Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 31

              pictured above in a characteristic pose of one of the numbers of their dance routine from right to left are argentinita antonio triana and pilar lopez this trio of spanish dancers will perform for lehigh students on march 1 in the third student concert-lecture series pre sentation of 1939-40 hammer and sprague get mustard and cheese executive posts sophs lo meet tomorrow went over to go through the pow er house the key spot of the whole system and wanted to go through the passage from there to packard but were told that if they valued their lives they shouldn't rub elbows with the 440 volt pow er line strung in it however the buddies were told to go up to the chem building and get the electri cian to give them the keys to a most excellent cavern job running from the power house to taylor gym the electrician wasn't found but a mr mussleman donated a flashlight and pointed out a lulu of a tunnel they went in there were lights part way the best part of course going up hill one foot per hour well pretty slow anyway the pair emerged through a manhole between coppee and the library time was wasting so by continu ing to coppee the explorers found exactly nothing at the end of the tunnel retraced the way and took a turn off to williams hall the heroes then had the choice of going up to packer or getting out of the heat dirt and rats they did the latter someday we might try going up to packer underground but some body will have to be chasing us first will address senior class by robert m lynch underground tunnels have fas cinated man ever since he retreat ed to a cave in the side of a hill and today that fascination doesn't seem to be dwindling did you know that the lehigh campus is undermined with quite a collection of the hottest and dirt iest tunnels that a rat ever had the pleasure of inhabiting they're right under our beautiful old south mountain they have a purpose of course and that is to carry steam lines to the various buildings around the university two students got rather tired of slopping around in the snow drifts scattered about the campus and crawled underground from the chemistry building to coppee hall back again and stuck their noses nay their whole bodies into sev eral other underground nooks expedition number one took them in packard laboratory to a very fine and clean subterranean passage indeed the two boys were having a swell time messing around down there when some un known human turned out the lights they fou^d their way out by the hit or miss process mostly hit expedition number two was a total flop the student explorers bishop gardner is chosen for baccalaureate sermon june 9 lambert will give advice to seniors frosh honorary invites prospects an important meeting of the sophomore class will be held to morrow to discuss holding a banquet at 4 p m in packard auditorium robert n gusdorff bus 42 president of the class anounced today gusdorff urges all sophomores to attend this meeting town dance plans near completion bud rader to use 12 piece orchestra saturday six men were accepted into ac tive membership in mustard and cheese honorary dramatics soci ety last tuesday at the regular meeting of the organization they are edwin h miller arts 40 harry m randel bus 40 william h barnard e e 41 john h mathewson ch e 41 richard s gowdy bus 40 and wilkes mcclave bus 42 those chosen had a minimum of four mustard and cheese credits and were voted in by majority of the members present at the meeting george s sprague chem 40 and norman hammer arts 40 were elected vice president and secretary respectively to serve for the rest of the year others on the executive council of which these two are now members are frank woodside bus 40 president chester c baldwin i e 40 treas urer and joseph l serrill e e 40 nathaniel j brisker bus 40 was also elected secretary emeri tus of mustard and cheese society new and old members of the so ciety will convene at a dinner meeting to be held at 6 p m to morrow at sigma nu fraternity house all freshmen who received grades of a in mathematics last semester and are thus eligible for membership are invited to attend the monthly meeting of the new tonian society honorary freshman mathematics club thursday even ing announced edwin f bodine m e 42 president of the club at this time the prospective members will become acquainted with the functions of the society and will be addressed by dr clar ence a shook associate professor of mathematics at the following meeting of the newtonian society at approximate ly the same time in march mem bers will be initiated and then will elect their own officers the new members of the club will take over the business of the group and soph omores will resign at that meeting postpone lecture of cornell dean discussions with seniors who are seeking employment and wish ad vice on placement problems will be conducted during the next few weeks by robert a lambert per sonnel director of the r k laros silk company bethlehem according to e robins morgan director of placement the first meeting was held on monday further information may be ob tained at the placement bureau in a statement mr morgan said seniors have found that it is al most impossible now that inter viewers are coming to the campus to obtain much personal help at the placement bureau mr lam bert's offer to conduct sessions with seniors should therefore be accepted eagerly by those who feel a genuine desire for this kind of help taylor hall has snow queen argentinita and her ensemble of spanish dancers and musicians the highest priced attraction ever sponsored by the student concert lecture series committee will pre sent their 100 th program of the second american tour on friday evening march 1 in broughal high school a program of solo and group dances as well as piano and guitar selections is being arranged with new york representatives of the company according to richard c kelley chem 40 chairman of the committee triana to dance during the past three months argentinita and her company have appeared before college audiences in 23 different states and spent one week touring the leading colleges and universities of canada fol lowing the lehigh performance the troupe will close its concert series on march 2 at the united states naval academy