Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 50

              elkin improves to give up sports group to tour campus 32 33 dine tonight powell heads review contest yearly event motion picture describing life at lehigh to be shown various companies take different phases of military work lehigh union will hold a col lege sing at 3 o'clock sunday afternoon in drown hall mem bers of the faculty sub-fresh men who remain and friends of the university are invited girls from bishopthorpe manor will be present at the sing college sings have been held for several years last year they were very successful three hundred attended the first college sing held dec 8 1929 all the favorite lehigh songs were sung the sing was closed by singing the alma mater . 17 trombonists to open festival philip elkin 32 who re ceived a serious injury to his left eye in lacrosse practice when his glasses were smashed in a scrimmage april 11 will give up athletics he announced today he also explained that as yet he has not decided whether or not to return to college elkin who played on the brown and white football team last season was discharged from st luke's hospital the same day of the accident and he returned home at that time it was not known if he would he able to see again so that he was taken to the new york eye and ear hospital he re cently returned home again with the sight of his left eye much improved the formation of correct opinions and hope that a gradual but steady advance may be made towards a re formatory system the principles of the irish system can i believe be introduced in practice without un dertaking to copy in detail a scheme which may in some of its features be unsuited to our condition sincerely signed r b hayes enoch cobb wines was a famous american penologist at the age of 43 he became a congregationalist minister and four years later in 1853 he was made professor of languages at washington college washington pa he was appointed president of st louis university in 1859 and served until 1862 when he became secretary of the new york prison association he devoted the remainder of his life to the promo tion of reform in the administration of criminal law and treatment of criminals in 1870 he founded the national prison society he achiev ed an international reputation as a penologist he died in 1879 at cam bridge mass no sudden or sweeping reform will be attempted here 1 ' will gov ernor myers y cooper of ohio dare use these words of one of his illustrious predecessors in regard to prison reform when the investiga tion of the recent tragedy at the ohio state prison is over it is doubtful if he will care to but 60 years ago rutherford b hayes then governor of ohio who was later to become president used these words under more favorable circumstances in a letter to e c wines corresponding secretary of the new york prison association the letter was placed on display last week in the treasure room of the new lehigh library the letter which is dated from columbus on dec 19 1869 reads as follows dear sir i am exceedingly obliged by your prompt reply to my letter as to prison reform also for volumes of valuable documents on the subject which you forwarded no sudden or sweeping reform will be attempt ed here but we desire to encourage will play melodies to be sung later by choir board approves coaching staff send delegates to convention carnecieseating schedule fixed george h feakins 30 won sec ond place in the national editorial contest according to walton for stall 31 lehigh's representative at the recent convention of pi delta epsilon where the announcement was made no official announcement has yet been made at lehigh the results were obtained from an announce ment made by dean henry gratton doyle of george washington uni versity at the last convention of the pi delta epsilon recently held at pennsylvania state college at the time the editorial was sub mitted feakins was editorail man ager of the brown and white la ter he was elected editor in chief but has since been succeeded by walton forstall the winning edi torial is printed on the editorial page of this issue this contest is a yearly event it is open to all lehigh men who have taken brown and white for a year or more all future contestants must submit their editorials before june 1 dean curtis issues infor mation for sophomore " comprehensives springsteen and fritts added 1931 wrestling schedule announced eta sigma phi holds na tional gathering at philadelphia bieg addresses r.o.t.c officers lieutenant stresses parti cipation in military affairs graduates having commissions in the united states reserve corps should continue an active participa tion in military affairs after their graduation according to lieut h c bieg 315 infantry seventy-ninth division of the reserve corps before the scabbard and blade society at its monthly meeting wednesday evening lieutenant bieg as guest speaker of the evening is a member of the organized reserve corps and is being sent by that organization to stimulate