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university to act as host to sons and parents coming to campus students to guide group ware made president classes will be held on the afternoon of field day monday may 6 as usual those partici pating in the drill will receive excuses from afternoon classes through the military depart ment cox to receive medal to meet again tuesday junior editorship exams taken by 16 sophs for 5 positions bulletin tells of alumni fund bell 98 praises loyalty of lehigh graduates describes program the program for tomorrow sub-freshman day is as fol lows 9 00 a m registration and campus tours almuni memor ial building 10 15 a m band concert pack ard laboratory 11:00 a.m assembly packard laboratory 11:30 a.m departmental con ferences packard laboratory 12:30 p.m luncheon armory 1:30-3:30 p m departmental visits and demonstrations 2:00 p.m lacrosse — lehigh versus lafayette upper field 2:20 p.m band music and song contests packard lawn 3:00 p.m freshman tennis — lehigh versus lafayette 3:00 p m baseball — lehigh versus rutgers taylor stadium baseball — lehigh freshmen versus pennington school steel field tennis — lehigh versus man hattan steel field 9:00 p.m informal town council dance armory rader to play saturday night town dance will complete sub - frosh activities for tomorrow miss gladys whitaker former member of the radio city rock etts who will take the part of shirley when mustard and cheese presents robert e sherwood's play idiot's delight next friday at broughal high school due to her experience miss whitaker will play the leader of les belles a dance troupe man aged by the play's hero harry van portrayed by nathaniel bris ker bus 40 the action of the play includes a dance routine by brisker and the six girls the dancers under miss whitak er's direction are the misses jean marine bettie sharesky jean wanisko bettie baver and jeanne bradish albert a rights instruc tor in english is director of the play wheeler-bennett speaks at banquet a chapter of phi alpha theta national honorary historical fra ternity was established here on tuesday when the student activi ties committee approved the ac tion the ten charter members in the local chapter held an election at that time the officers of the fraternity are richard a ware arts 41 presi dent walter f daney graduate student vice-president thomas r hunt arts 41 secretary-treasur er the other members are eugene grossman graduate student james f shearer assistant to the regis trar george b curtis registar dr lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and gov ernment john a kaufman arts 41 stephen weinrib arts 41 and raymond r white arts 40 dr george d harmon associate professor of american history is the faculty advisor of the organ ization phi alpha theta was founded at the university of arkansas in 1921 and now includes 24 chapters the installation of the chapter has been tentatively set for may 26 pending the approval of the na tional officers the members of the muhlenberg chapter of phi alpha theta will attend the ceremonies at which donald b hoffman grad uate student and national secre tary-treasurer will preside international club hears talk on present w t ar williams contest finalists chosen 6 extempore speakers survive eliminations more than 800 sub-freshman ac companied by parents and friends are expected to be present on the campus tomorrow as guests of the university for the annual sub freshman day an elaborate pro gram has been prepared for the occasion and this year additional stress will be laid on conferences with the departmental heads and on exhibits by the various colleges sub-freshman day will begin officially at 9 a m when registra tion and tours of the campus will be held under the direction of a number of guides chosen from the student body by the admissions office members of cyanide hon orary junior activities society will form the largest group of the ap pointed guides at 10 15 a m a concert will be given by the university band on packard lawn after which an as sembly will be held in packard laboratory where the sub-fresh men will hear talks by dean wray h congdon president clem ent c williams and alfred t cox c e 40 the remainder of the morning will be devoted to de partmental conferences lunch to be in armory luncheon will be served at the armory and fraternities at 12:30 p m to sub-freshmen their par ents and friends after lunch members of the faculty will be available for conferences and demonstrations for the greater part of the afternoon a band concert and song contest will be given at 2:20 p.m and a reception and tea will be held in drown hall at 3 p m athletic events for the day in clude a lacrosse game with lafay ette at 2 p m a varsity base ball game with rutgers a fresh man baseball game with penning ton and a tennis match with man hattan at 3 p m a h wheeler will speak to mathematics society fifty-three awards will be made during the annual military field day exercises which begin at 1:30 o'clock monday afternoon first call will be at 1:20 p m with the first and second battalions lining up on the lower field and the third battalion on the memorial walk the main awards will be the general j j pershing medal which will be given to alfred t cox c e 40 cadet colonel and two william randolph hearst tro phies which will be presented to the rifle team in recognition of their having won the corps area and national r o t c rifle mat ches major charles d carle has been designated to inspect