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              parents of students who are be low passing in one or more sub jects will not be so fortunate however because a new rule now in force does not apply to them according to the new scheme the dean said mid-semester ex aminations come immediately prior to spring vacation the former precedent of sending a copy of a valentine to a student at his beth lehem address is therefore un necessary a valentine report will however be sent home to parents and a copy of the same will be mailed to each living group head the above oberlin college a capella choir of 40 mixed voices will sing at 8:15 p m on tuesday april 2 in packer memorial chapel the program is being presented by tone honor ary musical society in cooperation with the beth lehem friends of music it will be the second time in three years that the choir has sung at lehigh they will sing selections which range in style from the music of the 16th century to compositions by outstanding contemporary composers king wins 5 review prize symphony is student wish typhoid innoculations to be given on april 6 visit embassy in washington lecture series committee may present concert during next year model peace conference delegates meet with danish minister build a machine is best short story in last 2 magazine issues two hundred and eight stu dents took the first series of in noculations and 110 have signed to take this one any additional students who wish to take the innoculations should sign up in the dispensary the second series of typhoid innoculations will be given on april 6 13 and 20 at the dis pensary according to dr ray mond c bull director of the student health service collegians to give campus swing twenty-four members of the senior class were initiated into the lehigh chapter of phi beta kappa on wednesday afternoon in the faculty room in the alumni mem orial building the formal initia tion dinner will be held on april 26 in easton the speaker will be dr paul huchtinson managing editor of the christian century during the course of the meet ing dr w n schwarze president of moravian college for men was made an honorary member of the national scholastic fraternity off icers for the year 1940-41 were elected the new officers are prof frank c becker president prof j b severs vice-president dean p.m palmer secretary and prof r b cowin treasurer dean palmer and prof r p more were elected delegates to the twentieth triennial convention of the fraternity to be held in san francisco from aug 28 to sept 1 dr hucthinson speaker at the banquet is an editor and author he was graduated from lafayette college in 1911 with the degree of bachelor of philosophy from 1916 to 1921 he was the editor of the china christian advocate in shanghai since 1924 he has been the managing editor of the christ ian century he is vice-president of the willett clark publishing company and is a member of sigma alpha epsilon social fra ternity 542 men apply to enter lehigh fraternities can obtain list at admissions office in order to review the policies of denmark and thus better rep resent lehigh at the model peace conference at hobart college ge neva n v on march 28-30 three student delegates visited the dan ish embassy in washington the group discussed the danish outlook on the international sit uation with hendrick de kauff mann danish minister to the united states and his attachee bang-jensen the danish government be lieves that any international or ganization formed for facilitating international relations trade and economic problems would be sup ported by that government if at all feasible denmark also favors the lowering of tariffs to aid foreign trade stated john f hamblin arts 41 chairman of the delega tion to the conference twenty-seven colleges and uni versities will send delegations to the conference each representing a nation at the conference the representatives will attempt to ar rive at principles for a permanent world peace based on the discus sions in the model league members of the delegation will include hamblin chester c bald win i e 41 and welles r bliss arts 42 wilson l godshall as sistant professor of diplomatic his tory and international relations will also attend herbert l king jr arts 40 author of build a machine a short story that will appear in the next issue of the lehigh review is the winner of 5 for the best short story submitted to the re vie win tfte past two copies of that publication king's story will be entered in the national short story contest sponsored by redbook magazine which will appear the week following spring vacation contains the story of a lehigh stu dent who flunks out of school at the end of his freshman year the saga of wilbur macgonigle was written by howard j lewis arts 40 editor of the publication and was illustrated by richard s gow dy bus 40 carl h fittkau arts 40 has contributed laughing boy a personality sketch of eric weiss graduate student and author of the new lehigh show to be held at the maennerchor i like the smoky taste by vernon groff reporter for the bethlehem globe times will ap pear as a special feature of the re view it is the story of two young fellows who go out on a drunk two other short stories have also been accepted coroner's verdict by edwin h klein arts 42 and pomp and circumstance by da vid g deßeauchamp arts 40 editor lewis stated there will also be a bevy of jokes and car toons from the leading gagazines in the country in an effort to comply with the requests of students for a concert by a symphony orchestra as one of the programs on the student concert-lecture series the com mittee is at the present time con sidering the possibility of present ing such an affair next season symphony orchestras ranked high in favor in a poll conducted two years ago among the student body a similar poll in 1936 un der the auspices of the cleaver musical foundation showed that a program of this type was favored over lectures drama dancing and other musical programs the high price of a symphonic attraction is not in harmony with the limited budget under which the concert-lecture committee is forced to work according to rich ard c kelley ch e 40 chair man of the committee kelley declared that it would be impossible to bring to lehigh a symphony