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              all conflicts must be reported within three days visitors hear richards inspect steel plant finals begin ma v 22 effective next fall also choose new com mittee members for coming year the brown and white re quests the names of all house party guests be sent down to room b-l christrrias-saucon hall not later than 7:30 o'clock wednesday evening by the fra ternities desiring to see them appear names will not be so licited the list of guests will appear in the friday issue no names will be received la ter than wednesday evening if any fictitious names are-sub mitted the brown and white will not print the entire list which contains the offending names wednesday may 14 has been set as moving-up day by the booster committee of the ar cadia juniors may secure canes from robert chess chi psi russell hoaster kappa sigma or frank stutz sigma phi ep ilon as part of the celebration freshmen will remove one sec tion a day from their dinks be ginning thursday may 8 sophomores will wear brown and white ties during the same period the junior canes will be ob tainable from r s chess in a few days senior white hats are now being sold by tom bass drinker speaks at bryn mawr house parties to begin may 9 blake society hears pres ident emeritus and dr harry helson prom m and c show and lacrosse game feature activities election of new members to the 1931 epitome board will take place thursday may 8 between the hours of eight a.m and five p m five men will be elected four to the editorial board and one as photographic editor sophomores are eligible to vote the following is the list of nominations submitted to the board of publications for ap proval the board met at four this afternoon to approve these names for the editorial board john c button jr george t dur am ralph c benson henry j forsyth robert h raring james b rather richard g roll carl f schier arthur m sherer rudolph imhof carle ton lord william j jackel arnold w nelson john e an gle philip b myer edward a snyder for photographic editor ed ward b hildum arthur w home robert p boyd james e duncan society to hear dean d kimball will speak on a broad er field for the en gineer friday will be the first day of spring house party at lehigh the majority of the fraternities are plan ning to participate the week-end will be well filled with dances ath letic events and the shannons of broadway a production staged by the mustard and cheese club ' the first activity will be the jun ior prom friday night in the lower gym fletch henderson from the roseland ballroom new york city will furnish the music the lehigh-navy lacrosse game will begin at 4:30 p m on taylor field the lehigh-cornell tennis match will be played at the steel courts sometime during the after noon the shannons of broadway a three act comedy with music will be presented at two o'clock satur day afternoon in drown hall tick ets for the show have been reduced to 1.50 they may be obtained at young's drug store from mem bers of the club or at the gate this price will include admission to the tea dance in drown hall after the lacrosse game saturday evening will be taken up with the customary house and dinner dances dramatists select mrs h schenck head secretary and treasurer faculty club also chooses new d s kimball dean of the col lege of engineering at cornell will speak before the mechanical engin eering society at 8 o'clock thurs day evening may 8 in packard au ditorium the subject of the speech will be a broader field for the engineer dean kimball is recognized as one of the greatest engineers in america at the present time he is supposed to have a better under standing of the connection between engineering and economics than any other person at the fiftieth anniversary ban quet of the american society of me chanical engineers he was the toast master it was at this banquet that he presented a medal to president hoover in commemmoration of the event pi mu epsilon taps 14 in chapel monday tory of fraternity prof tomlinson fort outlines his mrs henry schenck was elected president of the faculty dramatic club when the club met last thursday other officers for the coming year are arthur kline sec retary and morris kanaly treas urer at the next meeting on may 14 lonsdale's aren't we all will be read gods of the lightning was the play read this play was written by anderson and hickerson auth ors of what price glory and was obviously inspired by the sacco and vanzetti murder trial the complete draft of the final examination schedule has been completed and released for publi cation article 75 of lehigh univer sity's rules and regulations states that provision is made at all exam ination periods for students who have been prevented by conflicts in the regular examination roster from taking examinations for which they are qualified in all cases of conflict the course having the fewest num ber of rostered sections takes pre cedence except that in cases of con flict in courses having the fewest students shall take precedence conflicts in the regular examination schedule must be reported by stu dents to the teachers concerned not later than the third day following the publication of the examination schedule all conflicts in examinations must be