the unit for an army rating with him as he reviews the unit will be majors lincoln f daniels and will h gordon of lafayette college and colonel f g kellond officer in charge of civilan affairs for the third corps area also in the group will be colonel ralph c bishop of washington d c who will pre sent the pershing medal ther awards will include sec ond lieutenant's insignia scabbard and blade sabres medals for the winners of the manual of arms and machine gun competitions and tro phies to the winners of the com pany close order drill competition and the platoon close order drill competition company a will put on a spe cial exhibition drill which has been pi'epared for the occasion the drill by this company which is uniformed and officered by scab bard and blade will include a sil ent manual and a cadence drill following the exercises colonel and mrs joseph s leonard will have a reception in their home for all seniors in the r o t c major reginald r bacon assist ant professor of military science and tactics announced wednesday that major carle will begin in specting classes on monday morn ing at 8 o'clock and that he will visit at least one section of each course given review to publish exchange issue to feature best fiction of college magazines the town council dance which will complete the list of events to morrow sub freshman day will feature bud rader and his orches tra at the armory from 9 to 12 p m according to george brenker bus 42 chairman of the commit tee arranging the affair the most novel attraction at the dance will be giving away of free cigarettes bud rader played for the first town dance when 170 couples dan ced to make a new record for at tendance at the council dances the orchestra's most recent visit to the campus was during spring houseparty when it played at beta theta pi fraternity the dance committee plans to continue the policy as inaugurated at the last town dance of provid ing free refreshments to all those who attend it was the hope of the commit tee that by choosing sub-freshman day it could make the day more complete by an evening dance to round off the day's activities members of the committee in charge of the arrangements in clude brenker albert ponter jr bus 40 chairman of the decora tions committee william csellak ch e 40 and george gubuzda arts 41 dr and mrs claude g beards lee will be chaperones paid town members will be ad mitted free of charge all others will pay 75 cents whether couple or stag mr a h wheeler of worcester mass will be the speaker at the annual public lecture sponsored by pi mv epsilon honorary mathe matics society at 8 p m this ev ening in room 466 of packard lab oratory the title of mr wheeler's talk is stellated polyhedra which will be supplemented by numerous models a copeland callen dean of the college of engineering will be the guest speaker at the pi mv epsilon banquet at 6:30 p m next wed nesday at the sun inn dr tom linson fort head of the mathemat ics department will also present a short talk on the history of the so ciety new and retiring officers of university band at banquet john wheeler-bennett of the british library of information spoke on england and war at the annual banquet of the inter national relations club last night at the sigma phi chapter house john h hamblin arts 41 presi dent of the club acted as master of ceremonies wheeler-bennet was the former professor of international law at the university of virginia and is now advisor to the british library of information on central euro pean affairs the speaker pointed out that the war was fought by the man of the streets and that it was the man of the streets who wanted hitler to be put down he outlined several different peace proposals and stated germany's war plans leon w godshall associate pro fessor of international relations and club advisor sidney brown professor of european history lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and govern ment and george d harmon as sociate professor of american his tory were faculty members pres ent at the affair the loyalty of lehigh alumni is praised by frank b 8e11,'98 chair man of the lehigh alumni fund in an article entitled gentlemen the fund in the current issue of the lehigh alumni bulletin which was mailed to subscribers on mon day bell enumerated the building program on the campus which has been made possible to a large ex tent because of alumni contribu tions totaling 650,000 since the fund's start in 1925 he compares the large amount contributed and the small percentage of contribu tors in proportion to the size of the alumni association with brown yale and dartmouth williams writes article president c c williams states in the opening article of the may issue that contributions to en dowment although less conspicu ous than structures are equally important indeed the need for further endowment writes dr williams is vital to the future vigor of the university and we be lieve that the years ahead will see the university strengthened in this respect dr percy hughes professor of philosophy writes in spectacular college sport that there are two alternatives to a more complete un derstanding of intercollegiate ath letics to continue the present pol icy of banning proselyting and subsidizing athletes means the de cay and disappearance of spectac ular college sport the other alter native is that a college frankly shall proselyte and subsidize and so maintain its place in spectacular sport professor howard eckfeldt's high ranking in mining