Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 1

              cornelia otis skinner vol xlvii — no 1 1315 students paid tuitions on ist 3 days former record broken announces curtiss ; 1752 register only 44 students late tuition-paid students numbered 1,315 at 5 p m last wednesday to break all speed records for student settlement of their obligations with the university within the first three days of registration an nounced george b curtis regis trar the total number of students having paid their tuition fees was 1752 up to last night registration figures failed to indicate that the 1796 students so far registered would even approach the record figure of 1,847 of last year at this time the total number of new stu dents up to last night was 471 435 freshman and 36 advanced and special students only 44 students had failed to pay their tuition when the bursar's office closed its gates yesterday according to dean curtis the principle of staggered names was a boon to fast registration and undoubtedly helped in establishing the new record for complete regis tration forty-seven students were in the checking line at noon a week ago monday 56 were in line on tues day at 3:30 p m and 42 were present when the check was made at 11 a m on wednesday o minimum is set on nya earnings ruling says workers must net 10 monthly a federal government regula tion requires that all national youth administration workers earn a minimum of ten dollars per month e robins morgan di rector of placement warned le high university appointees he declared that any student who fails to work the required number of hours for the minimum pay rate will be forced to relinquish his job the former maximum pay rate of 20 dollars per month is still in effect lehigh nya workers re ceive a pay rate of 40 cents per hour with a maximum working time of 50 hours a month according to director morgan workers on the campus this year will total 165 a decrease of 23 from last year he also warned that the regula tion for minimum earnings will also apply to men who work in departments which do not furnish the required working hours if a university department does not provide enough work to satisfy the minimum requirement nya workers in that department should report the situation to the place ment office before the end of the working month mr morgan said failure to report will result in dis missal from the position c m schwab dies was board of trustees member since 1909 charles m schwab university trustee for 30 years and chairman of the board of the bethlehem steel corporation was buried thursday in the gates of heaven cemetery pleasantville n y after a solemn high requiem mass in st patrick's cathedral new york city mr schwab who died last mon day night had been a member of the lehigh board of trustees since 1909 lehigh conferred upon him the honorary degree of doctor of engineering in i 914 o to discuss interviewing how to interview will be the topic of paul w boynton employ ment supervisor of socony vacu um oil company at an open meet ing of the industrial engineering society thursday night the meet ing will be held in packard audi torium at 8 p m rader's band is selected by engineers lehigh armory scene october 7 date for fifth annual ball dress to be informal bud rader's orchestra will play for the fifth annual engineer's ball on saturday oct 7 in the uni versity armory novelty displays by the different engineering soci eties will feature the informal dance in announcing the dance pres ton f marshall i e 40 stated that bud rader has a very credit able local reputation having made many popular appearances in al lentown and bethlehem this summer he played regularly at the community park of bethlehem marshall also said that eta kap pa nu honorary electrical engin eering society is planning to make a huge galvanometer that will de cide what couple at the dance can generate the most electricity in a kiss the committee has resurrec ted the mechanical man for the dance the committee for the dance consists of the following marsh all chairman a t cox c e 40 orchestra alfred v bodine jr i e 40 tickets charles f kalm bach m e 41 publicity and eta kappa nu decorations tickets at 1.25 a couple 85 stag can be secured from commit teemen at the supply bureau or at drown hall dancing will be from 10 p m to 2 a m 410 students at summer session top o mountain theatre presents two plays a 1939 summer session enroll ment of 410 the largest in the his tory of the university was an nounced recently by harold p thomas head of the department of education and director of the ses sion the enrollment last year was 376 the top o the mountain theatre group presented only two plays this year but each was given three times the plays presented were pursuit of happiness and the shining hour among other activities was a tennis tournament won by bu chanan ewing arts 42 the run ner-up was caleb murphy eng 42 a large water carnival was ar ranged by james mahoney assis tant in swimming an exhibition of swimming and diving by guest swimmers from the lehigh coun try club was one of the features the bridge tournament was won by mrs e kenneth smiley the prize for duplicate play went to john l vanderslice instructor in mathematics and w e joseph inspection trips were taken to the plant of the bethlehem globe times the nazareth cement mill chapman's