Brown and White Vol. 48 no. 25

              10 lehigh clubs to hear glee club orchestra on radio program 24 research fellowships available applications due by march 1 various studies offered broadcast set for feb 7 george e sokolsky bertrand russell russell taught at ucla liberal russell to oppose sokolsky in broughal auditorium tonight liberalism vs conservatism to be debated price — five cents congdon defends lehigh bachelor dean congdon was applauded by the group at the close of his talk the faculty adopted two new rules with respect to final exam inations to go into effect next sem ester four hour examinations will be shortened to three hour ses sions from 9 a m to 12 noon and no final examinations in one or two credit courses will be sched uled or given during the regular examination period thomas e butterfield professor of heat power engineering report ed that because of insufficient trainers in the caa program it would be necessary to ask for an extension of time he declared that they were undertaking to cover in one semester what last year had been covered in two and that 25 out of 29 had completed a part of the training 14 had completed the flight training while 27 out of 30 were in the last stages of training a copeland callen dean of the college of engineering reported that plans were underway to es tablish 11 defense courses in ma chine design instrument design structural engineering and pro duction engineering expenses are to be born by the federal govern ment tomlinson fort head of the de partment of mathematics revealed that the course in exterior ballis tics had already been started with out subsidy professor hughes announced that the annual joint meeting cf the colleges of the lehigh valley will be held march 14 at lafayette college principal speaker will be william h cowley president of hamilton college dean wray h congdon vigor ously defended the purposes of the lehigh bachelor in a 30-minute talk at a meeting of the faculty monday in answer to a question which had previously been asked of him by percy hughes professor of phil osophy on what prospect there is that the bachelor will serve a de finitely educational purpose the dean stressed the benefits derived from work on a student college publication the iollowing useful purposes will be served dean congdon said training and experience under faculty guidance in maga zine writing magazine editing and publication and financial support and business management of a magazine dean congdon listed the train ing in leadership good taste re sponsibilties and privileges of free speech and standards of fair play and accuracy as other benefits to be derived from work on the bachelor there was no expectation that this will be primarily a literary and scholastic publication dean congdon declared a survey of the field of college magazines shows clearly that no student pub lication of a purely scholastic type succeeds if it is dependent on stu dent subscription for support suc cessful magazines of this type are invariably supported at least in part by college subsidy and are under direct sponsorship of eng lish departments such magazines have no more claim to amateur status than a subsidized football team bulletin covers hurley career officers induct 8 sergeants stories that made biggest headlines in 1940 reviewed drinker house-grace hall construction receives top rating wrestling conscription bachelor follow the year 1940 was significantly marked on the lehigh campus as one which offered no startling or discouraging news in a world fraught with disaster and blood shed the announcement of le high's 10 best stories is assuringly peaceful mimicking the professional news collecting agencies we preseni here what we have chosen as the ten big news stories of the year in the order of their importance from the lehigh angle eugene g grace 99 presideni of the board of trustees and don or of the 300,000 grace hall laic the cornerstone for the new gym nasium the building is still in the process of construction and its completion will undoubtedly be one of the big stories of 1941 the cornerstone of the henry sturgis drinker house named in honor oi lehigh's fifth president was laid and the building was completed during the summer students filled the new dormitory to capacity at the beginning of this semester wrestling dominated the sports scene as usual during 1940 with billy sheridan starting his 30th year as wrestling mentor the team won its 10th e i w a champion ; ship since 1927 harold j masem ; j 40 three times eastern intercol i legiate champion won the 145 i pound title in the national match i es the release of a pathe movie : short subject filmed at lehigh last ■ fall wall add still further to the i team's reputation fateful october 16 saw the re ; gistration of 428 students and fa ' culty members in the draft lottery ! this was not the first or only effect j of the national defense program on 5 lehigh however for the regular army officers stationed here as in > _ i continued on page four mil professors become scabbard and blade society members connecticut's governor l e h i g h alumnus featured in story telephone stolen lafferty discusses defense education urges more physical play in school program night marauder invades taylor hall sunday a distinguished liberal philoso pher bertrand russell and one of the foremost exponents of the con servative policy george e sokol sky will debate on the question is conservatism the safest pol icy at 8:15 p m tonight in the broughal high school auditorium russell internationally famous philosopher mathematician auth or and lecturer was in the spot light recently when there was a controversy over his appointment to the faculty of the city college of new york russell author of the liighly rated principia mathematical came to this country from england in 1938 to deliver a series of spe cial lectures at the university of chicago and has been heard at other leading american universi ties for the past year he served as visiting professor of mathematics at the university of california at los angeles studied at trinity college russell studied mathematics and philosophy at trinity college cam bridge and accepted a post as a fellow of the college russell a pacifist resigned his post at cam bridge because of the world war his interest turned to social ques tions after the war he visited so viet russia and wrote the prac tice and theory of bolshevism his current work is