Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 24

              price — five cents replaces choir boys named after hotel glen gray j lynford beaver is author of 2 books appointment announced by congdon for rest of school year e e vacancy to be filled by dr beaver vol xlvii — no 24 theta kappa phi convenes musical clubs give concert 200 attend winter dance of combined groups first home recital national conclave is held here to commemorate 20th anniversary argentinita dr j lynford beaver professor of electrical engineering has been named acting head of the electrical engineering department according to president c c williams the post has been vacant since the death of dr seyfert dec 11 the appointment is for the remainder of the school year dr beaver attended lehigh with dr seyfert has been on the fac ulty for the past 22 years and has been professor of electrical engin since 1931 before he came here he served on the faculty of drexel institute for ten years professor beaver has written two books on electricity principles of alternating currents in 1911 and elements of alternating currents and a c apparatus in 1928 he graduated from lehigh in 1904 and received his b s degree in 1921 he received his m s and was awarded the degree of sc d at harvard in 1932 dr beaver is a member of sev eral honorary societies including tau beta pi and eta kappa nu 25,000 gift of thorne l6 endowment of fellowship in biology announced ; volumes donated thomas elected to deans society summer session directors are from 34 colleges by edward b annett jr glen gray and his casa loma orchestra the band to play for the annual interfraternity ball to be held february 10 at the empire ballroom in west bethlehem is one of the oldest unaltered musi cal organizations in the country glen gray got his start playing in a hotel in toronto canada away back in 1929 and adopted the name casa loma after the name of the hotel since that time gray has played in almost every famous hotel from coast to coast and has maintained a position among the top flight bands of the country the casa loma orchestra is an outstanding example of swing the men combine the pulsating rhythm of the negro with the suave finish of the expert white man they siz zle in the hottest kind of jazz that amazes and thrills the swing cat and then turn right around and play the sweet sentimental stanzas of the popular ballads that suitt he most conservative music lover gray's band is unique in that it is a corporation in which every mem ber holds stock the profits of which are equally shared the co operative idea is also an incentive to better in-the-groove playing the vocalists in the casa loma orchestra are all instrumentalists who play in the band there being no separate singers kenny sargent does the sweet vocalizing and also plays the sax while pee wee hunt trombonist does the more lively jive type of vocalizing for many years glen gray did not lead the orchestra himself and it was not until someone asked who's gray that he decided to take over the baton-waving 1500 attend dance middle 3 night meadowbrook is scene of the winter concert and dance of the combined musical clubs held saturday night in drown hall was attended by nearly 200 persons this was the first home concert given by the clubs this year the concert preceding the dance was attended by 75 persons with the rest coming after the dancing had begun music for dancing was furnished by the lehigh collegi ans besides ten songs by the glee club there were several solos and and a symphonic ensemble violin solos were rendered by thomas kochuba ch e 41 and alfred l trumpler m e 40 james wood eng 43 sang a bass solo and the symphonic ensemble played two numbers carl h richardson arts 40 student director of the glee club led the singing of hail the coll ege and the alma mater t ed gar shields faculty director of the club led the glee club in the rest of the program the dancing which was held from ten to two was chaperoned by allen c barthold professor of romance languages and mrs barthold a gift of 25,000 from gorden thorne 16 to endow a fellowship in biology was announced at a meeting of the faculty yesterday afternoon it was also made known that a private library of 517 vol umes was presented to the univer sity library by henry b douglas 84 under the will of john w dal man 96 15 percent of his estate was left to the university ward l bishop associate pro fessor of economics will give ten lectures on retail credit in al lentown under the auspices of the national credit mens associations it was also mentioned at the meet ing that professor percy hughes clara h stewardson professor of philosophy will speak on the sub ject grade of e at a meeting of the faculty education club on monday i f council gives 87 solitude judged best by visitors the story of how the first chin ese graduate of lehigh yen te ching 10 received an honorary degree ten thousand miles away from his alma mater is related in the january issue of the alumni bulletin in an article entitled a degree for doctor yen by in young 10 secretary-treasurer of the lehigh club in china dr yen received the degree of li d on april 8 1939 in shanghai with a great