Brown and White Vol. 48 no. 24

              faculty chorus club entertain 4th event in series to present columnist philosopher jan 10 play carols presented at christinas meeting of women's club lehigh is playing a major role among colleges in the pres ent national defense program it has added math 128 a course in exterior ballistics to be taught next semester princi pally for advanced r o t c students this special course has been approved by the ordnance de partment and the subject mat ter was made out in collabora tion with r h kent associate professor of research at the aberdeen proving ground md kent recently made a trip to lehigh to study the proper con tent for such a course the prequisite for the course is either math 106 or math 125 shooters plan venison dinner all you can eat banquet to be held at wirth's hotel seen at the cosmopolitan club luncheon from left to right are pres ident clement c williams count otto van hapsburg and otakra ondra president of the society inspection of the building by a brown and white reporter showed that two columns which are steel beams set in concrete flush against the wall had remained stationary the wall had moved however leaving four cracks from top to bottom one on each side of each column the added work is being accom plished by shifting some of the workmen from other jobs after the pressure behind the wall has been relieved and the inside floors completed the space behind the wall can again be filled in dirt is being removed from the back of the re-enforced concrete wall which forms the south side of grace hall to relieve pressure which caused the wall to crack in lour places and move one or two inches from its original position according to president clement c williams the president stated that the sit uation would cause no serious de lay in the construction schedule if the floors inside the building had been finished before the dirt had been filled in president williams stated they would have offered the support that the wall needed feb 27 chosen by freshmen for banquet date affair will be staged at hotel bethlehem archduke otto von hapsburg heir to the throne of the former austro - hungarian empire cli axed his three-day stay in bethle hem yesterday with a luncheon at the university cosmopolitan club in talking about college news papers he quoted the headlines of the paper of his own alma mater as saying the following examin tions start today but we have lit tle hope because idiots can ask during his stay he gave a talk wednesday evening in broughal high school auditorium and made a tour wednesday afternoon of the campus which impressed him as being very beautiful being in terested in american colleges and universities he was particularly desirous of visiting the lehigh campus questions no genius can answer also present at the luncheon were president clement c will iams henry count degenfeld at tache to the archduke and the club faculty advisers who are charles a seidle assistant direc tor of admissions james l shear er assistant to the registrar and continued on page four lehigh debates lincoln on air phi delt's d u.'s elect officers the faculty dramatic club and chorus entertained at the christ mas meeting of the lehigh wo men's club last tuesday afternoon in drown hall the play presented by the dra matic club was sham a one-act play included in the cast of the play were edgar h riley associ ate professor of english william l jenkins assistant professor of psychology robert d billinger associate professor of chemistry and mrs r d billinger the play concerned a clever thief and a couple who surprise him while he is making a robbery the chorus sang a group of christmas carols under the direc tion of mrs tomlinson fort they sang christmas bells by baines holy night peaceful night by hawley and the shepherds and the inn by gaul a faculty and woman's club combined quartet sang the christmas bells of abruzzi by gaul accompanied by mrs fort the quartet was composed of dean wray h congdon mrs edson hardy lieutenant samuel pierce jr and mrs sidney goodrich the chorus is planning to present the gilbert and sullivan operetta the sorcerer on saturday even ing april 26 in drown hall the cast for this production has not yet been fully chosen an old-fashioned german ven ison dinner the second annual affair of its kind will be held by the sportsmen's club at 7 p m jan 11 at wirth's hotel william p varner bus 42 president of the club announced that the banquet will be unique in that pennsylvania dutch dishes will be featured and the all you can eat plan will be followed reservations must be made by jan 8 with varner at phone 4477 deer for the dinner were donated by members who were successful in shooting game on a recent hunt sponsored by the club these men are roy l duncan m e 42 theodore peters ch e 44 robert p stoudt bus 41 and varner varner explained that wirth's hotel is reached by turning left on the bath pike two miles south of bath he urged all non-paid mem bers who have neglected to pay their dues to do so and added that any men wishing to join the club should do so as soon as possible picture displayed bertrand russell philosopher and mathematician and george e sokolsky author and columnist will debate in the fourth program of the student concerts-lectures series on jan 10 in the broughal high school auditorium the subject of the debate will be resolved that conservatism is the safest policy russell will take the negative and sokolsky will up hold the affirmative bertrand russell is considered one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century professor mortimer adler critic considers russell's principia mathematica to be one of the 100 greatest books of all time russell was educated at trin ity college cambridge where he became a fellow after graduation he comes from a distinguished family in england his grandfather having twice been prime minister of england turns to sociology russell has taught in cambridge university lectured at chicago and harvard universities and during the past year was professor of mathematics at the university of california at los angeles among his works are german social democracy foundations of ge ometry and theory of bolshe vism during his visit to soviet rus sia russell became anti-commun istic through his experience be cause he is a pacifist he turned his attention to social questions after visiting russia he went to the university of peking where he was professor of philosophy on his return to england he spent his time writing books