Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 46

              propose liberal plan seniors attend sessions 70 attend meeting 319 cast ballots sophs meet monday all sophomores must report at 7:30 o'clock monday evening april 14 in packard auditorium according to g b curtis to fill in a student information sheet with respect to carnegie exam inations m l eckmann's lecture resistance welding tonight during easter vacation all lockers in the gymnasium will be cleaned and disinfected the department of physical educa tion requests that students coop erate by removing property from the lockers before the beginning of the holidays after the vaca tion the locker room will be ready for use again arcadia to complete count of other class returns tonight phi beta kappa holds banquet welders to hear c e professors e h uhler and c d jenson to present pa pers april 23 columbia dean speaks to combined lafayette and lehigh chapters philips 30 j a engle 31 w y brady 31 p w seal 31 meyer shanker 32 w e blackmar 30 captain e f evers 31 and r l herbrvick 30 manager men awarded letters in swimming were e o snyder 32 major l j e blood 31 captain alvord hoyt 33 h w cushman 31 l l brennesholtz 32 a m mcneil 31 and~f p hill 30 manager the following received l in cross-country l t chandler 32 g e hunt 31 francis neuwirth 31 r r engleman 31 and l m bloom 30 manager men who received letters in bas ketball were r s bennett 30 captain r h many jo w s schaub 31 max schultz 30 t e nora 32 a t ware 32 and f j whitney 30 manager letters in soccer were awarded to the following g l schoen 30 morton strauss 30 dexter bul lard 30 w e bird 32 j l som erville 30 manager william see burger 31 f j mccarthy 31 w s schaub 31 w e herman 32 h e datwlyer 31 w l miller 32 vaushan haag 30 e j mc crae 32 and blake hammond,'32 the meeting was closed with the singing of the alma mater the next college meeting will be held at 11 a m thursday may 8 more than 1000 students were present at the first college meeting this semester held at 11 o'clock thursday at the flag pole under the supervision of arcadia it was or iginally planned to welcome the oxford-cambridge lacrosse team at this meeting but the english stickmen were unable to be pres ent john x conneen president of arcadia opened the meeting and after a few introductory remarks turned the meeting over to w e miller 30 chairman of the board of control of athletics miller pre sented the letters for fall sports , men who were awarded the ma jor l in football were c e mil ler 30 captain r l anderson 30 manager t e nora 32 a t ware 32 e f evers 31 s l hall 31 philip elkin 32 w e issel 32 j a fritts 31 s r van blarcom 30 a n dow 30 man ager of freshman football w g badgley 30 e r davis 30 thomas ayre 31 p b myers 32 a m davidowitz 30 o b pink ney 32 g w king 31 r h many 30 r s bennett 30 w e blackmar 30 h r beachler 31 j f mclernon 30 and g e oi ler 30 major letters were awarded to the following men in wrestling harold e.e.seniors plan inspection trip carnegie exams set for may 5-9 tests will be given at same time through out state forty students to visit new york and albany april 14-16 dr f j e woodbridge profes sor of philosophy and dean of col umbia university spoke on the sub ject the theoretical life before 150 members and guests of the la fayette and lehigh chapters of phi beta kappa who last night attend ed the seventh annual combined meeting and banquet of the chap ters at hotel bethlehem p b deschweinitz president of the lehigh chapter of phi beta kappa welcomed the lafayette chapter he introduced the speaker of the evening dr woodbridge dr woodbridge in his talk pointed out the different aspects of life he explained each he has received honorary degrees from dartmouth amherst queens college and uni versity of colorado among those present were henry s drinker president emeritus of lehigh and the deans of muhlen berg and moravian colleges all the phi beta kappa members of the lehigh faculty 30 in all attended the banquet larkin attends a.s.m.e meet prof e h uhler and c d jen sen of the civil engineering de partment will present a paper be fore the national meeting of the american welding society on ap ril 23 in new york this paper is the result of a year and atialf spent in research at the university on welding connections between beams and columns an original research problem professor jensen was especially interested in the rigidity of the welded joints he worked six weeks during the summer on this phase of the subject professor jensen will also pre sent the inspection of steel welds to members of the philadel phia section of the american weld ing society monday evening ap ril 21 at philadelphia the welding of structural steel is a comparatively new field accord ing to professor jensen it has only been within the last few years that it has been studied or used ex tensively in structural steel con struction at the present time four teen story building are being erect ed in wilmington del and bos ton mass in which all field con nections are being made by welding an ads'antage of welding