Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 44

              kellogg pact is topic season results in 9 vic tories 4 defeats 3 non-decisions 6 men back next year witches open program pi delta epsilon provides unique entertainment for guests there will be no afternoon classes on friday april 25 the day set for the dedication of the new library according to dean c m mcconn as the dedication ceremonies will take place in the afternoon every student will have an opportunity to witness them phi beta kappa to hold dinner lehigh and lafayette chapters will meet next thursday a letter to the faculty dear faculty member — this letter is an earnest plea to you from the students of this uni ver^ty we desire and believe we may expect your serious considera tion of a problem which we have indicated is most distressing five hundred and seventy-seven of us have demonstrated clearly exactly how we feel about this problem we have shown you that the spiritual and ethical guidance offered us under the present chapel sys tem brands it as both hypocritical and illogical we have presented in trovertable evidence that the system falls short of its every ideal that chapel does not provide us with spiritual benefit that substitute courses will not guarantee an adequate solution and that we want to decide for ourselves without external coercion exastly what direction religious guidance shall take we make these requests not because we want to get away with something but because we perceive keenly the folly of the present sys tem and because we believe in utter sincerity that in reform lies the only solution we are as anxious as are you to encourage sane behavior but we feel that we cannot be coerced into formulating moral codes many of us have signized our desire for some guidance 146 have declared our inten tions of availing ourselves of the opportunities offered us by chapel and 230 have asserted our intentions of electing substitute courses we have further signified a desire for particular courses one hundred and forty five of us have asked that a course in comparative religion be offered 99 have requested ethics and 91 have demanded the opportunity to study the psychology of religion we would indeed favor the opportunity of studying all of the courses we voted for as we demonstrated in the poll three hundred and ninety-five of the 577 of us who voted have requested permission to choose for ourselves we believe that we represent the opinion of the students at this uni versity and we are therefore confident of our right to demand your in telligent consideration of our grievances in this an educational institu tion where truth is supposed to be paramount we are universal in our claim that you fact the problem frankly and intelligently respectfully the students of lehigh university submitted by the editorial and executive councils of the brown and whi a copy of this letter is being c mailed to all faculty members fraternity men select officers arcadia selects 31 candidates remaining three living groups to hold elec tions soon benedict and belmore nominated for pres idency of arcadia the fiftieth anniversary of the american society of mechanical engineers will be celebrated at an international jubilee meeting to be held april 5 7 8 and 9 in new york city and washington d c the society will review the past 50 years~of engineering achievements bring together the world's out standing men in engineering and create bonds between nations on the basis of engineering accom plishments the first day the ceremonies will tape place in new york the headquarters of the society and in hoboken n j its birthplace from there the delegates will go to washington for the remaining ses sions among outstanding events of the celebration will be the presentation of a series of 16 papers by the fore most engineers of the world each paper will summarize and evaluate the influence of engineering upon the cultural social economic and political life of the respective coun try of the delegate president c r richards and prof f v larkin have been selected as delegates from lehigh to the conference ten years ago at the fortieth anniver sary meeting president richards wrote the history of the society dur ing the first 40 years of its exist ence the local section of the a s m e will hold a special meeting in honor of the anniversary of the parent society all mechanical en gineering students will assemble at 11 o'clock tuesday morning april 8 in room 466 of packard labora tory phonographic addresses by dr w f durand past president of the society on our obligation for the future and by dr calvin w rice secretary of the society on the a s m e of the future will be heard a series of 12 slides will be shown depicting high lights in the early history of the organiza tion in case president richards is unable to attend the jubilee meet ing he will be invited to address the local meeting the seventh annual meeting and banquet of the combined lehigh and lafayette chapters of phi beta kappa will be held at the hotel bethlehem thursday evening april 10 at 7 o'clock dr f j e woodbridge profes sor of philosophy and dean of co lumbia university will address the meeting on the subject the theo retical life professor wood bridge has received honorary de grees from dartmouth amherst kings college in canada and from the university of berlin doctor woodbridge is reputed to be one of the best academic speakers in the country invitations have been sent out to about 250 including the members of phi beta kappa on the faculties of lehigh lafayette muhlenberg and moravian colleges students mem bers of tau beta pi and sigma xi have also been invited to attend lehigh debaters defeated ursin us college 2 to 1 tuesday evening making a total of seven straight victories for lehigh teams the lehigh team defended the negative side of the proposition