interest among commis sioned officers after their leaving college second lieutenants who do nothing along military lines after their graduation loose their com missions in five years he said however if they will attend sum mer camps monthly army meetings and do military instruction they are rapidly advanced to higher com missions to aid in increasing interest lieutenant bieg explained that dances and other social functions are held at all reserve posts grainger plays at liberty high conducts string section of eas ton symphony orchestra in playing composition alpha epsilon lehigh chapter of eta sigma phi classical society is represented at the national conven tion of the fraternity which open ed today at the university of penn sylvania philadelphia the dele gates from the local chapter are edward c mcconnell former pres ident of the society and harry mil ler former treasurer bachae a play by euripides will be presented saturday evening by the players society of the uni versity of pennsylvania under the auspices of omicron chapter of eta sigma phi which is host to the convention a model initiation will be anoth er feature of the convention and the usual business session will be held election and installation of national officers of the society will also take place prof louis e lord of oberlin college oberlin 0 and prof henry l crosby of the university of pennsylvania will address the convention on friday afternoon the social program of the con vention includes a sight seeing tour of philadelphia and a formal dinner and dance on saturday evening at hotel pennsylvania in addition to the delegates the following members of the society will attend dr horace w wright professor of and head of the de partment of latin earl l crum associate professor of latin rich ard h crum instructor of latin leslie m cohn charles r low enstein samuel kaplus and john j magyar at the recent electrons of the lo cal chapter the following officers were elected leslie m cohn 31 president edgar a collins 32 vice president charles r lowen stein 31 recording secretary an drew dechnik 31 treasurer and samuel kaplus 32 corresponding secretary wm w springsteen 2s james fritts 31 were approved as foot ball coaches and the 1931 wrestling schedule was ratified at the tues day afternoon meeting of the board of control of athletics the pro motion of r b adams assistant freshman football coach to head freshman coach to succeed captain hyde who is leaving was also ap proved springsteen a former lehigh captain will fill the vacancy creat ed by the resignation of chuck hess from the coaching staff springsteen was a versitile lines man in his day playing for three years at end tackle and center during the regime of coach jim baldwin since graduation spring steen a native of detroit has been located in new york city coach tate proposed to give bill the line coaching assignment and shift the versitile coach hymie goldman to the backfield bob adams baseball coach and assistant to freshman coach cap tain hyde has been appointed to fill the vacancy created by the de parture of captain hyde who i leaving lehigh to assume an army post as assistant adams will have jimmy fritts 31 whose remark able defensive play against lafay ette in the beckfield last fall won commendation fritts will not be eligible for varsity competition next year on account of injuries the board also adopted a wrestl ing schedule for 1931^as follows jan 10 — syracuse at home jan 17 — princeton away jan 31 — lafayete away feb 7 — pennsylvania at home feb 14 — cornell away feb 21 — yale at home feb 28 — navy away march s columbia at home march 13 and 14 — intercollegiates at yale b & w manual praised by news publication robinson to speak high journalism guide editor and publisher lauds le clark s robinson scientist and author will speak on recreational hobbies of an engineer at 8 o'clock tonight at a meeting of the lehigh valley section of the amer ican chemical society in packard auditorium the annual inspection of the r o t c pennsylvania national guard unit at lehigh was made yesterday and today by major c b glover jr senior instructor of the 109 th infantry representing the commanding general of the third corps area a similar inspection is conducted in all the r o t c units in the country once a year and is used to determine the rating of each unit the inspection comprised a care ful examination of every phase of class-room instruction of all classes in both the infantry and ordnance units a review and inspection of the state of preservation of arms clothing and equipment major glover examined men in the various m s and t classrooms throughout the morning and early afternoon the climax of the day came at four o'clock in the after noon when the entire unit essambl ed on the upper field for the final review and drill powell heads review this review was in charge of ma jor w f powell jr bus 30 who acted as regimental commander the first hour was spent in drill ing under the direction of the indi vidual platoon and company com