries as la cerations of the eye and minor bruises an operation to remove particles of glass lodged in the eye has been successful and it is ex pected that feakins will return to his home the delta tau delta house tomorrow the accident occurred shortly after midnight when the taxi driven by saupt struck the rear of feakins car at the intersection of sixth and tilghman streets feakins was thrown against the side of the car and his face and eyes were showered with broken glass he was imme diately taken to the sacred heart hospital where it was feared for a time that his eyesight might be per manently impaired physicians were able to remove the glass from his eye however and in the latest re port pronounced the patient out of danger the car in which feakins was driving was badly damaged the two rear wheels were completely demolished the body was badly bent and the transmission was smashed feakins was alone when the accident occurred as was the driver of the cab thirteen dine on thirteenth fifteen debates have been ar ranged and a dual meet with tem ple is pending on the lehigh de bating schedule this season the two propositions which lehigh will debate this year are resolved that the united states should with draw from the kellogg peace pact and resolved that the evils of the machine-age outweigh its bene fits debates with lafayette perm state and oberlin will be held here on the campus perm state will be met under the newly introduced oregon systems of debate in this oregon system the de bate takes the form of court pro cedure three men compose each team the first speaker is witness the second is cross examiner and the third is pleader each witness in turn presents the entire construc tive case of his team he is then cross-examined by the lawyer of the opposing team then the plead er gives the rebuttal and summary the second speaker is considered in control of the cross examination period fifteen minutes is allowed for main presentation twelve for cross examination and ten for re buttal and summary questions must not be over half a minute and answers not over a minute in length complete schedule jan 10 — kellogg negative vs albright at reading non decision jan 16 — kellogg affirmative vs cedar crest at bethlehem practice feb 26 — kellogg negative vs cedar crest at allentown broad cast over wcba feb 27—"ma chine age negative vs wagner staten island at home feb 27 — machine age affirmative at st joseph's philadelphia feb 27 — machine age affirmative vs bethany w va broadcast over wcba allentown march 4 — kellogg affir mative vs gettysburgh at home march 7 — triangle debate with lafayette and rutgers machine age affirmative vs lafayette at home machine age negative vs rutgers away mar 13 — kellogg affirmative at union schenectady n.y mar 14 kellogg affirma tive at fordham new york city mar 15 — kellogg affirmative at princeton mar 17 — kellogg ne gative vs fordham at home mar 21 — machine age negative vs perm state at home mar 31 — kel logg negative vs oberlin at home dances were given by alpha chi rho delta upsilon and sigma chi saturday evening each fraternity had christmas decorations and each had an out-of-town orchestra mr and mrs paul crockett and mr stuart meade were the chaper ones and the easton saracenes fur nished the music at the alpha chi rho house ken kitchen's orchestra from east orange was the attraction at the delta upsilon dance the chap erones were mr and mrs c i lat tig and mr and mrs frederick heim the sigma chi's had as their chaperones dr and mrs bull and prof and mrs cowin the music was by the allentown command with the football season at an end the work of the band is prac tically finished for this term and rehearsals are being started for an expected concert tour to be taken in the spring t edgar shields director of mu sic told a reporter that it was his belief that lehigh's band made the best showing this year since its or ganization and that it now ranks on an equal with the leading college bands of the united states the band played at every football game this season accompanying the team to gettysburg philadelphia new brunswick and princeton college just another social habit s a ys dean hygien marks ready peter stuyvesant the sixth in the series of historical films was shown friday evening in packard laboratory prof l h gipson head of the history department ex plained events leading to the loss of new netherlands by the dutch in 1664 new netherlands had four gov ernors he stated peter minuit 1624-1633 was the first and was followed by vantwiller 1633-1638 the latter was superceded by wil liam keif 1638-1647 who relin quished the post to peter stuyves ant the colony's last and most able gdvernor minuit's administration was corrupt as was that of van twiller's prof gipson pointed out gov kief's icrsii was beset with troubles with the indians living on the lower hudson who resented the arms given the iroquois confed eration by dutch traders he said in 1639 the lower indians rose against the dutch and in a war which lasted two years destroyed practically everything outside of new amsterdam during this was a defensive wall on the site of pres ent wall street was erected stuyvesant depositic stuyvesant was the first compe tent governor