Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 55

              freshman epitome competition opens 7 men will instruct dr j f wolle conducts 4 men to go abroad 80 class plans reunion annual comprehensives now being given to 55 very rev d w gate son will give bacca laureate address 1200 present at sessions including many no tables the final examination sche dule as printed in the brown and white of friday was at er ror in several courses friday may 23 at 8 a m phys 128 — physics lab m e 6 — mechanism the corrections as gjven by registrar g b curtis are wednesday may 28 at 2 p m phys 6 — electricity magne tism and sound phys 7 physics lab freshmen who wish to enter competition for positions on the board of the epitome are re quested to hand in their names immediately to carl claus delta upsilon house under the new policy men will no longer be elected to the board by class vote but posi tions will be opened to men in competition at the end of the year five men will be chosen out of the competitors for elec tion to the board of the 1932 epitome library obtains 185 new books c.e society picks 1930-31 officers close g j schaumburg elected president balloting 92 are literary ; remain ing 93 vary in character the comprehensive examinations for approximately 55 seniors of the arts college began yesterday and will continue for three days accord ing to prof p m palmer direc tor of the college of arts and sci ences all candidates for graduation in the arts college are required to take the senior comprehensive examina tions these examinations cover the entire four years of study including the major subjects of the arts cur riculum finals are then taken in those courses not covered by the comprehensives in order to qualify for graduation from the university a grade of at least c must be secured in the senior comprehensive examination this differs from the regular exam inations of the university where a grade of d is sufficient for pass ing in the college of arts and sci ences there are five candidates for honors all candidates have submit ted theses covering outside work which represents about two years of reading the two seniors submitting the best theses will be awarded the williams prize in english first prize is 75 and second prize is 25 the winners will be selected at the end of this week surveying camp for the freshman engineers will be held at shawnee lake and lake mineola from june 2 to june 28 the course in rail road surveying will be given at shawnee lake from june 30 to july 12 according to the requirements of the university all freshmen that elect mechanical engineering elec trical engineering metallurgical en gineering industrial engineering or engineering physics are required to take four weeks of land and topo graphical surveying at the end of the freshman year all the men that elect civil engineering and mining engineering are required to take the land and topographical surveying and the course in railroad survey ing this year the camp will be under the direction of prof s a becker as in former years and he will be as sisted by the following profs w l wilson h g payrow c d jensen e h uhler messrs w g getchell and h r nettles the work at the camp will be ar ranged slightly different this year than it has been in previous years at eight o'clock each morning a class recitation will be held for each of the groups the rest of the day will be spent in the field all the men that are taking the six weeks course and the men that are taking the four weeks course whose names begin from a through l will go to shawnee lake they will live at the brookside recrea tion club at shawnee-on-the-dela ware all the men in the four weeks course whose names begin with m to z will stay at the cabins at lake mineola brodheadsville pa george j schaumburg 31 was elected president of the lehigh uni versity student branch of the amer ican society of civil engineers for the year 1930-31 in balloting which closed saturday noon the ballots were distributed beginning wednes day morninjj rudolf e imhof 32 was elect ed vice president t j walton tie deken 31 secretary and charles h robson 32 treasurer balloting in all cases was close the lehigh branch of the amer ican society of civil engineers is conducted similar to the main so ciety membership is restricted to students studying civil engineering the society holds regular meetings at which time speakers are obtained to speak on subjects of more than usual importance or interest fogg selected for committee weida honored by math club airport design body choose retiring pro fessor o d k initiates 7 at banquet assistant professor receives life membership to new tonian society dr carothers and prof reiter speaks at pledge dinner at sigma chi f m weida assistant professor of mathematics was elected to hon orary life membership to the new tonian society at their banquet last evening in drown hall professor weida will stop active service in the club when he leaves at the conclusion of the term to be come