Brown and White Vol. 51 no. 39

              vol li — no 39 bethlehem pa wednesday may 3 1944 price 5 cents a new flag a new lehigh evidently no one on the administration at lehigh is a boy scout for it seems that their knowledge about the care and display of the american flag is to say the most scanty just take a look at the torn banner that was once a flag the next time you pass the flagpole and you'll see what we mean the american flag represents a set of ideals that thousands of le high men revered enough to risk their lives for and it is nothing less than a betrayal of them to neglect and degrade the symbol of their courage and sacrifice in the way university authorities have done by allowing the banner on the flagpole to be torn apart by wind rain snow and every other type of weather bethlehem has to offer any good boy scout could inform the proper authorities that the flag is to be displayed in such a manner that it is not at the perpetual mercy of the elements and that in case it does become torn or frayed it is to be replaced immediately soon lehigh will celebrate its traditional flagpole day a time for the passing out of awards and the celebration of achievements is a flagpole topped by a battered hardly recognizable piece of cloth a fit site for such an event student government does not think so as it is sending a representative to president williams to inquire about a new flag surely the financial position of the university will not be undermined by dipping into the reserve fund for the price of a new flag and what will be the fate of this new flag if present policy is any indication it will suffer the same neglect that the rest of lehigh has suffered in this era of contraction which is seemingly concerned with nothing but retrenchment let us hope that a new flag will soon wave over a new lehigh professor albert rights well-known on the campus as mustard and cheese faculty adviser has taken over the helm of the brown and white replacing mr everett jones who is leaving may 15 to take up a position with vultee aircraft professor rights interested in journalism from college days was sports editor and assistant editor of the university of maine stu dent publication graduating from maine in 1927 he took up graduate work at harvard where he received his master's degree in 1930 with the theater occuping his main interests rights worked as business manager for norman bel geddes famous for his work on the futurama at the newt york world's fair in 1939-40 some of the larger productions with which rights was connected with were 50 million frenchmen lysistrata hamlet and new yorker done in conjunction with peter arno famed cartoonist brought to lehigh in 1933 professor rights reorganized and put back on its feet the mustard and cheese society one of the most colorful groups on campus syracuse head talks at june graduation all ceremonies will take place sunday june 18 so that parents may attend mr william pearson tolley chancellor of syracuse university has been chosen as the speaker for the commencement exercises to be held in packer memorial chapel on june 18 announced president clement c williams yesterday magoun may be speaker at banquet cyanide report starts action by arcadia arcadia student governing body following a cyanide report has decided to get two scl features this semester for the entertain ment of the student body students on the scl committee are paul franz bus-oct'44 bill bloecher em-oct'44 ralph evans phys-oct'44 and committee head bob moore the committee is at tempting to get magoun of m.1.t noted expert on marriage and re lated problems to be the featured speaker at the all-university ban quet professor magoun was a fa vorite with senior class banquet committees a few years ago flag pole day has been set for may 18 and president bob moore plans to see president williams about getting and caring for a new flag arcadia has decided to distrib ute ballots for the election of the new five-man committee on may 24 through the brown and white nominations will be made by the arcadia elections committee and further nominations will be ac cepted upon presentation of a suitable petition the rules on pe titions will be announced at a later date purdue gets heat transfer research a westinghouse press release a research professorship in heat transfer has been estab lished at purdue university as a joint industry-education enter prise for the intensive training of graduate students in exploring the field of heat transfer for data upon which many of the practical developments of the future de pend g stanley meikle research director of the purdue founda tion and a a potter dean of the schools of engineering have announced that the five-year training and research program made possible by a 75,000 grant from the westinghouse electric and manufacturing company will be directed by dr george a hawkins of the purdue faculty dr max jakob of the illinois institute of technology whom dean potter described as one of the world's greatest authorities on heat transfer will cooperate with dr hawkins in the capacity of non-resident research professor dr hawkins appointed west inghouse research professor in heat transfer will select his re search fellows who will seek new fundamental facts concerning the transmission of heat for their experiments the fellows will have access to the heat transfer lab oratory of the school of mechan ical and aeronautical engineering built on the purdue campus in 1927 as well as facilities in other departments of the university 100 frosh expected to enroll in june the outlook for lehigh univer sity next semester is good accord ing to robert e laramy assistant director of admissions according to latest figures 100 men are under consideration by the university for admission in june forty-five men have already made their de posits 41 have been offered ad mission and 14 are under consid eration it is estimated that under ex isting regulations approximately one-third of the june entrants will be able to remain for one semester and that one-half will be able to remain for two semesters there is a possibility that the number of men that matriculate will be larger for the number of enrollments usually increases dur ing the month before the semester begins also the fact that some men have been waiting for the results of the navy's v-12 pro gram and the army's astrp pro gram to come through has delayed the requests for admission so far as is known no lehigh men dis charged from the armed forces will enroll next semester a ma jority of the new freshmen will be engineers although a few business and arts men are expected bach festival held may 19-20 that attendance at the forth coming bach festival to be held may 19-20 would set a record for the war years was indicated to day in the announcement by the bach choir association's secre tary treasurer alan c dodson his statement said that all of the chapel seats had been sold com ing five weeks before the festival is to be held the sell-out indicated an unusual interest in the thirty seventh annual performance of the nationally famous event with numerous bethlehem music lovers figuring prominently in the ad vanced sales officials of the choir pointed out that in order to obtain perfect sound production specially de signed stereophonic apparatus would again be installed in the auditorium of lehigh universities packard laboratory immediately adjoining the chapel to make full est possible accommodations for the overflow crowds here sen sitive delicately controlled loud speakers will reproduce the sing ing of the choir and soloists di rectly from the chapel itself leading sound technicians ap plying the results of long experi mentation the dual reproducing equipment credit this apparatus with fidelity which surpasses the actual reception in some parts of the chapel some tickets are still available at modest prices for these auditorium seats according continued on page 3 educator to speak at graduate meet former students of the depart ment of education at lehigh uni versity from this area are invited to hear dr alonzo myers of new york university discuss post-war education at the annual meeting of the graduate education club in packard laboratory this eve ning at 8:30 p m one of the best informed men in the country on post-war plans and problems in education dr myers is constantly in the head lines of educational news a year ago he was appointed chairman of the commission for the estab lishment of an international edu cation office to deal with school problems on a world-wide basis the appointment to head this project was made by the u s commission on educational recon struction state dept likes it the state department is inter ested in this movement believing according to one representative that it will lead to a program of cultural and intellectual rehabili tation others are endorsing the plan as a means of decontaminat ing axis education after war a leader in this movement since it was first suggested dr myers will trace the development of this plan to establish an international education office when he speaks at lehigh granting arcadia's petition that graduation be cut to one day in stead of the usual two the cere monies have been scheduled for completion on sunday the 18th and will not carry over to the next day the petition was made due to the fact that numerous parents would find it impractical if not impossible to take the two days off for the program the graduation ceremony is to follow the usual pattern of such exercises and will open at 3:30 in the afternoon in the chapel dr tolley a staunch republi can was born in honesdale penn sylvania in 1900 he graduated from syracuse in 1922 with an a.b degree and received his b.d from since then he has added an im pressive list of degrees including a.m ph.d d.d ll.d litt.d he was a member of pi kappa alpha while at syracuse where he also was a member of omicron delta kappa he was ordained to the ministry of the methodist episcopal church in 1923 tolley has been a promi nent theologian and educator serving as alumni secretary of drew theological seminary pro fessor of philosophy and later dean of brothers college and president allegheny college brown & white