Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 28

              barker tate and buch anan also address phila club comprehensives will be given at end of spring term group admitted as nu chapter of national organization feb 1 cabinets abolish banquet fighting students fighting will be subject to severe punishment dinners are postponed plan new dormitories installation similar to 1928 plan selections based on com petition held during first semester class functions to be held on different nights exemption of finals pos sible to men in highest quarter jewish center rotarians and kiwanis club to hear contests the second semester of 1929-30 came upon us in a glorious splurge feminine daintiness soft music and multi-colored lights on the eve nings of jan 31 and feb 1 seven fraternities held dances the sig ma chi affair was closed and took the form of a bowery ball many alumni were to be seen among the regular students and the evening's success was unquestionable open dances were held by sigma phi sigma nu kappa alpha sigma phi epsilon theta xi and theta delta chi each dance was a success in its own way the entire week-end strongly savored of house party time fluffy feminity invaded our celibate campus once more and even in the painful throes of registra tion we still found time to smooth our pompadour and smile shyly as we hastened or sauntered depend ing upon the individual from build ing to building the kappa alpha dance held friday night at the hotel bethle hem was preceded by a banquet members of the society active and alumni their partners and the chap erons for the evening were present the dance followed immediately af ter the banquet and'terminated af ter many enjoyable hours at 3 o'clock saturday night saw the sigma nu's in the midst of great social ac tivity the'sig house showed a con stantly changing vista of faces to stand in the door of the sig house was to surely meet one's friends the affair was long and merry yet termin#ted too soon for most of us the sigma phi dance held at the place was a quieter but just as an enjoyable affair sigma phi epsilon theta delta chi and theta xi also danced to a late hour and from all reports spent a pleasant and a social week end college alumni consider union barker to talk on modern light will answer illumination problems by demon strating effects cornell delegate advo cates nation wide joining of forces all interclass fighting during ban quet this spring was abolished un animously at a join.t meeting of the freshman and sophomore cabinets wednesday night the date of the banquets formerly designated as the day after easter vacation has been postponed indefinitely although de cision was reached to hold the ban quets on different nights not only has fighting in previous years distinctly lowered the scho lastic averages of the participants because of the numerous cuts taken but it has thrown both underclasses in debt this year dean mcconn intends to enforce the decision \ reached by the cabinets and stu dents caught violating the rule against fighting will be liable to se vere punishment sale of tickets and attendance at the banquets this year is expected to be much greater as a result of the new regulations and hope is expressed that the treasuries of the freshman and sophomore classes will be able to make up for the de ficits of former years both cabinets agree that if the banquets were held the day after easter very few students would be back for classes and the day would be taken as a general holiday with this view in mind coupled with the nights specific dates will be an • nounced in the near future fact that all fighting has been abol ished dean mcconn consented to ' holding the banquets on differfnt corps releases camping dates new officers of the brown and white for the second semester were elected by the board of publications friday evening jan 17 after being recommended by the outgoing exe cutive committee the selections were the results of strong competi tion during the first semester the new officers are e a ho nig editorial manager irving gen net business manager and walton forstall news manager the news editors are john button friday is sue william e hoyer tuesday issue frederick d hargan was elected circulation manager and miles a oppenheim advertising manager other men appointed by the executive committee were ralph c benson james b rather robert h raring ralph h deckard as sistant news editors and everett a fay and george t duram as sistant sporting editors the new editorial council is composed of maurice s bogart carl o claus james s little robert p lentz and frederick h morhart all staff members taking office immediately will hold their posi tions until a new election in sep tember every elective office ex cept that of editor in chief is filled at each semester election the edi tor holding office for the year the new men were elected after a period of competition lasting for about six weeks specialties and features were one of the require ments and the competitors for the positions of news editor and sport ing editor were each required to supervise and be responsible for one