associate professor of mathe matics at george washington uni versity w l kichline instructor of mathematics was selected as facul ty adviser for next year he sug gested alternate dinner meetings to vary the program l h gipson presents final yale cinema fourteenth and concluding photo play shown last friday the initiation banquet for the seven men who were tapped for membership to omicron delta kap pa honorary campus leadership fraternity at the college meeting thursday was held at the sigma chi house last night dr neil car others head of the department of business administration and prof h r reiter head of the depart ment of physical education were guests at the banquet and gave short talks e a buchanan alumni secretary and a h fretz of the department of geology represented the university the pledges who were initiated are as follows j e blood r l baird e f evers walton forstall p s davis e p neuwirth and c o claus ralph j fogg professor and head of the department of civil engineering who has tendered his resignation from that office to enter business at the close of the present academic year has been named along with five other men on a com mittee for guidance in the design of airports the body will formulate a report for the general guidance of airport builders on engineering design problems and has been set up by the american engineering council members of the committee will con fer with the aeronautics branch of the department of commerce and plan to issue the report coopera tively serving with professor fogg on the committee are perry a fel lows detroit city engineer w w homer a st louis engineer dr harrison f howe washington d c dr alexander klemin of new york university and h g shirley commissioner of highways rich mond va erie alumni meet larkin to give loop course to conduct probationary cir cuit for bethlehem steel again the fourteenth and final of the series of yale photoplays dixie land was presented last friday afternoon in packard auditorium by prof lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and gov ernment a picture entitled dan iel boone was scheduled to be shown but due to an error in deliv ery dixieland was sent in its place erie alumni club held its last gathering of the year wednesday in the form of a luncheon meeting john maxwell 26 assistant editor of the alumni bulletin attended the meeting w j scarlett 28 pre sided books on literary subjects ex ceeded those on history and reli gion in the collection placed on the new library shelves last month one hundred and eight-five books were acquired ninety-two were literary in character and the remaining 93 were on religion philosophy socio logy philology science and tech nology and art the books on literature are marlowe and his circle boas greek genius and its influence cooper notes of a son and bro ker james novels of charles dickens kitten what's ahead and meanwhile martin the cap tive proust random thoughts of a man at fifty rhoades gets history books some of the more interesting his tory books are land of haunted castles casey generalship of ulysses s grant fuller certain rich men minnigerode making fascists schneider civic train ing in soviety russia harper books on philosophy are the essentials of logic bosanquet fantasia and the unconscious lawrence moral philosophy fite the sociology student will find the following books helpful mo tion pictures in history teaching knowlton history of british so cialism beer reflections on vio lence sorel problem of student guidance sheehy books on philology are gothic grammar braune spanish read er of south american history supple grammar of the gothic language wright principles of english etymology skeat some of the scientific books are applied calculus bisacre 2000 years of science harvey from myth to reason riley friction stanton a b c of evolution randolph among the art books are slave songs of the u 5 allen phil osophy of art ducasse see and hear hays on the subject of technology the following books are available working in aluminum painton sparking of steel pitois mod edn welding methods page practical steelmaking lister wage incentive methods lyth forests and mankind pack approximately 160 members of the class of 1930 at lehigh univer sity will receive diplomas at the commencement exercises tuesday june 10 in packer memorial chapel four years ago in septem ber 1926 600 freshmen were enroll ed at lehigh this was the largest class ever to enter and of that num ber approximately 38 percent will graduate in june • . the commencement period this year will open with a meeting of the board of directors of the alumni association at 12 o'clock friday june 6 and will end with the actual graduation ceremonies at 11 o'clock tuesday june 10 the class of 80 plans to have its 50th reunion this year and will cel ebrate at an alumni dinner at 7 o'clock friday evening at hotel bethlehem many other classes will also have reunions at commence ment time saturday afternoon there will be a parade of the reunion classes