over riv etinfi is the elimination of noise professor jensen with the help of e h gardner a former lehigh student has developed a method of determining the strength of a weld by a visual examination several other problems are yet to be solved before the welding together of structural steel will surpass the present method of riveting theta kappa phi won the inter fraternity bull session contest by defeating phi sigma delta in the finals tuesday night on the topic a college of freedom vs a col lege of discipline the judges prof c d macdougall prof m j luch and prof m c stuart awarded the winners a 2 to 1 deci sion theta kappa phi was repre sented by h a seward 30 j c o'connell 30 and j a kiep 30 phi sigma delta was represented by s m spector 32 s r snit kin 31 and s h landy 31 all six speakers agreed that more idealism should exist in am erican colleges the english sys tem was shown to be liberal in stu dies but to lack liberalism in its social life german institutions such as the university of heidel berg were considered by the speak er as the nearest aproach to the ideal college suggest model college the theta kappa phi speakers suggested a model university in which american colleges would combine liberality of studies as in england and social freedom as ex perienced in our own universities they contended that america had a different problem to handle for american schools try to educate every class while the european uni versities usually cater to only the elite the phi sigma delta team ar gued that all american schools emphasized courses rather than the finished product they argued that these schools were tending to con fuse learning with education snitkin discussed an utopian idea of what a college should be at this ideal school there would be no ath letics no grades no fraternities and no extra-curricular activities the sole purpose of such a college would be to teach no one would attend except those who desired to learn there would be no easy courses for one would come for a good time as is the case in some in stances now the college would ex ist for education and would pay its teachers from the fee charged for learning it would be solely a school of knowledge all the judges agreed that the discussion was very well prepared indeed said one i learned more about education here tonight than at any meeting of the faculty educational club miller appoints 3 committees tau beta pi dance saturday george doering was elected pres ident of the sophomore class the independent party combine of the freshman class managed to win all of the major offices but shared hon ors with the lehigh party in the election of cabinet members in the election for the officers of the class of 1933 held thursday the 1933 ballots were the only ones counted last night by the arcadia commit tee on elections the committee ex pects complete the other returns at a session tonight the elections of all classes were held thursday general election day under the su pervision of the arcadia the polls being open from 8 o'clock in the morning until 5 o'clock in the aft ernoon in drown hall voting is close the freshman elections were marked by close voting one or two votes being the margin of victory in a number of cases the junior class showed only one organized political party this com bine was known as the independent party and included the following houses psi upsilon chi phi delta upsilon theta xi sigma nu phi gamma delta phi delta theta kappa sigma beta theta pi chi psi kappa alpha delta tau delta delta phi theta delta chi alpha tau omega sigma chi phi sig ma kappa taylor hall leonard hall and price hall the sophomores boasted two combinations the independent par ty included chi psi chi phi delta upsilon phi gamma delta delta tau delta tau delta phi phi del ta pi delta phi psi upsilon sigma phi epsilon phi delta theta sig ma phi sigma chi theta kappa phi pi kappa alpha and taylor hall the second sophomore com bine known as the representative party included sigma nu alpha chi rho alpha tau omega beta theta pi kappa alpha kappa sig ma phi beta delta phi sigma kappa phi sigma delta theta delta chi and theta xi the frosh combinations included the lehigh party made up of alpha chi rho alpha tau omega beta theta pi delta upsilon kappa alpha kappa sigma phi beta del ta phi sigma kappa phi sigma delta sigma alpha mv sigma nu theta delta chi theta kappa phi and pi kappa alpha the other freshman party was known as the independent party and included chi phi chi psi delta phi delta tau delta lambda chi alpha phi delta theta phi gamma delta pi lambda phi psi upsilon sigma chi sigma phi epsilon theta xi and taylor hall continued on page four final tabulations of the freshman elections were the only ones avail able at the time this issue went to dr c r richards the oldest lehigh member of the american society of mechanical engineers gave a short talk on the history of the founding and development of the society in the 50 years of its existence before a group of 70 pro fessors and students of the me chanical engineering department at 11 a m