Brown and White Vol. 56 no. 1

              polling places will be provided between 8:00 a.m and 4:30 p.m at four central locations on the camp us : packard laboratory christmas-saucon hall the li brary and drown hall at lam berton hall election clerks will provide balloting facilities during the lunch hour 12:00 to 1:00 pan on both days students will have opportunity on thursday and friday october 2 and 3 to vote on the proposed constitution and by-laws of the student body referendum vote thursday friday polling places will be provided at four central locations few objections expressed to proposed constitution town group gets highest spring average leonard hall highest among living groups tau delts rate second according to the figures released by the registrar's office the town group at lehigh university made a higher average than the students living in the dormitories and fra ternities town and dormitory men all passed the entire university av erage of 2.217 but all-fraternity men fell below this among living centers leonard hall had the high est average 2.687 and tau delta phi came next with a 2.682 only three fraternities ranked among the first ten as compared with seven dormitories lehigh groups and their aver ages for the spring semester are as follows leonard hall 2.687 tau delta phi 2.682 richards house 11-b 2.629 class of june 47 2.619 drinker house section i 2.479 delta phi 2.464 pi lambda phi 2.431 drinker house 111-a 2.431 taylor house c 2.403 class of february 1948 2.384 richards house 111-b 2.37 beaver house 2.349 class of june 48 2.348 richards house iv-b 2.321 taylor house b 2.311 al pha sigma phi 3.304 drinker house 11-b 2.297 taylor house e 2.291 all town men 2.281 richards house section i 2.280 drinker house 11-a 2.274 all non-fraternity men 2.271 class of feb 51 2.263 sigma chi 2.261 all dormitory men 2.236 class of june 50 2.217 all uni versity average 2.217 taylor house d 2.207 lambda chi al pha 2.196 theta xi 2.187 phi gamma delta 2.185 sigma phi epsilon 2.181 taylor house a 2.176 theta chi 2.162 pi kappa alpha 2.141 all fraternity men 2.1354 kappa sigma 2.1352 class of june 49 2.128 alpha chi rho 2.125 beta theta pi 2.123 class of feb 49 2.121 chi phi 2.1166 chi psi 2.1164 drinker 111-b 2.102 richards house 111 a 2.095 delta sigma phi 2.090 phi sigma kap pa 2.086 delta upsilon 2.082 phi delta theta 2,081 drinker house section iv 2.079 price hall 2.059 richards house 11-a 2.024 delta tau delta 2.021 class of feb 50 2 richards iv a 1.999 sigma nu 1.992 alpha tau omega 1.989 paul house 1.900 kappa alpha 1.858 theta delta chi 1.857 kirk house 1.8433 psi upsilon 1.8431 theta kappa phi 1.816 union house 1.751 sigma phi 1.750 general college divi sion 1.516 army supplies funds for leather study better shoes for soldiers and in cidentally for civilians are ex pected from the continuation of the leather research program centered at seven institutions in the nation including lehigh university to which the army quartermaster corps has allocated 200,000 for the coming year lehigh university's share in the program is a 30,000 project to be directed by dr edwin r theis research professor of biochemistry and director of the leather technol ogy division of the lehigh insti tute of research the project will be devoted to investigating all mineral tannages the program of leather research has been running for several years continuing as co-ordinator of the nation-wide army program is dr fred o'flaherty university of cin cinatti professor of applied sci ence and director of the tanner's council laboratory dr theis and his staff will not only investigate mineral tannage but have turned an inventive eye to the development of instruments for measuring tanning efficiency massachusetts institute of tech nology is studying the composition and structure of skins ohio state university is concerned with the development of artificial fat-like materials for use with leather seven man committee praised for efforts on drafting new document discussion on the proposed constitution and by-laws of the student body brought forth little objection at the open hearing sponsored last thursday by the constitution revision committee the committee had planned the public meeting at packard audi torium in order to explain the new constitution to interested stu dents and to hear complaints the committee members hoped thereby to either satisfy the questioners with explanations or to make cor rections before referendum date students presented few objec tions and the lack of any real controversy was a conspicuous feature of the meeting two elab " orations on the finance article and two other clarifications formed the only changes requested by student members of the audience committee chairmen george horneck and the committee mem bers were gratified that such gen eral approval was thus accorded their work horneck presided at the meet ing and committee members sat ready to answer questions on the constitution these members were charles boig 48 kenneth ferree 48 james fulleylove 49 wil liam hahn 48 theodore lam berton 48 and edward tatter shall 48 an advisory member george howatt assistant in structor in government and tech nical advisor to the committee sat with the committee and an swered some questions concerning the election provisions of the new constitution leading the discussion from the audience were robert phillips,'4b james gentles 48 and donald weber 48 phillips spoke on the value of some