an inquiry into meaning and truth sokolsky recently described by time magazine as a star-spangled spieler of capitalism writes a weekly column for the new york herald-tribune and makes week ly broadcasts under the auspices of the national association of manu facturers his recent book the american way of life has been hailed by critics as a penetrating study of the contribution that am erican industrial and business methods have made to the amer ican standard of living sokolsky is widely acclaimed for his knowledge of the far east where he spent 14 years he was an assistant editor of the north china star and a reporter on the shanghai gazzette owned by the great chinese nationalist sun yat sen whom sokolsky knew inti mately since his return to this country in 1931 sokolsky has devoted him seld to economic and social prob lems in the united states one of the largest promotional programs to be presented on the lehigh campus has been an nounced by the alumni associa tion to introduce the 75th anni versary year of the university on feb 7 lehigh alumni clubs at an estimated ten points through out the east will gather to hear a program by the glee club sym phony orchestra selected members of mustard and cheese and dr t edgar shields at the pipe organ on feb 9 1866 the lehigh charter was signed therefore the alumni program is planned to co incide as nearly as possible with that date bringing the assembled club members a story of lehigh's founding growth and the impor tance of alumni support of the university throughout the 75 years the program will be an hour in length — from 9 to 10 p m fri day feb 7 — and will be sent by leased wires to the various cities where the lehigh clubs are gath ering only through use of special broadcast wires such as those em ployed by the national chains in sending national programs from city to city for broadcast purposes can such a musical program be presented climax on founder's day the program is only one in a number that will be presented throughout this diamond anniver sary year — climaxed by a uni versity program to be held at the time of founder's day in october as a special feature most of the music presented on the program will be that written by lehigh men special arrangements of this music are being prepared by dr shields for both the glee club and symphony orchestra while plans are not completed as yet it is believed that clubs in the following cities will gather to hear the broadcast boston bridgeport new york newark reading washington baltimore harrisburg york scranton buf falo and pittsburgh in many cases speakers from the lehigh campus will be on hand to give talks be fore the lehigh program is pre sented the broadcast will serve the additional purpose of opening the diamond anniversary drive of the lehigh alumni fund which will be completed this spring and funds from which will be earmarked to aid in the rehabilitation of the armory as a dining hall schools to hear faculty members a number of research fellow ships and graduate scholarships have been announced by tomlin son fort dean of the graduate school it is necessary for those who apply to be graduates in en gineering or science of colleges universities or technical schools whose graduation requirements are the equivalent of those at lehigh the applications for appointment must be submitted before march 1 the appointments will be based on the applicants scholastic re cords and other evidences of sci entific ability the holders of these fellowships and scholarships are exempt from tuition and most university fees the 1941 appoint ments will be made on or before april 1 students desiring list of fellow ships at other institutions can se cure them at the placement office the following are the research fellowships and graduate scolar ships available will give packard award the james ward packard re search fellowship in electrical and mechanical engineering will be awarded to a research fellow for two academic years with an annual stipend of 600 the holder will devote half time to research and half time to graduate study the new jersey zinc company research fellowship in science and technology will be for two aca demic years with an annual award of 600 half of the time of the holder of this fellowship must be devoted to research work in the field or technology to which he is assigned the other half to grad uate study the c kemble baldwin fellow ship in aeronautical engineering will be awarded to a research fel low in any branch of science hav ing a bearing on aeronautical en gineering appointment is for two academic years with an annual sti pend of 750 the holder will de vote half time to research and half time to graduate study two horner grants for 41 the roy r hornor research fel lowship in metallurgy and inor ganic chemistry is for two years at 600 annually the holder will de vote half time to research and half time to graduate study two will be awarded in 1941 the william c gotshall schol arships were provided for worthy students in any branch or course of engineering offered in lehigh appointment is for one year at 500 no other duties other than graduate study are required of scabbard and blade honorary military society held an initiation banquet last night at trainer's eight junior sergeants were in ducted into the society the for mal initiation of the pledges was held in the armory before the ban quet loyal v bewley professor of and head of the department of electrical engineering and a major in the reserve field artillery corps spoke on his experiences in the world war in which he started in the national guards as an enlisted man and ended up as an officer lieutenant j.c abbott of allen town the corps area inspector for scabbard and blade spoke of his duties and his visits to the scab bard and blade companies of this corps area staff will attend asce convention perhaps the freshmen should wear their r o t c uniforms and guard the university's phones instead of guarding the dormitor ies from lafayette men taylor hall has been made the victim of some night marauder who delights in stealing phones from the walls in the dead of the night last sunday evening when taylor men were returning someone somehow made off with the tele phone of section d right under their very noses by breaking the wires the new phone which was im mediately installed is being close ly guarded to prevent a repetition of this act continued on j>age four junior officers join scabbard