tuesday in room 466 of packard laboratory m c stuart of the mechanical department cal vin w rice secretary of the a s m e w f durand past pres ident of the a s m e and john t marshall president of the le high student branch of the a s m e also spoke at the meeting mr marshall told briefly of the 50th anniversary celebration meet ings that were being held in new york city hoboken and washing ton d c and of the student branch meetings being held simul taneously all over the „ united states stuart speaks professor stuart the next speak er on the program illustrated his talk with slides he told of the or igin of the idea of organizing a so ciety of american mechanical en gineers he showed pictures of the men who started the society and of the building in new york city that the society used for its headquar ters for a number of years profes sor stuart gave a brief biography of each man shown on the screen mr durand gave talks of the or igin of the society and how the so ciety started after a little disagree ment among the prominent men in mechanical industries who had come to new york city to organize it mr durand elaborated on mr rice's talk dr richards gave facts about the history of the society telling how th c different engineering groups came to be recognized civil engineering was first min ing engineering second and me chanical engineering third me chanical engineering was not rec ognized until the middle of the nineteenth century and the first in struction in the subject was given at the massachusetts institute of technology in 1865 a course was offered at lehigh a year later jackson bailey editor of the american machinist magazine and prof john e sweet of cornell university originated the idea of a society of mechanical engineers they sent out letters regarding a meeting february 16 1880 to a large number of men prominent in the mechanical industries thirty responded to the invitation and met at the offices of the american ma chinist 96 fulton street new york the first meeting was held april 7 1880 in the assembly room of the stevens institufe of technology at hokoben n j dr richards told how the so ciety's badge a four-leaf clover came to be selected robert sneid ed an engraver and stationer in new york created the design to be usetl in collection with the hart ford meeting of the society in 1881 tau beta pi honorary engineer ing fraternity will hold a dance be ginning at 9 o'clock tomorrow eve ning in hotel bethlehem speed weidner's orchestra of allentown will furnish the music this is the second dance held by tau beta pi the first be,ing given last spring it is intended to make the dance an annual affair chaperones for the dance are prof and mrs a w klein and prof and mrs n b hibschman the dance will be open fretz gives parties bethlehem club to give concert club to meet the lehigh university women's club will meet 3 p m tuesday april 15 in drown hall members of the teaching and administrative staffs are invited to tea at 4:30 p.m may 5 to may 9 inclusive has been definitely decided upon as the time which the carnegie founda tion examinations will be given to the lehigh sophomores according to dean c m mcconn this ex amination which will be given at the same time to the sophomores in practically all the colleges in penn sylvania is being conducted by the carnegie foundation for the ad vancement of teaching the five divisions of the test to be given will include english mathematics a foreign language social science and general culture every sophomore will have a chance to secure either complete or partial exemption from the final examina tion those who stand in the first quarter of their college will be ex empt from the final examination of each course in which their semester grade is passing engineering soph omores who stand in the second and third quarters will be required to take examinations in mathematics physics and one professional sub ject to be specified in advance by the directors of their respective curricula but will be exempt from the final examination of other courses to be specified in advance by the directors of their respective curricula but will be exempt from the final examinations of other courses in which their semester grade is passing those students who fall into the lowest quarter will be required to take the final examinations in the usual manner this examination will also be ac cepted in place of the comprehen sive engineering examination which is ordinarily given in june to the sophomores in the college of engin eering all sophomores must take this test any student who does not take the test and who cannot pro duce a reason approved by the committee on the standing of stu dents will be suspended from the university for one semester the celebration of the fiftieth an niversary of the american society of mechanical engineers began saturday april 5 in new york city and will continue until tomor row in washington d c prof f v larkin head of the department of mechanical engineering is acting as lehigh's representative at these meetings pres c r richards had expected to