additional clarifi cations in the finance article be fore closing his remarks phillips commended the committee for its achievement with the constitu tion the work of the revision com mitee started early last spring when the student activities com mittee declared the old constitu tion to be unacceptable except on a temporary basis in april the committee was formally appoint ed by arcadia to draft a new doc ument george horneck vice president of arcadia and a leader of the town group was made chairman representative student leaders were named to complete the committee the group met semiweekly for three months and completed its work just prior to the june commencement during the summer the document was edited and then printed for dis tribution at registration week in order further to provide the student with information and background on the constitution a special edition of the brown and white was published last week the open hearing was called to provide full opportunity for dis cussing the constitution the fi nal referendum will be held oc tober 2 ann 3 at the referen dum held last spring the students expressed favor for the type of election system adopted in the proposed constitution bob chester plays at ball saturday night honorary engineering fraternities bring back fall semester dance lehigh men and their dates will dance to the music of bob chester and his band saturday october 4 at the first postwar ap pearance of the annual engineers ball the ball under the sponsorship of the three honorary engineering fraternities eta kappa nu elec trical engineering pi tau sigma mechanical and industrial engin eering and tau beta pi junior and senior engineers will be held on the upper floor of grace hall between the hours of 9 p.m and 1 a.m one of the major attractions of lehigh's prewar social calendar the postwar reinstitution of the ball will follow lehigh's first home football game of this season being played with the case insti tute of applied science dance chairman carl w stray er c e june 48 has stressed the fact that the dance is held for the benefit of all students and has ex tended an invitation to attend to students of all curriculums strayer has also announced that in response to recent popular de mand the dance will be informal the dance had previously been announced to be semi-formal bob chester's band featuring a sweet swing style has played recent engagements in new york at the hotel astor the hotel pennsylvania the new yorker the essex house the paramount theatre and also in new jersey at frank dailey's meadowbrook with their featured vocalist alan foster chester and his band have recorded for the victor bluebird and sonora recording companies tickets for the ball may be ob tained at the price of 3.60 per couple tax included from any member of the three sponsoring societies in the supply bureau or in the arcadia offiice faculty chaperones of the af fair will be john d leith assis tant dean of undergraduates and bela k erdoss professor in me chanical engineering the publicity committee of the dance consists of robert e sentz e e robert e mcnabb m e and seemon pines ch.e richard w jones m e and richard smith are in charge of decora tions wayne kraft met e is treasurer of the dance constitution revision committee lehigh gets electronic equipment john w maxwell university bursar and purchasing agent re cently announced the acquisition of electronic equipment one group of which is valued at about 50,000 lehigh is one of twelve colleges in the middle atlantic states to receive such an allocation through the efforts of the federal works agency cooperating with the war assets administration mr maxwell dr earl serfass professor of analytical chemistry and paul gilbert chemistry de partment mechanic personally brought back about 12,000 worth of the most valuable smaller and more fragile units 300 miles from the radar tube and glass manu facturing plant of the westing house electric corporation in fairmount w va lehigh has also received two carloads of electronic equipment from akron ohio through the ef forts of the federal works agen cy through the courtesy of the bethlehem steel co lehigh's shipment was unloaded at a west side warehouse outstanding pieces of equipment include high radio frequency in duction heaters for heating metals in a vacuum glass blowing lathe for graduate research in the chem istry department 20 kilowatt units for sampling gases for analyses a lectro gas dryer for chemical en gineering a gas forming unit which cleaves liquid ammonia un der high pressure into hydrogen and nitrogen mechanical and dif fusion vacuum pumps and a large assortment of electronic tubes some of them worth almost 1,000 each schools and colleges befiting from these grants include the vir ginia polytechnic institute johns hopkins university bucknell uni versity the carnegie institute of technology the case school of applied science lafayette muh lenberg the universities of mary land delaware and virginia ohio state and albright and bethlehem technical high school every lehigh man who is in terested in any phase of yearbook work is urged to attend the first organization meeting of the 1948 epitome at 3:30 p.m trursday oct 2 in the drown hall base ment positions are open on the staffs of all the epitome depart ments a special call is being sent out by editor dick jones june 48 for all those who do photography and art work men are also needed who like to do writing or report ing proof