included in the ensemble which will present the third program of this year's series are argentinita pilar lopez premiere danseuse antonio triana premier danseur rogelio machado pianist and carlos montoya guitarist solo numbers will be presented by each member of the company duet dance numbers will be per formed by argentinita and miss lopez and argentinita and triana vocal selections will be rendered by argentinita and triana argentinita made her first pub lic appearance at the age of seven in the cafe district of san sebas tian formal education and danc ing studios absorbed her childhood with public appearances until she was 15 when she was known throughout spain for three years she toured the spanish provinces in search of ma terial for her company in 1924 she brought a band of gypsies and presented them in their native dances in spain france mexico cuba and argentina in 1930 she came to america to appear in lew leslie's international review kimball unable to appear ; meeting also cancelled 3 judges chosen for art contest painter and art teacher to rate student work a special canopy for the orches tra and decorations of cloth and many colored lights has been chosen as the decorations by the committee for the town council dance it was announced today by george a brenker bus 42 chair man the dance will be held saturday in the university armory following the lehigh-lafayette basketball game bud rader will use an orchestra of 12 pieces and will feature two vocalists his orchestra was the one selected for the engineer's ball last fall the social committee for the dance includes brenker chairman albert e ponter jr bus 40 william r csellak ch e 40 george j gabuzda jr arts 41 the dance will be informal and will be chaperoned by dr and mrs claude g beardslee and dr and mrs robert d billinger bishop wallace j gardner of the new jersey diocese of the pro testant episcopal church will preach the baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class on sunday june 9 it was announced today by president c c williams the rt rev mr gardner who has been bishop of new jersey since nov 1 1937 was during the year preceding his accession to this post bishop coadjutor of new jer sey previously he served as vicar of the chapel of intercession new york city 1933-36 rector of st paul's church flatbush brooklyn 1919-1933 and chaplain of the schools of garden city 1911-19 he taught in various private schools from 1900 to 1908 was ordained a deacon in 1911 and a priest in 1912 bishop gardner's home and off ice are in trenton n j bishop gardner who is a native of buffalo holds the a 8 a m and honorary d d degrees from st stephen's college annandale n v and the degree of s t d from the general theological seminary 1937 new york city he received the baccalaureate de gree from st stephen's in 1906 and studied at the general theo logical seminary from 1908 to 1911 he is a trustee of the seminary 65 hear beaver at e e banquet prom site chosen for junior dance empire ballroom selected word was received this morning that final arrangements to have miss ailsa f g maclahlan lead ing skating professional of canada present an original rhythmic dance routine to popular music be tween periods of the lehigh-la fayette hockey game on friday ev ening at hershey have been made according to w rodman turner i e 40 manager of the lehigh hockey club a native of alberta canada miss mclachlan competed as an amateur in the principal winter carnivals of canada and western united states she was twice champion of the calgary skating tournament held the open pair skating waltzing and figure com petition titles for several years before she accepted a contract to become professional at the exclu sive glencoe club of canada while at glencoe she produced skating carnivals in addition to her instruction work during this time miss mclachlan had as her part ner jon jonsen who had emigrat ed to canada from the norwegian club where sonja heine skated during her career as an amateur produced ice revue her next engagement was as a professional for two years at the cannaught skating club in van couver the following year she was the sole producer of an ice show which was the forerunner of the ice follies she came east for her next position as professional at lake placid in addition to director of two national dance weeks last year she became professional at the hershey sports arena when bruce mapes and evelyn chand ler left to join the ice follies com pany arrangements for the appear ance of miss mclachlan were made by lloyd s blinco former captain of the hershey bears pro fessional hockey club in the inter national league turner also announced that mo tion pictures of the special excur sion to the hershey sports arena will be taken by robert f herrick editor of the lehigh alumni bull etin these will be shown at var ious lehigh alumni clubs throug out the nation during the next three months the lehigh band of 80 musicians will march from the campus to the train leaving bethlehem at 5:25 p m at hershey the musicians will parade from the station to the sports arena and will play before the contest during intermission and for the skating period 182 students get nya work here dr dexter s kimball dean emeritus of the college of engin eering of cornell university who was to give an illustrated lecture friday afternoon in packard audi torium will be unable to be pres ent this announcement was made this morning by fred v larkin head of the department of mechan ical engineering professor larkin said that he had been notified that dr kimball was ill and would not be able to make the trip the lec ture which was entitled early bronze will be given at some la ter date the meeting of the mechanical engineering society which was to have been held in connection with the lecture has also been cancelled state allotment amounts to 2730 monthly drama club plans new spring play final contracts insuring the em pire ballroom as the site of the junior prom were signed this morning by representatives of the junior class and the empire man agement it was announced today by robert l stubbings ch e 41 chairman of the prom negotia tions have been in progress for more than a week he said the prom will be held friday april 19 the first night of house party weekend the success of this site as the lo cation