issue of the brown and white a four hour examination given un der the supervision of curtis d macdougall professor of journal ism terminated competition and the men were elected to their new positions largely upon their grad ing in this written test prof joseph w barker head of the department of electrical engin eering will talk on man's invis ible slave at 8 p m monday feb 10 in the packard laboratory audi torium this will be the fourth of a series of college lectures on man's conquest of nature lighting is a big field because we live under artificial daylight al most half of our time explained prof barker he intends to answer some interesting problems in elec tric lighting by demonstrating va rious lighting effects professor barker who took over his duties as head of the electrical engineering department in packard laboratory only last fall will speak mainly on artificial light and meth ods of illumination professor bark er intends to discuss the develop ment of electrical illumination from edison's first lamp in 1879 up un til the present health giving lamps he will explain the«-newest type of sun lamp — a combination arc and incandescent lamp — which has only been on the market a short time ultra-violet effects will also be dis cussed honor richards late m.e head houseparty set for may tenth howard hall which has existed as an independent living group since its organization in the spring of 1927 was installed as the nu chapter of alpha kappa pi a na tional social fraternity friday and saturday jan 31 and feb 1 the installation was conducted by prof park b fraim of the brooklyn polytechnic institute who is province chief of the alpha prov ince a w heinmiller province chief of the beta province elmer hoppc and theodore hoffmeister both of the beta chapter wagner college staten island and david s blankenship jr albert h wil son of new york city national ad visor of alpha kappa pi were pres ent friday evening following the ceremonies an in itiation banquet was held in spring valley inn at saucon speakers at the banquet were ralph a brader grand treasurer of alpha kappa pi harry w dierman grand secre tary william j opdyke historian of the alpha province and prof j l beaver of the electrical engin eering department men from the alpha chapter at the newark col lege of engineering and the beta chapter at wagner college staten istand were present at the dinner following the initiations the heads of the group were elected c a austin 30 was elected pres ident c s boies 30 vice pres ident menry micbael 30 treasur er e p sorden 31 secretary r c hoag 30 historian w a klein 30 sentinel and e r rob erts 30 chaplain howard hall was one of two liv ing groups that existed indepen dently as such and not as a local fraternity the present house was obtained in february 1927 and the living group gradually took shape that spring the installation of howard hall makes the 31st social fraternity on the campus which has national affiliation leonard hall is the only remaining living group which exists alpha chapter of alpha kappa pi was organized in 1921 at new ark college of engineering since then 11 chapters have been added howard hall being the newest member numerous alumni chapters are also connected with it chemicals make inspection trip fifty alumni workers represent ing thirty-three institutions of the middle atlantic states assembled jan 24 and 25 at lehigh as guests of the lehigh alumni association for the annual meeting of district ii of the american alumni coun cil registration headquarters were established in the alumni office and sessions were held in the james ward packard laboratory the bus iness sessions were divided into three parts covering respectively the alumni office the alumni mag azine and the alumni funds the outstanding event of the ses sions was the proposal of l c boochever of cornell advocating a joining of forces by all the colleges and universities maintaining alumni funds for the purpose of solicita tion mr boochever would set aside a week to be held all over the country as alumni week and through the medium of nation wide publicity would encourage the alumni everywhere to make their gifts to their respective alma ma ters at that time the plan was widely discussed and referred to the council for consideration and pos sible action social features of the convention included a luncheon served in the packard laboratory at which w b shaw of michigan was the prin cipal speaker a formal dinner was served to the delegates at the ho tel bethlehem at which time talks were given by president c r richards dean c m mcconn and dr w n schwarze of moravian college club to reopen radio station the summer encampment for r o t c members according to in structions received by the military science department is for members of the advanced courses and will not include the basic courses engineer ing sophomores who are required by the university to do engineering work during the summer of their junior year can arrange to attend this camp this summer the infantry camps will be sit uated at fort meade near balti more and at fort hunt on the south side of