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              debaters near final rounds 11 engineers 9 artsmen 4 business students named to society army general to be given testimonial dinner next wednesday richards house price hall d t d and a k pi will compete harold a decker 145 attend class affair rutgers president foretells importance of alliance at senior banquet clothier sees bright future for middle 3 vol xlvii — no 35 oberlin choir will sing here bids were issued to 10 eligible freshmen last friday by phi eta sigma freshmen honorary schol arship fraternity according to grendon k sebold e.e 42 secre tary of the society all freshmen who received an average of 3.5 or higher received bids the new men will be pledged friday at 8 15 p m in room 466 packard laboratory nelson j leonard 37 rhodes scholar who has returned to america due to the war in europe will present moving pictures of his oxford ex periences at the meeting the ten freshmen who attained 3.5 and higher constitute 2.29 per cent of the entire class this num ber cuts in half the 20 who were chosen last year at this time and the 19 of the previous year how ever in other years a certain top percentage was taken and no line drawn at 3.5 as a criterion phi eta sigma will hold formal initiation exercises sometime dur ing april and plans its annual banquet for early may according to sebold tone to sponsor college organization april 2 in packer chapel culture test is given to 25 exam determines student's general knowledge of various subjects alumni will aid student commons a testimonial dinner in honor of brigadier general charles t har ris jr of the ordnance depart ment of the united states army will be tendered by the lehigh bethlehem post army ordnance association at 6:30 p m wednes day march 13 at the bethlehem club it was anounced today by edward g uhl president reservations for the banquet must be made before monday march 11 tickets may be secured at the university armory at 2 each general harris is assistant to the chief of ordnance and chief of the industrial service of the united states army as such he is re sponsible for the design develop ment and procurement of all fighting equipment for the army in ordnance work 30 years he has been engaged in ordnance activities for the past 30 years after his graduation from the united states military academy in june 1907 he served in the coast artillery until his transfer to the ordnance department in 1910 in addition to field service in ha waii panama georgia and cali fornia he has had manufacturing experience at picatinny arsenal dover n j and watertown arse nal watertown mass general harris is a graduate of the ordnance school the army industrial college and the army war college he was awarded the distinguished service medal for his services during the world war the semi-final debate for the williams debating prize of 120 will be held at 7:30 p m tomor row in the browsing room in the university library the first de bate will be between team repre senting richards house section 38 and price house taking the affirmative in the question resolved that a new deal president be elected in no vember the richards house team consisting of robert g eitner e e 42 and william f boore met e.'42 will oppose robert f koenig met e 40 and russell kowaly shyn arts 40 representing price house at 8:30 p m the team of delta tau delta will debate the alpha kappa pi team the affirmative wil be taken by the former team consisting of robert p whipple eng 43 and j dukes wooters bus 41 while howard v dono hoe arts 41 and richard m shepherd ch e 41 are the alpha kappa pi debaters the question is the same for both de bates finals to be wednesday th final debates will be held at 7:30 p m wednesday march 13 in the browsing room the two winners of tomorrow night's de bate are to be the participants in the final debate which will be wag ed on the new deal presidency question other teams with one victory and one loss for their score will take part in an elimination to de termine the winner of the second debating prize teams which may take part in these debates are those of lambda chi alpha theta del ta chi sigma chi chi phi and town groups b f j d h and l the tentative schedule has ar ranged debates on march 20 and 21 by the debating club the lehigh debating club de bated perm state at noon today before the bethlehem lions club on the basic blame question the lehigh team took the negative a concert by the oberlin college a cappella choir will be presented on tuesday evening april 2 in packer memorial chapel under the auspices of tone honorary musi cal society in cooperation with the bethlehem friends of music it was announced today by donald r schoen arts 41 president of tone organized in 1929 by olaf c christiansen the choir this year is directed by harold a decker founder of the shurtleft college a cappella choir since its founding the oberlin musical organization has appeared on several radio programs from cleveland chica go and new york stations on na tion-wide hook-ups to be second lehigh concert the april concert will be the second one presented at lehigh university a capacity audience hailed this choral group when it appeared on april 8 1939 in pack er chapel decker the director of the choir replaced christiansen last fall he is a