reported by students to their in structors on or before friday may 9 figures in parentheses indicate the number of sections in those courses for which there are more than one section indicates course of two sections or more for which only one examination is scheduled conflicts must be reported by stu dents to the teacher concerned not later than friday december 20 final draft of final examination schedule indicates a two-section course for each section of which an exam ination is scheduled thursday 8 a m may 22 biol 9 — genetics biol 153 — advanced bacteriology 3 bus 30 — money and banking chem 45 — quantitative analysis conference 3 chem 166 — organic chem lab 2 engl o—composition0 — composition 5 engl i—composition1 — composition 5 engl 2 — composition 2 engl 3b — comp and literature geol s—petrology5 — petrology met 4 — non-ferrous metallurgy met 81 — problems engineering metallurgy thursday 2 p m may 22 biol b—elementary8 — elementary biology bus 18 — accounting 3 bus 22 — corporation finance chem i—elementary1 — elementary chemistry chem 147 — industrial analysis conf ed 2 — history of education engl 4 — drama engl 7 — the short story engl 11 — advanced public speaking sec.b kngl 41 — business correspondence engl 45 — feature and magazine writing engl 51 — newspaper problems fr 32 — 19th century french literature hist 12 — american colonial history lat 22 — ancient history m e 108 — heat engines span 22 — spanish novels and plays continued on page four friday 8 a m may 23 astr 3 — practical astronomy bus 12 — accounting 2 bus 40 — industrial man sec b bus 56 — business law chem 196 — physical chemistry lab c e 132 — advanced highway engineering a i m e treasurer to talk on mining rifle team awarded hearst trophy again geologists will hear account of operations at spitzenbergen it is gratifying and commendable that lehigh has developed from a narrow technical school into a broad university with an ever in creasing arts and science depart ment declared president emeritus h s drinker 71 before the rob ert blake society honorary philo sophy psychology and education group at a dinner friday may 2 at wyndham hall bryn mawr col lege the society takes a spring trip every year last year it visited princeton university after his talk dr drinker was made an honorary member of the society immediately after dr drinker dr harry helson profes sor of psychology at bryn mawr and the principal speaker of the evening spoke to the society on gestalt psychology he traced brief ly the development of the various schools in psychology and pointed out the essential difference in the methods between the chief schools behaviorism criticized stress was laid upon the weak nesses of behaviorism and introspec tion and how these weaknesses are improved by gestalt dr helson further tried to show that if there is any element in past experience which is responsible for any part of the present situation then it must exist in the present situation gestalt aims to explain the present with reference to the present situ ation only other explanations gen erally favor the use of past exper ience to explain a present situation lively discussion followed the com pletion of dr helson's speech on this point dr theodor de laguna who spoke here a few weeks ago on the philosophy of the declaration of independence was also present at the discussion after the lecture tea was served in the music room and graduate students of psychologly served as hostesses the society left packer hall at 11 jo'clock friday morning by car and assembled 1 45 p m at taylor hall bryn mawr the group was then taken on an inspection tour of the buildings and campus a lecture was given by professor king on archi tecture and art dr helson after an exhibition and demonstration of his apparatus by himself and his students point ed out that there is a crying need for building and equipping labora tories for experiments in psycholo gy which requires money and men — lots of money because apparatus is expensive and lots of men be cause there is so much work yet to be done the lecture is sponsored by the mining and geologica l society an election of officers will be held at the meeting l j boucher treasurer of the lehigh valley section of the a i m e now with the universal at las cement company northampton will give an illustrated lecture on mining coal in spitzenbergen at 8 p m wednesday may 7 in the geology room williams hall pi mv epsilon national honorary mathematical fraternity tapped 16 men in chapel exercises monday morning tomlinson fort head of the department of mathematics and astronomy made the preliminary address in his talk professor fort de clared that the men chosen were not picked so much upon past achievement as upon promise of fu ture careers in the science of math ematics he gave a brief outline of the history of pi mv epsilon and gave the aims of the society the men tapped were robert l baird e m 31 c h h krott c e 31 d l macadam eng phys 32 w c elmore eng phys 32 benjamin rabinowitz ch e 32 r h raring e m 32 r i fluck c e 32 t r kellner c e 32 e s stem e e 32 g a hottle ch e 32 c b slichter ch e 32 w c griesinger ch.e 32 d h may ch e 32 e b hildum m e 32 initiation banquet will be held may 15 in hotel bethlehem sixty-two engineering professors