on social prob lems russell's latest work is an in quiry into meaning and truth which concerns his harvard lec tures this book will be published sometime during this month rus sell is also known as lord russell or viscount of amberly expelled from russia george e sokolsky is currently writing a weekly column in the new york herald-tribune and broadcasitng under the auspices of the national manufacturers asso a photograph of leila stoughton daughter of prof and mrs bradley stoughton was on exhibit during the months of september and oc tober at the royal photographic society galleries in london eng land the royal society is known as the foremost society of its kind in the world the photograph was submitted by the studio of metz ger and son of allentowm honorary mathematics society tuesday evening in packard lab bernard altshuler graduate as sistant in physics spoke at the monthly meeting of pi mu epsilon oratory his subject was the no tation of vector analysis explaining the system of nota tion altshuler exemplified its use in multiplication and vector prob lems he also included gibbs no tation and tensor analysis in his talk in the following discussion it was decided that these two systems of notation are really the same but are only being used in different types of work pi mu epsilon hears talk by altshuler the date for the freshman ban quet has been definitely set for feb 27 at the hotel bethlehem it was decided at a meeting of the freshman representatives tuesday evening in packard laboratory e lyster frost met e banquet committee chairman appointed a financial committee to compare this year's finances with those of last year's freshman class lester dod son bus and paul falco c e are on the committee the main speaker has not yet been designated by the program committee although a tentative program has been worked out the sale of tickets will begin on feb 1 and close on feb 24 the banquet is scheduled for 6:30 p m in the main ballroom of the hotel bethlehem the fresh man representatives will meet again at 7:30 p m thursday jan 9 lehigh's intercollegiate debaters held a non decision radio debate wednesday night with lincoln uni versity over station wcba allen town the lehigh team which was composed of stephen t lowry c e 41 rebuttal speaker and rob ert w leavens bus 40 construc tive speaker upheld the negative side of the question the question of the debate was resolved that democracy in the united states can be preserved only through decreased govern mental control of industry labor agriculture and finance other non-decision radio de bates are scheduled to be held after the christmas holidays phi delta theta and delta up silon social fraternities have both held elections of chapter officers officers elected by phi delta theta are president richard w mueller i e 41 reporter p r hornbrook bus 42 warden jack e lane i e 43 secretary john f kizer arts 43 historian don ald e eastlake bus 42 chaplain raymond i bashford bus 43 chorister richard m palmer bus 42 and treasurer john w whit ing bus 41 delta upsilon elected president james m beauchamp jr i e 41 vice president robert c reber bus 41 corresponding secretary malcolm f mcconnell jr m e 42 marshall edward g boyer m e 43 librarian frank s mcken na met e 42 the same question will be dis cussed by the same teams but the sides will be reversed the teams that were on the negative this semester will take the affirmative viewpoint next semester and vice versa the results of the first semester's debating are as follows merit control in industry labor agriculture and finance was the question under discussion the first debate of the evening was won by francis h rockett e e 42 and grendon k sebold e e 42 who opposed the negative team of roy b cowin jr arts 43 and walter r robinson jr ch e 44 the winners of the second debate were donald b parish bus 43 and sumner w reid m e 42 who gained a verdict over richard ostheimer met e 41 and leon ard j mckinley ch e 41 second round to start the judges for both debates were t robert bassett director of de bating at moravian college for men paul kauffman debating coach of palmerton high school and elwood prestwood coach of debating at slatington high school the second round will get under way the first week of the second semester it was announced by j calvin callaghan director of de bating university engineers attend their annual christmas society banquets before vacations . . • above is the picture of the electrical engineering society banquet which was held last night at the d a r log cabin those pictured are raymond s willard 42 left and frederick h housel 41 who is the president of the society the banquet featured the exchanging of gifts among the members and lots were drawn to find the donors and recipients of the gifts a spelling bee was held on the hard names of the professors of the department between the seniors and juniors and the juniors won the group then sang christmas carols santa claus played by charles wasser custodian of packard laboratory shakes hands with john r connelly associate pro fessor of mechanical engineering while robert a wilson m e 41 looks on the occasion was the industrial-mechanical en gineering society christmas party in drown hall this is the picture of the metallurgical society banquet held last night in the fountain room of the hotel bethlehem seated to the right of the speaker is gil bert e doan head of the metallurgical engineering department the master of ceremonies who is standing is charles t edwards arts 41 and on his left are james mitchell met e 41 president of the society and bradley s tough ton professor of metallurgy comic gifts were presented to all the professors edwards is holding a set of tinker toys which were presented to john h frye jr assis tant professor of metallurgic engineering so that he could make atomic struc tures dr doan spoke on fellowship between the students and the faculty lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday december 20 1940 new ballistics course added to curricula royalty visits lehigh . . . archduke otto von hapsburg pretender to throne of austro-hungarian empire dines at cosmopolitan club visits campus two negative teams beaten in debating vol xlviii no 24 southern wall of grace hall cracks moves scl books russell sokolsky debate price — five cents dirt being removed after causing shift of 2 inches 4 rifts conservation is subject russell professor of math opposes industrial consultant second round 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