the potomac about five miles below alexandria vir ginia the ordinance camp will be situated at aberdeen maryland all the camps run from june is to july 26 inclusive the govern ment pays for transportation be tween the university and the camp both directions and allows stu dents soldiers pay plus the usual ration allowance and medical at tendance while at camp winter review goes on sale lehigh sent news of herself plans for her future and a few min utes of entertainment to tine annual banquet of the philadelphia-lehigh club jan 31 at the bellevue-strat ford in the persons of dr charles russ richards prof joseph w barker coach a austin tate and andrew e buchanan dr richards in the principal ad dress of the evening described le high's most pressing need at pres ent as adequate dormitory build ings plans have already been pre pared printed but not as yet is sued in pamphlet form which will require three million dollars for completion at present about 150 students live in the dormitories 150 at home 550 in fraternities and 700 in bethlehem rooming houses ac cording to a study made by dr richards the dormitory men stand highest in their studies because they help each other the older men to some extent tutoiing the new conversely the town group have the poorest record and must live for the most part in uncongenial surroundings salaries discussed the subject of salaries and pro vision for income after retirement for the teaching staff was discussed at some length by dr richards he quoted the following present aver age yearly salaries instructor 1995 assistant professor 2841 associate professor 3314 profes sor 4934 and declared that his aim is 2500 3500 4000 and 5500 respectively for those posi tions such salary increases will ne cesitate an additional annual in come of 100,000 which dr rich ards suggested might be obtained from student fees with an increased enrollment professor barker described the salient features of the packard lab oratory illustrating his remarks with lantern slides he also empha sized the necessity for study of the humanities and participation in ex tra-curricular activities in a discus sion of the curriculum in electrical engineering an appeal for alumni cooperation in interesting lehigh boys who will graduate with a record a credit to themselves and to the university was the message of austie tate he spoke of sub-freshman day and announced that to avoid previous duplication of work all correspon dence relative to sub-freshman day and prospective lehigh students will be handled hereafter by the registrar's office fifteen minutes of prestidigitation by andrew e buchanan alumni secretary contributed to the mysti fication and entertainment of his audience some of his simpler feats were the production of bowls of goldfish from under a handkerchief and catching the same creatures from the air with a rod and line about 100 lehigh alumni and friends were present at the ban quet c f lincoln 11 president of the philadelphia lehrgn 1 club was toastmaster ■• » may 10 has been definitely decid ed as the date for spring house party after much discussion the date was changed from april 26 to the present date by the interfrater nity council all events planned for house par ty will remain the same on the new date there will be a tea dam£»sti day afternoon folloat&fcltf^ilje^-jnh ior prom oimjyc^tal evening the lehigh - nav lacrosse game ■*■ scheduled or saturdaj<«£jri*»fi and the mjstajat^h&lf fefleese show will probalj^flp'rrcla saturday aft ernoon house dances wiuja«^jli saturday ev w the interjppswfty council has sent a petition to dean mcconn re questing that classes be suspended on the saturday morning of house party weida will discuss lehigh's grade plan garrison speaks on oil electrics the memory and achievements of dr joseph w richards former head of the department of metal lurgical engineering at lehigh are to be honored by the-creation of the joseph w richards memorial lec ture fund by the american electro chemical society this fund will be used for the purpose of inviting a distinguished scientist or engineer from abroad to visit this country and to deliver a lecture at the society annual meet ing dr richards was the founder of the engineer's club of lehigh val ley and was for a long time its tem porary president he was also one of the founders of the american electrochemical society serving as president and also as secretary he was one of the few men who has obtained the degree of doctor of philosophy from lehigh univer sity he was graduated with the de gfpe of b s in chemistry and in 1886 he received his master's de gree two years later he was grant ed his doctor's degree mrs richards hostess industrial plants and factories in allentown were_^the subjects of study vis^fwjyßfte senior chemi on tlwir inspection l.trifriii charge of pj£>jfif sors c w simmons aiid«-rf l t*heis thurs day—fet»^si!v*ctie engineers made ' tests on chemical products produced at.