attend the meetings but at the last moment was unable to go the ceremonies on april 5 took place in new york city and hobo ken n j and consisted of the un veiling of a tablet in the society headquarters in new york city commemorating the anniversary a pageant at the stevens institute of technology in hoboken and a din ner given at the hotel roosevelt by the metropolitan sections of the society continued on page four on sunday the delegates ad journed to washington and the meeting continued there on mon day april 7 in the morning sev eral addresses were given and in the afternoon seven of the sixteen papers depicting the influence of engineering upon civilization were summarized by their authors today the remaining papers of the today marked the opening of the sixth annual welding symposium at lehigh university engineers from all parts t>f the eastern united states interested in modern weld ing improvement were the guests of the university dr n m emery vice president of the university de livered the welcoming address the opening session was held at nine o'clock this morning in the auditorium of the packard labora tory where demonstrations and lec tures were given on methods for testing the soundness of welds the x-ray penetrative methods by h h lester of watertown arsenal sperring testing equipment by h c drake of the sperry develop ment company inc and the stethe scope method by a b kinsel of the union carbide and carbon re search laboratories inc were in cluded in the demonstrations this afternoon's session opened at two o'clock at several different places the packard electrical en gineering laboratory was the scene of an exhibition of butt thermit and atomic hydrogen welding gas welding of airplane materials in cluding duralumin chrome-molyb denum steel mild steel tubing and aluminus sheet as well as a demon stration of the camograph radio graph airplane welding torches and pressure regulators were presented in the packard memorial engineer ing laboratory electric arc shown the automatic arc hand electric arc and spot welding processes were exhibited in the welding lab oratory of williams hall while in the fritz engineering laboratory the welded specimens were tested by tension bending and impact ' all of the above demonstrations are b*eing repated four times in or der that each group will have an opportunity to see them the program will end this eve nin in the packard auditorium when m l eckmann recently welding supervisor of the ford motor com pany will speak on resistance welding at this time the results of th tests completed during the afternoon will be given work recently done at lehigh in the field of improved welding meth ods together with the annual sym posia is drawing the attention of many metallurgical engineers in terested in the better means of joining metallic structures the roll of scientific men in attendance at the symposium included structural engineers steel manufactursrs and machine production experts many uncommon welding opera tions have been demonstrated at recent lehigh symposia last year marine welding was illustrat ed in the swimming pool in taylor gymnasium a diver having special apparatus and experience was em ployed at this meeting he showed many new methods of welding steel plates under water especially ap plicable to use in salvaging sunken marine craft the senior engineering students were excused from all classes to at tend the meeting professors attend meet in new york leach praised by congressman senior class day committees were appointed last night by w e mil ler president of the senior class at a meeting of the class officers plans for a senior smoker were discussed the following committees were appointed presents william pow ell chairman ellis oiler joseph girdler david atkins and john conneen tablet committee john sommerville chairman stanley dey and e j jones dance com mittee john conneen chairman el lis oiler and david atkins the prophecy is to be made by george schoenhut he will be as sisted by george feakins and rob ert anderson the ivy oration will be given by william powell plans for a senior smoker were discussed but no definite date was decided upon prof and mrs a h fretz re ceived faculty members and their wives monday tuesday and wed nesday evening of this week the guests were entertained in groups on each of the three nights tific sections of magazine fort and stoughton to head scien want students for prison work in program of attorney general percival evades sayre telescope while astronomers gaze in vain the annual inspection trip of the senior electrical engineers will be held april 14 15 and 16 the first two days ot the trip will be spent in new york and the group will go to albany by the night boat for the last part of the trip forty of the seniors will make the trip the group will leave bethlehem 6:54 a m monday on the lehigh valley raidroad for newark the remainder of the morning will be spent at the western electric com pany's plant at kearney in the af ternoon the general electric va por lamp works will be visited at hobokcn here the