resolved that the united states should with draw from the kellogg peace pact the debate was judged by the principals of the collegeville nor ristown and pottstown high schools the lehigh debaters were edward fleischer 33 manuel l ruder man 33 and e g scoblionko 31 the ursinus team contended that the kellogg peace pact has no value and is evil from a moral standpoint they also pointed out that the na tions of europe were not sincere in signing the treaty but signed it for entirely different viewpoints their object was to entangle the united states in european affairs would disturb peace in defending the negative side of the question the lehigh team point ed out the disadvantage of with drawing from the pact they show ed that by withdrawing the united states would disturb world peace and destroy their own social pres tige which is the first step towards world peace despite the fact that the debate was given before an empty house said prof c d macdougall it was a much better contest than the oberlin debate in packard audi torium monday night given before an audience of 45 students and fac ulty members this debate marks the end of the debating season lehigh has had sixteen meets winning nine losing four two non-decision de bates being held with albright and oberlin the team consisting of fleischer ruderman and scoblionko have won three debates defeating tem ple cedar crest and ursinus los ing only to st joseph's with a non decision contest against albright and oberlin h.o.loebel will speak on fuels silica gel uses shown to ch.e.'s elections april 10 nominations of class officers for the year 1930-31 were completed to day when the freshman class select ed its nominees the present jun ior class held its nominations at noon wednesday while the nomina tions for junior officers by the pres ent sophomore class were held tuesday elections will be held ap ril 10 general election day under the supervision of arcadia onlyone combine has been form ed by the juniors with the result that four men are running unop posed while four other men are running unattached for two offices the nominations wednesday were attended by 39 men those nomin ated were president e f evers a l rozelle and r h harris for vice president robert chess unopposed for secretary carl o claus c r kates and robert enscoe for treasurer s l hall unopposed for historian w a furman unopposed and for ser geant-at-arms harry andrews the present officers of the junior class are president r h harris vice president s l hall secretary f a stutz treasurer e m lamb and sergeant-at-arms a t mc elroy the men nominated by the soph omores tuesday were for presi dent a t ware and t e nora vice president j e angle and g e brumbach secretary e v n schuyler and philip elkin treas urer g h riley and c f hal stead historian a r baldwin and h w persons sergeant-at arms w c simpson and p b myers the present officers of the class of 32 are president j e angle vice president g h riley secretary c f halstead treasur er r g roll sergeant-at-arms alvord hoyt the attendance at both meetings was slight in comparison with last year at the junior nominations 39 were present most of the nominat ing being done by an individual or two perhaps representing a com bine the situation at the sopho more nominations was much the same approximately a score of men being present delta omicron theta changes dinner date professor luch will speak at guthsville hotel banquet 0 entrance to library to be made from west chemical society to hear combustion engineer thursday be used main door of new building will motion picture illustrates manner in which sub stance is used the delta omicron theta ban quet scheduled for monday april 7 has been postponed until later in the week the exact date will be announced later - prof j m luch will speak at the banquet which will be held at the guthsville hotel and prof aug ustus h fretz will present the le high discussion cup to the frater nity that emerges victorious in the bull session contest the main entrance of the new li brary on the west side of the building is to be used in entering the old library according to how ard s leach librarian the bridge which has served for entrance will be torn down the windows have already been re placed signs have been placed at prominant places within the build ing to serve as guides to those en tering the library prof fretz to entertain arcadia student governing body made nominations for offices and committees for the coming year wednesday night in drown hall l h platt 31 will be unopposed in the election for secretary being the only man nominated for that office the complete list of nominations follows president john d benedict 31 albert j belmore jr 32 secretary l h platt 31 treasurer samuel c fuller 31 c a harding 31 board of control alexander t mcelroy 31 g b camden 31 h w ruggles jr 32 house committee t j w tied eken 31 j m lyons jr 32 alexander t mcelroy 31 student clubs willis c mac dougall 32 j e maharay 32 william h sachs 32 student activities r l baird 31 william m mayberry 32 richard m powers 31 student publications committee william h sachs 32 robert s chess 31 c a harding 31 dance committee g b camden 31 john e angle jr 32 w s clark 31 booster committee r l baird 31 john m lyons jr 32 ro land s white 31 to show history film prof harry fretz will give a series of receptions to members of the faculty april 7-9 at his home 42 west market street betas pledge one pi delta epsilon pledges 10 men the lehigh debating teams have concluded a season of 16 contests with a record of which any school might be proud in view of the fact that debating is but one year old at lehigh the winning of nine victor ies out of thirteen decision debates is very creditable according to prof c d macdougall coach the season's record of nine vic tories four defeats and three non decision contests was made by sev