and saturday evening will find reunion banquets in progress the very rev daniel wilmot gateson university chaplain and dean of the pro-cathedral church of the nativity will deliver the baccalaureate sermon sunday morning in the university chapel this is the first time that the rev mr gateson has given the bacca laureate sermon at lehigh senior ball monday class day exercises will be held at 2 o'clock monday afternoon on the university campus at 4 o'clock there will be the president's recep tion for members of the graduating class and their families the trustees alumni faculty and friends of the university in drown hall the sen ior ball will be at 9 o'clock monday evening in drown hall the academic procession from the alumni memorial building will start at 10:45 o'clock tuesday morning and the commencement exercises will begin at 11 george edgar vincent president emeritus of the rockefeller foundation will deliver the graduation address fol lowing the address the degrees will be conferred and commissions in the officers reserve corps will be awarded by capt f w hyde the complete program follows friday june 6—6 — 12 m meeting of the board of di rectors of the alumni association bethlehem club 3 p m baseball lehigh vs muh lenberg 7 p m alumni dinner 50th re union of the class of 80 ball room hotel bethlehem dinner for the wives of the alumni and of the fac ulty blue fountain room hotel bethlehem saturday june 7—7 — 10:30 a m annual meeting of the alumni association auditorium of packard laboratory 1 p m alumni luncheon drown hall and the armory 3 p m parade of the reunion classes 3:30 p m baseball lehigh vs villanova continued on page four scotty bird 3 2 describes scenes at burning of shakespeare theatre cub reporters scoop veterans chauffeurs prefer beer to bach twenty-nine lehigh professors will teach at the lehigh summer session four will teach at other summer schools and the remainder will devote their time to research or recreation either here or abroad professors at this year's summer session include dr neil carothers head of the business department dr henry gipson professor of his tory and government dr myron j luch professor of english dr joseph b reynolds professor of mathematics dr stanley j tho mas professor of bacteriology roy b cowin professor of accounting and winter lincoln , wilson pro fessor of railroad engineering dr r m smith head of the de partment of english and dr hor ace wright head of the latin de partment will conduct classes at columbia university and the uni versity of pennsylvania respec tively prof f a bradford and prof h m diamond of the bus iness college will give courses at perm state college prof w a slater and prof m o fuller research professors will continue their research experiments as will dr h m ullman and dr j s long of the chemistry de partment professor slater will in vestigate the permeability and the freezing and thawing of concrete and will also continue his tests on re-enforced concrete columns dr r c bull will spend the summer in boston and syracuse n y studying the latest developments in physical therapy prof nelson hibshman of the electrical engineering department has been engaged to install some additional apparatus in packard laboratory macdougall edits paper prof c d macdougall head of the journalism courses will edit the daily northwestern of northwest ern university prof f v larkin director of the curricula in mechanical and in dustrial engineering will again con duct his loop course at the beth lehem steel works this course is a plan layed by professor larkin which tends to guide young gradu ate engineers into positions most consistent with their likes and abil ities professor larkin has had charge of this course since its adop tion in 1922 profs a h fretz e s sinkin son bradley stoughton and h c brown will spend part of their sum mer vacations abroad dr c j goodwin and dr r w hall have decided to spend their vacations in maine while dr v s babasinian will vacation in california * of the professors of military sci ence five have been assigned sum mer posts and the sixth has a leave of absence colonel h m thom linson capt p l sadler and capt m clay will be stationed at fort george g meade the r o t c camp capt t r taber will re port early in june to the aderdeen md proving ground camp an ord nance camp for ten weeks service prior to his leaving for service in panama capt f w hyde has a leave of absence until august 10 when he will report for service in the philippine islands the positions of president c r richards vice president n m emery and associate dean g b curtis require full-year service however with the exception of dr emery who is director of summer session all will have about a month's vacation during july and august get-together held by lambda chi alpha uates attend dinner fathers alumni and undergrad the annual lambda chi alpha alumni-dad's day was observed by the fraternity at a banquet and dance held saturday evening at the chapter house there were 15 fathers