engineers will see the methods used in the manu facture of neon lights and mercury vapor lamps monday night will be spent at the hotel new yorker monday night will be spent at the musical show 50,000,000 frenchmen aft er this show the group will go to a night club or some midnight show tuesday the n y central sub station will be inspected the group will then go to the chrysler build ing for a short inspection of the el ectrical equipment inspection tuesday tuesday afternoon will consist of an inspection of the equipment of the fourteenth street generation station of the new york edison company this is a turbo-generator station supplying power at 25 cy cles to new york the capacity of this station is 260,000 kw at 11.000 volts there are four units used for the generation of the power two 60,000 kw turgo-generators one 160,000 kw generator and one 40,000 kw turbo-egenerator the steam for the turbines is supplied by six boilers capable of delivering 250,000 pounds of steam per hour and burning powdered fuel at 6 p m the electricals will board the night boat for albany a banquet will be served on board the boat for the electrical seniors wednesday the plant of the gen eral electric company will be in spected at schenectady that eve ning the lehigh club of southern new york will give a banquet for the members of the class several of the companies that are to have the students inspect their plants will also be dinner hosts to the students center hears meenes dr m meenes assistant profes sor of psychology spoke at a meet ing of the allentown jewish cen ter last sunday night the subject of dr meenes talk was modern psychology at work coming events prof tomlinson fort head of the department of mathematics and astronomy attended a recent meet ing of the board of editors of the american year book in the new york times building and the en gineers building in new york city this book published annually by the new york times is a record of events and progress of the pre ceding year professor fort is the head of the mathematical section prof bradley stoughton head of the department of metallurgy also head of the metallurgical depart ment of the book did not attend the meeting the board of editors were guests of the times while in new york today 2-5 p in afternoon sessions weld ing symposium packard labora tory fritz lab and williams hall 7:30 p m meeting of mustard and cheese club drown hall 8 p m address by m l eckman in auditorium of packard labora tory topic resistance weld ing saturday 2 p m varsity tennis versus muh lenberg steel field 3 p m freshman balseball versus philadelphia high school taylor field 3 p m varsity track versus dick inson upper field howard s leach university li brarian has been complimented by ross a collins a member of the committee on appropriations of the united states congress for having suggested that the government pur chose the vollbehr collection of incunabula valued at 1,500,000 librarian leach who in a series of public speeches has taken this stand is merely speaking for book lovers throughout the country who for several years have urged that the government buy these volumes the collection composed of 4soo books was published before 1500 and includes the rare guten burg bible which is printed on vel lum and is declared to be worth 350,000 mr leach states the ad dition of this collection to the na tional library would be put on par with the best in the world f b mckibben consulting en gineer of the general electric com pany and former head of the de partment of civil engineering dis cussed hydrogen arc welding at a joint meeting of the lehigh and lafayette mechanical engineers thursday evening in the packard auditorium a film of talking movies the first shown in packard laboratory pre pared by the general electric com pany was shown bethlehem friends of music are offering a program by the easton symphony orchestra at 8:15 o'clock tuesday april 29 in the liberty high school auditorium percy grainger world renowned pianist will be guest artist the concert will be directed by earl laros of bethlehem mr laros has studied orchestral routine with furswanzler of berlin and other european mas ters he is ilsa a piano virtuoso and has appeared with the new york symphony the new york philhar monic the philadelphia philhar monic and a cincinnati orchestra the easton symphony represents an attempt to get an orchestra com posed of musical talent in the le high valley one third of the mu sicians are bethlehem men and the rest are from other parts of the le high valley the program will include among others the following numbers bach-albert-prelude chorale and fague wagner-prelude to de meister singer grieg-piano concert liszt-prelude mr grainger will conduct some of his own orchestral compositions tickets for the event may be se cured from dr h m ullmann treasurer 20 west church street or at his office in the chemistry building the heavens above still look the same to astronomers at lehigh the new planet for which the name percival has been suggested which was discovered recently by astrono mers