deal of ceremony by the president of the chiaotung uni versity of shanghai in after the athenia louis diven 97 gives a first hand ac count concerning the voyage of the ill-fated athenia from the start of the voyage to the return via the british isles placement figures quoted the methods employed by sen iors in their effort to procure jobs through the lehigh placement bur eau are reviewed by e robbins morgan 03 director of placement the placement figures for the last four years including an analysis of how the percentage of graduates placed has reflected the business conditions are given by robbins the alumni student grant plan is the subject of the editorial writ ten by clifford lincoln 11 under the title is it worth the effort he appeals to the alumni for more suport than they have shown the plan he explains the purpose of the plan and points out that if the plan is not carried out eventually football must be dropped at le high the harmony existing in the cosmopolitan club and the success that it has achieved is the subject of president c c williams mon thly article entitled prexy's pen other articles include e a c conference in which the details of the air conditioning conference are presented by the committee chairman burgess h jennings graham of j and l describing the work in the steel industry of herbert graham 14 lehigh 13 lafayette 29 a review of the game by charles j moravec with the lehigh clubs and alumni homecoming a sum mary of the business and recrea tion conducted by returning alum ni photograph by curtis is popular prize-winner some 1,500 persons comprised mostly of lehigh lafayette and rutgers students and their dates attended middle three night on dec 26 at frank dailey's meadow brook cedar grove n j larry clinton and his band which played at the military ball in 1938 featured songs of the three colleges during the course of the evening and representatives of the various groups gave their respec tive cheers the university yell was included among these ordnance post selects officers a total of 87 which covered the cost of 29 baskets at 3 each was turned over to the bethlehem christmas basket exchange by walter s russell ch e 40 presi dent of the interfraternity council this was the result of contribu tions by lehigh's 29 social frater nities towards the lehigh frater nity basket fund uhl is elected president bromberg is speaker increase in weight height noted in dispensary data dr harold p thomas head of the department of education and director of the summer session was recently honored with election to membership in the association if deans and directors of summer sessions membership in the association is by invitation only and at the pres ent time is held by just 34 colleges and universities throughout the nation therefore membership is greeted as a signal honor and a distinctive recognition of lehigh's summer session and its director said university officials today there are only two other schools in pennsylvania which hold mem berships in the association these are the university of pennsylvania and pennsylvania state college during the past four summers dr thomas has directed ever lar ger sessions a new attendance rec ord being set each of the four years he succeeded dr t natt m emery who died in thf fall of 1935 * dr thomas came to lehigh as head of the department of educa tion in 1932 for the previous sev en years he was director of re search in the public schools of springfield mass he holds his bachelor's degree from colgate and obtained his master and doctorate degrees from harvard over 75 delegates of theta kap pa phi national social fraternity met at bethlehem to form the 12th national convention from dec 28 30 the 20th anniversary of the founding of theta kappa phi at lehigh on october 1 1919 was commemorated at the formal con vention banquet held on dec 30 at the hotel bethlehem speakers at the banquet included president c c williams who welcomed the delegates to lehigh and the na tional secretary of theta chi judge a h aldridge who brought the greetings of the national inter fraternity council and spoke on man making a formal conven tion dance followed the banquet in the hotel at which about 150 coup les attended invitations were sent out to all living groups at lehigh organize training school among the features of the con vention was the organization of a national officers training school for the purpose of preparing leaders to conduct similar training schools in the various chapters and pro vinces courses covering the ob jectives of the fraternity expansion policy rushing pledge training chapter finances budgeted mem bership publis relations and chap advisers were conducted those who successfully completed the course received the degree of bachelor of fraternity techni ques chapter reports and committee meetings took place on dec 28 and a conference on catholic action was held on dec 29 on saturday evening dec 29 a plaque com memorating the founding of the fraternity was dedicated and then accepted by herman e mertz met e 40 president of the alpha chap ter joseph hammond i e 40 and james duane bus 42 were the official delegates of the lehigh chapter attend conference