Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 25

              students admitted free albert spalding to play in packer memorial chapel on feb 16 noted violinist will present recital here price — five cents violin virtuoso graduated from yale fills position left vacant by death last fall of c m schwab a n williams railroad man made trustee vol xlvii no 25 a p o accepts f b.i proposal town council to give dance affair to be held feb 24 in campus armory ; band not chosen congdon considers plan to fingerprint men during registration students on probation this semes ter has not reached higher propor tions than in former years an ex amination of the vital figures of students who have reached this precarious situation proves inter esting total students on scholastic probation during the first semes ter showed a decrease as compared with the number on probation dur ing the previous semester dean wray h congdon's office now lists 136 students on scholastic riroba tion on feb 7 1939 the brown and white announced that 202 stu dents had gone on scholastic pro bation of these 130 were upper classmen and 72 were freshmen the sophomore class leads in the number of its members on pro with 60 there are 12 sen iros on probation 31 juniors 31 students who are repeating their freshman year and 2 students who entered as freshmen in september with advanced standing and who were put on probation for the semester of the 136 there are 73 enrolled in the college of engineering 42 buisness administration students and 21 art students . although the number of students on cut probation varies throughout the semester there are 57 on the cut list according to the latest fig ures five students are on disci plinary probation including three sophomores one junior and one senior arcadia grants 300 to charity 60 goes to red cross 150 for xmas seals the town council will sponsor a dance feb 24 in the campus armory from 9 p m until 1 a m an orchestra has not yet been selected there will be no charge or admission for members of the town group who are in good standing but 75 cents stag or cou ple for all others this dance will be the second dance held by the town group the first being the second night of fall houseparty the social com mittee of the council is in com plete charge of the dance and at present is considering as possible orchestras bud rader piff moore and harry romig and the colle gians refreshments will be served and decorations will probably be patterned after the sophcopation v/ith certain additions the social committee is com posed of george a brenker bus 42 chairman george j gabuzda arts 41 william r csellak ch e 40 and albert e ponter bus 40 the dance will follow the le high-lafayette basketball game and will be informal dr and mrs claude g beardslee dr and mrs robert d billinger and james p sell will chaperon an exhibition of trick shooting by larry nuesslein world's small bore rifle champion for three years will be presented by the lehigh sportsman's club at 8:00 p m monday on the armory drill floor included in the program will be such shooting feats as shooting a glass ball from the top of a pipe in charlie mccarthy's mouth shoot ing ashes off a cigarette in char lie's mouth splitting a card held edgeways in the dummy's hand and driving a tack in a block of wood the program will be climax ed when nuesslein splits a bullet on a knife blade and breaks two balloons one on each side with the fragments of the bullet is allentown resident a resident of allentown nuess lein has held not only the world's small bore rifle champinoship but also the world's free style cham pionship at the olympics at ant werp belgium in 1923 at camp perry ohio he won the world's free rifle championship among his competitors at that time was maj adrian r brian assistant profes sor of military science and tactics later in 1927 nuesslein again won the small bore championship at rome italy at amsterdam neth erlands in 1928 he won the small bore rifle title for the thrid time has 1500 german rifle nuesslein has collected a variety of rifles included in his collection are a 1500 german rifle inlaid with silver and gold and a 75-year old kentucky rifle which receiv ed its name from the pioneers who traveled to that state he has stat ed that he considers the regular springfield army rifle the finest in the world admission to the exhibition will be free and open to the public rifle shooting according to nuesslein is gaining in popularity in the united states in 1921 congress at the behest of the na tional rifle association began making appropriations for civilian matches there are now 11,000,000 people in the nation shooting rifles speech 30 class to hold banquet each member to make after-dinner speech faculty chorus practices for operetta patience albert n williams of new york city executive vice president of the lehigh valley railroad today was named a corporate trustee of lehigh university it was announc ed by walter r okeson secretary of the board of trustees williams fills the post on the board made vacant by the death of charles m schwab williams who has been with the lehigh valley railroad since aug 1 1939 was president and general manager of the chicago and west ern indiana railroad and the belt railway company of chicago 1932-39 he is a native of denver colo and a graduate of sheffield scientic school yale university started career as rodman the new lehigh trustee began his railroad career at the age of 16 and