reading advertising makeup and layout work sales and soliciting and typing under the supervision of the epitome faculty advisor mr tal bert of the journalism depart ment the preliminary work of contacting printers and engravers and signing contracts is already underway to present 94 degrees founder's day dr frank m tait to give commencement address in chapel two honorary degrees will be conferred by president martin d whitaker at the 69th annual founder's day exercises at 10:30 o'clock tomorrow morning in acker memorial chapel a class of 58 seniors will be graduated and 34 advanced degrees will be con ferred in the course of commence ment exercises dr frank m tait president of the dayton power and light company dayton ohio will be the commencement speaker to receive degrees the honorary degree of doctor of science will be presented to dr samuel cate prescott cambridge mass bacteriologist an honor ary doctor of humane letters will be conferred upon dr st george leakin sioussat chevy chase maryland dr prescott a native of hamp ton new hampshire is a gradu ate of the massachusetts institute of technology he served on the faculty there for 46 years serving as dean of the school of science from 1932 to 1942 he was a con sultant on subistence to the sec retary of war from 1941 to 1945 dr sioussat has been chief of the divsion of manuscripts in the library of congress since 1938 he is a native of baltimore and re ceived his education at johns hop kins university he has taught at brown university the university of south and at vanderbilt uni versity commencement speaker which way are you going will be the topic of dr tait's ad dress a native of catasauqua dr tait received his early power util it yexperience there first as night engineer of the electric light plant of the catasauqua rolling mills and later as director of the cata sauqua gas electric company it was during this period that he co operated with and assisted thomas a edison in briquetting iron ores for use in blast furnaces of the crane iron works of cata sauqua which were said to be the first blast furnaces in the united states to manufacture pig iron with the use of anthracite coal as fuel on leaving catasauqua dr tait became connected with public utilities in new jersey and later in connecticut before becoming associated with the dayton elec tric light company in 1905 which merged with the dayton gas com pany in 1925 to form the dayton power and light company of which he has ben executive head for many years chairman of the board of the dayton power and light com pany dr tait is also director of the united states pipe foundry company and of sloss-shemeld steel and iron company presi dent and director of miami devel opment company and the dayton pump and manufacturing com pany president of the edison pioneers and vice president and trustee of thomas alva edison foundation in addition he is affiliated with the newcomen society of england and the american gas institute a fellow of the american insti tute of electrical engineers and past president of the ohio elec tric light association and the na tional electric light association he received the honorary degree of doctor of engineering from le high university in 1945 and the honorary degree of doctor of sci ence was conferred on him by the university of dayton this year enev named head of ce department william j eney professor of civil engineering at lehigh uni versity recently was named head of the department and director of the curriculum of civil engineering president martin d whitaker an nounced he succeeds hale suth erland who will continue as pro fessor of civil engineering a native of baltimore md eney has been consultant to the tennes see valley authority in its study of continuous bridges and for beth lehem steel company on studies of bridge stresses he is the author of two books problems in struc tural drafting and engineering drawing problems he is a grad uate of johns hopkins university and received his master of science degree from lehigh professor sutherland requested that he be relieved of administra tive duties in the department of civil engineering so that he might devote more time to professional writing he joined the lehigh fac ulty in 1930 after teaching at the massachusetts institute of tech nology for 17 years recent alumni to teach dr richard a houseman as sistant professor of education re cently announced that two of le high's 1947 graduates in the edu cation field have accepted teaching positions and three are planning to enter graduate work richard seals newton new jersey will teach at perkiomen prep school carl roth east greenville pa has joined the mathematics department of the somerville new jersey schools those studying for masters degrees in education are ralph r johnson plainfield new jersey and alan jones philadelphia albert har tung bethlehem will do graduate work in the fields of english and literature foreigners receive four fellowships four foreign students are among the ten recipients of lehigh uni versity graduate study felowships and scholarships professor robert p more executive secretary of the graduate faculty announced this morning they will come here from canada norway switzer land and china frederick r gardener to ronto canada has been awarded the sinclair printing ink research fellowship in chemistry he is a graduate of queens university in toronto and will be conducting re search in toronto under dr al bert c zettlemoyer associate