and engineers attended the spring conference of the society for the promotion of engineering educa tion at lehigh friday and saturday these men represented 20 colleges of the middle atlantic states and many of the large engineering com panies of the east friday afternoon the members of the society made an inspection trip of the local plants of the bethle hem steel company after inspect ing the various processes that are used at the steel mill the positions that were being filled by the recent graduates were pointed out by the guides this part of the trip was particularly stressed as the group was chiefly interested in methods that are used in taking care of the college graduates by the large com panies banquet in fountain room hehre explains courses a banquet was held in the foun tain room of the hotel bethlehem friday night pres c r richards was the toastmaster for the ban quet which was attended by 47 members of the society after the banquet prof f v larkin head of the department of mechanical en gineering gave a short speech in which he outlined the sophomore comprehensive examinations and explained their value in the placing of men in the correct courses and thus avoiding many of the misfits that are often found in different courses professor larkin also ex plained the curricula that are now being followed at lehigh and which were started when the class of 1930 entered the university prof hehre of columbia univer sity gave an explanation of the five and the six year courses in engin eering that are now being given at columbia he explained the advan tages of these longer courses and how the general run of engineers would be improved by the longer course of study prof hammond of brooklyn polytechnic institute claimed that there was a real shortage of good electrical and mechanical engineers he said that the situation was be coming rather grave and that some thing would have to be done about it prof thatcher director of engin eering at swarthmore college was elected secretary of the organiza tion it was also decided that the next meeting of the organization be held at drexel next december saturday afternoon's session was a symposium on the recruiting of en gineering graduates from universi ties at this meeting grover c brown manager of training for the bethlehem steel company outlined the system that is used by that company for obtaining men and in structing them after they are in the employ of the company demand for engineers m m boring of the general electric company also laid stress on the fact that there were not enough engineers graduating from the colleges to fill the demand of the large companies o w ashbough of the american telephone and telegraph company stated that the opportunities in the communication field were very great for the young engineering graduate he claimed that there are not enough engineers to fill the de mand in the last few years there fore his company is making ar rangements to educate high school boys so that they will be able to fill the positions that are more or less routine work and have pre viously been filled by college men exams being held pigeon pout strut tangles feet of hard working shannons cast the following telegram from the chicago evening american was received by the president as the brown and white was go ing to press chicago may 6 the president lehigh university bethlehem pa it is with great pleasure i send the congratulations of mr hearst and my own on the vic tory of your rifle team in win ning the eastern championship of the senior classification of the william randolph hearst rifle trophy matches this year owing to the number of teams entered the competition was closer this year than ever in history and students faculty and alumni of your school should feel all the more proud of the team's suc cess in these matches herman black publisher chicago evening american sophomore comprehensive exam inations given by the carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching began yesterday and will continue until friday any sopho more who ranks in the first quarter of the class will be excused from all final exams these examinations also take the place of the sopho more engineering exams which all engineering students must pass to continue in the engineering school three hundred and fifty prospec tive lehigh men were the guests of the university the past week-end at the third annual sub-freshman day the men represented 100 of the leading prep and high schools in the country and were entertained by the university in order that they might have a glimpse of lehigh life her traditions and customs before they selected their college registration of men at the alum ni memorial building took place on saturday morning as some did not arrive until late although quite a few arrived on the campus friday eve ning donald roe acting secretary of lehigh union arranged transpor tation for the men both from the station and about the campus mem bers of sword and crescent cyan ide and phi club acting as the re ception committee greeted the sub freshmen as they registered and con ducted small groups about the cam pus to inspect lehigh's facilities and to meet the instructors assembly begins program the opening event was the as sembly of all sub-freshmen