-lli.ejf«p^ries while on the toifloy x 1 " thlsfr n * 1p places inspected were ' robert a reichards inc the new sewage disposal plant the city lab oratory refuse incinerator . plant and the city water filtration plant reichard's plant for the rendering of waste products is a place of espe cial interest because of the various processes employed for the conver sion of dead animal tissue into use ful products such as soap tallows fertilizers and poultry foods the object of these trips will be to give the senior engineers more insight into the practical operations of industrial plants these trips will take place every other thurs day and will consist of an inspec tion trip coupled with tests to be made and reported on by the en gineers prof f m weida of the mathe matics department will be the main speaker at the faculty education club meeting on monday feb 10 in room 416 packard laboratory professor weida will give the da ta on grading and the method of grading at lehigh and eleswhere during his talk he will compare the grading at lehigh for the past six or seven years with that of previous years mrs c r richards mrs a c dodson and mrs neil carothers were the hostesses at a tea thurs day afternoon^at the residence of mrs n m emery lehigh rifle team opposes drexel inst big burrs in burro's path have bearing on breaks buffeting him included among articles appear ing in the winter number of the le high review which is now on sale is a comedy entitled the triumph of medicine by revere beasley the original story was written by jules romains a french dramatist and has been successful on the french stage following beasley's article is our stupid athletes by k k kost this story illustrates the fact that athletes especially at lehigh are above the average in scholastic standing the author gives several examples of honor students who have been first-rate students several pieces of poetry and an editorial are presented by g m ondeck who has been a regular contributor throughout the term other articles have been written by b j friedman e a honig h a seward and e f under wood a history of the development of the autogyro is presented by walton forstall three bethlehem civic organiza tions have issued invitations to the lehigh debaters to present debates before their bodies this year the first of these debates will be thurs day feb 27 before the brith shol om jewish center when lehigh will debate wagner college of sta ten island n v on the proposi tion resolved that the evils of the machine age outweigh its bene fits lehigh will uphold the nega tive tuesday evening march 4 the monarch club will entertain debat ers from lehigh and gettysburg college who will debate the propo sition resolved that the united states should withdraw from the kellogg peace pact the debate will be preceded by a 6:30 p m banquet at the hotel bethlehem lehigh will support the affirmative in the debate the kiwanis club of bethlehem has invited members of the lehigh debating team to a luncheon march 6 at the hotel bethlehem two rep resentatives of each team on the kellogg peace pact proposition will speak as part of a 40 minute enter tainment the kiwanis club may sponsor a debate between lehigh and some other school later in the season tuesday march 11 the rotary and woman's clubs of quakertown will entertain members of the le high and temple university teams at a banquet at the quakertown masonic temple lehigh will sup port the negative of the kellogg peace pact question the jewish center of allentown also is interested in sponsoring a debate between lehigh and some other team negotiations are under way for a debate with the college of the city of new york to be held before the jewish center the two teams which will debate the proposition resolved that the evils of the machine age out weigh its benefits were eselected yesterday by coach c d mac dougall following a tryout in the packard laboratory they are affirmative : matthew murphy edward fleischer * emanuel scoblionko leader negative : manuel ruderman roland carman george w parsons leader lose to st joseph's lehigh's negative team on the kellogg peace pact lost to st jos eph's college friday jan 17 in philadelphia when a system of judging favorable to st joseph's type of debating was used the judges george barton historian and editor john harold a hayes publicist and european correspon dent and bernard b brause de partment of law university of pennsylvania were asked to give considerable importance to con struction of main speeches and to delivery one judge confessed that had he been asked to decide on the merits of the question he would have vot ed for lehigh without hesitation according to his tabulation st jos eph's received 236 points to 235 for lehigh the local debaters spoke extempore whereas the st joseph's debaters had carefully prepared and memorized main speeches which they did not alter they also were excellent speakers according to prof c d macdougall speaking of the debate pr\>f macdougall said i am confident that we would have won under any other system of judging our men did splendidly i have heard few college debaters better than scob lionko lchigh's team consisted of ed ward fleischer manuel rudcrman and emanuel scoblionko the st joseph's debaters were francis b lanahan thomas p mcdonnell