Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 24

              orpheus is flute solo competition sponsored by national food preser vation council dean will publish chapel a tttendance mechanics 1 an allegorical play to be presented by the faculty dramatic club an informal dinner at hotel bethlehem at which prof j l coolidge inventor of the coo lidge x-ray tube will be the toast author of play mcconn praises winner a list of chapel attendances will be posted on the bulletin board of the registrar's office sometime during the christmas holiday according to an an nouncement made yesterday by associate dean curtis mr cur tis intimated however that the list would not be ready for post ing before the christmas holiday which begins tomorrow at noon following is a statement of the grade which each number of chapels merits 0 to 43 f 44 to 51 d 52 to 58 c 59 to 66 b 67 to 74 a the possible attendance is 74 few men who have their family insignias stamped on cigarette matches have led the adventurous life of e j lagouros the venerable victualer-in-chief of the campus cafeteria for although a caterer to famished students and sober pro fessors by trade he is an adven turer by heart and his wanderings have taken him into strange lands among strange people born in sunny greece mr la gouros was reared in the savory at mosphere of a restaurant owned by a greek university here was the rendezvous of hundreds of students from many countries and here mr lagouros learned to speak french english and spanish here among students of all nationalities and types he learned to know their likes and dislikes particularly in the line of food perhaps but what is closer to an overworked hungry student's heart than food however there came a time when mr lagouros began to tire of the monotony of serving steak and prunes day after day he felt the caress of what is commonly known as wanderlust and decided to go to africa with a friend he packed his bag closed his restaurant and set said for the land of the blacks the voyage was rough and delayed by storms but they finally arrived in egypt debating teams finally chosen still longing for a touch of real adventure mr lagouros and his friends decided to venture out into the desert and taking two camels early one morning set out across the sands two hours later their water supply ran out we decided to turn back at once said mr lagouros in relat ing the adventure when suddenly there appeared ahead a cluster of trees and an oasis we spurred on our camels but the oasis never ap peared to come closer at last we understood that it was nothing more than a mirage three times this scene appeared before us and never could we quite believe that our eyes were deciving us but fi nally we forced ourselves to turn back three hours later our throats parched our tongues dry and swol len and our lips cracked we strag gled into town mr lagouros had the good for tune to meet the famous lord kit chener while he was in africa the english nobleman was then con ducting a campaign against the moors who had rebelled against the english soon after leaving africa mr lagouros came to america where he has again become engaged in the restaurant business shakespeare folios discussed by smith archibald johnston interfraternity council and arcadia presents tate gifts walter okeson speaks team given gold foot balls at banquet tues day night harrier praises anthracite coal negative and affirmative sides picked weds for meets civils re-elect filler as sec'y alumnus describes pos sibilities for future fuel use bulletin article gives sta tistics and history of various volumes a.s.c.e awards junior membership to c w granacher 29 the teams which will represent lehigh in debating have finally been picked the men were decided upon last evening by c d mac dougall coach of the debating squad a negative and affirmative team have been selected to debate on the proposition resolved that the united states should withdraw from the kellogg peace pact the negative team will be com posed of the following men first speaker edward shleischer sec and speaker manuel ruderman third speaker emanuel scoblionko ■ the affirmative side will be ar gued by the following students first speaker matthew murphy second george parsons third sydney snitkin in the rebuttal parsons will be the final speaker tryouts for the proposition re solved that the evils of the ma chine age outweigh its benefits will be held the third week of jan uary anyone interested in this question should sign up at once palmer will receive new office in coppee arts dept head enlarged quarters to be built for the time has come when by merely pushing a button on the first floor of your home you may fill a bin on the automatic stoker of your heating plant and by push ing another button you may re move your ashes from the boiler and place them away in sealed con tainers for removal once a year said robert a harrier 27 of the anthracite coal service company of philadelphia in a lecture tues day evening in williams hall to the mining and geological society pre ceding hrs lecture joseph h gird ler 30 gave an account of a sum mer's work in the oil fields of okla homa continued on page four mr harrier spoke of the advan tages of the anthracite coal over bituminous coal gas and oil peo ple do not realize the superiority of hard coal over other fuels he de clared and it was with this fact in mind that the anthracite coal ser vice was formed retailers are be ing taught of the advantages of an thracite so that they will be in a many initiated into tau beta pi merton o fuller associate pro fessor of civil engineering was re elected