at 11 o'clock saturday morning in pack ard laboratory auditorium a e buchanan ch e 18 executive secretary of the alumni association acted as chairman of the meeting and introduced pres c r richards to c assembly president rich ards in his talk welcomed the pros pective freshmen yet cautioned them they should he said have a definite purpose before coming to lehigh and should know what they intend to accomplish after they get here he emphasized the importance of the sacrifice parents were making in sending their sons to college and cautioned the men about coming here to be an athlete or to lead a social life dean c m mcconn was next in troduced he outlined for the pros pective new men the courses at lehigh and how they compared with other schools he placed par ticular emphasis on his description of the courses in chemical engineer ing and engineering physics be cause he said the other courses explain themselves an interesting statement was made by dean mc conn when he brought out the fact that lehigh is the only class a business school in the country which is located in a small town films of lehigh life and activi ties were shown at the assembly and then the guests were escorted to drown hall where they were the guests of the university at luncheon following the luncheon the fra ternities called for their guests and conducted them to their houses or to the buildings about the campus tickets for the athletic events were issued to the men at registration the 32 lehigh fraternities were hosts to the men at dinner smoker at 7 30 p m at 7:30 o'clock saturday evening all assembled at taylor gymnasium for the smoker dr neil carothers head of the business administration acted as chairman j k coneen president of arcadia introduced the first speaker walter r okeson 95 university treasurer mr okeson spoke of lehigh from a scholastic viewpoint if you are a fighter lehigh will take you if you aren't willing to work and work hard don't come to lehigh was mr okeson's advice j j gibson 95 president of westinghouse electric supply company — a subsidiary of westing house electric and manufacturing company — spoke of what he got from lehigh and what other lead ing lehigh men in the industrial world had gotten from lehigh a a tate greeted the sub-fresh men and said he hoped to see them here next year dr carothers spoke from the outsider's viewpoint not being a lehigh man himself he cited several examples of lehigh sportsmanship several exhibition wrestling matches were held and william sheridan wrestling coach said a few words to the prospec tive men the lehigh band fur nished music for the songs a col lege sing was held at 3 o'clock sun day afternoon in drown hall for those men who stayed over night any organized living group which for two successive semesters fails to attain an average of 1.6 shall be denied social privileges ac cording to a rule passed yesterday at a meeting of the faculty a reg ulation that all semester grades be posted on the morning following the last day of examinations and that no present or final examination grades shall be made known before that time was also passed under the new rule any living group which is below a 1.6 average for two successive semesters will be denied social privileges for the next succeeding semester and until it has attained a semester group average of 1.6 or better the first living groups to be effected will be those which fall below the required stan dard during the first semester of the academic year 1931-32 in other words living groups will be warned in february 1931 and if unsuccess ful in raising their scholastic aver age during the following semester to 1.6 or better will be deprived of social privileges beginning in sep tember 1931 this will mean that no dinners banquets dances or house parties may be held by those fra ternities placed on this scholastic probation faculty committee named the detrimental effect upon stu dents who learn of failures during the examination period and the an noyance caused instructors grading their other papers were the reasons advanced to explain the rule for the posting of grades the following professors were named to positions on faculty com mittees admissions l l smail advanced standing v s babasin ian athletics j s long 1931 r c bull 1932 neil carothers 1933 chapel r w hall disci pline r p more m c stuart to serve first term 1930-31 only ; edu cational policy p m palmer fac ulty educational club n m emery j b reynolds h v anderson max petersen tomlinson fort t m newcomb honorary degrees n m emery house committee a h fretz inspection trips n s hibshman library c c bidwell petitions w l bishop board of publications e h riley roster r b cowin student activities s s seyfert student clubs j m toohy summer session m o fuller j b reynolds for unexpired term end ing 1933 ; secretary of the faculty g b curtis college meeting changed arcadia's petition that the date of the next meeting be changed from 11 a m on may 8 to 11 a m may 15 was approved all 11 o'clock classes will be excused at that time this was done so that sophomores who would be taking the carnegie examinations might attend a new course in the metallurgy depart ment was also approved this is an advanced course in the metallurgy of iron and steel the meeting