of active members present as well as many alumni following the meal speech es by the dads and members were made alumni present were philip pel oubet 28 richard edgar 28 william evans 29 alfred macfar lan 04 the day is set aside as a get-to gather occasion for the undergrad uates graduates and fathers of the members competitors wanted while a cordon of star reporters of the brown and white tried in vain to corral some of the many notables present at the annual bach festival held last week in packer memorial church two cub report ers slipped through the ranks of their eminent colleagues and walk ed away with the honors of the day only one attempt did they make to gain an interview with a man of importance having finally located senator bronson murray cutting of new mexico at the americus hotel allentown they forthwith drew forth both pad and pencil to gain the coveted interview only to learn that the senator was on the verge of catching a train and could not be detained a trifle disheartened it is true but nevertheless hopeful the two freshmen returned to the lehigh campus the motely crowd no long er interested them glittering fig ures rumors of h l mencken au thor and editor of mrs franklin d roosevelt and of countless others no longer swerved them from their new-born purpose for they had discovered a new source of infor mation in those long lines of silent motors and the uniformly clad chauffeurs here was a source of information as yet untapped here was human interest and a new an gle on the bach festival how do you like bethlehem beer boys was the first question in my belly was the answer and it came from a jolly looking fellow with a military mustache he immediately took upon himself the position of spokesman and to each of his sallies the group responded uproariously how often have you been here was the next question about eighteen times and what do you think of the music well i ain't heard it yet but milady seems to like it and what she says goes you see i ain't her husband — just the chauffeur finally the reporters came upon a man who somehow looked differ ent his cap and suit were of the same texture he struck a new note finding his architectural views a trifle complicated the two report ers gathered up their notes and de parted apparently to seek the box of cigars they had promised to pass out among the boys but somehow had left behind in christmas-saucon hall with the intoning of dona no bis pacem the last word of the agnus dei of the mass the twenty-fourth annual bach festival under the leadership of dr j fred wolle was brought to a close sat urday afternoon in packer memor ial chapel beginning at 2:30 p m when the first chords of the kyrie eleison were sounded an overflow of music lovers listened to the complete ren dition of bach's renowned and well-loved b minor mass ideal weather permitted those not fortun ate enough to obtain seats in the chapel together around doors win dows and steps to listen to the mu sic saturday's session was a fitting climax to the two sessions held fri day when ten cantatas were pre sented with visiting solo artists mrs ernestine hohn-eberhard of allentown soprano miss mabel beddoe of new york contralto arthur kraft of new york tenor and charles t tittman of wash ington bass were the soloists miss esther dale soprano of new york made her debut before a local audience saturday afternoon when the mass was rendered oth er soloists with miss dale saturday were arthur hackett tenor of new york robert m crawford bass of princeton and charles t titt man bass of washington who also sang friday members of the phila delhia orchestra furnished the in strumental music t edgar shields director of music at lehigh and or ganist for the bach choir played the organ chorales begin choir following the custom of previous years dr wolle had the moravian trombone choir announce the begin ning of the sessions by playing old german chorales from the belfry of the chapel this is in keeping with established custom the sessions on friday consisted of ten cantatas including both early and later works of bach and cover ing a wide gamut of emotions they were as follows there uprose a great strife lord my weeping tears and sighing o lord re lent i pray thee come thine hour kind death is striking o praise jehovah who reigneth on earth and in heaven then our mouth filled with laughter,""lord christ of old to jordan came who believeth and obeyeth ah hoe weary ah i how fleet ing and praiseth thou the lord o my spirit ten cantatas sung there are more than 200 of bach's cantatas and it would take years to make a fair proportion of them known to the metropolitan concert audiences under the limita tions of concert repetoires to hear so many cantatas and such a repre sentative cross section of bachs im mortal church music at one time is an opportunity which still among american music centers can be found only in bethlehem saturday marked the twenty second time since 1900 that the great mass in b minor was sung by a chorus