secretary-treasurer of the lehigh valley section of the amer ican society of civil engineers at the annual meeting held monday eve ning in the university room of ho tel bethlehem willis a slater re search professor of engineering ma terials was elected vice president and w s lord of lafayette col lege was elected president c w gramacher 29 of scran ton was awarded the prize offered for the highest ranking civil en gineer this prize along with a sim ilar one presented at lafayette col lege consists of a junior member ship in the american society of civil engineers it was decided to award the prizes again next june an illustrated lecture of the con struction of the lincoln building in new york city was given by f o dufor former head of the depart ment of civil engineering at lafay ette college no meeting of the civil engineer ing society of lehigh university is scheduled for january because of the final examinations the next meeting will be held in february alpha kapp psi initiates twelve a new office for prof p m palmer head of arts and science de partment will soon be built in cop pee hall the new office will adjoin the present one in the southeast corner of the building the rooms constructed from a classroom will afford more space than the present office plans and measurements have already been made and the work on it will be started during the christmas vaca tion library places books on stacks dr robert m smith head of the english department analyzes and traces the history of the shakes pearen folios in an article called the formation of shakespearan libraries in america this article appears in the bulletin which is the publication by the shakespeare association of america the pamphlet deals with statis tics of quantity and value recording the facts about the number of co pies in various american libraries and the prices paid for them dr smith first takes up the case of the pioneers james lenox paid about 800 for a first folio in 1854 it is recorded that within the next 20 years he had assembled 13 shakespeare folios and 29 quartos these became the nucleus of the shakespeare collection of the new york public library which now owns 33 quartos and 18 folios another pioneer and rival of lenox was thomas barton of bos ton his chief interest was in the quartos however he secured six folios and 44 quartos all of these he presented to the boston public library a third pioneer described in dr smith's pamphlet was almon w griswold of new york he suc ceeded in gathering nine quartos and five folios in the wreck of the arctic in 1854 one of these fo lios was lost in 1864 griswold was overbid at the famous daniel sale and did not buy a perfect copy which went to the bidder for about 3500 the best of griswold's books went to the collection of mr fol ger and the huntingdon library dr smith proved in his pamphlet that england makes good books but america owns them the eng lish have protested from as far back as 1898 that america was draining them of their best works georges barrere and his little symphony orchestra brought to bethlehem music lovers many long forgotten and intimate works of the great masters at the third of the bethlehem community concerts in the liberty high school wednesday evening for nearly two hours this small band of musicians magnetized its audience with compositions which almost wholly lie away from the beaten path of concert music mr barrere's flute solo the scene from orpheus by gluck was the num ber on the program best received two hungarian dances of brahms presented by barrere and the orchestra attracted very fav orable comment m barrere explained that he bought his season ticket to life oc tober 31 1876 in bordeaux france from a furniture maker whom he was to recognize later as his prog enitor used tin whistle after four years his family moved to one of the more quiet suburbs of paris there he began public school and it was here that he introduced himself to the tin whistle mastered it and conducted tin whistle classes for his school chums the first whis tle was the possession of his older brother who discarded it when somebody gave him a cheap violin from this meagre start georges barrere worked himself into a posi tion that is looked upon by critics as that of one of the world's most accomplished flute players in 1905 barrere severed all con nections in france that he might visit america for a trial with walter damrosch conductor of the new york symphony orchestra since that time barrere has conducted several widely known orchestras played flute in the new york sym phony orchestra and made numer ous transcontinental tours following the christmas holi days the little symphony will tra vel to florida where it will remain for the winter months selections played the following program was pre sented wednesday evening la italiana in algeri overture rossini ii symphony in g major no 81 the hen hayda allegro spiritoso andante minuetto vivace iii little indian little dancer john alden carpenter iv scene from orpheus gluck flute solo by mr barrere v three pieces tschaikowsky humoresque chanson triste troika vi suite bergamasque debussy prelude menuet clair de lune passepied vii two hungarian dances •••• brahms faculty players meet prof to visit duke prof n mac donald assistant professor of history will represent the university at a meeting of the american historical association to be held at duke university imme diately after christmas robert many prominent lehigh athlete was formally initiated into tau beta pi honorary engineering fraternity at a meeting held wed nesday evening in the packard building many was unable to be at the initiation