graduate of the morningside conservatory of music and receiv ed the degree of master of music from oberlin last june in addition to directing the oberlin choir decker is a teacher of singing and directs the elizabethan singers of ohio the concert will be open to the public without charge a silver offering will be taken to help de fray expenses of bringing this col legiate group of singers to beth lehem made acting photo editor carothers to make survey twenty-four seniors have been elected to phi beta kappa national honorary scholastic fraternity philip m palmer dean of the college of arts and science an nounced today initiation of the seniors will be held on wednes day march 20 in the faculty room of the alumni memorial building the annual banquet of the phi beta kappa chapters of lehigh university and lafayette college will be held this year at lafayette the banquet is held in alternate years at bethlehem and easton according to dean palmer the speaker for the banquet and the date will be announced at the ini tiation exercises nine arts men eleven engineers and four business men comprise the seniors elected to the frater nity the men chosen are bernard altshuier phys fresh man and sophomore honors awarded wilbur prize in mathe matics in sophomore year new tonian society phi eta sigma pi mv epsilon recording secretary tau beta pi debating club mem ber lehigh-bethlehem army ord nance post alfred t cox c e freshman and sophomore honors awarded wilbur prize in freshman english tau beta pi prize to highest rank ing freshman in engineering presi dent of phi eta sigma and cya nide member of tau beta pi omicron delta kappa scabbard and blade pi mv epsilon presi dent of senior class vice-president of arcadia and president of delta sigma phi fraternity stanley e gilinsky bus fresh man and sophomore honors dean's honor list second semester of jun ior year first semester of senior year treasurer of pi lambda phi fraternity robert c good jr phys soph omore honors newtonian society phi eta sigma pi mv epsilon cyanide omicron delta kappa treasurer of tau beta pi arcadia class editor of 1939 epitome edi tor-in-chief of 1940 epitome walter g guy jr bus fresh man honors dean's honor list sec ond semester junior year first semester senior year member alpha kappa psi norman hammer arts fresh man and sophomore honors fresh man manager of basketball secre tary of mustard and cheese russell kowalshyn arts fresh man honors freshman baseball dean's honor list second semester continued on page four a part of the alumni gift fund for this year will be used to re model the armory in order to pro vide facilities for a student com mons according to william a cornelius secretary of the alum ni association although work will not start until next summer it has definitely been decided to make the necessary changes andrew w litzenberger superintendent of buildings and grounds said the fund which is voluntarily contributed to by alumni each year is used toward some im provement for the university the remainder of this year's fund will be turned over to the athletic de partment for the purchase of new equipment said cornelius myron i buchman arts 43 has been appointed acting photographic editor of the brown and white until a final appointment has been made by the brown and white ex ecutive committee and approved by board of publications an architect's elevation of the proposed exterior of grace hall was shown at the meeting of the faculty yesterday afternoon by president c c williams with an enumeration of the main purposes of the building though grace hall is to be primarily a sports arena and audi torium it will be built for use as a dance floor and armory accord ing to president williams in drawing up plans for the structure these uses will be considered and design made accordingly he said president williams mentioned that plans for the sports arena were progressing even though drawings are in the preliminary stage smith to go to washington philip m palmer dean of the college of arts and sciences re ported that prof robert m smith head of the department of english has been invited by the librarian of the folger shakespearian li brary in washington d c to de liver the main address at a meet ing next fall to celebrate the 300 th anniversary of the first folio of shakespeare he also announced that graduate record examinations will be given arts seniors may 16 and 17 dr elmer c bratt associate professor of economics was elect ed to fill the vacancy on the com mittee on advanced standing of students president williams called at tention to a recent issue of the engineering news record profes sional engineering publication in which four institutions were recog nized for particualrly significant researches during the past year lehigh was one of the schools cited the others being the univer sities of ohio and illinois and co lumbia university 100 apply for scholarships in other reports dr tomlinson fort dean of the graduate school announced that he has received more than 100 applications for graduate school scholarships for the year 1940-41 e kenneth smiley director of admissions re ported that as of march 1 a total of 411 undergraduate applications for admission in 1940 had been re ceived this figure is 106 greater than the number of applicants at the same time