to administer to the affairs of the colony it was claimed all power was vested in the hands of the governor and at this time it became increasingly harder to re concile the people to one man rule in the face of the democratic eng lish rule to the south and east at this time also most of the immi grants were english as the condi tions in holland were so prosper ous that it was difficult to get dutch families to go to the new world the speaker stated he said relations between the dutch and english in europe for several centuries had been excel lent when their ruler died in 1584 the dutch has asked queen eliza beth to rule them and in 1651 eng land proposed a union with a com mon council to settle common mat ters the proposal was not accepted because england demanded tfee ex pulsion of all refuge loyalists in holland which the dutch refused because of their sense of religious toleration continued on page four in this year the dutch and danes made an alliance excluding the marks of the freshman hy giene examination will be posted on the bulletin board in williams hall friday eta kappa nu holds banquets the third presentation of the bethlehem community concert course will be held at 8:15 p m high school having as its feature the barrere little symphony or chestra from new york this orchestra was organized in 1914 by george barrere new york papers have been high in their con titnuous praise of the orchestra music lovers who have heard it have been equally generous in laud ing its work george barrere the leader in speaking of his orchestra says that he has organized and trained it pri marily in order to play the more intimate and delicate works of the great masters which have lain for gotten for centuries principally be cause of the lack of an orchestra of the size and calibre for which they were composed a banquet held friday 13 with 13 members present followed the initiation ceremonies of pi tau sigma prof b j jennings of the me chanical engineering department was initiated as an honorary mem ber the initiates were walton for stall jr 31 robert g hess 31 and james b hartman 31 fol lowing the banquet the initiates and members were addressed by pro fessors f v larkin and b j jen nings coming events law society elects fourteen new men a i e e to meet here regular meeting initiation to take place at next the student convention of the a i e e will be held at lehigh some time next march it was de cided at a meeting of the philadel phia section of the a i e e at the engineers club in philadelphia last week prof j l beaver b o stein ert p a bahr r a boker f j whitney j e johnson t a wolfe and j e zeaser attended the meeting and discussed plans for the convention with the delegates from pennsylvania drexel and swarthmore union discusses funds an entirely new step in govern ment regulation of business is evi dent in the order of the interstate commerce commission issued to the union pacific railroad to con struct against their judgment and will a 180 mile branch line costing between nine and twelve million dol lars the proposed line would tap sparsely settled country and the railroad can see no hope of profit able business arising there the rallying of the northwestern railroad companies to join the un ion pacific in resisting this order promises to carry the matter to the supreme court and obtain a final decree on this matter a decision one way or the other on this rail road dispute will greatly affect that very important question of private rights * * * a resolution slashing income taxes 160,000,000 was passed by the senate and sent to president hoover yesterday for consideration this amount an impressive sum in itself is a flat one percent reduc tion of individual and corporation income taxes effective on this year's earnings to be paid next year this tax reduction is a one year measure and congress will consider the matter again next year when industrial and financial condi tions are more stable senator smoot chairman of the finance committee said that as soon as bus iness was on a normal basis and the income of the government could be definitely established a permanent tax revision measure would be en acted * * ♦ while dr isadore s falk a pro fessor of bacteriology at the uni versity of chicago announced the isolation of the influenza germ and the consequently high hopes for discovering a serum to combat this dread epidemic a professor of biolo gy at howard university baptist institution in alabama was dis charged for telling the students he doubted the biblical tale of jonah and the whale on the basis of scien tific knowledge he told the stu dents that whales have powerful digestive fluids and that their throats were far too small to swal low anything nearly as large as a man he asserted that science has revealed that whales live on min ute marine animals * * ♦ it may be true that the world do move but evidently some districts of this country refuse to admit it a prison mutiny at auburn n y the second in five months has attracted wide attention to the pris on problem in this country this marks the fifth major outbreak in our prisons this year overcrowd ing of the prison and lack of se gregation of dangerous criminals has been blamed for the outbursts by various