manders various companies took different phases of the military drill-work under the platoon and squad commanders platoon close order drill squad close order drill company close order platoon ex tended order drills and the manual of arms were rigorously practiced following this the field was cleared and one platoon pitched tents the review at 5:15 p m was ac companied by a full lehigh band the entire military unit participated following the review major glover inspected the arms and uniforms of the various companies a detailed report will be submit ted by the inspecting officer in which the various departments of the lehigh unit will be carefully criticized major glover has recently in spected perm state and in the near future will inspect lafayette lehigh's past record good since the military department was first organized at lehigh it has been given a distinguished rat ing every year but once last year the lehigh r o t c rifle team won the hearst trophy in national intercollegiate matches the inspection opened with an examination of the juniors under captain clay in the principles of the employment of the machine gun and its operation demonstrations were given by the students in field stripping and assembling drill and command tactical problems and military map reading and sketch ing continuing major grover in spected the seniors under the di rection of captain f w hyde in military history military law com bat principles field engineering signal communication and drill and command . a moot general court martial was held by members of the senior class in m s and t also captain sadler's class of fresh men taking the basic course were examined in national defense mili tary courtesy rifle marksmanship and hygiene and scouting and pa trolling the class of 1930 held its ban quet at hotel bethlehem last eve ning speakers were e s sinkin son associate professoi»of fuel technology and ore dressing dr neil carothers professor of econo mics f v larkin professor of mechanical engineering and a e buchanan alumni secretary as part of the business of the evening it was decided that un like the class of 1929 which estab lished an insurance endowment which is to revert to the university at the end of a certain length of time the present senior class will enroll all its ntembers in the alumni organization before graduation the fee is 5 class officers hope this way to keep the members of the class closer in touch with each oth er after graduation and to keep the class integral as long as possible an empty beer keg decorated with blue and gold was unveiled as a memorial to the class about 75 men attended the banquet capt f w hyde prof j w barker and prof j l beaver were the principle speakers at the annual junior class banquet held wednes day evening at the hotel beth lehem junior banquet wednesday starting with the wooden horse during the siege of troy captain hyde traced the development of the present army tank he told of the early wooden tanks in which men used their feet as means of propelling the device and now the english developed the present tank which will travel at a speed of 30 to 40 miles an hour during the past war to carry the men over the last 800 yards of an attack captain hyde concluded by stating that just as naval armament is a con stant battle between the metallur gists who make the steel and the chemists who make the powder the tank is the object of their efforts on land „,,.. professor barker in his talk said that one of the finest things in col lege life is the formation of class friendships which are brought about by banquets of this kind and in order to form friendships each individual must go at least half way professor beaver . told of several amusing incidents during the recent electrical engineering inspection trip to new york other entertainment was fur nished by a vaudeville team from the colonial theater this team consisting of three men and six girls were introduced as a tennis champion of washington a diving champion of texas and a bicycle champion of pennsylvania and the united states lower classes banquet tonight this week-end will be taken up by the banquets of the freshman and sophomore classes the freshmen hold their class banquet this evening at the hotel allen in allentown harry stuhldreyer a prominent football coach and dean mcconn will be the speakers of the evening pres ident fritz keck 33 will be toast master the sophomore class will hold its annual banquet at 6:30 tonight at the hotel bethlehem captain f w hyde assistant professor of mili tary science and tactics dr neil carothers prof j l beaver and dean c m mcconn will be the guests and speakers of the eve ning class president john e angle will be toastmaster dean speaks before wilkes-barre club the seating list included below for the carnegie examinations was issued by registrar g b curtis mr curtis wants every man to re member his seat room and serial number for by failing to do so will lose much valuable time the examinations will be given in packard laboratory