slate quarry and r k laros silk co the university ob servatory was open two evenings an exhibition of paintings of the lehigh art alliance a picnic for graduate students an informal dance in drown hall a nature study trip and three musical ves pers services were other activities of the session this was the third year the sum mer session published the brown and white it was published weekly in tabloid size lt col leonard raised to rank of full colonel colonel joseph s leonard head of the department of military sci ence and tactics was promoted to the rank of full colonel effective last june 12 he has been an officer in the united states army since his grad uation from the united states mil itary academy at west point in 1910 and has been at lehigh since 1937 during the world war he served with the general staff of the 18th division he graduated from the infantry school in 1925 and the command and general staff school the following year disciplinary measures affect 2 fraternities the following statement has been issued by wray h cong don dean of undergraduates for publication in the brown and white t wo campus fraternities have been put on social proba tion for the first semester of the present year in each case there was held at the fraternity house an unauthorized and unchaper oned social gathering of some dozen or more participants and with young ladies in attendance although these appear to have been more or less im promptu affairs and deliberate intention to ignore the regula tions of the university was not certainly indicated the irregu larity of the affairs was plainly established another fraternity was warned for less clear breaches of regulations watkins quits business post matliewson takes senior's position on staff of brown and white john h mathewson ch e 41 has been elected business manag er of the brown and white for the first semester in place of wal lace p watkins bus 40 an nounced kenneth k kost secre tary of the board of publications last night because of excessive activities watkins decided to assume his du ties as business manager next semester instead of this one pre vious arrangements called for mathewson to fill the office dur ing the second semester and wat kins the first other officers announced other officers on the brown and white for the first semester are howard m conner arts 40 edi tor in chief fred e galbraith arts 40 editorial manager carl p fittkau arts 40 news man ager charles f kalmbach m e 41 make-up editor anthony r carcione arts 41 tuesday news editor charles b seib jr arts 41 friday news editor o merrill david bus 40 financial manager robert j caverly bus 41 adver tising manager wallace c ken dall met e 41 circulation man ager george b motheral bus 40 national advertising assistant and henry d chandler bus 41 copy supervisor members of the editorial coun cil are donald r schoen arts 41 james k binder arts 41 robert d marsden eng phys 40 john c attwood arts 41 edwin h klein eng 42 john o'hara bus 42 was cho sen as sports editor outings are held pittsburgh and new york clubs meet informally the lehigh club of northern new york held an outing sept 15 at the estate of henry g reist,'b6 schenectady n v according to william a cornelius executive secretary of the alumni associa tion on sept 16 the lehigh club of pittsburgh held its annual golf outing at the youghingheny coun try club in pittsburgh in the eve ning an informal meeting and din ner was held and colored motion pictures of the lehigh campus were shown guests at the affair were mr cornelius and his two sons george and jack the board of directors of the new york lehigh club will meet on thursday at the murray hill hotel in new york to arrange for their dinner to be held at the same hotel on oct 26 o students wishing to join either the editorial or business staff of the brown and white may still do so by reporting to room 304 christmas saucon hall vacation plans are discussed 4 suggestions given to take care of change in thanksgiving at a meeting yesterday after noon the committee on roster formulated plans but made no de cision on the dates of the thanks giving vacation various propositions were dis cussed to solve the problem made by president roosevelt's sugges tion of changing the date of thanksgiving to the third thurs day in november instead of the fourth the first suggestion made by lehigh and lafayette officials was to have a holiday on nov 23 and thanksgiving vacation on dec 1 and 2 the second was to give students vacation on nov 23 30 and dec 1 and 2 this plan amounts to the regular vacation plus thanksgiv ing day the third idea is the same as the second with the addition that one day be taken from the christmas holidays the fourth plan is to have clas ses on the 23 and the regularly scheduled vacation nov 30 through dec 2 investigation will continue and the facts will be presented at the faculty meeting on oct 2 o price hall leads in grade averages university average rises to new heights as the scholastic average of the university rose to new heights last semester price hall led all living groups with an average of 2.893 the smallest of lehigh's dormi tories topped leonard hall who thus lost the scholastic leadership for the second time in the past 15 semesters section e of the town group ran third with an average of 2.427 while pi lambda phi in fourth po