orchestra of approxi mately 100 pieces but that the present committee may be success ful in bringing an orchestra of 40 to 50 first-class men here for a concert after a tentative survey of stu dent interest in attractions held during the past three years it was shown that entertainment features were more popular than lectures with the student audiences in planning the program for next year the committee will try to ar range a program based on atten dance during the past few years seniors hear lambert arcadia plans to sponsor third dance april 5 campus swing arcadia-spon sored dance will again be present ed by the lehigh collegians on friday april 5 in the armory the third campus swing which will be informal will be chaper oned by dr and mrs clarence h danhof according to the committee the success of the last dance should assure campus swing a per manent place on the campus ev ery year attendance at the last dance approximately doubled that of the first of the series the lehigh collegians orchestra a student operated and managed organization has been playing at the hotel traylor in allentown for the past two months the group has played at various college dances throughout eastern penn sylvania last summer a part of the collegians played on the liner bremen on one of its crossings to europe edgar c slack arts 41 was recently elected leader of the orchestra he replaced jacob s hartzell bus 40 returning for the second time in three years the oberlin college a cappella choir of 40 voices will sing at 8:15 p m tuesday april 2 in packer memorial chapel the program will be given under the auspices of tone honorary musical society in cooperation with the bethlehem friends of music the concert will be open to the public and a collection will be tak en near the conclusion of the pro gram the program which the choir will sing ranges in style from the music of the 16th century to out standing contemporary composers palestrina who has been called the greatest exponent of church music in the 16th century will be represented by his choral work aeterna christi munera excerpts from the array of christmas music of all ages will be found in jan sweelinck's hodie christus natus est andl the cata lan folk choral the three kings as arranged by romeu to sing 23rd psalm from the works of the early spanish choralist vittoria the choir sings caligaverunt oculi mci in addition to bach's all breathing life we have no other guide by shvedof will be sung from the compositions of the russian literature contrast of treatment will be shown in two settings of benedic tus one by the 19th century com poser paladihle and another by the contemporary american composer normand lockwood other compositions to be includ ed will be a setting of the 23rd psalm in german the crusaders hymn and a hosanna by lock wood miss zuck is soloist miss mildred zuck a native of erie will appear as soprano solo ist with the choir miss zuck is a senior at oberlin and president of the oberlin chapter of the asso ciation for childhood education director of the choir is harold a decker graduate of morning side college with his master of mu sic degree from oberlin in addi tion to directing the a cappella choir decker is a teacher of sing ing and directs the elizabethan singers and other vocal ensembles in the oberlin conservatory of music in recent years the choir has taken extensive tours through the east and mid-west jersey club plans dance will pick officers alumni to choose leaders through mail ballots 2 men are found guilty of copying newtonian inducts robert lambert director of per sonnel of the r k laros silk company speaks to senior every monday at 7:5 p m in packard auditorium his talks given in co-operation with the placement bureau are devoted to helping sen iors obtain positions according to harold weiner bus 40 mr lam bert's next talk will be given on april 1 the northern new jersey le high club will hold its second ann ual spring dance on april 13 at the rock spring country club west orange n j it was announced by a h loux 35 secretary charlie manners and his orchestra will supply the music the office of admissions has an nounced that there were 542 ap plications for admission up to march 13 as compared with 389 last year at the same time an in crease of 153 the increase in ap plications was attributed to the urgings of the office of admission to apply early the list of appli cants is available to all fraternities at the office of admissions the applicants are from 323 high and preparatory schools and the number of freshmen admitted will be limited to 500 as compared with 475 admitted last year at present there are students in lehigh from 29 states washing ton d c and 6 foreign countries while in 1939 there were students from only 20 states and the dis trict of columbia takes 33 members honorary math society 55th group of engineers pledged by tau beta pi a ballot to be used by alumni to elect officers of the alumni as sociation for 1940-41 will be dis tributed next week it will in clude a ticket drawn up by the association's nominating commit tee a president two vice presidents and an alumnus trustee will be chosen after a vote by mail is completed the committee under the chairmanship of robert farn ham 99 nominated the following alumni alfred v bodine,'ls pres ident george s baton 94 and walter f perkins 13 vice pres idents walter s landis 02 alum nus trustee officers are elected for one year with the exception of the six al umnus trustees who are elected for a term of six years a new member being elected each year journalism society to pick new members at meeting dean wray h congdon today disclosed that the committee on discipline had taken action this week in the case of two under graduates found guilty of violat ing university regulations con cerning cheating a student was dropped from english 0 and denied any credit for the course for writing a theme ahead of time and copying it in class another was found guilty of copying a problem in math 20 mechanics during an hour quiz commenting on the latter case the dean declared because this misdemeanor was unpremeditated and not in character with the stu dent's conduct to date the com mittee voted to drop him from the course without credit instead of suspending him from the univer sity