Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 46

              present triday at four dance to music of clinton lehigh collegians at empire ballroom 700 couples attend prom friday night price — five cents igor sikorsky talks to club journalists will speak round table conferences to feature sessions friday saturday 26 colleges to participate in press meet vol xlviii — no 46 tribute paid to richards see completion of grace hall no limit to size of ships says noted designer of clipper planes estimate july 1 as date of work's end delay due to bad weather former president buried after chapel service honored at purdue retirement of howard bosey reiter as professor of physical education was announced satur day at the board of trustees meeting by president clement c williams thirteen faculty pro motions were approved by the board and three resignations ac cepted bosey who has reached the age of retirement after 31 years of continued service at lehigh will be entitled to receive a pension from the carnegie foundation in announcing his resignation williams said his associations at lehigh have brought him a high place in the affections of students and alumni introduced forward pass after his graduation from princeton in 1900 prof reiter coached at wesleyan for ten years he is credited for introducing the football forward pass while at that college in 1910 he came to lehigh as football coach and director of athletics in 1913 taylor gym and stadium were built prof reiter served as secretary of the lehigh university board of control until 1932 and recently served as chairman of the national collegiate wrestling rules com mittee he was a member of the executive committee of the na r.a.lamberton honored in naming commons about 700 couples attended the junior prom friday evening at the empire ballroom according to ar chie d tifft bus chairman of the prom committee dancing was to the tunes of larry clinton and his dipsy doodlers the crowd re ceived the band very well de spite earlier adverse criticisms tifft said tifft stated that an approximate profit of 550 was netted by the major houseparty affair a full financial report will be made by friday or the earlier part of next week clinton's music it was declared was the most danceable of recent proms well-received also was james k binder's little ditty fri day at four houseparty began at 4 o'clock friday afternoon and ended offi cially at 4 o'clock sunday after noon after tea dances at the hotel bethlehem and the maennerchor and 30 fraternity and dormitory dances on saturday not left without its athletic events houseparty dates were given the opportunity to witness lehigh's athletic prowess via the track meet with muhlenberg and the rutgers freshman ball game at the prom binder's house party theme song was given a spe cial arrangement by the lehigh collegians the collegians filled-in during the intermissions to provide continuous dancing the dramatic workshop with its production of i killed the count did its bit to fill houseparty schedules the play was offered on friday evening at drown hall approval of an increase of 1 in the student concert-lecture ser ies fee additional locker and shower facilities in taylor gymna sium purchase of equipment for the students health service and the conversion of the present arm ory to a dining hall were among the principal changes acted upon by the board of trustees at their spring meeting saturday in the alumni memorial building in receiving recommendations from president clement c will iams the board also changed the faculty retirement age from 68 to 70 years made provision for re employment of faculty members and other employees drafted for military service and authorized a pension plan for non-teaching employees gym changes proposed the proposed changes at taylor gymnasium will cost approximate ly 8,500 and will include the ad dition of one story over the rec tangular portion of the field house for shower facilities the present balcony in taylor gym will be con verted into space for 520 addition al lockers at an estimated cost of 4,500 the wooden mezzanine in the east end of fritz laboratory will be renovated to provide space for hydraulics and testing pres williams reported that the remodeling of the armory into a dining hall will proceed after the completion of grace hall now un der construction it is proposed to have the dining hall ready for september classes alumni seek 40,000 exact figures on the cost of the lamberton dining hall remodeling were not available but the alum ni association reported that it is bridge matches will start friday honoraries seek student criticisms journalists from 26 college newspapers will take part in the two day convention of the inter collegiate newspaper association which will be held here friday and saturday conferences and round tables will be the order of the two day session the brisk succession of news makeup sports editorial and business round table confer ences will be interspersed with a tea dance buffet supper luncheon and movies the convention will culminate with a banquet and pre sentation of awards saturday night at hotel bethlehem the round table parleys are de signed to provide an opportunity for small homogeneous groups to study collegiate newspaper prob lems several delegates will speak on prepared topics each speech will be followed by discussion and question and answer periods the following brown and white men will serve as chairmen of the round table discussion groups co inciding with their offices john m roach arts 42 news manager albert l thalhamer phys 42 make-up editor edward m biggs e e 42 sports editor william j meikle arts 41 editorial man ager and harry d chandler bus 41 business manager a highlight of the convention will be a newspaper make-up sym posium at which two professional journalists will lecture john n jackson of the bureau of adver tising american newspaper pub lishers association will give the result of extensive study of read er habits made by the bureau in his illustrated lecture on the continuing study of newspaper reading the second speaker john e al len editor of linotype news speaking on newspaper make-up will present latest developments in make-up and the use of eye-ap pealing types art heads and placement interf raternity competition to cover 3 years tail betes and phi betes to hear complaints