Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 41

              developed champions to talk in packard lab university is sponsor and white will be edited by the staff of the libertas a quarter ly publication at liberty high school santa m maxwell manag ing editor of the publication will supervise the task of putting out one issue of the brown and white tomorrow morning the maga zine staff will be conducted on a tour of the campus by the regular reporters covering their beats news obtained on this tour of beats will be written up by the visiting staff sunday night in the brown and white news room will feature colored lights peter j morrissey new fellowship is established bad news goes only to homes and living group heads due to spring vacation fraternity men lead with 346 town group is 2nd chemical engineering sent out 88 industrial engineering 72 electri cal engineering 59 metallurgical engineering 39 civil engineering 28 chemistry 16 mining engineer ing 15 and engineering physics 13 average there have been only two years since 1931 that the spring valen tines exceeded 741 and that was in 1932 and 1939 although there were 57 less valentines issued this semester than last the total is 44 over the average number for the past ten-year period however the student body at lehigh has in creased in number since 1934 and at present there are 1743 students enrolled this is 30 less than last spring and second largest enroll ment in the ten years from 1931 the average has been 1457 for this period therefore at present there are 286 more students than the campus swing will have improved atmosphere at tonight's affair a total of 741 valentines 57 less than in the spring of last year were sent to students homes this year according to dean wray h congdon no students actually re ceived valentines this semester be cause vacation came immediately after mid-semester examinations instead reports were sent home to parents and also to living group heads fraternity men received 346 warnings of scholastic deficiency the largest number in the three living groups the town group was second receiving 261 and the dormitory men received only 134 the business college issued the highest number of warnings of any curriculum when they sent out 190 79 more than the department of mechanical engineering which sent out 111 one less or 110 were sent out by the college of arts and science the department of oberlin choir attracts 800 faculty told applications for admission show 20 per cent rise frosh banquet deadline is extended to monday 40 men women present program composed of liturgical music the deadline for the sale of tickets to the freshman banquet to be held thursday evening in the masonic temple has been extended to 2 o'clock monday afternoon lynn c bartlett arts 43 chairman of the ban quet committee announced to day tickets have also been put on sale at the supply bureau and at the arcadia office in drown hall for the convenience of those freshman who have been unable to obtain tickets fraternities elect next year heads announce officers sigma nu alpha chi rho pan americanism faces a world war will be the topic of a lecture by dr samuel guy inman professor of international relations at the university of pennsylvania at 8:15 p m tuesday april 9 in packard auditorium the lecture announced by george d harmon assistant professor of american history is presented by the uni versity the occasion for dr inman's address is to observe the 50th an niversary of the founding of the pan american union according to harmon dr in man is america's foremost auth ority on the subject of latin am erica and her people dr inman was born in texas and educated at columbia univer sity he lived in mexico for ten years and while there he founded and directed the people's institute he has visited latin america an nually during the past 26 years having recently returned from mexico dr inman attended the fifth pan american peace conference at santiago chile in 1923 and has attended every one since that time he was an advisor to the united states delegation at the buenos aires peace conference in 1936 as a lecturer dr inman has had much experience he has lectured in almost every important univer sity in hispanic america in ad dition he has lectured t many important universities within the united states such as yale texas pennsylvania columbia welles ley peabody and vassar he has written at least a dozen volumes on latin america his latest volume is entitled latin america its place in world af fairs major george fielding eliot one of the foremost ranking military experts of the world and author of several books will speak on april 26 in packard auditorium under the auspices of scabbard and blade according to otto v nor vig i e 40 president the lecture on current military problems will be open to the pub lic without charge students may receive tickets for themselves and one guest at the office of the regis trar in the alumni memorial building major eliot recently signed a contract with the new york herald tribune for three weekly articles on the current european war and from time to time will have a fea ture article on the progress of the conflict in life magazine in addition to his writing he will continue his war broadcasts for the columbia network twice weekly at the present time his volume entitled ramparts we watch is being filmed by the march of time as the first feature film ever made by this production unit fought in world war he was born in brooklyn n y his family moved to australia so that in his youth he fought with the australian forces overseas dur ing the world war in 1922 he re turned to the united states and since that time has become a prom inent figure in the military intel ligence division of the united states army major eliot was educated at trinity college and the university of melbourne he is a member of the united states infantry asso ciation army ordnance associa tion military intelligence reserve society united states naval insti tute american military historical foundation foreign policy associ ation institute of pacific relations and the american geographical society colored lights will be installed in the armory in order to improve the atmosphere of campus swing third informal arcadia dance to be held tomorrow night from 9 until 12 announced the committee in charge according to the members of the committee the affair tomorrow night should be the most successful of the series thus far because campus swing is better known around the university there will be no other events conflicting with the dance and the weather ought to be better admission will be 50 cents per couple or 35 cents stag the lehigh collegians student dance