Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 28

              vol xlviii no 28 charter granted 9 colleges in 66 hour show will present lehigh history since signing of charter commerce group protests scheduling of dinner in parish house senior banquet date set major larson to speak glee club to participate students will be selected when group meets feb 20 at axp plan approved jan 30 claimunfaircompetition attempt to arrange affair for masonic temple foiled by seniors the senior class will hold its annual banquet on feb 27 at the masonic temple major emery swede larson head football coach at the united states naval academy who was to talk at the banquet originally sched uled for dec 18 will be the principal speaker albert e lee jr ch e president of the class said the change in date was caused by interference with other activi ties lee declared that the topics discussed at the banquet would include the graduation program and the class gift education plan enrolls frosh 30 men get opportunity to further interests in outside study lehigh charter resurrected for diamond anniversary in 1866 when lehigh received its charter nine other colleges were beginning similar missions penn sylvania itself saw the inaugura tion of two other schools lebanon valley at annville and thiel col lege at greenville lincoln university sprang up that year in jefferson city mo and kentucky wesleyan be gan to grow rust college hope college and carleton college were born in the middle west in new hampshire the newly formed morrill land grant act stimulated the opening of new hampshire university at durham at the time of lehigh's founding the united states had only 275 colleges and universities today there are 780 of which 505 have been instituted since asa packer obtained his charter only one third of the nation's colleges were established by 1866 the trend toward technological schools was growing and many engineering schools were conceiv ed although interest was not great enough to produce many endow ments for technical schools the provisions made possible the es tablishment of massachusetts insti tute of technology in 1861 cornell university in 1865 and the univer sity of california in 1868 in allentown cedar crest col lege opened for the first time two years after lehigh's founding 19 companies interview men record number of seniors consult for positions after graduation the freshman class learned this week that things like class ban quets are an important concern of the bethlehem chamber of com merce unfortunately for the fresh men they learned the fact too late they are now at a loss as to when or where their coming banquet will be held the class dinner originally scheduled for feb 27 at the nativ ity church parish house will not be held on that date or at that place e lyster frost met e 44 chairman of the banquet commit tee was informed this week by dean congdon that the church building would not be available for the freshmen to dine there as a class body the church authorities had decided to heed protests of the bethlehem chamber of commerce that such an affair at the church was unfair competition with le gitimate business enterprise site date are indefinite frost with 300 freshly printed tickets ready for distribution by the committee immediaetly tried to schedule the affair for the ma sonic temple for the night of the 27th he abandoned that plan when he learned that the senior class had signed for its banquet to be held that night at the masonic lodge the site or date of the freshman affair is still not definitely settled but will be frost says as soon as he is informed of what date will be convenient for william lone star dietz albright college foot ball coach who was to be the ban quet speaker frost will meet with his committee to make the final decision upon word from dietz faculty members to deliver talks omicron delta kappa national senior activities fraternity will elect three juniors to membership on thursday feb 20 the three men will be selected at a meet ing to be held at the alpha chi rho house points must be sub mitted to richard l vockel m e 41 chairman of the nominating committee by 7:30 p m feb 17 at chi psi lodge the revised o d k point list follows the revisions were ap proved at a dinner meeting of the society held jan 30 at kappa alpha a general rules character shall be the primary requirement for membership in this fraternity but no person shall be eligible for active member ship until he has been in residence at le high university at least one year and if a student has completed not more than five semesters has junior standing and has a scholastic average equal to or better than the undergraduate average in lehigh uni versity in the semester previous to his ap plication all applicants must submit their five-semester average along with their points b point system group i—scholarship1 — scholarship 3.5 average 5 sem 12 3 average 5 sem 10 2.5 average 5 sem 4 e p wilbur scholar 8 tau beta pi 8 alpha kappa psi 8 eta kappa nu 1 alpha epsilon delta 1 robert blake society 1 eta sigma phi 1 phi eta sigma 1 pi mv epsilon 1 pi tau sigma 1 scholastic prize 1 group ii — publications brown and white editorial