Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 33

              billy sheridan lehigh's wrestling coach and one of three bethlehem school directors whose terms expire this year will not be a candidate for re election at the primaries sept 9 as far as i'm concerned he said six years is enough for one man let someone else throw his hat in the ring now annual dinner to be held thursday evening in masonic temple a meeting of all members of the sophomore class will be held at 4 p m tomorrow in packard auditorium to discuss the possibilities of a class dance announced robert p whipple ch.e class president whipple stated that action on the proposed affair will depend upon the number of sophomores present at the meeting study period proposed has a wide reputation to discuss class gift 7 fraternities elect officers 7 vacancies exist in caa 13 have already qualified for advanced course primary is closed 38 students will direct social houses during new school term major e e swede larson will be held saturday comedy and fancy diving water polo included in water carnival will address seniors 6 girls teams to compete in water circus price — five cents culture test to be given general education quiz open to all students set for march 17 f alexander magoun professor of sociology at the massachusetts institute of technology has been chosen as guest speaker for the annual junior class banquet to be held on april 2 at the masonic temple magoun has a wide reputation as an author lecturer and educator he spoke at cornell last year and was so well liked that he was in vited to give another talk there this year his general topic of discus sion here will concern marital re lations and pertinent problems confronting the college man upon graduating from the mass achusetts institute of technology in 1918 he became a field engin eer for the westinghouse company and in 1919 taught applied me chanics at lowell textile school in 1920 he joined the faculty at m i t where he was an instructor in naval architecture until 1930 at that time he became associate pro fessor of humanics at that school after which he eventually became professor sociology he is the author of five books dealing with aviation ships and engineering in 1932 his book on problems in human engineering was published one of his latest a book called sky high — the story of aviation he wrote in collaboration with eric hodgins in 1929 and revised and enlarged in 1935 members of the banquet com mittee include besides donahue john adrian jr bus albert g tromer bus and william l clark bus canterbury club discusses church by albert e vetrosky lehigh will be invaded by a riot of pulchritude in the form of six girls swimming teams from east ern schools taking part in the ann ual water carnival and circus at 2:30 p m saturday in taylor gymnasium pool gloria callen aau one-mile free style champion has been in vited to attend the carnival but as this issue went to press pete mor rissey swimming coach as yet had received no reply miss callen who is the successor to eleanor holm developed the vogue of ballet swimming in college circles the girls teams competing are from the university of pennsyl vania temple university bryn mawr college dickinson college moravian college for women and new york university the program will include speed swimming fancy diving comedy diving and water polo the le high swimmers will present a bur lesque by the entire team and a water polo contest between swim mers and wrestlers the receipts derived from the sale of tickets will be used for a fund to pay for treatment of in jured lehigh students at st luke's hospital heretofore the fund was used to maintain a bed in the children's ward the plan was ex plained last night by albert e lee chem e 41 chairman to a meeting of the combined student council he asked all living groups to cooperate in the sale of tickets which are 50 cents bishop discusses defense finance hartdgen conforte speak to new organization bankers hear program to prevent inflation the committee for general edu cation is conducting a general cul ture test to be given at 7 15 p m monday march 17 in room 466 packard laboratory the results of the test will en able students to determine how they compare with other men in the same stage of development in knowledge of history literature mathematics the arts and natural sciences and current events the committee invites students of all curricula and of all classes to take the examination interest ed students should leave their names in dr beardslee's office in drown hall before monday march 3 the results of the test which will be in charge of professor per cy hughes professor of philoso phy will not be made public but professor hughes will discuss with any student what his individual performance signifies students should arrive for the test no later than 7 p m supplied with two sharpened pencils radio adviser speaks seven social fraternities have re cently elected new officers a tele phone survey has revealed new officers