Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 34

              navy coach philosophises and talks on football at 41 banquet larson tells senior class to widen ken price — five cents major emery swede larson principal speaker president albert e lee jr ch e and augustus a at the senior banquet last night assists coach glen riemondy ch.e secretary treasurer look on harmeson to his seat after his introduction class b & w photo arrange visit to embassy hockey tickets on sale class agents solicit alumni mustard and cheese elects officers for 1941 kluger has lead league delegates to see mexican ambassador at national capital council to raise funds for dining commons by grad letters tickets for the hockey excur sion to hershey on march 12 may be secured at the ticket office in taylor gym at the ar cadia office in drown hall at the supply bureau or from members of the hockey club williams debates finish 2nd round decision won by negative in 2 out of 3 matches student sales of the 1941 epi tome are progressing rapidly wil liam l archer bus 41 business manager of the yearbook stated today five junior solicitors com peting for the post of business manager for next year's book are selling orders for the 1941 publi cation the juniors selling books in competition are edward m biggs e e john r perm bus theo dore g scott e e john i brow er i e and howard m williams bus contrary to previous business manager selection methods no competition for sophomores on the business staff was held this year no orders after april 1 no orders for the epitome will be accepted after april 1 accord ing to donald r schoen arts 41 editor-in-chief no extra books will be published orders may be made at the supply bureau drown hall and the dispensary cost is 3.50 per copy features of the new epitome rapidly taking shape under editor schoen include an index of all lehigh students senior pictures more than twice as large as those of last year candid photographs of every campus organization and the reduced size of the book itself the 1941 epitome will measure 7 x 10 this smaller size reduc ed from the 9 x 12 size of last year follows a modern yearbook trend set by editors at princeton yale rutgers columbia welles ley and barnard colleges accord ing to schoen a girl will be selected as honor ary cadet colonel by the 11 men of the visiting navy rifle team at the annual military ball given by the scabbard and blade at 10 o'clock saturday evening march bth at the masonic temple two registration booths will be placed on either side of the en trance at which be taken the names of the guests just before midnight captain john a tifft jr bus 41 will announce the name of the honorary cadet colonel the lehigh collegians who will play at the dance will strike up a march and the honorary cadet colonel escorted by captain salz man of the united states marine corps will head the march fol lowed by colonel leonard the navy men members of scabbard and blade and the other guests at this time she will be presented with a miniature saber by first sergeant william l archer bus 41 and john a tifft bus 41 af ter the ceremony dancing will be resumed members of the lehigh rifle team will provide the 11 navy men with dates it is expected that the naval reserve men studying here will appear in a body in uniform chaperons will be colonel and mrs joseph s leonard captain salzman and all faculty officers of the military department the price of the tickets will be 1.25 and may be purchased at the ar cadia office from members of scabbard and blade or sergeant beck at the armory advanced students of the r o t c and scabbard and blade will wear uni form all others will appear in for mal dress shields discusses schubert town and dorms unite for dance wilkes mcclave 11 bus.'42 was elected president of mustard and cheese at a meeting in drown hall yesterday afternoon other officers elected were wil liam h barnard e e 42 vice president richard j berg arts 42 secretary oakley w cooke bus 42 business manager and everett a brition bus 42 tech nical director the new president has been ex ceedingly active in mustard and cheese ventures having served as secretary for the past year ap peared in numerous productions and directed much stage work mcclave became a member of the club at the end of his freshman year conrad e kluger arts 42 was selected to carry the lead in two on an island which will be pre sented on march 15th he will be supported by robert n gusdorff bus 42 and joseph larkin 111 bus 42 the feminine portion of the production will be upheld by ann ellis and elinore lewis the leading lady expect to rival i f ball with combined efforts an invitation from the mexican ambassador to washington has been extended to the delegation of lehigh students representing mex ico in the model league conference to confer on saturday march 1 in washington announced wilson l godshall associate professor of diplomatic history and interna tional relations the lehigh delegation will go to the mexican embassy to discuss the point of view of the mexican government on the items included on the conference agenda with senor doctor don francisco cas tillo najera mexican ambassador to the united states this confer ence will enable the delegation to represent mexico more accurately the lehigh students represent ing mexico are john m hood chairman i e 41 raymond d czapko arts 44 ernest j gsell arts 44 clyde c ruffle i e 42 abram samuels bus 42 and g william wolfsten jr arts 43 dr t edgar shields director and professor of music spoke on schubert the choir boy of long ago at the annual all boys pro gram sponsored by the friends of music saturday in the chapel of the moravian college for women dr shields supplemented his talk with musical recordings sisters serve as theta pelts eat williams to award school art prizes in order to raise funds for the new student dining hall to be in stalled in the present armory it is estimated that approximately 34 000 letters will be sent to alumni the new commons which is to be built during the summer vacation to minimize congestion will be completely modern announced robert f herrick secretary