orchestra under the leader ship of edgar c slack arts 41 will play the collegians who have played at several lehigh functions have left their job at the hotel traylor in allentown to ob tain a better position playing wed nesdays and saturdays at the ed dy side near easton slack announced that the col legians have been booked at har cum junior college on april 13 and at allentown high school april 26 arcadia hopes that there will be another dance later in the spring and that campus swing will be come a traditional event at lehigh chaperones at the dance will be dr and mrs clarence h danhof journalists make washington trip students study coverage of the capitol's press junior ordnance students inspect picatiny arsenal trip taken by 20 to inspect plants a program of liturgical music presented by the oberlin college a cappella choir tuesday evening in packer memorial chapel drew an audience of about 800 under the direction of harold e decker the choir composed of about 40 men and women presented a pro gram which included the following compositions aeterna christi munera by palestrina hodie christus natus est sweelinck agnus dei by kalinnikof bach's all breathing life bendictus by paladihle beautiful saviour usually known as the crusaders hymn shvedof's we have no other guide der herr ist mem hirt by schreck benedictus and hosanna by lockwood and the three kings described as a catalonian nativity song the choir in an attempt to re store music to its original place presents programs which are al most entirely liturgical the music sung ranged from that of very an cient origin to that of contempor ary composers peter j morrissey swimming coach was elected president of the college swimming coaches asso ciation of america last saturday following the national collegiate swimming championships held at yale university he succeeds m j kennedy of amherst college in presenting morrissey's name for unanimous election matt mann swimming coach at the university of michigan hailed the lehigh mentor as one of the pion eers in collegiate swimming parti cipation and competition mann's citation praised morrissey for his spirit of sportsmanship and tra dition during the past 25 years a member of the eastern dis trict olympic swimming and wrestling committees in 1920 1924 and 1928 morrissey has develop ed 14 eastern intercollegiate swim ming association titleholders at lehigh since 1927 he has served as executive secretary-treasurer of the eastern intercollegiate asso ciation he was one of the found ers and organizers of the national collegiate life-saving society conducted aquatic forum in 1934 he conducted the first inter-sectional swimming meet in the nation this aquatic forum was held at the university of miami with four colleges participating since then collegiate swimming teams representing 42 states and 10 foreign countries have joined in the annual program held at fort lauderdale florida other officers elected at the meeting last week included r w mccaffrey of lowa state and e w mcgillviny of the university of chicago as vice presidents and henry ortland of the united states naval academy as executive sec retary-treasurer the organization voted plaques to david armbruster of the uni versity of iowa james h reilly of rutgers university and s c hazleton of dartmouth in recogni tion of a quarter of a century de voted to coaching swimmers paul w lukens of hibbing minn high school was named president of the national interscholastic swimming coaches electrical engineers see westinghouse wor physics teachers attend conference 89 from state meet here for 2 day convention twenty-five juniors enrolled in the advanced ordnance course vis ited picatiny arsenal near dover n j tuesday on the annual ord nance inspection trip to this arse nal the trip was under the direc tion of captain benjamin s me sick assistant professor of military science and tactics the day long schedule included visits to several divisions of this army manufacturing plant sec tions visited were the powder plant complete rounds division the testing station chemical labor atories and the propellant charge and general loading divisions sigma nu and alpha chi rho social fraternities announced the results of their elections this week officers of sigma nu are roy s zachary arts 41 commander john attwood arts 41 it com mander robert everett arts 42 recorder barnett bowser bus.'43 house manager d lindsay hume i e 42 assistant house manager william mainwaring met e 42 chaplain robert lees i e 42 marshal and robert clark i e 42 sentinel alpha chi rho elected the fol lowing men john h mathewson ch e 41 president cephas c smith bus 41 vice president frederick f kramer bus 41 sec retary kern c badger bus 41 treasurer raymond c huntoon ch e 41 commissarian david r smith e e 42 chapter corres pondent albert w foster bus 42 ritual officer and albert w hess met e 41 chaplain frosh picture rescheduled because members of the class of 1943 proved to be so camera shy that not one showed up at noon to day for the class picture robert good editor of the 1940 epitome has arranged for a picture to be taken at 12:05 p m monday on the east steps of the alumni mem orial building good is desirous of having all freshmen present for the picture which will be used in the 1940 epitome senior e e.'s take annual inspection trip in new york a new industrial research fel lowship in chemistry and chemical engineering was announced by a copeland callen dean of the col lege of engineering at a faculty meeting last monday afternoon in the faculty room of the alumni building the new fellowship is being established by the corn products refining corporation and investigation will be under the di rection of edwin r theis pro fessor of chemical engineering it was announced at the same meeting that the number of appli cations for admission in septem ber is 20 per cent higher at pres ent than at this same time last year the faculty voted that five games of freshman soccer with no more than three away would be permitted and that six games of freshman tennis with no more than four away would be allowed president clement c williams announced the completion of next year's budget and added that he regretted it was not possible to in clude all recommendations philip m palmer dean of the college of arts and science re ported that dr tomlinson fort head of the department of mathe matics had been the guest speaker of the 18th annual conference of the southeastern section of the mathematical association of amer ica held at the university of georgia on march 29 and 30 dr fort presented two papers and a dinner was given in his honor dean callen reported that dr charles c bidwell head of the department of