was addressed by dr harry f hoffman lecturer on psychiatry mental hygiene who spoke on mental abnormality dr hoffman told of the relation of the mind to various diseases he showed that mental worry over dis ease may often aggravate the ail ment track men who are in the first quarter of the carnegie examina tions and are thus exempted from all finals were granted permission to compete in the intercollegiates may 23-24 at yale a freshman relay with haverford was also approved as was the fol lowing varsity wrestling schedule for 1931 sat jan 10 syracuse home sat feb 28 — navy away sat jan 17 — princeton away sat jan 31 — lafayette away sat feb 7 u of p home sat feb 14 — cornell away sat feb 21 — yale home sat march 7 — columbia home fri and sat mar 13 and 14—in tercollegiates away — yale fletcher henderson's orchestra to furnish music at junior prom history club elects college sing held creation of george motter who also wrote the music for it and of mr o'neill o'neill motter and book er one of the principals of the cast wrote the lyrics for the number booker and goldenberger do the specialty dance after singing the lyric once then each member of the cast does the number each dancing the pigeon pout strut according to a special interpreta tion which is said to be a riot an apache dance follows this produc ing a whirlwind singing and danc ing finale coach o'neill believes that the pigeon pout strut will meet with immediate popularity at dance halls night clubs and other harbors of the art of the applied terpsichore this season the addition of danc ing and singing numbers as was announced when practice started is an attempt to combine straight comedy with the type of musical play which mustard and cheese used to produce several years ago lehigh is at last going to make its own original contribution to amer ican collegiate life it seems asa packer's institution of learning may be immortalized when this contri bution a new collegiate dance is introduced to the public at the mus tard and cheese show the shan nons of broadway may 7 8 and 10 in drown hall the name of the new floor-tickler is the pigeon pout strut a name which promises much as far as col legiate dances go it is positively original with lehigh having been evolved during the rehearsals of the cast its name was concocted by coach j r o'neill who was in spired in his task by the fact that the dance conveys the impression which the name is supposed to sug gest whatever that may be accord ing to those who have seen the dance it can be described only as the erratic movements of a very er ratic pigeon the pigeon pout strut is the few sub-freshmen attended the college sing last sunday afternoon in drown hall all the college songs were sung followed by a few pop ular songs the singing was led by john harrison 31 who was ac companied at the piano by george motter 30 a committee of faculty women headed by mrs p m palmer serv ed refreshments after the singing the farm bloc and the democrats were defeated saturday when the house of representatives voted 231 to 161 against the farm debenture proposal and 236 to 154 against re peal of the president's power un der the existing law to change du ties fixed by congress the bill for farm debentures was defeated because it was certain to meet with a presidential veto pro posed export subsidies varied from nine per cent on the cost of produc tion of rye to nearly one hundred per cent on tobacco the bill would have stimulated production and made the raising of some produce profitable for the subsidy alone the tariff commission has estimat ed that the plan would have cost the treasury 280,000,000 per year * ♦ » as a virtual subsidy for agricul tural produce the bill was economi cally unsound and the president acted in the best interests of the nation on the stand that he took against the proposal agriculture is loud in its claim for protection un questionably it deserves some form of protection if we are to protect our industries with restrictive tar iffs but america would be much better off without tariffs or subsi dies of any sort and as for agri culture its trouble lies in the fact that there are too many farmers if farmers cannot make a living with out government aid let them give up farming if agriculture cannot support itself the people of the na tion are under no obligation to keep it on its feet • * • on may 3 civilization came to turkestan over a railroad built by wild bill shatoff former amer ican hobo strike agitator soap box orator hod-carrier ditch dig ger dish washer window cleaner and jack-of-all-trades the railroad will bind the cotton and grain districts in the south of asian russia with moscow and the outside world the new road will take european goods into eastern china that formerly went half-way around the world by steamship to shanghai and caravan across the gobi desert it will carry to russia the untold wealth of copper zinc lead cotton and rice of turkestan and will open up vast timber and wheat lands that were hitherto in accessible • • • propaganda to the contrary rus sia is progressing russian indus trial development is in its infancy how different that country is to day as compared to the days before the revolution when the czar and the church held the people in ignor ance and