of the alumni association the building program is being carried out through the efforts of the council of lehigh class agents money for this project will be raised by class agents and their lieutenants who have sent 8500 letters to the alumni sub-agents are writing individual letters to all graduates each of the recipients will be asked to contribute his gift to further the plan a report of this campaign will be made at the meeting of the alumni association on june 7 the council of class agents was organized in 1939 in an effort to bolster alumni financial aid to the university the officers are c l t edwards 13 president joseph 29 vice-president and jack kill mer 22 secretary members in clude representatives from each of lehigh's 70 active alumni classes students to be honored at gallery tomorrow hanks and walker injured as fraternities wrestle the dance on march 15 under the auspices of the interdormitory and town councils will be the first such affair to be conducted by the combined efforts of both bodies according to jonas silver berg bus 41 town representa tive on the dance committee the dance will be the first effort to match the annual interfraternity ball although the dance will be held the same night as the mustard and cheese play two on an island the two activities will not conflict according to silverberg the play will close about 10:30 p m and the dance will start at 10 p m the lehigh collegians will fur nish the music at the dance which will be held at the masonic temple town and dorm men will be ad mitted on presentation of their membership cards two fraternity men were injured on wednesday afternoon while wrestling in the interfraternity matches william walker ch.e 43 broke his collar bone in two pla ces and was admitted to st luke's hospital at 4:10 p m a short time later flechter hanks bus 41 suffered a separ ation of a collar bone and was also sent to the hospital x-rays were made of both students injuries the men will probably remain un der observation until tomorrow the second round of the intra mural debates for the williams prizes was closed last night with three contests held at the delta upsilon house the topic under discussion was resolved that democracy in the united states can be preserved only through de creased government control of in dustry labor agriculture and fi nance the negative was victor ious in the first two debates with the affirmative winning the final contest the evening was opened with donald r schoen arts 41 and john h norwood met e 42 rep resenting the negative defeating albert c fulton m e 44 and leonard c schwab m e 44 in the second debate george j bleul c.e 44 and herbert c develva e.e 44 were victorious uphold ing the negative against lewis w hill m.e 44 and richard m f davis m.e 44 of the affirmative the concluding debate of the ev ening was won by the team of philip j prang chem 43 and charles r kiefer arts 41 which represented the affirmative over anthony c fortosis bus 44 and albert clark chem 42 of the ne gative judges for the debate were kenneth b horning assistant in english james l shearer assist ant to the registrar and j calvin callaghan director of debating e kenneth smiley director of admissions spoke to 65 members of the liberty high school college club wednesday afternoon on college requirements faculty writings printed in university publication . . . and the boys loved it when cedar crest sorority girls spilled the soup dropped plates and gave them generally poor service at din ner last night 340 lehigh undergraduates are receiving tuition aid president clement c williams will award prizes to the winners in the contest in drawing and painting for pupils in the senior high schools of lehigh and north ampton counties saturday morn ing march 1 in the art gallery of the university library announced garth a howland head of the department of fine arts the exhi bition will open tomorrow and close on march 21 three first prizes of 10 each and three second of 5 each will be awarded in order that the competitors be judged on a fair basis one first prize and one sec ond prize is offered in each of the three groups of high schools second class districts third class and fourth class competitors from liberty high fountain hill slat ington bangor south whitehall wilson boro and nazareth have entered exhibits lambert unable to hold next lehigh conference the fourth of a series of ab stracts of scholarly publications by the faculty of lehigh univer sity was issued this week by the university approximately 175 theses book revues and popular articles are included in the 1940 booklet which is divided into topics in order to facilitate references continued on page four by richard b palmer theta delta chi fraternity went slightly co-ed last evening when the pi omega phi sorority of ce dar crest college livened the house's usually serene dinner hour with a bevy of feminine pledges taking the place of the regular waiters five innocent pi omega sisters-to-be took over the job of serving the evening meal under the watchful eyes of three proctoring upperclassmen the girls pulled all of the tradi tional faux-pas of inexperienced waitresses amid the crashing of china-ware spilling of soup and elbowing of the brothers the din ner progressed from course to course the natural nervousness of the amateur-caterers was aug mented by the chatter of the bro thers and the criticism of the brown and white photo heckling sorority sisters in spite of many delays and frequent breakdowns the boys of theta delta chi did manage to get some thing to eat this slightly irregular occur rence in the regular schedule of placid fraternity life arose out of an extended initiation week of the sororities of cedar crest college at the request of some of the sis ters of pi omega the lads of theta delta chi agred to have five of the initiates serve the evening meal three proctors — ruth darlington ruth gillen and betty nelson — took over the job of arranging the fun the pledges — carol peart martha newton betty king mar garet heran and eleanor gerin her — supplied it dressed fit to kill with their hair askew and minus