manager 5 news manager 5 local adv asst 4 circulation manager 3 editor in chief 3 business manager 3 make-up editor per sem 3 news editor per sem 3 sports editor per sem 3 photo editor per sem 3 editorial council 2 copy supervisor 1 national adv asst 1 asst circulation manager 1 handbook chairman of the board 2 business manager 1 editorial manager 1 pi delta epsilon president 1 membership 1 arcadia representative 1 epitome editor in chief 7 business manager 5 art editor 5 junior editorial members 4 ir business staff members 1 the advisory council for gen eral education has issued letters notifying 30 freshmen of their en rollment in the course stated dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy the general education program is offered as a means for students to further their interests in sub jects not offered in their curricu lum each student admitted to the course will be assigned to a facul ty adviser who will suggest books that the students may read in con nection with his main interest the student will have the opportunity to meet with the professor and dis cuss his topic the accepted students should re port to professor herbert m dia mond chairman of the council for assignment to an adviser the freshmen accepted by the advisory council for the program in general education are richard l ashbrook frank w berman john j c black george j bleul charles e bosserman hugh boyd george h brown carl r bruns joel g clemmer irving r coil man john m dawson john e doxsey frank e felt richard k fenstermacher ray n figueroa anthony c fortosis dale y freed john e gehr saul gerson donald m lorimer george t mc kinley ralph d moyer howard r neureuter henry c ost robert j priestley david p scoblionko john d smith wilson p snyder walter trappe and howard h ocklemann continued on page four the date of founding the discrep ancy between this date and the offi cial date 1866 was caused by the fact that the trustees of the pro posed university met for the pur pose of organization on july 27 1865 in the old sun inn this is regarded by some as the actual founding date of the university lehigh was the first polytech nic school in the state of penn sylvania and one of the first in the country the only thing approach ing a scientific school in pennsyl vania previous to this time was franklin institute founded in 1824 in philadelphia the franklin institute was originally a sort of lyceum where lecturers gave pub lic talks and demonstrations on the developments of science it was not however a school in the ac cepted sense as it had no regular classes and granted no sort of de gree the lehigh charter is signed by james r kelley then speaker of the house of representatives david fleming then speaker of the sen ate and the governor at that time andrew g curtin the signature of the deputy secretary of the com monwealth is illegible the old fashioned quill pen he evidently was using caught in the paper — the scratch can still be seen — and sprayed his signature with little drops of ink debaters discuss hemisphere union scl committee to consider one dollar increase in fee new petition has more sigi than similar one circu ers is more representative ated during last spring western maryland team lehigh stage contest by lynn c bartlett the 75th anniversary of the granting of the university charter by the state legislature of pennsyl vania will be celebrated tonight in a one-hour telephone broadcast from packer memorial chapel to lehigh alumni clubs in six eastern cities the first of several such pro grams to be presented this year by the alumni association tonight's affair will feature the growth of the university and the changes that have occurred at lehigh since a pennsylvania legislature on feb 9 1866 granted to asa packer and his associates a charter for a poly technic college for the education of youth of the name style and title of lehigh university taking part in the program will be students selected from mustard and cheese the glee club and the symphony orchestra robert f herrick 34 secretary of the asso ciation has written a dramatiza tion of the history of the univer sity dr t edgar shields director of music who will be at the con sole has composed the musical theme for tonight's program dr shields has based his score on the three leters a s and a in honor of the lehigh valley canal boat man coal magnate and railroad builder who founded lehigh admission is free students alumni and townspeo ple are invited to attend the pro gram tonight a program that will oe heard by alumni in new york newark harrisburg wilkes-barre buffalo and washington admiss ion to the chapel is free lehigh's development will be celebrated tonight lehigh's growth will be stressed as lehigh's past is recalled and lehigh has grown it has grown from a small school with an enrollment of about 25 students to a large university with 1800 undergraduates and over 150 grad uate students lehigh's faculty has grown from a handful of scholars to a body of several hundred men ranging from graduate assistants to professors lehigh's physical plant has in creased from asa packer's 57 acres of land and one building christ mas hall to 25 buildings and 180 acres of