Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 42

              faculty to act in pinafore money will be presented to china relief fund riley plays lead initiation to be apr 17 honorary picks 8 seniors 9 juniors in election bodine is chosen 17 engineers tapped today by tau beta pi vol xlix — no 42 albert w foster 42 and don ald r diggs 45 are the two first prize winners in the williams ex tempore speaking contest foster won the senior junior contest and diggs was best among the fresh man competitors lehigh will select a miss vic tory to reign over spring house party festivities and will award her a 25 defense bond from dates attending the jun ior prom friday april 10 one will be chosen who idealizes the spirit of the weekend during the first half of the dance the five members of the prom committee will circulate among the dancers each one will select four girls to compete in the final judging which will be held during intermission at present it has not been decided whether the queen will be chosen by applause or by a group of judges corsages not in favor wearing of corsages is definitely frowned upon by the prom com mittee and it is asked that flow ers not be worn this measure has been taken in an attempt to lower the cost of the dance jimmie gorham and his band have been picked to play on the gym floor of grace hall while bob chester and his featured name band will entertain on the drill floor above gorham is not new to lehigh students since he played at the mannerchor tea dance during fall houseparty he also performed at the delta upsilon dance saturday night of that weekend art works shown at lamberton hall continued on page four twenty-two fraternities have decided to remain open during the summer semesters a survey made last night revealed no fraternity has definitely decided against staying open while seven have not yet made any definite plans approximately 10 or 15 men in each house will take the summer course the survey showed in order to cut down on expenses many of the houses will provide sleeping and studying quarters but not meals in some cases two fratern ities have decided to join forces alpha tau omega will have 12 men living in their house while about 18 men will stay at the beta theta pi house the chi phi house will be open for 7 or 8 of their men and about 15 phi gam ma delta men will use that house during the summer two groups which will combine are chi psi and delta upsilon whose members will live at the delta upsilon house the delta phi house will stay open for sleep ing and studying but it is not certain whether the delta phi's will eat at the house or not about 8 men will stay for the summer delta sigrs to stay home the delta sigma phi fraternity will stay at its house but will not eat meals there since about half 3f the delta tau delta men will participate in the speed up the house will be open however the dtds might have to combine with another house to lower expenses kappa alpha will stay open with about 14 men attending the sum mer session the house will prob ably combine with another one for meals only about 11 kappa sigma's will stay at their house but they probably will not eat there lambda chi alpha will stay open for its own members use during the summer but will com bine with another group for meals phi delta theta will also stay open with about 12 men present phi sigma kappa will be open with about 15 men staying there the only fraternity which has made definite social plans the members of phi sigma kappa have planned a group of informal social functions to do away with the mo albert w foster bus 42 won the 75 first prize in the junior senior division of the edward h williams contests in extempore speaking in the wednesday night finals in packard laboratory winner in the freshman contest is donald r diggs 1.e and second place was taken by wilbur r peters e.e they received 50 and 25 respectively for their pre sentations the second prize of 50 in the junior-senior contest went to william f boore met e 42 and the third award 25 to arnold o putnam i.e 43 should india be given com plete independence after the war foster's winning subject and what is the case for a world union diggs theme were typical of the titles drawn by the partici pants wednesday noon to be fully prepared by evening this year's contest was a symposium on the post-war world judging the 12 extemporary speeches were cole s brembeck instructor in speech t robert bassett assistant professor of en glish at moravian college and j calvin callaghan assistant pro fessor of speech chairman of the contest was webster c roberts instructor in mechanical engineer ing and the timekeeper was c parker davidson i.e 42 eight students have been sel ected to compete for the position of delegate to represent lehigh at the state contest april 24 at the university of pittsburgh the eight will include wednesday's five win ners and richard e penniman arts 45 ira b born phys 45 and thomas a lawson ch.e 44 3 men inducted by senior society gallery exhibit to feature bethlehem painters odk takes bartlett davy buck revises points summer camps can be made up committee reviews plans for soph comps april 10 washington permits men to enter basic schools members of the international relations club will journey to bryn mawr college sunday to attend the sixteenth middle atlantic model league assembly march 28-31 this year's subject