engineer ing is evaluated in a reprint article from explosive engineer entit led skipper a biography a review of student activities from the academic side to athletics is given by kenneth k kost 31 instructor in journalism in his an nual survey called cross cutting the campus william a cornel ius executive secretary of the alumni association summarizes the program of nine alumni clubs during the past month the success of the past four years of the general education pro gram started in 1936 as an out growth recommendations from the committee on educational pol icy is presented in experiment delegates attend odk conference the possibility that the 1940 epitome will be the last lehigh yearbook was disclosed yesterday following a meeting of the board of publications at which a motion to abolish the epitome after publi cation of this year's book was tab led dean wray h congdon chair man of the board has called an other meeting to be held at 4:10 p m tuesday in his office to con sider the matter at this time the board is to elect or approve offi cers for all student publications but the board if necessary can de lay action on any or all of these elections no juniors to compete the regular sophomore competi tive examinations for the five jun ior editorships of the epitome were held last evening sixteen sopho mores took the examinations the junior competitors for the senior offices of the yearbook will take no examination this year as ken neth k kost faculty adviser to the yearbook said that certain circumstances made them unne cessary the board which met in the off ice of the dean accepted financial reports from the epitome brown and white and the review before a report on the epitome made by kenneth k kost assistant in jour nalism was read by the dean asks board decisions kost who was made faculty ad viser in may 1938 when robert f herrick resigned made the report to give the board an understand ing of what has happened since the reorganization at that time he also asked the board to determine the future of the yearbook whose editors have always had to choose between low-cost or quality some of the questions which he asked the board to reach a decis ion on were should the senior assessment be raised in order to provide more revenue should lehigh continue to pub lish an expensive yearbook should the epitome contain ad vertising should the arrangement and layout of the epitome be changed should the epitome contain more editorial material should the epitome be broken into two books a class book and a yearbook as it once was the discussion of the problem led to the motion it was tabled on motion of robert c good editor of the 1940 epitome and a student member of the board the other members of the board present were dean congdon professor adelbert ford howard j lewis and fred galbraith banquets dances teas are planned dickinson send 25 pittsburgh muhlenberg six men all seniors were sel ected as finalists at the prelimin aries in the williams contest in extempore speaking held wednes day evening in packard auditor ium the following who will speak in the finals to be held at 8 o'clock next wednesday in packard auditorium were selected frank l benedict jr bus fred e galbraith jr arts john v mcguire e e norman l morse ch e albert e ponter jr bus and j c walker arts the 17 contestants who spoke last wednesday were divided into three groups judging the first and third groups were dr glenn christensen instructor in english carl strauch instructor in eng lish charles j moravec assistant university news editor kenneth b horning fellow in english the following judged the second group dr robert m smith head of the department of english dale h gramley university news editor gellert alleman instructor in english and j calvin callaghan director of debating the freshman contest will also be held next wednesday because there are only four freshmen en tered preliminaries were omitted freshman contestants are as fol lows robert p whipple eng lynn c bartlett arts arnold putnam eng and edwin h daf ter jr eng prizes in the junior and senior contests are 75 50 and 25 dollars freshman prizes are 50 and 25 dollars rifle team plans banquet the annual rifle team banquet will be held at 6:30 p m tuesday at trainers restaurant in quaker town new officers will be elected at this time and letters numerals and medals will be awarded all active members of the freshman and varsity rifle teams are eligible to attend college magazines throughout the country will be contributors to the exchange issue of the lehigh review to appear sometime during the middle of this month the best college humor car toons and fiction of the year will be brought together in one issue of the review stated edwin h klein arts 42 acting editor some of the magazines contributing in clude cornell's widow dart mouth's jack o'lantern the yale record princeton's ti ger the nassau sovereign temple's owl the texas ran ger and m i t.s voo doo the last issue of the review which will appear at the end of the month will center around grad uation tess margerum moravian stu dent will appear on the cover in a recent beauty contest she won pennsylvania's crown as most beautiful college girl sigma xi elects memhers delta phi holds elections new officers of delta phi who were elected recently are r barkley johnston ch e 41 president james h kidder arts 42 vice-president charles l c rouse jr arts 41 treasurer j ormsby phillips bus 42 cor responding secretary the above picture taken at the band