land the original narrow curriculum has been expanded in to three colleges offering hundreds of courses from greek literature to machine design and lehigh's endowment has grown from the original 500,000 to about 7,500 000 lehigh was founded as a result of the dream of asa packer pion eer industrialist of this region to found a scientific school for the ed ucation of the young men of the lehigh valley packer considered both mauch chunk and easton as possibilities for the location of such a college before he decided upon bethlehem as president williams recently pointed out le high's founder probably saw in bethlehem nearer the geograph ical center of the valley region the promise of industrial develop ment that would be an advantag continued on page four lehigh club host to beaver chorus nine sheets of yellowish blue lined legal-sized paper covered with copperplate handwriting turn ed greenish-brown by the passage of 75 years a few signatures by men long since dead a yellow state seal with a couple inches of faded purple ribbon — that is the charter of lehigh university granted on feb 9 1866 by the pennsylvania state legisla ture half-forgotten and filed away with a thousand other old docu ments in the archives kept by mel vin schissler university auditor the old charter was resurrected for its 75th anniversary the original charter was so lib eral in its provisions for educa tional development according to president clement c williams that it has never been found ne cessary to amend it in any way corporations were a new and not-much used form of organiza tion in 1866 and it required a spe cial act of the pennsylvania legis lature to authorize " a polytechnic college to be located at south bethlehem in the county of northampton . . . under the name of lehigh university only a few colleges in the uni ted states at that time boasted the title of university on the east ern seaboard the only universities in name were harvard pennsyl vania and norwich dr williams stated in outlining the original aims and purposes of the university dr williams said that asa packer had planned the reverse of the usual college development most colleges started as arts schools and their scientific schools are the outgrowth of these whereas lehigh was plan ned as a polytechnic and scientific school from the beginning and the more liberal phases were to devel op later it is remarkable that with all the changes brought about by the past three-fourths of a century that lehigh has grown along the lines proposed by the far-sighted asa packer the seal bears the date 1865 as representatives of 19 companies have invaded the lehigh campus so far this year to interview 188 seniors about that all important job to give the placement bureau the greatest concentration of num bers of interviews in the history of the organization according to e robins morgan director of the placement bureau at this time last year a total of seven companies had interviewed seniors in what was considered a crowded program a much greater concentration of interviews usually comes in the months of february and march and the staff at the bureau is preparing for the rush this year almost 13 percent of the seniors have reported as being placed so far this year in jobs or graduate schools for the coming year it is too early in the year at the present time for most of the 19 companies that have made 481 interviews to date to have picked their prospec tive employees during the past week the arm strong cork corporation the dravo corporation the proctor and gamble company the international business machines company the philadelphia electric company the lukens steel company and the timken roller bearing company interviewed 167 seniors the success of the lehigh place ment system in its nine years of service to lehigh seniors is ex plained in the dec 1940 issue of school and college placement in an article written by morgan the methods of registering seniors and having the interviews run off smoothly is explained in the article morgan's system is undergoing its first real test this year since it was inaugurated about 1935 when morgan took over the placement bureau from john a brodhead 07 the first director of the bureau seniors hear navy ensign on flying advancements seven faculty members will speak at various schools this month announced e kenneth smiley director of admissions claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy will speak on free dom is self-government on feb 27 at newton high school newton sydney m brown professor of european history will speak on witches and witchcraft on feb 7 at the pingry school elizabeth n j dale h gramley associate pro fessor of journalism will speak on newspaper hoaxes and frauds on feb 7 at langhorne high school langhorne on feb 15 at friend's academy locust valley n v and on feb 20 at newark academy newark n j thomas h hazlehurst associate professor of chemistry will speak on feb 13 at stevens academy hoboken n j edgar h riley associate pro fessor of english will speak on horrors of composition on feb 19 at valley forge military acad emy wayne hale sutherland head of the de partment of civil engineering will speak on the engineer's