held dec 6 because of being at the football banquet held in new york the same night at the meeting plans were made for a smoker to be held in the latter part of february j e.johnson was appointed to act as news subscriber from the lehigh chapter for the bent national tau beta pi publi cation a discussion was held concerning the national convention of tau beta pi to be held here at lehigh next year tau beta pi was founded at lehigh in 1885 by prof e h wil liams b o steinert j a water man p s davis and j c mertz were appointed as a committee to make advanced plans for the con vention the faculty dramatic club met at the home of prof r w hall last night they read wings over eu rope by nichols and browne the book is a scientific melodrama . the next meeting will be held wednesday jan 8 the club will read the life of man a philoso phical drama written by l n an drieev a greek-russian author tomlinson fort master and tours of the moravian historical buildings and the beth lehem steel company will be the outstanding points on the enter tainment program for the thirty sixth annual meeting of the amer ican mathematical society to be held from thursday dec 26 to saturday dec 28 in packard lab oratory thursday afternoon there will be a tour of the bethlehem steel com pany works by the men attending the meeting following this tour there will be a meeting of the coun cil in the private dining room of the hotel bethlehem at 9 o'clock that evening there will be a meet ing of the board of trustees of the society in the same room play friday night an informal dinner will be held at 7 p.m friday in hotel bethlehem prof j l coolidge inventor of the coolidge x-ray tube will act as toastmaster special musical enter tainment will be provided during the dinner by prof and mrs k w lamson following the dinner miss helen body will entertain with two violin solos and a quartette from the nativity episcopal church choir will render two selections me chanics an allegorical play writ ten by prof tomlinson fort of the mathematics department will be presented by the faculty dramatic club immediately after the music the cast is as follows new tonian mechanics prof e h ril ey wave mechanics h b ham matt matrix theory h s stan ley relativity m j luch ge ometry john toohy engineer ing miss helen chataway phy sics miss josephine waltman chemistry mrs w w ewing and astronomy mrs l l smail the first section of the engineer ing symposium will be held at 9:30 o'clock saturday morning in the auditorium of packard laboratory at this symposium speeches will be given by some of the country's lead ing engineers the speeches to be given are as follows the problem of diffusion by prof h w march of the university of wis consin mechanical solution of differential equations by prof vannevar bush of the massachu setts institute of technology and numerical integration of differen tial equations by dr t h gron wall of columbia university continued on page four the second session of the engin eering symposium will be at 2 o'clock in the afternoon a nadal of the westinghouse electric and manufacturing company will speak on plasticity and related prob lems of non-rigid bodies r h park of the general electric com three seniors and nine juniors were initiated by alpha kappa psi honorary business fraternity tues day evening at gross's grove on the nazareth pike after the initia tion a banquet was given the speakers were dean max mcconn assistant dean g b curtis and prof neil carothers of the bus iness college the seniors admitted were s powell s w ranson and g s dixon the juniors were s w manning r s chess h l thompson c h cleaveland s h condit l h platt j oneill w j brady and e a fay other mmebers of the faculty present were professor collins mr hir ing and mr mead ancient collegiate feud closes as o.d.k taps general lejeune richards invites hoover to lehigh many classes of books have been moved permanently into the stacks in the new sections of the library some books have been placed on the new shelves temporarily and will be moved later to other sec tions the first floor stacks hold the following catalogued and numbered classes the following books have been placed on the shelves perman ently 000 to 051 including bibliography encyclopedias and english and american periodicals from a to the london mercury 630 to 639 agriculture domestic science etc 700 to 799 art music etc 800 to 808.9 general literature the temporarily located material on this floor is as follows the spanish classics the canadian ar chives the maryland archives and all sets of technical periodicals the second floor stacks shelve these classes 613 to 619 medical science i anyone experiences difficulty in lo eating the stacks any member o the library staff will aid him 434.2 to 399 law insurance edu cation commerce transportation society and museum publications in science and mathematics why 50 degrees is the danger point is subject dudley l harley 30 was awarded the first prize of 10,000 in the national food preservation con test sponsored by the national food preservation council by unani mous vote of the judges this is the second major prize harley has won within the last year his essay hel lenic contributions to civilization winning the first prize in a contest conducted last spring by the le high chapter no 60 order of ahepa the prize winning essay was com posed written and bound into book form during a forced extension of harley's summer vacation when due to a fall from a horse on fri day sept 13 he broke both his wrists faced with a period of idle ness harley entered the contest harley's essay why is 50 de grees the danger