Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 37

              original script is cut plan suggested by dean 4 confined in hospitals as slippery roads take week-end toll frank h bailey e.e.s to hear safety expert prof walter t stace lecture open to public princeton professor was british civil service agent in ceylon stace to talk to blake club on democracy vol xlvii no 37 will address pi delt group power engineer assistants to show first aid in electrical accidents gramley to be speaker at lehigh - moravian joint meeting as a sequel to the lecture the philosophy of fascism given here last fall by dr herbert schneider professor of religion at columbia prof walter t stace of princeton university will speak on the philosophy of democracy at 8 p m friday in packard auditorium this lecture is open to the general public as well as to students professor stace is sponsored by the robert w blake society hon orary philosophical society in con junction with the faculty lectures committee this will be the second speech of a series concerning isms originally scheduled to in clude a third on communism born in britain dr stace a professor of philos ophy was born and educated in the british isles before coming to princeton in 1932 he was in the british civil service in ceylon for 22 years he is the author of sev eral books dealing with philosophy which include critical history of greek philosophy philosophy of hegel meaning of beauty and theory of knowledge and exist ence the members of the society will meet with dr stace at 4 p m friday in the faculty room of drown hall following the meet ing the executive committee of the society and dr stace will eat in the drown hall cafeteria finalists to meet in deciding debate the hughes-weiss musical com edy on which mustard and cheese cancelled production last month will be presented on the evening of april 28 in the auditorium of the beethoven maennerchor it was announced saturday the show which deals humor ously with the history of lehigh has been considerably shortened and simplified and will make use of a cast drawn both from the university student body and the maennerchor membership try outs for the cast have been called for 7:30 p m thursday at the maennerchor the show in its new form will be directed by david c hughes 39 the composer of the score al though we were unable to round up a satisfactory cast to properly produce the full show hughes said we should not have too much difficulty in getting together a group that will be able to swing this abridged version comedy is shortened eric weiss 39 author of the ori ginal show said that the comedy retained its original humor even in the shortened version i took no part in the cutting of the script he said and my work is going to keep me from helping with the production but i am pleased with the condensation that dave has made and i hope that the show goes over in a big way any lehigh men with talents along musical lines will be wel come at the cast try-outs on thurs day hughes said after all it can't be a real lehigh show unless plenty of lehigh men take part in it moyer arsove to address meeting of chess club the interfraternity council has assumed the responsibility of choosing a date in the spring for the 1940 fall houseparty and sen ior prom it was announced last night by walter s russell ch e 41 president following a meeting of the council in drown hall this plan of choosing the date far ahead of time will become a permanent feature of the council's activities and is designed to elim inate the confusion which has often resulted due to conflicting dates according to russell it will allow the committee in charge a free rein from the beginning of school in september the plan re sulted from a suggestion by dean wray h congdon tentative date chosen a purely tentative date has been chosen on oct 25-27 the week end of the hampton-sydney foot ball game arrangements will be definitely settled in the near fu ture according to russell plans for cooperative coal buy ing by lehigh fraternities as pre sented to the council by a coal company representative a dollar per ton was offered if enough fra ternities take up his offer the plan will enable the coal company to operate during the summer months and to supply the contract ing houses with their winter coal the plan was referred to the various house meetings a report will be called for from each rep resentative at the next meeting of the council annual election of officers will take place at the next regular in terfraternity council meetings scheduled for april 8 stated russ ell the men who will be selected will take office immediately and will hold automatic membership in the council during the following school year terms of the present members expire early next fall d t d tomorrow 3b richards to oppose m e instructor engaged dale h gramley associate pro fessor of journalism and grand president of pi delta epsilon na tional honorary journalism frater nity will address the combined pi delta epsilon chapters of lehigh and moravian college for women at 7:30 p m tomorrow at the alpha epsilon pi sorority house on the moravian campus according to howard m conner arts 40 president of the lehigh chapter the heads of the publica tions of both schools will speak briefly on their respective publi cations and the publications part in campus affairs students who will represent le high are fred e galbraith arts 40 editor-in-chief of the brown and white howard j lewis arts 40 editor of the lehigh review otto v norvig i e 40 business manager of the epitome and carl r fittkau arts 40 editorial man ager of the freshman handbook miss jane burkholder president of the moravian chapter is ar ranging a display of the publica tions of both schools which will be exhibited at the meeting seven lehigh men were injured five of them seriously in automo