students will be placed in rooms by their different departments as follows arts and science room 416 bus iness administration room 466 engineering from anderson to wit meyer auditorium and the remain ing engineers freshmen and juniors who by their own request or com pulsion are taking the examinations room 258 it is extremely important that each man remember his room seat and serial number the serial num bers are in parenthesis the seating list follows arts and science altnian wilton 1 seat 1 benner h g 2 seat 3 ben son r c 3 seat 5 berkowitz s 4 seat 6 bernstein g a 5 seat 8 brener d a 6 seat 10 canton lester 7 seat 11 cuil la thomas 8 seat 13 collins e a 9 seat 15 davidson d t 10 seat 16 davidson nachman 11 seat 18 eledman sidney 12 seat 20 ehrlich lester 13 seat 22 elkin philip 14 seat 24 engel john 15 seat 25 feissner c a 16 seat 27 feld man a d 17 seat 29 fitzpat rick j f 18 seat 30 flaster j m 19 seat 32 friedman b a 20 seat 34 goldberg abraham 21 seat 35 goldstein m r 22 seat 37 graver bernard 23 seat 39 greenstein c e 24 seat 41 greetzman david 25 seat 43 haff donald w 26 seat 44 kaplus s r 27 seat 46 keefe l f 28 seat 48 klein leonard 29 seat 49 krusen h l 30 seat 51 leitzer julius 31 seat 53 lip stein arthur 32 seat 54 macadam n g 33 seat 56 magyar j j 34 seat 58 mango wilfred 35 seat 60 marino s c 36 seat 62 mayer jerom 37 seat 63 mele s c 38 seat 65 miller j g 39 seat 67 miller nathan 40 seat 68 milson c a continued on page four austy tate and a e buchanan also address prospective students the brown-and white manual used by students of journalism at lehigh and written by prof c d macdougall assistant professor of journalism was reviewed in a re cent issue of the editor and pub lisher official organ of newspaper editors in the united states the staff of many a cdllege weekly or semi-weekly could study with profit the brown and white manual of lehigh university bethlehem pa was the opening sentence of the review later in the article the brown and white manual was called a combination of telling what is ex pected of the lehigh class in eng lish 48 or 49 which comprises the staff of the university's semi'week ly the b & w ... and ..." a complete text book like some of those which have been published in the last score of years ..." the brown and white manual com bines the functions of both seek ing to tell in one small volume the things most important for the mem bers of the brown and white staff to know apparently it does an ex cellent job of telling that percy grainger noted british - american composer and pianrst was soloist to the easton symphony orchestra at a concert given in the liberty high school tuesday eve ning mr grainger conducted the string section of the orchestra in the playing of his own composition mock morris the orchestra under the direc tion of mr laros opened the pro gram with weber's well known ov ertrure to the opera der frei schutz followed by bach's air and gavotte in d major the oth er orchestra numbers were the pre lude from wagner's meistersing er pavane for a dead child by ravel a modern composition in the debussy style to which school mr ravel subscribes gopak mous sorgsky and concluding with finlandia by sibelius he played his own popular piece country gardens his arrange ment of an old american folk song spoon river and brahms lulla by cradle song mr grainger was born in aus tralia in 1882 he studied music un der his mother louis pabst and prof james kwast he also took a short course with f busoni of ber lin he has toured the world giv ing concerts in most all of the countries he appeared before bethlehem audiences twice this year dean c m mcconn coach austin tate and a e buchanan at tended a sub-freshman dinner given by the lehigh club of northeastern pennsylvania tuesday april 22 in wilkes-barre the dean told of life at lehigh tate spoke of the ath letics and buchanan told of the success of lehigh graduates the same trio spoke at harris burgh academy april 23 and at a sub-freshman smoker held by the lehigh club of southeastern penn sylvania in reading pa april 24 mrs gramley ill three pledged forsyth promoted mrs d h gratnley is recuper ating at st luke's hospital from an operation for appendicitis per formed on thursday blood has operation john e blood was operated upon for appendicitis tuesday at st luke's hospital he is recovering approximately 400 prospective lehigh sub-freshmen are expected as visitors to the campus saturday may 3 more than 1500 invitations to the function iwere mailed out some time ago by registrar g b curtis to young men who are known to be considering lehigh as an alma mater acceptances to date constitute abundant evidence of the fact that this fourth annual sub-freshman day will attract a far larger number than any of its pre decessors the young men will be the guests of the university from the time of their arrival saturday morning un til the close of the program around 9 o'clock in the evening donald roe acting secretary of lehigh union is in charge of the recep tion