discusses meeting internationalßelationsclub 7 students made 3rd corps cadets six seniors one junior will go to langley argentinita and her spanish ensemble of dancers and musicians have been signed for the third pro gram of this year's student-con cert-lectures series for friday ev ening march 1 and replace the vienna choir boys scheduled for that date announced richard c kelley jr chem 40 chairman of the student concert-lecture series committee today the change in program was ne cessary stated kelley because the entire american tour of the vienna choir boys has been cancelled representatives of the american booking agency sponsoring the tour of this choral ensemle noti fied the lehigh committee of the unavailability of choir boys after six cablegrams had been sent to the european headquarters after a careful study of the ar tists available for early spring was made said kelley the commit tee feels that argentinita and her company will meet with the ap proval of the lehigh audience we are fortunate to be able to present this attraction under very favor able financial terms before coming to lehigh this musical and dance unit will appear at many of the leading colleges and universities of the nation antonio triana here argentinita whose repertory in cludes the authentic dances of spain's 47 provinces will be seen at broughal high school together with antonio triana noted gypsy style dancer and pilar lopez who held second place to argentinita herself in the madrid ballet carlos montoya recognized throughout the world as one of the most accomplished guitarists will accompany the dancers in their comic and native routines in ad dition he will present several sol os the first appearance of this spanish ensemble in the united states was eight years ago with lew leslie's international revue since that time the group has made four transcontinental tours and has appeared with symphony orchestras in boston detroit cle veland cincinnati chicago phil adelphia washington and san francisco creates 3 numbers pilar lopez was the premiere danseuse of the madrid ballet popular in spain from the time it was founded in 1932 to the day it was dissolved at the outbreak of the civil war in 1936 three of the numbers scheduled for the lehigh program have been created by miss lopez during the past three months the argentinita unit has been appear ing in the middle west last week music and dance critics in new york city wrote that the troupe has added many new routines to an extensive repertory and that the program as presented in new york was fine dancing fine theatre and top-notch entertainment students will be admitted to the recital upon presentation of stubs found in the athletic books tickets for guests and the public will be on sale at the registrar's office one week before the performance john s curtis eng 43 won the photographic contest which was sponsored by the camera club with his picture solitude by receiv ing a majority of the votes polled by the visitors who saw the exhi bition during the period between dec 6 and dec 20 the winner was awarded a book entitled uni ted states camera 1938 curtis also won a first second and third in three of the photo graphic groups judges for the con test were prof garth a howland head of the department of fine arts donald r mccaa local pho tographer and dr h a roth rock jr pathologist of st lukes hospital a total of 70 prints was submit ted for the exhibition the contest was divided into four classes landscape and seascape portrait action and candid still life and in animate objects and architecture dean will return to desk after absence of week decide bach date 35 members added choir to sing may 17-18 sixty members of the newly formed lehigh-bethlehem army ordinance post met at a supper at the sun inn friday night prior to the election of officers in room 466 packard laboratory the post is composed of advanc ed rotc students edward g uhl phys 40 was elected presi dent r b gerhardt of the beth lehem steel company vice-presi dent and robert a cary met e 40 second vice-president the executive committee consists of the five officers in the organiza tion and two other members lieu tenant commander g b linke and robert caemmerer m e 41 captain w s bromberg of the philadelphia ordinance district an officer of the regular army spoke to the group on distribution of the industrial war load he explain ed the system of dividing industrial mobilization among the various in dustries which is being used to day lieutenant commander linke made informal remarks on the in creased co-operation between the army and navy departments allen is awarded degree dr carl e allen associate pro fessor of accounting received the degree of certified public account ant from the state of pennsylvania during the holidays the degree was presented after the candidates passed a series of state examina tions at a meeting of the international relations club last thursday night a discussion of the international relations conference held at new jersey college for women was held by those students who attended the conference the men richard ware arts 41 charles hender son i e 42 terry schiff arts 40 wells bliss arts 42 