the student who provided help is also to be disciplined with the nature of the punishment de pending on further investigation of the case thirty-three new members were initiated into the newtonian soci ety honorary freshman mathema tics group at a meeting last night in room 66 of packard laboratory several other men who are eligible for membership but who were un able to attend last night will be initiated in the near future frank h bower eng 43 was elected president maynard g ar sove eng 43 vice-president and walter s titlow jr eng 43 sec retary for the coming year the meeting was presided over by edward f bodine m e 42 who spoke on mathematical pro digies describing some of the ex traordinary feats of mental math ematical calculation accomplished by certain men who have been found to possess unusual facilities for solving mathematical problems keron m manion ch e 41 the second speaker of the evening dis cussed the philosophy of mathe matics tau beta pi national honorary engineering society tapped five seniors and ten juniors yesterday afternoon before the memorial to dr edward h williams founder of the society according to edward g uhl physics 40 president the 15 men listed below were elected to the society last monday evening following a smoker held in drown hall dr benjamin l miller professor of geology and friend of the founder gave a short address at the pledging pertaining to the history of tau beta pi the following five seniors were pledged chester c baldwin i e pres ident of pi tau sigma omicron delta kappa interfraternity coun cil president of international re lations club business manager of mustard and cheese manager of freshman baseball band two years and president of sigma phi social fraternity william f carson jr ch e treasurer of freshman union 37 freshman honors pi mv epsilon phi eta sigma president of the newtonian society 37 and theta xi social fraternity robert a cary met e vice president of the interdormitory council freshman union 36 and 37 dean's list one year and a member of the lehigh-bethlehem chapter of the army ordnance walter r catching c e fresh man basketball 36 and 37 soph omore track graduation commit tee guard 38 and vice president 38 and 39 of sigma phi epsilon social fraternity robert f koenig met e dean's list one year williams prize in in tramural debating 38 awarded a medal for outstanding service in the r o t c newtonian society pi mv epsilon and intercollegiate debating 38 and 39 the following ten juniors were pledged frederic n bahnson phys newtonian society symphony or chestra one year band two years williams prize in debating 38 dean's list 39 secretary and treas urer of delta omicron theta 39 and 40 treasurer of physics soci ety 39 and 40 vice-president of town group j in 39 and 40 richard m dietz m e fresh man honors cheerleader president of phi eta sigma and tau delta phi social fraternity philip g foust jr ch.e fresh man and sophomore honors wil bur prize in freshman mathema tics newtonian society glee club three years pi mv epsilon and phi eta sigma edward d hems m e fresh man and sophomore honors dean's list 40 band one year newtonian society pi mv epsilon phi eta sigma and junior prom commit tee stephen kowalyshyn jr e e freshman and sophomore honors wilbur prize in freshman english dean's list 40 phi eta sigma e e society and delta omicron theta john d mettler jr ch.e fresh man and sophomore honors dean's list 40 newtonian society phi eta sigma and pi mv epsilon clarence g reber m.e fresh man and sophomore honors dean's list 40 glee club one year new tonian society and pi tau sigma richard m shepherd ch e freshman honors historian of alpha phi omega debating and treasurer of alpha kappa pi social fraternity harold h werft em fresh man and sophomore honors dean's list 40 and baseball two years allen h zane jr i e fresh man honors dean's list 40 junior manager of hockey phi eta sigma pi tau sigma and delta sigma phi social fraternity fraternity to hold dance to entertain senior class carrington 39 to marry malcolm carrington 39 will be married to margaret sterrett of bethlehem on april 27 in the pro cathedral church of the nativity in bethlehem president and mrs clement c williams will entertain the mem bers of the senior class from 3 to 5 p m on sunday april 7 at their home invitations will be assued after the spring vacation the 55th group of lehigh men to be elected to tau beta pi is shown above at the tapping exer cises yesterday afternoon in front of williams hall they are grouped around the memorial to dr ed ward h williams who founded the lehigh chapter in 1885 left to right in the front row are stephen ko walyshyn jr edward d hems frederic n bahn son walter r catching harold h werft richard m shepherd and john d mettler jr in the rear row left to right are clarence g reber chester c baldwin robert a cary allen h zane jr robert f koenig phillip g foust jr richard m dietz and william f carson jr brown and white photo new members will be initiated prior to a banquet to be held some time in april a well known figure in the field of journalism will be the guest speaker announced howard m conner arts 40 pres ident of the society election of new members into pi delta epsilon honorary journal ism society will be held at a meet ing of that group on april 10 men will be admitted on a basis of the point list submitted this week alpha tau omega social frater nity will hold a dance at 10 p m on april 6 in the chapter house robert f ryan bus 42 social chairman announcede one-hund red couples are expected to attend the affair lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday march 22 1940 mixed a capella choir to sing in packer chapel april 2 no valentines vol xlvii — no 40 24 members are inducted by honorary only parents to receive mid-term warnings 15 engineers are pledged by tau bete 10 juniors 5 seniors elected monday to honorary society phi beta kappa chooses f c becker severs as new officers hutchinson is speaker miller gives address tone sponsors concert 40 voice college group to sing on april 2 in packer chapel oberlin choir will present 2nd program price — five cents no student will receive a valen tine this semester dean wray h congdon announced today z tit member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first