banquet held monday evening at trainer's restaurant in quaker town shows the newly elected officers and the re tiring officers pictured in the front row reading from left to right are the following mervin j fry arts 41 new assistant director richard a garling ch e 41 new business manager warren w boyer ch e 41 new director ralph e martin ch e 40 retiring director and matthew k morris i e 40 retiring business manager in the back row robert p carter ch e 40 drum major brown and white photo social events this week-end and early next week will include two banquets two teas and three dances tonight section c of tay lor hall will hold a banquet at trainer's in quakertown theta xi and delta sigma phi will hold dances tomorrow night at their respective chapter houses the town council dance will be held in the armory the same even ing the sigma phi fraternity will hold a tea at the chapter house on delaware avenue on sunday after noon metallurgical students will be entertained at a tea at profes sor bradley stoughton's home on sunday afternoon the sigma nu banquet which is part of parents day at the hotel bethlehem is scheduled for sat urday evening the lehigh chapter of sigma xi national honorary research so ciety met at 4 p m tuesday in drown hall according to harvey a neville president of the chap ter and head of the chemistry de partment new candidates for the organization were voted upon however the names of those ad mitted are not yet available twenty-five delegates from dickinson college the university of pittsburgh and muhlenberg college attended the northern province conference of omi cron delta kappa national senior honorary activities fraternity held last saturday on the campus the conference was held to cre ate good feeling between the chap ters and to get the chapter mem bers from the four schools to know each other a chief point of dis cussion was the method of select ing members dr wilbur norcross national president of o d x gave a re port of the development of the fra ternity in the past year at the ban quet in the hotel bethlehem on saturday night talks by the heads of the four groups followed the guest speaker bethlehem pa friday may 3 1940 heads dance troupe vol xlvii — no 49 sports dance music listed for sub frosh price — five cents may drop epitome from publications lehigh forms new honorary for historians 53 awards to be made on field day expect 800 on sub frosh day saturday board moves to abolish senior book hears report by k kost brown and white to hold monday classes phi alpha theta approved by student committee has 10 members program to begin at 1 30 monday afternoon carle to inspect member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first z cl 2
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FullText | university to act as host to sons and parents coming to campus students to guide group ware made president classes will be held on the afternoon of field day monday may 6 as usual those partici pating in the drill will receive excuses from afternoon classes through the military depart ment cox to receive medal to meet again tuesday junior editorship exams taken by 16 sophs for 5 positions bulletin tells of alumni fund bell 98 praises loyalty of lehigh graduates describes program the program for tomorrow sub-freshman day is as fol lows 9 00 a m registration and campus tours almuni memor ial building 10 15 a m band concert pack ard laboratory 11:00 a.m assembly packard laboratory 11:30 a.m departmental con ferences packard laboratory 12:30 p.m luncheon armory 1:30-3:30 p m departmental visits and demonstrations 2:00 p.m lacrosse — lehigh versus lafayette upper field 2:20 p.m band music and song contests packard lawn 3:00 p.m freshman tennis — lehigh versus lafayette 3:00 p m baseball — lehigh versus rutgers taylor stadium baseball — lehigh freshmen versus pennington school steel field tennis — lehigh versus man hattan steel field 9:00 p.m informal town council dance armory rader to play saturday night town dance will complete sub - frosh activities for tomorrow miss gladys whitaker former member of the radio city rock etts who will take the part of shirley when mustard and cheese presents robert e sherwood's play idiot's delight next friday at broughal high school due to her experience miss whitaker will play the leader of les belles a dance troupe man aged by the play's hero harry van portrayed by nathaniel bris ker bus 40 the action of the play includes a dance routine by brisker and the six girls the dancers under miss whitak er's direction are the misses jean marine bettie sharesky jean wanisko bettie baver and jeanne bradish albert a rights instruc tor in english is director of the play wheeler-bennett speaks at banquet a chapter of phi alpha theta national honorary historical fra ternity was established here on tuesday when the student activi ties committee approved the ac tion the ten charter members in the local chapter held an election at that time the officers of the fraternity are richard a ware arts 41 presi dent walter f daney graduate student vice-president thomas r hunt arts 41 secretary-treasur er the other members are eugene grossman graduate student james f shearer assistant to the regis trar george b curtis registar dr lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and gov ernment john a kaufman arts 41 stephen weinrib arts 41 and raymond r white arts 40 dr george d harmon associate professor of american history is the faculty advisor of the organ ization