and john hamblin arts 41 chairman of the lehigh delegation discussed the talks on the present international situation given by a number of prominent professors an invitation to hold the con ference at lehigh next year was voted down while that of george town university won out john hamblin the chairman of the le high group was elected vice-presi dent of the conference for next year dr wilson l godshall adviser on international relations present ed an invitation to the lehigh club to hold the annual meeting of the foreign policy association here the invitation was accepted dean wray h congdon will re turn to his desk tomorrow after a week's absence due to illness his office announced after an opera tion during the vacation in which two impacted wisdom teeth were extracted complications set in and confined dean congdon to his home following his operation a strep tococcic infection of the throat de veloped and caused a weakened condition however dean congdon informed his office yesterday that he would definitely return tomor row as his health has greatly im proved the date has been set for the 33rd festival of the bethlehem bach choir has been set for may 17 and 18 according to ifor jones di rector of the choir there were 35 new members added to the choir during their two weeks of rehearsal the two ses sions on friday may 17 will be de voted to the performances of chur ch cantatas the rendition of the famous mass in b minor in its en tirety will conclude the festival on saturday six seniors and one junior have been accepted as flying cadets by the third corps area board of the u s army it was announced fri day at air base headquarters langley field va the seniors are as follows gor don l brandt bus frank b ell iot ch e john b rush bus raymond m smith bus carl l stieg i e charles e west m e the junior is charles a gibson bus these men were among those examined by officers of the third corps area nov 24-28 when they visited lehigh of the seven ell iot rush and west are enrolled in the air flight theory and training course now being offered at lehigh and the allentown - bethlehem airport none of these students will called for duty however until they have completed their college courses there is a general trend toward a slight increase in height of le high students according to dr raymond c bull director of the students health service this state ment is based on data obtained from physical examinations which are given each semester the first time this data was tabulated in september 1927 the average height of the students was 68.5 in ches and the average weight was 143.7 pounds in september 1936 the last time this data was calcu lated the average height was 69.0 inches and the average weight was 145.75 pounds this data illustrates the general trend but the figures fluctuate ev ery year and therefore the above data does not mean that the aver age height of students increases 5 inches every 10 years these fig ures were practically the same ev ery year and indicate that they do not vary a great deal from the present average height and weight the test to detect color blind ness according to dr bull is rap id and also effective as a number of students are found who are not able to distinguish various colors persons who are farsighted are often not aware of it and many of these cases are discovered through examination however most per sons who are nearsighted or have astigmatism are aware of it and have taken corrective measures this september 125 students were called back due to defective vision there are comparativlev few cases of faulty hearing the total number being under one per cent of the student body the average student's teeth are also in very good condition and show that care is taken during depression years there was a noticeable drop in care of teeth and their condition was worse at that time the physical examination has a good record as practically all the students that were recommended by dr bull on this basis passed the civil aeronautics authority physi cal examination aobut 30 per cent of the student body were called back because of various defects which were discovered during the examination according to dr bull the most important need in the health ser vice at the present time is the mantoux test as pulmonary tuber culosis is a danger to college stu dents this test shows up tubercu losis which the individual had at any time during his life in any part of his body this test would be given to all students entering lehigh all students showing a ne gative mantoux would be given another test in their senior year all students showing a positive mantoux would get an x-ray of the lungs and yearly check ups would be made will dance here to play at i f ball bethlehem pa tuesday january 9 1940 appointed e e head long distance degree given chinese grad glen gray is among oldest original bands casa loma orchestra one of longest unaltered musical groups alumni bulletin features story of dr yen in january issue brown and white placemen is discussed concert lecture group signs argentinita's spanish dancers dance troupe is scheduled for march 1 all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association