worked for two western roads before entering yale he started as a rodman with the den ver and salt lake railway in 1904 and served as a machinist's ap prentice with the denver and rio grande railroad in 1906-07 following graduation from the sheffield scientific school in 1910 mr williams accepted a position with the union pacific and then worked successively for the chi cago rock island and pacific rail way and the missouri kansas and texas railway during seven years with these roads he moved through the ranks from brakeman to su perintendent spent four years in oil fields from 1917 to 1921 williams de serted railroading to serve as con struction superintendent and oper ating superintendent for various petroleum industries in oklahoma texas and mexico he returned to railroad work as assistant general manager of the midland valley railroad in 1921-22 and served as general manager of this line for four years before moving to the minneapolis st paul and sault ste marie railway as general su perintendent 1927-32 williams is a member of the union league economic com monwealth traffic chicago and yale clubs he is also a member of the newcomen society the chi cago association of commerce and the western railway club and has served as vice president of the travelers aid society of chicago and the national association for travelers aid and transient ser fingerprinting for civil indenti fication purposes will be made available to lehigh students dur ing the second semester registra tion period under the direction of alpha phi omega national honor ary scouting fraternity provided permission is granted by dean wray h congdon a letter from j edgar hoover director of the federal bureau of investigation to the scouting fra ternity suggested the fingerprint ing service recording of fingerprints is par ticularly valuable in cases of dis puted or lost indentification catas trophes wrecks and similar situ ations where identification might be difficult according to the soci ety the prints will be filed by the federal bureau of investigation at washington in its civil identifi cation section this section is not to be confused with the criminal identification section the cards of the two sections may not be inter changed the committee which will be in charge of the work if the univer sity grants permission includes gilbert p cardwell e e 40 wal ter wetherell bus 40 phillip lut ters m e 40 and george salathe ch e 40 fingerprinting will be taken in packer hall during the course of registration the service will be made entirely voluntary and there will be no charge the project is part of a service being carried on in colleges and universities through the country in some of these schools the entire student body has submitted to the fingerprinting according to re ports carothers writes for n y paper botanist to speak albert spalding who has ap peared in every large city in the country in violin concerts will present a recital on friday eve ning feb 16 in packer memorial chapel under the auspices of the cleaver memorial music founda tion according to dr t edgar shields director of music the announcement was made after the committee completed ar rangements with the columbia broadcasting company georges enesco rumanian composer and violinist was originally scheduled to give the annual cleaver con cert but the european crisis pre vents him from coming to amer ica enesco's entire american tour has been cancelled according to his new york agents admission to the concert will be by ticket only students and fac ulty members may secure free tickets for themselves and one guest at the registrar's office no tickets will be sold to the public although contributors will receive guest tickets spalding was born in chicago and began playing the violin at seven years of age his principal teachers were chiti the famous florentine master buitrago of new york and lefort in paris he was graduated from bologna con servatory at 14 with the highest honors ever accorded anyone since mozart first u s tour in 1906 he made his professional debut in paris with adelina patti his american debut was as soloist with the new york symphony or chestra under the direction of wal ter damrosch in carnegie hall he made his first concert tour of the united states in 1906 as soloist with the dresden philharmonic orchestra when that organization visited this continent in 1917 spalding cancelled 35,000 worth of signed contracts to enlist as a private in the avia tion service for the allies he was assigned to active duty overseas where he rapidly won his promo tion to lieutenant in recognition of his distinguished services as an aviator with the a e f in italy he was decorated by the italian government with the cross of the crown of italy france decorated him with the rosette of the chev alier of the legion of honor spalding's concert activities stretch from coast to coast as well as the european continent last year his american tour covered over 20,000 miles with concerts in 60 cities of the united states and canada in addition he filled close to 50 orchestral appearances with the leading symphony orchestras of the nation he has crossed the atlantic ocean 200 times arcadia student governing body decided wednesday to apportion the funds contributed by the le high student body in the annual charity drive this year from an approximate total of 300 150 went to buy christmas seals spon sored by the tuberculosis associa tion 60 went to the bethlehem