and blade continued on page fou the first lehigh alumnus to be elected to the governorship of a state is featured in the january issue of the alumni bulletin the career of robert hurley who en tered lehigh in 1915 and who was elected governor of connecticut on the democratic ticket last novem ber is covered by the bulletin article another feature of the current bulletin dealing with modern military strategy as it is influenced by geology is described by dr bradford willard head of the de partment of geology the title of dr willard's article is ground work for conquest governor hurley 19 came to lehigh in 1915 his collegiate ca reer was cut short in 1917 when he enlisted in the navy at the close of the war he played profes sional and semi-pro football until he joined his father in the con struction and engineering business in 1935 he entered the public spotlight as a w p a supervisor followed by successive advance ments to assistant state adminis trator and then administrator hurley was later named com missioner of the state department of public works until his election to governor of conecticut assistant university news editor charles j moravec gives a com plete review of lehigh's past foot ball season in his article maroon luftwaffe 46 lehigh 0 theodore t lafferty macfarlane professor of philosophy presented a paper education and its rela tion to national defense at the pennsylvania educational research association conference dec 28 in harrisburg he discussed the edu cational program of public schools in relation to national defense lafferty pointed out that our ed ucational program is most lacking in preparing people for work the development of physical health and the development of an appre ciation of values our present program intends to seek white collar jobs and to dis count physical work an introduc tion to physical work should be an essential part of our program for the development of physi cal health we need to be more in terested in the development of physical activity for all in contrast to athletics for a few for public spectacle he stated that appreciation is de veloped by experience with values under enjoyable conditions and that values of democacy apply in the classroom there are too many dictators in classrooms and in school administrative positions he believes it possible that if we get in a long and serious crisis people may look for a school tea cher to guide them that is to say a man who knows all the answers and is able to give us our next as signment callaghan articles printer six members of the faculty will lecture at various schools during january announced e kenneth smiley director of admissions the schedule follows dr neil carothers dean of the business college lawrenceville school jan 10 dr wilson l god shall associate professor of diplo matic history and international re lations whose war is this sunbury high school jan 10 dr edward h riley associate pro fessor of english what's funny about that peekskill military academy jan 12 dr austin r frey assistant professor of physics electrical magic new york military acad emy jan 15 dr earl r crum head of the department of greek sellersville-parkasie high school jan 15 dr hale sutherland head of the department of civil engin eering the engineer's place in the world of tomorrow episco pal academy jan 17 dr frey electrical magic atlantic city high school jan 22 i f ball to be discussed plans for the inter-fraternity ball will be discussed at the meet ing of the inter-fraternity council to be held monday jan 13 in the arcadia room of drown hall ac cording to roy s zachary arts 41 president of the council two articles written by j cal vin callaghan director of debat ing appeared during december in two magazines devoted to public speaking the first article entitled so cial facilitation and persuasion was published in the quarterly journal of speech the other are public-opinion polls evidence appeared in the tenth anniversary number of the bulletin of the de bating association of pennsylva nia colleges 2 national conventions to be held here in 1941 two conferences the middle at lantic international relations club convention and the american mathematical society meeting will be held here during 1941 presi dent clement c williams an nounced wednesday the middle atlantic interna tional relations club conference will be held here over the thanks giving vacation the location was decided last month at the confer ence meeting at georgetown uni versity the american mathematical so ciety voted unanimously to hold its annual meeting here during the christmas vacation the last meeting of the society here was in 1929 the staff of fritz laboratory will attend the annual three-day con vention of the american society of civil engineers jan 15-17 in new york city this convention will consist of the annual business session ses sions of technical divisions show ing of a film of the tacoma bridge an all day excursion to inspect la guardia field a general society meeting and student chapter con ference bruce g johnston assistant pro fessor of civil engineering will at tend the meeting of the a s c e committee on design of structural members jan 15 johnston is chairman of this committee which is studying the design on steel col umns and which will meet with the commission of new york city building code on structural steel gerald g kubo american in stitute of steel construction fel low and frank a opila brink fellow in civil engineering will also attend this committee meet ing other men who will attend are howard j godfrey engineer of tests ingvald e madsen assistant research engineer lloyd f green garrett linderman hoppes re search fellow in c e robert a hechtman american institute of steel construction research fel low and gordon r deits amer ican welding society research fellow in c e the eight students who were initiated into scab bard and blade honorary military society at a meeting held last night in the armory left to right back row are david r smith e.e john h dud ley m.e joseph a arnold ch.e harry w jones jr e henry c farrand bus in the front row are edward f bodine m.e richard r bright 1.e and theodore g scott jr met.e lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday january 10 1941 pro and con in battle of words grad awards for 41 listed by dean fort alumni office makes plans to celebrate vol xlviii — no 25 z 612 all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association