Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 44

              20 inducted by phi bete senior honorary initiates 9 arts 8 engineering 3 business men ex-grid mentor seen with men he replaces coach glen w harmeson center director of intercollegiate athletices and head football coach is shown with eb caraway left baseball mentor and marty westerman basketball coach just before it was an nounced harmie would leave his present posts to take over the combined duties of the latter two men the status of caraway and westerman as regards lehigh athletics has not yet been disclosed scl deadline april 13 examination of student cars reveals lack of protection six seniors three of phi beta kappa and three of tau beta pi were appointed to the joint criti cism committee last night tau beta pi members are a bruce brown eng phys frank s mckenna met.e and robert mcmichael met.e phi beta kap pa representatives are edwin h klein arts william meikle arts and john roach arts the com mittee is appointed each spring by the president of tau beta pi examine anonymous letters anonymous letters written by students are received by the com mitteemen who examine all criti cisms carefully and combine the good ones into a report which is presented to the president of the university the committee is a medium by which students may present their sincere thoughts without getting themselves into unpleasant situa tions students are urged to sub mit criticisms and suggestions on any university condition either student or administration which they feel should be changed sug gestions may be sent to a bruce brown taylor house b carnegie scores average 447 pts brown tops engineers with mark of 639 the deadline for applica tions for membership on the student concert lecture series committee has been extended to april 13th it was announc ed by grendon k seebald e e 42 chairman this was due to the small number of applications received blanks may be secured at the regis trar's office air corps seeks men for reserve speed-up cancels sub-frosh day individual visits to lehigh will replace event conducts drive for cadets from allentown region phi beta kappa national hon orary scholastic fraternity initiat ed 20 seniors yesterday afternoon in the faculty room of the alumni memorial building nine arts men eight engineers and three business students were inducted sherman paul graduate assistant in english was also ini tiated at the request of the indiana chapter arts men are jesse f beers jr george b benedict welles r bliss philip butts john l dia mond edwin h klein william j meikle john r polinsky and john m roach engineering physicists are a bruce brown robert m maiden albert l thalhamer and lee r white the other engineering men are john f clark e.e harry j friedman ch.e fredric s nolte m.e the business students are robert metzner lowell k oli phant and richard m palmer laramy elected president robert e laramy 96 was el ected president of the chapter and other officers are herbert m dia mond head of the department of economics and sociology vice-pre sident philip m palmer dean of the college of arts and science secretary and roy b cowin pro fessor of and head of the depart ment of accounting treasurer edgar riley associate professor of english and president schwartz of the moravian college for men were elected to the council to serve from 1942 until 1945 the lehigh chapter has pur chased 600 worth of united states defense bonds the annual ban quet with the lafayette chapter will be held on april 30 in easton the speaker will be dr leslie newton gay of johns hopkins un iversity demolay to meet during summer continued on page four room rent refunds or allowances will be made to dormitory men whose rooms are re-rented during the period from may 19 to june 8 robert c mcmichael met.e 42 president of the interdormitory council read a letter from john i kirkpatrick assistant to the pre sident announcing the room rent refunds to the council at a meet ing tuesday evening preston parr jr ch.e 43 was elected president of the interdor mitory council to serve until jan uary 1943 vice-president for the fall and spring session 1942-1943 is john h mueller m.e 43 for the summer session bernard j egan met.e 44 secretary for the fall and spring sessions is robert w pugh chem 43 for the summer term robert j fisher c.e 43 treasurer for the sum mer and fall sessions harry a herold i.e 43 beardslee re-elected dr claude g beardslee profes sor of moral and religious philos ophy was re-elected faculty ad visor an informal town-dormitory dance to be held the saturday ev ening of houseparty weekend was discussed the orchestra has not been decided on as yet kirkpatrick's letter concerning the room rent refunds was sent to robert c mcmichael president of the interdormitory council a complete draft of the letter writ ten on march 31 follows the interdormitory council at its last meeting voted to ask the university admin istration to consider a proposal in connection with the duration of the current dormitory leases the matter has been given careful consideration and consent is given to your proposal that an allowance or refund be made to all occupants whose rooms are re rented during the period from may 19 to june 8 specifically dr williams is recommending to the board of trustees that 1 rentals in the dormitories operated be reduced for the summer semester to the nearest even dollar approximating 80 per cent of the regular semester rate provided the student rents his room for the entire summer semester of sixteen weeks 2 a to a student presently residing in a dormitory room who wishes to occupy a room in the summer semester an allowance of three weeks rental be made toward bis summer occupancy b to a student who vacates his room by may 19 and whose room is re-rented be tween may 19 and june 8 to a student not presently residing in a dormitory room a refund will be made equal to the rental received by the university for that period depending upon the number of applicants no sub-freshman day will be held this year it was announced