will be the period of transitition immediately following the war before the new permanent world organization is established in order to deal effec tively with this period it will be assumed that the war has resulted in a situation enabling the anti axis powers to be in a controlling position to represent u s lehigh which was host to the convention last year will represent the united states the group will imitate the procedure of the lea gue of nations with each college attending representing some na tion those who will attend the as sembly are welles r bliss arts 42 wallace r wirths bus 42 wilbur e henry jr arts 44 clyde c ruffle i.e 42 walter c singlevich ch.e 43 g wiuiam wolfsten arts 43 and dr wil son l godshall associate profes sor of history club advisor last night the club was host to a group from the lafayette in ternational relations club the members of the two clubs dis cussed topics to be considered at the coming conference short talks were presented by various mem bers plan banquet with moravian plans are being completed for a combined banquet with the in ternational relations club of mor avian college for women at train ers restaurant in quakertown sometime in april in charge f the banquet committee are clyde c ruffle i.e 42 and wauace r wirths bus 42 the committee members attended a meeting at moravian college last monday ev ening to arrange plans with the moravian club it was announced at the meet ing last night that arrangements had been made with andrew lit zenburger superintendent of grounds for the construction of a bulletin board in some build ing for the use of the club on the board the club intends to place a map showing latest war events for the benefit of the university the club will hold a special meeting for the election of offi cers thursday at 7:15 p.m in drown hall omicron delta kappa national honorary activities fraternity ini tiated three juniors at a meeting wednesday night in drown hall initiated were lynn c bartlett arts thomas m buck m.e and samuel j davy e.e the initia tion was followed by a dinner meeting at the beta theta pi house revise point system assisted by several faculty members the society revised the entire point system attending were dean wray h congdon dr philip m palmer dean of the college of arts and science john i kirkpatrick as sistant to the president dr claude g beardslee head of the depart ment of moral and religous phil osophy and charles k zug resi dent alumnus committeemen in charge of the sophomore engineering compre hensive exams met recently to dis cuss plans for the big test schedul ed for april 10 the purpose of the exam is to eliminate those students incapable of continuing their education in the engineering field students making poor grades on the exam and hav ing low averages for their first three semesters will be advised to drop engineering chairman of the committee is charles w simmons professor of chemical engineering other mem bers are fred larkin head of the department of mechanical engin eering joseph b reynolds pro fessor of mathematics allison butts professor of electrometallur gy and hale sutherland head of the department of civil engineer ing a new plan has been accepted whereby advanced military stu dents can make up the summer camp which the accelerated pro gram will eliminate according to col fay w brab son new head of the military de partment a plan has come from washington which permits men who have not had previous sum mer training to enter a basic school in their branch of the service after a two months concentrated course if a favorable report of their activities is recieved they will get the same commissions that they would have received under the former regulations all seniors therefore who did not go to camp last summer must complete two months of basic training before they get their com missions if they did attend camp last summer they will receive their commissions as usual dr severs publishes book after 10 years of research carothers talks in boston on u.s financial situation 600 seek path 1000 expected to sign wire fence petition by lee a greenbaum jr eight seniors and nine juniors were elected to membership in tau beta pi national honorary engin eering society last night at a meet ing of the society in the lounge of packard auditorium the meeting was preceded by a smoker which was attended by 15 eligible seniors and 21 eligible jun iors in drown hall the purpose of the smoker was for members to be enabled to meet eligible men in person a short talk was present ed by walton forstall instructor in mechanical engineering and faculty adviser on the merits of the engineer bodine elected as honorary alfred v bodine alumnus trustee and former president of the alumni association was chosen for honorary membership in the society and will be initiated with the men elected last night he is president of the bodine company of bridgeport conn the seventeen men were tapped on the campus this morning by chosen active members and were pledged at 4 p.m this afternoon at the e h williams memorial stone before williams hall they will be informally intitiated april 15 and formally at a banquet april 17 eligibility criterion for seniors was seven semester rank in upper fifth of the senior engineers and for juniors was a five semester rank in the upper eighth of the junior engineers the election meeting was begun at 9:30 p.m and