sition led all fraternities the university average jumped to a new high of 1.9617 seventy of the 205 men who were on scholastic probation last semester were dropped as a result of failing more than four semester hours twenty others failed more than four hours but were allowed to continue for another semester by action of the committee on standing of students eleven of the men who were dropped have since been reinstated and will be on probation this semester seniors compiled the highest class average with a 2.243 rating while the other three classes fol lowed in regular order dormi tories with 2.113 topped the town group with 2.073 while fraterni ties trailed with 1.790 o the glee club will meet to morrow evening at 7:30 in drown hall all those who wish to try out for the club as well as former members are requested to attend miss skinner will appear here on oct 4 dramatic program to be first of 4 scheduled concert - lectures acted here in candida character sketches by cornelia otis skinner actress and author will open the fourth student con cert-lecture series on wednesday evening oct 4 in broughal high school announced george b cur tis registrar and secretary of the committee four programs have been sche duled for this year's series each of the events planned for the year polled large votes in a survey of student opinion cenducted by the student committee two years ago following miss skinner's dram atic program the committee will present hamilton fish united states representative in congress from new york and upton close author and lecturer in a debate on contemporary world happen ings this will mark the first time that a debate will be presented a scheduled forum by aldous hux ley and gerald heard was can celled two years ago after heard had an accident in the middle west to hear boys choir the musical attraction scheduled for this year will bring before the student body the mozart boys choir formely known as the vien na choir boys this group of sing ers polled the second highest num ber of votes in the survey two years ago dr william lyon phelps of yale will close the series early in april he will speak on a subject to be selected by the committee at one of its early meetings this month the program to be presented by miss skinner will consist of a di versified series of character stu dies included in this program will be scenes from the wives of henry viii the lovers of charles ii mansion on the hud son candida edna his wife and romance played here in candida miss skinner who will be re membered by bethlehem audiences for her full-length production of candida last spring has toured the summer circuit of playhouses during the past three months she scored triumphs for her portray als of various roles at the mo hawk drama festival oguinquit cohasset and westport tickets for the entire series are contained in the rear of the stu dent athletic books but the brown and white will have to be consulted for the dates of the pro grams this year's series will be presented in broughal high school as was last year's writer of lehigh history book dies harry t morris e m 91 for mer armor plate expert for beth lehem steel company who pub lished the 50-year 800k — lehigh 1891 in 1937 died saturday after a long illness among his survivors are two sons matthew i e 40 and joseph taking postgraduate work at lehigh mr morris was employed dur ing the world war in superintend ing installation of turret guns and armor on british warships among positions he held with bethlehem steel starting in 1895 were those of superintendent of the armor plate department armor represen tative abroad superintendent of the projectile department con struction engineer and metallur gical engineer he was retained by the company as a consulting en gineer after his retirement in 1931 he was a member of tau beta pi national honorary engineering fraternity the american associa tion for the advancement of sci ence theta delta chi social fra ternity and several enginering as sociations and societies his home was at 67 e market street o all juniors interested in competing for cheerleaders report to maynard diamond at 4 p m tomorrow on the upper field prof a copeland callen new dean of the college of engineering will be the speaker at the 60th founder's day exercises on wed nesday oct 4 it was announced today by pres c c williams approximately 30 baccalaureate and 15 master's degrees will be conferred at the exercises the annual freshman - sophomore sports events will be held in the afternoon foreign group acquires home cosmopolitan club gets gosztonyi house is 44th living group with the acquistion of a house completely furnished 18 members of the cosmopolitan club have set tled at 217 west packer avenue they comprise lehigh's 44th stu dent living group and represent students from austria switzer land palestine czechoslovakia egypt cuba canada mexico germany honolulu and the uni ted states the establishment of this home makes lehigh one of the few uni versities in the country to provide for such a living group the build ing was purchased in june by the university and altered and redec orated for its present use approx imately 5,000 was spent for re decorating and improving the house two hundred dollars for furnishings was raised by friends of the club and the faculty although 18 cosmopolitan club members