en students grouped into four teams on two propositions the students are george w parsons 31 west philadelphia emanuel scoblionko 31 bethlehem emanuel honig 31 new york guy vroman 30 larchmont n y t ; manuel ruder man 33 somerville n j mat thew murphy 33 atlantic kigh lands n j and edward fleischer 33 bethlehem eleven of the debates were held on the proposition resolved that the united states should withdraw from the kellogg peace pact which was the subject selected by the debating association of col leges and universities lehigh de fended the affirmative of this pro position in five debates and the neg atives in six either team lost but one decision each defeat was the first judged decision debate in which the team appeared each team loses once the same circumstance of losing the first debate characterized the work of the two teams on either side of the proposition resolved that the evils of the machine age outweigh its benefits it is signi ficant that no lehigh debate team this year lost more than once and that each defeat was upon the first appearance of that team in a judged debate after the teams got started they won eight consecutive vic tories two of these with lafayette and temple were unofficial audi ence votes but even so lehigh was superior in those contests two teams lehigh met and de feated twice the kellogg affirma tive won an audience vote over ur sinus at bethlehem and the nega tive closed the season with a 2-1 victory over ursinus at college ville the same team defeated tem ple 3-0 at quakertown while the af firmative secured an unofficial vic tory over temple in philadelphia vermont debate best the plan of holding most of the debates off the campus and as far as possible before service clubs proved satisfactory according to professor macdougall the two debates held in packard laboratory before exceedingly small crowds were poor because the speakers lacked incentive given an audience both teams rose to the occasion and presented interesting entertain ment he said the vermont de bate was the best of the season chiefly i believe because the crowd of nearly 300 was the largest civic bodies which entertained debating teams were the monarch club which sponsored the gettys burg debate the brith sholom jewish center which staged the ur sinus debate the rotary and wo mon's clubs of quakertown which the eighth in a series of histori cal photoplays will be given this afternoon at four o'clock in pack ard auditorium the film the eve of the revolution depicts the events which began the crisis lead ing to the war for independence beta theta pi announces the pledging of john mercer hazen 33 of bethlehem penna fuels in general will be the subject of an address by henry o loebel vice president and general manager of the combustion utili ties corporation before the chemi cal society at a meeting 7:30 o'clock thursday evening in the main lec ture room of the chandler chemi cal laboratory mr loebel's son richard e loe bel ch e was graduated from lehigh in 1926 the company of which mr loe bel is a member is a branch of the henry l dougherty company and the cities service corporation this company was organized primarily to assume responsibilities in con nection with combustion engineer ing problems of the dougherty or ganization but is now undertaking other large industrial problems continued on page four lehigh students not changed old brown and whites reveal superintendent of police f t trafford was awarded the brown derby last night at the gridiron banquet for outstanding service to bethlehem and lehigh university eighty-five students faculty and men of bethlehem were entertained when pi delta epsilon national honorary journalistic fraternity presented its first gridiron banquet at the hotel bethlehem thomas m brennan 29 a member of pi delta epsilon last year came to bethlehem yesterday afternoon from new york to be toastmaster the guests congregated on the balcony at the ball room of the ho tel they entered the room by climbing under a table symbolical of stooping to lose their dignity be fore going on the gridiron prof j l beaver was unable to find a seat at the beginning of the dinner after a detailed search through records the toastmaster found that he had paid his fees and was entitled to a seat w e black mar 30 had the same experience when the guests were seated all the lights of the ball room were darkened and three witches appear ed a football player a reformer and a policeman taken by jack con neen 30 bob lentz 30 and don stabler 30 respectively these witches pronounced incantations af ter the manner of macbeth and call ed the devil gabe ondeck who welcomed the guests to the ban quet chief firewatha enters when the first course had been completed henry rhors 31 play ed indian love call on the piano until lou becker 30 got to the center of the room dressed as an indian he chronicled the eviction of the chief firewatha and his bride in the laughing water from the vicinity of bethlehem after another course had passed buck jones 30 sang the dean of dear old lehigh in which the activities of the dean were gone over in a kind of poetry after the salad george schoenhut 30 and lou brettner 30 gave their interpretation of a mustard and cheese production of cyrano de bergerac jack conneen next presented a glimpse into the sup ply burean all members of pi delta epsilon next went to 113 west fourth street where their pictures were taken by bill mccaa in the person of george schoenhut tom storm 30 was presented in a dramatic reading by prof r ems myth a happy play from willie shakes peare called the rummo alum mo continued on page four carl claus 31 appeared with his arms full of blue prints locks and keys and recited a poem entitled the buffer architect the last lloyd simonson 30 presented a dramatic interlude making out the budget george schoenhut and gabe ondeck 30 