continued until final selections were completed at 4 ajn the senior undergraduate elec tees follow richard m luckring ch e phi beta kappa award of the american chemical society and of the alumni engineering prize john s stokes i e pi tau sig ma co-editor of the condenser annual publication of pi tau sig ma interdormitory council irwin r burkey i e pi tau sigma american society of me chanical engineers co-editor with stokes of the condenser of pi tau sigma jesse o betterton met.e fresh man and sophomore honors pi mv epsilon metallurgical society newtonian society j v wrestling lewis e sharpe eng phys phi eta sigma pi mv epsilon student chemical society band and sym phony orchestra frank e smith ch e national advertising manager of the defunct review vice president and acting head of the chi psi social frater nity cyanide pi delta epsilon arcadia member president of combined musical clubs chairman of the 1941 senior ball tone glee club cross country james f pfeffer m e alpha phi omega american society of mechanical engineers army ord nance association numerals and letters in freshman and varsity football alpha kappa pi social fraternity elwood d latimer ch.e fresh man honors phi eta sigma stu dent chemical society glee club the junior electees are as fol lows maynard g arsove eng phys president and founder of the chess club member of the band and symphony orchestra e p wilbur continued on page four lamberton dining hall has been decorated with several oil and water color pictures loaned by the fine arts department and the university in the main dining hall there are four paintings as follows pennsylvania dutch barn a water color by william w swal low reproduction of tahitian landscape a water color by gauguin and two oil paintings by professor garth a howland head of the department of fine arts — white barns and the farm in the valley two water colors have been placed in the faculty dining room landscape by selma wilson of palmerton and the high road by professor howland paintings in banquet room in the banquet room there are five oil paintings two by walter emerson baum — along the little lehigh and winter time late afternoon by samuel r wolf at the wharf gloucester scene by john e berringer and along the canal by nina bahn son the lehigh art gallery will open an exhibit of paintings by three local artists april 6 jeanne stauffer whose work was shown at the gallery last fall and frank lin senior and hoyt howard two artists working for the advertising department of the bethlehem steel company will display some of their masterpieces billy sheridan will hold physical fitness program the present financial situation in the u s was the topic of an address delivered wednesday night by dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administration before the harvard alumni of bos ton dr carothers showed how the banking institutions of the nation are affected by the present war and the restrictions imposed upon them by wartime economies pros pects of inflation and possibilities of controlling prices after the war were discussed in reference to the problems of post-war readjust ment coming up . . . trainee course to open united china relief will bene fit when gilbert and sullivan's h m s pinafore is presented at 8 o'clock tonight and tomorrow night in drown hall by the faculty chorus tickets priced at 55 cents may be purchased in the arcadia office or at the supply bureau captain samuel pierce will play ralph rackstraw the lad who lov ed the captain's daughter the cast includes mrs scott as jose hine the captain's daughter prof edgar riley sir joseph porter edson hardy captain corcoran mrs sydney goodrich of mora vian buttercup dean wray h congdon dick dead-eye mrs ed ward cutler hebe robert mains engineer of tests boatswain prof arthur klein boatswain's mate miss louise watters is produc tion manager prof bradford wil lard head of the dept of geology is stage manager and sydney goodrich of moravian in charge of scenery first performance in 38 the first public performance given by the faculty chorus was a somewhat informal production of pinafore in 1938 presented with out costumes or scenery this ven ture proved successful and the fac ulty group accordingly organized a chorus and split from the facul ty dramatic club in 1939 ruddigore by gilbert and sullivan was presented com plete with scenery costumes and other accessories gilbert and sullivan are ap parently well liked by the chorus because patience another of their operettas was chosen for 1940 the sorcerer was presented in 1941 it is less known than other musical dramas by gilbert and sullivan but was well received this year for the first time there will be two performances of the operetta so that more money can be made for united states china relief abandon mikado the mikado by gilbert and sullivan was to be presented this year but the idea was abandoned in december because of the war this sudden change in schedule held up work considerably how ever edgar h riley president of the club stated the delay will not detract from the performance in addition to dr riley the officers of the society are mrs david scott vice-president and treasurer miss muriel kemp sec retary mrs frederick ashbaugh business manager beads of spec ial committees miss louise wat ters production manager brad ford willard stage manager mrs edson harding scenery chairman mrs glen