trained by dr wolle the singing of the choir was effec tive at all times and the notable chorus numbers in which the mass abounds were never given with greater vigor the soloists were heard with interest and pleasure the well-schooled artists being especial ly effective in their solo and duet parts three faculty sing again the choir's singing in the et incarnatus and crucifixus both sung softly and almost dying out to a mere breath in the second chorus with the tremendous em phasis upon the et ressurexit was memorable the chorus sang with balance and well-schooled at tention to dr wolle's demands the chorus contained three teach ers at lehigh prof a w klein richard j degray and prof m c stuart the festival exerted its usual magnetism drawing visitors from new york philadelphia new eng land and the west and even a few from europe as usual the church and the scene of these festivals since 1912 was crowded to its full seating capacity of about 1200 the clear weather played no small part in the success of the festival mak ing it pleasant for more than a thousand people young and old from all parts of the east to con gregate about the chapel with per haps the same devotion as did the nearly 188 inside prof fred v larkin head of the department of mechanical engineer ing is the originator of a unique course which has been used by the bethlehem steel company for the past eight years in training men this course is the probationary observation circut more commonly known as the loop course in 1922 the bethlehem steel company realizing that it was not getting the most from its men and that this lay in the fact that many employees were either dissatisfied with their present occupation or unsuited to such work called upon professor larkin for a solution professor larkin outlined a course designed to find suitable men from those college graduates who applied and to guide them into po sitions most suited to their ability and tastes under this plan the men would be happier mentally and thus able to increase production prof larkin will conduct the course this summer as has been his custom since the establishment of the course the term probationary is used because the ten weeks course is mu tually probationary to both the pos sible employee and employer the work is divided physically and mentally one hour daily is devoted to lectures by officials of the com pany the lectures are designed to make the actual labor at certain tasks a sub-conscious guide to each man's proper bend a meeting for all competi tors for manager of the fresh man handbook will be held at 7:30 p m friday in drown hall twenty-six nations of europe were invited to bury their racial hatchets and join in briand's idea for a united states of europe the french foreign minister must be given credit for instigating the most ambitious project that has yet been placed before the nations of europe the proposed united states of europe will not be a close political union such as that ex isting in the united states its purpose will be chiefly economic in nature briand's plan calls for the lower ing of customs duties between the nations which enter into the pact the memorandum given to the 26 nations bemoans the 12,000 miles of customs barriers added to europe by the treaty of versailles should a considerable number of nations look favorably upon mr briand's idea it will mean that those who are delinquent in accepting the plan must immediately come to terms or remain outside in the economic cold to perish this briand idea has possibilities of becoming a formidable weapon against the extra-european world but it will be a boon to the euro pean hodgepodge of peoples the plan will be a dismal failure or a great success and to briand must go the credit of being a true cos mopolitan * * * before 55,000 madly cheering li vournese premier mussolini deliv ered one of those stirring militar istic speeches his words were a challenge to the nations of europe said he if anyone deceives him self so far as to think he can halt our onward march he will find the whole italian people in front of him if our frontiers were threatened there would be gathered one hu man mass — nay a thunderbolt — launched against any and all com ers mussolini that master of mob psychology who can boast of not an ounce of economic or social fore sight in his caesaric make-up car ries the official chip of italy about on his shoulders after the fashion of a bullying schoolboy his vulgar militaristic display is as foolish and pathetic as his policy of encourag ing the italian people to have large families italy's trouble will come from within itself and not from over its northern borders after mussolini and his militarism — what then is in store for the italian peo ple ♦ ♦ • the battle wages hotly over the possible acceptance or rejection of the london naval treaty it is most peculiar that pacifists and big-navy advocates should be listed on the side of the opposition the big-navy boys oppose the treaty on the grounds that it puts