community chest and 60 was do nated to the bethlehem chapter of the american red cross according to fred e galbraith arts 40 president these amounts showed a slight increase over the average received by these organ izations in the past few years the remaining 30 will be held for emergencies and if not needed will be used as a basis for next year's charity drive commenting on the method adopted by arcadia this year for collecting student contributions galbraith said the slight in crease in funds seems to show that the present system of having arcadia divide among the sev eral charities the sum total of funds tendered by the living groups is more advantageous to both the student body and the charities than the old separate drive system it is to be hoped that an even greater increase in contributions will be made next year plant growth talk sigma xi will sponsor the faculty chorus held its first meeting of the new year wednes day night in the lounge of the chemistry building the evening was devoted to rehearsing the op eretta patience which will be presented in april mrs tomlinson fort the direct or introduced miss helen minnich contralto a member of the music department of the faculty of mor avian college for women who will be guest performer this year article published by sun in special section 50 years of lehigh history viewed by pete boquel industrial representatives interview seniors here thirteen articles written by fac ulty members were published in periodicals of ten national organ izations during the month of de cember according to george b curtis registrar and university editor four members of the teaching staff wrote two articles apiece while a fifth edited the semi-ann ual bulletin of a state educational organization those who wrote two articles are dr benjamin l miller professor of geology dr joseph b reynolds professor of mathematics and theoretical me chanics dr bradley stoughton professor of metallurgical engin eering and dr edwin r theis professor of chemical engineering edits debating publication j calvin callaghan assistant professor of english and speech edited the 13th issue of the bull etin of the debating association of pennsylvania colleges dr gil bert e doan head of the depart ment of metallurgical engineering wrote an article for steel magazine entitled annual review of prog ress in welding gerald vanduzee instructor in metallurgical engineering and john m thomas a graduate stu dent collaborated in writing cold welding of silver which was published by the electrochemical society notes on hardyston quartzite was the subject of an article writ ten by dr donald m fraser asso ciate professor of geology and al bert j getz graduate student in geology dr bradford willard head of the department of geology had published in the pennsylvania academy of science proceedings an article entitled ordovician shales of southeastern pennsyl vania writes for leather journal the articles written by dr theis were published in the de cember issue of the journal of the american leather chemists as sociation they are the effect of excess sugar during reduction upon the bascity and compar ison of chemical characteristics of basic chromium sulfate liqours made with and without reflux both of dr miller's articles ap peared in the proceedings of the pennsylvania academy of science the titles of dr miller's articles are scolithus tubes in hardyston sandstone and desert varnish in eastern pennsylvania the articles of dr reynolds ap peared in two magazines the parable of the clocks was pub lished in youth magazine while chain links under cross forces appeared in the journal of applied mechanics dr stoughton's first article modern marvels of electrometal lurgy appeared in the regular publication of the electrochemical society the unwisdom of unre strained scrap exportation was his second article and was publish ed by the independent steel and iron producers cornelius gramley speak at york alumni meeting prof f w went of california institute of technology will ad dress a public meeting of sigma xi honorary research society on important advances made in the application of hormones to the regulation of plant growth at 8 p m monday in packard auditor ium professor went was formerly a director of the foreign labora tory at buitenzorg java according to members of the so ciety work on plant hormones can be cited as one of the outstanding examples of the importance of sci entific research for the solution of practical problems through ap plication of plant hormones the de velopment of a plant comes under strict human control and in the near future will lead to plant en gineering representatives from three in dustrial organizations held inter views with seniors during the past week announced e robins mor gan director of placement on monday and tuesday j h dillen of the ingersoll-rand company held interviews in packard audi torium t c ham and h b spackman of the jones and laughlin steel company held interviews in the placement office on tuesday on wednesday in the placement office e j bilings held interviews for the babcock and wilson tube company white addresses p t a penna physics teachers to meet here in march the spring meeting of the penn sylvania physics teachers asso ciation will be held here on march 29 and 30 during the two-day convention there will be a sympo sium of geophysics and also a joint meeting with the lehigh valley engineering society it would be sufficient for re covery