of the interfraternity ball and the fact that the date was available made it the first choice of the prom committee stubbings added phi eta sigma to hear talk by nelson leonard judges for the second annual art contest being sponsored by le high university among high schools of northampton county were an nounced today by prof garth a howland head of the university's department of fine arts drawings and paints submitted for the con test will be on exhibition in the art gallery in the university li brary from march 1 to march 21 the judges are percy f albee painter of springtown and new york city henry w sharadain formerly head of the art depart ment of kutztown state teachers college and mrs h s graumer wyomising state chairman for american art week eleven schools of the county are expected to submit entries accord ing to advices from the respective principals and art teachers drawings and paintings submit ted for the contest will be judged on saturday morning march 2 and announcement of awards will be made that day three first prizes of 10 each and three second prizes of 5 each are being offered by the university in order that the competitors may be judged on a fair basis one first prize and one second prize will be offered in each of the three groups of high schools second class dis tricts third class and fourth class mustard and cheese dramatic club will present idiot's delight by robert sherwood for its spring production frank c woodside bus 40 president of the club an nounced today final tryouts for the play will be held at 7:30 p m wednesday in drown hall the play will be given on may 4 in broughal high school alfred lunt and lynn fontaine had the leading parts in the production when it was presented on the new york stage the play was also pro duced in the movies with norma shearer and clark gable playing the leads dr godshall to speak washington and our present foreign policy will be the topic of an address by dr w l godshall ! assistant professor of diplomatic ] history and international relations i to be given tomorrow at the week i ly luncheon meeting of the bethle | hem rotary club sixty-five members of the le high branch of the american insti tute of electrical engineers met at a valentine banquet last wednes day evening at the hotel bethle hem arthur s mickley e e 40 president of the society acted as toastmaster dr j lynford beav er recently appointed head of the department of electrical engineer ing was the first speaker dr bea ver discussed the value of the stu dent branch of the a i e e the second speaker was charles wasser custodian of packard lab oratory wasser stated that on graduation students unfortunately think they know more than they actually do he said that students would do well if they would be a little less haughty after gradua tion the committe in charge of the banquet included walter m schweder e e 40 robert j seugling e e 40 and frank g steinbrucker e e 41 the val entine banquet was the result of the postponed christmas party which was cancelled after the death of dr stanley s seyfert trevena 35 is engaged bacon to address legion emulating the dartmouth boys who decorate their campus with snow statuary during the famous winter carnival some of the inhabi tants of taylor hall produced the masterpiece above with the materials supplied by last wednesday's blizzard affectionately dubbed the ve nus de taylor she finally succumbed to yesterday's rain but only after she had become enshrined in the hearts of the taylorites as the le high review ideal houseparty date and the incarnation of idealized femininity 1 lehigh university received the largest allotment in this area of the state share in the 895,075 ap propriation to pennsylvania from the national youth administration fund for supplying jobs to college and graduate students it was an nounced yesterday state administrator aubrey williams said yesterday that the fund will give jobs to 6513 students in the state during the current ac ademic year at wages of 10 to 20 a month for undergraduates and 20 to 30 for graduate students the quota for lehigh is 182 stu dents the allotment provides for 2730 monthly and 24,750 a year lafayette college has a quota of 92 students and will receive 1380 a month and 12,420 for the sec ond highest allotment in the area other schools in this vicinity to re ceive nya funds are moravian seminary and moravian college for women muhlenberg college cedar crest college kutztown state teachers college and east stroudsburg state teachers col lege major rodger r bacon assistant professor of military science and tactics will be guest speaker on thursday evening at the harry f w johnson post no 379 ameri can legion bethlehem the engagement of mary w rees allentown to lewis w trevena 35 was announced friday night at a party at the home of miss rees trevena is employed by the american steel and wire company nelson j leonard 37 rhodes scholar who returned from eng land at the start of the european war will address phi eta sigma national honorary freshman soci ety on march 8 a bruce brown phys 42 president of the society announced today the meeting to which all freshmen are invited will be held at 8 15 p m in room 466 packard laboratory leonard will speak on my ex periences at oxford he will sup pliment his talk by motion pic tures to dance the spanish way bethlehem pa tuesday february 20 1940 2 intrepid students explore tunnels underneath campus price — five cents tomorrow is deadline for tickets to hershey woman skater will perform at hockey tilt ailsa mclachlan to skate at lehigh-lafayette contest friday train leaves at 5:25 p.m tickets for the special hock ey excursion to the hershey sports arena on friday after noon must be purchased or re served before 5 o'clock tomor row afternoon so that proper accomodations can be arranged with officials of the railroad company announced w rod man turner i e 40 living group students may purchase their tickets through their house or dormitory repre sentative tickets are also avail able at the arcadia office in drown hall and at the supply bureau drama group elects 6 men broughal high is site brown and white argentinita and ensemble plan to perform solo group numbers dance troupe will present 100 th program vol xlvii — no.^o i z 612 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first