point said in part the battle with bacteria has shown us that below 50 degrees reproduc tion is greatly retarded thus the modern housewife can eliminate costly spoilage and buy in greater quantities at cheaper prices but the greatest value of well kept foods is safeguarding health fresh crisp vegetables and fruits are more palatable and more nourishing low temperature keeps germs in check so that the body is able to resist disease above all benefits of prop er food preservation is this vital function has won 13 awards this latest award is the thirteenth harley has won in four years oth er prizes which he won include be side the ahepa contest last spring the american chemical society's essay for college freshmen first prize in the american chemical so ciety's secondary school contest in 1926 from martinsburg w va high school and in 1927 he won the same prize in pennsylvania from mercersburg academy togeth er with the first prize for an essay on benjamin franklin in the na tional essay contest prize for sec ondary schools the same year the williams prize in both his freshman and sophomore years at lehigh and second award in the o d k theme contest besides numerous other minor awards harley humorously stated when asked by the brown and white what he intended to do with the prize that he intended to put it in a bank and pay uncle sam income tax the cash award was optional a model home being the other alter native harley who is a candidate for the rhodes scholarship from his home state intends to use the prize to further his education by study ing english harley had no other statement to make last evening except that he considered the award a very fine prize the only research he spent on the subject was purely biblio graphical he declared altogether 835 prizes totaling 25,000 were awarded in the contest entries were limited to 400 words and were judged on the basis of knowledge of the subject personal experience shown originality of presentation and clarity mr c e greenwood vice chairman of the council which determined the win ner of the award said the results of the contest were extremely grat ifying to us with so many thou sands entering the contest it is surely true that many more thou sands took arr active interest either in aiding the contestants or in writing essays on the subject which they failed to turn in such an inter est should result in a marked im provement in the public attitude towards food preservation and this would be of great benefit to the country from the standpoint of the prevention of disease and the con servation of health dean mcconn congratulated har ley saying he considered harley a man of unusual ability and ma turity and that he felt sure that harley would make a name for himself and lehigh harley's success was not only one of the university-trained contest ants of the first 35 prizes 18 were awarded to college graduates and two on the list of winners were col lege professors edward f mohler professor of political science at st john's college toledo 0 and miss ethel m arnold assistant profes sor of art kansas state agricul tural college won 100 each on their essay friends and alumni of lehigh gave the members of the football team and their coaches the great est demonstration in celebration of their victory over the lafayette leopard of the three victory din ners tendered them since the close of the gridiron season three-hun dred men filled the ballroom of the hotel bethlehem tuesday night as they gathered to pay tribute to the first team in eleven years to triumph over the old rivals of the brown and white archibald johnston b9 presented the team members with a toy foot ball suitably inscribed with a verse by virtue of the authority vested in him by the trusties a trustee he said is one who never has been in jail whereas a trusty may have been in jail but who has brains enough to get out tubby miller captain of the 1929 team awarded the gold footballs to the teams for the board of control of athletics hugo bezdek coach of football and director of physical education at pennsylvania state college the guest of honor at the banquet pre sented very capably some interest ing suggestions for changes of the present football rules other speakers were william g crowell referee of the lehigh - lafayette game this year who will also referee the rose bowl game between pitts burgh university and southern cal ifornia on new year's day ellis oiler who gave coach austy tate a wrist watch from the interfra ternity council jack conneen who presented austy with a gladstone bag for the arcadia in appreciation of the fine bit of work he has done in the past season in moulding a championship team and austy him self who thanked everybody for their cooperation 4fc okeson gives talk songs and cheers spirited the diners throughout the meal some of these were for the perm state alumni who occupied a table and for mr bezdek j c ganey 20 president of the home club intro duced walter r okeson 96 trea surer of the university and commis sioner of eastern football officials as the toastmaster of the evening dr c r richards was unfortunate ly unable to be present at the din ner because of a conference with president hoover on wednesday but he sent a message of regret and felicitations as did many of the le high clubs of the east okey briefly congratulated the team upon its success and gave a bit of le high's early football history with special reference to the part played in the early struggles by mr john son as both player and manager he specially mentioned the 110-0 score lehigh piled up against state much to the amusement of the del egation from that