phi alpha theta was founded at the university of arkansas in 1921 and now includes 24 chapters the installation of the chapter has been tentatively set for may 26 pending the approval of the na tional officers the members of the muhlenberg chapter of phi alpha theta will attend the ceremonies at which donald b hoffman grad uate student and national secre tary-treasurer will preside international club hears talk on present w t ar williams contest finalists chosen 6 extempore speakers survive eliminations more than 800 sub-freshman ac companied by parents and friends are expected to be present on the campus tomorrow as guests of the university for the annual sub freshman day an elaborate pro gram has been prepared for the occasion and this year additional stress will be laid on conferences with the departmental heads and on exhibits by the various colleges sub-freshman day will begin officially at 9 a m when registra tion and tours of the campus will be held under the direction of a number of guides chosen from the student body by the admissions office members of cyanide hon orary junior activities society will form the largest group of the ap pointed guides at 10 15 a m a concert will be given by the university band on packard lawn after which an as sembly will be held in packard laboratory where the sub-fresh men will hear talks by dean wray h congdon president clem ent c williams and alfred t cox c e 40 the remainder of the morning will be devoted to de partmental conferences lunch to be in armory luncheon will be served at the armory and fraternities at 12:30 p m to sub-freshmen their par ents and friends after lunch members of the faculty will be available for conferences and demonstrations for the greater part of the afternoon a band concert and song contest will be given at 2:20 p.m and a reception and tea will be held in drown hall at 3 p m athletic events for the day in clude a lacrosse game with lafay ette at 2 p m a varsity base ball game with rutgers a fresh man baseball game with penning ton and a tennis match with man hattan at 3 p m a h wheeler will speak to mathematics society fifty-three awards will be made during the annual military field day exercises which begin at 1:30 o'clock monday afternoon first call will be at 1:20 p m with the first and second battalions lining up on the lower field and the third battalion on the memorial walk the main awards will be the general j j pershing medal which will be given to alfred t cox c e 40 cadet colonel and two william randolph hearst tro phies which will be presented to the rifle team in recognition of their having won the corps area and national r o t c rifle mat ches major charles d carle has been designated to inspect the unit for an army rating with him as he reviews the unit will be majors lincoln f daniels and will h gordon of lafayette college and colonel f g kellond officer in charge of civilan affairs for the third corps area also in the group will be colonel ralph c bishop of washington d c who will pre sent the pershing medal ther awards will include sec ond lieutenant's insignia scabbard and blade sabres medals for the winners of the manual of arms and machine gun competitions and tro phies to the winners of the com pany close order drill competition and the platoon close order drill competition company a will put on a spe cial exhibition drill which has been pi'epared for the occasion the drill by this company which is uniformed and officered by scab bard and blade will include a sil ent manual and a cadence drill following the exercises colonel and mrs joseph s leonard will have a reception in their home for all seniors in the r o t c major reginald r bacon assist ant professor of military science and tactics announced wednesday that major carle will begin in specting classes on monday morn ing at 8 o'clock and that he will visit at least one section of each course given review to publish exchange issue to feature best fiction of college magazines the town council dance which will complete the list of events to morrow sub freshman day will feature bud rader and his orches tra at the armory from 9 to 12 p m according to george brenker bus 42 chairman of the commit tee arranging the affair the most novel attraction at the dance will be giving away of free cigarettes bud rader played for the first town dance when 170 couples dan ced to make a new record for at tendance at the council dances the orchestra's most recent visit to the campus was during spring houseparty when it played at beta theta pi fraternity the dance committee plans to continue the policy as inaugurated at the last town dance of provid ing free refreshments to all those who attend it was the hope of the commit tee that by choosing sub-freshman day it could make the day more complete by an evening dance to round off the day's activities members of the committee in charge of the arrangements in clude brenker albert ponter jr bus 40 chairman of the decora tions committee william csellak ch e 40 and george gubuzda arts 41 dr and mrs claude g beards lee will be chaperones paid town members will be ad mitted free of charge all others will pay 75 cents whether couple or stag mr a h wheeler of worcester mass will be the speaker at the annual public lecture sponsored by pi mv epsilon honorary mathe matics society at 8 p m this ev ening in room 466 of packard lab oratory the title of mr wheeler's talk is stellated polyhedra which will be supplemented by numerous models a