place in the world of tomorrow on feb 4 at quakertown high school quakertown francis j trembley assistant professor of biology will speak on those that kill on feb 10 at montclair academy montclair n j sigma xi to hear marmer chemists hold colloquium ensign a d walter member of the board of naval cadet selection and naval training gave a talk on naval aviation entitled wings of gold in packard laboratory wed nesday night ensign walter talked informally to a large gathering composed mostly of seniors he discussed ad vancements in modern aviation and their importance to naval flying and training the informal talk continued with the explanation of how cadets are selected for the course the debating teams of lehigh and western maryland universities staged a non-decision debate yes terday at the hotel bethlehem at the weekly meeting of the bethle hem kiwanis club the question debated was re solved that the nations of the western hemisphere should form a permanent union western mary land upheld the affirmative as the lehigh team argued the negative the members of the visiting team who took part in the debate were edwin r thomas and paul l aleyunas lehigh was represent ed by charles f meyer bus 43 and webster c roberts assistant district attorney joseph hildenber ger served as chairman the affirmative side pointed out that through the formation of a union of the 21 countries in the western hemisphere and canada a power could be created which would be capable of making war or peace and negotiating treaties with the outside world the negative team pointed out many serious dis advantages which could be brought about through this type of union a lecture entitled tides spon sored by sigma xi will be given tonight by harry a manner as sistant chief of the coast and geo detic survey at 7:30 p m in room 466 of packard laboratory manner will talk on how observations are made and he will describe the op eration of various machines which are used to predict tides using pre viously compiled knowledge a chemistry colloquium was held wednesday afternoon in the chemistry building roger s haw ley graduate assistant in chemis try and professor hart of the chemistry department of lafayette college addressed the professors and graduate assistants of the chemistry department | tation of the various living groups and included a large percentage of men in the higher financial brackets the demand for a better program was not evidenced by at tendance at the programs running at that time the present petition is designed to meet these objections by pro viding more signatures giving bet ter group representation and evi dencing continued interest in an improved series the petition addressed to the s c l committee reads we the undersigned students of lehigh university wish to make available to the committee added resources to be used in bringing to lehigh only superior programs to accom plish this we respectfully request that the student concerts-lectures fee be raised from one dollar 1.00 to two dollars 2.00 yearly and we agree to support such action by our attendance at the lectures the following is the represen tation given by living groups and classes fraternity — 447 dorm — 238 town — 268 freshmen — 247 sophomores — 310 juniors — 233 seniors — 163 by charles b seib jr the movement to increase the student concerts-lectures fee from one dollar to two dollars per student is gaining momentum as the s c l committee prepares to consider at its meeting on feb 18 a petition for such an increase signed by 953 students this latest petition which ori ginated in the student body and was signed during the registration period was approved by the joint meeting of the town council in terdormitory council interfrater nity council and arcadia it will be presented to the s c l commit tee by roy b co win jr who con ducted the campaign to collect names if after study the commit tee approves the petition it will be passed on to president williams and if he in turn approves it it will be submitted to the board of trustees for action last april a similar petition was circulated by the committee itself although 849 names were collect ed the president refused to accept the recommendation on the grounds that there weren't enough signa tures the signatures did not show the proper proportional represen the lehigh university glee club will be host to the beaver college glee club at a concert to be given by the beaver girls tomorrow ev ening in drown hall the program will begin at 8:15 under the direction of w lawrence curry musical director of beaver college the musical program which he has arranged includes such compositions as the lord's prayer by malotte-deis the solitary reaper by nagle the omnipotence by schubert the program will also feature mary mckillip and gloria marcus as soloists the selections which they will present are every flow er from madame butterfly by puccini there's weeping in my heart by ingenfritz and lan danza by rossini lehigh unive rsit y brown and white bethlehem pa friday february 7 1941 price — five cents 44 banquet plans must be changed o.d.k to pick three juniors points revised tonight's program begins celebration of 75th year