and romanus j buckley the lehigh radio club having been inactive last semester is plan ning an extensive program for the coming term much work is being done on the station to prepare it for the new year tjie club owns a hundred-watt hartly transmitter a navy grebe receiver and will soon havf at its disposal a televi sion receiving set the transmitter is capable of op eration on any of the popular ama teur frequencies it provides for ra dio telephone operation as well as code the receiver is a two tube grebe it tunes from 15 to 200 me ters foreign broadcast trans-at lantic phone and foreign amateur code stations are frequently heard at any hours of the day the club at present has five op erators messages are sent by ra dio to all parts of the country communication has been established with many foreign countries and with nearly every state in the un ion the members of the club will be glad to relay messages to any place in the united states free of charge for any person desiring to have one sent messages may be left at the department of physics in the radio society's mail box visitors are always welcome at the club room located on the fourth floor in the right wing of the phy sics building coming events airman to speak before m e's oil electric locomotives were discussed by w l garrison of the ingersoll-raifd company at a meet ing of the mechanical engineering society last night in packard lab oratory several reels of film were shown by mr garrison illustrating points of his lecture at the conclu sion of the meeting mr garrison traced the develop ment of oil electric locomotives from their earliest beginning oil electrics are being devetoped faster than any other type of locomotives they are much lighter per horse power than steam locomotives the controls in the particular type of engine that mr garrison is inter ested in are almost identical with those in a steam type locomotive making it simple for old engineers to operate them without much prac tice a discussion and a social session followed the meeting new alumni bulletin appears february 15 the lehigh rifle team of the r o t c department composed of vaughn noedel jeanson schneck van kirk dickerson otto hazen and smith with cook sheen cul verwell rohrer gibbs aufhammer and roy as alternates will oppose the rifle team of drexel institute philadelphia on or before feb 8 arrangements have been made to have the range open daily from 9 to 11:30 in the morning in addi tion to the afternoon hours already enforced the rifle team has fired several matches to date and accord ing to col m h tomlinson has been doing very well burr enlarges staff the lehigh burr elected seven new men four freshmen and three sophomores to the board last wed nesday evening the names which will be submitted to the board of publications for approval follow m j graham j j roessle g e mathews c n crichton g n beckwith d brigham and e a austin latest issue contains university financial article by okeson send epitome names all fraternity presidents who have not sent in the names of the men in their house pictures will please send these to james s little phi gamma delta house all lehigh sophomores will take the carnegie foundation compre hensive examination to be given during the coming spring term this examination which is to be given at the same time to sopho mores in practically all the colleges of pennsylvania is a part of an ex tensive study extending over seven years which is being conducted by the carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching on behalf of the association of college pres idents of pennsylvania and the pennsylvania state department of public instruction the examination will be of the new type each part consisting of a large number of questions to be answered by a single sign or by one or two words the five divisions of the test are english mathematics foreign language social science and general culture high men exempt every sophomore will have a chance to secure either complete or partial exemption from final exam inations in june by a high mark in the carnegie examination on the other hand any sophomore who fails to take the test without a rea son satisfactory to the committee on standing of students will be suspended from the university for one semester in the bulletin published by the carnegie foundation in regard to the new sophomore comprehensive examination the regulations which lehigh established for the senior comprehensive examination in 1928 have been voted published in full as a model set of regulations these in the opinion of the foundation re sulted in a particularly effective handling of the examination two years ago the regulations which the faculty approved on monday for the new sophomore test are closely similar to the regulations of two years ago the new rules pro vide as follows this carnegie comprehensive ex amination for sophomores will be accepted for engineering sopho mores in place of the usual engin eering comprehensive examinations in other words the university shall not give in june of this year for present engineering sophomores the set of comprehensive