smith dancing chair man and mrs a copeland callen ticket chairman traces history of music business and arts seniors may apply for admission to bethlehem steel's mechanical trainee course announced e robbins morgan director of the placement men who have had some engineering study or experience will have an advantage stated morgan but such training is not necessary in order to apply for the position seniors who are interested should inquire at the placement office bethlehem steel company is also offering summer work to students today 7:30 p m — international rela tions club and lafayette club arcadia room drown hall 8:15 p m — h m s pinafore by faculty chorus drown hall saturday 8:15 p m — h m s pinafore by faculty chorus drown hall 9 p m — sigma chi dance chap ter house 10 p m — delta upsilon dance chapter house sunday 4 p m — tone concert packer chapel embodying the research of over ten years both here and in europe a book on chaucer's clerke's tale has been published by j burke severs professor of english seeking the original manuscripts of the patient griselda tale pro fessor severs visited the major libraries of western europe in prep aration for this scholarly work entitled the literary relationships of chaucer's clerke's tale the work was published jointly bj the yale university press and the modern language association professor severs first became in terested in the subject while tak ing a post-graduate course in chaucer under the guidance oj professor young of yale to whom the book is dedicated professoi severs wrote a thesis on chaucer's sources for the clerke's tale and submitted it in candidacy foi a doctor's degree the story of patient griselda waj treated by the chief literary fig ures of the fourteenth century boccaccio adapted the tale frorr still uncertain folk-lore sources his friend petrarch translated i into latin several versions ap peared in french and from certair of these sources chaucer fashion ed the clerke's tale professor severs wished to gc nearly 600 persons have signed the petition for the building of a walk from williams hall to grace hall the number is expected to reach 1000 before the paper is presented to andrew w litzenberger sup erintendent of buildings and grounds next week john h dudley m.e 42 originator of the petition announced wednesday copies of the petition were post ed recently in prominent places on the campus following the rous ing of student sentiment against the barbed wire fence before grace hall which hinders a direct passage to that building from the center of the campus students still have a chance to sign the petition dudley said all copies will be called in by to morrow so that the names can be counted and the paper arranged before its presentation to mr lit zenberger the history of fine music was traced by dr t edgar shields professor of music at a dinner meeting of the bethlehem mon arch club tuesday evening in ho tel bethlehem dill sheridan coach of wrest ling and soccer will probably head the committee to plan a physical fitness program in northampton county sheridan is now head of the recreational committee of the northampton county council of defense chairman adams stated that other high school and college coaches in the country had agreed to cooperate in the program which is being adopted because of the large number of draftees rejected in the first draft forty-nine per cent of the draftees were reject ed and in many cases they could have been corrected by a proper physical program bethlehem pa friday march 27 1942 foster diggs win williams speech prizes 22 fraternities to be open during speed-up sessions any student may enter new red cross class price — five cents miss victory to be picked at jr prom houseparty date to reign as queen for weekend corsages banned speakers prepare topics on post-war world within 8 hours 6 will attend model league 225 in awards given brown and white gorham is 2nd band members of irc to plan post - war controls at bryn mawr a new section in the red cross first aid course has been opened to any lehigh student regardless of his class who wishes to enter dr raymond c bull director of the health service announced today the section had previously been limited to juniors sophomores and freshmen dr bull will accept applica tions for the course up to mon day afternoon the day the course is scheduled to begin classes will be held monday and wednesday nights from 7:30 to 9:30 o'clock in the chemistry building men who complete the course which will end just before the end of the sem ester will be awarded the red cross first aid certificate further into the subject but this required more time a trip to eur ope and inevitably more money so alternating periods of teaching and studying and aided by grants awarded from the modern lan guage association of america the american council of learned so cieties the carnegie corporation oi new york and the kingsley trusi association publication fund es tablished by the scroll and key society of yale he went on with his work in the summer of 1933 pro fessor severs went to europe tc explore the great old world librar ies he received the fullest cooperation at the vatican library the greatest classical library in the world he also visited the librar ies of such italian cities as milan continued on page four all the lehigh news first z 612 save your dough no corsages for the junior prom