institution mr johnson speaking for the townspeople likened football to the game of life there are three essen tials for a successful team proper coaching and instruction coopera tion of the team with its captain and coaches and the support of the university and the student body a winning team is a stimulus to the alumni and is necessary for an up and-coming college but it is an au xiliary only he stressed the need of a high standard of scholarship among the players in order to make the most of the opportunities af forded them by college in closing he awarded lettermen of the vic torious team with the degree of engineer of football and gave them the footballs as an appropriate symbol of such a degree this is but a start in lehigh football his tory bezdek for amateurs firmly believing in the carnegie report condemning professionalism in collegiate sports which he liken ed to a sears-roebuck catalogue mr bezdek maintained that schol arships are the biggest nuisance in vented professionalism of any sort starts college men on the wrong path those who receive it in col lege think the world owes them a living such a practice means deal ing with danger not only for college athletics but also for the entire country speaking of every phase continued on page three ' the oldest collegiate feud in the south ended when major gen john a lejune marine corps superin tendent of virginia military insti tute was tapped to membership in omicron delta kappa national leadership fraternity at washing ton and lee university at its an nual assembly recently held at lex ington va as an evidence of the complete breaking down of sectionalism at washington and lee university an institution founded before the dec laration of independence and head ed after the civil war by general robert e lee three northern stu dents were tapped to membership with general lejune they were thomas j sugrue of naugatuck conn m n thibodeau of water ville me and herbert r groop of fitchburg mass general lejune was tapped to membership after he had just de livered the annual address on lead ership it came as a surprise both to the general and to the audience men chosen for membership in this fraternity are tapped with a wand by an officer of the organiza tion as they sit in assembly it is the first knowledge of their election omicron delta kappa was found ed at washington lee in 1914 it now has chapters in 24 eastern and southern universities sixty years ago records show only three northern students were enrolled at washington and lee university today slightly less than half the entire student body are northern men plans of an elaborate and appro priate nature are being arranged by lehigh university for the dedication next year of the james ward pack ard laboratory dr charles russ richards has in mind a celebration that may cover more than one day it is possible that an attempt will be made to hold a national con gress of engineers and with this idea in mind dr richards paid a visit thursday to president her bert hoover at the nation's capital at washington he extended an invitation to the chief executive to be present at the observance next fall congressman w r coyle presented dr richards to the president mr hoover was unable at the moment to state whether he could be present but promised an answer later get out of harm's way the defen ders then charged with bare fists and put the rioters to flight the in surgents left the room by leaping through the windows and racing down the corridors a number were sent to the hospital hors de com bat none of the americans was injured miller was in another de partment at the time and was not in the riot but he arrived on the scene in time to witness the con clusion the lecturer dr tombler a not ed authority on anatomy is still at the college the american students later went to see the dean of the institution and remonstrated against the riots they were told that if they didn't like it they could go back to where they came from miller was graduated as a pre medical at lehigh and is pursuing his studies at vienna student riots in vienna described bylehigh graduate now in europe hazing and hell week in american colleges are decidedly tame as compared to the student riots which take place in european colleges and universities gilbert miller 28 now a student at vien na medical college vienna austria in a recent letter received by his parents mr and mrs simon mil ler 317 adams street tells of stu dent riots which took place in vien na some week ago miller states that 200 enraged students who had con ducted a murderous demonstration against one of the professors the head of the department of anatomy were routed by a group of 50 stu dents who were receiving a lecture from the professor among the 50 students were some 20 americans and a number of coeds the 50 students built a barricade of chairs benches and tables to withstand the first onslaught and this act gave the professor time to presents footballs bethlehem pa friday december 20 1929 adventure says campus caterer is spice of life price — five cents math delegates to hold meeting here dec 26-28 little symphony holds concert at liberty high vol xxvii no 24 brown and white bezdek bans scholarships in a thletics harley wins 10,000 prize for best essay barrere troupe give clas sics on community pro gram weds ' mechanics ' professor fort's play to be staged for visitors dr coolidge to attend no issue until jan 10 in suspending publication with this issue until jan 10 1930 the brown and white wishes its readers a merry christmas and a happy new year all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association