physics and his staff were hosts on march 29 and 30 to the pennsylvania college teachers physics conference there were 87 registrants from out of town it was also announced that ar thur e pitcher assistant profes sor of mathematics is lecturing each week at the institute of ad vanced study at princeton univer sity the secretary read a proclama tion by governor james in which he designated yesterday as free school day an announcement was made that there would be a meeting of the faculty education club next monday at 4:15 p m at that time there would be a dis cussion on how i examine and why to hold ceremony military club to sponsor army day services eighty-nine out-of-town teach ers registered for the pennsylvania physics teachers conference which met here on march 29 and 30 dr charles c bidwell head of the de partment of physics announced wednesday packard laboratory was completely filled the first night of the conference when dr j o perrine assistant vice-presi dent of the american telephone and telegraph company spoke on waves wires and words the following morning packard laboratory was again crowded for the delivery of five papers in a symposium on geophysics talks were given by dr benjamin l miller professor of geology and dr maurice ewing assistant pro fessor of physics in addition pa pers were delivered by dr will iam bowie 95 of the united states coast and geodetic survey and by nicholas heck 03 2 fraternities will hold house dances tomorrow the lamp division of the west inghouse manufacturing company at bloomfield n j was the first industrial plant visited by 20 sen ior electrical engineers and two members of the electrical engin eering department on the annual senior inspection trip held from march 20 to 23 inclusive after lunching as guests of the westinghouse company the group traveled to ampere n j where an inspection of the crocker wheeler manufacturing company was made in the evening a tour of radio city music hall was made the following day was spent vis iting the public service gas and electric company and the bayonne plant of the general cable corpor ation the american telephone and telegraph company was inspected and lunch eaten at the company cafeteria on friday in the after noon the steamship new amster dam one of the newest afloat was inspected the group visited the wor playhouse in the evening to see the broadcast of colonel stoop nagle's quicksidoodle quiz pro gram on saturday morning the engin eering building of the american institute of electrical engineering was inspected as well as the broad casting and television studios of the national broadcasting comp any a trip to the press galleries of the senate and of the house of representatives luncheon at the national press club and a tour of the offices of the washington bur eau of the associated press featur ed a field trip to washington d c taken this week by ten students interested in journalism accompanied by dale h gram ley university news editor and by kenneth k kost instructor in journalism the group spent last monday tuesday and wednesday in washington on monday morning the group visited the washington bureau of the new york times and the offi ces of thomas shipp and company public relations counsel fred morhart 31 a reporter on the washington star was host at a luncheon at the press club fol lowing the luncheon the offices of the washington star and of the washington bureau of the associ ated press were visited a trip to the offices of the fed eral bureau of investigation to the offices of francis e walter cong ressman from this district and to the press and radio galleries of the house of representatives took place on tuesday the group visited the national archives building the offices of the democratic national commit tee and the senate press gallery on the last day of the trip next year the students in journalism will make a trip to new york city innoculations will start congdon attends meeting retreat ceremonies at the flag pole tomorrow army day will be participated in by company a special drill unit of the rotc col joseph s leonard head of the department of military science and tactics announced this week the program to be sponsored by scabbard and blade will begin at 5 p m and will last 15 or 20 min utes ceremonies will include reading of the president's proclamation the retreat call call to colors and the lowering of the flag the stu dent body and the public are in vited to attend vincent joseph and his orches tra will play for the alpha tau omega dance tomorrow night in the chapter house mr and mrs thomas jackson will chaperone the affair which is in charge of robert f ryan bus 42 sigma alpha mv is holding a ra dio dance tomorrow night in charge of which is aaron finger ch e 40 mr and mrs carl f strauch will chaperone the affair the second series of typhoid fever innoculations will start to morrow dr raymond c bull di rector of the health service an nounced he stated that 119 stu dents have registered for the inn oculations which will be given to morrow on april 13 and an april 20 approximately 208 students took the first series dean wray h congdon attend ed the 179 th district meeting of the rotary international monday at the hill school he represented the bethlehem club of which he is president this year a group of senior electrical engineers are shown above at the national headquarters of the american institute of electrical engineers during their recent inspection trip to new york seated left to right are arthur s mickley chair man of the lehigh branch h h henline national secretary of the a.1.e.e and g ross henninger editor of electrical engineering henninger has just shown his visitors the layout for the may issue of electrical engineering which will feature elec trical illuminations at the world's fair standing are william d green robert r godard wenceslao j contreras henry c knutson hulme w thomas thomas b woods frank g stein - brucker robert j seugling josef sofsky edward c james louis h feher joseph l serrill gilbert p cardwell harold c hixson and prof nelson s hibshman bethlehem pa friday april 5 1940 741 valentines are issued 57 less than last spring will edit issue price — five cents lehigh university brown and white swim coach honored vol xlvii — no 41 samuel inman will discuss pan america high school journalists to publish b & w tuesday's issue of the brown war problems will be topic of major eliot coaches elect morrissey as new president military expert's lecture to be open to public friday april 26 talk will commemorate union's anniversary ; to be tuesday lehigh swimming mentor is chosen head by collegiate group z 612 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first — — — _ i