vital makeup the girls ran back and forth from kitchen to dining room attempting to fill the pur posely endless orders of the diners to add to the general confus by graham f thompson that we of this day and age should look at the world and its problems through a telescope in stead of concentrating our atten tions microscopically on ourselves and shooting off our mouths about problems we know little about was the advice of major e e swede larson principal speaker at the senior banquet at the masonic temple last night tall ruddy forceful and hum orous major larson who was in troduced by glen w harmeson director of intercollegiate athletics told of stories of his experiences with the marines in china during the chino-japanese flareup in the early twenties in the center of the trouble at that time larson organized a football team to com pete against another marine team for the championship of china one of their practice sessions was interrupted by whistling shells overhead that the major very cap ably imitated with sound effects larson also told stories of sev eral navy football games that re sulted in character building and frosted windows on the trip back to annapolis with his team okeson talks on gift walter e okeson treasurer of the university explained the ad visability of the class of 1941 adopting the endowment insurance plan as the most class cement ing gift possible various ques tions regarding the plan were ans wered by albert e lee jr ch e president of the class and toastaster at the banquet okeson and larson who explained that men in service with the u s arm ed forces could have their insur ance premium payments deducted from their pay automatically and they would not feel it a vote was taken on the plan but final decision will be reserved for sev eral days e robins morgan director of placement urged each man called into the service immediately after graduation to contact him before he leaves in june so arrangements could be made to help those men obtain jobs when released from the army or navy graduation explained dean wray h congdon was called upon by toastmaster lee to explain details and events of graduation week he urged that representatives of the class see him so graduation exercises may be held on saturday afternoon in stead of on the following monday as listed in the university calen dar he also spoke on the clay pipe tradition where each senior breaks his pipe on the fellow senior near est him when his name is called in the final class roll called by the secretary of the class with final words of advice the dean urged seniors not to appear as yokels during the graduation exercises by appearing in cap and gown with white and brown saddle shoes in their shirt sleeves or with a light colored coat he explained that seniors will be instructed by re gistrar george b curtis on how to conduct themselves in obtaining their diplomas so they will not look like farers from the country president greets class president clement c williams issued official greetings to the class of 41 and congratulated the class on its achievements other guests at the banquet were claude g beardslee pro fessor of moral and religious phil osophy charles j moravec assist ant university news editor and the double quartet of the univer sity glee club under the direction of willard a litzenberger arts the double quartet of the glee club entertained with a program of lehigh songs after dinner be fore the speaking started most impressive of the numbers sung was lehigh memories with mu sic taken from sibelius's finlan dia campus dreams by r e continued on page four robert a lambert personnel manager of the laros textile com pany who has been conducting a series of discussions on employ ment for seniors will be unable to hold such a discussion on tues day march 4 mr lambert will attend the winter conference on employment relations conducted by the na tional association of manufactur ers march 3-7 af biloxi miss he will report on this conference on tuesday march 11 when he re sumes his conferences with lehigh seniors a total of 340 students or ap proximately one in every five un dergraduates is receiving tuition aid under grant of the board of trustees figures released by dean wray h congdon reveal the amount is 115,630 of this 57,837 is granted free in varying amounts to 220 students on the basis of need and scholarship at tainments sixty three seniors 60 juniors 54 sophomores and 43 freshmen are receiving the free scholarships deferred tuition scholarship awards total 34,697 forty-one seniors 42 juniors 42 sophomores and 37 freshmen or a total of 162 receive this type of aid loans which total 23,095 are distributed among 43 seniors 42 juniors 30 sophomores and 17 first year men an interesting comparison is offered by the figures for the years 1932-33 when the total scholar ships amounted to only 91,932 or 23,588 less than the current expenditure in addition to university aid 60,000 is being earned by stu dents on the campus this year and unknown additional sums are earned off campus campus earn ings include 21,231 to 203 stu dents in ny a appointments 24 360 to 116 men who wait on tables 1,751 to students serving as at tendents at athletic contests and as officials in intramural games and more than 5,000 to 181 men for odd jobs through the place ment bureau lehigh university brown and white speakers table at the senior banquet bethlehem pa friday february 28 1941 dramatists president vol xlviii — no 34 41 epitomes selling fast archer says mil ball date to be chosen cadet colonel 5 juniors are competing for business position sales close april 1 navy men will participate in conferring rank on girl at dance yearbook to cost 3.50 saber will be presented wilkes mcclave ii drama society picks mcclave insuranceplanexplained all the lehigh news first coming up . . . saturday 2:30 p.m — water carnival gym nasium pool g p.m — varsity basketball la fayette away junior varsity wrestling penn sylvania home monday 4:10 p.m — faculty meeting fac ulty room alumni building 9 p m — hockey pennsylvania away member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612