poverty despite its many mistakes and its unsound policies russia is finding itself the rise of russia in the economic world is as phenomenal as the rise of wild bill shatoff who is but a part of her • • • the ink on the newspapers in which the london conference was hailed as a great success is scarce ly dry before the people of one world power are informed that their government had decided upon a sub stantial naval building program the italian government has de cided to build 29 new warships — 22 submarines four destroyers two scout cruisers and one 10,000 ton cruiser the italian press has hail ed the action as bringing parity in fact and claims that the program is obviously defensive * * * in america senator robinson a member of the american delegation to the london naval conference remarked that it would be whole some for this country to build up its navy and urged that 500,000,000 be spent for new ships in the next five years where is this billion dollar sav ing that president hoover prophe sied for the united states due to the elimination of competitive nav al construction where is this noble craving for peace which the world powers are said to possess can any naval program be obviously de fensive it is a peculiar fact that diplomats and statesmen make wars but the people must do the actual fighting and pay the taxes to make wars possible • • • la nacion a paper in argentina declares that the united states has given a maximum example of im perialism in modern times it calls the imperialism of britain france and germany frank and open while the united states attempts to appear before the world as a de fender of weak nations and respec ter of the rights of others » * * what la nacion has said is a re flection of what many other south americans think the nations to the south of us have looked askance of our interventions in central america and there is some justifica tion of their suspicion there is very little difference between actual military conquest and economic penetration the latter is just a lit tle more subtle and less open our policies in nicaragua cuba pan ama and haiti are proof enough that we are very much interested in other nations domestic affairs mrs bertha fox was elected chairman of the program commit tee and mr stanley beers was chosen for the position of executive secretary by the graduate students history club when it met friday evening may 2 at drown hall prof norman macdonald read a paper on spanish immigration it was decided that the next meeting of the club will take place some time in the beginning of october the club a new one this term sus pends activities for the summer with 16 members plans for the junior prom to be held friday night of house party week-end are rapidly nearing com pletion according to edward j stack chairman of the committee contracts have been signed with fletcher henderson to furnish mu sic and entertainment henderson's orchestra has played at nearly ev ery college in the east and mid west including yale princeton cornell williams brown amherst and ohio state the orchestra will come here directly from philadel phia where on thursday night it is playing at the ivy ball the univer sity of pennsylvania outstanding social event of the year henderson has played at the congress hotel in chicago and has also been fea tured on columbia records for many years he is reputed to have the most famous colored saxaphone player in the country in hawkins zollinger and harned of allen town have been engaged to do the decorating and promise many un usual effects tickets can be pro cured from stack at the beta house brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday may 6 1930 brown and white wants guest list lehigh is host to sub-frosh at annual affair average below 1 6 puts houses on pro price five cents discuss college man inindustry at meeting here move-up day set by booster club vol xxxvii no 5 1 . g.w.t dean announces exam schedule for spring term faculty votes to prohibit functions for deficient fraternities representatives of 20 col leges consider engin eering problems university entertains 350 prospective students with activities epitome elections to be held may 8 coming events tuesday 4 p m varsity tennis vs columbia at the steel field 8:30 p m may reception of the le high women's club at drown hall wednesday 4 p m freshman baseball vs al lentown prep at taylor field 6:30 p m annual banquet of the r w hall pre-medical society at the hotel bethlehem 7:30 p m meeting of the electri cal engineering society room 416 packard laboratory h p wills 30 will present a paper on alternating or magnetization currents f j whitney 30 will speak on the last senior inspec tion trip election of officers 8 p m meeting of the mining and geological society in the geology lecture room l j boucher will speak on coal mining in spitz enbergen 8:15 p m mustard and cheese pro duction the shannons of broad way at drown hall thursday 8 p m meeting of fhe mechanical engineering society in packard auditorium dean dexter s kim ball of cornell university will ad dress the society 8:15 p m mustard and cheese pro duction the shannons of broad way at drown hall world news farm subsidy a new railroad treaties and ships what south america thinks all the lehigh news first