committee and has arranged for automobiles to meet incoming trains to bring visitors to the reg istration desk in the alumni mem orial building members of the sword and crescent cyanide and phi clubs will act as a reception committee greeting the sub-fresh men as they register and conduct ing small groups about the cam pus to inspect lehigh's facilities and to meet some of the members of the faculty richards to speak at 11 a m all the sub-freshmen will assemble in the auditorium of the james ward packard labora tory here they will be formally welcomed by president charles russ richards dean c m mc conn will also address the group describing griefly the courses of study offered at the university and the technicalities involved in gain ing admission three reels of mo tion pictures showing the high lights of an entire year of college life at the university will also be projected after the adjournment of the assembly the prospective stu dents will be escorted to drown hall where a luncheon will be served in the cafeteria the luncheon will be free to all registered sub-fresh men and members of the reception committee students who wish to eat luncheon with their sub-fresh man friends may join them at lun cheon at the regular cafeteria price afternoon filled with sports the afternoon is well filled with a sports program the features being a baseball game with lafayette at 2 o'clock and a lacrosse game with rutgers immediately after the baseball game ends in previous years one of the fea tures of sub-freshman day was the dinner sponsored by the lehigh home club at the hotel bethlehem to which all sub-freshmen were in vited due to the fact that the at tendance of prospective students has grown in such large propor tions this plan became impracti cal for the present year and an in novation is being tried this year each sub-freshman will be assigned when he registers to one of the fra ternity houses for dinner many of the sub-freshmen have friends in the various fraternity houses who have already invited them to be guests of their chapters these men will of course be assigned to the fraternities in question the sub freshmen who have no previous in vitation to a fraternity house will be assigned to whichever chapter can accommodate them this as signment of guests to the various fraternities is in charge of a com mittee headed by a committee of members of the interfraternity council of which ellis oiler is chairman rally in evening . the final event of the day's pro gram will be a mammoth rally in the game room of taylor gymna sium to which the entire student body will turn out accompanied by their sub-freshmen guests a pro gram of entertainment has been ar ranged by a committee headed by jack conneen among the features will be speeches by j j gibson lehigh 95 president of the west inghouse electrical supply com pany dr neil carothers head of the department of business admin istration and a a tate head coach the lehigh band will be present and several wrestling bouts will be staged although the formal program of sub-freshman day concludes with the rally a good many subfreshmen are expected to stay over sunday as guests of their personal friends in college a college sing has been scheduled for 3 o'clock sunday af ternoon seventeen trombonists playing from the historical belfry of the moravian tower will usher in the thirtieth anniversary of the beth lehem bach choir friday afternoon may 16 they will play the melo dies which are later to be sung by the choir for half an hour preced ing the festival which begins at 4 p m standard time in packer mem orial chapel and is concluded the following day saturday may 17 in this traditional manner the mo ravian trombone choir establishes the spirit and mood of the day dr j fred wolle famous singer who has led the bach choir since its conception in 1900 will once more lead tfie chorus of approxi mately 240 voices through the beau tiful and solemn passages of john sebastian bach's immortal music on friday there will be two ses sions consisting of ten cantatas never before sung here in bethle hem and many never before sung in america these cantatas are called chorales the name being de rived from the fact that they each contain an old hymn centuries old and arranged in later years by bach these will be followed on saturday by the annual rendering of the composer's great b minor mass members chosen for voices the choir is composed of people from 18 different localities in the vicinity of bethlehem including reading mauch chunk and prince ton the men and women of the choir are chosen solely for the quality of their voices many can not read notes dr wolle prefers singers without previous musical training for trained singers often possess mannerisms which are ruinous to a perfect blend of voices the chorus sings as a unit and the effect depends primarily upon dr wolle's interpretation the singers rehearse from the beginning of oc tober to the middle of may the last few weeks they practice almost daily about 40 members of the