williams contests to start tuesday the armory will have a new name when the military depart ment moves out to make way for the new university dining center next fall lehigh's third president robert a lamberton will be honored by having the renovated building named for him the board of trustees de cided by special action prior to its meeting saturday lamberton hall will be adapt ed to serve as an eating place as soon as construction of grace hall has been completed this summer money to make the change is being provided by alumni funds president lamberton headed the administration of lehigh from april 1880 to september 1893 he died while in office he had previously served as member of the board of trust ees from 1871 to 1880 igor i sikorsky noted russian born aviation designer addressed the engineer's club of the lehigh valley last night at broughal high school on the subject flying in peace and war the talk climaxed the lecture season of the club speaking before a near-capacity audience sikorsky said it is my personal opinion that there is no limit to the size of ships which can be built with the present knowledge of engineers materials and engines it is possible to build ships of 500 to 1,000 tons sikor sky designer of the well-known clipper ships believes that flying boats in the future will carry 100 people in comfort this visit was the second of si korsky to lehigh university with in 12 months a year ago the not ed designer sponsored by sigma xi addressed the student body on the future of aviation sikorsky gave an interesting ac count of his experiments and flights in his heliocopter the ma chine which flies upward forward sideways and backwards has been perfected by him the aviation de signer said this new machine will be of great importance in private and military flying fields following his talk sikorsky showed films of the various planes which he has built including the first heliocopter and the first of the clipper ships final tribute was paid dr charles russ richards lehigh's sixth president saturday after noon at 3 o'clock in packer chapel dr richards succumbed to a heart ailment thursday at his home in minneapolis members of the board of trustees attending their spring meeting the alumni association the adminis trative staff students and town people turned out for the chapel services every lehigh valley col lege was represented not only was lehigh's flag at half-mast from the time of rich ards death until his burial but word was received by president clement c williams saturday moning that purdue university honored richards in the same fashion he was a graduate of pur due officiating at saturday's services was bishop frank w sterrett of the bethlehem diocese of the pro testant episcopal church and a member of the board of trustees he was assisted by dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy dr t edgar shields head of the music department was at the or gan interrment was private at nisky hill cemetery members of the immediate family at the funeral were mrs richards and children lenore richards minneapolis and robert w richards newspaper man aurora 111 by raymond d czapko after repeated delays which threw construction three months behind schedule grace hall should reach completion by july accord ing to an estimate by andrew w litzenberger superintendent of buildings and grounds the 300,000 structure was de layed because of a miscalculation litzenberger said in which the contractors counted on good wea ther in the month of december to construct the roof the tardy con struction of the roof retarded all other work because it exposed fresh masonry and cement work to cold and rainy weather william j martin superinten dent of construction on the new building also laid the blame for the delay on the bad weather which occurred in the past winter months from the middle of de cember to the middle of march but from one-half to one-third of the available work hours were utilized can't use anti freeze masonry martin stated cannot be laid if the temperature falls be low 30 degrees no anti-freeze ag ents were permitted for use in the cement because of their detrimen tal effects such materials produce on the cement after thorough dry ing the use of high early cement was permitted however high early cement begins to set after approximately eight hours while williams sees enrollments affected by industry draft college speakers must be carefully chosen--williams preliminaries in the williams extempore speaking contest have been scheduled for 8 p m tues day april 29 in packard auditor ium the finals will be held at 8 p m wednesday may 7 in pack ard auditorium all contestants must submit three topics and outlines for each no later than noon friday in room 305 christmas-saucon hall the assignment of the topic for each contest will be posted on monday afternoon an interfraternity bridge tour nament recently arranged by a special committee of the interfra ternity council will be held at 7:30 p m friday and also friday may 8 in drown hall according to david f wells chairman of the committee this is the first year for the tournament which will last three years duplicate contract bridge will be played all houses each represented by two men are ex pected to compete theta kappa phi has donated a cup which will be retained by the house that wins the third year each year the cup will bear the names of the house and the men winning that year members of the committee are chairman wells howard v don ahoe arts 41 kern c badger bus 41 and harry w jones i e 42 a tau beta pi — phi beta kappa criticism committee has been ap pointed by albert e lee jr presi dent of tau beta pi in accordance withe yearly custom that has cre ated this joint activity of the two societies the purpose of the committee is to give all students an opportun ity to criticize any phase of cam pus life or activity courses pro lessors or societies the procedure is to give the criticism orally or in writing to any member of the committee the criticisms are kept strictly confidential and no names will be mentioned in the report drafted by the committee hugh r davidson eng phys frederic r gilmore arts charles f kalmbach m e lee donald r schoen arts and robert l stubbings chem are the six sen iors serving this year 14 are competing for b & w posts chi psi elects officers make-up sports news editors