exhibited a new machine to test intelligence and a new method of marking quiz papers known as the altitude-dis tribution method okeson defines ideal objective arts and science students vote on newspapers and magazines elections were held in eight fra ternities during the past week there are now dnly three living groups in the entire university which have not selected their new officers the following men will go into office : phi gamma delta john e angle 32 president burgess n warren 31 treasurer james s little 31 recording sec retary william l arthur 32 cor responding secretary frank a rushong 31 historian lester canton 31 rex harry meyers jr 31 archon daniel s ettlinger 31 k of a george a harris 32 k of e irving koon del 31 m of w pi lambda phi theta kappa phi john knecht 31 president john hollander vice president watson current 32 treasurer thadius drobek 32 recording secretary raymond nehause 32 financial secretary joseph quinn 33 his torian frank boquel 32 pledge manager steven heidak 33 sar gent-at-arms john mcgovern 33 auditor chi psi robert s chess 31 president the other officers have not as yet been elected alpha chi rho e m ross 32 president w b vandergift 31 vice president g o jones 32 treasurer c e marks 32 secretary pi kappa alpha a l rozelle 31 president c r kates 31 vice president j brewer 31 treasurer c f schier 32 secretary delta tau delta harry windham ruggles jr 31 president samuel richards ship ley 31 vice president frederic nathaniel zabriskie 31 steward john c button 32 secretary tau delta phi philip e albert 31 consul j joel levy 31 vice consul mau rice bogart 31 questor samnel solomon 32 scribe harry war rendorf 33 historian history club to meet a constitution will be formulated and adopted and plans for the re mainder of the year will be outlin ed at the second meeting of the graduate history club to be held at 6 o'clock this evening in drown hall dinner will be served at the meet ing after which club business will be discussed fish to undergo decay the commercial applications of silica gel were shown in a motion picture entitled silica gel before the members of the chemistry de partment tuesday the motion picture reel which is put out by the davison chemical company of baltimore showed the manner in which silica gel is put to industrial uses silica gel is a sub stance which has great absorptive powers a small amount of this sub stance being capable of absorbing a relative large amount of water va por or other gases this property makes it especially adapted to re frigeration purposes when fish are shipped by railway from massachusetts to texas in cars cooled by means of ice the car has to he refilled several times during the trip when the ice gets low there is an appreciable rise in temperature which may cause the with the ond shown by the chemistry de partment this semester several weeks ago a picture rubber was shown the motion picture was the sec more modern method employing ' silica gel an amount of silica gel which has previously absorbed sul phur dioxide is stored in a contain er in the refrigerator car this con tainer is fitted with the ordinary ex pansion valves and ice machine cooling coils the silica gel is slow ly heated which drives out the ab sorbed sulphur dioxide which on expanding into the coils cools the surrounding atmosphere in this way a car-load of fish is kept at a constant low temperature during the whole trip several large office and public buildings are using this method of refrigeration for maintaining an agreeable room temperature in the summer time coming events valentines mailed pi delta epsilon national jour nalistic fraternity pledged ten men during the chapel exercises wed nesday morning prof myron j luch professor of english gave the preliminary address and said that pi delta ep silon was one of the leading hon orary fraternities on the campus he also said that journalism men at lehigh do not receive the ac claim the football men receive but they work under ground even to the extent that the men in the brown and white work thus in christmas-saucon hall members of the fraternity then pinned ribbons on the following pledges r a stabler 31 review board and secretary of burr board edward stack 31 business man ager of review p s davis 31 editor in chief of the burr erwin underwood 31 editor in chief of the review and editorial council of brown and white j s little 31 fraternity editor of 1931 epitome and ex-news editor of brown and white g a malmros 31 art edi tor of the burr f r veale 31 art editor of 1931 epitome art board of the burr p s lewis 31 business manager of epitome s c fuller 31 business manager of burr and g b camden 31 assis tant editor 1931 epitome advertis ing manager review the mid-summer term period closed wednesday of this week all grades of students below pas sing averages have been received at the dean's office from the department heads and the valentines will be mailed out to the students this eve ning or some time tomorrow a duplicate list will be mailed to the parents of all students one of the greatest mysteries in the lives of lehigh arts and science men was cleared up monday morn ing when a poll of the social psy chology class was taken to reveal the favorite magazines and newspa pers of the class the cosmopolitan was the monthly magazine most popular among the students while the new york times sunday book review with 24 votes was the popular weekly the new york times shared first place in the newspaper division of the poll with the bethlehem globe-times each received 19 votes the social psychology class may be considered a typical class of arts men out of the 35 members of the class 31 are enrolled in that col lege three are businessmen and one an engineer six of the men are seniors 15 juniors 8 sophomores and 6 freshmen * following the cosmopolitan in the list of monthly magazines were college