phila delphia orchestra will accompany the singers this year dr wolle will lead the chorus from a piano rather than from the organ as has been his custom for several years dr thomas edgar shields direc tor of music at lehigh will take his place at the organ all solo parts will be taken by individual soloists choir sings only bach music the bach choir sings the music of bach exclusively dr wolle hav ing spent most of his life studying this great master musician the only exception to this rule was the singing of the star spangled ban ner by the choir during the world war an endeavor was made to sing the masses of bach in 1892 but the singers found the music too diffi cult and refused to go on dr wolle finally taught them to sing the difficult music by beginning with the last two measures of the ending chords and thus working up from the end to the beginning since 1900 he has continually used this method many famous people are num bered each year among the audi ence mrs theodore roosevelt has not missed a performance for many years will hold public rehearsal on the monday preceding the performance a rehearsal will be held open to the general public the following monday a final re hearsal will be held at which friends of the members of the choir are usually present there are al ways a few hundred extra seats at this final rehearsal to which the public is invited the program will not be broad cast this year as previously rumor ed theta kappa phi fraternity an nounces the pledging of g m kal eda e e 32 of mahanoy city pa h j sweeney eng 33 of pittston pa and t j w tied eken c e 31 of camden n j initiation for these pledges will be held next fall eclipse arrived here on time keeping on computed schedule eclipse changing into what is known as an annular eclipse in canada other means of observing the eclipse could have been used rather than screen method solar attach ments to the telescope are the usual method the boiling which was notice able in monday's observation is a common phenomena and is a great handicap in surveying air being heated changes in density which cause light to be refracted giving a wavy appearance or an effect as if the air was boiling the next eclipse in this locality will occur agust 1932 it will be over 90 per cent total the last ecipse seen at bethlehem occurred jan 24 1925 and was nearly total monday's eclipse was just over half total the sayre observatory is open thursday evenings when interest ing stars and celestial bodies are observed students are invited on these open nights may 8 and 15 are the only remaining dates and on these evenings the moon and jupiter will be observed weather permitting calculations which were made at lehigh for the beginning of the so lar eclipse of last monday were found to differ by an extremely small amount with the actual time of beginning as recorded at the sayre observatory the difference between the com puted time and the observated was due to error in recording the actual moment of contact which could not be determined precisely because of boiling an image of the sun was gotten through the telescope and projected on a white screen due to the heating of the sun the border of this image was slightly indistinct which made the exact time of con tact difficult to determine the er ror was very slight however and was not due to a mistake in compu tations the eclipse of monday was 51 per cent total in this locality it was total in california where an army plane was used to race with the shadow so that more photo graphs could be obtained of the eclipse when total the path of to tality extended across the states of california nevada and idaho the henry j forsyth was elected to the position of sporting editor of the brown and white by the board of publications yesterday he will serve for the unexpired spring term filling the vacancy created by the resignation of george t duram bethlehem pa friday may 2 1930 old letters from 1869 reveal hayes opinion on prison reform 400 men expected for sub-frosh day price five cents glover examines lehigh r o t c vol xxxvii no 50 brown and white 4 classes hold annual banquets during this week george feakins takes national editorial prize union schedules sing for sunday university plans for rec ord number of pros pective students juniors break tradition as dinner preceeds sen ior affair are held class room inspection and regimental parade former brown and white editor in chief wins second place coming events | tonight 6:30 p m sophomore class ban quet hotel bethlehem 7 p m freshman class banquet hotel allen allentown saturday 9-11 a m sub-freshman registra tion alumni memorial building 11 p m motion picture for sub freshmen life at lehigh packard auditorium 12 m luncheon sub-freshmen drown hall 2 p m varsity baseball versus la fayette lower field 4 p m varsity lacrosse versus rutgers lower field 7:30 p m smoker lower gym sub-freshmen as guests sunday 3 p m college sing drown hall sub-freshmen as guests all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association