Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 3

              m s & t will enroll 10 more in advanced course advanced course enrollment in the department of military science and tactics has been increased from 162 to 172 stu dents it was learned yesterday afternoon from the command ing general of the 3rd corps area at baltimore the ten additional students will be sel ected from a list of those with priority in military and colleg iate standing frosh booklet will continue council to make booster for all fraternities annual publication the magazine distributed dur ing freshman week by the inter fraternity council and giving in formation concerning fraternities at lehigh will be continued as an active function of the council wal ter s russell ch e 40 president announced today the motive behind the publica tion is to set before the freshmen points in favor of fraternity life and to explain matters which may not have been clear difficulties involved although technical difficulties made it impossible to carry out our plans as we would have liked stated russell we are convinced that our publication was of value to the freshman rushing problem and with experience we can make it invaluable not only to the new student but to his parents as well the new magazine was com piled from material resulting from a questionnaire distributed among the fraternities last spring next year it is the hope of the council to have a larger and more complete freshman magazine which will be mailed to new students and parents before school begins o navy to continue flight training through winter the aviation flight training giv en by the united states navy to properly qualified men between the ages of 20 and 28 will be con tinued through this winter instead of terminating oct 15 according to lt commander b t talbott commanding officer of the naval reserve aviation base at the phila delphia navy yard cornelia otis skinner lamberton of lehigh intro duced the hon thomas f bayard united states sena tor from delaware who gave an address giving a tribute to the memory of judge asa packer in his address senator bay ard declared it is well that this anniversary the found er's day should be kept it is good for vs — it will be good for those who come after us to turn aside from the heat and dust of daily struggles ambitions and pursuits and contemplate the deeds of un selfish liberality and learn the lessons thej r convey after the address many partook of a lunch served in the library while others strol led around the grounds the above a quotation from the october 19 1880 issue of the bethlehem times is repu ted to be the first newspaper story describing founder's day exercises at lehigh nothing more delightful could have been desired than the weather of today bright and genial the sun shone on the campus of free tuition lehigh university about 10 o'clock in the morning distinguished visitors from abroad and people from the bethlehems began to wend their way through the univer sity park toward packer hall the commemorative exerci ses in honor of founder's day were held in the drawing room of packer hall a seat ing capacity for 1,000 persons had been arranged and the drawing room was filled to its utmost capacity at 11:30 a m mark hass ler's orchestra of philadelphia struck up an operatic selection during which the procession of distinguished guests enter ed the building u s senator speaks bishop m a dewolfe howe opened with a prayer following which president calendar takes beating as wacky turkey plan passes van alexander is houseparty band selection committee for senior ball completes signing of 2 orchestras phyllis kenney^to'sing van alexander and his orches tra have been signed to play at the senior ball and will be paired with al donahue and his band for the opening night of fall house party on oct 20 in the hotel bethlehem the signing of alex ander announced today by the senior ball committee completes the selection of orchestras for the affair alexander has arranged for many of the swing leaders such as tommy dorsey benny goodman and abe lyman and his band closely follows these other bands in style and tempo during his car eer as song arranger for these bands he wrote a tisket a tas ket and got a pebble in my shoe phyllis kenney will be the fea tured vocalist and alexander himself will lead the band from the piano keyboard al donahue will cater to those who favor sweet music while alexander's band will play at a faster tempo van alexander will be in the crystal ball room of the hotel and al donahue will play in the main dining-room officers picked by 10 town groups new section presidents will be on council all but one of the eleven town group sections have elected their officers for the coming year the section presidents will be members of the town council together with norman l morse ch e 40 council president elected last spring and thomas l ricketts chem 40 town group member of arcadia the council will hold its first meeting of the year on monday to consider several problems includ ing the possible sponsorship of a houseparty dance changes in the constitution will also be consider ed and several committees will be named council members elected during the last week are a e ponter jr bus 40 president of section a r p carter ch e 40 section b p a hunter c e 40 section c g a brenker bus 42 section d g j gabuzda arts 41 section e c a wolbach jr ch e 40 section f t l leininger ch e 40 section g w r csellak ch e 40 section h j p brandt chem 40 scetion x r temple ton bus 41 section l section j has not yet elected officers o ewing trip is off war forces cancellation of south sea survey dr maurice e ewing assistant professor of physics has been forced to postpone his geology trip to the south seas because of war danger he planned to use a coast guard ship for the trip and study ocean currents gravity effects and oth er geological aspects of the region since the outbreak of the euro pean war the ship has been requi sitioned for service in the atlan tis and is no longer available ac cording to dr ewing another boat may be used if its safety can be assured the voyage sponsored by the national geographic society has necessitated the construction of various special instruments many of which were made by dr ewing all the equipment has