of beta kappa are john b hill m e 42 president oakley w cooke jr bus 42 vice-president joseph f musante bus 43 treasurer leonard d larson m e 43 secretary thom as p bradford e m 43 chancel lor donald n robinson m e 43 guard and james m cordrey ch e 44 house manager beta theta pi has elected joseph p larkin iii bus 42 president robert f forshay bus 42 vice president william h lindsay jr c e 42 secretary and robert s struble m e 42 treasurer chi phi officers are richard l heyninger bus 42 president ar lington w canizares c e 43 vice-president david e gregory bus 43 secretary richard r bright i e 42 treasurer and clarence a stearns jr arts 42 historian kappa sigma has elected alvah h thomas met e 41 president charles b dutton i e 42 vice president jack k lehman bus 43 master of ceremonies charles m thompson i e 43 scribe and walter h gaedcke bus 42 treas urer new officers of pi lambda phi are seymour l hollander ch e 42 president jerome r dorkin arts 42 vice-president sheldon s zalkind arts 43 treasurer roy don s margolies arts 43 scribe and george w wolfsten jr arts 43 marshal sigma phi fraternity elected the following officers last tuesday lewis j caulk bus 42 president lindsley d van der veer i e 42 treasurer richard c hardenbergh freshmen will not have to main tain all-night vigils to buy choice houseparty football tickets if the plan adopted last night by the combined councils works as ex pected the plan provides for the desig nation of a day for the members of each council to buy tickets for the game the day assigned to each council will be rotated from year to year it will be the responsibility of each of these groups to devise a system of priorities for the living groups in the council the support of the council groups was asked in connection with the girls swimming meet to be held here on saturday march 1 the proceeds of which will go into a student hospitalization fund also discussed was the year's agenda which consists of the prob lems that the council believes to be of importance to the student body each living group council pre sented their findings on the sub jects to which they had been as signed at the previous meeting the interfraternity council rep resentative read the findings of that group in connection with reading periods before final exam inations letters from other col leges were presented with the re sult that a three day reading per iod was suggested as a tentative recommendation . a committee of the town coun cil presented a report on the feasi bility of banning quizzes directly after events at lehigh which affect many students such as course so ciety meetings houseparty week ends and concerts-lectures ser ies programs the interdormitory council com mittee reported that its investiga tion of the possibilities of sched uling definite meeting nights for course societies living groups honoraries and other organizations was almost complete it was announced that a com bined committee of the three liv ing group councils would be in the near future to set the date for the next fall houseparty a discussion of the new election system as used last year concluded the meeting continued on page four all plans for the annual senior banquet to be held at 6:30 p m thursday in the masonic temple are in good order according to banquet committee chairman robert i felch i e tickets from the living group are being called in today but they will remain on sale at the arcadia office and the supply bureau until after the banquet major e e swede larson navy football coach and the guest speaker for the occasion was or iginally to be introduced by glen w harmeson director of athle tics harmeson will be unable to attend the banquet however be cause of a coach's meeting in new york and albert e lee jr ch e will introduce the speaker never lost to army a graduate of the naval academy with the class of 1922 major lar son has never lost in football to an army team either as a payer or as a coach and was one of the most outstanding athletes ever to wear the blue and gold he played the center position on the varsity ele ven for three seasons in each of which he helped the navy down the army he was captain of the 1921 middies and was picked by the late walter camp on his sec ond all-american eleven in addi tion to his football activities he was also a regular member of the lacrosse squad and in 1922 was sel ected on the first all-american la crosse team ever chosen upon graduation larson received the thompson trophy emblematic of athletic excellence in football 19 years during the past 19 years since graduation major larson has been closely connected with football in 1922 1923 and 1924 he played with the all-marine team in quantico in 1925 and 1926 he played with and coached the parris island ma rine eleven the following fall he was head coach of the all-navy team in hawaii in 1928 he was line coach of the university of ha waii after spending two years in ni caragua major larson returned to parris island in 1931 where he once again coached