yesterday by the administration the annual events tentatively scheduled for may 2 was cancel led to further the general accel erated program since many high schools are fol lowing a speed-up program it would be practically impossible for many prospective lehigh students to attend transportation troubles were also cited as reasons for do ing away with the event as a uni versity function many will re linquish the customary automobile travel and thus crowd the lehigh valley railroad excessively on that day interested men will have plenty of time to visit the university separately provides for committee to act as president electrical institute to elect lehigh chapter officers new officers will be elected to night by the lehigh chapter of the american institute of electrical engineers members will vote for the four or five highest ranking candidates who were nominated earlier in the week following the elections a short movie on electrical safety will be shown and a demonstration of re susitation methods given by wal ter b bowers e.e 42 an opportunity for lehigh stu dents to join the united states army air corps was announced yesterday by lt leslie geisinger in charge of the allentown re cruiting station a drive for 1000 cadets is being conducted in this district suc cessful candidates will be com missioned as second lieutenants in the air corps reserve it is likely that all students accepted will be allowed to complete their school work this semester to qualify a man must be be tween the ages of 18 and 26 and must be a united states citizen information available complete information may be secured from lieutenant geisinger at room 216 allentown post of fice from 9 a.m to 5 p.m daily although there is no specific ed ucational requirement all condi dates will be required to pass a mental screening test designed to establish the intelligence of the student physical requirements are the same as those prescribed for regular army commissioned offi cers except that vision must be 20/20 and color vision normal when called for duty the can didate is sent to a replacement cen ter most men in this district will be sent to maxwell field ala after a short course there the candidate is sent to flying school to complete his work for a commission coming up . . . kirkpatrick smiley get community chest positions a constitutional amendment was accepted by the demolay club last night it provides for the appointment of an executive committee to take over the president's duties in the event that he cannot be present at the summer meetings anders elected officers elected for the 1942-1943 term are walter anders arts 43 president robert rouse m.e 43 vice-president william highfield ch.e 45 secretary william grif fith arts 45 treasurer and wil bur peters e.e 45 chaplain an outing has been planned for saturday april 25 at the form of prof william eney club advisor william griffith was appointed custodian for the remainder of the present term rotary club elects smiley today 7:30 p m — student branch a i e e 416 and balcony packard laboratory tomorrow 3:00 p m — varsity baseball la fayette home sunday 2:00 p m — bach rehearsal chapel monday 4:10 p m — faculty meeting faculty room alumni mem orial building john i kirkpatrick assistant to the president and e kenneth smiley director of admissions have taken important positions re cently in the solicitation program of the community chest campaign kirkpatrick is head of the schools sub-division in the drive smiley is head of the lehigh uni versity sub-division under that of kirkpatrick by gilbert j barrenborg a shadowy figure slipped through the darkness wednesday night among the cars parked in front of drown hall campus cop harry glace approached the character stealthily and confronted him as he was opening a car door after a short exchange of words and a smiling so long the cop returned to drown hall and the mysterious person continued his car-opening all this was part of an investigation conducted by a reporter to de termine how many lehigh men value their cars in the past few weeks several cars have been broken into and stripped of all movable parts in addition two cars have been stolen of 87 cars found on the cam pus at 10:30 p m 28 were found unlocked or easily accessible to theft one might presume from these figures that 32 per cent of le high car-owners either don't value their cars or cannot spare a few minutes a day in protecting their interests faculty protects cars least oddly enough cars with no identification tags and evidently from off the campus were the best protected seven of these cars were locked securely only one be ing open faculty cars were least protected with seven locked and seven unlocked twenty out of 45 student cars were open officially nine faculty cars were locked but two of these were eas ily entered the owners of these cars carefully locked every door but did not bother to close the windows the car of captain samuel pierce assistant professor of mili tary science and tactics who was in drown hall practicing with the faculty chorus was unlocked but quite sufficiently protected on trying captain pierces car the reporter was rebuked by a loud barking and snarling of captain pierces dog who was evidently awakened by the investigation from his nap on the back seat dorm cars are locked the cars in the parking space behind drinker house were better protected than those of either of the other two parking spaces vis ited only four of 15 cars were unlocked seven price hall cars were unlocked and 12 locked at richards house 17 cars were locked and 8 were open while the reporter was busily engaged in the richards house parking space a car arrived the occupants of the car did not seem to notice the fiendish work afoot although the investigation contin ued in their presence with renewed courage he pro ceeded from car to car slamming each door which he found unlock ed the investigation was still un interrupted one student in the continued an p*ge four new interdormitory head preston parr ch.e 43 who was elected to the presidency