been as sembled with only the unstable condition of maritime safety pre venting the trip o sigma xi elects neville harvey a neville head of the department of chemistry is the new president of the lehigh chap ter of sigma xi honorary research fraternity actress will begin series with 7 skits concert - lecture program enters fourth year tomorrow night has written 3 books seven of her most popular char acter sketches will be presented by cornelia otis skinner when she opens the fourth season of the student concert-lecture series at 8:15 o'clock tomorrow evening in broughal high school the first half of miss skinner's program will be devoted to three dramatic sketches the first will be eve of departure a scene de picting getting ready for a jour ney the second is entitled ho tel porch and the third will be homework following a brief intermission miss skinner will present times square the vanishing red man on a beach at barbados and being presented all of these have been well received by college audiences in 45 states in the nation and in london mexico city paris and rome books were best sellers in addition to her success as a dramatic star miss skinner has published three books during the past seven years her first book tiny garments was an imme diate success her second volume a series of sketches entitled ex cuse it please made its first ap pearance in 1936 and has gone into 16 printings her latest book dithers and jitters was a best seller for several months when it was published last winter students will be admitted to the auditorium o f broughal high school upon presentation of stu dent concert-lecture series tickets found in the rear of the athletic books doors will open at 7:30 p m and no one will be admitted after the program starts at 8:15 p m to finish grading work on brodhead field to end this month excavation on brodhead field will be completed by the middle of this month announced andrew w litzenberger superintendent of buildings and grounds the field will be used by the university for intramural sports after grading is completed and at certain times by broughal high school the improvements are be ing financed by the bethlehem steel company in accordance with an agreement the university holds with the company fees already paid by 1805 curtis expects completion of all registration by this evening a total of 1,805 students had registered and paid their fees up to 5 p m yesterday according to figures released by george b cur tis registrar it is expected that registration will be completed for the year by this evening the total figure will not reach the record high of last year be cause of the reduction in the class of 1943 in accordance with the university policy of reducing en rollment in the next few years to 1500 the distribution of students so far by classes is 366 seniors 400 juniors 492 sophomores 104 freshman irregulars 438 freshmen 5 unmatriculated students and 165 graduates there are increases in the enrollment in every class but the freshman and a decrease of 32 students from the 1837 in 1938 business college gains enrollment by colleges shows that of business students to be the largest in the history of lehigh university which according to registrar curtis is due to the large number of transfers from engineering and arts 452 students are enrolled in the business school 1110 in engineering and 243 in the arts school the largest figure since 1931 the figure of 1,330 students re turning to lehigh this year is the largest in the history of the uni versity new students enrolling amount to 474 pennsylvania con tributes the largest number of stu dents with 394 new york and new jersey being next with 79 two students from foreign coun tries are enrolled committee chairman tests kistometer faculty o x.'s arcadia's thanksgiving scheme take an aspirin lehigh has solved its thanks giving vacation problem matching president roosevelt's calendar juggling with dexterity of even greater complexity the university will line up for the tur key season as follows 1 the president's nov 23 holi day will be observed — with no classes being held 2 the traditional last thursday of november will also be observed without classes and the customary friday and saturday recess will follow 3 in payment for two thanks giving holidays students will cut short their christmas recess and start classes on wednesday jan 3 instead of on thursday jan 4 simple as this plan may seem it has a catch in it it is that wed nesday jan 3 will be observed on the campus as a scholastic thurs day i c a day on which regular thursday classes and laboratories are held another thursday the calen dared one will follow the next day the double thanksgiving plan art exhibit opens work of local painters on view in library the annual fall exhibition by members of the lehigh art alli ance which began sunday is now being held in the library and will continue until oct 8 announced garth a howland head of the department of fine arts the alliance includes artists from all parts of the lehigh val ley professor howland the only person from the university rep resented in the exhibition has in cluded a painting of the slate quar ries at bangor professor howland stated that he considers the paintings being exhibited to be of a higher qual ity than any this group has shown in the past he considers non objective composition an ab stract painting by harry j beidle man jr of macungie the most striking painting because of the effective use of color the art gallery is open daily from 10 a m to noon except on sunday and from 3 p.m to 5 p.m and 7 p.m to 9 p.m except on saturday and monday classes to be suspended all classes will be suspended tomorrow for founder's day it was announced by dean wray h congdon was approved by the faculty yes terday afternoon it was proposed by arcadia student governing body after that group had been consulted by the faculty's com mittee on roster one of the virtues of the plan is that it will necessitate no changes in the regular fall inspection trip schedules by passing arcadia's recommen dation the university faculty has observed the presidential procla mation followed out its original holiday recess left lehigh's foot ball schedule unaltered and has provided for the first thursday on wednesday scheme in the his tory of any university