the team of that marine base in addition to his regular duties in 1935 and 1936 he led the u s s pennsylvania continued on page four w a mccutcheon technical advisor of the lehigh valley broadcasting company spoke on radio idiosyncrasies at the monthly meeting of the lehigh branch of the american institute of electrical engineers thursday night in packard laboratory keeping lehigh students dapper cleaners horn and o'hara sell their customers laughs and turn pin-money sideline into big and growing business last semester absences put 175 on cut probation list dean grants 10 more cuts for remainder of semester to students persistently absenting themselves from classes previous to examinations seven openings in the advanced c a a training course are still available to qualified students an nounced thomas e butterfield professor of heat power engineer ing a week remains for all those interested to sign up in room 266 packard laboratory thirteen men have completely qualified while nine men have made application but have not taken their medical examination the examination for the advanced course is a little more exacting than that for the primary the primary course is composed of thirty sophomores juniors and seniors and is closed to any further applicants these students will re ceive 72 hours of ground school work and 35-40 hours of flight training numerous planes the airport has numerous train ing planes and has had no serious accident to a lehigh student as long as the program has been run the advanced course is valued at 1,000 and the primary at 500 advance course students must be taking a maximum of twelve cre dit hours in order to be admitted to the program the first ten men selected for the advanced course collegiate phase are maxwell m corpening jr e e 42 carey g evans 40 edwin w hine ii e e 41 lawrence r naegely john t riley m e 42 robert f strayer henry j strenkofsky bus 41 robert f turnauer bus 42 earl w weida and jacob f young jr i e 41 the men to take the primary course are sidney r bowen jr e e 41 ralph bown jr bus 42 everett a britton bus 42 alan h conklin arts 42 herbert p elliott jr bus 41 stephen h finkle met e 42 george f mes singer m e 41 john l sipp arts 41 james e wigg bus 42 james j donahue jr bus 43 robert c engle i e 42 john m hood i e 41 edgar k mul hausen c e 42 fred j schineller met e 41 joseph d scott e e 42 william s shuttleworth bus 42 robert g eitner bus 42 robert g tay lor m e 42 william t clark bus 42 musa j eways m e 43 john r muehlberg bus 42 ce phas c smith bus 41 john schneider iii bus 42 edward j stone i e 42 franklin b mayer arts 42 will iam e howard iii bus 42 ray mond b anderson m e 42 sid ney b bowne jr c e 42 and william t mainwaring met e 42 thomas e jackson instructor in mechanical engineering is the coordinator the problem of church attend ance was the subject discussed by ten students who attended the first meeting of the newly-formed can terbury club sunday in the ar cadia room drown hall carl hartdgen e m 41 spoke on why i go to church why i do not go to church was the topic discussed by jon conforte bus 41 george w bond bus 41 served as chairman of the meeting the organization of the canter bury club was accepted by the committee on student activities on a petition by twelve members which stated that the aim of the club is to extend christian knowl edge fellowship and practice at lehigh university the club will offer a medium for students to dis cuss religious problems with one another episcopal students in a large number of universities and colleges throughout the country are forming these clubs the next meeting of the club will be held sunday march 16 at this time the sacred and secular aspects of marriage will be dis cussed all interested students are invited to attend coming up . . . tickets available freshnian banquet ducats on sale until monday dr ward l bishop professor of flnanace spoke at the forum of the american institute of banking held wednesday evening in easton one hundred and fifty bankers of the lehigh valley heard bishop speak on the subject of financing our national defense program during the course of his remarks dr bishop outlined the following program to prevent inflation re sulting from defense production 1 that the recommendation of the federal reserve board pertain ing to devaluation of greenbacks silver and bank reserves be adapt ed 2 abolish overtime wage rates in industry and repeal hours lim itations 3 economize in government ex penditures in non-essential public works 4 the banks should finance short term and intermediate work ing capital requirements for de fense 5 until we reach national pro duction capacity defense produc tion should in so far as possible be in addition to and not a substi tute for peace time industry 6 that as we expend defense production we increase taxes and if possible finance whole programs by taxation 7 if borrowing is necessary bonds should be sold to the indi vidual investor directly and kept out of the banking system no more bonds