copeland callen dean of the college of engineering will be the guest speaker at the pi mv epsilon banquet at 6:30 p m next wed nesday at the sun inn dr tom linson fort head of the mathemat ics department will also present a short talk on the history of the so ciety new and retiring officers of university band at banquet john wheeler-bennett of the british library of information spoke on england and war at the annual banquet of the inter national relations club last night at the sigma phi chapter house john h hamblin arts 41 presi dent of the club acted as master of ceremonies wheeler-bennet was the former professor of international law at the university of virginia and is now advisor to the british library of information on central euro pean affairs the speaker pointed out that the war was fought by the man of the streets and that it was the man of the streets who wanted hitler to be put down he outlined several different peace proposals and stated germany's war plans leon w godshall associate pro fessor of international relations and club advisor sidney brown professor of european history lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and govern ment and george d harmon as sociate professor of american his tory were faculty members pres ent at the affair the loyalty of lehigh alumni is praised by frank b 8e11,'98 chair man of the lehigh alumni fund in an article entitled gentlemen the fund in the current issue of the lehigh alumni bulletin which was mailed to subscribers on mon day bell enumerated the building program on the campus which has been made possible to a large ex tent because of alumni contribu tions totaling 650,000 since the fund's start in 1925 he compares the large amount contributed and the small percentage of contribu tors in proportion to the size of the alumni association with brown yale and dartmouth williams writes article president c c williams states in the opening article of the may issue that contributions to en dowment although less conspicu ous than structures are equally important indeed the need for further endowment writes dr williams is vital to the future vigor of the university and we be lieve that the years ahead will see the university strengthened in this respect dr percy hughes professor of philosophy writes in spectacular college sport that there are two alternatives to a more complete un derstanding of intercollegiate ath letics to continue the present pol icy of banning proselyting and subsidizing athletes means the de cay and disappearance of spectac ular college sport the other alter native is that a college frankly shall proselyte and subsidize and so maintain its place in spectacular sport professor howard eckfeldt's high ranking in mining engineer ing is evaluated in a reprint article from explosive engineer entit led skipper a biography a review of student activities from the academic side to athletics is given by kenneth k kost 31 instructor in journalism in his an nual survey called cross cutting the campus william a cornel ius executive secretary of the alumni association summarizes the program of nine alumni clubs during the past month the success of the past four years of the general education pro gram started in 1936 as an out growth recommendations from the committee on educational pol icy is presented in experiment delegates attend odk conference the possibility that the 1940 epitome will be the last lehigh yearbook was disclosed yesterday following a meeting of the board of publications at which a motion to abolish the epitome after publi cation of this year's book was tab led dean wray h congdon chair man of the board has called an other meeting to be held at 4:10 p m tuesday in his office to con sider the matter at this time the board is to elect or approve offi cers for all student publications but the board if necessary can de lay action on any or all of these elections no juniors to compete the regular sophomore competi tive examinations for the five jun ior editorships of the epitome were held last evening sixteen sopho mores took the examinations the junior competitors for the senior offices of the yearbook will take no examination this year as ken neth k kost faculty adviser to the yearbook said that certain circumstances made them unne cessary the board which met in the off ice of the dean accepted financial reports from the epitome brown and white and the review before a report on the epitome made by kenneth k kost assistant in jour nalism was read by the dean asks board decisions kost who was made faculty ad viser in may 1938 when robert f herrick resigned made the report to give the board an understand ing of what has happened since the reorganization at that time he also asked the board to determine the future of the yearbook whose editors have always had to choose between low-cost or quality some of the questions which he asked the board to reach a decis ion on were should the senior assessment be raised in order to provide more revenue should lehigh continue to pub lish an expensive yearbook should the epitome contain ad vertising should the arrangement and layout of the epitome be changed should the epitome contain more editorial material should the epitome be broken into two books a class book and a yearbook as it once was the discussion of the problem led to the motion it was tabled on motion of robert c good editor of the 1940 epitome and a student member of the board the other members of the board present were dean congdon professor