reformers leniency of the prison regulations and the influ ence of the mutual welfare league a system of self-government among the convicts has been scored as the cause by other critics * * * new york state in which activity appears to have been most preval ent has long talked of expending some 30,000,000 to expand and im prove prison capacity and facilities an official recommendation was made in 1926 for the expenditude of 9,000,000 for this purpose but no noticeable action has been taken governor roosevelt perhaps believ ing that late action is better than none at all has ordered a state in vestigation of prison conditions he also replaced the acting head of the auburn prison who had instituted a reign of terror since the quelling of the outbreak with another man who though strict is known as a hu manitarian official just how far this investigation procedes and what actual benefit will result is problematical judging on the basis of past performance of the state in prison reformation we shall see what we shall see * * ♦ demonstrations by members of the communistic party occurred saturday in new york and wash ington against the government's stand on the haiti uprising a new york crowd of 500 objectors was dispersed in a near riot because they were blocking traffic without a permit while a smaller commun istic group was scattered at the capital numerous taunts on the haiti policy and the soviet note were voiced by the paraders banners en scribed the stimson note to the soviet union was a war note de fend the revolting masses of haiti and the hoover business confer ence means a new attack upon the working masses were very evi dent it seems odd that this country does not adopt a scheme similar to that of the british government whereby objectors conscientious or otherwise can voice their opinions as long and as loud as they care to the loud voice victriolic long winded communists are given prac tically free rein at hyde park lon don the government regards these firey tirades as the blowing off of steam of a loud voiced but very small minority thus far their judgment has seemed impeccable tuesday dec 17 6:30 p m lehigh home club vic tory banquet for the football team hotel bethlehem 8:15 p m meeting of the mining and geological society geology lecture room williams hall r a harrier 27 will speak on why burn anthracite and how wednesday dec 18 tau beta pi meeting 7:30 p m packard laboratory 8:15 p m barrere little symphony orchestra presentation of beth lehem community concert course liberty high school thursday dec 19 8 p m meeting of physics club physics lecture room demon strations by members 7:30 p m meeting of the faculty dramatic club at the residence of professor and mrs r w hall 37 e church street reading of wings over europe chi chapter of eta kappa nu honorary electrical society held an initiation banquet at the spring valley hotel friday night in honor of the six new men who had been elected to the organization the new members that were in stalled are e m healey f g potter f j whitney and c p j king seniors j m bisbee and e p sorden juniors a formal initiation was held in the packard laboratory after which the members of the chapter went to the spring valley hotel where the banquet was served at the smoker and general get together held after the banquet the initiates were called on to give short speeches short informal talks were given by professors n s hibshman j l beaver and s s seyfert prof n s hibshman prof j l beaver and prof h d gruber and prof s s seyfert were the guests of the chapter at the ban quet fourteen men were elected to membership in the pre-legal so ciety at its meeting wednesday evening in packard laboratory they are h i silver s edelman j e rothenberg r carman s w pratt j j magyar m l ruder man s kaplus m m reed w g mango i l stone g p nisbet s h goodman and d a brener these students have met the re quirements by attending at least three consecutive meetings and dis playing an interest in legal prob lems as presented at meetings of the society they will be formally initiated at the next regular meet ing of the society in january plans for raising additional funds to carry on the work of the lehigb union were discussed at a meeting of the union held sunday in drown hall the american college acts as wet nurse at least this is the convic tion of a j wiesner jr 29 in his essay appearing in the recently pub lished book the students speak out wiesner states four years in college have convinced me painful ly that as long as the american college is taxed with the task of giving exclusiveness to the masses just so long must it retain its in glorious role as wet nurse try as i will i can call our colleges by no more dignified name two years be bind europe they stand and they are nothing more than homes for untrained unpurposed adolescents wiesner was graduated from le high last june while in college he was news editor of the brown and white editor in chief of the le 4iigh review and a member of pi delta epsilon national journalistic honorary society while still at school wiesner submitted an essay in response to the new republic's invitation to write on college as it might be although his paper the college as wet nurse failed to win a