to be picked at a recent election of officers of the chi psi fraternity arthur l fischer arts 42 was elected pres ident clarence e louden jr arts 42 vice president robert e ashley c e 42 secretary and william c walker ch e 43 treasurer movies to be presented tomorrow by pi delts dent said the standing of the lecturer however should be com ptently established a certain ar dent opponent of einstein's theory of general relativity frequently seeks an audience at lehigh but the merit of his argument seems not so completely recognized as to warrant a hearing although it is probable that no great excitement would result if his lecture should be staged the quandaries chiefly arise over protagonists of various tenets of political social and eco nomic principles and procedures here again there is little diffi culty of decision at the extremes dr williams declared a recog nized scholar who is not an emo tional advocate of any ism would always be welcome while on the other hand one who himself is a criminal and gangster however thrilling and appealing his life his tory and his views of social jus tice might be would be almost unanimously unwelcome the di fficulties of decision arise at the great border line half-way between those extremes of white and black of course any lecture which involves expenditures of univer sity funds must be weighted against such other needs as new books in the library laboratory equipment improvement in the health service or in the sports fa competitions are now in pro gress for staff positions on next semester's brown and white samuel j davy e e 43 and tom c mekeel arts 42 are com peting for the office of makeup edi tor charles balough arts 43 rich ard b palmer arts 43 and john a hunt arts 42 are competing for the position of sports editor those competing for news editor are e walter edwards arts 43 d paul epstein bus 44 george w wolfsten arts 43 theodore peters ch e 44 joseph f kem mer ch e 43 george j bleul c e 44 raymond d czapko arts 44 david j carrigan arts 44 albert e vetrosky arts 44 news editors will be selected for both the tuesday and friday issues a college campus obviously can not be cluttered with a totally un assorted parade of speakers and bearers of messages president c c williams told the board of trustees of the university satur day in a statement accompanying his budget message this is so he said because the number which might come to a campus would be so great as to interfere with normal educational procedures following are excerpts from the president's message the faculty who are chosen for their scholarship character and effectiveness in teaching and who in general are quite as well pre pared to discuss issues of the day as are visiting lecturers dr will iams said can elicit discrimina tion and judgement which listen ing to promiscuous itinerant ora tory does not yield moreover with newspapers and magazines ranging from extreme to extreme and with a wide cov erage of comment over the radio the burden does not rest on a col lege to attempt to accommodate all speakers who might wish to reach a student audience hence the question comes down to a mat ter of limitation and choice generally recognized scholars in the arts and sciences may al ways be welcomed if interest war rants and their coming can be ac commodated the lehigh presi pi delta epsilon national honorary journalism fraternity will present a program of four moving pictures at 7:30 p m tomorrow in packard labora tory all students may attend free of charge the four pictures are shorts entitled tobaccoland u s a fred waring football thrills of 1940 and matmen the picture made of lehigh wresters the office of education at wash ington and on funds furnished by congress may divert a consider able number of prospective stu dents from college because tuition is free and an impression has spread that such training would lead to assured employment in some areas especially in western pennsylvania the advertising for this training was vigorous the number of students hav ing taken the training in the uni ted states is reported by the office of education as of february 1 1941 to be about 422,500 or about four times the number of engin eering students regularly enrolled in college i addition the n y a and c c c organizations are setting up programs of training furthermore the vocational high schools are engaged under a large federal appropriation in training even larger numbers in manual arts a considerable number of these who might normally have gone to college will enter industry applications at lehigh for ad mission next september exceed those of last year by about five per cent which would indicate about a normal freshman class since most freshmen are below draft age of the present law what the drop in the upper classes will be cannot be predicted with con selective military service and the attractions of industrial em ployment are two factors which president c c williams sees as affecting college enrollments in the immediate future he told the uni versity board of trustees at the annual spring meeting saturday the loss in enrollments thus he said would come in the upper classes of colleges freshman en rollments are not likely to be dis turbed the president said that lehigh will probably admit a freshman class of about 530 men next fall total enrollment may be down about 24 students in commenting on the factors affecting college enrollments pres ident williams said in some quarters there is a dis position to recognize the import ance of trained scientists in the reconstruction and economic com petition of the world after the war will have closed and on this re cognition to defer military service for students in engineering chem istry and physics and perhaps in preparatory medical courses if the administration of the selective service act should proceed along this line a large proportion of le high students would not be dis turbed in their courses the engineering defense training program conducted by he colleges under the auspices of retires from faculty lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday april 22 1941 first couple arrives at prom board of trustees acts on reiter retirement s.c.l fee subscription is set at 2 other improvements are sanctioned u bosey reaches top age for faculty after 31 years service 13 on faculty promoted to install new showers