last year dr percy hughes professor of philosophy stated that the faculty educational club will continue its discussion of spectacular college sport at a meeting of the group next monday at 4 p m in the faculty room the faculty will meet with the members of the fa culties of all colleges in the le high valley friday night at cedar crest college dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administra tion left by train yesterday for chicago and other points west in connection with a canning survey which he is conducting one hundred twenty-five sen iors attended their class banquet held last night at the hotel beth lehem dr robert c clothier president of rutgers university walter r okeson vice-president of lehigh university dean wray h congdon president c c will iams and alfred t cox c e 41 toastmaster were speakers dr clothier predicted that all phases of the programs of the mid dle three colleges will become more important in the years to come for the following reasons all three colleges have common faith in one another the enroll ments are approximately the same all are situated within a reason able distance of one another en abling students in extra-curricular and athletic events to meet on a common footing and the colleges ethics of education are very sim ilar and above board he made a comparison between the american and english athle tics by stating that we in america have something to learn and that is to play for the sake of the game and not for the sake of victory remarks on policy he said that the middle three athletic program can become more recognized than it is by having schedules which call for represen tative opposition of schools in the same class there is something wrong when a team wins more than 60 per cent of the games played and something should oe done to change the setup he de clared vice-president okeson told of the proposed insurance plan and said that lehigh has become what it is because of the support given by the founder alumni and friends the plan will help cement the class together and by the 20th reunion in 1960 the class will be able to decide upon a suitable gift he s"*d dr c c williams praised the idea of revival of class banquets saying that it brings students to gether and is another step towards personal contact with the faculty cox outlines the senior poll and ballots were passed to each mem ber present the questions asked were do you agree with the class gift committee that the best gift the class can make to the univer sity is the endowment insurance carried by those who can afford it are you in favor of outdoor grad uation are you in favor of short ening the period of graduation the poll will be continued until thursday a who's who was taken of out standing seniors by robert c good jr phys 40 which is to be published in the epitome good is epitome editor-in-chief twenty-flve out of the 100 who are enrolled in the general educa tion course took the general edu cation examination last night in packard laboratory the exam which is given every year makes a general cultural sur vey of each student's knowledge the test was the type in which the student chose the best answer out of several possible ones it cover ed questions pertaining to history the social sciences national and international events english and foreign literature the fine arts mathematics and the physical sci ences students knowledge compared this test is important as it com pares the general knowledge of students in this university with students of other colleges accord ing to dr maynard l diamond head of the general education pro gram dr hughes has been trying for several years to make it possible for the entire student body to take the tests he estimated that the cost would be approximately 100 according to dr percy hughes professor of philosophy who was in charge of the test the corrected examinations will be returned to the advisors on monday the stu dents who participated may obtain their papers from the advisors members of class of 1940 elected to phi beta kappa national honorary scholastic fraternity norman l mora jules l moreau robert r merwin norman hammer rusted kowalyshyn walter g guy jr alfred t cox stanley e gilinsky bernard altshuier edward g un george s sprague rondall b tucker robert b spilman gardner sletten robert b palmer william b pomman charles f rehman carl h richardson jarrw f ryan jr edward m sharp anders myhr directs choir bethlehem pa tuesday march 5 1940 10 men get bids to phi eta sigma seniors may still vote price — five cents 24 seniors elected to phi beta kappa above 3.5 chosen freshmen with averages faculty shown elevation plan of grace hall lehigh ■ lafayette honor societies banquet to be in easton scholarship applications for graduate studies received from 100 ordnance post to fete harris lehigh university brown and white seniors who did not receive the class ballots at the banquet last night may secure them at drown hall or at the office of dean neil carothers christ mas-saucon hall alfred t cox c e class president said today ballots must be filled in and returned to either of these offices by 5 p m thursday lehigh's research cited initiation is march 20 z 612 robert d marsden robert c good jr edwin h miller an all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association