examinations in mathematics physics chemistry and drawing which have been re quired for several years past and which will be required hereafter for promotion to the junior year in en gineering special exams for engineers sophomores who rank in the sec ond and third quarters in their col lege in the carnegie comprehensive examination will be excused from course examinations in june in sub jects in which their term grades are above passing except in the case of students in engineering curri cula three course examinations namely in mathematics physics and one professional subject to be designated by the director of each professional curriculum and in the case of students in colleges of bus iness administration and arts and science two course examinations to be similarly designated sophomores who rank in the low est quarter in their college in the comprehensive examination will be required to take the course exam inations in june as usual the object of this study is to find out how well the high schools and colleges of the state are doing their job and whether they are handling their students as well as they should these studies should reveal in what ways the instiutions are do ing well in what ways they are do ing badly and how they may be improved continued on page four one large division of the seven year study consists in following through the college period the group of students who were grad uated from . pennsylvania high schools in june 1928 in so far of course as these students have en tered pennsylvania colleges as the first step in this study the carne gie foundation gave a comprehen sive examination in april 1928 to all seniors in the high schools of pennsylvania and also to the sen iors in a number of preparatory schools in pennsylvania they now wish to test the same group again is they are finishing their second college year the carnegie foun dation will test the group a third time in 1932 in the senior year in this way the carnegie foundation hopes to be able to determine to friday sunday 7:30 p m varsity basketball le high vs washington and jeffer son taylor gymnasium 9;30 a m hiker's club will meet at memorial building for twelve mile hike monday 7:30 p in lecture by prof j w barker on man's invisible slave in packard auditorium 7:30 p m meeting of delta omi groti theta in christmas-saucon hall the burr appearing for the first time in october 1881 began its long ascendency as a monthly pub lication during the college year for the students with charles c hop kins 82 as editor in chief and a board then consisting of seven members it has since increased its airculation attained broadness of editorial policy and at present has about 32 members and several de partments the first editorial appearing in the burr stated that in years gone by a newspaper was published but that it has since ceased to exist nobody seemed to know what be came of it why called the burr also appearing in the same editorial was written to justify the title the reasons follow because a burr contains all that is good — the ker nel the essance the gera from which the tree springs and yet it cannot be picked up carelessly and opened thoughtlessly by him who fraterniy drops men beta theta pi fraternity wishes to announce that the fol lowing men have been dropped from pledge status in the frater nity william haas charles platt and harry o'brien will it must be approached scien tifically in a spirit of reverence in short it may not be sat on with im punity which recalls the action of the faculty last spring when the burr because it was deemed how ever unjustly the cause of an epi demic of prickly heat — among the facutly only of course — was placed on probation it was originally a newspaper and sought to present items of in terest to the students however as the editor often complained it was published at such long intervals that the news was usually known vsceks before publication so that the periodical was read with more interest for its literary content than for anything else it evolved finally into a monthly publication in mag azine form the most popular column of the burr in years past was that by rich ard harding davis entitled ccm way maur * the february number of the al umni bulletin vill appear on the campus around feb is outstand ing in the contents will be a finan cial''article written by w r oke son treasurer of the university c e rosendahl lieut com mander naval air station lake s los angeles will lecture on the round-the-world cruise of the graf zeppelin at a joint meeting of the engineers club of lehigh valley and the anthracite-lehigh valley section of american society of me chanical engineers tuesday eve ning feb 11 at 8:15 in the pack ard laboratory auditorium bethlehem pa friday february 7 1930 fraternities hold dances as second semester opens richards speaks of lehigh needs at alumni dinner 1 932 men to take carnegie exams price five cents vol xxxvii no 28 brown and white alpha kappa psi grants charter to howard hall board appoints news officers civic societies invite debaters member intercollegiate newspaper association . ai^l the lehigh news first