humor 18 votes lehigh burr 17 lehigh re view 12 red book 10 na tional geographic 9 american 8 vanity fair 8 photo play 8 american mercury 7 and forum 7 the ballot seems to indicate that charms available a doubting undergraduate a volume of the brown and white 1901-02 and another myth has been shattered lehigh of that time was the same as the lehigh of today the old lehigh spirit was no better the students and faculty were at loggerheads and lehigh was not a haven on earth believe it or not here are some of the rev elations of those two volumes in the issue of ocetober 17 1901 there is a letter to the editor advo cating the addition of basketball to the sports curriculum of that time the article is very similar to those which appeared recently in the brown and white in the support of golf the plea of the students was heeded and the basketball team went out and won niti out of 14 games coppee hall was used as a gym at that time and one of its defects has not been remedied by our pres ent gymnasium a letter to the edi tor in a november issue of 1901 complains of the small number of showers and the coldness of the wa ter one complaint that cannot be made today the writer of the let ter wants to know why the unsat isfactory conditions cannot be re moved it is doubtful if he ever found out on november 21 an editorial at tacking the student body for not turning out at mass meetings ap fiction and humor are the tonics which the students use to lighten spirits made dull by reading the weightier works in the arts curri culum detective stories were con spicuous by their absence the saturday evening post with 19 votes was the second most popular magazine among the men it was followed by colliers and judge with 11 votes apiece the literary digest polled 10 votes while time and the new york er each received 7 votes the most astonishing selection in this division was that of the new york times sunday book review for first place with 24 votes per haps the vote can be accounted for by the fact that books are the tools of the arts man and he is naturally interested in them the new york er a magazine unfamiliar to many students received most of its sup port from students from that lo cality despite the constant panning which the globe-times takes on the campus it received as many votes as the nationally known new york times other popular news papers were the philadelphia ledger and the new york her ald-tribune with nine votes apiece the philadelphia inquirer with 8 and the new york world and new york sun with five each a man who is good is not suf ficient you must have something in you that reaches out to others was the idea which w r okeson treasurer of the university present ed to the rotary club in his talk wednesday at the hotel bethle hem mr okeson continued by saying that every job the doing of which creates a functioning cog in the complicated machinery of modern civilization is important he then paralled einstein and all other workers in the various fields of usefulness in that they work to create in another the de sire or the opportunity to do a bet ter job written constitutions or printed objectives are of little value and too often productive of strife and dissension their one reason for existing is that they formulate an ideal and aid each one of us in building the creed to which he sub scribes the wording of such a , creed is of no consequence your creed may sound lige anarchy or farce to me yet the meaning you take out of it may be the same as i get out of mine which to you sounds like a farrage of nonsense it is not the wording of our objec tives but what they inspire us to do that counts peared the lafayette game was approaching and lehigh was just finishing a season of more defeats than victories one of the speakers at mass meetings of that time was walter r okeson who was called away from his regular work to as sist in coaching the team the new basketball team crowd ed the gymnastic team off the gym floor and drew a protest to the edi tor in the issue of december 21 1901 the trouble was ironed out by arranging a practice schedule for the teams and this schedule appear ed in the first issue of 1902 on january 24 of the same year a frosh wrote a letter protesting against the action of the head of the mathematics department who scheduled an algebra examination for a saturday afternoon and gave the freshmen the choice of taking the examination or a zero the let ter reminds one of the recent pro test against the m s & t depart ment which appeared in tuesday's issue of the paper protests against students walk ing on the grass editorials advo cating dormitories articles on the new physics building and warn ings of the epitome editors to get material in on time make the read er of one of these old papers agree with the old saying there is noth ing new under the sun friday april 4 4 p m yale university photoplay the eve of the revolution packard auditorium 7:45 p m lecture by dr theo rodore de laguna of the depart ment of philosophy of bryn mawr college on the philoso phy of the declaration of inde pendence packard auditorium saturday april 5 2 p m varsity baseball vs ursinus 4 p m varsity lacrosse vs swarth more brown and white board members who have ordered charms may ob tain them now from irving gen net at tau delta phi bethlehem pa friday april 4 1930 class officers now dominated for coming year lehigh debaters defeat ursinus vol xxxvii no 44 brown and white semicentennial to be observed by mechanicals price five cents 85 attend first gridiron banquet hold international jubilee in new york and washington juniors sophomores and freshmen choose candidates close successful season with 2-1 victory at collegeville . no afternoon classes . . on friday april 25 trafford receives brown derby for services to bethlehem 1 1 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first