should be sold to the banks fenwick morn m e 43 and john o'hara bus 42 cheek their fi nancial records after a busy night in the cleaning and pressing business brown and white banquet to be apr 4 at trainers by graham f thompson approximately 175 students have been placed on cut probation since the beginning of the semester for promiscuous cutting at the end of last semester the dean's office for the past two weeks has been crowded with students attempting to remedy the bombshells that befell them in the morning mail they have been placed on probation with a maxi mum of ten more cuts before being liable to suspension from the uni versity for the remainder of the semester the dean's purpose is to crack down on the non-dean's list stu dents who persistently absented themselves from classes at the end of last semester with the thought in mind that they could not be put on probation in the new cut regulations pass ed by the faculty last summer there is a sentence reading any student who appears to be gener ally neglecting his academic work by persistently absenting himself from the regular academic exercis es of the university will be placed on cut probation this gives the dean this unforeseen power to punish last semester's cutters the fact that these students are allowed ten more cuts before sus pension is not in the rules but is the dean's method of handling the situation a strong objection of those receiving the letter is that a copy was sent home to the family who won't understand the dean's answer to the home letter is that it is the only way to put teeth into the warning according to the dean the un fortunate gentlemen who have been placed on pro under this sys tem are allowed only ten cuts for the entire semester regardless of when the notice reaches them so if you get one of those letters and have already taken five unexcused cuts this semester you can take only five more before being liable to suspension along with the letter that the dean sends is a personal chart on which the student may mark his own unexcused absences and tar diness so he will not forget the dean asks that in case the offender is called later to his office that he bring along his record of absences failure to follow these instruc tions explicitely according to the dean will be interpreted as just another indication of the student's inattention to his work non-con formity to university regulations and negligence of his own best in terests the annual brown and white banquet for the entire staff will be held friday evening april 4 at trainers the fifth annual issue of the clown and gripe satiri cal paper taking the staff for a ride will be published and distri buted at the dinner the workers at the print shop will be the special guests at the banquet continued on page lour the ticket sale for the freshman banquet which will be held at 6:30 thursday evening march 6 in the hotel bethlehem is now un der way and will continue until next monday march 3 according to e lyster frost met e com mittee chairman the committee is endeavoring to beat last year's record of 206 tick ets sold tickets which sell for one dollar can be secured from a freshman living group representa tive edwin l leet c e at chi phi or at the arcadia office in drown hall william lone star dietz foot ball coach at albright college will be the principal speaker and e kenneth smiley director of ad missions will be the toastmaster office in taylor a they tag gar ments by number note repairs to be made and hang the garments in racks ready for the company's col lector average s8 nightly the two men bought the com pany then on its last legs from john f and robert j loose and kenneth c wotring au i e 41 in november since that time they today 7:30 p m — placement talk by mr robert lambert of the laros silk company room 208 packard laboratory wednesday 3 p m — varsity swimming swarthmore away 7 p m — freshman basketball rutgers home 8:30 p m — varsity basketball rutgers home 8:30 p m — varsity wrestling rutgers away thursday 6 p m — senior class banquet masonic temple 7:30 p m — intramural debates delta upsilon house friday 4 p m — orchestra practice packer chapel by albert e vetrosky ting-a-ling you spot em we blot em this greeting announces fenwick p horn m e 43 and john b o'hara bus 42 co-presi dents of student cooperative cleaners doing their rounds in taylor house and drinker house these self-named flowers of lehigh manhood who operate as agents for a local cleaning concern claim they offer students a 24-hour service at reduced rates in their lehigh university brown an d white bethlehem pa tuesday february 25 1941 possibility of soph dance will be discussed wed vol xlviii no 33 sheridan shuns chance for school directorship guest speaker selected for junior dinner senior class banquet plans in good order save-the-frosh plan o.k.'d by council's vote houseparty game tickets to be handled under priority system magoun lecturer author chose for banquet on 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