return one day earlier lehigh students will be affected in many ways by the plan instead of returning from the christmas holidays to the usual routine of classes students by reporting a day early will follow their thurs day schedule on wednesday and repeat the program the following day those with heavy schedules will be in the space of 48 hours sub jected to innumerable classes and laboratories without the usual 24 hours of recuperation those with lighter schedules will be favored with two days of grace diamond predicts gains for labor cost accountants hear economics professor organized labor should be ex pected to gain in both strength and numbers with the improvements in business conditions which will re sult if war continues predicted dr herbert m diamond head of the department of economics and so ciology while speaking on the current labor situation at the monthly dinner meeting of the lehigh valley chapter of the na tional association of cost ac countants professor diamond said that the war situation would be upper most in the minds of the c i o and a f l representatives who will meet sometime this month ke expressed a belief that the war might provide each with the means of gracefully giving in to the other for the purpose of a na tional unity a decline of the radical element in both unions is also to be ex pecter according to dr diamond dr roy b cowin professor of accounting informed the group that a shelf containing books on accounting has been established at the bethlehem public library builds sound proof room professor adelbert ford head of the department of psychology an nounced today that a new exper imental sound proof room is in the process of construction in the psy chology work shop prizes will be given to 36 tomorrow in chapel during exercises will award 2 ph d.'s honors scheduled for 64 sophomores and 40 of junior glass thirty-three men and four wo men will receive degrees and 36 prizes will be awarded at found er's day exercises to be held to morrow in packer memorial chapel registrar george b curtis an nounced that at this time 64 men of last year's freshman class and 40 men of the class of 1941 will be honored for having attained a scholastic average of 3.00 or bet ter during the past academic year these men and women are ex pected to sit in a section at the front of the chapel reserved for them peter telfair e m is graduat ing with honors after having com pleted his college course in three regular college years and two summer schools callen to speak the speaker of the day will be professor a copeland callen new dean of the colege of engineering who will talk on the modern fuel situation as compared with that of asa packer's day the ground breaking ceremony for the new dormitory unit the henry sturgis drinker house will take place at 2:00 p m and plans for the building will be discussed by president williams eugene v grace president of the board of trustees c d marshall chairman of the building committee and fred galbraith arts 40 president of arcadia degrees will be conferred upon the following doctor of philosophy charles a hei berger chemistry ; edward s kennedy mathematics master of arts — major in education nath on g macadam and elwood l prestwood major in english theodore a brown verna v ruth and george p winship jr ; major in history ruth e blessing elsie m mc dowell and august a ringleben ; major in mathematics luther g frick master of science major in bacteriology john m martin major in biology henry c hoffman and edward steers ; major in chemical engineering william b clark ma jor in chemistry frank g smith ; major in geology albert j getz bachelor of arts maskell ewing and henry t s heckman bachelor of science in business admin istration ford ballantyne jr edward j both 11 james w broadfoot jr gordon s chase 111 albert t leonard gordon h sinclair bachelor of science in chemical engineer ing arthur b chadwick jr stanford i guggenheim and charles w hart bachelor of science in industrial engi neering eugene b caller and james e antrim bachelor of science in mechanical engi neering richard w hubschmitt robert h fauck and william m orr jr bachelor of science in metallurgical en gineering linton m seifert and joseph m weaver bachelor of science in mining engineering henry w mccord and peter telfair wilbur scholarship 200 charles f kalm imc-li i e 41 wilbur prizes freshman year mathe matics — first prize 15 alfred b brown second prize 10 robert n simonsen ; eng lish—sls kurt h weber german — 15 jesse v beers jr french — 15 tom c mekeel wilbur prizes sophomore year mathe matics — lo philip o foust jr eng lish — 10 harold king physics — 10 hugh r davidson williams sophomore prizes in english composition first prize 50 james k binder second prize 25 charles w hev ner third prize 15 roy s zachary williams junior prizes in english com position first prize 10 divined between william b todd and edwin h miher sec ond prize 15 carl 11 bichftrdseo williams prizes in intramural debating i;sl p zes 60 each harold i breiden tmefe jr and frank l benerict jr second jirizos 40 each leonard h dudman and john v mcguire villiaryjs freshman prizes in extempore sp?a!'.ing first prize 40 albert w for ster second prize u jesse f beers jr robert w blake memorial prizes in general education books to the value of 25 william j meikle william h chandler chemistry prizes freshman year 25 louis e sharpe soph omore year 825 john d slettler jr jun ior year 25 divided between norman l morse and james r ryan jr john r wagner award 15 charles f kalmbach alumni junior prizes — arts and science 25 russell kowalyshyn ; business admin omttmkd ob page ton preston f marshall i e 40 chairman of the electrical engineering society the kistometer is rig engineers ball committee shows how the oomph gcd to measure body impedance to a small low vol of each couple's kiss will be recorded at the dance tage current body impedance is directly propor saturday night in the university armory tional to body temperature built by members of eta kappa nu honorary vol xlvii no 3 appears here tomorrow bethlehem pa tuesday october 3 1939 price — five cents this is what happened 60 years ago tomorrow 37 to get degrees on founder's day brown and white member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the lehigh news first