pro fessor of chemistry to walter e munz of zurich switzerland has been granted the c kemble baldwin research fel lowship in mechanical engineering he comes to lehigh through the institute of international educa tion and is a graduate of the swiss institute of technology ching-huan yang a graduate of national central university in his native nanking china has been awarded the lawrence calvin brink fellowship in civil engineer ing the roy r homer research fellowship in metallurgy goes to bernt roald of trondheim nor way a graduated of norges tek niske hogskole members of the constitution committee who answered questions at the open hearing are l to it edward tattershall william hahn theodore lamberton james f fulleylove george horneck ken neth e ferree charles boig george howatt saydah elected social chairman at a special meeting thursday night the interdormitory council elected robert saydah chairman of the social committee and robert phillips chairman of the athletic committee the social committee with the council's approval selected ken keeley's band to play for its houseparty dance saturday night nov 8 the committee is also ar ranging for the housing of dates the printing of tickets and the selling of coca-cola and hat check concessions as well as a place large enough for a party of dormitory men and their dates after the in terfraternity ball albert p mccauley arcadia president announced that there would be a fair drawing for house party football tickets to give town men an equal share of good seata in taylor stadium bob chester bethlehem pa tuesday september 30 1947 arcadia plans tug-of war grading system snack bar vol lvi no 1 price — 5 cents prevent duplicate forms from be ing handed in he will not have to sign the criticism form these forms will be handled by a com pletely neutral source and under no circumstances will the stu dent's name be forwarded to his instructor plans for the student snack bar are still being drawn up the or iginal plan would place the snack bar directly above the faculty kit chen in drown hall however it was concluded that this location would interfere with the large main room on the second floor and would hinder the assemblies and meetings of various larger clubs the second consideration is to have the hub above the arca dia room in drown hall to fit the soda fountain in this room would entail the knocking out of a wall enlarging a doorway and the relocation of a woman's lavatory — a heavy expenditure estimates on several plans are to be given by andrew w litzenberger super vising architect of the university and superintendent of buildings and grounds that arcadia would sponsor a tug-of-war between the freshman and sophomore classes of foun der's day was concluded by the student government last wednes day night september 24 during the meeting which was the next to last for the present members of the staff arcadia drew up a plan of grading instructors to be recommended to the faculty committee and discussed costs and locations for the proposed student snack bar in drown hall the arcadia backed tug-of-war will take place in taylor stadium between the halves of a game be tween lehigh's junior varsity and freshman football teams wednes day afternoon october 1 this program is part of a new plan to celebrate founder's days in a pre war manner at last wednesday's meeting arcadia also submitted a formal recommendation that a system of grading instructors and courses somewhat along the lines of the princeton method be adopted by the faculty committee this plan would have every student fill out a form on which he would give his opinion in the form of num bers — 4 3 2 or 1 of his instruc tor's ability to teach a course the princeton method was amended by arcadia to the effect that when a student graded a professor below a certain minimum number such as 2 he would have to fill out an additional form stating his reas ons for doing so with constructive criticism added although the in dividual will be requested to put his name on the form that has the numbers grading on it in order to epitome needs staff members brown and white in the event of ratification a special election for choosing mem bers to a new arcadia the stu dent council must be held with in thirty days all regularly ma triculated students except fresh men will be eligible for candidacy to be placed on the ballot a can didate must have a petition en dorsed by one per cent of the stu dent body this referendum will be the fi nal hurdle the constitution must pass to become the highest student law of the campus the constitu tion already bears the impress of another referendum it contains the type of election system recom mended by a referendum held last spring last week the constitu tion successfully passed the final open hearing on the ballot the voters will find the question do you favor the adoption of the proposed con stitution and by-laws more over provision will be made for those who want to vote a partial dissent to indicate the articles or paragraphs they wish to vote against all voters will be re quired to prove their identity as with a bursar's receipt before re ceiving their ballots two days have been designated for voting in order to afford everyone maxi mum opportunity for voting at open hearing if you don't volunteer to help at the polls at the arcadia referendum at least vote lehigh will shine saturday first home football game of this season and first fall dance and it's informal