adelbert ford howard j lewis and fred galbraith banquets dances teas are planned dickinson send 25 pittsburgh muhlenberg six men all seniors were sel ected as finalists at the prelimin aries in the williams contest in extempore speaking held wednes day evening in packard auditor ium the following who will speak in the finals to be held at 8 o'clock next wednesday in packard auditorium were selected frank l benedict jr bus fred e galbraith jr arts john v mcguire e e norman l morse ch e albert e ponter jr bus and j c walker arts the 17 contestants who spoke last wednesday were divided into three groups judging the first and third groups were dr glenn christensen instructor in english carl strauch instructor in eng lish charles j moravec assistant university news editor kenneth b horning fellow in english the following judged the second group dr robert m smith head of the department of english dale h gramley university news editor gellert alleman instructor in english and j calvin callaghan director of debating the freshman contest will also be held next wednesday because there are only four freshmen en tered preliminaries were omitted freshman contestants are as fol lows robert p whipple eng lynn c bartlett arts arnold putnam eng and edwin h daf ter jr eng prizes in the junior and senior contests are 75 50 and 25 dollars freshman prizes are 50 and 25 dollars rifle team plans banquet the annual rifle team banquet will be held at 6:30 p m tuesday at trainers restaurant in quaker town new officers will be elected at this time and letters numerals and medals will be awarded all active members of the freshman and varsity rifle teams are eligible to attend college magazines throughout the country will be contributors to the exchange issue of the lehigh review to appear sometime during the middle of this month the best college humor car toons and fiction of the year will be brought together in one issue of the review stated edwin h klein arts 42 acting editor some of the magazines contributing in clude cornell's widow dart mouth's jack o'lantern the yale record princeton's ti ger the nassau sovereign temple's owl the texas ran ger and m i t.s voo doo the last issue of the review which will appear at the end of the month will center around grad uation tess margerum moravian stu dent will appear on the cover in a recent beauty contest she won pennsylvania's crown as most beautiful college girl sigma xi elects memhers delta phi holds elections new officers of delta phi who were elected recently are r barkley johnston ch e 41 president james h kidder arts 42 vice-president charles l c rouse jr arts 41 treasurer j ormsby phillips bus 42 cor responding secretary the above picture taken at the band banquet held monday evening at trainer's restaurant in quaker town shows the newly elected officers and the re tiring officers pictured in the front row reading from left to right are the following mervin j fry arts 41 new assistant director richard a garling ch e 41 new business manager warren w boyer ch e 41 new director ralph e martin ch e 40 retiring director and matthew k morris i e 40 retiring business manager in the back row robert p carter ch e 40 drum major brown and white photo social events this week-end and early next week will include two banquets two teas and three dances tonight section c of tay lor hall will hold a banquet at trainer's in quakertown theta xi and delta sigma phi will hold dances tomorrow night at their respective chapter houses the town council dance will be held in the armory the same even ing the sigma phi fraternity will hold a tea at the chapter house on delaware avenue on sunday after noon metallurgical students will be entertained at a tea at profes sor bradley stoughton's home on sunday afternoon the sigma nu banquet which is part of parents day at the hotel bethlehem is scheduled for sat urday evening the lehigh chapter of sigma xi national honorary research so ciety met at 4 p m tuesday in drown hall according to harvey a neville president of the chap ter and head of the chemistry de partment new candidates for the organization were voted upon however the names of those ad mitted are not yet available twenty-five delegates from dickinson college the university of pittsburgh and muhlenberg college attended the northern province conference of omi cron delta kappa national senior honorary activities fraternity held last saturday on the campus the conference was held to cre ate good feeling between the chap ters and to get the chapter mem bers from the four schools to know each other a chief point of dis cussion was the method of select ing members dr wilbur norcross national president of o d x gave a re port of the development of the fra ternity in the past year at the ban quet in the hotel bethlehem on saturday night talks by the heads of the four groups followed the guest speaker bethlehem pa friday may 3 1940 heads dance troupe vol xlvii — no 49 sports dance music listed for sub frosh price — five cents may drop epitome from publications lehigh forms new honorary for historians 53 awards to be made on field day expect 800 on sub frosh day saturday board moves to abolish senior book hears report by k kost brown and white to hold monday classes phi alpha theta approved by student committee has 10 members program to begin at 1 30 monday afternoon carle to inspect member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first z cl 2 |
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