will live in the house this semester eight others were pre vented from joining the group due to the present european war these students were to have come from poland and hungary officers of the club are harry home ch e 40 president ger man borbolla m e 41 vice president court weber ch e 42 secretary george tabet ch.e 39 treasurer to elect members for town council each section to select leaders for year within the next two weeks the men in the town group take their most important step of the scho lastic year when they elect their town council of the group said norman l morse ch e 40 pres ident this council counterpart of the interfraternity and interdor mitory councils is composed of the presidents of the town group sec tions its section president as well as its vice president secretary treasurer and sport director is to be elected by each section at a meeting to be held as announced below the section divisions are the same as they were last sem ester every town group student is eligible to vote at his section meeting the following will meet tomorrow at 7:30 p m in pack ard laboratory section a in room 208 section b in room 258 and section c in room 360 on thursday at 12:30 p m in the arcadia room drown hall section l commuters exclusive of allentown will meet on friday at 7:30 p m in pack ard laboratory section d in room 258 section e in room 360 and section f in room 208 will con clude the meetings for this week sigma phi epsilon leads in number taken with 12 men gain of 3 is recorded psi upsilon theta xi and theta kappa phi next with 11 men each after twelve days of rushing 203 members of the class of 43 were pledged on saturday by 29 frater nities this number is three more than that of last year with sigma phi epsilon leading the list with 12 pledges psi upsilon theta xi and theta kappa phi followed with 11 men each following is the list of the pledges alpha chi rho john burrus scranton robert castmeyer maplewood n j ; claude leaman west field n j ; kenneth norris maplewood n j i'hillip thomas scranton ; walter wieland 5-cranton alpha epsilon chi leonard mali george reid new york city william williams scarton alpha kappa pi william hinman east orange n j ; richard c hopkins narbeth lowell liebau nutley n j ralph d moyer jr bo gota n j ; r duncan randall royers ford richard s spencer kenmore n y alpha tau omega granville y custer chevy chase md ; bruce craig bloomfield hills mich ; rich ard b wallace bloomfield hills mich ; robert weller maplewood n j beta kappa thomas bradford wheeling w va ; wil liam buhrig mt vernon n v ; george houston port washington l i ; leroy king washington d c ; dale larson cleveland ; matthew masem brooklyn n.y ; joseph mixner flushing l i roland stoehr flushing l i ; roger tambella new york city albert yon block plain field n j beta theta pi john brany south orange n j ; joseph oswald nutley n j ; robert simpson ardrnore pa chi phi john v alberts plainville conn ar lington canizares wayne francis chidsey wayne david f gregory norwalk conn john degrouchy brookline ; clarence steams philadelphia chester finch wash ington d c ; henry werner philadelphia ; george e walborn reading pa chi psi william f finney plainfield n j carl l greener allentown charles a johnson maplewood n j ; andrtw f leckie jr columbus ohio ; john m stockbridge bal timore md ; george c sloane jr pawl ing n v ; william c walker minneapolis minn ; james w woods winetka 111 delta phi charles bergh ebensburg taylor birck head baltimore md ; william houston old greenwich conn ; george phillips sewick ley robert dech bethlehem delta sigma phi oakes m colwell caldwell n j edward s davis philadelphia william b holber ton hackensack n j ; john e ruymer jr arecibo puerto rico george a rotli lisberger east orange n j edward w starke jr ridgewood n j delta tau delta william binder steelton robert coutts morristown n j ; robert joslin greenville del ; james morris pittsburgh ; william pock riverside conn ; william taylor bethlehem robert whipple oil city peter olwyler mount vernon n v ; phillip pow ers pittsburgh delta upsilon richard t berg corapolis edward g boyer norristown ; charles d curtiss chevy chase md william d hayes winber kenneth porter rockville center l i robert s rumsey bloomfield n j ; earl d smith bellflower cal kappa alpha john brower plainfleld n j william eisner south orange n j freeman mc kay sommerville n j ; robert moore maplewood n j ; philip whiting holyoke mass kappa sigma robert babb elizabeth n j thomp son buck philadelphia kevin casey vv'at erford conn charles ebdy bay city mich everett raffita elmhurst n v ; george reineking arlington x j ; charles thompson rocky river ohio john wil liams maplewood n j lambda chi alpha richard bernasco trenton n j robert burroughs pennington n j warren chapin westfield n j ; edward dafter lower merion robert fuller bethlehem ; william ireland larnbertville n j jos eph kemmer larchmont n v ; william nelson new york city n v ; robert quinn minersville phi delta theta raymond bashford philadelphia ; bruce berlin lansdowne john macminn wil liamsport bruce mathias waynesboio oostiausd ob page four to give address on founder's day bethlehem pa tuesday september 26 1939 to talk here price — five cents rushing complete 209 frosh pledged brown and white z 612 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first