us at a distinct disadvantage as compared with england and japan the pacifists denounce the treaty saying that it provides for a bigger navy than we could ever hope to possess had there been no treaty it matters little whether or not the senate accepts the pact as it has not a sharp tooth in its bleary make up apparently from what our mr stimson and our mr pratt have ad mitted we are to spend a billion dollars on floating sheet-iron in the next ten years — treaty or no treaty parity — disarmament — treaties — bah ♦ * * the marine war upon nicaraguan bandits still goes on between may 5 and may 12 the nicaraguan na tional guard commanded by a colo nel of the united states marine corps and with the aid of 200 mar ines engaged in six conflicts with the outlaws four guardsmen and 125 bandits were killed those deaths will go down as one more black spot in the history of american imperialistic policies in the caribbean — and there are many such spots it is a crime against american ideals of freedom liber ty and justice that america finds cause to interfere in the political af fairs of the nicaraguan government of what concern of ours is it that nicaragua is torn apart with revo lution nicaragua is not our coun try—but then the world must be made safe for canals and big bus iness and for this reason our ma rines must become little more than mercenaries * ♦ ♦ a professor of history at colum bia university has estimated that the 13 months congressional debate on the tariff bill has cost the united states no less than 2,000,000 the columbia professor arrived at the figure by checking the cost of sal alies of congressmen and senators for the period and he has not men tioned the increase in the cost of living to the american people that the high tariff entails two million dollars for a silly de bate that could have been settled by reference to a two-dollar book on elementary economics it would be a good idea for some public-spirited citizen to donate a sum for the dis tribution of 500 of the suggested books about official washington to some people stratford on avon doesn't mean a thing to oth ers it means the birthplace of shakespeare but to william e bird 32 it means my old home town scotty as he is more fam aliarly known to lehigh men now lives in birmingham eng and is his country's sole representative at lehigh anyone who has lived in a place like stratford is in a position to tell many entertaining tales and the le high soccer player bird is a letter man in soccer is well able to tell his share one of these is the story of the fire which destroyed the shakespeare memorial theatre on march 7 1926 the fire is supposed to have started about noon in the basement of the theatre where scene paint ers had been at work perhaps the painters placed the canvas sets too near the heating plant the fire was discovered at 2:30 p m the stratford fire department declared scotty is a volunteer or ganization and all the firemen were across the river from the theatre at tending a cricket match when they got to the conflagration with their truck the entire auditorium of the theatre was like a furnace the only thing that the firemen could do was shut a fireproof iron door which separated the auditorium from the annex which served as a lobby and art gallery and get to work remov ing the art treasures calls for aid were sent to all the towns in the vicinity and over nine companies responded the depart ment at warwick brought its horse drawn apparatus to stratford in 20 minutes the distance is 8 1-2 miles and includes several steep hills but four horses were attached to the truck instead of the usual two just as the last of the art trea sures had been removed added mr bird the iron door upon which the firemen had been paying their hose fell in buf the fire had spent its fury the annex as well as the trea sures was saved during the height of the fire ac cording to scotty the pinacles on the theatre toppled over embers and leaves of paper were scattered to the winds a woman on the clopton bridge a half mile away found a partially burned leaf of what appeared to be a first folio or early folio for shakespeare so it is thought that there may have been folios and other valuable books and manuscripts stored in these towers brown and white g.w.t vol xxxvii no 55 graduation day set for june 10 price five cents bach choir sings mass in b minor brown and white ended for term bethlehem pa tuesday may 20 1930 survey courses for engineers to begin june 2 29 professors to teach here during summer large audience attends 24th annual fes tival with this issue the brown and white suspends publica tion until next september four will instruct stu dents at other schools corrections made to exam schedule senior arts men take final tests over 160 members of class of 1930 are to be graduated students will be divided alphabetically between the two camps world news a united states of europe says mussolini peculiar opposition black spots a 2,000,000 debate all the lehigh news first