at the lowell observatory flagstaff ariz cannot be seen through the telescope of the univer sity observatory i never expect to see the new planet through our telescope john h ogburn professor of mathemat ics and astronomy declared in a recent interview our telescope is far too small we know where the planet is located but all that we can do is v point the telescope in its di rection we can't even take a pic ture of it the largest telescope in the sayre observatory is an equatorial telescope of the refracting type with a six inch aperture stars or planets must be of the twelfth mag nitude or below to be seen through the telescope the new planet is of the fifteenth magnitude there are very few observatories asserted professor ogburn which have tel escopes of sufficient power to dis close the star the effectiveness of the sayre observatory according to profes sor ogburn is curtailed by its poor position at night the glare of street and bridge lights and illum inated signs lightens the sky irv addition there is the glare from the furnaces at local steel mills and smoke from the mills and trains to consider these conditions make visual observations difficult and give photographs a hazy cloudy ap pearance the vibration caused by automobiles trains and street cars also makes it hard for the tele scope to be kept in alignment with a star when i came to lehigh years ago the professor said these things did not handicap us we were able to make calculations which were very accurate men working in the observatory today often get inaccurate results through no fault of their own continued on page four the observatory could be improv ed by expending additional money on it the professor of astronomy added but its poor location does not warrant any large expenditure even the top of south mountain would not make a satisfactory lo theta xi initiates theta xi fraternity initiated 11 men on wednesday evening in the chapter house a banquet followed the formal initiation the following men were initiated james martin heilman 30 john lewis william son 32 william townley potter 33 lewis cunningham byers 33 henry price hawkins 33 edward julius miller 33 edward maurice eddleman 33 robert henry dal ling 33 john david strachan 33 william theodore oest 33 ken nard fleming borden 33 the operation of probation and pa role the development of modern pe nology etc they are also taught the use of firearms how to box and japanese wrestling at the conclusion of the training course officers are assigned to one of the federal penitentiaries at at lanta leavenworth and mcneil is land near tacoma washington the industrial reformatory at chil licothe ohio the federal deten tion headquarters in new york city or one of the several prison camps in various parts of the state a man entering the federal pris on service as a guard receives a sal ary of 1620 per year and allow ances which bring the total remun eration to 1860 the equivalent of a beginner's salary in the teaching profession within the guards grade it is possible to reach a salary of 2100 a year and salaries in the administrative positions for which one may qualify after experience range from 2100 to 7000 any men at lehigh who are in terested in this sort of work are requested to write the superinten dent of prisons department of jus tice washington d c for furth er information college men with specialized training for prison work have their place in the progressive penal pro 1 gram laid down by the attorney general was the substance of a letter to dean c m mcconn from stanford bates superintendent of prisons an urgent appeal is being made to the undergraduates and recent graduates of american col leges and universities in regards to entering the federal prison service according to superintendent bates prison work has long rep resented a career for college-train ed men in european countries it calls for intellectual and moral qual ities of a high order it offers op portunities for advancement to po sitions which are better paid than most college professorships there are numerous other important po sition to which a man of ability can rise an officers training school has been established in new york city to prepare men for high prison po sitions as we'i as that of guard all men enter the service as guards and are sent to school for a four mont+is course here they receive instruction in such subjects as the mental and physical characteristics of the criminal the causes of crime i brown and white bethlehem pa friday april ii 1930 1000 attend college meeting as athletic awards are made price five cents welding engineers hold annual meet vol xxxvii no 46 richards traces a.sj.e history on anniversary theta kappa phi wins fretz cup in bull sessions doering elected 1933 president defeats phi sigma delta 2 1 in final contest for title lockers to be emptied dr n m . emery wel comes guests at sixth convention 50th celebration of so ciety's founding ob - served by m e.s independent party carries vote for sophomore officers ! all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association