prize it was however in cluded in those essays which go to make up the symposium the stu dents speak out situation deplorable continued on page four in further deploring the present condition of the college wiesner writes there would be room for bitterness were not the situation de plorable and growing worse all the time our colleges are embarking joyfully upon extensive building programs physically preparing themselves to receive more and still more rough untrained youths who will make up student bodies con taining weird mixtures of aims and yet the colleges persist in ramming a single traditional diet down all their different throats the fault perhaps lies in the spirit of the country wealth abounds and the notion is that college is the magic wand that will turn the public's children into ladies and gentle men into business men and women into capable individuals the col quirements are silly if he refuses to take them of course he can't graduate dean hicks went on to say that most of what we know comes from the library and that the youth who desires to learn can study by him self and so can get along without a university how about those others the ones who go to a university as a sort of finishing school he was asked oh we do not hurt them any dr hicks replied we show them a pretty good time for four years probably they do not acquire any interest in learning but they do get some training in the social graces in their four years at school they meet lots of people and it all helps them when they get to selling bonds or what not dean hicks however does not regard the four years in college as a waste of time even for the av erage student who just gets by he thinks that this average student would porbably be so young that he would not get any place in those four years even if he went to work what causes freshmen to come to universities in an ever-increasing number dr john d hicks dean of the arts college at the university of nebraska is puzzled by this ques tion i am inclined to think it is be cause we have acquired a university complex he declared someone has called it the university conven tion he continued people send their children to universities be cause it is the thing to do just as i send my own to public school everybody believes his children should complete their education but few of them know why sometimes the serious chap who comes to a university to learn gets into trouble with our regula tions maybe he objects to military training or thinks freshman eng lish or science or social science re the result dr hicks asserted is that a multitude of bewildered young men and women is loosed on american campuses every year oc casionally there is one who comes with a fixed purpose who is eager to learn but he is so far outnum bered that he constitutes a problem brown and white vol xxxvii no 23 bethlehem pa tuesday december 17 1929 442,493 enrolled at 226 colleges social fraternity now under survey price five cents carothers sees little economic depression here country's business is sound he tells coal convention recent break natural fraternities in american col leges and their relation to col lege life and conditions are now being investigated by the car negie foundation which recently published a bulletin on athletics in american colleges particular ly football the carnegie insti tute expects to produce as startl ing revelations in this new report as in the late one on college ath letics those investigating the condi tion of college fraternities it is estimated will spend at least five years making up the report sev eral years have ah-eady been spent on the survey and it is thought that a report will not be due before at least another year although this new report is not expected to be quite as~spec tacular as the one on athletics it is hoped that it will be equally as significant examination period starts january 20 dean g b curtis releases final draft of quizz schedule — exams to extend nine days until january 29 all conflicts must be reported by friday a final draft of the complete examination schedule has just been released for publication by dean g b curtis all conflicts must be reported not later than friday according to the following announce ment provisions is made at all examination periods for students who have been prevented by conflicts in the regular examination roster from taking examinations for which they are qualified in all cases of conflict the course having the fewest number of rostered sections takes pre cedence except that in cases of conflict in courses having the same num ber of sections the course having the fewest students shall take prece dence conflicts in the regular examination schedule must be reported by students to the teachers concerned not later than the third day fol lowing the publication of the examination schedule figures in parentheses indicate the number of sections in those courses for which there are more than one section indicates course of two sections or more for which only one examination is scheduled indicates a two-section course for each section of which an examina tion is scheduled world news private rights income tax slash science in america prison reform red demonstration w h b all the lehigh news first