bile accidents over the past week end during excursions to syracuse n v and new york city a car containing roderick o symmes eng 43 freeman p mc kay eng 43 and two compan ions collided with another auto mobile shortly after midnight sat urday morning on park avenue new york city symmes was taken to a nearby hospital and there is receiving treatment for a concus sion of the brain mckay has re turned to bethlehem but suffered the loss of several teeth and re ceived minor injuries cars collide near ithaca sunday morning just outside ithaca , n v on the road to syr acuse a car with alexander m craig bus 41 hazen p chase bus 41 and theodore g scott met e 42 collided head-on with another automobile on an icy pave ment two cornell men who were accompanying them were unhurt but chase is under observation in an ithaca hospital scott and craig have returned to bethlehem with minor injuries john h bryan i e 41 and william b mcclenachan arts 42 were seriously hurt when their car was hit by another care late sun day morning 16 miles outside of syracuse n v as they were ap plying chains the lehigh boys car had been sideswiped just previously due to the slippery road conditions and the crash came when they had stopped to put on their chains bryan and mcclenachan who were behind the car are under observation in a syracuse hospital r scott barker bus 42 and two other passengers have returned to the campus unhurt the engagement of miss arlene lynn to joel f bailey instructor in mechanical engineering was announced sunday air hostess club president find agreeable topic richard b moyer phys 41 will speak on the colle system and maynard g arsove eng 43 will present a short analysis of the french defense at the chess club meeting to be held at 7:30 p m friday in drown hall aero club hears air line hostess tri-college flying meet plans are discussed p l g hasskarl safety engin eer for the pennsylvania power and light company will present a demonstration lecture entitled safety measures employed against electrical accidents un der the auspices of the electrical enginering society at 8 o'clock thursday evening in packard au ditorium it was announced today by arthur s mickley e e 40 president of the society hasskarl who has been with the p p and l since 1926 is in charge of the entire accident pre vention program of the company he was previously associated with the bell telephone company of pennsylvania before going to the p p and l and is a past presi dent of the lehigh valley safety council he also nolds membership in various committees of the na tional safety council 20-foot pole to be used three men will assist hasskarl in demonstrating his lecture they are c w muehlberger safety in structor and william talbot and daniel goodman lineman these men will actually set up a 20-foot pole on the stage complete with cross-arms and wiring on which they will demonstrate the methods described in hasskarl's lecture a feature of the meeting will be a demonstration of pole-top re suscitation methods in which an unconscious lineman will be treated for electric shock while still on the pole the program is open to all stu dents according to mickley frank h bailey ch e 41 was elected captain of next season's varsity wrestling team to succeed harold j masem arts 40 it was announced at the annual banquet tendered the team by r a lewis general manager of bethlehem steel company last evening at the saucon valley country club close to 100 guests heard billy sheridan coach of wrestling for the past 29 years laud this year's team for the courage and spirit of determination displayed in the eastern intercollegiate wrestling tournament during the past week end sheridan also stated that wrestling teams from colleges and universities entered in the national intercolegiate championships from this section should represent the east in an effort to boost the pres tige of wrestling arthur g byrne arts 43 un defeated member of the freshman team during the past campaign was awarded the r a lewis tro phy for being the outstanding freshman wrestler this year in making the presentation mr lew is expressed the hope that byrne will live up to the standards of competition set by james reed 24 the first recipient of the cup lincoln congratulates team congratulations were bestowed upon the team by clifford f lin coln 11 president of the lehigh alumni association glen w har meson director of intercollegiate athletics howard r reiter pro fessor of physical education will iam a cornelius executive secre tary-treasurer of the lehigh alumni association clifford gal lagher coach of wrestling at la fayette college ho well scobey 36 coach of wrestling at muhlenberg college and vincent pazzetti 13 toastmaster president c c williams ex pressed the hope that lehigh wrestling teams of the future may carry on with the same spirit of competition and sportsmanship which has been displayed during the past decade bailey came to lehigh in the fall of 1937 after winning letters in football basketball and track at the hamburg n y high school he was a member of the national honor society at lehigh he has earned numerals for competition on the freshman wrestling and track teams byrne captained the football and wrestling teams of great neck n y high school be fore entering lehigh last fall the history and development of continued on page four 50 hear leonard address honorary 2nd arcadia dance attracts 50 couples 2 house affairs weekend activities include finals in the competition for the williams debating prize will be at 7:30 p m tomorrow in the browsing room of the library the two contesting teams which will take part in this debate are those representing delta tau delta and richards house section 38 the richards house team con sisting of robert d eitner e e 42 and william f boore met e 42 was the victor in a debate with the price hall