of the interdormitory council tuesday night he succeeds robert c mc michael m e 42 lehigh engineers are only aver age according to the results of the carnegie graduate record exam ination given in february the average score of the engineering school was 447 as compared with a nationwide average of 446 a bruce brown eng phys 42 was high lehigh man with a score of 639 brown's score was 49 points higher than that of the sec ond highest man robert a ham mond ch.e 42 who scored 590 third and fourth placers were kurt h weber eng phys 42 and john f clark jr e.e 42 with 586 and 551 respectively quiz had eight parts the examination consisted of eight parts mathematics physics chemistry biology history govern ment and economics literature fine arts and verbal facts lehigh placed close to the national average of all of these sections but one lehigh engineers averaged 16 points higher than the mean aver age in the biology exam the members of the curriculum of engineering physics averaged 506 for the highest curriculum score chem students were second with 502 mining engineers aver aged 488 tau beta pi national honorary engineering society was the high est ranking society its members compiled a score of 485 brown is high man high scores in the individual exams go to brown who captured four he scored 750 in mathemat ics 760 in physics 710 in chemistry and 650 in verbal facts hammond also scored 710 on the chemistry exam and a high score of 720 in biology weber was high man with 550 in literature and clark equal ed brown with 750 in the math division the purpose of the examination is fourfold 1 to enable a stu dent to judge his accomplishments at the end of his college course 2 to enable a student to com pare his general and special know ledge with that of students of other colleges 3 to give the graduate schools additional evidence as to the preparation of candidates for the graduate school 4 to give the colleges an opportunity to compare their work with that of the whole group kenneth e smiley director of admissions was elected vice-presi dent of the bethlehem rotary club thursday at the weekly meeting glen w harmeson is no longer head coach of football announcement of his withdrawal from the coaching post was made today and as a result extensive reorganization of lehigh's coaching and athletic department personnel is in the offing simultaneous with the announ cement of harmeson's change in status came official confirmation that freshmen will be permitted to compete on lehigh varsity teams next year freshman teams as such will be temporarily discon tinued during the war a num ber of junior varsity teams will be organized in the principal sports and champion intramural teams will compete with similar teams from other colleges seek new coach with lehigh now without a coach for the 1942 football team efforts are being made to line up a suitable candidate a committee to find a man has been appointed by president clement c williams it includes walter r okeson le high's vice-president and treasur er and chairman of the national football rules committee as chairman and albert b maginnis 21 and george w hoban 15 both maginnis and hoban are for mer lehigh football players and are now well-known football offi cials no indication has been given of the further organization of le high's athletic department after harmeson resigns as director of intercollegiate athletics harmeson as coach of basketball and base ball will take over the jobs now held by coaches marty westerman and eb caraway both west erman and caraway were assist ants in football while westerman guided the basketball team and caraway is at present coaching baseball continue intercollegiate sports the administration's plans are to draw out of these changes in the athletic personnel an overall physical fitness program to meet the needs of the war conditions although freshman varsity eligi bility will eliminate the yearling schedules and j v sports will be comje much more important it is planned to continue intercolle giate athletics in a modified form to follow existing schedules so fax as practicable contact sports will be emphasized and summer games comprising chiefly tennis baseball and swimming will be arranged the faculty has already reduced the number of football games per year from nine to eight in announcing the overall phy sical fitness program lehigh's ans wer to current emphasis on per sonal development president will iams states lehigh university will modify its athletics in keeping with the needs revealed by the war emergency and will develop so far as available resources will permit a comprehensive physical fitness program with which sports and normal physical education will be integrated the program will be aimed at robustness endurance and quick reactions it will involve student living habits recreation athletic activity health preservation and a psychologic will to strength and agility the natural youthful ideal of manly strength which charac terized earlier american life and which has been displaced too much by an attitude of lackadaisical in dolence in college students will again be given the educational re spect that it merits here since 1934 harmeson was head coach of lehigh football teams from 1934 and has been director of inter collegiate athletics since 1939 while he was football coach at lehigh harmeson's teams won 23 games lest 42 and tied 5 in eight seasons he was basketball coach from 1935 to 1938 and his court teams won 26 contests and lost 33 brown and white bethlehem pa friday april 3 1942 vol xux — no 44 price — five cents glen harmeson quits post as football coach dorm refunds to be given lucky renters will remain here as chief mentor in baske tba ll baseball 6 appointed to committee o n criticism town men new frosh required to occupy vacated quarters will receive suggestions on report to be made to pres williams frosh to play on varsity teams discuss joint dance criticism is anonymous brown and white first with all the lehigh news z612 have a gripe send your criticism to bruce brown