if we could know that there will not be more and greater wastes and interferences declar ed dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administra tion in a special article published in the new york sun last satur day dean carothers articles was one of 22 written by nationally famous economists for a special business outlook section of the paper the basic problem is not the war but our domestic economic situation he stated it is a ser ious mistake to consider the war the dominant economic factor as those who developed the rash up rising in stock and commodity prices at the outbreak have pain fully learned our present condition is a tang led complex of conflicting forces the one outstanding fact is this this country is ready for recovery it has been ready for recovery for a long time that it has not come about long since must be ascribed to many unfavorable factors among them is an appalling ser ies of governmental mistakes over the past six years by edward w edwards half a century has passed since pete boquel was first listed on the university pay-roll during this time the campus students deans and presidents have chang ed viewed by eyes of pete bo quel superintendent of taylor field pete was born in st louis mis souri he took a course in physical education at harvard and a course in manual training at columbia summer school he came to le high in 1889 and has been here ever since except for the period between 1903-1917 during this period he was employed as physi cal education teacher at johns college minn and then at st mary's college ky following this he came back to bethlehem and taught manual training and phy sical education at moravian par ochial school he has served under every le high president from henry cop pee to dr c c williams he saw the establishment of the supply last wednesday dr raymond h white discussed visual edu cation at the monthly meeting of the franklin p t a prof f j trembley past pres ident of the bethlehem natural science society and assistant pro fessor of biology will speak be fore the society on feb 13 he will talk about south american lizards of which he has a large collection bureau the erection of the physics laboratory the opening of wil liams hall the establishment of the r o t c the dedication of the alumni memorial building and the university library the build ing of the packard laboratory the purchasing of lehigh field and the erection of richards house during pete's earlier days at le high travel around the campus was very difficult due to the rough dirt roads according to boquel the paving of the roads was the greatest addition made to the bet tering of the campus one of the interesting incidents during pete's life at lehigh is the burning of the physics lab the laboratory was erected in 1893 and eight years later the building burned and again opened in 1901 it was 29 years later when the physics building was again ablaze with a loss of 15,000 according to this the laboratory may be ex pected to burn in 1954 so stick around pete william a cornelius executive secretary of the alumni associa tion and prof dale h gramley university news editor were guest speakers at the january meeting of the york alumni group in the yorktown hotel last night the philadelphia-lehigh club will hold their annual dinner on jan 26 at the bellevue-stratford hotel guests who have accepted to date pres c c williams a copeland callen dean of the col lege of engineering walter r okeson vice president of the uni versity howard r reiter profes sor of physical education robert f herrick assistant secretary of the alumni association harry carpenter soccer coach and wil liam a cornelius members of the class in public speaking speech 30 will hold a banquet tonight at 6 p m at the sun inn each student will give a short talk on a subject of his own choosing co-toastmasters for the affair will be john h bryan i e 41 and robert e merkle chem 40 the speakers and their topics are as follows edward billstein jr bus 40 lost at sea nearly james k binder arts 41 a na tion bows its vocal chords in sor row robert c dimmich i e 41 noncomfortists robert g eitner e e 42 when i grew up george f glueck i e 40 who wants to be first frank v hertzog arts 41 boy meets girl herbert t kurz e e 42 what about that job hugh g vander veer i e 40 on choosing the girl fred erick w wilson bus 41 relax during exams kenneth c wot ring i e 41 one more kiss kiss kiss w bertolet bowers eng 42 on choosing the proper utensil william f carson chem 40 cram session thomas c rick etts ch e 40 they also serve hazen p chase bus 41 don't give up the ship leonard h ed wards i e 41 oh for the life of a prof elwin wolfe m e 40 don't begrudge me five min utes anthony n manone arts 40 speech oddities louis g gitz endanner e e 41 we are al gummed up charles e mcgrath eng 42 the value of a speech course john a krawchuk eng 42 the creation of class society among mice and e w heine games on the hill brown and white bethlehem pa friday january 12 1940 appointed trustee vital statistics as exams near students on pro jittery although the total number of rifle champion will perform shooting tricks 10 magazines carry articles of faculty men sportsmen will sponsor nuesslein in armory monday at 8 p m stoughton reynolds theis miller are authors on 2 subjects is world title holder callaghan edits bulletin albert s spalding albert n williams member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the lehigh news first