team wednesday evening price hall was repre sented by robert f koenig met e 40 and russel kowalyshyn arts 40 the second debate of the even ing was won by john d wooters bus 41 and robert p whipple eng 43 of delta tau delta who defeated the alpha kappa pi team of howard v donahoe arts 41 and richard m shepherd ch e 41 the question for debate in these as well as next wednesday's debates was resolved that a new deal president be elected in november judges for wednesday's debate were mr h d randall coach of debating at bethlehem high school elwood prestwood debating coach at slatington high school and paul kauffman debating coach at pamerton high school eleven members and two guests of the lehigh aeronautical society heard a talk by miss sylvia lee united airline hostess concerning the routine of flight duties regu lations and amusing incidents of an airline hostess at a meeting wednesday in room 210 chem istry building plans for a tri-collegiate flying meet with the university of penn sylvania perm state and lehigh were discussed during the meeting the club is also planing to send several of its members to the ann ual national collegiate flying meet according to gilbert p haven bus 42 vice-president of the society interview seniors haven also announced a meet ing of the club on april 10 a guest speaker is to be present and sound movies are to be given by the american airlines win college posts assistantships to be given ryan morse csellak u s steel perm r.r have representatives here four interviews were held last week for seniors of all curricula announced e robins morgan di rector of the placement bureau the u s steel corporation had six representatives interviewing arts men business men and engin eers a representative of the dayton power and light company inter viewed electrical engineers arts and business men were interview ed by j s kemper and company the pennsylvania power and light company held interviews on saturday for all seniors this morning the pennsylvania rail road's representative interviewed electrical engineers over fifty couples were present at the second arcadia dance last friday evening from 9 o'clock un til 12 in the armory the music was provided by the lehigh col legians student dance band the success of this dance will make another one possible in the near future according to wallace p watkins bus 40 chairman of the arcadia committee on student activities it is likely that an other such dance will take place during the first week-end in april he stated chaperones were dr and mrs claude g beardslee two hundred couples attended the combined pi kappa alpha and alpha kappa pi dance held sat urday evening in the main dining room of the hotel bethlehem harry romig and piff moore's or chestra furnished the music chap erones were captain and mrs benjamin s mesick and prof and mrs alexander w luce the annual house dance of delta tau delta took place saturday evening in the chapter house about 100 couples were present and danced to the music of george craig's orchestra chaperones were prof and mrs howard j godfrey and mr and mrs lan jdon c dow brown and white stag photo | bers in her talk miss lee told of the daily incidents in the work of an airline hostess explained her duties and the rules that must be obeyed in air liners james f ryan jr norman l morse and william r csellak senior chemical engineers have received graduate assistantships for next year according to dr harvey a neville head of the de partment of chemistry ryan will work toward his ph d at cornell and morse will do graduate work at the university of rochester csellak will go to the institute of paper chemistry in wisconsin this institute is asso ciated with lawrence college and avails graduate students of the op portunity to both work and study during their year of graduate work approximately 50 freshman members and guests attended the pledging exercises of 11 freshmen to phi eta sigma freshman hon orary scholastic fraternity friday evening in room 466 packard lab oratory dr harold v anderson associate professor of chemistry and nelson j leonard 37 rhodes scholar were the guest speakers anderson opened the meeting with the history of the society and told of its importance to lehigh leonard who recently returned from europe because of the war presented motion pictures of his travels in europe and his two years at oxford he gave a talk to ac company the movies the freshman pledged included maynard g arsove eng lynn c bartlett arts frank h bower eng william c bowerj eng stanley caplan eng wheeler gilmore jr eng ludwig e go dycki eng walter r hoerner bus isaac m hunsberger eng walter s titlow jr eng and ed ward h fehnel eng o tone to hold music quiz tone honorary musical society will hold a musical quiz meet ing at 7:30 p m friday in pack er memorial chapel all students are invited to the meeting which is in charge of frederick r gilmore arts 41 vice president miss sylvia lee air line hostess who was the guest speaker at the aero club's meeting last week tells alexander m craig bus 41 president of the group an amusing experience which she evidently did not reveal to the rest of the flying club's mem lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday march 12 1940 to discuss democracy sophs to meet thursday wrestlers captain price — five cents matmen elect frank bailey 1941 captain musical show to be given at singing club the sophomore class will meet at 4 p m thursday in packard auditorium plans for a class banquet will be discus sed arthur byrne awarded r a lewis freshman wrestling trophy maennerchor auditorium to be site of revue by hughes weiss auto crashes injure 7 men to select date of fall prom during spring interfraternity council takes responsibility of houseparty date 100 attend banquet z 612 member intercollegiate newspaper association r tnw auth *- lehigh news firgt